Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 9, 1913, Page 8

W. C.T.U. DEPARTMENT GODHHTHFIOITOOI ST PS¢ S0 The following ladies of the W. €. T. U. met Friday afternoon to eumplete the organization of the Loyal Tempeciunce Legion: Mrs. Turper, Mrs. Webb, Mrs. Anderson, Mre. Greer, Mrs. Morse and Mrs. §. C. Brown who s to be the lead- g of the L. T. Ls. The meeting was opened with a sonz and the 23rd Psalm repeated in concert. Mrs. Webb explained to the chil- Wren the aims and purposes of the L. T. Ls. Mrs. Anderson had eharze of the organization. The pledge cards were signed by those who had not previously signed. Of- ficers were elected as follows: Lur- #ine Pillans, president; Mildred Morse, vice president; Walter Ty- ler, secretary; Viola Richards, treasurer; Edith Anderson, press " geporter; Lurline Pillans, Edith An- derson, Viola Richards and Mildred Morse werc appointed a committee to meet with Mrs. Brown at Mrs. A1 derson’s nex* Friday afternoon t0 . -ange a program for a meet- fng to be hold a week later. The following girls were appointed on gthe flover committee: Edith An. derson. Mildred Morse, Viols Rich- ards d Helen Morse. They were f@ivided into two bands, six of them Baviu: white bows and eix blue Bows. There is to be a member- ship «.1tcst, the side winning the greates! pumber is to be given a plenic by tte other side. The Blues are L.dich Anderson, Viola Richards, Heler Morse, Angie Tyler, llarlie Mors:, Jr., Everett Brown. Tae Whitcs are Lur'ine Pillans, Mildred Mor:c, Lois Robertson, Wcsley Turver, Edwin Robertson, Walter Tyler. The motto is “Tremble, King \lcohol! We Shall Grow Upd"” Tte rally cry is as follows: ®Listen, listen while we yell; We're the Lakeland L. T. L.; We'll tight against wrong, And work for the right, And help to make thc map all white. v V4 ¥ hope rll mothers will take an interest in this work and help us to have the largest L. T. L. in the State. After this the reports of this work will be given by their press reporter. We extend our thanks for the use of the Christian church. ™~ MRS. H. B. MORSE, W. C. T. U. Press Reporter. S g —— (Continued from Page 2.) cents each to produce. The equip. | ment of these two acres—the third was neither f enced nor shaded— ! cost probably $1500 each. How- 1ever this is permanent, having been | in use some years. For crates, fer- | tilizer and labor, $1000 to each acre, which is rot high priced, would seem a liberal estimate. Add to this the cost of the seed potatoes, which is $80(, the net profit shows better thav $8000 an acre. ¢ But this wonderful plant iactory does even be‘ter than that, for it is producing something or being pre- pared to produce something almost every day in the yar. Talk about intensive cultivetion! This same land is used for growing young egs- plants, pepper and tomato plants by the hundred thousands. They are shipped to the truckers in the south- ern part of the state, who put their high_priced vegetables on your table all through the winter. Of about six hundred acres owned by Mr. God- bey twenty.five are irrigated by an overhead system and underdrained with tiling. They produce about ev- ery kind of young.plant to be found ni a market garden. “] came Lere from Missouri thirty years ago,” he sald, ip reply to a string of questions. “At that time more than half the oranges in Flor. idn were crown in Alachua a nd ad- joining counties. I had a splendid grove, but the freeze which changed the horticultural map of the state left me with not emough money tot get out of it. I worked on the rail- | srom one end of the peninsula to the road for seventy.five cents a day and hired out as a farmhanad. Two vears later—that is eighteen years ago—the thought came to me that "1 could be of valuable assistance to | the farmer and the marke: garden- er by supplying them with potato !Bllpl just when they needed them %or when their own were injured by disase or bad weather. I began by bedding twenty.five bushels and my { neighbors laughed at me, saying it ! wag impossible to sell 8o many. | But I put a carefully worded adver- “tlsement in a farm paper and soid them all. It has now been some | years since 1 was able to