Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 10, 1912, Page 4

TUE EVENING TELEGRAM LAR ELAND, FLA, FEBRUARY 10, 1912 PAGE FOUR. ITALY OF AMERICA IS . NOTICE OF INTENTION TO AP- P S S B H The Evening Telegram FAIR FLORIDA,| PLY FOR LETTERS PATENT. e — | The undersigned hereby give notice that on the 27th day of February, A. !D., 1912, or as soon thereafter as they | can be heard, they will apply to the | Honorable Albert W. Gilchrist, Gov- Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Florida has been spoken of as the Italy ot the new world. The com- patison is striking. iach is known Lor ils warm ciimate, its fruits and THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFE TIME e — Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. L es— M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. e A J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year eiieni e aesa8Bi00 Six months ...eceeceees 2.50 Three months ......... 1.25 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week. From the same oflice is issued TiE LAKELAND NEWS a weekly newspaper giving a Te- sumc of local matters, crop condi- tiors, couniy aflairs, ete, Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. governors in the Roosevelt presidential hoom —DBass of New Hampshire, Iadley of N ssouri, Glaszcock of West Virginia, Oshorn of Michigan, Aldrich of Nebraska and Stubbs of Kansas, There are Six G The Pensacola News declares Dick- ens did his best work after taking to himself a wife, and cites in support of the statement that ecighteen years after his nuptials he wrote “Hard Times.” Many nen, however, cou write a chapter on hard earlicr after marriaze than tnat. -——— The poor candidaics are now pay- ing for the mournful privilege of geeing their mugs in print, at 8o much per. “Campaign year” is look- ed forward to as a great period for pickings by many newspapers, but gomehow it never made much differ- | We always so unfortu- ence in our business. considered that a man nate as to be running for office had oot ot vantage i sulpping, iuhe | | baippilis puint and t @ but in ¥ 1 times much |in the open the same troubles enough without every news- paper holding him up. 0 Kissimmee presents the incongru- cus spectacle of a progressive city, 'ler, but by broken glass and formid- | putting down paved streets, on which thus far the cows are permitted to contrast between the gray walls and ! roam at will. At last reports the cows were protesting against the paving of the streets, because their foet mizht be made sore, and as the cows have always had their way in Kissimmoee, it is feared the brick streets will have to go. (4] lowers, Fioriaa occupies the same Lort of position geographically and | peals the saue reladou w America as laly o kurope. A culliparison ol the maps of Flor- ida and Laiy is an interesting study, aud presents a striking similarity in coust line and location ot cities, Beginuing with Pensacoid on the Gulf coast, we sinud it oceupying a po- sition simijar 1o Genoa on the Medi- erranean sie of ltaly. L‘omim;’ down the west coast southward, we lind Tawpa on the ploridian penin- swiw and Napies ol the ilalian, each with s location oa the bay and its‘ fonnding the toe and traveling up | st toast, we Lnd Miaui ot t-u-‘ O silie position ilorida, (nat Lrindisi has long hed in laly, ! and journeying up the coast in geog-! raphical order linds St. Augustine,! Kavenna of Flovida, and carry- vl Line ing the simile into Jacksonviile, this| ourist city be-| comes Venice in the old world. As for Lakeland, with her lmlmy" climate, her fruits and her flowers, | we can compare her with Benevento, a charming Italian city. There is no city in Florida that | can be likened geographically to Rome, wonder city of the old world, | lorida everywhere is found ! abundance of | roses that is to be seen only through an opened gate in a high wall or| (limbing over the tops of the inclos- ures in Rome. and heliotrope among the ruins o | the temple and fora of ancient Rome is one of the charming customs of | modern Rome. | As for the orange groves, it is a matter of contrast rather than re- semblance. In italy you never sm"; a grove open to the highway \\'h(-rui he who passes may pick. The Italian| orange groves are all but hidden | from view behind high stone and | plaster walls, and the fruit is pro- tected, not by the honor of the travel-| able spikes on top of the walls. The the luxuriant trees, however, is very | charming. | Ory . trees are seen in most un- expected They overhang walls surrounding villas, and every- where they bespeak the South. They the traveler places. | are sold in shops, but The new editor of the KL"imuu-.-I"l"‘"" qu;“tn Iv\.l_\' them from the Gazette complains (hat folks can’t ! aretty lalian girly \\!-:, arranzes got his name straight, and he do-| them =0 attractively in votes colum cntortain- f fevorate 1 with their own rich g ing tare to b oi Lh 1 Miers them for sale way i RTRCE T8 Ll ve ' any differ-| N 50 spli coll i i \ 1 1 8. ' ! K i won't 1 pronunciation ML i ts s fuu i‘ il wling qrove yranges and o j e it only development to 10 somehody o 1 Merbert l make it th arden spot and Folkel, ¢f the Por Nows, ore | the Lt of all travelars—Jack- long, we will nominate him as (QIII-E aville Mctropolis, didat Coneressman-at-li or | gome other use he| The years roll on, so swift! Old Is another a headed, pen- o remars-| | land w {ter, were sood run-|age on us advances, and we into its shadows drift with mournful back- ward glances, It scems but yester- 11111)’ that we who falter now and toi- 2 on the sunlit lea The days p or by the womdland water. wert by on heavy wing, slow then WALT M ,\.\\L\:. VI Ufice of ernor of the State of Florida, at his office in the Capitol Building in the City of Tallahassee, Florida, for Let- ters-Patent, incorporating them, their associates, and successors into a body politic and corporate under the name of the Central Construction Company, under the following charter and ar- ticles of incorporation, the original| of which is now on file in the office of the Secretary of State of Florida, at the City of Tallahassee. J. W. HICKS. A. LOGAN, C. F. MERRITT. Proposed Charter of the Central Con- struction Company. The undersigned hereby agree to become associated together and do lLiereby associate themselves together for the purpose of becoming a body politic and corporate under the laws of the State of Florida, the provis- jons of which are hereby accepted The following articles shall consti- tute 2nd become its charter, upon the issuance of letters-patent, according to law. 1. The name of this corporation shall be Central Construction Com- pany; its principal office and place of business shall be at Lakeland, Flor- ida. Other offices may be established at such other places as the corpora- tion may desire and its business may require, 2, The general nature of the busi- ness to be transacted by this corpora- tion shall be general ¢ oy A ,,,A iall be general contracting In act and deed for the uses and pur- The planting of roses | all its branches, buying, selling, deal- poses therein expressed ing in, material and supplies neces- | sary for the conduct of such business; buying, selling, holding and dealing in real estate and mortgages; buying, selling, and dealing in merchandise; loaning or borrowing money and taking or giving security for same. 3. The amount of capital stock o this corporation shall be Ten Thous- and ($10,000), Dollars, divided into one hundred shares of the par value of One Hundred ($100.00), Dollars, ecach. Ten per cent. of said capital stock shall be paid in cash on or be- fore February 25, 1912; the remain- der of said stock to be paid at such time and in such manner as the di- rectors may hereafter provide, 4, This corporation shall exist for ninety-nine years, unless dissolveil | sooner according to law. 5. The business of this corpor; tion shall be conducted by a pr dent, a vice-president, a scere treasurer, and a board of directc © hersen {ill the combined o= The and treasurer, bowrd of directors shall cor shall be heid in tiy January they c-named oflicers, shall meet at La e ninth day of Ma for oG 1912, the purpo u- opting br-laws and transa ¥ other b <« which may come ‘ the meeting, Until the efficers, qualified, the busi ness of the corpors 11 be conducted by the fol ¢ J. 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