Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 16, 1911, Page 4

PAGE FOUR. The Evening Telegram Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. sntered in the pnsmfluo at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matier of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. One YEAr ....coooevesss Six months Three months ...... S Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS a weekly newspaper giving a re- sume of local matters, crop condi- tions, county affairs, ecte, Sent anywhere for §1.00 per year. Those Inanasas peedle are queet ones sure. A lot of them out thete have gotten np o petitior askine. | John b Rockedelier to ran for Pres- ident, Bleod, K Dleed! The big dailics, with millions be- Eind “em, may give their papers so far as Th “he people o this conmunity have olegram s coneeried nevs in The Tele- aiready read ! gram which they cheertully sub- seribe and pao tor, and the hig pa- pers cole Bandy for wrapping fish or ovoaeenting the kitchen shelver o & SThe ion Position,” oo i thispapercl 1t Call wnios paeno wersoas fair, reasond- ble anrd coscrtative as those of Lake!loodo e is nothing the or-) ganizai o conid not aceomplish, be- Citllse 0 W o demard 0 Soutl 0 rida’s newspapers are the best in e couniry, We are not going to b out any one as the hest in South Flevida, but we will say that no town in the United States of the sume class has o better paper than The Plant City Courier, and The Valley-Gazette Kither Kissimmoee of them will do as a model for the emulation of all who wish to pro- duce the ideal weekly paper 0 s a man who draws a silary of a week is able to mar- ry. I only those marvied w ho draw that much there would be a big fal- ling off in the birth rate in a few years, Which reminds us that u\te. when a journeyman printer. we got A marriage notice mixed up with an article headed “Horrofs of the Cur- rent Year." We explained that the groom was carning $12 a week, and the editor decided the item was in the right place, Carnegie s - 0 We note with much interest that Congress is considering the urgent deficiency bill today and it may pass this afternoon. We never felt a more urgent deficieney, or a defi- cieney more argently than just at present, and i Congress will just fix up to relieve the situation, hefore the Christmas shopping time iz over, we'll express it onr most distinguish- ed consideration done up in thel ‘,\ul.ill “that Florida has some finejas often the poor are punished he- { roads, many that are safe and mm-‘\uml justice or mercy fanciest kind of package, L] LAKELAND IN SAME FIX Kissimmee is credited with N new residences last year, yet she I {machines through the bad weather | was brought before the courts, did Locomotive Brotherhood | laims to be short of ‘house room TAFT WILL VISIT JAX. JANUARY TWENTIETH,_“ bad that it is impossible to oper-1ty? Again. in the state of T President Taft will visit Jackson- ville where he will spend the day. en route to Key West where he and | state during the past twelve moul\l-,iu.'r aiding him even after gonvie- his cabinet zo 1o attend the celebra tion It is probable that the Preside n-| vial party will be given a trip up and | down the St Jdohns rviver. An auto- mwobile trip around the city is ment Luncheon at one of the hotels and < batgun in the evening are other diversiops planned to entertain th President while he is in the city HE MUST BE GUILTY Dear contemporaries, “alrigi all wrong. Vide land Telegram Dear Editor the contrary Plant City Courier. away | Pwhat priceless gifts - heart gifts, in :"llliil)!l: o the ANaumara case, is set forth |8 mpathy, encouragement, love —the i nien man inoan artiele | thines that gold has no power to pur- | things changed. chase, One day as | was thinkin sad and be backed by o unan-, imous pabiic sentiment in its every| vash cnough 1o siugley lof the winter months are bringing{not the I|lm| to Florida for use this season.|stand by him, both with purse .m.‘” s a part of the prozram Webster Lake Hetherington, we admonish you to bear in mind that|giher things being common use may make all right “al-| yerald right}” Webster, who has been dead too long to be up-to-date anyway, to notwithstanding.— THE PROPER SPIRIT OF TRUE CHRISTMAS GIVING Ruminations of Uncle Henry merriness has been material Christmas made synonymous Wwith girts, Christmas giving has grown lnl Dear Editer, I get so excited when spirit and volume until to millions| [ heer how there is other towns that of people it has ceased to be a pleas-|you and me both know ain't as ure and become a burden. good as Lakeland is lettin on that The man with whom times are|they are better. Now what is to be hard has his misfortunes brought|done about it Seems like the peo- ¢lose to his heart by the fact that|ple in this town ain’t takin me seer- Lis children must feel them and their |gus enough. I writ you a long letter Christmas be marred. a yeer ago tellin how the growth The season has become the time|and prosperity of this town was the when we take annual inventory of | busness of everybody in it, I was our fortunes and determine what|tellin how the merchents that sells luxuries we can afford. Under a|shoes and clothes and groserys was very thin cloak of charity we seek | the ones that was goin to profet the! te cover up a world of selfish vanity.