supply the demand. In addition to the twelve | thousand bushels of my own growing ' 1 ccntracted with my neighbors last year for eight thousand more, all of which have been or are being bed. ded for plants. That sounds like a great many and I reckon it is; put the possibilities of the sweet potato are just beginning to be understood. Y. It produces more food for man and beast in proportion io the time and labor spent upon it than any crop you can name. And the f uture will see it turned into many such pro- Aucts as alcohol, glucose, starch and dextrine at prices which will make them profitable commercially.” Mr. Godbey is not alon¢ in his opinion as to the future of the sweet potato; but whether he I8 right or not, the things he has done with this Florida plant faetory would sound like a promoter’s dream come true were it not for the fact that they are the result of many years of hard work, seund judgment and a knowledge of plants that amounts to genius. Indeed this modest, urassuming Alachua County farmer is a horiiculturist of wide at. tainments. Of course he nas had the soil and climate to work with. The whole state is a plant factory, an immense open-air greenhouse, whose re. sources have not been scratched so far. It did not need the hundred. and-nine dollars per acre value placed upon its products by the Gov. ernment to convince me of this. And 1 have wondered and asked@ many others why thousands of farmers in the Middle West have sold their lands and gome to Canada to grow wheat. More than once I have been told that there seems to be in the minds of many Northin people a lateat fear Jf vellow fever. There need be none whatever, since science has taught us how easily and effectively it may be prevented. You may go other at any time of the year and never her it mentioned save as something that has long since been cast into the limbo of things forgotten. It is true that in some portions of Florida, like the Everglades and low, swampy land, the mosquitoes and other insects are wellnigh intolera- ble. In other sections they are no worse than they are in the Adiron. dacks, New Jersey, the Chesapeake Bay region ani along the South At- lantic Coast, but the mosquito sea. son is mueh longer. Every region, doubtless has iis handicaps. But to the intelligent up-to.date farmer— the man who plows deep and rides his tools—Florida, I believe, offers opportunities unsurpassed by those in any other part of the country.— The Country Gentleman. HARNESS and suit-case repairing carefully done. McGlashan, 091 P e R RS et Wl st S N IR A i 2 i SR A SR i ———————————————————— \ I FOR SALE.. FOR SALE—My bome place at cost for one week; 6 rooms and bath, 75 feet porch, 2 fire places, all modern conveniences; new garage 14316, poultry house, 18 large bearing trees; corner lot 73 1.2x 145. Side walk all round lot; plenty of shade. will take va- cant lot as part Srst payment. This is your chance to get & nice bome at your own terms. Dr. N. L. Bryan. 1031 R BALB—@eod Wiachemer rifle. o\l be ool cheap PPeme 342 Red e e et FOR BALE—Good Jersey mileh cow. Pbone 832 Blue or 839. 1028 166 ACRD FARM—In Arkansas, to trade for iand in or around Lake- land, A dargain. For further in- formation ipquire st Moody’s stoe, South Florida Ave. 87 FOR SALE—Fine ten-acre tract in city Mmits; good house of four rooms; six acres first class truck jand and four acres in bearing grove. A bargain for quick sale. The Joha F. Cox Raealty Co. 1032 ————————————————— ¥OR SALE—zv acres land, 2% miles from depot at Lakeland on South Florida avenue; new wire fence, good heart post; small house and barn. Eighteen acres. All timber removed; 8 acres of { this stumned and broken. Two acres pine and oak for buildiag site on Florida avenue. Price, $3,000 cash or $3,500, $2,00 cash, balance 1 and 2 years, 8 per cent. interest. J. R. Powell, South Florida avenue. 1086. T ——— R —— { 7R BALD— ¥ree dirt. Kindling wood at $1.00 per load. Awpply at Kibler Hotel L11] | Rl PRSI S G { FOR SALE—Three whole tickets and cne half ticket from Tampa to Atlanta. Will take $4 each adult ticket, and $1.50 for the half ticket. Address H. H. Sloan, General Delivery, Lake- land. 1053 E e o 3o e, A for { PASR R1ONY YES BVENING YHLBORAM, LAK ELAND, FLA, AUG. 9, 1913. . : BLSEOIIIGSE000000000000¢ | FLORIDA PLANT FACTOR w Classified Advertising | FOR SALE—Good Mathushek piano, i cheap for cash or easy terms, Ad. dress Box 283. 