Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 19, 1913, Page 4

. 2 e fhe Evening Telegram Fublished every afterncon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postofiice at Lake- | land, Ficrida, as mail matter of the second class. l,iF HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. HENRY BACON, Manager. Ong year Six months .. .. ... Three months Delivered anywhere within tbe limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week. From the same office is lssued THE LAKELAND NEWS 8. weekly newspaper giving a re- sume of local matters, crop condi, tions, county affairs, etc. Sent any- where for $1.00 per year. TO EQUALIZE THE BURDEN OF TAXATION One of the large duties wiich wili devolve upon the Legislature at its approaching session will be the work of equalizing as near as possible the burden of taxation in eounties It is very unequal now and there is just complaint on the subject. The special tax commis- sion created by the Legislature ot 1911 to go thoroughly into the mat- ter and propose a remedy was com- posed of W. 8. Jennings, G. L.! Clarke and E. S. Matthews, three well known citizens of Florida pe- euliarly fitted for the task. They bave done their work and the Leg- islature will be called on to consid- el it and adopt it in whole or in part or reject it as it sees fit As the matter is one which ever taxpayer feels a lively interest give below a summary of the work in we of this commission, which holds that | are three causes for our de- system of taxation, namely: there fective The restricted provisions of the State coustitution form system of taxation vilnation In arbitrarily impossible valuation and duties upon the tax assessors in re- quiring them to appraise all prop erty at its full cash value without providing u means of ascertaining comparative cash values througzhout the State upon which the assessor's valuation is made the basis of the Stiate levy, The law is defective gov erning assessment and the equaliza- tion thereof in that it does not pro- vide any plan or power of equaliz- ing values for the State revenue bhe- tween the various counties. “The general remedy which the commission has concluded to recom- mend for consideration is designe ) 10 separate the sources of State and local taxation, providing that the State shall assess its taxes upon rail- roads, telegraph and telephone com- panics, miscellaneous taxes and li- censes for the full amount of its revenue, and that the counties may lovy their own taxes for county pur- poses on property of a local char- acter, other than the sources men- tioned. “The result anticipated under the uew system would be a uniforn and just taxation, the establishment of an economic, definite system of pro- viding revenues for State purposes requiring a uni- and a casn imposing and establishing and providing a ! definite, economical and Jjust pro- vision for assessment and collection of revenue for county purposes, and @ system and power of equalization in the various countles.” o - The stranger who will come into a State, predisposed azainst it, per- haps, from inherited prejudices, hunt industriously around umtil be h found its weakest native types of people and then insist that they are representative of the whole, and on all occasions, regardless of company, make it a point to sneer at the na- tive Florida Cracker, ig not only in- capable of intelligent generalization on any subject where more than the smallest measure of ability is re- quired, but is without the tact and consideration which are everywhere, all over the world, amid all races and in all climes, the hallmark of a gentleman Such a light-weight smart-aleck with a hair-trigger tongie conld with entire propriety £0 to the Cracker for both bhrains and | breedin:. | — o We welcome President Wilson to the various | fixing an| Representative Brown's bill to provide the voting privilege for qual- ifcd voters uravoidably away from home on election day is meeting #with wmuch favor from the State I.t8 and the criticism of it trom two or three papers has been based | upon want of information of the provisions of the bill. The Sanford licrald, warmly approving it, says “This bill i8 most mcritorious in every way and is one that Sanford ———-————————/|people can appreciate, giving as it pl SUBSCRIPTION RATES: i does our railroad men the opportun- ity to exercise their franchise with