Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 7, 1912, Page 4

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jl‘ 1) I T '} r 1 L . - i ) e ) Lol Vo 2 ‘ | i \ AGE FOUR o |"' v expectations had been fat any rate, 1 could not help hut Published every afternoon from the| think that the scenery of the St Kentucky Buildiag, Lakeland, Fla. Joins is fully as beauniful, while reserom e {quite different; then, there is a ~ koo ‘il rent; 3 Entered in the postoffice at La l>ll‘t-(n-11 of some eighty miles along ) of the ‘and, Florida, as mail matter of thej , . L.\ Broad, hetween Asheville recond class. and Knoxville that, in my opinion, is unsurpassed in scenic beauty by M. F. HOTHERINGTON, EDITOR. any portion of the Hudson pano- ———————————————————————— 2 rama. Still, the Iudson scenery is A. J. HOLWORTHY Susitess: and Circulation n.n‘w.~l||1delxinbly beautiful, besides being fraught with historic interest. While some large towns are passed—the stops on the fast boats being made at Yonkers, \West Point, Poughkeep- sie, Kingston Point, Catskill and Hudson—for the most part thebanks of the river show little indications of the presence of man, the scenery retaining in a great degree its orig- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year enh il o SR Rix mMODthS .....coreoeo 350 Three monthe < cases LB Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKEKLAND, FLA., SEPT. 7, 1912 been put into words. The lamente | Broward made this proposition of water runuing down hill the basi: of the campaign that landed him in the He had the faculty wiich Roosevelt possesses to zovervor's chair. | e : a certain extent, of telling us some- thing we all knew in such a way as to make us believe that we had just Been'* put next” to a great original truth. Had Brother Myers been on hand he might have argued me out of my conviction concerning this propensity of water—he sure is an argufyin’ man, But I had lost him after leaving him one day on Fort:- second street, with the back of his head between his shoulder blades, seeing that no deception was being worked off on him, and verifying by actual count that a certain building had the fifty stories it laid claim to. From the same office v fssued THE LAKELAND NEWS o weekly pewspaper giving a re- sume of local matters, crop condl- tions, county effairs, etc. Sent snywhere for $1.00 per year. e R e 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, 1. €. Sparkman. Cong State at Large— Clande 1 cong M. Sparkmaun. Congressman, Frank Clark. Congressman, Third District—Em- First District—S. Second District — cett Wilson, Governor— Park Trammell. Attorney General— Thos. F. State- 1 € West. Secretary of Craw- ford. Commissioner of Agriculture—W. .\ McRae. Treasurer- -J. C. Luning. Comptroller-— W, V. Knott. Superintendent of Public Instruce tion W, N. Sheita, State Chemist-- R, K, Ros>. Adjutant General -1, €. R, Foster. THE EDITOR'S VACATION. (Concluded. ) The teip up the Hudson from New York to Albany, some 150 miles, is said by many traveled persons to be the beautiful in the one of most My taste may be at fault, or world inal, primeval beauty. The Palisades . s are world-famous walls of stone, ris- ing sheer in some places to a height of 200 feet. Farther up the High- lands assume the aspect of a moun- tainous country--not rough and| ., .ening them. The waters come rugged mountains, but vast slumber-| . o (o at Lodore—if you ing hills, peaceful and pastoral, nnulln.‘_“” o ‘im' BT mir,‘hl_\' robed in green. The “Day Line” is| volume plunging over the precipitous the favorite means of transportation descent, forms one of the wonder tor those who wish to study the scen ery; those whose desire is spesd can Le whirled alonz by the New York Central or the West Shore whos trains thunder along either The steamers of the “Day Line” So many people have seen th: Falls, and =0 many others have read excellent descriptions of them, tha* i* would be useless to write much the world, For all that, | have se little two-for-a-nickel wateriall up in the mountains of Kentneky or North Carolina that | would rathe avk i : btk ke steady job looking at, one da Environment is much Ccontinnons presence of A ter another, pnnsnally tine ones, The Hendrik “ e man in Hudson, on which ‘I made the tripg oo ity of any zreat seenic at is luxurious in equipment and fur-! to: dde Ctraction always seems to me nishings, and is licensed 1o carr; | trnct muelt from its beauty and in 2,500 passengers. | othink all ”'Eh‘l“'.\l It imparts an aspect of arti- them were on hoard the day 1 wem “ feinlity thar robs the landscape of G, s there were 100 many passei= e g which only Nature in its gers to be carvied comfortably wimitive form possess Poi Yy fwhisked ap to the Falls in oan auto- Alhany is o very nice city, im-|! 1o be Jowered 1o the Toot of as not particularly | them in an elevator; to approach the [T pressing i im- bued with wihiich, by the commercinl ospirit, | various points ol view on way, cems to be the | well-kept walks; 1o see a portion o! owith most capitals 1 has :|’1|Il witers diverted to tarn th wasnificent State house, and ~unu-[“|w1~ of fuctories - these thines, so Vother handsome buildings. 1 did not [ far as Lam concerned, detract sreat- ir:-rr\ long here, iy hastened on to 1y from the picture. OF course, oth- cers may not be impressed that way how iy objective point, Niagara Falls, You never know thinus ar Viewing the falls trom every an gle and point of approach, I am fur- ther confirmed in one of my pet the- going to strike people, anyway \ lody looked at the g ter tumbling down, and Womass ol wa finally re ories: that water will flow down hill, Now, if Roosevelt had made this as- marked: “And to think it does that sertion, it would have heen heraldod [ €Y1 day!