Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 23, 1912, Page 4

o PAGE FOUR. T Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla.| ;o flow of elquence. Seing that we Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR.|two and a half to three brow covered A. J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year ..............$5.00 Six months ..... . 2.50 Three months .... .. 1.25 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10, cents a week. A T B R S R SRR SR N O SR From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS a weekly newspaper giving a sume of local matters, crop condi- tions, county affairs, etc. anywhere for $1.00 per year. —————————————— When the first train rolled into Key West yvesterday morning, at least 10,000 people looked for the first time upon a passenger train. Many of these were hoary-headed men and women, and to them the day was like unto Flagler. the greatest and most memorable in their lives, A maob strung up feur negroes last night in a Georzia town been arrested in connection with the killing of a prominent citizen, The sheriff, not realizing the high feeling, found he had business in another town and was not there when the mob got in its deadly work. The sherifi was an uncle of the dead man, Probably he was off looking up more evidence, and probably he wasn't. who had Thursday morning the Ocala Northern Railroad, which connects Ocala and Palatka, will be fornmlly opened for traffic, the first passenger train being scheduled to go out on that date. Florida is growing and developing and in all sections new railroads are opening up hitherto un- developed country, which in a short time will be dotted with towns, bringing new people, new enterprises and industries, all of which makes for a greater and more prosperous State. he Evening Telegram|Visited our Berry rields. re-|Ten acres,” was the reply. Sent |all [ o] [Political announcements will be accepted and inserted in this column for one month or less for $5.00, or will be carried daily until date of election for $10.00. This fee MUST be paid in advance.] FOR STATE SENATOR. (Continued from page one.) did not progress rapidly by this meth- cd we started in with a few questions. “How many acres have you planted to berries?’ we asked, surveying the acres. “Can’t really say,” was the response. “Two acres, three acres?” we queried. **Mought be, mought be: | To the Democratic Voters of Polk don’t know,” came the reply. “4Vhat’'s County: the total acreage in berries in this' I beg to announce my candidacy for neighborhood?” was our next. “Don’t | the office of State Senator from this know; can't say,” came back. **Well, | district, subject to the action of the cant, you give a rough estimate, 2 Democratic primaries, the date of rough guess,’ we came back, noting Which will be announced later. several brown patches where men Respectfully, were similarly engaged as on that on H. J. DRANE, which we were. - *Noj; I don’t know,"” he replied. *How many acres has he got?" indicating the adjacent field. “*How many acres in berries, we mean; not his holdings,” we answered. “Don’t know,” was the stereotyped! . . answer. Then we tried another tack. | “How much on an average per quart abil'ty as | possess in the ef- do you gzet for your berries " wasiy 0 do g0, shonll tiy el uust me 1. 1 really can’t say,” veplied ... Mr. Berryman. “Well, what was the yvou received last year * 1 don't remember; | FOR STATE SENATOR. To the Voters of Polk County: 1 hereby announce myself a candi- daie for State Senator from Polk Having the will to serve » peonlo’s hest interests, 1 will use e pocifelly £l the vot JOLNC Y, comint s CEn o0 I's. kighest pric —this year? kaven't figured it,” was the ruminat- ing answer. “Did you ever get §1.50 a quart for your berries? “No; 1 can't remember, “Why do you cover| vour herries with pine straw?” we asked, playig innocent. “To Keep the frost out of them.” “low many plaits do you set to the acre?” 1| atoean’t sy CHow much fertilizer to the acre?” “Don’t know exactly.” Well, at a guess?" “Maybe a ton; maybe a ton and a half.” *“What kind best adapted to strawherries 'OX., FOR FACS 0T IING ATIPODUEY. | I am a candilate for the office of Prosecut Attorney for " Polk county, and respectfully solicit the vote and support of the reader and every democratic voter at the pri- mary election, April 30, [ promise that if elected, I will devote my time and energy to the duties of the of- fice in prosccutions for the State, Respectfully, EPPES TUCKER, JR. ot soil i and wh is it worth ped ere--raw, cleared?” “aCn't say; don't know."