Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 6, 1912, Page 2

PAGE TWO moment's ao'ice. Call on us of new tires. and good, it's here. UNION GARAGE ~ West Main St. SOEOEOEOIRIOIRIOHOPRIODOE0 SOSOPOSOI0LS JUST RECEIVED Full Line Reach’s Base Ball Goods Our 50 cents Book Sale Is Still On Stationery in All Shapes Post Cards 1 cent Each TOTOBOPO OO LAKELAND BOOK STORE OHOBOGOPQCHHOTOICHIQL OO IO POTATOES BEANS ALL SEEDS Don't send away for such, I have as good as money and experience can command. N. Y. and Eastern grown. Some from other sections wherever the best grow. FRESH, PURE, TRUE, RELIABLE Car of Pure Maine Bliss Potatoes : D. B. Dickson LAKELAND MARBLE AND GRAN ITE WORKS, Looated on East Lake Morton, John Edmunds, mmmmummmunmmmun. MAPS, BLUE PRINTS Maps of any description compiled on short notice. Special sonable rates. Special rates for prints in large quantities. Prompt attention given mail orders. South Florida Map and Blueprint Co. LAKELAND, FLA. Room 213-215 Drane Building Lands, Rolling Land, Situated on Beautiful Lakes, Paying Straw- beary and Trucking Farms. Weguarantee all property just ¥ as represented by us, For reliable information see A We Are Pennant Winners in the matter of auto supplies, There isn't a thing needed by auto or own- er that you can not obtain here at 2 for anything from oils and lubricators tc the latest lamp or horn or a set If it's an auto supply y The Home of the Ford and Cadillac. PHONE 65 Prop. attention given to compiling city, display and advertising maps. County and State maps kept on hand. Chemically prepared, non-fading blue prints at rea- Choice Colinisation § Tracts at Low Prices, Florida Homes and Groves on High § i Affeld THE EVENING TELEGRAM ILARLLAND, FLA, MARCH 6, 1912 BOOKER GIVES HIS RACE SOME GOOD ADVICE In his address at Pensacola a few days ago, Booker T, Washington gave g his race the following good advice: Plenty of Work. “We not only have the advantage in a state like Florida of securing land, but the further advantages of | ORANGE HALL. finding plenty of work. I will guar- antee to say that there are few if any members of our race who have spent any considerable length of time {in seeking labor. Instead of having to seek labor, labor seeks them. Our people negro Sk s ek ar s e ad ges in @ condition is different from laboring in many parts of the old world where they have to spend days and sometimes months in seeking la- bor and then are not able to find it. And then atfer they do find work in many parts of the old countries, they receive a wage that is much snmller than the wage paid to, the average man or woman in the State of Florida. “While we may have disadvanta- other directions, we should, however, bear in mind that the soil of Florida draws no color line; its soil will yield as much of her riches to the has, rid of ivisa is just and school southern states, the negro main dependence for labor. I our people, in the first place, to get side, everywhere we must upon our people the fact that the idle man or idle woman must be gotten rid of, that an influence must brought to bear on them that touch of the blackest hand in Florida as to the touch of the whit- est hand in Florida, no color line. color line, respects we have the same advanta- ges that the whitest man in Florida The rain draws The sun draws no In all these fundamental No Disgrace to Work. Florida, like many other is the want the old idea once for all that disgrace to labor. Get rid of the idea once for all that an educat- ed man or woman should not work ir the field, in the shop, in the Kitch- en, in the laundry, upon our people everywhere that it We must imprese as dignified to work in a fleld or in a shop or in a kitchen or laun- dry as it is to teach school, preach the gospel or write poetry. “Everywhere, large towns and cities of Florida, we must get rid of the idle man or wo- man of our race. Idleness, wherever there are people hanging around on the stret corners railroad around bar rooms there you are like- ly to have crime and to find racial friction. especially in the Wherevr there is stations or loafing From the pulpit, from the teacher's desk, from the fire- impress be will make them go to work and earn an nerly Plant Mr. NEW BERTH FOR W. B. DENHANM, W. B. Denham, general of the Gainesville Midland, and for- honest living and cease disgracing “Jour race with their idleness.” manager general superintendent of the System, has been appointed general manager of the Georgia and Florida Railroad. He will enter upon his new duties March 1, according to announcement r:ade in Richmond by President John Skelton Williams, of that road. Denham succeeds J. M. Turner, who has resigned to look after pri- vate interests.—Tampa Tribune. world. ———— Give the Best. Every normal person is born with & message for humanity, with a sacred obligation to give his best to the Your talent was not given merely to provide the necessities and luxuries of existence, but to make the world a little better place to live in, to pay your debt to humanity, to make the largest possible sum total of a soul.—Becker. Irresistible Earnestnees. "How can any man be weak who dares to be at all? Even the tender] Good Meats, Fresh est plants force their way up through hardest earth, and the crevices of |- What what a catapult is an earnest can resist him?"—Tho | QOCOVOVD —GEORGE Master of Dancing. Private Lessons, o "PHONE 330-RED. e r—————— DR. SAMUEL F. SMITH SPECIALIST Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Glasses Scientifically Prescribed ‘Phone: Office 141, Residence 22. Bryant Bldg, Lakeland, Fla. DR. W. 8. IRVIN DENTIST Established in July, 1900 Rooms 14 and 15 Kentucky Building Phones: Office 180; Residence 84 =4 COME, AND DR. W. R. GROOVER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Rooms 3 and 4 Kentucky Buildiug - LaxeLAND, FLORIDA. DR. R R SULLIVAN, —PHYSICIAN— Special attentiou given to Surgery and Gynecology Kentucky Building 'Pone 132 LAKELAND, FLA. Dr. Sarah E. Wheeler OSTEOPATH PHYSICIAN Rooms 5, 6 and 17, Bryant[Building 2 C. M. TRAMMELL, Attorney-at-Law. Offices, Bryant Building Lakeland, Fla. LAKELAND, ROGERS & BLANTON Lawyers, Bryant Block, 'Phone 319 Lakeland, Fla. TUCKER & TUCKER, T NA - Lakelandj Hardwa save money. You’ll buy if yoy the goods . - . Rich Men’s Clothes —. at Poor Men’s e ——— FOR A FEW WEEKS ONLY Prices Values are big enough to make then go fast so step lively if you want 1, Bce COME QUICK! Joseph‘Lei’é;' Putting in Th New Bath and toilet will not ¢ much if we do the certainly ought t ! room in the hounse -io or the lack of it ik Have us come and nik of the cost of rewo » handsome, sanitiry not be much. re & Plumbing <400 ¢ Y e Aul. ADIE Suk Raymondo Bldg, Lakeland, Florida JNO. 8, EDWARDS See our line of Imported Perfumes and Toilet Art: Attorney-at-Law. cles, A nice line of Roger & Gallet French Ex R tracts, Toilet Water, Soap, Etc, Also Pivers Goods LAKELAND, FLORIDA, Call and let us show you. R. B. HUFFAKER, ; ~—Attorney-at-Law— Roor 7 Stuart Bldg. Bartow, Fla. J. B, Streater C. F. Keanedy STREATER & KENNEDY Contractors and Builders, Estimates Furnished, Iat g hlkcl.:lhfin’m about m:phono 1 ’!.:r'.l:: .lf-l:g. FRED T. 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