Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 26, 1913, Page 4

=t g 2 o Fi ' est in his fortunes on his present job, PAGE FO"R The Evening Telegram| HOW THE NAME ORIGINATED. | i Georgla crackers and Florida Published every afternoon from the'crackers come from the same deriva- Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Iti\'e. that is, the name docs, and the .early settlers from the former State Entered in the postofiice at Lake-| w1, qrirteq across the line to Flor- land, Ficrida, as mail matter of the ;45 paeyrally brought the name with second class. M. §. HETHERINGTON, EDl'ron] HENRY BACON, Manager. | and their descerdants. nothing in the name to be ashamed oi, either in its orizin or its asso- & 3 ciation, and here is authentic infor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: L e ONG YCAr +evvvnonssssnse$5.00 | Tmes as to how it started: Six moBths .. +o +vveeeee 280 | gy gpe of (he chool histories of Three months ........00 1.86 Delivered anywhere within the Himits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week. i roads were buiit from tie up-country ! —_———————————————————~ {0 the coast, the merchants of the From the same office is lssued lur\pur section used to haul their mer- | THE LAKELAND NEWS Savannah in large 4 weekly newspaper giving a re- wagons, with four to six mules pull- ' chandise from sume of local matters, crop condl, ing them. These wagons would goi 1\ Sent amy- in caravans and the drivers would "carry huge whips with leng crackers - on the ends. The coming of the car- VERN avans could be noted by the popping ™o ORAI%AY LABORER. ©f the whips even before the teams would get in sight, and people along In the earlicr days of the republic the way began to refer to the trad- §¢ was often necessary, for campaign , ers as ‘crackers.’ ‘Here come the purposes, that our candidates for, crackers’ would be said as they great offices should have been born' would come in sight. The term was in log cabins as the sons of “day la- later applied to persons who carried borers” and have been day laborers # Whip and hemce the people from themeelves if they wanted to “sweep ; the country—who usually drove to the country” on election day. It is | town—were designated as ‘crackers.’ not so necessary now as in those | Like ‘hoosier’ as applied to Indian- primitive, pioneer times, but the | lans, or ‘tarheel’ to North Carolin- habit still persists among some of | jans, the word ‘cracker’ is no longer the newspapers of fixing the “day, ‘Pizen’ to Georglans and is accepted laborer” stunt upon the youthful as merely meaning a native citizen years of our public men who me-or one to the manner born.” suddenly from State to national re- | ——) rea— pute, and Governor Trammell hal} Like the game western city she is, not escaped. The governor is a day Omaha declines with thanks the of- Jaborer all right and fully earns his fers of assistance from the national wages, but it didn't come as hard : Eovernment and will repair her own during his early years as some of disaster. That's the way to preserve ;the imaginative press writers at & distance make it appear. The Pa- fatka News gets the record straight as follows: ' “An item is going the rounds of false pride which rejects at such the northern preés to the effect that times is as little to be commended as ‘Governor Park Trammell, of Flor-' the cry for outside help for the want ida, began life as a day laborer and | Of inside hope. won his way to distinction. He was T AT . born on a farm, and at an early age| The St. Petersburg Independent began picking and packing ornges. | boasts that for seventy-two consecu- At 16 he went to Tampa, worked six | tive hours in that city, while a street years, supported himself, got out of | fair was in progress not one arrest debt and paid for his law course | Was made. Excellent, but does it While there is much of truth in the not to some extent imply an absence above statement, it is misleading. Of that metropolitan and cosmopoli- Governor Trammell not only began tan: color and diversity of human na- life as a laborer, but he has kept on ture and energy which we associate laboring ever since. He has indeed With modern progressive municipali- worked his way to distinction, But ties—Jacksonville, for instance? Jax tovernor Trammell's birth on a farm , Would feel herself too good to be and early work of picking and pack- ' comfortable if she went that long ing oranges is no different than the ' Without some police pickings. birth and occupation of thousands | -Q--——— and thousands of Florida boys. Their Pob Holly, of the Sanford Herald, parents are orange growers and is a candidate for postmaster in his naturally they help around the grove. toWn; but as the present Republican The idea sought to be conveyed that ‘incumbent’s commission doesn’t ex- Governor Trammell was the son of Pire for three years yet, and Post- a day laborer and that he had to Master General Burleson says that hustle from childhood at any kind | the beastly Republican habit of fir- of day labor is erroneous. Governor IDg the enemy on general principles tions, county affairs, etc. where for $1.00 per year. reliance, priceless in communities as Tranuapell's father was a man of , Will not prevail during his adminis- | prominence in the State, and one of tration, we suspect that Robert will his last official positions was that of ' have plenty of time to study about superintendent of the State insane|it before he gets the job. But he asylum.” would make an “ideel” postmaster FEECCUN TS PESES. Lakeland is now putting its first; 8¢t him- brick street paving, the work hav- TR ing been begun last Friday in front | The disasters by storm and flood of the Tremont. With a sewerage ' .