|————"— TR “How many quarts will you get off | NOTICE OF INTENTION TO APPLY your patch this scason?” “hon’t FOR LETTERS PATENT FOR know.” THE FLORIDA AND GEOR- \We just about came to the cen- GIA LAND COMPANY. clusion that we had struck a charter — member of the “Don’t Know Club,” NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned incorporators intend to apply to the Honorable Albert W, Gilehrist, Governor of the State of Florida, at Tallahassee, Florida, on the 12th day of February, for Letters Patent on the proposed charter here- to attached. JNO. E. MELTON, ELLIS DEEN, JNO. W. SCALLY, .. M. BENNETT. s0 we climbed up in the rig and again took up the quest of knowledge. Two or three times we stopped, in various forms and disguises, and in- variably received the same replies in as many various manners as we had asked them, and the fickle Goddess “Informtion’” seemed as hard to get as the one at the telephone central. Finally, in the carly part of the af- We were told the other day that ev-|ternoon we met a Mr. Young. As we erybody had quit work on the new |upproached, Mr. Young came to meet passenger station except one man,|ysand we recognized at once that we and the ondy reason he was working|had a far different proposition than was because they forgot to tell him|those we had before met. Mr. Young to stop. Laying all jokes aside, welis one of those progre ssive growers would like to know what is holding| (spell it all capitals, please) that are up the work. The station was to|going to revolutionize and and be the have been completed last August, and |salvation of the fruit growing and it is now the latter part of January,| trucking industry in Florida. He and from the outlook we believe they | farms with his brains as well as his meant August, 1012, hands. He knows what it costs him per acre and per quart to raise and handle berries. What his returns are and what they ought to be. He knows the clees of lands that are zood for citrus crops; why it is good and how to make it better; when once S ,hrnu‘.‘ht to good condition, how to Henry M. Flagler) cepve s properties. Mr. Young the Fas five acres of as prety o berry Par- pateh as you would care to look last It THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN. With the opening of the over-seas railroad exhibit at Key West today another advance step in railfoading is being celebrated. was the man who decided that work should be done, but J. R. rott, president of the Florida Coast Railroad, is the man who said] that it could be done. After Mr. Flagler had looked over the ground he asked Mr. | Parrott if he thought it possible to build the extension, The latter an-§ swered, unhesitatingly: “Yes." Plag-| ler furnished the sinews of war, and Parrott did the rest, and did it \\'v!l.i In modern railroading there has not { is worth a day's journey to see it and listen to Lhim. Said Mr. Young “Speaking of berries and the trouble| information regarvd- and handling o} n spoke to, it \\‘;h‘l all o1 the herry growers, seem to resent any- and planting moee you had getting ing the them from those Because a good many, or wiater growing almost one coming hiere berries, fearing the larzer the acn and that mes “Do you feail a glut of berries; the more berrie HE been a similar situation as contronted | the ing lower prices, there will ever be the market trom over-predac- ked. “No,” he replied, “There might be a glu! market, causcd by a larger growers and the »arrott. But he was equal to task, and with brifliant skill he mar- shalled his engineers and men and, stupendous on tion?” under his direction the “i do not." difficulties were gradually, but surely, in a certain overcome, until today this railroad number of wias | COMPANY, and the principal place preal estat Articles of Incoporation of Florida and Georgia Land Company. We, the undersigned persons, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corpora- tion for profit under and iy virtue of the laws of the State of Florida, and do hereby adopt the following char- ter: ARTICLE 1, Name and Location. The name of this corporation shall be FLORIDA AND GEORGIA LAND o1 business of said corporation shall be Lakeland, in the County of Polk and State of Florida; but the cor- poration shall have the right to es- tablish branch offices, as desired in the State of Florida or in other States! of the United States or in forvign countries, i ARTICLE 2. | Nature of Business. | The general nature of the business| | | to be transacted by said corpora shall be: to buy, hold, sell, barter,! mortgage, lease, rent, real estate and | personal property or mixed property; | .