Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 8, 1912, Page 2

moment’s 2a9tice. Call on us tc the latest lamp or horn or a se of new tires. and good, it's here, We Are Pennant Winners Starvation Rife in the matter of autv 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 If it's an auto supply THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA.,, MARCH 8, 1912, In Famine- Stricken China Mr. Earl H. Cressy, an American, who has recently returned from a tcur of inspection of the famine dis- tricts of China relates many instan- ces illustrative of the frightful: con- ditions of starvation which prevailed t —=. The Home of the Ford and c'dm“'.early in February, He made a mi- UNION GARAGE ~ West Main St. PHONE 65, cxninscion of many chisee 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 LAKELAND BOOK STORE DROBO OO OBOI0e SEEDS 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. SO SDI O PO BB PO, SO0 FRESH, PURE, TRUE, RELIABLE Car of Pure Maine Bliss Potatoes ALSO FERTILIZERS D. B. Dickson FOR SAL Tracts at Low Prices, Florida Homes and Groves on High Rolling Land, Situated on Beautiful Lakes, Paying Straw. Timber, Turpentine, Cut-over as represented by us, For reliable information see Ohlinger LAKELAND MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS, Located on East Lake Morton, John Edmunds, Prop, Solicts the orders of all requiring anything in this line, MAPS, BLUE PRINTS Maps of any description compiled on short notice. Special attention given to compiling city, display and advertising maps. County and State maps kept on hand. Chemically prepared, non-fading blue prints at rea- sonable rates. Special rates for prints in large quantities. Prompt attention given mail orders. South Florida Map and Blueprint Co. Room 213215 Drane Building LAKELAND, SOOI EOPIEFE SOOI Lands, Choice Colinization & & | Cross, 1s urging every pastor in the beary and Trucking Farms. Weguarantee all property just March 10, and to take a collection & |for the starving. The Red Cross ap- S | proves this request and urges uni- g | versal compliance with it. § (e thus collected may be sent to the ,'_f York, or to the American Red Cross, g | Washington. ‘: amounts received will be acknowl- all the houges, large and small, in several groups, a total of fifty-five houses, Mr. Cressy makes the fol- lowing statement: “A straw stack indicates that there has been a crop. I found straw in four yards, Grain was found in only seven houses out of the fifty-five, and in no place over a peck of it. The food in process of preparation was invariably grens, such as sweet pota- to leaves or carrot tops, a thin, acrid smelling mass of the appearance of stagnant water and about as appe- |8 tizing, only once in a while contain- |8 iug a bit of vegetable of grain. About o one out of every three was eating elm bark which they prepare by re- ducing it to a fine sawdust and then making it into cakes. Whole rows of trees.have thus been stripped of their bark. Of even such sorry food as this only a few have any great amount on hand. Atfer it is gonc they will eat the bark of the willow and mulberry which cause swelling and hasten death. Except for these the countryside is absolutely bare. “To look back upon it, the whole seems like a bad dream. The gloow ot the wretched homes, the whirling 8Low, driven by the bitter wind, ti hungry garrulousness of the old women, the modest shyness of young matrons at suddenly finding themselves in the presence of a for- eign man, little children crying over their pititul food, the dumb agony on the face of the woman whom we had to tell that her husband had Just breathed his last, the dead with mummy faces and claw-like feet— all this is only a small part of the grim tragedy of the famine where two and a halt millions are facing conditions like these.” As rapidly as contributions are re- celved by the American Red Cross they are hurried by cable to the re- liet committee in Shanghai. Up to March 1, $29,000 has been forward- ed. Millions are needed, because the new grain crop In China can not be harvested for three months. The New York reliet committee, co-operating closely with the Red United States to speak to his congre- gation on the famine on Sunday, The mon- New York China Famine Relief Com- mittee, 1 Madison Avenue, New In either case the edged and promptly cabled to China, A CARD OF THANKS. — We, the undersigned executive committee, in our own name and on behalf of the colored people, gener- ally, desire to make this public ac- knowledgment of our thanks and gratitude to the citizens of Lakeland for their share in the success of the reception and address of Dr. Booker T. Washington. We are especially grateful to Mr. Hetherington for the liberal public- ity given to the enterprise through the Telegram and the News; to May- or Clonts and city officials for cour- tensies granted to ourselves and the Washington party, and to General J. A. Cox and Dr. W. D. Nowlin for cordial addresses at the park in wel- coming and introducing Dr. Wash- ington, We shall be glad of the opportun- ity to show more fully our apprecia- tion by cherfully rendering what- ever service for the public good may be desired of us. W. A. ROCHELLE, A. L. BRUNSON, D. J. SIMPSON, J. H. BROWN, S. H. SAVAGE. | | l A CARD. To Whom it May Concern: Dr. Booker T. Washington's visit to Lakeland was for educational pur- poses, purely. The local committee respected and co-operated with this purpose, and expected to realize from the charged admissions sufficient money to give substantial aid to the colored public school. OQur expecta- tions were disappointed, for by a miscarriage of our arrangements more than half of those admitted to the park (not including public school children, teachers, and invited guests who were granted free admissions) failed to pay anything whatever. The committee who financed the al- fair was made to sustain a loss of more than one hundred and twenty- five dollars. Rich Men’s Clothes 4 at Poor Men’s Pri ‘ FOR A FEW WEEKS ONLY o Values are big enough to make then go fast so step lively if you want 1, save money. You’ll buy if you the goods see W. A.ROCHELLE, A. C. BRUNSON, D. J. SIMPSON, J. H. BROWN, 8. H. SAVAGE. e COME, AND COME QUICK! The Hub, = SPECIALIST Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Glasses Scientifically Prescribed ‘'Phone: Office 141, Residence 22. Bryant Bldg, Lakeland, Fla. DR. W. 8. 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