Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 18, 1913, Page 4

St ®1 ¢ POTR O —————————————————— The Lveaiag Feicgram, Published every afternoon from the| | | Keiwucky Building, Lakelaud, Fia, | LA wirtered in the postcliice at Lnl;e—’ sand, Florida, as mail matter of the| #econd class. A F HETHERINGTON, | | EDITOR | | HENRY BACON, MANAGER. i | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ong year Bix months Three months Delivered anywhere | Hmits of the City of Lakeland for 10| cernts u week. | — | within the From thle same office is i THE LAKELAND NI A weekly newspaper giving a resume| oi local matters, crop conditions. eounty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $i.00 per year. ’_______________—___-——— TRADING AT HOME The Telegram is letting “the other side” have its say on the ‘“‘trade at home” proposition. This paper, in season and out of season, has advo- | cated the principle of buying every! article from home dealers that could ! possibly be had from them. At the game time. if there are dealers in this city who are taking advantage of tome buyers, as specifically charged {n a communication appearing today, | the condition ought not exist, and we have no excuse to offer for it. Our personal experience is not in | line with that of the writer, except {n a very few instances. As a mlo,l we have always felt that we were getting as good epent with the home dealer as if we! value for the money had sent to some houge in a larze city. ard in most cases we are con- vinced that the home man gave us @& better deal than we would have gotten elsewhere, There are times, it is true, when we have knowingly paid a little higher for certain ar- ticles than the same goods could be | bought for in some other city; but this was owing to conditions for which the home dealer was not re- sgponsible. In any event, we have always wanted him to have his fair prolit. We felt that his being in town ~—Nijs aid in carrying the burdens of local taxation, helping to Dbulid vintain churches and his! hip forerally entitled him not nable a reas cgetment but also to the pref- erence whea it came to giving out patronnce. We gtill think any other view of the matter is short-sizhted and araingt community interests, ; However, on the principle of giv- ing all sides an opportunity for ex- pression, we publish the reply to Sec- ' getary Holworthy, in the full confi- | dence that that gentleman will be | amply able to take care of himself in ¢he controversy. pereentase on Stephanson was supposed to salli yesterday on an cxpedition to the! polar repions. He could hardly have’ picked out a day when the weather | was more propitious for starting on such a trip, and lots of sweltering ! people would be perfectly willing to £0 with him Claude L'Engle has some garden | and ve etable seods and he will sond a packare to anybody who makes a | request for them, We are sure U:(\w\: are nct the ore con=ressional | seeds that you plant fa hich l:n"u} and ey totion of rou some : rare and be blossoms, lut | which turn out to be do2-fennel :-wll Jimpeon v are the L'En-la brand, suaranteed to be procressive ary deldine auteous and anti-plute, and everyone to pro- | duee o sori of lilae to be Claude by the admiriny cons'itnent- planter. Gét some carly while the supply holds ocut. handed The New York Ilerald has an ex- cellent article on the folly of ad- vertising by cirenlars, more expensive and far less effoctive than newspaper adverts cular is a relic of ruralism, be generally tabooed when the eom- munity gets to be a real city. It is hard to hreak people from the ciren- lar habit, for as the Heralq says, they stick to it with a persistence worthy of a better caunse. But in real up-to-date communities” the mer- chants confine themselves to news- paper advertising, which the experi- ern2e of the most eminent aunthorities on the subject to be the best and cheapest form of publicity. whieh s declares fnterest in the Cettysh tion to hesin the fi tary G gnectator Jor Grneral Leor gtaff U7 S. A, wi time there. The presidont pians to take antomebil,. at the manenv: trips to the famons old battle ground on Saturdays. | they are cousisient in their pr | agents, and { town I saw the same ar lin three oL A. J. Holworthy, undoubt- the gentiment of the peo- land w ; it is ali risht to boos edly vo. n he quotes thie vorthy, and we are g to gee you take such an interest in Lg 1d, but at the same time let us look the ma face.. I heartily approve of patron- "izing our lcme merchants wherever few weeks ago the writer rececived a ircular containing agent's e price of a smal was $1.50 per cent off to price and res canizer. The list price with 20 and 10 g around cle with same manufacturer's name thereon) different