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- ) i ¢ b THE EVENING TELEGR.AM, LAK -wmwmm + kAR ol You are offered ricncship A man should know his banker. Call in- you will feel at home in QUI bank A BANK is a public institution with its interests bound up in the community in which it exists. You have a right to all the help we can give. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Lakeland P o i sk s Pl e s e s e e MAPS, BLUE PRINTS Bpecial attemties County and Biat Maps of any description compi.>d on short notice. glven to compiling city, display and advertising maps. maps kept on hand. Chemically prepared, non-fading blue yrints at res woable rates. Speclal rates for vrints in large quantitles. Prompt attention given mail orders. South Florida Map and Blueprlnt Co Room 213-217 Drane Building SMOKE NMAN’S BLUNT se. Cigar The oldest UNION MADE Cigar in town. They have stood the test. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will turnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. SUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakeloud homes I have built. A SQUARE DEAL It you wish to rent & house or have a house you wish to reat; It you have a house to sell or wish to purchase one; It, in tact, you desire to buy or sell anything in the line ot real estate, this is my speclalty. See me before you close a deal. Full information given cheerfully anq freely. N. K. LEWIS Phone 300. Room 1, Raymondo Blig. §| resulations to their bare facts, AND FLA., NOV. 21, 1912, HUIIOR IS FOUND IN PARCELS | POST. EFFECTIVE SOON 1 send @ chicsen on the ol u.m‘_h the Bew parcess post? Will iLe postoflice authorities ! aco ,nx a pound of butter for dellv- I “(an i 2t @ dozen fres eggs e‘(h nmioruing trom the farm through lhe} 11‘. s and a hundred Kkindred | qumn the Jacksonvilie post mast- ; er suds he is receiving daily cou- { cerning the workings of the new parcels post law, wkich goes into ciiect on January Ist. “Well, did you answer wits asked. “Yes, 10 the best of my ability,” | he replied. “Regarding the hen on | the hoof, | believe that it will be impossible to transport her through the mails, for, so far as 1 can learn, l the only live animals that can be so l transported are queen bees, proper- | ly packed. | see no reason why peund of butter should not be sel through the mail, provided it is s) } contained that it will not leak io the detriment of the rest of the mail and the mail man's clothing. | The same holds true of the eggs. Problem is Big One | “The fact is,” said e “this whole' question of parcels post is a big one and must be approached from a mrl-! cus standpoint. There has been an inclination to approach it either with awe at the immensity of the rules and regulations, or else view it from the humorous side. No doubt i« will have its humorous situations Lefore we are through with it, bug, | o5 4 matter of fact, it is easy to comprehend it we strip the complox them?’ | “In a word, the new parcels post { will operate as follows: “Beginning on the firsg day of e new year, all fourth-class matter considered as parcels post watter, and, in addition, there will be admitted to the mails the pro- ducis of the tarm and the factory under the following provisions: “The not exceed eleven pounds in weight nor meas- wre more than seventy-two inches in combined length and girth, “That it be deposited in certain designated receiving oflices. “That it contain the proper amount of parcels post stamps. “That it have plainly written the neme and addr of the sender, “That it be so wrapped or con- tained that it requive- ments of the receiving agents, Rates Another Puzzler “They are the simple rules of the new parcels post law. About the rates, that is a different matter. Maps and rate books are being pre- pared, and the complicated zone rates wil] be applied. With an «mli-i nary map, a quadrant and a set of’ surveying instruments, if a man v{ a qualified engincer he might come ! somewhere near the proper """"“”i of postage; but until the system gets : familiar it will be better to allow’ the government’s agent to do the computing suall be package shall passes the however, that a man | a doxen eggs inoa ard a guess, could not place evpect them to reach somebody in proper condition and in breakfast next morning. “Until my arrive from the Postmaster General, 1 do rot know how to answer many of the questions propounded me, but 1 de know that the law will be carried out, and that there will be found & way of handling the new feature of 1 the mails promptly and well ¢r | shall need an extra force ro- mains to be seen. low 1 shall e 1ip | Jucksonville for handling the parcel feature is something to be met in he future as the emergencies arrive. \WWhother the parcels wil] he deliver d Ly horse and cart or a an- tomobi:», T do not know."- ville Metropolis. instructions new 5 Joy of Life. watch the corn grow, and t blossoms set; to draw hard braa: over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray— these are the things that make menm bappy; they have always had the power of doing this, they never will have power to do more. 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