® the West, accompanied by appall- system and brick-paved streets, “the ing lom of lie, will arouse nation- : 4 vide sympathy and all the help for town will have two of the nmngent'v érawing cards In the race for c“yglmmedllte » tieawill be prompt- building.—Orlando Reporter-Star. Iy' ‘°m.‘°°m"" The American peo- No visitor can look upon the work |ple never fall in such emergencies, now being done in the streets ol|“:d newhore 1o all the world, I Lakeland without instantly eonclud-'th"‘; s“: h munificent and unselfish ing that here is a town worth while, | €"2FitY in seasons of g!.‘eat disaster. here is a town made up of citizens Louisville & A S PSR AR AR, A who have vision for their minds as well as their eyes, who have faith i the future of their dommunity and full knowledge of the facts upon' which that faith is based. The Re-! porter-Star is right; brick paved streets and a sewerage system are | two bf the strongest cards in the, race for city building. | R N— i One of the highly important events fa the near future is the convention of all the citrus fruit growers of Florida at Tampa on April 17. It is fo be a strictly non-partisan meet- ing, purely for the betterment of the fndustry, regardless of membership in the Exchange, and in some re- spects it will probably be the most Lv. Jacksonville < - fmportant mecting of citrus people 8:18 pm. ever held in Florida. It is hoped at Ar. Cincinnati - - - 8:50pm. this convention to perfect a monster Ar.Cleveland - - 7:1Sam. organization regardless of marketing | Ar. Grand Rapids - - 6:50 am. affiliations to the end that all the | Ar. Louisville . . 9:00pm. growers will be in a better position Ar. Indianapolis - - 1:50am. to promote the interests of the fruit oy P {ndustry of Florida. Dixie Limited [ Lv. Jacksonville - . 9:35am. " . Ar. St. Louis . . . 250pm. President Wilson's lucky number i Ar. Chicago . . . 7:02 pm. may be 13 and we hope it is, for we all have a selfich personal inter- but the old superstition as to that number geem to be holding good for much of the country. them as a part of their belongings | and it has stuck ever since to them There is: Valdosta (Ga.) | i {igin of the term is explained as fol- ! 'lows: Many years azo, before rail-| |GEOrgiu (tarris, we believe) the or- the spirit of independence and self | have writ to you sooner, . bave been expectin it of me, bu in individuals. But it is no shame to | Marthy has been cleenin house, Sa- | take the aid when needed, and the! and Sanford would be fortunate to says I, “No wonder they had a good Nashville R. Chicago—St. Louis Cincinnati—Louisville—Indianapolis Cleveland—Grand Rapids Detroit and Toledo Electric Lighted Trains. H. C. Bretney, Florida Passenger Agent, 118 W. Bay St., Jacksonville THE EVENING TELEGRAM. LAKELAND, FLA., MARCH 26, 1913, 3 g g v e oo “\. PHOTOGRAPHING THE HUMAN VOICE Manding of oy 7 ‘_ _ o | testantsin Pigy, ' Contest i '!mu Nellie Fidler !l!rl. W. R. Graham ‘Mrs. W. T. Mellvain ..., . !l E. Walson. .. U. W. Irveson ............ £,133 Miss Georgia Strain ... lllu Kittie Funk e, 3 |)ml Lillie May Meclntire. . . 34,278 MNiss Margaret Marshall .. R Teed ... .. 4 vixieland Methodist church 11,16 . ] el S : T 8.Clifford ............ . g3 The photograph shows Antoine Pollak, the foreign inventor, giving his first demonstration of his new inves |y g o Ciffora tion of photographing the human voice, and Miss Maggie Teyte, the opera snger, who took part in the experiment, " ~ " ™. e s which was held in New York. The receiver of the Pollak-Virag apparatus consists of a so-called optical hbillu Nettip Brooks ....... 15.96 phone, i. e, a telephone membrane connected with a small mirror, which refiects a ray of light that is photographed | on sensitive paper. The human vofce will produce an oscillation in th‘ membrane of the optical telephone, and ' Leslie McCraney .......... 48,33 the mirror will give a true record of this osecillation. This record is a of the buman volice. { Mrs. J. W.Cord ........... 1,08 Luela Knight .............. 60) ‘tired out. She is gettin a little old | to the croesin first, him or it, and Thelma Mann ........ PR 1 ¥hd can't stand the site of crowds|Lem lost, and he made hisself fam- RUMINATIONS and confusion as she used to when|ous afterwards by makin funny re-|R. Black e e S we went to the fares, etc. But |[marks about his grate mistortune.| 7 s s Of === ! went on over and finished up what | Nobody can never tell when fame|D Asher ................. 