Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 30, 1912, Page 1

/ HE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM P}lbflfsihed in the Best Town in the Best Part of the Best State. LAKELAND, FLORIDA, ZTUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1912. SOME HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN LAST NIGHT. BALLOT BATILE NOW WAGING yc# INTEREST IN ELECTION, 600D VOTE BEING POLLED, £VERYBODY GOOD NATURED, The last Lours of the campaign were enlivened last evening by an im- promptu speaking gotten up by Mr. Jdohn F, Cox, who, with the aid of a brass band, soon got a big crowd gath- Main street, and proceeded to make a warm address, discussing his can- didacy and that of his opponent, Mr, _i-ction in Polk county today _.Jed with much interest, and f | precincts heard from a full |H. J. Drane. L ing polled. Good nature and| Mr. Drane was soon on the scene, yote is beilg . : b { e Lrder. however, generally pre- and when Mr. Cox finished, h g ki s mounted the platform and replied. s The candidates and their Work- |y oo wore some lively passages, and justling mightily, and each is anticipating that the count ¢ him victory. the atmosphere was somewhat sul- try. Let us hope the result of to- day's election will be accepted as vex populi vox Dei, and that every- body will be in a good humor there- after, FLOYD ALLEN IS NOW ON TRIAL FOR MURDER (The Associated Press.) Wytheville, Va., April 30.—Floyd will Owing to the great length of the will be very late tonight be- gre even the county returns can be e of correct- pallot it +o with a7 probably the .4st precinct to pish the count will be Lakeland, No. polling place of which is lo- . the Bowyer building. The Luorary arrangement made by the : tion ofticials in dividing the { precinet into two precincts pesi fi 10 & _ory disproportionate division | Allen was placed on trial for murder, [L.' la the books showing 499 | growing out of the sensational shoot- ,:« ¢ 1 Precinet 10 and only 190 in |ing up of the court at Hillsville last Proomt 25, or West Lakeland. By |month, when the judge, prosecutor. isheriff, a juror and some witnesses fered around the speakers' stand on | DEATH SHIP “REACHES HALIFAX No. 155. AY EXERCISES Ecuss D : WILL 0CCUR TOMORROW. HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT The Senior class day exercises will Le given in the Herron theater on Wednesday, May 1, 1912, at 10 a. LEADING CITIZENS OF ONE MIND MACKAY - BENNETT BROUGHT PLEASING EXERCISES THIS WEEK ™ The public is cordialy invited o ALL, AGREE ON THE VALUE OF BODIES OF 190 VICTIMS OF GREAT SEA DISASTER. (By Associated Press.) i Halifax, April 30, While the city's | ichurch bells tolled and the British i flags fle*tered at half mast, the cable be present. No charges, MARK CLOSE OF SUCCESSFUL | The program is as follows: i YEAR OF SCHOOL. | Medley Senior (lass ! — Class History. .....Miss Lela Nortog | With the baccalaureate sermon onl‘(;m to School. .Miss Suella Groover sunday and the splendid play by the Junior Song............ Junior Class [Seniors last night, the commencement '('lusa Poem ......Miss Miriam Ross }«-x'-rciscs of the Lakeland High school Class Will...Miss Rosa Lee Swindell are well under way, and are being Prophecy .......Miss Benlah Hooks ship Mackay-Rennett steame vy Z ! EXay-LRNNGLt steamod mowly !H.UM successfully carried out. into Halifax morning, | 7Tyis evening the Juniors will de- harbor this lGittorian ... ... i Senior Song Miss Irma Trammell bearing the dead picked up where the White Star liner Tanic sank, manned heads, and the aft deck was stacked crew with coflins containing the dead. Men with stretchers quickly came on board The board was 190, bury 106 at sea. Among those brought to port are the bodies of two women. The body of George B. Widener of Philadelphia, was buried at sea. The identification of Astor's body was confirmed Dby Capt. Roberts, of the Astor yacht “Norma."” total It was necessary to .t clection, however, it is pre- .« voters will be assigned to 't precincts, wing figures, showing the iwere killed. His case was set for trial first, and upon its outcome will ;depend largely the methods of the I l of qualified voters in each lState in prosecuting the five other ac- pre of the county will be of spe- icused clansmen now in jail here. dal -t at this time: N0 Preoinct, Name. No. Voters. perpa sl »»| PRESIDENTIAL PRIM- No. L CBICOrB «oosvnosesrsnes No Fort Meade +voeennneess307 AR'ts lN BAV SIAIE \ BATLOW yoe,ovosnoessss 802 No i Medulla «ovvvveesenss 96 No o kathleen «.voves L1563 (By Associated Press.) Xo # Anburndale ..... 71! DBoston, April 30.—West Tisbury, No. T~ tireen Pond ... 27 [the first town reporting in today's No v Dranchborough .. .. . 8|vote in Massachusetts’ presidential Ni Plerce o« vossons . 