|II’; oll to build houses, to develop and prove its property; to manage or cal property and personal property n commission; to conduct a general business; to rent, insure.| lease or sublet real or personal prop- erty; o engage in oa rental azency | arry on a loan and in-! business; to 1 vestment business; to sell improved| i A and unimproved property on cash or installment terms; to lay out aml“ over the sea is an accomplished fact, rushing of fruit to market on account maintain parks; to purchase and THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAL :iLAAD, FLA., JANUARY\23, 1912. SPECIAL ————TO BEGIN Notions, Etc., of papp——— Clearance Sale! O R Sy 1 JANUARY, 22nD 1912, Having bought the entire stock of Dry Goods, Millinery, MRS. S. M. BASS and in order to make space for my new Spring Goods, | will put on sale at greatly reduced prices everything in stock. BARGAINS IN EVERY LINE WILL BE GIVEN MISS MINNIE REYNOLDS : Munn Building, Lakeland, Florida e ——— erty to be agreed upon by the incor- porators at a meeting called for that purpose, Said corporation shall have the right to increase its capital stock hundred thousand dollars (100,000,000, the par value of which shall be one hundred dollars (3100.00) each, ARTICLE 1. Term of Existence. sity and their judzment shall to one ject to the charter and the laws of the land; said by-laws may be amended or abolished as the board of directors shall gee fit and proper. ANO. E. MELTON, This corporation shall continue fin" ELLIS DEEN, a term of ninety-nine (%%) years JNO. W, SCALLY, unless sooner dissolved according to L. M. BENNETT. law. STATE OF FLORIDA, ARTICLE 5. COUNTY OF POLK. Officers. l‘,lefor(- me, a®Notary Public in and The officers of this corporation | for the State of Florida at large, this day personally appeared J. E, Melton, J. W. Scally and L. M. Beunett, to be known and knewn to be the per- sons described in the foregoing char- ter and who signed same, and each of them acknowledged before me that he signed saig Articles of Incorpora- tion for the uses and purposes there- shall be: a president, a vice-presi- dent, a secretary, a treasurer, and such other officers-as the said cor- poration may choose; the secretary and treasurer may be one or more persons; a board of directors that may consist of three or five persons as the stockholders may decide at their annual meetings; the officers!in expressed, shall be elected at the annual meet-| N WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 ings, which shall be held on the first | lereto set my hand and the official !seal of my office at Lakeland, Florida, | this 12th day of January, 1912, . M. CLAYTON, State of Florida at have Tuesday in January of each year. Th date of the annual meetings may be changed by the the election of officers ecach stockholder| shall be entitled to one vote for v:ll'h‘ Large. by-laws, In Notary Publie, share of stock owned by him, ",“[‘ My commission expires June N, said votes may be cast in person orf 1. by proxy evidenced by written au-| JOHN S0 EDWARDS, | Attorney for the TATE OF FLORIDA, COUNTY OF DUVAL who is not a Corporation. thority. bona fide stockholder shall be eligi-| ble to hold any oflice of the corpora- tion. en at the first annual meeting qualified, the business of this poration shall be conducted by thol following oflicers, to-wit: No person Until the otlicers shall be « Im.\-; andy Bonnett, an officer authorized to take cor- 1.1 Melton shall be the presi-| 2 GO00GOOOGOOOS dent. Ellis Deen shall be the pres dent. J. W, Seally shall be the seeretary and treasurer, J. E. Melton, B Scally constitut Job 1lis Deen and J. 'W. board o T ARTICLE & | Limit of Liability. The highest amount of liability or indebtedness to which this corpora- tion shall at any time subject itse!i’ Personally before me Russell Ay, |fous to be friendiy | get that idea™ ————————————————————————————— | DOUCVOVVVIOOVOVOIOOOIDDOC OO : Printing N O\\'l.\'G to the enlargement of and enforce a code of by-laws for the | acknowledgements 1o government and conduct of the ||u.~'1~|all.