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EeNGE FOUR emmesa . H H if our railroad companies would in- The Evening ielegram e onie St —==|tem of advertising, supplemented by *urpeool every afternoou from the agents in the field, they would start %enutocsy Puilding, Lakeland, Fla. a stream of immigration that would e ———0y o for Florida just what it has been ¢ ip ihe o \fce at Lake- doing for the west for many years! aLt ~hoiidae. s mail matter of the Past and bring us in multiplied thou-| A S8 cands of new people, most of them g rmers, to settle up our State and enormously increase its productivity. EDITOR. | Tpe railroads would be the first and e largest beneficiaries of this move- 'ment and the advantage to them $5.00 would be continuons and increasing. M. ¥. HETHERINGTON, UTRECKRIPTIUN KAVKS BRS vear s s e e . 2.59| Mr. Jones' letter to them ought to Frhcad montha ol i 125‘stir them to action, and here is one ad anywhbere within the‘l"m‘:mph from it, whose truth is ity of Lakeland for 10 1Ot to be disputed, that tells the {Whole story in a nutshell: “If the two trunk lines running . m the same offica 18 issued into this State, namely, the Atlantic *iF LAKELAND NEWS 1(‘t.mst Line and the Se::board Air s weekiy newspaper giving . resume| Line, would advertise Florida and its el Gattorsl orop. fosoAttions | resources anything like in as '}lberal ‘¢ uffairs, etc Sent anywhere manner as the Sonth(\rn' Pacific and 'or $1.00 per year one or two other trunk line railroads J centering California do the possibili- s o eSS ies of that State, within a period of not to exceed five years it would nec- JONES PUTS IT UP 2 eseitate double-tracking your lines to 1:0 T{I_E RAILROADS handle the traff e o week i {country.” Three cheers for .. D. Jones, the, s i —_—— alert manager of the Florida Citrus! Exchange! He has been doing some THROWING STONES hard thinking right to the poiut late- AT THE LEGISLATURE ly and as a result he has evolved an open letter to the big railroad cor-; Everybo’, takes a whack at the “If the Legislature | points out, was: augurate a broad and intelligent sys- meets it will pass bad laws; let us,|old Huerta is lee therefore, prevent it from meeting.’ Every attempt to improve the Legis-| lature only makes it worse, and that’ will continue to be our expvriun(-ci until the lawmaking body itself is: thoroughly remodeled—with greatly reduced membership, probably \vi:h: only one house instead of two, and| with very frequent if not mnlinuo\ls" | sitting. " | I R Hearst is one of the most success- ful publishers in the world and has | consummate ability along that line, | but he is the shallowest demagogue that ever broke into American poli- tics, his class and prominence con- sidered. He is supporting the fusion candidate for mayor of New York and in a speech the other night he| said of the Democratic party: | “It has proceeded so unpatriotlcal-‘ ly, so unprogressively, so \mdemo-} cratically, that there is no’ longer| room in the Democratic party for either a radical or a Democrat.” | And this from a professed Demo- crat! But it is not surprising, for| he turns his coat and betrays his par- | | | fic in and out of thisity every chance he gets as a matter Mcthuen, repulsed an attack made of habit and preference to increase tiie sensational features of his news- papers. His statement is notor- ious and absurdly false, but Hearsti cares nothing for that, and with his| political conscience long ago atro-; when he attempted in a lecture to tion is scheduled for tomorrow and ( ling like a cornered rattlesnake. S G N ‘The Miami Metropolis sceks to re- for a new consti- , but that sabject Carburator or some- new the agitation Flo tution for won't s thing There is ida.—Jz Not out some of th licht of advertising has never pene- trated. the cemeterics and antique stores where the -0 OCTOBER 24 IN HISTORY 1829—Provision made for the free navigation of the River Rhine, Ger- many . 1864—Petroleum discoveries made at Dundee, Monroe county, Michi- gan. ; % 1899—South African Boer war, General White repulsed a Free State| force at Rietfontein, mnear Lady | smith . | 1901——South African war, Colonel! von Donop, operatinz under dLord upon hig column by Delarey and Kemp, killing over forty Boers. 