Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 18, 1912, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT. THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., DEC, 18, 1912, [ - & FIRST THAN KSGIVING AT CROOKED LAKE, FLORIDA| AS OTHERS HEAR US By IDA PATTERSON. e dictagraph, you know, is a ma- chine which records every word you Fred D Welling, under date of rineapples. The tweive-acre grape- say, omitting nothing, excusing noth- Nov. 29, 1912, writes about the first Tunanksgiving dinner held at Crooked | Lake, Polk county, Florda, in a lett ¢ his home folks in this city, follows: = our has | I want to tell you abhout 1:anksgiving. The weather { teen the very best, but rather coo! . s0 we have a camp fire, and fiud it very pleasant sitting around it the evening. The night before Thanksgiving it started to rain and the wind blew some, so | put on my raincoat and shoes, fixed my tent, packed the pro- visions so as to keep them dry, and givpt soundly until morning. As the wind came from the norta it was rather cool, but with the shel- ter of the hill, sloping south to the 1. ke, it was very pleasant. With sneh 1 wind, on the opposite side of the (IR ore mest of the peaple Tved i1 would naturally be very rough, <0 they found it on Thankssiv coning; but Cortis Lanzford, 1ruit and orange grove, sct out near- iy a year ago, is doing linely, und |1 bave bought 500 more ciirus trees fer transplanting soon, the winter lwing a favorable scason for start- ing a grove. The Aladdin house, bouht at Bay City, Mich., we are putting up and expect to have it fin- ished in two weeks, -The call to the novel Thanksgiv- ing dinner, at which the South and the North wreught together in per- teet harmony, brought us all to the Lo ll-tilied tables. 1 will not attempt 1o deseribe what articles made up tiie teast, but nothing was lacking, scemed as if every one had vaited for the oceasion, by the way 1y the feast ines in this winter pd sun-land of Sieriea boat ride. Mr fitted up his l"”;"!'hlng. I've always bad some one to Ater dinner a tanziord had barae with tat all who desired could enjjoy the Yieoon Crooked Lake, the most | the lakes in this i his Tamily, also My highland The family, and Mr. Gardner's, day is one that will long be remem- o and Mr. Kelly's fannch ! . hringi ing teast at | Vhanksziving at i= larze launch, hrought Mr hesutitul ot all God- Wenderinl region. Mucic different was titis fiest Crooked Lake in i . from what that one in Mas- | delightrul spots in * 1G4 Psachusetts 291 a yeurs ago, wo o Pilarim Fathers held their Thanks- | { forty-five had landed, all | #iving festival in 1621, History tells SRR e m-[:lr that, after the first harvest of | dies soon had spread in [ the colonists at Plymouth, Gov. sible and most attractive ! Eradford sent four men out fowling, | {that they “might after a more spe- tirected, | built a tire of lin-.!'-iul manner rejoice together™ inzested, no doubt, by the Hebrew those who came HAR I which makes a bed of | ¥ as hot as ignited anthracite in | 1948t of tabernacles, “or feast of in- | M _|0.‘Hx|hl'l‘i|l‘4 at the end of the year.”!| oud, i Lace and as smokeless, took charge’ of roasting | (e tarze and zamy wild turkeys, two of them, and all united in say- inz hat the work performed was, sortay of the most skilful chef. Roasting turkeys by camp fire wa Its white man’s history com- | a uovel sight to us northerners. T\\'ol meneed more than a hundred years, icks were driven in therlier. Its climate is as geniai and which were placed about "4rm as that of New England is alove the bed of hot coals, | harsh and cold; but now cooked to n finish. 1 have | Y Crth and the sunny South observe sote piernres of them, the same day in peace, plenty and M Stohes, who lives on the wese | Hubbiness, 1 b Yake, where he has a large ‘ and is the owner of !N table, and this morning a gen- 2ann head of cattle, brought | tieman broughy us another, whica | Tonatls of sugar cone, extea] M e will fatten and have in a few vory one could chey | "a¥S. Oranges and grapefruit are ke The contrast of nearly three cen- | turies is great. sented a New England pre- | “stern and rockbound cold, Florida then bhelonged to q‘Spuin. i crotehed pround W fee | 2u: then o tand | selves, | She used to say: thing. You're just barely alive. You | ing, softening nothing. It is the world’s great repeaier, a professional eavesdropper, realizing in part Robert Burns' wish, except