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

Why He Should Be Re- nominated. Bartow, Fla., April 16, 1912, Dear Sir: The duties of my fice make it impossible for me to can ally, as 1 would like to do, so 1 tak this plan to present my request. i candidate fice of county judge and if my serv have been satisfactory public 1 feel that 1 am justified ir making this request. That you may know The ices more coolest place in townis-oursoda some figures from the fountain When you term, beginning Jan. 1, 1900, lnlu for ('1<- fact that 1 am t'h:n':c'vj J In that time 1 have s«-nh-nrwl:“'”h]'l;“"”‘g "“:‘,]" ”f‘((m ‘":‘li"”” i H 1,228 criminals of whom 170 were |[tandiducy for Sheriff is being op- are tlred and ho‘ youlmmd tigers posed on that account, would not 1 g riming ave made the investigati [ them : I have collocted from criminals |have made the investigation of , can always flnd some- S10.000 in cush besides forfeited | Which some of the newspaper artiv]v.fl_ turned inta]en the subject, have caused me to bonds and had the same the county treasury. thing sparkling, deli- i In the same time 1 have sent con-|the County Court and of lhuli'l‘(-rk‘ clous, refrcdlmg and satis- Victs to the road whose combined |of the Board of County Commission- e 5 arv vale. time has amounted to 1IN0 years, en- | s | f)m: here. The Iy vt ding the county to make more good | | have been informed by three of tiCS of our soft drinks ena- [roads than were ever before made i double time. It less intoxicating couniy than there ning of the term The labor situation is greatly proved by reason of the prosecution rants and our laws are 1y obeyed than ever befere bles vou to get just what you that there liquor was at the is ulso true want— i Something That Goes Right to the Spot There are many ways and many of va Feners: The probate classificd and docketed, matter can be S0 that ingredients for making soda water and other summer drinks, but we use ty of the State. Here permit me probate department judges oflice is one fportant oflices in the county as in QUICK DELIVERY! iwidows and orphans and if these Pharmacy PHONE 89 to say that orly the best methods and the best of the goods. estates entangled, experience and abstractor ol do kept these inextricably thirty-cight real estate lawyer titles cspecially fits me work to the hest advantage, years' HETH to terests opposed to my re-election have gone to the length of having my official recerd investigated by the board of commissioners and by the grand jury, both bodies failing to find anything in my conduct to cen- sure, a result of which 1 will be par- doned for feeling proud. In view of this record and this vindication 1 submit that 1 have grounds upon which to ask your votes for a renomination at the com- ing primary, and if I am your choice I pledge you that in no way will | cease my efforts to enforce the laws and protect the interests of the tax- payers, Why Not Smoke the BEST Yours for good government, good morals and a strict enforcement of law. W. 8. PRESTON. ACKNOWLEDGE IT. Lakeland Has to Bow to the Inevit- able—Scores of Citizens Prove It. A.H. T, After reading the public statement of this representative citizen o! BLUNTS Lakeland given below, you must come to this conclusion: A remedy which proved so beneficial years ago with the kidneys, can naturally bo expected to perform the same work in similar cases, Read this: ol For Sale at All Stands S.L. A. CLONTS Mrs. Lena Smith, B, Bay street and lewa avenue, Lakeland, Fla., says: I have used 1€an’s Kidney Pills on and on for some time and would not be without them. | am subject to attacks of backache, no doub: brought on by over-exertion. At such times the Kidney secretions always Lecome uunnatural and my genera! health is aftected. 1 learned that nothing would help me except Doan's hidney Pills. They always act quick- iy and tone up my system.” Mrs. Smith gave the above state- trent on May 14, 1908, and when she DEALER IN was interviewed on Feb. 28, 1811, she said: 1 willingly re-endorse CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— the merits of Doan’s Kidney Pills. 1 SOME FINE BARGAINS, can recommend them stronger today than ever. 1 confirm the statement given in 1908, T have been greatly benefited by Doan’s Kidney Pills, and you may continue to use my ref- crence. 1 am always pleased to speak a good word in favor of Doan's Kid- ney Pills.