Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 29, 1912, Page 4

PAGE FOUR The Evening Telegram| Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postofice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. REERGD R e B L M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. bl lh( IHI‘I'IO\ R\Thb One year Six months .... Three months .... Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week. same office is issued LAKELAND NEWS a re- of local matters, crop condi- county affairs, etc. Sent for $1.00 per year. From the THE a weckly newspaper giving sume tions, anywhere After blustering around for weeks, giving cvery crowd the benefit of your political prognostications, won't you feel a little toolish on election day, when on being pressed to vote you will have to say, “\Well, the fact i<, 1 just forgot to pay my poll-tax— time slipped up on me some way,” ete,, ote? It is not a paying propositien to be Mayor of a city like Tampa —cspe- cially, il te Mayor is a big-hea man like b, B, MeRay, That gontie- man Staies that in some mouths e wed than his satary, 12 and undeserying, him BAVe LWGY ol deserving wio krow charitiva and these doubt the do not sulement, There are hundreds of new-comers to this section of the county. are one, and will have been in tne county a year at the time of the pri- register and pay your poll- a citizen in ract, I you maries, wx, and Assume some of the civie duties of your adopted State; help us to get gcod men in the offices, and to im- prove conditions by qualifying your- self for the use of the ballot, become There's quite an amusing and in- teresting article in today'd paper, giving an account of “Sunny Jim's" first Sunday trip and the experiences of the Ocala Star’'s editor thereon, There's only one thing that puzzles us—the editor didn't seem to seeany- thing between Dade City and Tampa, lLakeland scems to have made no im- pression upon him whatever, Of course, there's an explanation possi- Lle as to why he couldn’t see com- ing baeck from Tampa, but that ex- planation shouldn’t apply on the go- ing trip, Hogan's and Carmichael's rotwithstanding. in business in ev- big users ol get away The big people ery community ,P_"inn-rs' ink are the You can't from that fact, the statement chant prince of the great city or the sucecessful business man of the small applies to the mer- oftown, business can v be buildea without advertising, A store-Keeper may exist; he may even make a liv- ing; but he can not expand and riake his business anything worth while without liberal advertising This is gospel truth, founded on the experience of successful men every- where, THE RACE OF HIS LIFE. Former State Superintendent W. N. Sheats has been down this way, fa bigger Sunday crowd, Ltyranous corporations now receive so TIE 'SVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., FEBRUARY 29, 1912 N ———————————————————a 20000000 Q0Q0QGQQ Q' time they hear a train coming from Q < »SUNNY JIM'S" FIRST SUN. ¢ “ DAY TRIP. ; E' (From The Ocala Star.) Q ¢ [} E-E-R-X-X-K-X-R-R-R-X-X- XK=} The editor of the Star docsn’t be- iieve in working on Sunday—or any other day, it he can help it. S0 he regarded (he idea of running Sunuy Jun on Sunday as an aggravated in- stance of breaking the Sabbath, and tried to discourage it by threatening ty accompany Conductor W. T. Mc- I'wain on his very first Sunday run. Mac said that he never did anything set except in the face of some great ciscouragement, and announced that | he would take his train out Sunday, I'ebruary 2oth, just like it was any other day, and as the editor never takes a dare unless he has to, he made Mac take him out too. When Mace sized up his bunch ot sengers Suunday morning, there re Maleolin R, Williams, ticket agent of Coust Line, John F. Thompson, treizht agent of the sawme oppressive corporation, a C(oast Line conductor, W, F. Blesch, proprietor ot the Montezuma barbershop, and the writer. Mac looked disgusted and said il Ocala could not turn out he would stop every Suaturday night at Dun- nellon, The newspaper man that people couldn’t be blamed for staying in Ocala unless they had to but Mac, who lives in Lake- Lind now, only looked at him in lofty scorn, or as lofty as his height would allow, the suid leave; The three railroad men were dead heads of course. The editor used to but meddlesome legislators and congresses have passed laws compell- ing newspaper