Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 24, 1912, Page 4

PAGE FOUR The Evening Telegram| Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Buildiag, Lakeland, Fla Entered in the postoffice at Lake- (and, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. NEWSY NOTES FROM MATTERS FIGURING IN THE CURRENT DISPATCHES. M. F. HBTHERINGTON, EDITOR. AR el S L LR A. J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. Washington, June 24.—(Special) from \Washington, no attempt has been made to reach an agreement on the river and harbor bill this week It is not probable now that the meas- ure wil] be perfected in time for the president’s signature before the close limits of the City of Lakeland |,; the figcal year. Fortunately, how- for 10 vents a week. ever, this will not result in any par- —_——————————————— | ticular embarrassment to the corps of From the same office 18 18sued |, ipeers in charge of the various THE LAKELAND NEWS works throughout the country. Those & weckly newspaper giving ® o Te | .,iuctg which have already been an- sume of local matters, crop €ondi-| iy is0q will proceed just as though tious, county affairs, etc. Sent|y,, appropriations anthorized spywhere for §1.00 per year. made available, and while it will be iripossible to begin the new works provided for in the bill now pend- the practical certainty that the measure will soon become a law as- sures the continuance of the general policy of improvement of the water- ways beyond any question. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year e ) ) Six months ... .. 2.50 Three months .. 126 Delivered anywhere within the wers Bull hunting was pretty air up Chicago way last week, MOose n i The people of Lakeland are to build a church in one day Nothing slow about the Polk county city these days.— Palatka Herald. Great interest is manifested throughout the whole United States e it looks ljke the in the development of the phosphate deposits in the southern States. It is asserted that many millions of dol- lars’ worth of fertilizers have already been extracted from the phosphuie rocks of Florida, the Carolinas and Tennessee and that prospecting is The half-holiday movement is a proceeding in a number of other fine thing and we approve of it—but |States with excellent prospects of suppose a daily newspaper took a half |syccess. In the meantime the agri- holiday every Thursday, there'd be|cultiral department has been ad- some kick. that chemist of New York — has perfected o method of doubling At this distanc real business of a convention is the gelection of a temporary chairman and not a candidate to head a na- tional ticket. ——— vised i A board of trade is no greater than | the available soluble phosphoric acid And it can hardly be the ary will be riuch greater than his pay, Asa mat- ter t two real bourds of 1r o every ton of the rock now in siy herveatior irtment expee its seeretary. amd which may he The de result of th this new process that the plant food seer uneoy expected that ered of Taet, ere are only experiments mid, in this State. In bhot' tHeRA- Dodlos the s of the phosphate rock dej doubled in ovalue and that e ultariag interests of the country namo that senerat s in the accomplishment U hite things Which resul h-w \ i af Wil Tlic momlne Will be henefited theveby, because of the consequent reduction in the price ol all fertilizers are 100 much engrossed [ which chiet with theie individual affairs to give ithescony time ponent value™ is ex- tracted i a great deal of or thought purt of plans for the general advancement; But when these plans are evolved by | some one whose business it is to push the general welfare, al] readily fall in line with co-operation and sub-[the pages at the Democratic conven- stantial aid. The two boards of|tion in Baltimore who gives promise trade referred to have men of the[cf becoming a distinguished politi- highest type of intelligence and busi- | cian when he attains a few more ness capacity as secretaries. That's|years. He is Harry Schaefer, a “kid" the reason they get results. Of course, [ Of little more than 13, the son of an these secretaries receive salaries com- | official of the navy department. Em- nmensurate with their ability. A com-|Ployes of the federal civil service bination of brains and energy does|With large families do not have very not come cheap, but an investment of | lirge bank accounts as a rule and the Kkind pays dividends never to be [ Harry's father is not an exception to expected from the smaller invest-|the rule. ment in a cheap man. or does it pay | Of carning his own w e remem- 1o expect a capable man to handle | bered that Representative Hobson, of the secretaryship duties as a side line | Alabama, was engaged in trying to for a smal] compensation. These are | Plock the entrance to the harbor of f that explain why boards of | Santiago about the time that he, Har- trade in most towns and small cities| Y. was born. He interviewed Mr Hobson, and calling attention to the PR——— fact that his father was connected When you put your advertisement | With the navy department, asked the in a paper like the Evening Telegram | cX-captain to secure him a place as a you place a dignificd appeal before [ Page on the floor of the House of rep the people in a medium which has|resentatives. Captain - Hobson was their respect. On every page there | thken with the enterprise of the ik good, live, entertaining reading | Youngster and complied with his re- n:atter, and be sure, none of the|duest. Harry concluded that he vages are skipped by the average|Would like to see a national conven- reader. We know this to be the fact | tion “from the inside.” He borrowed tecause we have tested the matter | typewriter and wrote out half a in various w Your advertisement | dozen letters of recommendation for adjoins this desirable reading matter, | Nimself. These he took to Speaker and, even the person who ‘‘mever|Clark, Leader Underwood and other reads advertisements” (but who dis- | Prominent Democrats and asked their proves the assertion every day of his signatures. They all complied with life) is bound to let his eye fall on | the request. Then he wrote an ap- your story, whether he intends to do | Mication to Mr. Urey Woodson, sec- S0 or mot. It is not 8o with dodgers, | 'etary of the national committee, and or with the countless worthless |enclosed the letters. Mr. Woodson in “schemes”™ which are perpetrated in | letter to Speaker Clark promised the People the appaintment and added that such to from these southern depos- 18, There will be a youngster among ‘s Are not successes. name of advertising slance at these things at all; in most cases they are erum- | 10 be kept down, pens thag That’s how it hap- among the pages at thoe convention in Baltimore is Harr, »day destined » than a page pled up and thrown down withou' being looked at, and serve only to er up the Lakeland ha to by daily and the followir cen the ones wl nd is 10 los tabl ion ¢ld made ¢ 1o Took into the futurs s about tho ar.” ory 1 whom Mar zood work for the lack | Will on’'t lirtend vour remark to apply to pres- ms said: “Of course vou NATIONAL CAPTTAL LIVELY GOSSIP OF MEN AND |the forehead of the giant. Two hours The boy conceived the idon' arclessly, if {@ youngster is too geod a politivion | THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LARE ent company.” cap fitted was privileged to wear it. Williams picked up a quart pitcher filled with Oklahoma molasses and landed it forcibly upon were required to remove the molasses and the broken crockery from Mr. Mansfield's brow-—and the incident resulted in electing Mr. Williams to the bench in Oklahoma. He is still Owing to the absence of so many |one of the judges of the State. members of the Senate and the House e e COLONIST CATACHISM. are I8 it possible to make a yearly net income of $1,500 per acre from cel- ery, as some of the land companics claim? We believe this has Dleen done some years by some people. Celery is what might be termed a semi-harard- ous crop,*as celery is to a certain ex tent a luxury and not a staple. Th st season the first cars sold t prices that would have easily net- ted the price mentioned. Later cars sold for not much more than enough to pay the freight cn account of the keeping quality of the product this year, it seeming to have some innate d to develope black heart What are staple crop:=? They consist of those products that are deemed essential to the consum- ing public. Potatoes, corn, syrup cane, sweet potatoes might all be classed as staples raised in Florida. Cabbage, onions, etc, might be classed as semi staples, while lettuce, celory, watermelons and cantaloupes 1d be classed as luxuries, or haz- 'euduus crops. 4 few This was largely causing it Are watermelons a paying crop and | what does one need to realize to make it profitable? A successtul - grower in Marion county, the leader in melon produc- tion, states that 15 net per acre is £ood money. It takes about two acres to make o ocar. He states that 60 @ car is o fair f b that it $15 an acre fertilizer and labor, Tact the first $400 delivered 0. pricoe cost abont for A= @ matter of cars sold as h 1e and $100 to $125 per « many ar . Onee planted, melons sl ! h m 0 Flor ida. little trouble up 1o time of harves i 1 tineh money should w, our land is all i liave on hand to make a farm a success and to car ry ous through until somethinz could be realized from a crop? It costs from $15 to $75 an acre to clear wild land. Pine land will prob- ably average $25 acre; heavy hammock land § It costs from $75 to $100 to put a hog and cattle- proof wire fence around ten acres. About $1 will develep a driven well. Surface water can be had at very little expense, but it is unsafe to drink it. A house can be built at all the way from $100 up, ac- cording to the purse and the needs 0° the builder. Furniture, live stock tools, implements, nursery stock, seeds, ete., will have to be purchased and beyond this it will cost a certain per diem to live. We have been taken to task because we have stated that one should not come here with less than $1,000 to do all of these things with. Figure it all ap 1or yourself. \We have admitted that o young and strong man, with no one | depending upon him could do it for less. We have