Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 23, 1912, Page 4

- e et e A ] . W FOUR [ne Eveniny iclegraii 1 LIvmey Pubsiched every Kent ey Tuildiag, Lakeland. Fla T Fricreq 1u Lheé postuilice at Lake- tgnd. Florida, as mail matier of the socond vlase ¥ HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. P} A 4. HOLWORTH s ness and Circulatios Manager . HsURIPTION RATRS Qe year ....-. $5.00 months 250 Three wonths 1.26 pelivered anywhere within the i'mits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week. Sy croim Lhe same office te lsfued THE LAKELAND NEWS s weekly newsnaper siving = sume of locul mntters, crop condl- connty affairs, etc. Sent for §1 00 per year re- tigns, snvwhers e ..«m‘l the 18 with The California orange l!..nl of a Jnk- mun-.uul afteruoon trom the | daily paper. conntry shops with his hrow “sicklied oer with tiie pale cast of thought !::r.d wondering wist wis ng hit him nexc And ruth- less mar h of pre wvading the domaip of the weekly press and 1y tting machines of one kind o another have ceased to be rare among country publis rs. They peec- haps work hardships in individual caces among old-fashioned printers fut the evil they were to Co as pre dicted when they were first invent- 4, has never materialized, and from a moral, social and economic point of view the printing craft has undoubt - edly been helped and elevated by the «nec-dreaded linotype. -0 The Lakeland Daily Telegram is a vear old in age and many years old The Polk county towa Lus every reason to be proud of its in excelience, Starke Telegraph, Wi - OO E00I0I0F0MIOLOFOIC sl @ & oka v v10 O ! RUMINATIONS it xuk.~ K true and he knuv it, Calitorniap red-headed 1o hear say it. But all the same, when it | comes to lar tive his ahead of s, SVELOI of his oranges Calitornian is as far Floridian as| to his, and adver the the State averag our orange is perior we might well take him as our mé et | as ap advertising artist and expert 0 Here i ightforward opinion from a paper that is never florid in ity way of sayvinz things, and it plainly expresses what is just about the opinion of the wverate ciijzen o Plorida: | The mell as place Jannary Trammell will make nor. Aibery Gilehrist has made our State a splendid and al- thouzh the editor, like many of ouri people, has not always agreed with hom politically, he g heart in him and is inguzuration of Park 1 1- Florida on the tike Tth ot covernor of at Tallahassee Tue Sun predicts that My @ good pover- Lovernor s a warm biz| mest Governor Gilehrist | has done much to advertise Florids and has gerved his State to the best | his ability, and no man can dn; nwore than that, Gainesville Sun. s the days are long. ol 0 - Prom the number of applicants fog e everal Florvida voould judge that these are £est snaps to he given out; the fellows that get the jobs will | goon find out that there is consid-| erable work attached to a postmas- tership, besides you have the whole public to ple which is a matter ¢: impossibility. - Manatee Record. And when we think of what the rew parcels post in- augurated on the first of January is going to do for the postmasters e that date wonder that man should want such a job, postotlices, one the bie-| however, se, system to be we any Be- | fcre than system has had the Kinks pulled ont of it and all its puzzles, solved so that it fits smoothly ecusily the postal business the country we may look for an epi-| and | | into ot domic of crazy postmasters broken | down under the burden of their troubles. o0 Mayor Butler, of the Inverness Chronicle, thus pleasantly noteg the arrival of a new lady editor in Flor- ica journalism, and we join wtih the Major in gi her cordial wel- come: “The Dunnellon Advocate came out last week and was probably the best paper ever issued office. Miss Cleo Johns, novice at the newspaper wiclds a pleasing pencil, sicns of from business her effu- a local nature tully thie standard and are far ahead of previous efforis. We have said be- fere, and still maintain, that Dun- nellon is a good ficld for a manager like Miss Jolins the last paper The first page of was filled with nice readable local paragraphs that can- not but meet with the Dunnellonites, and credit upon Miss Johns. Curtis Hay, who has been with the Chronicle for some time past, is doing the meehanica vork in the office and being a spl did compositor, the work all rizht. We Miss Johns to the newspaper field, knowing she will prove an honor to the eraft, and congratulate approval of reflect Dunnel lon upon securing her services in tho corduct of her newspaper,” o Y . The l.\spvl Banner of Liberty hav- ing recently installed a linotype, the Fort Myers Presg congratulate it and says: “These wonderful sometimes hard machines to get, but it needless to say that they are harder tc get away from the publisher that are you ! P1o Marthy, | manny tand burnin, that | although a!l up to! will do his pari of | welcome takes occasion to! is | = of UNCLE HENRY D IOTOIOFOTOIOPPIOIQLCDC Dear Editer, 1 have not !you for a long time, | guess you rotised that, but 1 guess yon ainc mad. Mrs. 1. aint. 1 can tell by the way she specks to me on tae street. Sh allers been nice to e, but 1 am efuli not to say that She has sayed manny a that | he so keen they want a good-lookin omnn Well, as | have «to her “1 admit to it that 1 would rather look at a good leekin woman than a woman which writ 10 time would not on writip in the otlis, in reply, aint zood lookin.” But when at comies 1o writin 1 think 1| would write anyway. | have allers made | a practis of writin tor the newspa- pers wherever | may be. 1 don't Pthink there is muach use tor me to write for a magazine. | think ! is too manny ponle \\ll-'! in for them. They get a little stuck the things that is put in tireir papers. Now, )uu folks aint that way, at all. Mrs, [ has sayed up about i {to me lots of time that you are uhdl to get my writing, She