men to pay their fares, and that is the chief reason why the be, many wallops from the trammeled press. free and un- | crossing It is true, wWhether all there and have the climate, and In this day no considerable ) As the train procecded southward, the passengers increased, After the Withlacoochee, the writer found himself in a, to him, new country, and one he had for years possessed a wish to see. It would take a highly imaginative ntan or a natural born liar to say that the landscape between York and Inver- ness is attractive, The turpentine and sawmill men have scalped it, and the phosphate men have eviscerated it Sand, stumps and sinks, it looks truly God-for-saken. Malcolm Wil- liums sajg that one of its best uses was to hold the better parts of Flor- Ica together, which remark stamped him as an opportune optimist. However, an occasional phosphate plant, a useful but ungainly ovject, looming up in the distance, remind- ed the traveler that the desolate ridges around him were furnishing the lifeblood that put the bloom in many a fair landscape's cheeks—if it isn’t cheeky to make such a meta- phor, and some day the ridges will Dloom themselves with some- thing useful and beautiful - they are| the viney things will come along with | the time, £0 a4 man can’t walk fav} county falling a railroad. Sunny Tim hadied | at three from Ocala to Dunnellon the Ocala and Southwestern, a voad and the Seaboard's line to In- verness, zetting in aMrion Its withput over log Dunnellon is a good town, a live (that | fort to do so, should they entrust me/ i 1 | 1 town, does lots of business and has many good people, but the reporter wishes something yould happen to the unsightly row of shanties that tcrder the railroad near the depot. He saw some of those same shanties there eighteen years ago, and doesn’t believe they have been painted out- in the interest of his candidacy for|side or scrubbed inside in all that State Superintendent of Public Schools. He seems to be in splen- did health and in the best of good humor. in the school room have whitened his hair and mellowed his speech and manners. He finds friends of other Gays in every county, and loses no opportunity to win others who had never met the man. losing no time visiting schools, but is out among the voters, just like 2 man who knows what he wants, and is after it in downright earn- est. Professors Hololway and Rus- sell would do well to keep an eye on the former State Superintendent, who is preparing to make the race oi his life.—~Arcadia News. Time and new experience | handsome. Mr. Sheats is|was ugly. time. Holder is also a good place, but Holder, like many good men, isn't Hernando is an improve- ment, with its pretty lake and good- looking schoolhouse. Inverness is named after a bleak and ugly Scotch town, and the writer always had an idea that Inverness He was surprised to see how well the town showed up, the queen of its county with a girdle of lakes. Floral City does very well, and it may be both floral and a city in the near future. Istachatta is the place vwhere John Martin once had a tur- pentine location. The people there grew fond of John, and now every SR VRS e g 'e\'ery democratic voter at the pri- fli the north, they look to see if John is fre turning to them. The last time the writer rode down the Florida Southern, Fitzgerald in the pines was rather a picturesque place, but the pines and the Norman name have gone and Croom is strict- ly busingss. Malcolm Williams and John Thompson called the editor's atten- tion to the union depot at Trilby. That bunch seemed to have union de- rot on the brain, and every time Sunny Jim crossed a log road, they celled the editor's attention to what|! a fine site it offered for such a commercial necessity. Mahomet wouldn’t enter Damascus because he said it looked too pretty ‘rom the outside that he feared i: would spoil his appetite for paradise. ‘The editor thought of Mahomet wher he looked at Dade City, nestling among its groves and gardens. Some fine farming country in Pasco coun- tr Just south of Dade (ity,- the writer noticed some queer looking inclosures—high fences with over- He asked Baggage- Turner what they were, and that gentleman ‘renlied Dade ity chickens were un- usually ambitious, and they had to keep them in that sort of poultry vards to prevent their roosting on the court-house roof at night, as the areat hiead screens, riaster Barney