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

Lk Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Evening Telegram| wntered in the postoffice at Lake- .and, Florida, as mail matter of the vecoud class. e e e creee—— 4. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. L NRY BACON, MANAGER. S8UBSCRIPTION RATES: ORg YOAr . ....ccovees S et $5.00 Bix monthe . .....ccoceteacs 3.59 Three months . ......ccoeeee 12§ Deliversd anywhere within the| ity of the ity of Lakeland for 10 wrts a week From e same offlce {8 issued 'HE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume af local matters, crop couwlitions,| sounty uifairs, ete. Sent anywhere ‘or $1 00 per year. LAKELAND IS IN THE FRONT RANK. One thing especially noticable in getting the ncws of the state is the number of places where money has been voted for new school houses. Pinellas is not the only county which recently i ter in every department. | Adams 1s the editor-and manager | paw with a hearty good-will. i tor for the entige'state in which the Jacksonville--district was merged. Cool offy John, Cool oft! That great, juicy'$6,000 plum was never intended for you in the first | fifty years ago can easily realize how fearfully grand it was then. He can look upon this historical field with awe and wonder. Bat 1 must stop now and tell the instance. You were merely a pro- |Test when I get home, which I thing as well regard the incident ‘ closed. You can't successfully |the Lithea waters. buck the national administration tem, so to speak, and you might | Wil be abou the 25th of July. ‘l as !9m stopping here for the henefit of I am stopping with Mr. EAmonson who runsthe Bexs and you can only get a sore head |Scott Lithea Springs Hotel, a ver: and make yourself persona non grata by continued agitation. —_0 A copy of the first 1ssue ot the Zolfo Spiings Truth, published in Zolfo, in this Siate, has reached us and it is a cracker-jack paper, beautifully printed, well edited and full of excellent reading mat- If it maintains its present standard it : will easily rank among the best weekly papers of Florida. G. W. and we extend him the fraternal COUOG HOORO GLOODGOTTON0 Y b JULY 18 IN HISTORY. g -] L0 OGO OO ORI OO 1820—First chain bridge in England thrown over the Tweed. 1854—Three hundred persons ill of yellow fever in Havana, Cuba. 1864—President Lincoln issued call for 500,000 more volunteers. 1874—Reciprocity treaty between Canada and the United States discussed by Canadian com- mercial bodies. has voted large sums for exten- 1584—James G. Blain accepted presi- sion of the schools. Nearly every dential nomination. county is preparing to spend a lot | 1394Federal troops doing strike of money. New teachers are be- ing employed as well ‘as new duty in Cl{lcago. ordered back to their posts. buildings erected and prepara-| cog_ pyrgt troops for Cuba com- tions are being made to take care of the increased number of pupils expected in school in the fall— St. Petersburg Independent. And conspicuous among the communities enlarging and im- proving their educational facili- menced embarking at Charles- horse, harness and fire truck recently | yy;yen bed slat and the others laughed used by the Lakeland Fire Depart-! 5 1912—Detroit, Mich., stirred by graft| nens will be received by the Pire ::tgl:r.thrents of death and called thelr ton. charges against prominent aldermen. ties in the city of Lakeland where | oounuon Co8A05 QOO0 KRR our people quite recently by an overwhelming majority, voted a $50,000 bond issue to be expend- ed in new school buildings to provide for the needs of our rap- idly growing school population. No reactionaries here along the lines of education. We are all progressives, and no community can give to the world better proof of the high quality of its people than this of taxing itself to the full limit needed to' give its children ample facilities = for the, education withput which they are handicapped all through life. Florida is behind none of her sis- ter States in intelligent and sus- tained enthusiasm in the cause of our public schools, and Lake- fand is in the front rank of the progressive movement. e ey i That fearful and insatiate mon- ster, the mouse, has always been the deadly and uncompromising enemy of the women of the world and we have been informed that | in his hideous presence the brav-] est of them at times turn pale, shrick “all is lost!” and seek the altitude of the nearest chair with. out delay. We note that the “cat good house and a gentlemanly land ] lord. i Hoping to see my friends in Lake [ land soon, I am, your truly, W. H. CLIFFORD. IN COURT OF THE COUNTY JUDGE, STATE OF FLCRIDA, POLXK COUNTY—iIn Re Estate of Henry T. Wilder, Deccased. T'o all creditors, lezatees, distributees and ail persons having claims or demands against said estate: | You, and each of you, are hereby lell and required to present any| claims and demands which you or] cicher of you, may have against the estate of Henry T. Wilder, deceased, late of Polk county, Florida, to the undersigned administratrix of said estate, within two years from the date hereof. Dated July 17, A. D,, 1913. PEARL L. WILDER, Administratrix, estate of Henry'T. Wilder, deccased. 