the loss of no time. Mr. Brown is {well known here and his good work !ii greatly appreciated by his many friends. Representative Brown will make good as a law maker.” Senator Tillman is growing |L’r;u'0- as he gets older. He yielded I Vis elaim to the chairmanship of the | Senate committee on appropriations, 4ich distinction upon which he =t his heart and to which he 25 in a certain sense entitled, with- | out raising a row that would have reverberated through all the news- piaper columns of America. He has «bility in plenty for that or any other honor the Senate could con- 'jfvr upon him, but his health is frail {and one of his old bursts of témper would be likely to prostrate him with paralysis or apoplexy. He was | wise to vicld the honor of the chair- manship to Senator Martin. Tillman was the high spice of the Senate be- fore his health failed, and even now he can get the spotlight when some of his strong characteristics assert themselves. in o een ) i We take it that the next Legisla {ture is going to adopt with slight {if any alterations the recommenda- !tiong as to the changes in our court nocedure made by the commission winted by Governor Gilehrist for "ithat purpose. Some of the foremost Powvers of Florida were members of that commmission and they considered the subject thoroughly before Cthey aereed upon the changes recom- It is fully worth Lot to get chanzes in the rules of our conrts, which will dethrone the technicality and make expeditious justice the leading congideration in the trial of cases, : very i Sess these mended 01 o the slature BRSNS We had thought to get throuzi the winter and early spring without 'a screech from that old disturber { the Georgia peach crop, but it was rexpecting too much. At the eleventh hour it got busy and told us in th: old familiar way that “the peach crop is in imminent danger unless there is a rise in temperature before nightfall.” We trust the tempera- | ture “riz”" as desired and that the | Ceorgia peach crop will now go {auhead to a bumper output o The excellent Tarpon Springs | Leader has passed from the hands of E [. Zimmerman into the posses- "sion of E. T. Byington, who will hereafter be its editor and publisher Mr. Byington is a veteran newspaper man of ahility and character, well known to the press of Florida, and at the head of such a good paper as the Leader in such a zood town as Tar pon Springs there can be no doubt of his success i s The assassinution of King George by one of his own subjects was the very limit of stupidity not less than crime. He was the best king in Eu- |rope. an honest, kindly man, who {sought constantly the good of | Greece. And he was no burden on |his subjects, for they hardly paid him &nough to live decently on. ] el Paragraphs like this from the Tal {lahassee True Democrat are seen quite frequently ir our Mate pavers these days “Lakland is doing herself justic und three new brick blocks planned ard large hotel started will soon add to this rapidly growing city.” it Not until a new deal comes around in politics and there is a redistribu- tion of the offices to be made, do we realize how enormously some pesple magnify themselves and how mighty are the ambitions of the common- place. Some of those job hunters up 'in Washington are collossal jokes. S — NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of April, A. D. 1913, ap- a place alongside the Telegram on ’D"catlon will be made to the Hon- the top rail of the fence on the wom- su suffrage issue. hasn't made up his mind on that question yet and neither have we There 18 no need for hurry about the matter, in fact, caution is a vir- tue on a question of such vast impor- tance. Woman suffrage hasn’t yet | been “tried out” even in those States ' He says fhat he | | Secretary | Florida | {orable Park Trammell, Governor of the State of Florida, at Tallahassee, Florida, for the issuance of letters {patent on the following articles of incorporation, the original of which /i now on file in the office of the f State at Tallahassee, H. D. BASSETT, J. W. SCALLY. MAMIE 1. BASSETT. where it has been In operation for & number of years; and what s good | for one State is not necessarily good for anotber where population condi- gions are very different DOLIA SCALLY. ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE SCALLY- & BASSETT REALTY COMP. Articles of mf.