Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 4, 1912, Page 4

gy i T & O TR g Ciates 0 o B e - and 2 - -t - WS - T Xl 2 = s i e & ' . PAGE FOUR " THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAR ELAND, FLA., MARCH 4, 1912, nails, What 1 want is a plain cook who can fasten on a button when T i* needed, keep the cockroaches out of the butter and the flies out of the soup. I will give her a good home, a spring bed with real feather pil- lows to sleep on, and pay her fair wages to boot. Address, J. E. TRAOY, Taft, Fla. P. S.—Please write before you ceme. The last time 1 advertised for a housekeejer, four came on the same train; 1 had to pay three of their fares home, and I have often wished since that I had paid the fare of the other one home at the same time. J.E T. COULDN'T AFFORD IT. About as good a story of success- ful negro farming as I know, says Clarence Poe in World's Work, is cne told by ex-Governor Aycock, of' North Carolina. While Governor he rade a trip to his old home in Golds- Loro, and in the course of the visit ran across an old negro, Calvin Beck, who had educated himself, learnln.,’ M C‘ I AS H A N The Buggy and kis letters from an alphabet carpen- ter, and had also acquired umsldem-f Harness Man ble possessions by his industry and peaCOCk Blllldlflq Oppos“e .'a“ L] prudence, “I's mighty glad to see you, Mr. Aycock,” he said, “and mighty glad you are Guv'ner of the State.” And taen he laughed, the dark’'s conta- glous chuckle. “As fer me,” he con- tinued, “you know 1 couldn’t affo’'d te be Guv'ner.” “C‘ouldn’t afford to be Governor? Why not, Calvin?” “'Cause, you see, sir, 1 gits more fer my strawberries than North Cal- lin’y pays the Guv'ner for a whole vear's work!" The Evening Telegram »® LUFsEY coxMENTS ON MR. HUFFAKER'S ARTICLE Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Editor Telegram: If Mr. R. B, Huf- {zker, who, in his article of March ., criticised my article of February »¥, had obtained the facts before writing his letter 1 do not think it would have been written. The facts are as follows: The attorney for northern capital- ists who were considering the pur- chase of $25,000 worth of bonds which the city of Lakeland had vot- ¢d to be issued for the purpose oi erecting a school building, gave his opinion that such bonds were not legal. As can be readily seen, thsi was an important matter, affecting, as it did, the whole school interest of the state, and especially that of PPolk county. School houses wer: needed in many places and it was a question: How to obtain them. Mr. N. A. Riggins went before the Polk County Board of Public Instruc- tion and asked them to defray the expense of prosecuting a friendly suit against the city of Lakeland to test the legailty of the bonds. The Board was afraid that the expense would be too heavy, but Mr. . K. Olliphant, who was their attorney, oftered his services, free of charge, to ]n-osm'ul« the suit; so the board pxreed to Mr. Riggins' request. This gentleman then went to the City Council of Lakeland and asked that Lody to defend the suit, and they, like the County Board were alraid the expense would be too great Then it was that Mr, Eppes Tucker, Jr., offered his services, free of charge, to defend the suit. THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFE TIME To Get A Vehicle At Your Own Price Having determined to ~oncentrate my efforts on my Harness Business ang Kindred Lines, I will offer for a limited time in order To:Close Out at Cost My Line of Buggies, Sur- ries, Phaetons, Wagons and Other Vehicles Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. I M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year ......oce..q..$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, Everything on wheels will go unreservedly, and if you want a vehicle i, business or pleasure, now is your time. e e e S From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS a weekly newspaper giving a re- sume of local matters, crop condi- tions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. e —————————————rce— Lady said she saw in the papers where we were going to have free * sugar and she was going right down to the grocer and have a barrel sent up. We wish her success, Wouldn't Go to Church. “This little boy was taken one summer day to the circus for the -_— Man up in Indiana just died, 111 years. He had used tobacco about 100 years. Anti-tobacco crusaders will suggest as an epitaph, “The good die young."” ————ean We shall try not to support any candidate so strenuously as to “em- Jarrass” him, We'd hate for a can- didate to have to come to us and call us off, like Wilson did in the case of Harper's Weekly. We hope by circumspection and due discretion 1o avoid such an experience—and we Pelieve we'll be successful, — o Brandt, the man who wrote loving letters to his employer's wife, and was caught in the latter's home, evi- dently was a poor, contemptible vil- v]:llll. But the husband who caught “him and who, instead of filling him with lead, gave him $50, shook kands with him and let him go, later having him imprisoned on a trump- ed-up charge, by corrupting and sub- crning everybody connected with the case—how about that fellow? Looks pretty bad for everybody concerned. They certainly do things in a pecu- l:ar way up in Little Old N'Yawk. D —— | e — HOW WE KNEW ABOUT HOGAN AND CARMICHAEL We republished a day or so ago an amusing account of “Sunny Jim’s First Sunday Trip,” written by the DANCING ACADEMY. Cotton Manu'ac'ure Aft M m 1 er Marc » emisllbergrod®o: e eve. | o The _cotton : ¢ held on Tuesday eve- | ¢rodyced into Lmn; } ning of each week, instead of Wed- | Abdurahman 111, . first time, uesday evenning, The club dance | caused it to be co “Well, dear, how did you like| will be held on Wednesday evening.