9992 Fri. FORaRENT—NEW b5-room cottage, close in. Screens, bath and all conveniences. E. 8. McGleshan, 301 W. Lemon St., cor. N. Y. ave. 992 Fri. NOTICE. Sealed bids for the purchase of the Ccmmittee of the City Council, up tc July 26th, 1913. reject any or all bids is reserved. *HE EVENING TELKGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA, JULY 18, 1913. - sty reatiza now| HEAT OVERCOMES GETTYSBURG The right to|twelve-yearold daughters of J. F. Mo- .| the second floor of their home when ? 3 W The impmv‘% . ' 3 our store arg y,, pleted. W, . serve you now& p before. Tompy, will have many } in store for Yy, == appreciate it jf, g drop in for yau:'; —_ LAl Quality sl flv We have a dealer 0 ngre, 3 retailing our POINyY» it | A piurul ~ight indeed is iis, ol a member ol the G. A. k. who came un \ cream—because e m scathed through the three days’ fighting of the greatest battle of the Civil | | that it is better thy: Wo mak . creams for festively ¥ war, overcome by the heat at the reunion of Gettysburg survivors, and being i Jed off the field to medical aid by a couple of young guardsmen. er fellows “Nev burglar . The t = zir.s whispered for a mo- ment, and Then Mary Jumped out of the fifteen and | bed and grabbed the man by the arm. 5 a | Grace seized a broken bed slat that § YOur town. POty stood {n a corner and whacked the ‘ia burglar over the head while he was CISRTLNS AR LG here, two of whom beat him with a i receptions and weddy der 1t through our& & Mary and Grace, Mullen, were asleep in their room on P. B. HAYNES, » | the burglar, who previously had been | Struggling with Mary. The girls used § j¢y ana Aeliciousnesy - o o988 Chairman Committee.| griven away by Erma and Evelyn, the | their fists and the bed slat on the man " i ¢ . TODAY'S BIRTHDAY HONORS. ¢ — eleven and nine-year-old daughters of | until he had regai]ned the b:md:'th“‘ ¢ . find hard to toln®: ] » J. P. Lyons. attempted to rob the|climbed down a ladder beyond thely | ks e o0 ooooo| THE WORLD'S OLDEST TWINS ..., saek. - Jok nicaai] Ex-Congressman ~ John Richard Farr, Republican, of Scranton, Pa., was born in Scranton, Pa., July 18, 1457; educated in the public schools 'of Lackawane, and Scranton, Pa, | PhfMips Academy, Andover, Mass, lJustine Levy, of Pittston Pa., /1884, and has five, childfen—four | daughters and one son; served four years on Scrauton school board and pulsory eoducation laws; the Sixty-second Congress. COL. CLIFFORD WRITES OF GETTYSBURG. (Continued from age 1.) The Great Artist has and movse law” in England is bringing the suffragettes to their knees by compelling them to serve out their prison terms re- gardless of their hunger strikes. There is no live mouse in this law, not even a dead one, but the sinister association of the word sends shudders through the embattled ranks of t he En- glish Amazonians and promises to reduce them to the humiliating level of mere womanly women once again. The mouse rampant | is now the “In IHoc Signo” ot the British government in its war on the wild women of England and even stern old Sister Pankhurst is on the verge of tears at the awiul pros S T ‘We make no effort to referee the many spectacular scraps and rackets into which Mayor Van Swearingen of Jack:civille is 4 everywhere. made a little difference with every 7 tcuch of His brush, which makes & yoved to Sea CUf. The other twin, pleasant variety of scenic boauty. in | Island. The Hawxhurst Sisters, Born on Lfin island, Celebrate Thelr 83d Birth- day Near Birthplace. S New York.—Mrs. Maria Hawxhirst Banks and Miss Elizabeth Hawxhurst, eaid to be the oldest women twing im (and Lafayette College, Baston, Pa.; the world, have just.celebrated thel¥ |. newshoy, printer, publisher, now in| eighty-third birthday anniversary at | the real estate business; married Miss| Mrs. Banks’ home, in Sea Clff, Mrs. Hanks and Miss Hawzh were born in Searingtown, near Ro»- lyn, Long Island, on June 16, 1830. Their parents were Townsend and five terms in the Pennsylvania House| Rebecca Searing Hawxhurst. They of Representatives, 1891, 1893, 1895, | were born in the simple faith of the 1897, 1899; speaker, session of 1899; | Boclety of Friends, and have continued author of free school book and ¢om- | faithful members of that sect through- ‘elected to|Out their lives. They taught school for many years. They instructed chil- dren both in this state and in Virginia. It was while teaching in the latter state that Mrs. Banks met her hus band, to whom she was married on June 21, 1855. He s about a year her junior. They have three children, Nathan Banks, an entomologist, em- are fanned by the evening winds. I ployed at Washington, and Caroline turn my eyes to the right and left|and Annle, who live with their pa- and something new meets my gaze rents. For some time after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Banks lived at Roslyn. quarter of a century ago they Miss Hawxhurst, journeys there. eac On the 28th of Jvmne I left Chat-| June from her Brooklyn home to tancoga over the Southern