Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 19, 1912, Page 2

wan g - “ied T g -‘, PAGE TWO LOOKING THROUGH OUR TIRES you will find only standard makes, the kind we don’t have to tell you are all right. Same way with our lamps, horns, batteries tools and all other supplics, If they are all right they are here ready to sup- delay and without unreasonable ex- pense, The House of the FORD AND CADILLAC. UNION GARAGE West Main St. PHONE 65 FEOLOIOLOIOI0IOI0I0IV IO O BOSHIOIOSOIOIOSOHOBOTOGHI TG JUST RECEIVED Qusdelies ] 0N B Full line Reach’s Base Bail Goods . . Our 50c g ¢ DBook Sale iz stili on . ° Stationery ,in all g £ shapes . . PostCards 1 cent each . . On £ and after April 1st the busiress of this store will z be conducted on a strictly cashibasis. @ o & : LAKELAND BOOK STORE : DIOIDHO IO TO T SEEDS POTATOES BEANS ALL SEEDS Don't send away for such. Ihave 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 ALSO FERTILIZERS D. B. Dickson Timber, Turpentine, Cut-over Lands, Choice Colinization Tracts at Low Prices, Florida Homes and Groves on High Rolling Land, Situated on Beautiful Lakes, Paying Straw- beary and Trucking Farms. Weguarantee all property just as represented by us, For reliable information see] & Alfield LAKELAND, FLORIDA. MAPS, BLUE PRINTS Oklinger Opposite New Depot, 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 fn large quantities. Prompt attention given mail orders. South Florida Map and Blueprint Co. Room 213-215 Drane Building LAKELAND, FIA. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakeland homes I have built, LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA ply the needs of your auto without! to the suppression of a governmental | The Interstate Commerce Commis-| report upon the Everglades of Flor-|sion has advised the Florida Rail- Qe SO & annual production of crops. LD OPOTODOFOIOIOOOLCDCDCHLDOD D HOOSOOOOVOOOOCOIOCOTODND THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., MARCH 19, 1912, EVERGLADES INVESTIGA- TION WILL BE BENEFIT. | Florida Is Not Afraid That It Be Told. ! The congressional investigation as ida and their value in production of crops will give the people of the United States much information in la manner that will be of benefit to them. It is doubtless true that thousands of acres of land in Florida have been sold that require much drain- age, continued drajning, and, in cases, long exposure to the -atmos- phere before they are in a state to | cultivate or produce. There are many thousands of “.u'!'t's in the state outside of the Iverglades section that can be placed in the same class as those lands and | thut are useless for purposes of cul- { tivation, vilueless today, but that lean be reclaimed by proper drainage fund in due course of time will un- tloubtedly prove prolitable in their There are swamps and marshes in nearly every portion of the state of { this character, but now that the at- itention of the public has been fixed upon this point of swamp lands through action of congress, there will be few buyers without examina- tion, few sales made until intending purchasers have some personal knowledge of the kind of land they are expected to pay their good money for, Florida has so much good, rich land that requires no draining, mil- lions of acres waiting to be but cleared and cultivated to produce, that the state and its people have undoubtedly suffered great injury through attempts to unload upon un- wary customers land that, to say the least, is in no condition to produce at this time, The Gulf Coaust and the East Ceast of Florida and the central por- tion of the state, as well, mm:li'lj good lands in quantities suflicient o] {sustain millions of people en » in agricultrre and horticulture, No siate (0 the Union excels Flog- {ida in healthfuluess and fine c¢li- spects, On the cast ceast, from Titusville! south to Miami, there is a stretch of beautiful country that in rich lands, fine waterways and all that makes tor comfort in any climate and at- v ospheric conditions is not matched clsewhere upon the globe, It is known as the Indian river country and its delights have been enjoyed by thousands from Europe as well as from our own republic, Florida is rapidly becoming one of {the important states of the south. It has a brilliant future in many wavs, for its natural resources are of aelass that are permanent, ever- ting, | It is Nature's & vitarinm, as we hospl 1id i -1 terways, good harbors and a produe- | | old wot | | no| ) 1 ] | reason 1 that|y rida lands are all of that (lar-| Cincinnati Enquirer. ! THE PUPILS KNEW, “These Kids I teach aren't a Dbit slow,” observed a school teacher re- cently, says Case and Comment. “In fact, I'm afraid they read the pa- pers. The other day I proposed the following problem to my arithmetic class: “A rich man dies and leaves $1,- 000,000—one-fifth is to go to his wife, one-sixth to his son, one- eighth to his brother and the rest to foreign miscions. What does each get?” “A Jawyer,” said the smallest boy in the class promptly. Macedonia Rich In Minerals. Since remote times the soil of Mace- | donia has had the reputation of con- taining many precious minerals. Not 1only was this stated by historians, but it is evident by the remains of great works undertaken by the an- clents in the mining centers, and especially on the Peninsula of Chalcl [dice. These works reached the high- est point of development under Philip ©f Macedonia and Alexander the Great. People Will Learn the Truth andilntertsate Commerce Commission mate and few equal her in these rr-|” |t | There Is a differcnce of opinfon as to " whether the joke was on the yn\:ng; Inean?" “It means that when two | NVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS | OF FREIGHT WEIGHINGS. | Will Begin Hearings on Mat- ter March 23, Tallahassee, Fla., March 16.