46 UNCLE HEN RY | startedito say In talkin to the Doc- | will knock at our doors. Noboddy|Mrs. E. L. Cowdery ........30,000 jter. [ will tell you more about it|ever took much notis of Lem untill isome other time.. I got off a good |he got them legs of his took off. Lem [P~ F. Lindsley ............ 10g THOHH ¢ Dear Editer, I should ought ‘tg| Manny noble and inspirin remarks |uset to say it could of been worse, 1 know you | O the subjeck of why is the knocker | because he might have had three ¢80 sad and so lonely. “legs took off if he had of had them. We seen a old frend of ourn in the I will tell you some day more of mantha Jones back where we come i park. He uset to keep the hardware Lem's remarks. Liza Wilson uset to frem writ to us last week that she5tore in Cloverville when we was say she knowed something would | was a-cleenin for dear life and that | 1ivin in Carterville, and he is still happen to Lem ‘someday for talkin | put Marthy In the nosion. I have got’ there but we haint. He knowed me like he done and makin light of his spection. |a high regard and aftection for ladys first off. He says, “Well, Uncle Hen- sorrows, but it ain’t happened yet.|nave a chance to win. !whlcn 1 bave hung onto through all | 'Y+ are you still writin for the pnp-i I will now draw these remarks to . ¥ The piano that we are givin, away is in our show window for in. We want evers (ne to 5D GOS0 L deelers which was in our midst last Saturday. Them peeple was all after [nv.y own hart as the sayin is. 1 have not geen any finer peeple, men and womin, than them was. They had a s 'i'.nod time, but as I says to Marthy, time. They are the kind of peeple ! which has good times. They have come to our citty not to find falt but to enjoy thereselves. They was lookin to see how much of lovelyness jand beauty they was to be seen here.” Marthy says, says she, “If you lalr startin one of your lecksures, go over there and tell it to Dr. Conibear. | He looks good-natured and he aint heern you talk for forty or fifty yeers as 1 have” Marthy was a little the tryals and storms of lite and|Pers?” We got to speekin about a close. Iam intendin to go to the ‘mnrrycd life, but there is times when | '-°m Oberhouse. He was a feller, Gcod Rodes meetin and if so I have 1 cant help Wishin that some womin | Maybe I have spoke to you about him | got to get the work done up, and had the sense they was born with. | before, which both of his legs got there is no tellin what Marthy has { We didn't need no house cleenin and leut off in a ralerode axident one got lade out for me to do. . if Samantha had of kept her mouth |time when he Xind of made & bet| Your true trend, WIre rcn(:"lu |ahut we would not of bad any, Bmiwlth a trane as to which would get UNCLE HENRY. | iu 1 was saying Marthy took & nosion | - | Don’t forget that we are expects| that she was not going to have my . ing a car of American wire fencing| writin tablet on the seiting toom) ) ‘I"c : this week. The fence is wrapped $¥Is hnd ke up and pus 1S 18 W8 and the price is as low as the lowest. iburrow drawer, and peered like ever P !time | wanted to write she had gone ofi somewheres to ast somebody how | § X v.as the best way to do things that | | 3 she has done for forty yeer in her lown way, and which she will con- Lakeland » Flonda lnc"bators a"d |tinu to do in her own way for a e nother forty yeer. Womin is queer § d o B gt g . The Most Rapidly Growing Institu- Brooders I was intendin to make a few ad- mirin remarks about the hardware|§ tiON OF @ Rapldly GrOWing C"y. We carry a stock of these Ask Mrs. Grifin, Mr. H. B, Hayden, ané s @ No enterprise ever launched in Lake- § |ur. . w. Toph it o puc. ws b . land has shown as great a growth in so § | "'"E teteecn short a time as has TheAmerican State Bank )( Q. Itis an Institution It Will Do to Tie To. Paints and Oils Q. Your Account Appreciated, Protected S Ian We carry a complete line of paint® and Held in Strictest Confidence. —Stag heads the lst for house The American State B&!;i; J. L. SKIPPER, Pres. 8. F. SMITH, M. D., Vice-Pres. P. E. CHUNN, Cashigr. paints. Look at the Prest church; painted five years. VanHuss building, nine years and today it looks as good as most house painted at two years. We carry hard oils, Insiie aad The old outside spor varnish, floor Vuruiid % Alabastine in any color mad Al Builders Lumber & Supply f~“~~" COMPANY/ spring Time ERERRN mflu Is here and you need a lawi Foot of Main Btreer mower and hose to water and that lawn. Keep that lawn in T shape for visitors to look at. It helps to get people to Lakeland. wom” Phone 8. NO. 14 AND & INCH CYPRESS SHINGLES LT I I T Sy, o o wmem | ML 1 STIAMRD CYPRESS LI 400 N RESZ - | MR L A oENs s, wemwes s 250 M || akeland :. St..l.nio « « « 7:40am. We are handling the cut of a small mill, and can furnish - Chicago . . . 9:38am. you rough and dressed framing from 2x4 to 10x12 best heart if :: gm'.n. - . 825pm. furnish any kind of mill work out of pine and cypress lumber. Re W ! . Evansville . . . 943pm. carry a first class line of points, varnishes and oil ' s - . G s, . 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. Dining Cars | [] & Plumbing Terms: Strictly Cash on Delivery of Goods | Terms: Sich Cushon Delveryof Gonds | (0MANY l | wanted, cut from round timber. We make doors and sash and can