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other. uffice in Clonts’ Building. W. FiskeJohnson REAL tsmt' Loars Negotiated All He Got. “When I was & boy,” says Cohn, “there were seventeen of us at h-o. Buys and Sells Real Estate. Orang P g Borcpdiannomgo e dodod s ¢ Grove Property a Specialty. ROOX 7. RAYMONDO BUILDING ot- Ivass the county and see you person- As you are probably aware, 1 am a for re-clection to the of-) to the fully what | have done permit me to quote | records of tho| county judge's office for the present is vastly sold in the bhegin- im- more business is complete!s any instantly found, some- thing never before done in any coun- the county of the most im- are Kept the records of all estates of are this Within the last two wecks the in- SYE KEVENING TELEGRAM LAKRI.ANND WA THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., APRIL 19, THE COUNTY JUDGESHIP Judge Preston Gives Some Bcuons! AND APPEALS TO THE RECORDS' CllllDS REPLIES i OF THE COURTS, However great my dislike newspapor controversy or notoriety. | -{feel, in view of the fact that 1 am being charged by some with being the instigator of the complaints re- cently lod | missioner: inst some of the County Court oflicials, especially as the same |relates to the Judge and the Sheriff, that in writing this I am probably discharging a duty to myself; und fat the same time doing neither the !public or the persons interested, any itjustice. I had nothing to do with the mak- ing of the charges mentioned, and i {make of the records of the offices of ithe members of the Board of County Commissioners that in their inves gation of the charges mentioned, that the only investigation by them made | was to inform themselves as to what the cost bills made out in the cases referred to contained, and as to whether they were regular on theiv face and had been approved by their attorneys; and that the question as to whether or not the services charg- ed for in such cost bills had been actually rendered was never examin- ed or inquired into by that Board or its attorneys. | 1 for ! with the County ('um-j ADRIT 19 v1019 1912, ‘or not the fees charged had been|veyed or committed to jail, but left|at the mines or other pla ! ‘hich to pay their fines and cost.|rested? 11 arned. No such denials appear ini" i : ! ; o Cenceding such to be true, does or t is also claimed that 14 newspapers in which pub- 2 1t R0y of the Nowspapers I 'dul that give the Judge and thereferred to were gottey - Heity as to the procecdings of the ieriff the right to hold preliminary |tical purposes only. ““llll'.\ Commissioners and of ”“I ‘xaminations in the absence of theli disclaim all con {Grand Jury was given. |defendants who had already confess-|origin of the charg If it be that fees for services never jed their guilt? thereby waiving their |ing been laid at n rendered «an lawfully be collected. [rizht to such preliminary hearing |m~nm to say th: then the fee system is badly at fault L nd to charge the defendants or the |1 m permits su and should be remedied. ‘ county, as the case may be, with the | ime for I understand that it is claimed in cost of a preliminary hearinz befor: justi'li('ution of the charges that the :h~' Couniy Judze and then the :n!m-é of snch ¢ mdirinns to ther for political op defendants in a number of the cases, tionzl cost of a final trizl in the Conn- |y . wiil have s H 1 when arrested, agrees to plead guilty Corrt? and doss such an under- Leneficial purpose foy lu‘md authorized the officers making tho|sta z with the defendant, give the geed, if it result in o), jarrest to enter such plea for them ff the right to charge for convey- Letter, and committing him to jail, when s 2 matter of fact, he was not con- and furnished the officers making th: {arrest with security or funds with Yours very (. E. D. Fenton’s Place, located on Lake Parker, one mile from Lake- land, has recently been purchased by C. A. Mann, of Kansas City, and is known as the Parker Lake Golf Place, and sub- divided into lots of 100x200 feet, not the The question as to whether or certain fees were charged in bills and as to whether or not the services were actually rendered and the fe e two separate and alto- gether different questions. I have also had occasion to talk] with Messrs. K. M. \Watts and Tom Page, Deputy Sheriffs; with Mr, E. E. Fish, Superintendent at the State| I'hosphate Company's mine, and with others, and each of them substanti- | ates all that was included in th'-i charges filed with the Board of Coun- ty Commissioners in regard to the men arrested at the mines but who were not taken away from the mines by the officers making the arrest. The records in the office of A, B. Ferguson, Clerk of the Circuit Court, and of the Board of County Commis- sioners, also bear out these charges in regard to the fees charged in these cases, One of the men arrested eight miles from Bartow, was Henry Granger; and 1 here give the items of cost charged and paid in his case, duly certified to by Mr. Ferguson, lerk. Judge's Court--State of | Henry Granger; charg» In County Florida vs. gambling; Feb, 21, 1911, {County Judge's costs . ........ $2.08 Sherifl’s costs—Arrest.. .. ... 1.00 Return on warrant. . ....... R 20 miles traveled ... B.00 " Taking bond \ We do certify that the above Biil| of Costs is just and true, that the same is for services actually rendered in said case, and that no part there- of has been paid. Witness our hands and seal of said Court, this 28th day of February 1911, S. PRESTON, County Judge. JOHN LOGAN, | Sheriff. | In the County Court, Polk County. | Fla.-State of Florida vs. anr_\'I Granger; charge gambling; |\lt':l‘g guilty; judgment $5.00 and costs. Clerk's costs. . .. Sheriff’s costs— Arrest. . Return on Warrant. . ‘ Committing prisoner to jail. Release of prisoner Copies of bills, with the \ouxhvr= and paid by the Board of County Commissioners, in March, 1911, Attest: , A. B. FERGUSON, County Auditor. 1 give the above only as a sample and the same is true of each of the others arrested at the same time, and in many other cases. | Attention is also called to the fact that none of the officers affected or against whom charges were filed have, to my knowledge, denied the facts set forth in the charges or that the fees therein specified and claimed to be unlawful were in fact received by them, and have contented them- selves with simply showing that the charges were dismissed by the County Commissioners with a statement to the effect that they had examined the cost bills in the cases and found them to be regular on their faces and ap- proved by their attorneys. The Com- missioners therefore did not take any inquiry slong the line as to whether OO | 161 2] inda ! panies now operating or which may Iy f : i af vl days, In regards to w i "“_‘l AL "‘ll"'“ ‘] 2 I‘ l:l i I hereby certify that the forego- | Mr. W, P, P of 1 cngines and cars through the Clt¥i i, . o qinance, number 137, was duly | knew mo for i . : A i passed by the Council of the city of [lando, Fla. D days f“"“ f"“ passazg _'”“ "m”‘l)“" Lakeland, on the 20th day of March, {or phone 64 Red, \ of this ordinance, construct and at 0 I L. SWATTS. luvenue, » fronting on Boul- evard, Golf Grounds and Park. QL Lots in this plat are from $250.00 up. First come; first served. This addition is re- stricted to $1,500.00 houses. This is located on Parker Lake, one of the largest lakes in this vicinity. (. For further infor- mation, inquire of ELLIS & BARHITE ORDINANCE NUMBER 137, Room 1, Raymondo Buildirg ern automatic system, Said gate sha‘lq be lowered so as to close the street An ordinance requiring all railroad | crossings over said railway at Flor-| ida avenue and Kentucky avenue, immediately preceding the passage of any train, railroad car or enzine across said streets or avenues and shall be raised immediately after the 1 .« suge thereof, lJnIlolsterma and Matlress Makin OLD MATTRESSE: ] FURNITURE REPAIRE CUSHIONS of all order, companies operating in the city of | Lakeland, at certain designated street crossings to construct, operate and maintain railroad gates and to presceribe a penalty for the viclatica Section Any violation of sec-| vion one of this ordinance shall be therefor. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUN CIL OF THE CITY OF LAKELAND, |Puuished by a fine not to exceed three | CARPETS ad RUGS socti 1. That all railroad com- hundred dollars ($300) or impris- laid; also matting, ot Section 1, That all railroad cc lonment not to exceed thirty (30) MIRRORS 1 r of Lakeland, shall within sixty (60) all times thereafter shall operate and maintain railroad gates at Kentucky avenue and Florida avenue crossings, which shall be upon the most mod- Approved by me this 22nd day of | March, A. D. 1912, [ 8. L. A. CLONTS, Mayor. Arthar A. [evole possible to make. And our prices are no more than you pay for inferior _jfil goods. It will pay you to call an dsee us ‘V before making any hardware pur- chases for farm or home. The Jackson & Wilsomf) Company LAKELAND, FLA,