Railroad,|spend the summer with her sister. for Gettysburg. I fell in with Com- rade Allen at Johnson City, Tenn. We arrived on the great battlefield to our quarters, had supper, and be- ing tired, we retired to our military cots. We were awakened in the firing of the sunrise guns. great tented fleld, and thousands of and shaking hands, shouting, laugh- morning by the bugle call, and the| Gen. John H. Morgan, the dashing Con- We hur-| federate raider, tunnel his way out of riedly dressed and stepped out on the|& cell in the Ohio penitentiary while & streets of our tented city, and what a| Prisoner of war, or did his guards al- grand view presented itself to our| dis eyes! A great white field of militm-yl ““cusslon singe the war of the aiwf camp & mile square, from Cemetery| away the cell blocks in which General Ridge to Seminary Ridge, was this| Morgan was held. NO EVIDENCE OF A TUNNEL Sunday, the 29th, and Were assigned | Question as to How General Morgan Escaped From Federal Prison Not Settled. Columbus, O.—The question, Did lo whim to escape? a subject of wide has not been settled by tearing Partial exploration of the air shaft cld veterans at that early hour were|under the Morgan cell by prison offi- going and coming, meeting comrades| i2ls failed to reveal the evidences ot the tunnel to the satisfaction of those who contend that the noted raider was fearleasty planging curing these |ing and talking about the strife that LN, Suyl Cu S allowed to pass out of the front gat: delightiully evhilarating days of | was between the Blue and Grey fifty | the big (ngputuuon_o'rhe ::,:of:t;:: cur peerles. Florida summer cli- [years ago. mate, but right or Honor is a daisy when it comes |the placa where he fught, so the to furnishing good ‘“copy” ladies to hovrcin Police, he is a lion of strenuosity, and. if can ke the long summer will glide away so swif'lv ‘or the burgers Jacksonvie that azumn will be on them before they know it. There is something doing every minute in cear old jaggy Jax while Van is on the joh. —_—0 John . Martin, late collector of ‘customs in the Jacksonville district, still continues to fret and kick over his displacement make room for J. F. C. Griggs | srand ané beautiful field now, but; : ] fioc. [one that was thers bebind his null who got the larger job of collec- e o | A for | whole ground was soon covered by the press every day in the week. |tvese old war-scarred men, walking From war on the slit skirts of the | a4 Jjooking. AN day long The G. A. R. men were very socia- en up s lick, | ple and seemed glad to meet us. Merry jokes was passed from both parties, and a jolly good time was had. I went over the ground where my brigade and division fought, saw 'tie stone markers which showed the place where my regiment was tighrl ing when I fell, but the growth of timber for fifty years had made a great change. I went on the summit of Little Round Top, and saw the Devil's Den. Upon the whole it is ] We soon had breakfast|so far conducted, it is asserted, fail wrong His |and each were anxious to go and find | to show that the tunnel under the Mor gan cell had any outlet or that it ex- tended for any considerable distance. | The cell {s being :orn down, togeth. er with others in that block, and Ward- they| en' Thomas Is pre 5 =T paring to convert 7 the Chicf of | yere going and talking in groups. p . that part of the prison into a “hall of ethics” for the convicts, The Morgan cell has been the mee f th d P4 ve i Sear. and s fust aepariion sy | cODMitioN the remains of the dear dof r yet undecided. Warden Thomas hai intimated that he will recommend that it be given to some Ohio municipality I which will agree to preserve it. ' BURGLAR POUNDED BY GIRLS One Holds the Bad Man While Her Sister Slams Him With Bed Slat. Minneapolis, Minn.—A burglar waa twice vanquished by four young girls Vi e o = |The National Steel Reinfors RGP s .Mary awoke, aroused her sister . e Grace. The two girls lay still in bed | FARK HILL LOTS FOR and saw the intruder strike a match. SALE ON EASY TERMS He stood with revolver in his hand. All streets clayed, cement s:de- Lake Phar “It's & burglar,” sald Mary, walks, electric lights, city watwr. vou mind. Shut up,” said the shade trees. See G. C. Rogan or S LAKELAND o M. Btephens. R2y t y raty Cement Vault, == Best in the World As a Buriar Recep Nothing Heretofore Manufactured Can Compete The NATIONAL WATER-PROOF CEMENT VAZ It is all the name implies: :: First: Steel Reinforced rhroughout with expendc'd Stctl:‘égg makes it strong and ghoul-proof, .‘ Second: It is water=proofed b 4 y a Specal Process, and (k. i\s, gflfd to the body of vault, after the casket is ‘laced’ thereil g LE SEAL that shows the sealing is absolutely perl'cq.r; The old method of burials in g Wooden Rongh Box is i §uperseded by the more Sanitary, Everlasting, Vermi ?éroof,\ G: atyral Vault - Proof, Waterp'rqof, This will last in perfect condition for age§ and keep 10 r¢ aried., " 'veryone, ; tne Factary Price. .2 The price is within the reach cf : All undertakers can supply it at LAKELAND ARTIFICIL STdnE woniE H. B. ZIMMERMAN, Ptoptietor