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

*AGE FOUR. he Evening Telegram| ioeoeovcvorosesosomosomns !ma—?.—?-oo_fiq-*m i RUMINATIONS § Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. S Of = UNCLE HENRY§ SFQIVFOFOFQIOUQLOIOPOU IV, * HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. | o F HETHERINGTON, EDI Dear Editer, I take my pen in hand " Entered in the postofiice at Lake- sand, Ficrida, as mail matter of the svcond class. HENRY BACON, Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Oneyear .... ..........$5.00 Bxmonths .. .. ........ 3.50 Three months veee 138 Delivered anywhere within the Umits of the City of Lakelaod tor 10 cents & wWeek. faver of you lettin Uncle Joe go ol | on no crop inspectin tower like hc! talks about. I would ruther have; you pay him a little more on his| wages and ast other peeple to be so-] chal and frendly with him, He hus been durin his stay in this fare city cne of my most fathiull and persis- tent frends, be hus read every word From the same office 1s lssued I have writ and is able at all times THE LAKELAND NEWS to speck intelligently on the sub- A weekly newspaper gIVIDE & e |0 of what I have writ. The fact sume of local matters, crop eoadl, |is he shows a good deel of intelli- tions, county affairs, etc. Sebt 8- ..;ce at all times, and 1 would where for §1.00 per year. rot like to have him shake — rere ithe dust of our citty offen his The stupid inconsistency of humar 'ghoes. When he wants to get it off nature is shown by the fact that let him use a brush or a piece of a lllnnnel shirt, if he wants to, but ll am not in faver of his being allowed prove the breed of our cattle, horses, | {3 ke ItOlf ‘&b the savin'le. hogs, dogs and chickens, we pay uo; I hope you will be patent with him attention to the infinitely more im- il he gets a little restless, and that portant work of doing thg obvlou:i.wu will not think I am tendin to Otacy sosmasy o peotuns & o | 70 SR SICTRR L SR race of men and women slong “":mnn'l busness ‘untill he is ready ui sensible scientific lines applied 0 zoy oue. Did I never tell you what the lower animals. But legislation | Melissa Andrews told that lmunl is at last being slowly turned in this | Aleck of 3 Ralph Wandell one time? direction in all civilized lands, “d‘muyd‘(m a :ll:: :::d‘.’ ‘:'::d‘::l:u:; undoubtedly the time Is coming & mud fense, to be this feller's mother if she had when marriage will be regulated by i pocn any body's. But | guess she scientific as well as sentimental and | wvouldn’t have picked out Ralph to mercenary considerations, senwrl be her son, she hated him like pisen, hat | am tellin you Blitch in our State Legislature rec- OF did after Wi : ognizes this awakening common- sbout. Ralph had ought to bave scisc on the subject and has 1utro- o peen different and Lissy had of duced a bill to prevent the marriage ben his mother, he would likely not of cpileptics and others afflicted have been any better lookin than with grave maladies and to require she was, nor had any shorter nose. hi Lissy might not of ben as ugly if ample notice of approaching mar- thie had not of ben a old made. | riages to be given so that there may recken the state of matrymony which ! be opportunity to ascertain it the she was not in had kind of got on artics or cither of them to such her disposition. Still if Lissy had 10t of been so homely 1 reken she pl‘oxxr:v:_<*ll marriage are the vloums‘ byl olfiy Bt of discases which should not "",1 start out to tell you somethin transmitted to their oftspring. This apout Lissy? O, yes, Lissy was sct- bill mny not pass at the present nes-;un in Wandell’'s one day talkin to sion, but there will be legal regula- Mrs. Wandell about what' awl‘ull tion along this line sooner or Iater.;h“’d'em“ and such the young men| of the naborhood was, and Ralph was atrade she knowed somethin and was just leadin up to a chancet to teil! it. and it would be somecthin him fand Si Marshall’'s boy had been doin | to scare Lissy, becese she lived all’ alone and wus some nervous, so he i thought he would head her off be- fure she got to fur, and, says he, | “Miss Andrews, how come your nose Le so desirable that none of us would long?” His mother was mad, and be willing to get along without it. sume says he got a good lickin aft- \Women are doing scores of things e:VWiids. And, Lissy says, sharp as teday with entire propriety and gen- {a tiash, says she, "I have never wore while we are always trying to im- —0 In the fervor of its emotion the Kissimnice Gazette cries aloud, “Suf- fragettism—may it never find a foot- Lold in Ilorida!” That's looking a lcng time ahead. A