1904-—Russo-Japanese war. 1911—-Dr. Frederick A. Cook was hooted from a hall in Copenhagen vindicate himself as discoverer of the porations of Florida which is brim- | modern American Legislature, and at|Pphied he is indifferent to criticism ful of good sense, far-reaching sug-,the present gait of hostile public sen-|and holds loyalty to truth almost as gestiveness and excellent advice. timent it would seem to be only a[much a joke as loyalty to part‘ Mr. Jones wants to know why|matter of a few years when such 0— those corporations, purely in thelr|bodies will be considered so Wisrepu-| Those Orlando people seem to own interests, are not taking definite | table and calamatous that they must [ have developed a special fondness, and aggressive measures to help in|be either radically reformed or abol-|not to say a ravenous appetite, for North Pole. 1912—Lieut. Charlés Becker was convicted of instigating the Rosen- thal murder. TODAY’ BIRTHDAY HONORS — the work of advertising Florida to Even the Saturday [local elections. The Sentinel says: the world as the big western railway lines have done for that part of the country to the enormous advantage of their own business and cash re- ceipts for freight and passengers. Their want of any policy worth the name in this direction is more than surprising—it is discreditable to the broad sagacity and enterprice of those corporations, which are literal- ly allowing golden opportunities to go to waste. « Right now is the phychological moment for Florida, so to speak. Bad crops in the west have filled lll:xtE:xl\\':n)’s hailed witl® genuine ro]it‘f";vinns that a few years hence by gen- part of the country with profound This dissatisfaction with legislhtures eral consent she will be recognized discontent, and the disposition to move away and seek better condi-|nineteenth century States placed rv-: What we will do for those old boys;City of Lakeland did, at its meeting | tions is strong with hundreds of|striction after restriction on the in gray next year will be a plenty. on the 10th day of October, 1913, by |councilmen, one councilman for each thousands of people in the great northwest. {ished entirely. Evening Post, conservative in all {things, has such a poor opinion of {them that it is moved to say: “Concerning the public’s profound distrust of State lawmakers, Gov. l0'Neal, of Alabama, recently said: {In many of the States a session of the Legislature is looked on as something in the nature of an unavoidable pub- lic calamity. * * * Not only is :thv convening of the Legislature ilooked forward to with dread, but while it is in session a spirit of un- irest prevails and an adjournment is gis of long standing. Throughout the lawmaking body-—as, for example, (Conditions were never|by prescribing that it should meet: “Orlando is to have five elections| Jack Beall, Democrat, of Waxa- in quick succession, the first eity prlgh:u-hie' was born in Ellis county, mary will be held Nov. 3; the sec-|TeXas, Oct. @i, 1866; graduated ond Nov. 10; the good roads bond from the law department of the Uni- olection takes place Nov. 11; the versity of Texas in 1890; served in‘ school bond clection Nov. 12, and the House of Representatives of thel the city election Dec. 1. Texas Legislature from 1892 to 1894, ol The expected has happened and Lakeland gets the next annual re- Juuion of the (‘onfederate Veterans of i Florida. Lakeland generally gets { what she goes after and her charms ‘are so alluring and her merits §o ob- | T e [ NOTICE OF ELECTION ed to the Sixtieth (‘ongr and ce-elected Sixty-third Congress, Fifty-eight, Fifty-ninth, | to (as the convention city of Florida.| Whereas, the City Council of the | ERIIET At resolution, direct me, the under- General Sherman’s definition of {signed mayor of said clty, to issue better in Florida. Everything is just{only once in two years—and theu;war is due to pop in Mexico in a very | pProclamation of a general election to right to show the State and its re- B e ] 7 i | that stays.” for a limited number of days. land in the Semate of the State of|mayor and one councilman for each i Y Texas from 1894 to 1898; was elect-| ward of said city; Now, therefore, tn pugsuance of | - = Sixty-first and Sixty-second the laws and ordinances of said city | Alb v L‘( 3 i ) N - sk the and the aforesaid resolution, e it | ('rt Oht(" a ;known, that a general election will | {ida, on Monday, the 17th day of No- | | vember, A, D, 1913, same being the |:&rd Monday of sald month, for the election of a mayor and four (4) L “Six Pairs Wear Six Months—Light ‘ig, Weights, Too” arc gu rips or tears. (& IX PAIRS of Holeproof Socks and Stockings ‘ g inteed to wear six months without holes, If even a thread breaks within that time, you get new hose free. six pairs. FOR Come in and see them today. 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