Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 21, 1912, Page 4

s PAGD FOUR The Evening Telegram Published every sfternoon from the Kentucky Buildiag, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- ‘and, Florida, as mail mattes of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY Bueiness and Circulatioa Manager, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year ....-........-$5.00 Six months ............ 2.50 Turee wmonths ... 1.26 Delivered anywhere within the {imits of the City of Lakeland tor 10 cents a week, from the same office ie issued THE LAKELAND NEWS o weekly newspaper giving e Tre- sume of local matters, crop condi- tions, county 2affairs, etc. Sent! suywhere for $1.00 per year. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President—\Woodrow ‘“Wilson. For Vice President-—Thomas C. Marshall. Presidential Electors—Jefferson B, Browne, J. Fred DeBerry, Charles E. Jones, W. Chipley Jones, Leland J. Henderson, H. C. Sparkman. Congressman, State at Large— Claude L’Engle. Congressman, First District—S. M. Sparkman, Congressman, Second District — Frank Clark. Congressman, Third District—Em- cett Wilson, Governor—Park Trammell. Attorney General—Thos. F. West. Secretary of State—H. C. Craw- ford. Commissioner of Agriculture—W. .\ McRae. Treasurer--J. C. Luning. Comptroiler—W. V. Knott. Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion—W, N. Shes 13, State Chemist—R. E. Rose. Adjutant Generai—J. C. R, Foster. Insurance agents no doubt are do- ing a good business over in Bartow this week, Sunday morning's fire de- | stroyed §35,000 worth of property | on which there was only $1,000 in- surance. When the fire beging to leap throuzh one's husiness, the owner his & most comfortable feeling if he has suflicient insurance other- wise, otherwise, i Tampa again came to the forefront ] yesterday by voting overwhelming- Iy for municipal bonds in the sum of $1,700,000, The Queen City of the Wif ‘'will now grow as never before, | and in o doing all South Florida will be benefitted. No little credit is due for the passage of the bonds to the city’s two able newspaper vho in season and out of season, are always booming and boosting for cvery |n‘nj-‘ ect that looks to the betterment and improvement of Tampa and all South Florida. It is all & matter of taste, of course, but 1 he had $2,000,000 extra change, we would hardly give it to; Harvard University for a library, as has Mrs, George D. Widener, who| made the donation in memory of her son, who was lost on the ill fated Titanic, If Mrs. Widener wished to! forever perpetuate the memory of her son, she could have inaugurated a bread line, build hospitals where the poor could be treated free of charge, or placed her money in many other laudable enterprises which would bring relief and happiness to thousands of the world’s needy pop- ulace, who would appreciate her aid many times more than the pampered rich who will scarcely give more than a passing glance at the costly library, and never a thought of the donor We had always heard there ave some mighty slecpy towns in Georgia but we find now that they have also about the people in the country, accerding to a dispatch which states that a 12-year-old boy wilked off a moving train near Tif- ton while asleep and didn’t wake up until he was two miles from the rail- road. Evidently he wasn't inconven- ienced by the rush of traflic and the whirl of progress. Down in South Florida he wouldn’t have gone twen- feet before he would either have been run over by an automobile, bumped into a sky scraper, stumbled into a million dollar truck farm, or fell into an orange grove sleepiest In any event e would have waked up and forthwith | became o imbued with the prog sive spirit that pervades the Florida atmosphere that e would Tunve gom back to try and instill a little o Florida's progress into his native State, which, however, won't do much good now We're got a 'l start and are leaving all Stat hind in the march of proare it would be a waste of time for any other State to try to keep up with the pace we are setting Ve s memie oo SOME OF LAELAND'S MANY ADVANTAGES The Printers’ Railroad Guide de- sires to have printed in its booklet a write-up of Lakeland, and a com- mittee from the Board of Trade fur- nished the follcwing: The Board of Trade of Lakeland invites correspondence upon the op- portunities for the establishment of manufacturing and general business enterprises or in the investment of capital in this section. “Lakeland will shortly begin pav- ing its business streets with brick, and residence section with asphalt blocks. In addition to the paving, the city has contracted for the sani- tary sewerace system, and a city hall in keepiin; . .th the population of the place. “Prosperity is not waiting to knock at the doors of Lakeland, but has evidently entered and taken pos- session of the city. A number of large buildings already underway, to be carried out during the next six months, foot up over a half millio: dollars. These