says that time il it want for my v ritin you would have to put some- thing olze in the paper. [ am allers vin to help along in any enterpr I would have been willin to of sp()lu- at the Rord of Trade meetin the oth- er night, if 1 had been ast. | think Mr. Cox or Mr. Mendenhall would! ast me ir llu\(3 had of thought nl'! They are both reel nice to me on | it the streot and | think they both of ! them reelize that 1 have done a good | deel for the Bord of Trade in the! saggestions 1 have made from time | t: time in the paper. It haing nnyI ure to ast me to sing. 1 can't sing | rruch, 1 guess | could if 1 ever mm;: time to practis a little, but | have | spent most of my time writin and practisin for lecturin, Some of these days someone will think to ast me to | ke a speech and 1 will be found | with my lamp of elliquens trimmed Some peple is not that way. They luy awake nights wonderin have they been careless enough to do somethin which would help some- boddy else some or the town. | get reel riled up sometimes. The worst is whep | heer men saying they don', want any improvements made here in this town becase it will rase the tixes, If there is anythin a man had ouzht to pay cheerfull it is gros- ery bills and taxes, espeshally taxes Some peple is too dum to see things LKe they are. They is a man this town which sayed he didn ¢ ccunted up, and the leest 1 can make out is that his land, making allow- ence off for the bildins he has put | ALITLE NORSENSE e over l]-h\'ulrhm to restore in| want the streets paved on account ot | . | { Pow mueh it would cost and 1 have ! up, and his land is worth four hun- derd times what it was worth teen yeers ago. Now, without countin what he has donw dsself. All that four hundred times hus been made for him by other pe- ple, by the citty of Lakeland, and he is growlin all the time that ir high and he is worrying that they are going to be higher. Seems like ke could well afford to pay taxes. He won't get that four hunderd times payed back to the citty if he lives to be old as Muthusilem, and the Lord knows what his land will be worth by that time again, and look- in at it that way, there couldnt | come a time when he would be doia jmore for Lakeland than Lakeland | was doin for him. And, I bet he! the womens club entertanement it once secures one than they are to ac- quire by said publisher originally.” It is surprising to know how rap- idly these machines are coming into use in small offices all over the coun-' try. Long ago they sealed the fate of the old-time hand compositor in the city offices and sent him to the' he couldn't help thinkin he | helpin the town along. close, 50 no more at present from UNCLE HENRY. P. S.—I hope all them which hates to pay there taxes will read this and think on it deeply. | | fif- | he haint made | that difference hisself, becase that i:~§ i | taxes | | i | i | { i | | | | would hate to spend fifty cents for | was ' | l I will now draw this letter to al 1 THE EVENING YELEGK 'M, LAK ELAND, FLA, NOV. 23, 1912, i to put where a piece of the skull s missing. i ! Tom, who had been breathing | NOAW ND THFN pesvily, turned over and moaned: | “Wouldn’t a 50-cent piece do?” | e R R el iT'ZE MOST UNDESIRABLE OF ALL CHAMPIONSHIPS. Eow He Understood It. A traveier whose train had stopped | at a town famous for its buns, buk-‘ ened to a small boy on the platform,| sieubenville, 0., Nov. 22.—Martin and, giving him 10 cents, told the ' pirien, of Steubenville, today little fellow to bring him a bun and ‘alimed the hard luck championship. buy one for himself with the other! six weeks ago his brother, John, nickel. « fell from a train, receiving injuries The boy soon returned, calm'y ' . still confine him to a hospital. eating a bun; he handed 5 cents to. \ week later another brother, Ma- the astonished traveler, remarking: ;.m, suffered a similar accident. “There was only one left, mister.” | sybsequently, O'Brien's wife was s nt to a hospital seriously ill. Just 1 wouldn't drink out of that cup,” ' she had recovered his five-year- said little Willie to the well dresgeq ¢!t child died of diphtheria. Today young visitor; “that's Lizzie's cup, brother-in-law, ILeo McGinnis. Lis and she's very particular who drinks !l from a train and received in- | i juries that may be fatal. O'Brien is a cripple. He lost on® drained the cup dry. “I feel honored ' in a railroad accident several to drink out of Lizzie's cup. Lizzie is )¢ars ago. your youngest sister, isn’t she?” 3 “Not much, Lizzie is my dog.” out of it.” **Ah,” said the young man, as h» Couldn't Both Be Christians. In a Kansas town, where twn brothers are engaged in the retail coal business a revival was recently held, and the elder of the brothers converted. For weeks the broth- who had *got religion” tried to the other to join the One day he asked: can't you join the church er prersuade charen, “\Why like I did?™ “It's a fine thing for you to be- The mystic little circle, the - emblem of unending friend- ship, a token of unlimited love, a sacred bond between lover and sweetheart, and a bond of constancy betwee: man and wife. Such a memento should be of the purest go'd aud catin the rarest of genia, long to the church,” replied the vounger brother. “If [ join the chureh, who'll weigh the coal?” Two country youths were on a vis- it 10 London. They went into the British museum and saw a mummy. which hung a card on which Was printed, "B, ¢, 87" They were mystified, and one said “What do you make of that, Sam?’ “Well," said Sam, *l should say | it was the number of the motor car that killed him.” T —3 - . — +Our ni Always Alert for a Reduced Price. Tom Skinner was a stingy man, s the Kansas City Star. One day vhile at work upon the beam of his arn he lost his balance and fell to floor twenty feet below. His skal was fractured. All attempts of & him to con- s e SERCIAL ¢ ! 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