1045 e — r————— JR SALB—Good milch cow. F. b Terrell. 34 e i cat— FOR SALE—Building and loan con- NOW. See J. R. Boulware. S days. W. P. Pillans & Co. 1056 | WaANTED—Your SAiLE AT & BARGAIN—II0) | to resharpen, mas FOR Overisnd Runabout; jast been overbauled; or would trade for Jot. N. L. Bryaa. 1023 FOR RENT I FOR RENT—To: couple without [ 4 children, two or three rooms fur. nished for light housekeeping. Phone 1483. 1048 in. Apply to R. . Marler. FOR ers. Phone 43 Black or 259. ———————————————————— TOR RENS—¢ room house; shades and screens. One ané a haif ysuares morth of school, Florida avenue. Inquire at Pillan's grou- 111] -rvy FOR RENT—¢ unfurnished¢ room; reasonablerent. ware and Plumbing Co. Ser s P JRPCY (RO (0 L1 D R | FOR RENT—Rooms, furnished or | unfurnished. Apply to Mrs. Wal- ter Bates, 509 E. Orange street. 1038. iscellaneous. WANTED—To rent a truck farm near Lakeland. Cook, Lakeland, Fla. e tract with guaranteed loan of a bag B¢ gold; My 1o $1,000 at 5 per cent available | the finder. 1055 | Jeremiak’s Bargain — | Btore and the Teway y FOR SALE CHEAP—Lot first-class |t Room No. 13, Putyy drygoods shelving, if taken in 4 |duilding, by Bmity ayy FOR RENT—Six-room house close | fever, or-lagrippe. Taly 1050 | the appetite and may, ¥ R;ENT—nvo-ro;_-'cottage. 88e a 'crit'e. asnufund well located. Inquire D'. O. Rog. |®. 3ot 1049 | WANTED TO KNOW—\4 veta, ! Appl to C. C.|rounds. You won't be Stinmons with Lakeland Hard-| you will find it there 1037 ; Address C. A, WANTED—A firstclyy, Good position for the Address or apply to | I Lakeland. ] Lost — ia Lakeland, 8 It winy, front of D. B. Diety % aew, 38, 880 aat i) : laad Puraiture aa¢ i If you get it from store, it's all right, g quality. e e A Dufty’s De-4 3hot (1) r Tom's. ¢ or § dow 0 break up any ecay og 1t will duild =p thes “ ing. For sale at all (i akeland, T g man who boucht from Mrs. Morrell, § please call for refr pay for this adv. tucky. Are you a bargain hug go to the Clonts’ stor WANTED—3 acres of 1-v‘ city limits. AddressI @ P. 0. Box 483. Dr, Parrish, veteriu from Kentucky, has pern# cated in our city at stable. The doctor is veterinary medicine T BU ANOTHER BIG BOOST FOR LAKELAND IBON AIR IS A GREAT SUCCES! The plat for our last and best subdivision was filed on page 114-115 of Polk County records on Feb. 8th 1913, The is perfect and is owned by The John F. Cox Realty Company, John Patterson and John F. Cox. We have installed City water and graded the streets. We expect to spend all the cash we take in from the sale of lots to fu er develop this magnificent property. The class of construction is restricted, and we are proud of the cottages that our customers are building for homes. have not seen them you will be surprised at their beauty. This subdivision is three fourths mile from Main street, one mile to the outside lots. We can sell these lots at prices :.-f terms that will pay you to consider. You can share in the prosperity of Lakeland and have LOTS to show for your money. & God, in his goodness to this favored land placed many beautiful lakes in this rolling hill country. corporate limits of Lakeland is one of the most beautiful sheets of waterjand strange to say one of the least known and app JOYLAND PARK and LAKE PARKER ated of all our charming inland- seas. Joyland Park frants on what is now one of the pretties parks in the state of Florida. ders with this 24 acre tract. As Lakeland grows we must provide amusement resorts and play grounds. Lake Parker, lying East of Bon Airglots and can be made a veritable beauty spot. aow but looks very much like the grounds of the Tampa Bay hotel Park did when Mr Plant had his landscape gardener lay! Time, good soil, brains and this wonderful clmate will work ° Get head for something beside a hat rack, and get a home in Bon Air near Lake Paiker and Joyland Park. | | The John F. Cox Realty Compant 'LAKELAND, FLORIDA (S Lake Paker right o0 It is in the rol busy. Use