century hence, or cven less, woman suffrage might stopped to think that if things had - PRESIDENT READING MESSAGE TO cousnsss o td> let you know that I am not in/ H A close view of President Wilson reading his message to congress from the reading desk of the house of repr-sentatives. A A AR AN AR AR ST cokn places where food s cooked i.n bc account to the City Council for tic "served to our valuable sitizens is disposal of same. kept respectable and cleen, One: Section 4. He shall receive as h! thing is the matter, we had oughi compensation such pay as the .. to give the sanitary inspecter more¢ Council shall name. authority than he has got now. | Bection 5. Al ordinances and I must now draw this letter to & purts of ordinances in conitic close, and I will write more next thisordinance are hereby repealed. time. I hereby certify that the foresvin: Your True Frend, ordinance was duly passed by th. UNULE HENRY. | Council of the City of Lakeland at : ———— | regular session on the 19th day o | March, 1913. MORRIS G. ORDINANCE NO. 149, S An ordinance, providing for a city | Pre: buyer for the city of Lakeland, pre- scribing his duties, tenure of oflxw-‘ and compensation, Be It ordained by the Council of the City of Lakeland: Section 1, That there shall be es- tablished by this ordinance the offic: of the city buyer for the city of Attest: H. L. SWATTS, City Clerk. ! Approved by me this 26th day ol March, 1913, ; ! 0. M. Eaion, Mayocr To Write a wetter, St BB ISP EOPOSISIPAPOONE SO Lakeland who shall hold his oftice at the pleasure of the City Council and | who shall be elected by the City Council. Section 2. The duties of the city | buyer shall be to.purchase all th: supplies, tools, stock, and any and all : "m‘al acquiescence that: would hava dreadtully shocked male sensibilities fifty years ago. Progress is pitiless ond recistless, and woman sulfrage 15 as sure to arrive sooner or later ECt & thrashin for what he sayed.'pakeland. He shall purchase no | as gelf-government survives on the | earth. We are not ready for it now ! in Florida, but we can’t put shackles ) toid it aiound to get Lissy in a good | op aqy supplies in his possession an- on all the future. The color scheme in the (edernli office-holding family in Florida has been restored to normal by the en- fcreed return of Joe Lee, lato lnter- | nal revenue coiiector for this State, | to the ranks of private life and the substitution in his stead of Hon. Hayes Lewis of Marianna. They say any ot it off stickin it into othes | gther material necessary for the cur- The art of letter writing Is quite simple if you will take it in all sim- plicity All you have to do is to con- Jure up a vision of the person to whom you are writing, pick up your pen, and—talk. When you can ple ture a face you like, adorned with a pipe whose shape you know well, it is no difficult matter to find what to The AMERICAN STATE BANk N FIorida Lakeland @ The Most Rapidly Growing Instiyy. tion of a Rapidly Growing City. ([ No enterprise ever launched in Lake. land has shown as great a growth in ¢ short a time as has TheAmerican State By Q@ Itis an Insiitution It Will Do to Tie To, and H eld in Strictest Confidence. J. L. SKIPPER, Pres. S. F. SMITH, M. D.. Vice.Pr., P. E. CHUNN, Cashier. J‘.;.Olo‘fl‘fll IEIPOEOPITOY [ROM straw hat to striped socks F we can furnish your body and 6@ make it fit tolivein. Cemein and see our cool clothes for the warm days suretoccme. Bricht @ Your Account Appreciated, Protecieq | The American State Bank 5 pueple’'s business.” 1 always thuuglnE that was right smart of Lissy, but it wa'n't strictly the facks of the| cse. 1 have never beleeved the boy | Liis father never liked Lissy neather,1 | #ud besides he was too big to takn, @ whippiu. I think Mrs. Wandeli humer, or as neer that as Lissy ever! got. They is peeple in this town which thinks I had not ought to interteer in the citty’s affares, like remarkin' about the alleys lookin like sin, and etc. 1 am glad to say that Mayer Laton has never looked at things in that light. He has allers been very gratefull and thanktuil to me for! any sugestions 1 have give. 1 am from him any property his posgession Joe was a self-respecting megro of | tiierelore eucuraged to go on to grat- geod gonse and character and made ! € 8lory, and when the eud of his a good official, but he certainly had | terut of oflise has come, I will looi' no rizht either in art, morals or pol-| back with pride and reiieck that 1 ftics to hold on to that job under have helped to make Lim what he Wileon and we bid him Las becowe. 