Jus! writer had implicity believed ks plausible statement, there came aleng a Dade City man and said the inclosures were tobacco patches, Meantime people had been hoard- ing Sunny Jim at every station, and when the train stopped at Lakeland i By this time the Ocala men were scared and homesick to find themselves so fan from home, so they made Mac prom- ise if they didn't show up on the late it had a good-sized crowd, (Continued on page 7.) s g St s e e 8000': DOLOOOOOLOOO OO0 '00 & POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS § 000000000000000000@0000000 [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. To the Democratic Voters of Polk County: I beg to announce my candidacy for the office of State Senator from this district, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries, the date of which will be announced later. Respecttully, H. J. DRANE. D ————— — FOR STATE SENATOR. To the Voters of Polk County: I hereby announce myself a candi- date for State Sepator from Polk county. Having the will to serve the people's best interests, I will use such ability as I possess in'the ef- with this commission. 1 respectfully| solicit the support of all the voters JOHN F, CONX. | | - 1 | FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. | I am a candidate for the office of | Prosecuting Attorney for Polk| county, and respectfully solicit lhc: vote and support of the reader and, mary election, April 30. I promise that if elected, I will devote my time and energy to the duties of the of- fice in prosecutions for the State. Respectfully, EPPES TUCKER, JR. FOR TAX COLLECTOR. I hereby announce myself a candi- date for the office of Tax Collector of Polk county, subject to the Demo- cratic Primaries. If elected I prom- ise to discharge all duties of the office faithfully and to the best of my ability. HENRY J. LEWIS. FOR REPRESENTATIVE. The friends of J. C. Brown hereby announce his candidacy for member cf the State Legislature from Polk county. They know Mr. Brown's worth and efficiency, and recommend kim to all the voters of the county, assuring them that they will make no mistake in casting their vote for (X) J. C. BROWN. 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Cleaning and dying is we do, Panana Skin Law in Brazil, During a Soutuwark inquest, ia which it was suggcsted that an old man had s on a banana skin, a Juror said iad been in Rrazil, and there if a policeman saw a person throw a banana er erange skin on the roadway that person was at once are rested and fined or sent to prison.— Londen Daily Graphic, ] We do it so w.., ¢ .t | Ments scew | ———————— Bicken Along the Highwey, If good resolutions were made of glass, what o tremendous lot of tire punctures there would be! We take your suii . £lleg with stal. And return it to you 1 onow s Summer or g Winter weather We will call for your clothes and & liver them, again, So remember one thing . [ lari in mind R. B. HUFFAKER, CANDIDATE FOR PROSECUTING ATTOR- NEY. l He would represent the State as faithfully as he would a private cli- ent. He would have the State's wit- nesses subpoenaed and present at the That in cleaning and too, Is all the same at the roller rink; best ventilated and coziest hall in town; Nt 4 A g A come, spend an afternoon or night. S C . \\-rzllldal);l:koe?t hlspnl;nmoto dispose of We take especially good care of the all cases on the calendar for each 'children. Open to ladies and gentle- term, thus avoiding useless and ex-;men. Admission free. Skates to la- pensive delays. dies, 15c; skates to gentlemen, 25c.| ble Without any worry or trout DEREE & CARPML PHONE No. 25 0 bich 1% A I\\'e also give instruction. You are 2 ' lalways welcome, &N Janus In Mythical Mistory Lakeland Skating Rin Janus was invoked at the commence ment ot most actions; even in the %0 ship of the other gods the votary “e- gan by offering wine and incense Janus. The first month i b Never, If all women were beautiful and none of them ever grew old a married man's wife would never insist on tak- ing him out to spend the evening any- where. H. C. STEVE&? Lakeland, Florida JEWELER . The largs com* Q. A full line of ost Jewelery, Silver= and m plete line of Watches ever brought to Lake* land now on dis* ware and Cut Glass always; on hand for you to select from. play. —_— @ Our Repair Department is the best. Each piece of work done promptly and carefully and ALWAYS GUARANTEED