— road Commission that on March the 25th will begin the investigation re- lative to complaints dealing with the weighing of freights, which weights are used as basis for as- sembling freight charges by the railroad companies. j This has for a long time been a) matter of genera] complaint from the shipping public all over the country. The Florida Railroad (Commissioners, they advise, hava received a great many complaints from shippers in Florida, though practically all the complaints madel | i : I we had refercirce to in-| to them wrstate shipments, n of the I:.:»r-; i which come un-|¥ der th state Commerce Commission. It 1 y A The letter of the Interstate ( m-‘: meree Commission i3 as follows: | “Washington, March 4, 1912, : ¢ “Mr. R. Hudson Burr, Chairman,| Railroad Commiszsion of Florida, Tallahassee, Fla, “Dear Sir: The Interstate Com- merce Commission has ordered an investigation into the practices of railroads in the weighing of both carload and less than carload freight., Complaints received from many quarters and from several branches of industry lead us ‘to think that the weights upon which transportation charges are assessed ut the present time are in many cases wrong and that improper charges and serious discrimination result, This Commission desires, in thes first place, to ascertain the facts, and, in the second place, to lakela“d I'Iardwar provide if possible, some remedy for whatever wrong may develop. “Since this is a matter in which| the Federal and State authorities| are alike interested, inasmuch as the weighing of state and interstato | shipments are usually by the same! ,imethods and upon the same scales, . “Iwe would be zlad of the co-opera-| tion of the several state commis- foners in the conduct of this inves- iion, cither by way of sugges-| o as to the lacts to be developed | and the manner in which they can’| | be developed, or by participating in| the hearings themselves by the pro- duction of testimony. “The first hearing will be held at Chicago beginning at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of Monday ,March 23’ 1912 E The Unexpected, It was on a Newton-Brighton sun face car. The conductor was calling out the names of the streets. Sud- denly he called In a clear, loud volce, “Elegnor, Fleanor!" Imagine the passengers’ surprise when a small, pretty young lady looked up from a book and said, “Well, what ig jt?" lady or the conluctors~loston Jour | nal, ' | Reasoning by Decluction, A young ing out to N went to a ¢ - seau. The dressmaker sugpocted a | wearm material. The young lady ask- ed why, seeing (hat the climate of New Zealand is a beautifully mild one, The dressmaker replied: “I assure you, madam, you are mistaken, for that is where the frozem meat comes | trom.” 3 S e e et Look Below the Surface. | When bent on matrimony, look | more than skin deep for beauty, dive further than the pocket for worth, and search for temper beyond good humor of the moment, remembering it is not | always the most agreeable partner at ' a ball who forms the most amiable | partner for life. Virtue, like some | flowers, blooms often fairest in the shade. *“Papa, what dces ‘arbitration’ powers of equal strerzth get hold of a smaller country, they agree to di- vide it equally."—Li‘a, . Explanation of Saturn's Rings. A new theory to explain the rings Of Saturn is urged by Prof. Birkeland of Christiania, . who holds that they are produced by electric radiation from the planet and are “renewed, 80 $0, say, every instant.” Arbitration. !’ | Men’s Spring Suits $10 to $16 Y R 29 Lakeland's IT’S SPRINGTIME RIGHT NOwW At this store and spring clothes are herc...i, plenty. If there is a man or boy that needs (|, or Furnishings, we are ready to put him Jin nobbiest goods at the lowest prices. Boys' Suits Our Spring Opening March I6th THE HUS JOSEPH LeVAY 118 North Kentucky Avenue, Lakeland Koy I Bl vy 5 r ek 4 P9y chase. ROSEDALE only exclusive sub-division is now on the market, Wide Streets, Shade Trees, Fertile Soil, Building Restrictions. Inside the city one block from Lake Morton Smith & Steitz and G. C. Rogan Rooms 19-23 Raymondo Bidg. When you_take a wall ride, gothrough IV the newest part is the Bjur Bros. piano played. It is no less ¢ strument for the bez! error to say ‘any D learn on.” For the ' tuoso—the averaz: well—none exficels Prices and terms ¢° Call on us or write ! PERRY-THARP-BERR MUSIC CO. $4.50 to $8.00 A KEEN APPRECIATION of the value of uality iy - hardware is our guid. in our supplies. We don't buy that we wouldn't be willin: ourselves. That makes it for you to buy an inferi: here. Come here net time : certain satisfaction with your ¢ & Plumbing C