60 | primaries, gave Taft seven, Roosevelt \ lakeland ... .. ..439'slx. LaFollette one, Orleans gave X Haskell oo voous 21 |Roosevelt fifty-five, Taft twenty-six, Yo Winter Haven . 212 | LaFollette one, Clark seven, Wilson Xo Gandys « oo 4o v 20 [one. No Midland ...00 84 e No 1 ilaines Clty ... . 41| TOMORROW IS POST CARD DAY. N lHomeland ...... .. 68 Tomorrow is Post Card day. Let N Arbuckle «..v0unn 13 !P\‘«‘l‘,\'lmdy in Lakeland send one or N Mulberry . 318 [more friends a postcard of Lakeland N [izer Bay. . 48 |with a boost for the town thereor. N MOPRS tcaid s v . 21 (The Tampa Tribune says: A t Gardner . 14 “Post Card day is tomorrow VU L 0 i 3 | "throughout Florida. Powell, the live sock Pond . ot 'secretary of the Tumpa Boaid off T R . 28 le, the man who star Post | tLakeland «ovovvns 199 Card day, says that it i3 a shame BHOVE s 0o s e le a4 that it happens to come the day after AR SRt A s g0 clection ad of the day betor» If it were two days loer it would 2955 beup to the candida o show thet s ) patriotism a subotantial moan DEATH OF LITTLE CHILD. and the “Mail a Million” sloran e ywould reach fulfillment in short or ar-old son of Mrs, Car- T died last nigut after an home of Mr. Boring on | ey | WILSON AT MIAMI . M inson, who is a daughter of I 25l ‘s, came to Lakeland to be et wit mother and sister, Miss Fan- (By Associated Press.) Tt Srs about two months ago. Her | Miami, April 30—Bryan spoke her. | ki was mot well at any time [today, advocating the nomination of ‘ v came here, but he only|Wilson in the presidential preference. bea iously {1l yesterday. The State and county primary is in ke panied by her sister, Miss'progress today. * Storts, Mrs. Johnsonm ieft on " train today for Louisville, U2 the remains back to their nterment. Miss Storts went| The climax at the baby show at T4 Atlanta, where Mrs. Johneon [the Imperial came on Wednesday e mat by her husband. The !'Rhight when the baby was given away. ! family have the sympathy|This event had been advertised far uany friends here in their {2nd wide and the house was crowd- ed from pit to dome by the people who were anxious to see the beauti- ful orphan baby given away. The CHIEF SPONSOR AT REUNION, | numbers were placed in a box and —— ‘lone of them drawn out, and the ‘2 s honored in the selection ’lucky lady walked up to the stage to '7a Mallory to be chiet spon- |Teceive the sweet little infant. —San- WAS IT A GOAT ? XS ALLORY WILL BE PROGRESS OF TITANIC INVESTIGATION BY SENATE (By Associated Press.) Washington, April 30.—Indignant- | Iy denying that he or any represgnta- tive of the International Mercantile Marine Co, had attempted to reinsure the Titanic between ther hour she went down to the time the news of the disaster was made public, Presi- dent Ismay appeared before the Sen- ate committee investigation today. Previously the charge had been made to the committee that Vice Pres- ident Franklin of the White Star line, | knew of the disaster twelve hours be- | fore he gave the news to the world. The charge was made by K. J. Dunn, a New York importer, who said the information came through a Western U'nion employe. Franklin had received a wireless early Monday telling of the dizaster POTATO BLIGHT. Injury to Hastings Crop Is Consider- able—Bad Weather, T to the Has- wet Fla., April 26 he damp, has late leaf zenera! the prety Voo inerease to the and Sun- injury plants and «r now estimated at fully 25 per « When this blight appeared some two weeks ago it was blight the ent | thonght by universal spraying and |did herself credit and acted very 'wwnh dry weather it would not hurt | well, the crop a great deal but as the weather has continued wet and un- favorable, the blight caused consid- erable damage. The fields at the beginning of this week were soaking wet and unless there is dry, warm weather, the dam- age will be still greater. Three weeks ago the government and state experts from the Agricultural Department were on the grounds and under their advice the growers began spraying with Bordeaux mixture under the im- pression that the further spread of the disease would be effectually checked. No doubt this could have been done if weather conditions had been more favorable, but the blight is still spreading despite the hard work of the growers and it is feared that the damage will be much greater. The death ship docked sowly. The | the rails with bared | and the work of removal was begun o number of bodies on | Senior Roast ................ Mr. William Emerson and Miss ! Aileen McRae. Candle Lighting ............. Mr. Gerald Mitchell and Mr. Loring Bracken. DESTITUTION AND DIS- TRESS PREVAIL IN FLOOD DISTRICT r ate e jantly anticipated occasion of com-| T (": ‘ASXOfl;:';‘Ol [':;m;" ¢ mencement week, and, as at the other opras, Lay, ARCIISD. T aten of dos- entertainments, a large audience will “tilutlun and distress come into this [Le present to witness the graduation place from the inundated country to of the twelve Seniors. }tho north. Telegraph stations in the RO GRS T loverflowed district report hundreds of l“l“l’?’s ]Wle”PlEAS.‘fumillox homeless, as every farm in ‘the upper part of the section is under INGLY PRESENTED BY SENIORS [water. Only about 10 per cent, of !Calapousa Parish {3 above water, The play, “Topp's Twins," given by ! [the Senior class of 1912 last night, | 'SAVANNAH ENTERTAINS 'drama, was a brilliant success; they | (By Associated Press.) tacted like veteran actors. The plnyl Savannah, April 30.—The presl- | v a5 emooth; they looked and acted 4 b : ¥ il rkrte ‘Ilc‘nl is here and tomorrow will be the { iguest of the Hibernian Soclety at its { Carl Kern as Topp was the S gy anniversary. He goes as its lactor. At times he rose to especlal yuog mhursday to take part in the {distinction; his make-up was fine and memorial exercises for his military speech and manner unusually 80od. w500 Major Butt, who died in the Ti- f John Patterson as Dr. Short was tunic disaster. Ihighly appreciated by the audience and his doctor’s kit most entertain- FREE DELIVERY OF MAILS {ing; so was his studied phraseology. | STARTS IN THE MORNING. !liver their oratioms, and tomorrow ?mnrniug at 10 o'clock the Class day 'exercises will be held. The program ifor both of these entertainments is published elsewhere in this issue. Tomorrow evening at the Herron 'theater the literary address will be dehivered by Prof. Thackston, of the Stu o university. This will be fol- 11ow ~d by the Alumni rm-optii)n, whlch; {will be held in Orange hall, and {wh'eh will be a delightful affair. The commencement exercises prop- | er occur Thursday evening., This is' the most interesting and most pleas- | | { | 1 i ' The two drummers, Herman Flan-! agan as “Tick,” and Boyd Edminston morning at 7:45 the as Bob Spratt were good. Herman carriers will leave the postoflice for was inimitable in *1am waiting to e the various parts of the city for the Tomorrow [shown out,” and Bob's wig was su- delivery of mail. This will be a red | letter day in Lakeland's history and all her citizens are prond of the fact that we will at last have city perfine Gerald Mitchell as “Ginger™ was an up-to-date sauey nigger; he never 2 delivery. SR L R R LR U D g B e S e e mereh enjoyed will work o dehip, owvine 1o i:\.r Mr. Twigss, who was THORIS gy g all Jottors, whether for th ack received many appreclations oo on gue, will have to have 2 conts | from the andience of his savdonic wgeog gheroto, however, all :‘I‘ul‘ humor and his attitnde to M pn g torward and will pay the Twizgs: ho did very good work. additional amonnt |hv~vrfu|1y. and Both the girls, Suelin Groover as pleasantly, Mrs, Twiges Knott and Miriam Ros as her sister Angie, looked very pret- ty and acted with spirit and merit. lcu's‘ANA CtlanAI[S Mrs. Doubledam had a hard part {that of assuming a German “brokon- | Knglish” speech, but Rosa Swindel (By Associated Press.) New Orleans, April 30.—With Sec- Mrs, Twiggs, Georgia Strain, was retary of State Knox as guest of hon- fine; she reflected on her part and or, Louisiana today celebrated the studled out ideas for it, until, of ;100th anniversary of her admission course, she felt like Mrs. Twiggs and into the Union. gave a splendid rendition. { The prompter, the wife of Prof. Jones, did a fine piece of work. Inl knowing when not to prompt is shown the ability of a prompter.fg‘. at 8:15 p. m Prompting is a thankless job, but| :l‘he p.rogn.m # o DollGwe: Mrs. Jones displayed much '"“M‘“‘Opportunlty" ..Miss Louls Layton and helped greatly that everyone felt ..\, " Light the Need of the Day” she was an inspiration to the play. ;""ss iisis Notton Much of the success of the enter-|., Balmy Breezes” g ;'horus tainment was due to the unrtenln.z;.;(.mna Yesterday ’a;ul Tod.u work of Mrs. J. D. Lovell, who was | . 4.\Ir. iR Bercs i | the director of the play. [“Evening of Life” Miss Hazel Ormsby “M B SRR R T U BOARD OF TRADE WILL MEET -optimicas TO DISCUSS TELEPHONE RATES. Vocal Solo Mrs. ¢, A. Cole| JUNIOR ORATIONS. Junior orations will be delivered in the Herron theater Tuesday, April «...Mr. Loring Bracken CENTENARY ToDAY GOOD ROADS IF NOT IN POLITICS. | | | | A representative of the Lakeland Highlands Good Roads Association has interviewed several leading citis zens of Lakeland relative to the prop- osition of good roads, and below we publish what they have to say. All who had been scen stated that they would be present at the mass meeting which has been called by the Lakeland Highlands Good Roads As- sociation for 1:30 p. m. to morrow atternoon, Wednesday, May 1, in Munn's park, Lakeland, Owing to lack of time it was impossible to see numerous others and to secure their endorsement of the work. All citl- zens of Polk county are urged to at- tend this meeting. Mr. . W. Deen said: “The value of good roads as a factor in the up- building of any community is inesti- mable. No one appreciates this fact more than myself. 