—?nnfifi'n".mm into this 19th day of January, A. D. 1913, by and between J. W. Seally, H. D. Bassett, and Dolia Scally and Mamie 1. Bassett, who hereby as- sociate themselves together as a body corporate under the constitu- tion and laws of the State of Flor- ida, and hereby adort the following their articles of incorporation, to- wil First. The name of this corpora- tion shall be Scally & Bassett Realty Comp; and its principal place of busir shall be in the City oi Lakeland, county of Polk, and State of Florida, with such branch ‘g of business within the United States of America or any foreign country, as may be determined by the board of directors. Second. The veneral nature of the husiness to be transacted by this corporation shzll be as follows: (a) To purchase, lease, or other- wise acquire lands, tracts, mineral and rights, to buy, sell, export and import, saw and prepare for market, and generally deal in timber and wood of all kinds. (b) To construct, erect, equip, repair and improve houses and buildings of all kinds and descrip- tions, to build and operate ice plants and steam laundries. (¢y To gather, receive, distribute and deliver goods and merchandise and to carry on a general distribu- tion and freight business; and to that end to own and operate its own vessels, cars and vehicles, of what- ever nature and description, or to contract with transportation, rail- road, express and other companies for the use of their vessels, cars and vehicles, of whatever nature and description; and to contract with said companies for the collection, transportation or distribution of goods, wares and merchandise to and from all points and places where they may seem advantageous and profitable to carry on such business, to construct, maintain and operate tramroads and railroads, but not to use said means of transportation for the purpose of doing the business of a4 common carrier, (d) To buy, sell, exchange and generally deal in real and personal property. (e) To act as hrokers, agents and twustees for the purchase, sale, management and disposition of land and the productions thereof. (fy To subseribe for, purchase, reeeive, or hold for investment, or othe ge sell, dispose of, make con- vevanees of stoek, shares, bonds, se- curities or oblications of other cor- porations whatsoever or wherever, located or orzanized, and to exer- cise any voting power thereof, () To borrow money and seenre wume by bills of sale, mortgages, deeds, bonds, notes, con- other oblirations therefor; to guarantee and assume bonds and obligations of other corporations. And in addition to the hereintefore specified and those that may be implied therefrom, the cor- poration shall have all the rights and all the pewers which are grant- ed 1o corporations by the constitu- tion and Jaws of the State of Flor- {da. Third. The amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), di- vided into fifty (50) shares of the par value of one hundred dollars ($100) each. All stock shall be pay- able in lawful money & United States of America, or In property, labor or services, at g just valuation, to be fixed by the board of directors or incorporation, at a meeting called for that purpose. Ten (10) per cent of the capital stock shall be sub- scribed before the transaction of business, except such business as may be preliminary to its organiza- tion. Fourth v, | Scally, Lakeland, Fla, 3 powers | | | | | A successful TRAVELING SALES- MAN DRESSES SUCCESSFULLY. Dressing well helps everybody suc- ceed. People see you before they speak to you. They first judge you by the way you LOOK. Our clothes FIT, FEEL, WEAR and LOOK sell. The PRICE is as LOW as GOCD STUFF can be sold for. | | i The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes | 1 The Hub ; JOSEPH LeVAY T an s ETees Sl eiSURmEste (RN SN 2 sax ea Nashville R. R. Louisville & Chicago—St. Louis Cincinnati—Louisville—Indianapolis Cleveland—Grand Rapids with direct connections to Detroit and Toledo South Atlantic Limited Montgomery Route Lv. Jacksonville - . 8:1Spm. Lv. Jacksonville . . &1Spm. Ar. Cincinnati - - . 8:50 pm. Ar. Montgomery . . 8:50 am. Ar.Cleveland - . 7:15am. Ar. Birmingham . . 12:10 pm. Ar. Grand Rapids - . 6:50 am. Ar. Nashville - - 7:40 pm. Ar. Lovisville - . 9:00pm. Ar. St. Louis - - - T7:40am. Ar. lndianapolis - . 1:50 am. Ar. Chicago . - 9:38am. Dixie Limited Dixie Flyer Lv. Jacksonville . . 9:3Sam. Lv. Jacksonville . . Ar. St Lowis . . . 