that instead of seeing, it makes us hear ourselves as others hear us. [ was swinging along on top of a Fifth avenue stage on a moonlight night. Wedged be- tween the bus railing at the left and | a stout man asleep on the right, more bus railing in front and an absorbed- in-themselves couple behind me, 1 could not avaid playing the dicta- graph. A woman's sweet, rather plaintive volce poured this into the ears of the man who sat beside the owner of the voice, “Yes. I don't know what will be- come of me, a weak woman all alone under the|in the world.” i “She’ll get him,” I thought. “That kind of talk always goes with men if | the woman's prettv.” | “I was not hrought up to do any- seats all around it, soj]p;m on.” “Great,” thought I. “She's a widow, T'll warrant he's bursting with a pro- posal this minute.’ “When 1 found myself alone and what to do,” the stream of stickily, sweet voice went on. “He'll know,” 1 tried to send a thought wave to her. “I went to a hospital and was there | | | with very little money I didn't know ! i when the | §ix months.” “Bad move,” T started a warning thought wave toward her. “Men are economical for every one but them- . Tack your conversational ship.” The thought wave missed, for she went on. me about as though I were a baby. ‘You poor little might almost as well be dead.'” “Tack, tack,” T mentally shouted to her. “Men hate invalids, yon know. While one man will turn nurse ninety: i b , St The winters were terribly nine will leave home when there' sickness in it.” “They made a mistake when they discharged me from the hospital. I wasn't ont two weeks when I had a relapse and had to go back. This time 1 had to take a more expensive the icy ! room and had to have two nurses in-; PR stead of one. The doctor sald I would never be strong again.” “Oh, weman, woman,” I thought- i A _ ¥ 2 waved, We have one possum fattening for | “When 1 left the hospital I took a ,nurse home with me. 1 was so weak 1 could hardly walk. I kept her with me a year. When [ got a little better " from the heart trouble I developed a ; oloving nicely, @ s nights case of urie acid. The nurse used to and also a larse Jll:i;l'““ coloving nicely, as the nights @ seed ont that morn- | #1¢ cool. Over our table langs a cluster of eight grapefruit, We are canglit one ! VOll supplied with oranges, and o Lats s limes, lemons and tang ~ Coleman shot a dozen kum- Lone ten | Just at this time wild flow re boat.: | hot plentitul, but it ! ‘cund for the (able every oy, Of- ten | lake, <IN mote oLy L coodly hear seme of camp say they wish teople could be here with us and en- Lioy the outdoor life, It veeks sinee 1 have slept in a hous many ladies and our ln and Michi- | d standing on the nmore Hrine heanti is now s Liapoy ! tond when ©Iodo 1 expeet to cateh cold the first thiv Good-hye ackson (Mich,) Patriot, enjoring the the turkeys were being areful - super- o has hat (ONGRESSMAN TELLS OF EF- A century’s FECTS OF LIQUOR DRINKING. ision of Joe Carson, w jore than o quatter of xperfence in o wooderit near by, for havin. ived at Frosiproot, Rwenty-siv years, Washington, Dee. 17, Stating that about 60 per cent of all cases nd cook in this former home of the ot insanity, nervous diseases and dis- Beminole Indians, most of the visi- cases of the body are caused from ex- ors came up the cradually sloping cessive or moderate indulgence in al- i1, that rises vighty feet above the coholic drinks and the drug habit, ake, to see our improvements. | Representative John Joseph Kindred, Every one in all this countrysid> of New York, speaking yesterday be- had heard of our stecl cottage, and fore the American Society for the ade for that the first thing. It Siudy of Alcohol and other narcoties, ked so natty, neat and strong that declared that unless locomotive engi- was pleased 1o gell them that it ! pas made by the Ruby Marufactor- mz company o Juackson. i lany fine thines were oy fter having heen pected inside and our E Nexg the tents wer nd as all of us had casion, our z on the fuis beginninz of pioncer dite in 1 pirest new region of Sonth Florida Mz, and Mrs. Holpeter and My ind Mrs. Allen have arranced their | nts in a very tasty manuer; Schu- ert S. Welling, his wife and son and acted as gnide cers, telezraphers and mental work- s are total abstainers they are apr vaan. e commip 2rave errors in judzment whout it, cnd execution thorouah in-ared is a physician, and one of the {foremost nerve specialists in this “Experiments show,” he ap the drinking of even one liss of beer is followed hy decreased over eonntry appearance ol ceptive powers of the brain and vous system. Contrary to the com- von belief a few drinks do not 2then the body or mind.” Mend That Cat. Little Fred's mother, who had been *red, live in the steel cottage. and glving him some training in regard | to the allpowerfulness of the divin. l;y, found him one afternoon with a 8 9 ead cat, over which he was saying: . and in a day or two I will|,, i it hed; :n l. : ¥ il God, 1 said mend that cat; I've sald vt the garden. Among it three times now, and 1 won't speak ‘ngs, I expect to put out about 109 | to you again.” Lakeland Artificial Stone Works MAKES RED CEMENT PRESSED BRICK CALL AND SEE THEM. CAN SAVE YOU MONRY Crushed Rock, Sand and Cement for Sale BUILDING BLOCKS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS 12 and 18 inch Drain Tile for Sidewalk, Gate Posts, Flewer Mounds. Ete. Good Stock on Hand WE Deliver Free of Charge H. B. ZIMMERMAN. Proprietor. 04 HTHTSTHI0LOEOHISIN0000000S0000 DONERSN0N0DE 1.d it very comfortable; the chick- 1 house and park are nearly fin- | some are ! friends in ' Jackson | Representative Kin- | 'say to me: dear, you have | enough urie ac in you to float a ship.) T had to take Turkish baths "every dar and massage with salt and rines. |1 had to go sonth for two winters.” | “Stop,” 1 wigwagged, but in vain. “Then my nerves gave way, They've not been right since.” I stified a n. Every one knows that men are more a d of ner in a woman than of a grizzly bear in polar shows [ “Yes. There was a time when 1 wasn't quite responsible for what 1id or did.” “You're not now.” 1 tried another ‘l!l'\‘]\:lil‘il!': thought wave, It was lost at sea “l had fr in my heal and was so ir I haven't gotten [ over it yet. Abont that time my liver | sot out of order™ i “We're here” The ‘hu:u'(,\', vibrating with health and vigor, interrupted. He offered her his | hand and guided her down the steps winding from the top of the stage, The vehicle oblizingly walted for some panting, waving, halloing would- 0 passengers hurrying toward us | from the swle street. During that | pause the man gnided hig still talk- | ing companion up the steps to an apartment house around the corner, lifted his hat and hurried awav as ‘fl\flllfih something were pursuing him, { She stood in the doorway looking {after him, but he did not look baek ful paing table, man's voice, | At the next turning he was lost from | sight, forever, I doubt not, to that | Woman. | Pity is not akin to love if the pity i Is for bodily flls. Cupid balks at me ! ical records. No man wants to n | a walking hospital. No proposal ev ( followed a recital of aches and pains except Robert Browning's, and Rob. ert Browning was of another age and yc'nllmr_\'. Moreover, he was a poet, jand poets are different. Moreover, still, this one was rich. The Point of View. Apropos of the dictum of a certain actress, that New York men are worthless, a New York actor sald at the Lambs club: “It's all in the point of view, you know. This actress In question is going to marry a westerner. Now, if she were going to marry a New York- er—" “Yes, it's all in the point of view. a girl sald to a bachelor: “‘Woman s, indeed, like the ivy on yonder ruin. The more dilapidated you become, the closer woman clings to you.! “‘Yes,' the bachelor sneered, ‘and the closer she clings to you the more dilapidated you become.’™ One of Them. Gerala—I came near losing my life today Geraldine—Well, mistakes will hap ‘pen. A LAKELAND ORANGE ND GRAPEFRUIT GROVE SiLVER DOLLAR OF RARE COIN- vith hond road by way of Nichols, tion to Chicora; beginning at coun- of the convicts are to AGE VALUED AT $5.000 ty line west of Mulberrs, to connect opening up new roads i such grades as are needod “I had such a fine nurse, first {a big, strong woman who used to lift silver dollar thonsand times its vorth is ca N . P Vi now i the it Lot the e one of anly Qe Jenesome Pariow valued and Irinsie Gid pouds to be clayed by a crew of poc ket piece by +, 1L, who . the doltar being 1a04 twelve theiry, Euele Lake: to be transferred from o Ilu another, each distr and known as the jre b The al five led ac conviets set asid Pro rata part of aitiers balan-« Bartow Record Teonviet —— —————————— ———————————————— ——— - —— et e ... 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