developments include a $75,000 freight depot, $100,000 jce plant, $15,000 postoflice building, $20,000 auditorium, $10,000 hospi- tal, a 200-room hotel, and many resi- dences to cost from $5,000 to $15,- 000. The Atlantic Coast Line rail- recad has just completed a fine pas- senger station at a cost of $50,000, Probably no city in Florida is grow- ing more rapidly than Lakeland. *“With the great amount of devel- opment work that is going on in and around the city, her population is increasing with such rapid strides that the proposition of caring for her increase in the number of her citizens has become a problem Houses are in such great demand as to preclude the possibilities of imi- mediately caring for the great iu- rush, and, though building oucra- tions are going on as rapidly 1s pos- sible ,hundreds of homeseekers ho have come here to locate permanent- ly and have to content themselves in hotels and boarding houses, and these are overrun. The city has grown so fast that it has taken prac- tically all of the available capital ot those at the head of the various big business enterprises in Lakeland to care for their own businesses; hence there is no idle capital in the city with which to build homes for rental purposes, and Lakeland through tis enterprising Board of Trade is call- ing for outside assistance —for out- side capital to co to Lakeland and build homes, There is ample ground in the city on whick to build homes for the homeless and high rentals are oflfered for houses to be built, but fhe demand far exceeds the supply The growth of Lakeland is sub- stantial, and is based upon trade con- ditions that are permanent and last- ing. The commercial and manulac- turing activities here are so inter- woven with the matural resources which are being developed in our midst that the growth must neces- sarily continue for many years. Lake- land will endure as long as the sun shines and the soil gives up its treas- ures. “In addition to being the finan- cial, industrial and social center of Polk county, Lakeland is peculiarly blessed as to climate. Its extreme clevation — more than two hundred feet above sea level -gives it com- plete freedom from malaria and sim- ilar dised and a climate made ideal by the constantly blowing sea breczes in the summer, and by the surround- ing and protecting bodies of fresh water in the winter months. Eleva- tion and water protection practically eliminate damage from frost. Roses bloom throughout the winter; straw- berries and winter vegetables come in marketing condition unharmed, and grapefruit hangs safely upon the heavily, laden trees until after Christmas, In 18} ness, it has long been the center of the lumber and turpentine and phos- phate industries, thriving upon the growth of these, while the hundreds a mere spot in the wilder- round its several lakes, took form and attested to the wealth of their {owners. With the passing of the {lumber and turpetnine operators came the citrus fruit grower, and the intensive farmer, until today Lake- land is the center of the strawberry {industry of the tSate, and its oranges ard grapefruit command the highest | price per box paid in Florida | Thanks— Without any disparagement to the able editor of the Lakeland Tele- gram, we wouldn't know he was away il his paper hadn’t said so. His half is getting out a bright Tampa Tribune better wid newsy daily. Woest Tompa is to have a new post- officq The present building is in- te to handle the through that offic has issued orders to bullding THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., AUG. 11, 1 of beautiful homes which now .~ur-l volume oi ORDINANCE NUMBER 141. An ordinance requiring all per- sons to obtain a permit from the mayor before giving any street per- formance, and imposing a license upon the same. . Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Lakeland: Section 1. No person or persons shall give any street performance, exhibition, parade, lecture, speak- ing, preaching, begging or vending upon the streets or other publi: places of Lakeland, without first ob- taining a permit from the mayor. Section 2. Every person or per-‘ | e | A ; — - g A Signalizing the full ‘flower of mo- tion picture dramatics, a gentleman- ly press agent passed around this story in Washington: “Believing he had suddenly come vpon a band of desperate train rob- bers in the act of holding up an on- coming passenger train on the (hesa- peake Beach railroad, E. \V. Sans. Lury, Deputy Sheriff of Prince George county, Maryland, put 10 rout eighteen moving picture act- ors, who were staging a sold-up at Ritchie station. le sent a shower of bullets into their midst from a con- cealed position behind a clump of | gons giving such performance, ox-l trees. hibition, parade, lecture, speaking, “Only the quick realization of the | preaching, or vending shall pay a actors in the film drama of what was | license of five dollars per. day. Pro- really passing in the mind of the|yjded that the mayor shall have the deputy