2:50pm. Ar. Evaneville . . Ar, Chicago . 7:02 pm. Ar. Chicago - . Electric Lighted Trains. Dining Cars H. C. Bretuey, Florida Passeager Agent, 118 W. Bay St., Jackseaville The term for which this corporation shall exist shall be ninety-nine (99) years following after the date of the issuance of let- ters patent hereof. | Fifth. The business of this cor- poration shall be conducted by a president, one or more vice presi- dents, secretary and treasurer, any two of which may be held by one or the same person, and not less than three (3) nor more than seven (7), directors The directors shall be eiected annually by the stockholders, | on the third Wednesday in January, and they shall elect the other officers of the corporation. The officers of this corporation who shall conduct its said business until the first an- nual election shall be: H. D. Bas- ' sett, president; Mamie I. Bassett, vice president; J. W. Seally, secre- tary and treasurer; and H. D. Bas- sett, J. W. Scally and Dolig Secally shall constitute the board of direc- tors. | Sixth. The highest amount of in- debtedness or liability to which this corporation can at any time subject | itself shall be five hundred thousand ($500,000) dollars. Seventh. The names and resi- dences of the subscribers and the amount of capital stock subscribed for by each are as follows H. D. Bassett, l.akeland, Fla., 22 shares. J. W. Scally, Lakeland, Fla., 22 shares. Mamle 1. Bassett, Lakeland, Fla, 3 | shares. Dolia shares. In witness whereof, we have here- unto subscribed our names and af- fixed our seals to this instrument on the 19th day of January, A. D. 1913, | J. W. SCALLY (Seal) { DOLIA SCALLY (Seal) H. D. BASSETT (Seal, MAMIE 1. BASSETT (Seal). State of Florida, County of Polk. I hereby certify that before me, the undersigned authority, person- ally appeared J. W. Secally, H. D.| Bassett, Dolia Scally and Mamie I.' Bassett, known to me to be the par- ties who executed the foregoing ln-l strument, and eeverally acknowl- edzed that they executed the same for the uses and purposes therein expressed. Witness my hand and officlal seal | at Lakeland, Florida, this 19th day | of March, A. D. 1913. ; C. M. CLAYTON, (Seal) Notary Public. ’:fl.y commission expires January §, 1 N Builders Lumber & Supply COMPANY B K &K 0. GARLAND, PROPRIETORS. Phone £28. oot of Main Stree: NO. 1 4 AND § INCH GYPRESS SHINGLES " 240§ INCH : 400 M NO. 1 STANOARD CYPRESS LATH 400 M MR FLG & CEILING SIDING, INVERNESS STOCK .25.00 N We are handling the cut of a small mill, and can furnisbh you rough and dressed framing from 2x4 to 10x12 best -heart if wanted, cut from round timber. We make doors and sash and cap turnish any kind of mill work out of pine and cypress lumber. Re carry a first class line of points, varnishes and oil. Our lumber and mill business will be managed by Mr E. H. Hopkins, who is well known by the people of Lakeland as an nu-to-date lumber man. Terms: Strictly Cash on Delivery of Goods Mrs. H. W. Odom o Miss Nellie Fidler Mrs. W. R, Graham {MI’I. W. T. Mcllwain 8§ E. Walson 'U. W. Irveson Miss Georgia Strain Miss Kittie Funk .. Mrs. J. A. Wood ..., |W. D Hamp... ... . Wil Willlams Miss Lillie May Mclutire Miss Margaret Marshal] vixieland Methodist churcp T S. Clifford ......... J. 8. C. Cifford ... .. Miss Nettle Brooks ... Leslie McCraney Mrs. J. W. Cord .... Luela Knight . ... Thelma Mann .. R. Black D Asher | The | piano that we are g | away is in our show wint.w spection. We want vvers | ;ha\'e a chance to win ; Beginning Monday we i i to give $100 worth of pian with every $1 spent at our st crockery ware, consisting of 2,000 to select from | We are colng to give special prices for oue week This saves you big money and 'you a big chance at the plany Ay Received {60 dozen 1 quart fruit jars 60 dozen 1 pint fruit jars 6 barrels jelly glasces 6§ cases fruit jar rubbers Let us supply your wanta o In Transit We have a car of American wrappeé wire fencing on the road and can !* terest you in prices. A Now On Display We have ten barrels of glase¥sr bought direct from factory oo & ¢ heavy play at sur store, consisting © and light ice tea tumblers. watef sets, finger bowls, grapefruit 4lshel heavy bottom glasses for hotei s tions 128} vice and many other selec will bear inspection sarte® Make our store your headd for your wants. Ao Lakeland Hardware & Plumbing Company | i i l