|most when somebody comes here to We :1 .« money we cannot afford | scttle down. These peple think the for thin; .hat people do not want.)newspaper and the reel estate peple And we give with expectation of get-|{lLiad ought to do all the boostin and ting gift sequally costly and useless|you know that aint the case. In the in return. Very much of Christmas|jong run considerin a number of giving among friends is mere barter | yeers these is the ones that get the and exchange. jeest for the amount of hollerin they What we are suffering from is bar-{do. Not that | want anybody to renness of the true Christmas spivit. | get discouraged and quit hollerin for | We still bring the gold to the festi-|Lakeland. Ruther, let them holler val, but forget the frankincense and|all the more and let some body else pyrrl. And the gold we bring only | jine in and help, [ guess thay aint as to o market place—to exchange {many peple in this town that i- it tWhat waste!™ we ery with ! Lurtin thereselves boostin this town. | Judas, when the alabaster box of [They is a iot of old cranks that dont precious ointment is broken over theike this and don’t like that, to heer hewd of Christ. We forget that lov=ltpem tell it. | wish they'd move. ity is all that Christmas | They are a wet blankit on the en- mea llm.»iu:m of this town, and as long! Many a heart will still be hungry, lin they aint growed fast, let them mpty, aching after receiving costly [ ot ont and look for a better place, cirts, becausze the giver is not in the{and | gucss they would soon be gift, snockin back., They is plenty ol Have you ever stopped to think | ihings in this town that dont ex- wetly sute me but 1 oaint tellin thai thought gifts, love gifts—yon may'! o outsiders, and them things is the bestow without money? s | am tryin to change. M1 ocan There is nothing else the hum:m( t my gaze into the dim and dis- ant future and with they eyes of faith and love, | can see all them Loart so hungers for, yearns for, It you have many friends and Ht-f 10y gver the peple that is comit tle money, you need not let clouds | @opida and settlin down_without Carken your Christmas season be-tyyowine about Lakeland, 1 felt a cinse you eannot express your feel-fy o gjte worse than | ever done for fngs for them in more or less costly | yyo pore benited heethen, and o presents, old sayin come in my head, and | “1 have no gift to send you, deat| gy it over to sute the case, and| grandma; hut 1 love you, love YO |oive | 1o myself, you can never fill love you!" This little girl’s Christ-1 0 Gity with the settlers that has mas messaze brought such tears of passed. What is to he done? Get jov to the eyes and such a glow O} oy bhetore they get past, says ! cratitude to the heart as no gift that! g ins like with me doin all this money can buy could ever bring. Yes Fon a 1 preechin somebody else had ought| AL this soul-mellowing sea-iy, (o the practisin,d but if such atut | imple postage stamp may car-{po case, 1 will have to do more, | vy from a loving heart more realfy oy jike this was my town the same Cheer and happiness than a ship from | .o ¢ | had a deed to it, and by gum. | the Indies. I am goin to advertise her or bust You have no money for Christmas a leg tryin, so no more at present, presents? Then your friends are all from 1 the more fortunate, it you will only UNCLE HENRY. give to them yourself, the rich aroma P. S.1 wish the Bord of trade or of your heart, the assurance of your sweet remembrance and the soul in- gpiving cheer of your sympathy and somebody would put a advertisement in every Telegram settin forth breef- % ly and to the pint some of the bles- wove, . sins we are enjoyin in this town. | Hard times cannot harm, but . EE5 feel as if it had ought to be there for ought t oenhance, the real ¢ hristmas . seme of these old sore-heads to re spirit.— Pensacola Journal, 3 S as well as the outsider and the vis- itor to our fare city, MANY AUTOMOBILES IN STATE. s 40 et ————e ——— THE UNION'S POSITION. Jacksonville, Dec. 14.—Automo- bile men here declare that there are l already more automobiles in Flor- ida from other states than have ever From reading newspaper reports, ' before been known. The advertis-|comments and criticisms of the trial ing given the state and its road by faud confession of the McNamara the Glidden tour, and the activity [brothers, there is seeming reflection stimulated by preparation of the na-fon organized labor. Union organi- tional highway for that event, willization did contribute to a detense bring thousands of tourists to Flor- | fund, not for the purpose of evading ida and those who have machines|justice, but that a fair trial micht will in all probability bring them|Le had. Now. Mr. Editor, every reader too well knows that often the for the winter, “It is known now,” said Claude]criminal rich go unpunished and Neither was fortable and few that are altogether ‘nnr course in aiding the MceNamara ilnul and impassable for automobiles.