1 have taken an active interest in this work and shall continue to do so. 1 urge all citizens to attend the mass meeting in Munn park tomorrow afternoon at 1:30." Mayor Clonts said: “The organi- zation of Good Roads Associations in the different communities of Polk county will tend more than any one thing in interesting our people in the building of a system of good road- ways. The value ol good roads is too well known to disevss further. 1t i3 now up'to us to secure them.” By Mr. John K. Cox said: " am In favor of the building of good roads and in the help to secure them for our county will always go my length —and that length is six feet.” ' Mr. W. I, Pillans when scen said: “fhe great benefit derived from good roads is clearly shown in Orange and Brevard countics, 1 have resided in each of these counties and know whereof | speak. 1 feel bheyond a doubt that the building of good roads is one of the best things that can be done toward the improvement of the county generally. 1t is undonbtedly one of the hest investments that the tpublic can make.” ! Mre. DHL Sloan said: 1 know of anothing that b oan sy which will add [to what is already known o the value ,luml devote our time and attention tto the seenring of them, The organ- {ization of Good Roads Associations is |-m.- of the best things that can by dove tonding to the secaring of good roadways,"” Potuisier SKippoer said bam in Govor of the turther improvement of Lonr romds, No expenditure of publie funds will benefit more people than | {Ih.vl expended on good rowdway Mr il Lo M Fateh said: 1 am a tirm ver in the organization of Good Roads Associatious throughout the county. | think our roads should be built of brick. The use of brick will Kive us a good lasting roadway, The upkeep of a properly laid brick road i# less than that of any other. This statement is based on the experience of communities of other States where brick roadways are in use.” Col. Bruce expressed himself as mightily in favor of good roads. He said: “In the New England commun- ity from which I came we have ex- cellent roads. That good roads can be made in Polk county, cannot be doubted. The prime requisite is thas our people shall determine that we will have them. 1 will co-operate in any way, at all times, in the work for good roads.” Mr. J. W. Bryant said: “I have Chorus panp fussing around here for sixty- five years and sincerely trust before [ finally pass away to see Polk coune X Confederate reunion to be ford Herald. © Macon early mext month. She * Pensacola and is a grand- * of Stephen P. Mallory, sec- 'h navy in the Confederate | \‘- C RUSSELL IS VERY ILL. _ 71" message from Brooksville tese ., .- 2000uNCed the severe 1lI- | b Prof A M. €. Russell.—Ocala u STEAMER STRUCK MINE; 140 PERSONS PERISH (The Associated Press.) SMYRNA, April 30.—The steamer Texas struck a mine at the entrance of the Gulf of Smyrna last night and sank. One hundred and forty per- sons were drowned. land thus far we're in the lead. The movement last week was nine| All members of the Board of Trade cars or 1,638 bushels. The movement are requested to attend a meeting of this weel will total about fifteen cars. the board tomorrow afternoon at 2 - o'clock at the city hall, - Listen for the mail carrier's whis-| At this meeting the proposition of tle in the morning and it up and the Peninsular Telephone Co. to in- remember vou are in a city. Th.-!rraase their rates, will come up for Evening Telegram beat the govern- |discussion. Mr. Brorein will be pres- ment by six months, as we installed ent to present the company's side of free city delivery last November. It the question, and it is desireq that a takes a hustler to heat the Telegram, |full attendance of the board bLe pras- ent. Ity have a system of good roads, The ] "ARUES'E“ (:0. IN ;roads through our county are quite munl SOME Mmf:an improvement on what used. to be, There is still, however, much to ba Idnno. The good roads question is one (By Associated Press.) {which is being agitated throughout St. Pau!, Minn,, April 30.—A clvil the entire county. To keep up with suit, charging violation of the Sher- the procession Polk county must be man anti-trust law, was filed by the | up and doing. You may depend upon government on the Federal Court me to render any assistance in my against the International Harvester power toward the furtherance of good Co. here this morning. roads.”