beer told that preventing som folks from coming to Florida becans . they are discouraged by our figures Our statements are the truth, an! «an therefore wrong no one. \We want new blood, but we want satis- fied citizens and a failure is sure 1o make a discontented citizen; one who will probably make his way back to the old home somehow and who will have his little hammer out for Florida as long as he lives. We are Lot going to grow unless the citizens within our borders make good 11 they do make good they are our host advertisement. They induce the ir friends to come, and these in 1urn irduce others, an endless hain of progress. Thhe man who comes 1y with a deed to an uncleared land and not much in his y an ¥ for suppor we are tract of sides his ticket, expecting to ‘:rn‘md vield him gold dollars 1s he | sits in the shade of the fr pping up the » honey por Brit Cuba’s Great 1 1 llon everv v Mansfield replied to the effect that the man whom the and | ND, FLA,, JUNE 24, 1912, RASPBERRIES FOR FLORIDA. Many fruits are grown in Bradford county and many more could be grown and ought to be grown, there- by adding new sources of revenue to the inhabitants of the county. The writer has often asked citizens of this county why the raspberry was not cultivated in this section. The an- swer was invariably that it would, not grow here. They must have v thought because it never had been grown it could not be grown. The v riter believed that the raspberry { would flourish wherever theblackber- and dewberry thrive in a wild stote as they do here, Dr. J. T. Cham- iiwll arrived at the same conclusion this spring. possibly by a different process of reasoning, and he import- ;rrl a few raspberry plants for experi- |rm-ntal purposes. The results have ied his step. The plants set out ‘e of the black Kansas varietty and | | ar this writing are vigorous, healthy tHu-.-imo-ns. bearing fruit of normal ::!/'- and good quality. If the black | variety will grow here, the red an:l vellow varieties will do as well. The black raspberry has no superior for {ples and preserving, rivalling even | the huckleberry, and the red and yel- {low varieties are unexcelled for table, -Starke Telezraph. | use FLORIDA RURAL LIFE IDEAL. No Statte can be great and prosper- ous without a large and thrifty rural ropulation, and from the St. Cloud Tribune we take the following sen- gible view of the subject: “Florida wants a rural populatior sich as has made the west and mid- dle west the great country that it is today. For settlers that will stability, sturdy growth and perma- nent development there are great ad | vantages here without the {torts experienced by the pioneers of give discom- Fthe west Nowhere else today can lands o tertile had where nite he so low o price 1 ol and produ ness | s o market consid- clr quality assures hut not only ! riarantees substantiai g T ity of population last | coensns Hnonun den Topersons to the squar There! ol el W room for a million or two mor 1y Conly 13 nuly | an abundane ‘ people Farm life id :'I‘hvrn- are good roads, good schools, churches, telephones, transportation facilities, and, above all, an all-the- year-around outdoor life where tish iLg, hunting and picnicing can b cnjoyed. There are no mornifigs when the pump is frozen, and one has to milk the cows with the thermom- cter registering 29 below zero; no chopping of wood all fall for winter supply; no blizzards; no droughts; ro hail and no heat that kills stock.” in Florida is pleasant THE MAN WHO FAILS. Let them say when | shall rest, Pillowed on the breast of earth, I was of the lowliest, And my work of little worth; Rut let no one say 1 ne'er Wished to know or learned to care. Let them say that | was weak, Commonest of common clay, Filled with cagerness to speak, Lacking anything to say; But let no one my soul Urged me to no gleaming goal Let them say when T have ceased Striving where the strong remain That my talents were the least And my efforts foolish, vain; But let no one say that | Did not have the heart to try. ~ 8. E. Kiser in the Chicago Record- Herald | | MY LINE INCLUDES 'Newspapers Magazines Stationery Post Cards o e Cigars oy Miss Ruby Daniel News Stand Ry | Lobby of Edisonia Theater. EMW"’: PACKING | | transaction a success. In short unles s you are satis —‘ Watch This Space Tomorrow HOUSE MARKE] Smith-Harden Bldg.) R. P. BROOKS Money is Always Welcome it your good will comes with it. We don't want it unless you « oughly satisfied with what you buy Lere. WHEN WE SELL YOU 1y the sale or we do not consider the complete satisfaction : 4 EHILES L. B. WEEKS —DEALER IN— Staple and Fancy Groceries, Hay, Grain and Feedstuffs PHONE 119 Cowdery Building * WITH WO0D'S MEAT MARKET 16 1bs. Sugar ..........;00ses 10 1bs. Bucket Snowdrift Lard- 4 lbs. Bucket Snowdrift Lard 1-2 bbl Flour in Wood .. .. 24 1b. Sack Flour. ..... 12 1b.Sack Flour ...... 7 Cans Small Cream. ............ 3 Cans Extra Large Cream... 3 Cans Tomatoes .......... 1 1b. Cracker Boy Coffee. ... 11b. Best Butter ........ Stafolife, per Sack. . ... i Hay, best, per 100 1bs Chicken Feed, per Sack... 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