sheriff saved some of them |power to issue such permits to bands from being shot dead. for parades and to political speak- “Everything was going nicely | ings without license. with the moving picture actors. The| Scction 3. Any person or persons ties had ben piled on the rails in true {who shall violate the provisions of western style, the actor-highwaymen | this ordinance shall be fined not were properly masked and were!mor. than twenty ($20.00) dollars sneaking through the bushes as the|epr 1ot more than thirty days in jfllll —— e — —— onrushing train, chartered for the|at hard labor. purpose, hove into sight just west of I hereby certify that the forego- Ritchie station. The minute the en-|jpe ordinance No. 141, was duly gineer saw the pile of ties he was to | pagsed at a regular meeting of the stop his train and the masked high-|Council on the 19th day of June, wen were to order everybody to the|1912, | ground and search their pockets and H. L. SWATTS, | clothing while the macving picture Clerk. 1 man took in every movement, Approved by me this 20th day of “All was set, the highwaymen hal|June, 1912, i sneaked down through the woods, 8. L. A. CLONTS, the trnin was coming with a rush, when ‘crack!’ went two pistol shots and a couple of bullets whizzed close to the heads of the supposced high- waymen. Crack went the pistol again. The great western train rob- bery became a scene of confusion wilder than ever graced a real hold- | up. With one accord, passengers, train crew, everybody connected with the play made one wild dash for safety, while the Maryland deputy sherifl emptied both revolvers. Then explanations were in order, and the deputy stayed to watch the picture, which he had so rudely spoiled, tak- en all over,” Mayor. | | | | Only Expert Teacher. } Only the man who can excite the in- | terest and curiosity of his pupil can be l | | | A New | Tailor Shop Mr. Pittman, the new tailor, has begun work in the Raymondo build- | ing, room 2. He comes well r(-(-nnl-; mended. lie has the best line of | woolens, latest styles. \\’orkmunshlp; guaranteed, Also press and clean. | HATS ON ICE. On a hot day last week a crowd gathered around » cake of ice that was left standing on the curb outside of a hat store on Nassua street, The crowd was augmented every minute with new arrivals anxious to see for themselves what was attract The curious ones who succeeded in albowing and forcing their way through the crowd to the front rank vere surprised to see that placed it the very center of a cake of ice was 4 new straw hat of the latest model, 1 was a very clever advertising scheme on the part of the owner o. the hat store outside of which thoy cake of ice was placed. 1 wonder if that hat there?” asked a littls newsboy who had been gazing at the hat in the ice for five minutes. | Mr. Pittman is one of the very best cutters und fitters in Try him | the State. Room 2, Raymondo )th:.] i We will be “Naw,” replied another newsic | “1 tell yer how it got in there. Last summer when some feller was goine up the Hudson his hat blew off and floated around \When the winter came and the viver the hat froze in the ice.” “One of the ice cutters up there, who saws the ice up for ice house discovered the hat frozen in, so le cut the cake of ice up without lettin the hat get out. Then the oher fo! ler, who owns this store bousht il coke of ice with the hat in it and put it outside the store here.” “1I'll tell you one thing,” said th fivst newsie, “only 1 have to hust! | 2round and sell my papers U'd wair here until the ice melted and they {1'd make sure that the hat inside wa the real thing.” New Your Sun froze What a lot of things we do fron custom or habit It s enough why we dress like othe ple, and why we try to ape We grouped with the odd, or the siouchy, o the uncouthy and by win make we must do it within presoribed o its, or we are cccentric and perhans apparen escape heing many ways this 1 1 1is mean favor and progressg byt This is a con But why think urcompanionable. munal requirement vou do we eat when we are not hun ary, drink when we are not thirsty, become food of things that disagre. with us, work to make more money when we have enough Are i te certain classes of people for wion: we have no respect? It is easier t ask questions than to answer t jand 1 am not going to try to 2ive ) {an answer to these imquiries since you are as capable as 1, and may for vourself a satisfactory It may help us more if we 1 think mt an answer for ourselves —Ex lege boys. poli answer Knew What He Was Doing. A five-year-old boy in Rives » Cal Tecently made a pie to own cl i | the top crust for TAMPA | When his 1 steam will co ed up and wir! making a pie an WOLF 810 Franklin Street 4 AUTOMOBILE AUTOMOBILE OWNERS; Tire Ended Have Your Tires Filled With RUBBERINE Rubberine guarantees you against punctures, bi... rim cuts and leaky valves. ; The method of filling : mcchanically correct. T) tube is filled while on the rim. 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