\' came Ellis Deer ness of the corporation, as the neces-tand known to be the dic- tate, which said by-laws shall be sub- in and who exeouted { proposed articles of v acknowledged that he oy for named. IN WITNESS WHEREO hereto set my hand and o at Jacksonville, Flovida, day of January, 1912 RUSSELL W. BENNETT Notary Public, State of o Large, My commission expires Ma b 1915, Registered Duva. oouw Florida. the uses and purp Dancing Ac_adcmy; Mr. Holder announces i (jnid of his dancing academy ot ange Hall, new Cowil: Main street, Monday, Jar it Private and class | 1 lessons by appointmi to % p. m. dren in afternoons. | pils are requested to Special teaching, Hall to gatherings, lodavs, o purpose. Call ‘phon Proof Positive “The people next o | their phonegraph newspaper and publishing busi: maintain boats for pleasure or hire|shall be an amount equal to the ! and one of the wonders of railroad and to erect and maintain boat and | amount of the capital stock at that construction, of weather conditions, or a rapid fall these would be only it has been necessary to move N in prices, but During the first three years of the work, 20,000 men were taken to the keys. Most of these were poor Work= i (he growing end will take care men, and about 4,000 men were alliof jiself. Today nine-tenths of the| that could be kept at work at any¥|perry crop is dled by commission | lecal. 1 am satisfied that if we can take care of the distributing end of one time. Thus the task of suppl¥ing{men, The high express charges, the chandise; to Teprencns l{\\t'at_nlt!lt!porathn. t(fgatllof with the amoun e 5 g R laborers for the undertaking was one | .ommission man’s percentage and all companies and other investors; tolof capital stock subscribed by each. | up-stairs where it will be found in It carry on and conduct as agents all|are as follows: | which required the genius of a man|,tper thines make the grower's of ability. This, however, was not the | yrofit less than it really ought to be. sum total of Mr. Parrott’s work. Hely ¢ we are so few, entirely unorzan- Mad to provide shelter boats which|j,ed, that we can not help ourselves| would care for these men. He did it.{ang ready money looks too good to The hand of this man was seen in|posp of us.” all of the work, and he is due a large bath houses for profit; to build, own, maintain and operate hotels, board- ing houses, rooming houses and lodging houses; to conduct pleasure resorts; to buy and sell general mer- kinds of insurance business; to n-:n‘ryl on and do any and all business nec- essary to the proper conduct of the! foregoing enumerated businesses; and| to have agents and age ncies and rep- resentatives at any and all places in subscribing invorporators of this cor- | J. E. Melton, Lakeland l~‘lurilia.| 160 shares, $16.000.00, { Ellis Deen, Jacksonville, $15.800 00, Florida, 58 shares, J. W. Scally, Lakeland, 180 shares, $18.000.00 Florida. L. M. Bennett, Lakeland, Florida. The News Job Office 11 aud 12, Kentucky Building, in the petent charge of Mr. G. J. William-. anvthing that can be printed, if you the best work at the right prices. X. & o () : o time. ‘ ARTICLE 7 i Subscribing Incorporators. The names and residence of the; 3 S o Q@ 9 Q Y @ & & : it f S = {or f the State of Florida as aomunt of the eredit for the final sur-[REMEMBER PARKS' jor out of t = | seems he! g rporatic ¢ jta| 2 shares, $200.00, MT. = cessful completion of the great exten- RACKET STORE | seems proper to the corporation or its| 2 share “\‘R'Tl ‘s \Ir Williams, " icers. { b, E S sion. While honor is due Mr. Fl:nxlf-rl e i | proper officers. L : se‘l E §, i pris < ARTICLE 3. al for this great enterprise. one must! g AU o | " New goods arriving daily. | N . N . ati e - not forzet to pay the meed of praise | ¥ z 2 Capital Stock. The sn.nl corporation may have a Curtain rods, 2oc pair. | The capital stock of the corpora-|seal bearing whatever words or de- executive | best years to the modest officer who has given the of his life to the completion of this| wonderful engiueering feat, which will be a lasting monument to Mr Flagler, who was fortunate enough 1o have a loyal, capable right hand man who knew how to do things well.— Jacksonville Metropolis. but capable, Pillow Cases, 10c apiece » linen, sheeting, etc. i Call around and sce us. ! We also have fish and oysters in the rear of the store. Phone 311 for | both. { | PARKS’ RACKET STORE. | (£50,000.00) DOLLARS THOUSAND 1o be divid- tion shail be FIFTY ed into shares pum! 1z five hun- dred (5000, of the par value of one DOLLARS each, in property hundred ($100.00) to be paid money or to be used in the conduct of the cor-| l-ls-thjlmmlio“. a just value of said 1»1'0p-|‘pomlion sign said corporation may des which said seal shall be kept in the custody of the secretary of said cor- poration ARTICLE 9. By-Laws. The board of di shall he 2 of said cor it to maks The News Job Offic Rooms 11 and 12 (upstairs) Kentucks B l L GOODOVDOOTOTOPOOVIOVTTVTUVOVTOO0