|from which country it?” his mother asked on his return.| T'his is a private club dance, and is|t0 Other European limited to the memmbers who have | Stablished extensive heretofore met in the Odd Fellows' [®!K and leather, an Hall on Wednesday evening. Frida, SOt Mook fn the v . Y| worm, The Aral evening of each week the Lenox » art A muslin underwear factory is a| “Mamma, if you once went to the dancing club will meet. This is a ;l;or:'ozfio‘r:ltl»f::(h new enterprise promised for Ybor|circus you'd never, never consent to private club and limited to thirty |ment on the old operat -. City. M 80 to church again in all your life.” | members, ing by hand. “His eyes widened and he answer- — el with earnest and grave enthusi- asm: His otfer was accepted, and a pri- vate citizen, Mr. Robert L. DBrown, was induced to bring the action against the city of Lakeland enjoin- ing it from issuning the bonds, Mr. Tucker won the suit in the circuit court and Mr. Olliphant appealed it to the Supreme Court, with Mr, Tucker still defending the case. The Sapreme Court decided adversely to the bonds, otherwise the amendment to be voted op this year would not } be needed. In my former article I, through error, used the word munic- ipalities instead of special tax schocl | districts; but that does not alter the \ ‘ D NEVER-BURN STEAMER, CULLENDER AND DRAINER—The Derfo i o fact that Mr. Tucker has done the o, ks Gmal foot which Biite watse ot toa Lottons . Hothiog cah burn ;3.';\ a5 be school system a great service. i : 2 ; SRS A e -b:::. on left), at ua-m.u-a- .tll.r:h‘ll‘:l o:'h.: ::n water. e. :}'.:mu:.;'rl g As for Mr. Olliphant doing the = real work, as Mr. Huffaker says, | can not see but that Mr. Tucker did equally as good work, as each had his side of the case. Both Mr. Olliphant and Mr. Tuck- er have done the people of Polk county a service for which we should be grateful. R. E. LUFSEY. editor of the Ocala Star, and made : ; : plE MAJESTIC Extra MAJESTIC THE MAJESTIC ) : 7 WATER ) 3 : Nickel-plated (ol the comment that the writer appa- WARTED—A HOUSEKEEPER. N .| . g ‘{Mm m’.‘" o s ,.‘mu". g:t""lhn«l:'u nickeled o rently couldn't see Lakeland, as it was not mentioned in the article. The editor makes the amende honor- able so far as Lakleand is concerned, but seeks to embarrass us by tacking on a question, in the following para- graph: “Really. we didn’t intend to neg- lect Mr, Hetherington's pretty and enterprising town, but our stay in it was passed in the railroad yard, and 1l we saw of the place was the tops of the houses above the lines of freight cars. Beside, we knew if would take at least two columns to begin to do justice to the subject.[keep me in plain grub. I have two And now, will Editor Hetherington, little girls, one ten years old and one ot that we wish to be impertinently |five, who have been keeping house inquisitive, but just between friends,|for me until there is nothing mors tell us how he comes to be so famil-[t0 keep—they have broken up all 1ar with the only two Ocala names|the dishes. I would like some one he mentioned?” who could make out a list of what We answer that we chance to|ls needed in the line of crockery know the names of the proprietors of | Where there is not a great variety the two leading Ocala booze empo- | to eat, and one who knows how to riums from reading the advertising|dispose of empty tomato and fifty- columns of the Ocala papers. Fur-|Se¢ven other varieties of cans that thermore, they have plied us with|have accumulated under the kitchen their literature in a manner that|table, in the pantry and under the lcads us to suspect' that they have|beds. Lad experience in supplying the I am not particular as to her beau- !iquid necessities of editors at home ty; yould rather she were plain-look- «nd wish to extend their business ing, and at least forty years old— among that class of consumers else-|it might then be possible for the where. young men of this town to keep away long enough to give her time to wash up the supper dishes. “TTdo not want a stenographer, typewriter, dressmaker, manicurist, chiropodist or milliner out of a job. items you may tell us. You like to|who would take this position just to rem.l them, and we like to have them. | wait for another opening in their let’s organize a mutual admiration |own line and experiment on me with society—we'll admire you it you tell|their amateur cooking. My stomach us what you know, and you'll admire|now is on the ragged edge of a rup- us when we tell other people about ture; dyspepsia stares me in the face, it, and they’ll admire us all because|and my clothes are supported by we told them. only one'button and three ten-penny The following alvertisement ap- pears in the Or.ando Sentinel, ana we pass it on, tor the bencfit of any person whe may think she can fill the requirements specified: Editor Sentinel:—1 would like tol; get a housckeeper; one who can boil petatoes with or without their skins on, sew on a button and make a leaf of bread. 1 do not care what color her hair is, or how big her feet are, nor what church she goes te, nor what her nationality is, if she can make good with the kids and |, R ‘m GREAT AND GRHND | "y MAJESTIC RANGE |- T..:. 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