1am right with him on | farewell without regret. tiiis idee of enlorcin the luws. A o ‘luw aint no good which aint en-’ We zre rather sorry that Ty Cobb forced. 1 could write a good deel Weodrow has sizned up with Detroit and re- tired from the front page of the <n this subjeck and 1 will some time. At the present 1 am writin a poam ou the subjeck, *“Where is the screens say and how to say it. A letter Is a chat and the pen can be as effective | as the tongue. rent conduct of the business of the city of Lakeland under the direction | and supervision of the respective committees of the City Council of property except by order of the Cit Council or chairman of committecs Section 3.—He shall keep a ho all property delivered to him by the city of Lakeland or any of its of- ficlals; sald book shall be kept co that the property belonging under the contrcl of the various commit- tees shall be kept separate from that of all other committees; he sha') charge up to any person who receivec and take a receipt from said person, describing said property, the date on which same was delivered and b+ whose order same was delivered. 1! shall be responsible for 21l proper: entrusted to his posscssion and shalt CEMENT SIDEWALKS. We enlarge on the tact that woe: you lay a walk of cement the job b | fBaished—that means you're not con | ‘lulltly repairing nor paying ou: ! ' money—when the job is finished you " have one that will lust. lmprove your property-—make &t | up-to-date, get our estimata on lay ;Ing the walks you need— the sligh! ;ldded cost will be more than offse 1 by the big improvement in the prop i - O 2 furnishings willkeep ycu CHEERFUL, and what's’better ta live for. . ““We have the lie crd want ycu to deal with us only because we give you gocd stuff and gocd value. I The Home of Ha.t Scholiner & Marx Clothes I JOSEPH LeVAY FAECHCPOr I4CHOPO PO FOECE O 3 GOSN IOERSOEOO GRADUATION TIME IS HIRE We have just received one of tne largest stocks of solid goid Jewelry and novelties ever shown. A cordial invitation is extend- rewspapers, There was just enough of mild interest in his little case to picasantly divert attention from the tizgic stories on the same page of €in and sorrow all round the globe £1.d make us almost wish that mod- ern life had nothing more serious we ordered?” Here it is hot as sum- 'mer and gettin hotter, aud where is them screecns at the grocery stores, mcet markets and frute stands? Sume of them is put up and some ‘aint. The Woman's Club of this 10 tax our attention than the squab- toWn had ought to make out a list bics of the strutting heroes of the OF the stores which is observin the baseball world. “Iaw about screens and then by P L | there things there. It looks bad up at Tallahassee for{ As I started to say a while back, the eher °: und their beloved fee @ law aint any good if it aint lived system lezislature with the UP to, and i peeple aint intendin to norve le the heads of the;live up to the laws what are they State © rtments, destroy their fee d0in here amongst sivilied peeple systen tthem on a salary! Which trys to be law abidin? They Resis, is ..ot likely to halt at sherifts I8 @ notifer thing, we had ought to and other county officials. —_—— Another littde daughter born to ShOPS is kept cleen. They has been Mother Florida. The bill to create ® grate improvement in same of the Eay county out In West Florida, cut 'allys since 1 wrote to you, owin to i YOU WILL BE “ON TIME" it you go about it in the right way to secure such a resuit. IF YOU CARRY A WATCH PURCHASED HERE {see that the kitchens of the hotels|it Will Elve you the reputation or and lunch rooms and the bakery|Punctuality. Here you can find KINDS, GOOD WATCHES AT LOW DOWN PRICES. out of Washington county, with the citty offisials takin prompt and | Every wateh sold by us is guarantees Panama City for its county seat, has #igid actions. I am now callin upon psesed the Legislature and beem this fare city to see that them signed by the governor. scresns is put up, and also that the Hl. C. Stevens Ny Y erty. Get our estimate. LAKELAND ARTIFICIAL STONE WORKS H. B. Zimmerman, Prop. UPHOLSTER.NG ARD MATTRESS MAKING. Ola Mattresses made over; cushiom of all kind made 0 order. Drop m- « pustal card. Arthur A Douglas 415 8. Otlo Street. KODAKS and SUPPLIES DEVELOPING end PRINTING MCH QUALITY..LOW PRKES PROMPTNESS . S T 1 gt vt ) - .nm RS, & ed to all to inspect the Cole & Hull stock. “Always a Pleasure to Show Goods.” e e e e —————— X ] " Jewelers end Optemelrists Ufkene 173 [ lakeland Né R by o & McCorquodale g owell aple and Fancy Groceries Grain and Feed LT Anmmammselmmmmc and o Fair Deal fop ARl Your Patronage Solicited aad Appresiated ) ) PHONE 209 RED