™ Looks like a shame, over the conntey by the Agsociated don't it? Doesn't even take off Sun- Pross as an interesting original dis- day or the Fourth of July. No eight covery. just as his “Thou shalt not hour day for this institution steal” was aceopted by many as the frst time this commandment had A short stay ar Baffalo, a prety in ten m 8 per size and frontage. a short time will be inutes walk of postoffic. cent interest, 5 per cent discount for cash. | smooth |]‘ city of some Z00.000 popitla- tion, where there seemed to be sood deal of the spirit of enterpris: land boost, and we flitted back t) *.\“ w York-—or, rather, we let a New York Central and Hudson River train do the fitting for us, which it did Imusl satisfactorily, at a rate exceed irg fifty miles an hour for the en- tire distance of over 400 miles, in- ciuding the time consumed in stops. This road has four good tracks, and .when the train jumps one track it lights on another—hence, there is no delay. We passed the home of our old friend, A. B. Brown, at Ve- rona, and waved to him from the car window; but as we were pro- ceeding at about ninety miles an hour, a wash lady on the outskirts of Rome thought the gesture was intended for her and returned it. Back from New York, on the Mo- hawk, the largest and best vessel of the Clyde fleet, landing at Charles- ton for an incursion to the moun- tains. We have little to say of (‘Larleston; de mortuis nil nisi bo- i, vou know. We have no doubt Charlestonizns are very loyal heard the Charleston But life is we have hlown to a finish, nice people in Charleston | They're + they're not in @ hurry. The mo- time tor | had a train to catel, trains do not always adap them- to the Charleston movement aneh caste in Charleston, here are backyards ther reovon can’t play untess yon can at-arandfather ov cousins or your aunts o that your gr of yvoup d and died in the Revolation war. The only hustlers | saw at 1 rleston were the negrocs, and the Vis quite sporadic. The y hus the pennies which the pas- o the boat amuged them- by throwing them. | lik: Clirleston negroes They sing al vork, and are a jolly, pic- turesque, 2ood natured lot of beg- not <nlky and sullen, like ome of those we encounter dowt ere in Florida A few days in the restful and in- By All Odds the Choicest Property Eber Put on the Market Right on the shore of Lakeland’s favorite Lake, Morton, which encircled by a The BON TON RESIDENCE SECTION of Lakeland pleasant city in which to re-, aorn wisirely there, and there is an air pose that it seems it would b to disturh by the bustle of: essoand it is not disturbed {vm e <topped his car inoa quic | tud came inand took his seat (1 was the only passengery s me the modest story of ] 1 was on pins and needles ‘“White Star Market” T orket” A. SCHULTZ, Prop. Florida and Western Meats, Butter, Vegetables, Eges, and Cheese of all Kinds € The Most Sanitary Market in Florida & Phone 279 ;; Cor. Florida Avenue & Main Streg | § KIAAAAAAMAAAMAAMAAAA AAANA "Vigorating atmosphore of the Nortia should luve o Caroline mountains, and we turt spared the ki homeward, thus arriving at the best admiration o part of every vacation - the getting ) thack to the fumiliar scenes, the kindly taces of I the welcom then will ohine 0! loved ones \id s0 we brinz the<e random notes to u clese. I i they have bored you, cheer up! Thi | wasted oppoat i what printers call 307 <the last | breightness installment; and give me credit for o ysome forbearance T could have ke Certainly fo- * Pthis up all summer! In China | dren from | ‘bar that cross SAY THE KIND WORDS NOW. ders ARSI sery for ot It you have said a kind word that helped to lite a life ont of an POLITICAL ANXO uncongenial environment; ir o oy bave arouscd the embers of an Fition that had been slumbering for | For Rx_\l\]‘(‘s(-n}‘n't,,, would have gone | pent in darkness hut for yvour f:mlxinz.‘,,;;,glu. for 1 them into living flame, then thix <weet echo gpeak to you: ter your flowers as you go, for you | onveninz O will never go over the same road | (he action of ¢ again.' am- | vears, amd which I hereby Will | (ounty in the b USeat-§he spe | ¢ial electior . | ), “If, on the contrary, you kept tor| 1412 Respeort the the which dead flowers Yo | lovely boulevard. To see it will be to buy one or more of the splendid lots in this addition. Each lot has now grow- ing on it, an average of six large, heavily laden orange or grape fruit trees, some of which trees will av- erage 25 to 40 boxes of fruit this year, and worth from $100 to $125 each. The fruit this year is reserved but next year it will belong to the purchaser. Each lot is within easy reach of a present sewerage system, city water, electric lights, and within All lots have an easy slope to the lake securing excellent drainage. For a limited time these lots will be placed on the market at from $650 to $1,250, according to These lots will be sold on terms, viz: one fourth cash, balance, 6, 12,and 18 months, To ensure this edition being select, the owners have incorporated in their deed a building restriction, by which the purchaser will be required to build a house to cost not less than $1500. Now is the time to buy, while you have the whole addition to select from. will soon be snapped up and the price of the remaining lots advanced. The choice locations Phone 72. FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS INQUIRE OF The FLORIDA & GEORGIA LAND Munn Building Lakeland, Florida. R

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