hardware siorcs marked as follows: $3.50. $3.00. and $2.50. Now the article only cost these merchants $1.08 or §1.i2 laid down in Lakeland. Now I /) upon pas ‘not call this competition or consist- ency of prices. Another case: A few days ago I was getting prices upon | galvanized sheet iron and, wishing to buy in quantity, received a price of $1.50 per sheet where I had been buying the same thing daily for $1.25 of the same merchant. This iron costs him 47 cents per shet | laid down in Lakeland. Another case: A merchant advertisel a great sale of men’s suits at cost price—$22.50, Upon going to a small town very close to Lakeland 1 found the same suit (made by the same manufacturer) at $10.50. “Live and let live,” Friend Hol- ! worthy, but the above does not coin- | !ler, E. G .Duckworth, Louis Dolive, | cide with your motto. It seems to me that if our merchants would get down to real business they could stop this money from going out of town, but the fact that they are not satisfied with 30 or 40 or 50 per cent profit on their goods dArives the consumer to look elsewhere. Therefore { tis the merchant's own fault and not the consumer. There is no doubt in my mind that if our present merchants would mark their | goods at 10 per cent above what the consumer has to pay the mail order houses, including charges he will kecp the money here, but under the present plan of | {gizing a man up and charging him at the rate of how easy he looks or how much money he has I do not gee how we can expect to hold trade here It is all rizht to say that you get better goods here than you do by sending away, but do you? That | i is an old excvse to dodee the icsne and fools no one. I agree with you that this is not a new subject and has been discussed many times but always on one side of the fence. Now let us get over and see what the other side looks like. This is not hearsay. but facts, which can be shown in black and white, and what {8 more the above is only a very few of like circumstances which can be proved to the satisfaction of any one who wishes to investigate. Now, Friend Holworthy, let us see you boost a little more along new lines which will let our own pcople trade | with our own peonle that outsiders may sce and benefit thereby. Y C. R. SIDMAN. . KING AND KAISER RID!MG TOGETHER | s have been Louise, only du This one shows King George of Eogland .‘;Tn.l the o uarely in foc: transportation | receive THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND. FLA, JUNE 18. 191 aApm CR._ RKLOCCOD R - nd i OR TRI BO0SLLLS Thri OF TRIR, wed from Page 1.) 1 in Barlow onc hour ing traveled eizhty-four miles, At 4:50 they went into Lakeland. ar- riving at the City park. Moving on five minutes. leaving that city at 5 o'clock, Arriving in Tampa. Its specdmometer. resisicring 114 miles, the first car to arrive at the Hillsborcuzh hotel was a Ford con- taining F. L. Anderson, Bryan An- derson. T. F. Leubach and W. I Land. In the second car, a Hudson, were Dr. J. W. Stazz, B, Beachan, Sr., B. Beacham, Jr.,, and Frank Gordon. The third car, also a Ford, carriel James J Knox, Gray Rush, Allen Cohoon ard E. D. Bradley. The fourth, coming up a second later, was another Ford and contained L. P. Watkins, C. E. Howard, F. B. Phillips and Dr. D. W. Estes. Other cars arrived in such quick saccession that the boosters began to surge at ! once into the lobby of the Hillsbor- ough in a solid body. With them as escorts were L, R, Woods and W. B. Gray, who met the party at Six Mile Creek . . The Personne] of the Party. The boosters who had previously stopped off at the DeSoto were J. S. Rowland. Joseph Meisterman, Elijah Hand, Misgs Clara Hand, C. E. John- ¢on, E. F. Sperry and O. B. Floyd. The following registered at Hillsborough: Roper, T. F. Mann, A, Y. Fuller, C. Watson, . L. Anderson, Bryon An- derson, 0. L. Switzer, W. 3. Neville, | M. M. Stewart. Charles Mazruder, Nr. and Mrs. J. N. Bradshaw, E. B, Bradley, A. Cohoon, Geor:e (. Kel- Robert Duckworth, P. F. Louback, W. E. Long, A. B. Johnson, J. W.| Rex, A. V. Phillips, C. E. Howard, Dr. V. Estes, H. C. Robertson, T, O. Brown, A. F. Butt, Alfred Bumbey, | Charles Rock, B. Beacham. Sr., B. Beacham, Jr., Dr. Stagg. James A. Knox, F. G. Rush, Carl Jansen, E. J. | H. P. Leu, Captain Wilmott, Mr. Mec- Daniels, W. R, O’Neal, M. 0. Over- strect and wife, M. Crosby and wife, Kirbey Fuller, H, Slauter, O. N. Lar- gon, I'red Gore, J. H. Tucker. H. II. ! Dickson, Whitney Wrizht and W. P. . Watson. i Several of the boosters are accom- panied by their wives and daushters, ! who also wore Orlando balces and | flew from theis machines the Orlan- { do pennant, | ]S’l‘;\Tlc OF' FLORIDA, COUNTY OF POLK—To All tees, Distributees and all Persons Having Claims or Demands Agalnst