| boys for a fair trial, an isolated or} {Wealthy people in the north wholuncommon one When the notorioue wave been accustomed to storing their : Dick Hawes, of Birmingham, e weather in this state never gets!sympathy, until he was proven zuil- aie automobiles with ease, and with|see, one Wm. Roy. a member of |h 'Hh road improvements that have time-honored Masonic order. was . made in all sections of theltried, convicted and executed, his or- ‘ e there is no reason why Florida shoul 1| vion. We could mention other o lnm become the winter paradise of | similar, but these came under own ! own observation and are safficient to laboring men, that we may be ready tor the tomorrow) will say that detective was shrewd w0 inclined to haut out from every order and bring them o' justice, we have no further The OO S Doll (:arls Don't forzet the litth I o v Xmag, nothing i more than a nice BB L S T Z"D".*:”‘ -f.»f.-:.-;;o?xxxx.»«:@ G L0V > the motorist weted \ ,| BRAIN OF ’\HNOR I\KPORTANCE men had never before Azain, Mr. Edit The New York city school anthor-! MeNamara brothers have by A sy itics sre to make the rales of eligi-} confession, force still lanarchists of the deepest dye. is the funion organization in anywise re- | bility to the teaching Lameness, weak or more stringent ight, impaired frail health, spinal|erganization and walk in life goi | poor carrinze | enrvatare, heart. diseased | wreng. Even our religious Plato's Philosophy. victories.—Plato. the law. — ‘\h(\\\‘ that we were not acting as| { branded themselves _,\' hearing. | sponsible? We see men {rom every . or inability tofare not exempt. and thos i‘_\l g physical training tests are some whom we have had unbounded um-l 'of the handicaps to be added to the|fidence, go astray. Now, back to the "[Hs‘ Brains and teaching ability | subject: \When the question of aid- will still be regarded as desirable, ing those men come before our equal.—Miami | Union, it was plainly stated to what extent we should go, and vigilant watch was kept, as the case went on, and we are glad they were ap- Self conquest is the greatest of all prehended and are in the hands of 2 9 QO QG073 H200OPQIOIRIATOL FOR GENTS m—— WATCHES CHAINS CHARMS FOBS EMBLEMS SCARF PINS TIE CLIPS CUFF BUTTONS STUDS STAMP BOXES MATCH BOXES MILITARY SETS CLOTKES BRUSHES ENGRAVED FREE CUT GLASS SILVERWARL CHINA T Tl w A w T S S < T Sl w B H. C. STEVENS D R S S St T R0 B0 = Sl = vnion organization. A, B, NEWMAN, A Member, Good and Bad Critics. great differcnce between good eritics and bad is that the zood ones are always learning and the bad ones are always teaching. Always Unpepular Bachelor. Bachelors were taxed fam 1L of nd dolly., We have some ones, come early before are all gone, » China Closet Get your wife a china clost it you want her to love 3 we have some nice polished guartered oul You might table to go w have them in quarterad an dmission finish » Lakeland Furniture s, & Hardware Co. 1O 2 R T T T T = St S < I S ST S I S 'm Now, in conclusion, (for and must delights littie cart for s o GPPGPPPP I PP DS OO IQTOIOE 3'0303-0‘3030&0%&30&0@02030303030&0‘3’0‘305‘0WWWSOS’O‘EOZ0 0 MAKE THIS A ——— The present for every day service for Ladies & Gents £ £ | have a very large stock and can please you in size, style and quality. x 3 Call and be convinced that my prices are right. A 3 I have a fine ENGRAVER, and all my goods are en- graved FREE. C o9 Qg S0 O Q! DOPODQD Qe O O O 2 3 QOO L 9 O ““WATCH CHRISTMAS” THE APPRECIATED GIFT ¢ POUODOLT | Lo e FOR lADI[S WATCHES NS NECK CHAINS PENDANTS LOCKETS BRACELETS RINGS BRACELETS BUTTONS CUFF PINS TOILET SETS MANICURE SETS. ETC. ENGRAVED FREE CHAFING DISHES CLOCKS AND WATERMAN' DAL FOUNTAIN PENS = The Old Stand TSR Tt w S S T 1 Tweedell’s ‘W Is Headquarters for Everything in Groceries A FEW SPECIALS 1 Sugar, 13 pounds ...... f Swift's Premium Hams, per pom.d Best Butter, per pound, ........ Mothers' Qats. per package..... ... ... Heckers' Whole Wheat Flour, per bag Heckers' Graham Flour, per bag ... Heckers' Rye Flour, per bag..... 12 pound bag best Flour ....... 24 pound bag, .. ... Fat Mackerel, each ..... Irish Potatoes. per peck ..... ‘ Picnic Hams, per pound . ... | | A Buggy A Wagon Our line of thvse zoods will ! | Baby Size Cream, 6 for l-'amllv size Cream, 3 for ...... CALL 59 AND WE WILL BE GLAD TO SERVE YOU e———— LY E. G- TWEEDELL When You Want this year ¢ | Toys and Holiday Goods of all ind$ THE BOOK STORE “45 Seconds from the New Depot.” A Set of Harness A Lap Robe An Automocbile Robe or anything required for riding or drivinn. see M’GLASHAN The Hustling Harness and Buggy W2 Two Stores 1909-111 South Florida A Full Line of Dennison’s Seab LABELS. CHRISTMAS BOXES, TINSEL TWINE. GARL For Christmas Packages D i e SRR S ¥