the Estate of J. W. Ellis, Deceasod: You are notified to present claims, debts or demands which you may hold against tne estate of J, W, El- lis, deceased. to me witnin two years from this date, or same will be barred. This 18th day of June, 1913. L. E. ELLIS. Admin'strator. Creditors, Leza- 873 of w the ! J. D. Hennis, B. H., Cape, Willlam F. Armstrong. These, | going to private residences did not | register at either hotel: T. 0. Brown, | the incidents wany. and Prince Ernes Ealser ridive togcther after the ceremony at Potsdam 3. GOVER:-0R VLIOLD EILL e CRLALLNG WUR..AL SCEOOL. (Centinued from Paze 1.) as the taxpayers of Florida are in a position to stand for Stale collezes, uniess there was a need which is not apparent. Aside from the fact that T believe that the State throuch the State University and the State Collece for Vomen is taking care of the normal I work and is preparing to extend the i facilities in this line of educational nerefore makinz another ary and in- training, State institution unneces advisabie and adding to the tax bur- Aon of the people, the creation ofan additional colleze, as contemplated by this measure would unquestion- ably have a tecdency to arouse other communitics and gections of the State to from the Lezislature considerable appropriations for a constantly increasing number of State colleccs, It is obviovs that the point would soen Le reached, if such additional colleres vere allowed, where taxpayers of the State wonld | find this burden very enormous, and the efficiency of the established in- stitutions would be weakened ask | opportunity for a college edication offercd them except through a col- leze maintained at State expense, then there may be some reason for | more State collezes. but in consider- inz the facilitics in the State for ac- quiring higher education ard the de- mands upon the State in this connec- tion we must bear in mind that | there are a number of colleces other than the State colleges The Stet- gon University, the Sutherland Col- lege, the Columbia Colleze, the Rol- | lins College, the Palmer Colleze, the Madison \ormal, the Dade City Nor- mal, and the Green Cove Sprincs Limitary sctool are all institutions ! of higher education within our State | each of which schools are rezarded | with favor and enjoy a liberal pat- ! ronage While, as an official my duty to | the people of Florida, as I see it, im- Epols me, for the reasons above set forth, to veto this bill, my hizh re- | | gards for the citizens of Madison {and that community, my esteem and ! regpect for the gentlemen who so i ably represented Madison county in the recent Legislature causes me per- sonally to feel great reluctance in having to withhold my approval of this measure Very truly yours, PARK TRAMMELL, Governor I'riends of President Wileor urging him to extend the ! vestigation to the fi tent. The Senate comn has been looking into the by also Las on is list reprc of the Indian lobby. the railroad lob- | by and the lobby organized to ,!',htg the law forbidding the Panama ua-' nal to railroad owned ships. Mass meetings of an organization | known as the ‘“‘Anti-American | Youths’ Association” are being close- ly wacthed by the Tokio police. Be- licose speeches, attempted by ora- | tors of doubtful prominence are also ! suppressed in the newspapers. These 1 speeches are directed against the ' ministry as well as against the| United States. with whom the Ja panese statesmen are regarded as be- | ing too lenient. i Augustus of Cn d dilis ot mberland. | | If the youth of the State had nol | ___._——-———-—-__-'— ; 8 -'—‘—. s b o L i 4 3 are prepared to furnish lead connections for water mains at fg 3 Why not moke THIS JULY tae month from which you can date your frcedom from all the dangers and of inconveniences handlng funds by opening a CHECKING AC- your COUNT witk this institution. You are certain of all the safe- guards and convenicnces that a strong, well-managed bank offers when yu become one of our deposi- tors. PROPERTY OWNERS ATTENTIO) Sewers laid for only 10 cects per foot. We are prejan furnish 4 inch Terra Cotta 8cwer pipe and dig the diteh the pipe and fill the ditch for 10 cents per foot comyplete; al cach already to put on, and we will do all the plumbing in where there is five fixtures for $115, Get our prices or you will lose money. We do firsy ciu Bowyer Billy fel 2VE2Wl Dot Yul tol Ja A0t IS GOOD TO BE (00D DRESSER and we sure have got the goods to dress you up into., Qur suits are going fas at the small margin we arc selling them at 25 per cent off dollar Now is yoor time to geta goed Hart Schaffner & ) Marx suitatless than cost A few Palm Beach suits left going at $6.00 a suit lflufl:tter The Hait Schaffner & Marx Clothi:gl E HU JOSEPH LevAY “