Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 29, 1913, Page 4

The discussion of the Bryan pri- mary law occupies from ten to twen- SvEioidyaes. oot oian s ey s e ty times more columns of space in the Published every afternoon from the|Florida press than the story of the Wenincky Building, Lakeland, Fla. |Florida cattle tick the damage it is o e e -|doing and the measures taken to de- Anteved in the postoffice at Laks-(stroy it; but the eradication of that pad, ¥loride, as mail matter of the|tick is from ten to twenty times more important to the people of Florida - e bty than the Bryan primary law. Better d. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. |native beet cattle and more of them is a magniticent issue alongside of which the primary law looks as insec- The Evening Jelegram LG R ERATT TN EUBSURIPTION RATWS! Doy YR ... Cieees veeese.$5.00]tivorous as the cattle tick’ itself. ' months ... iR 1) e o ) Prrsg montha c..ue..s ..e.. 126] The following picture of condi- Nalivered anywhere within the|tions in South Florida, taken from “ uiiy of the City of Lakeland for 10 |the Ocala Banner is not overdrawn, Youts a week. except that we would not use the word ‘‘boom”—a steady, substantial, rock-bottomed growth being a more accurate description: “Mr. Chas. V. Miller is back from a more or less extensive trip over Sonth Florida. In his itinerary he included Lakeland, St. Petersburg, Bradentown, Palmetto, Tampa and other places. It is the bhoast of 1 akeland that the records show that | more than a house a day k vrom the same office 18 isaued TIIEZ LAKELAND NEWS, 3 ‘yevk!y newspaper giving a resume 9+ Iosal matters, crop conditions, affairs, etc. Sent anywhers $1.00 per year. . 1 e P O . PO 8 R One cent postage is in the air and it will probably be on the letters within a year. 0 If their pictures Ko them justice those warring Mextcan generals look like hoboes and holdups of the tough- est character, persons an honest man wouldn’t want to meet in the dark, especially if he carried a gold watch and had money on him. Compare those coarse mugs with the fine, strong faces of the geherals of the American (ivil war. They are a n%s been built for every day during the past St. Petersburg Bradentown and Palmetto are overrun with lank and lands no richer than ours are readily selling for as much as three hundred dollars an acre. Lanids, the prices of which are no more than ten and twenty dollars per acre, are attracting no attention whatsoever. City property has in- creased in valuation the same as fruit and farm lands. The woods year. buyers, pretty good measure of the difference|are full of people and the praise of in civilization of the two countries. | Florida is on every tongue. Mr. Mil- o— ler thinks that there will socn be an The Starke Telegraph is another|overflow and that Marion county papgr that has the good sense and|will get the benefit of the overflow, courage to announce that it is going|and in a little while our woods will to raise its subscription price from|bhe full of land buyers. We are $1 to $1.50 per year. The Telegraph|bound, some day, to be Hiscovered is an exceptionally good county pa-|and when that day comes there will per and it is easily, worth the in- creased price. Everything used in the makinz of a paper costs much more now ‘than formerly and it is but a logical step to raise the price of subscription. —0: Editor Caldwell of the Jasper News is a Christian, a preacher, but he can come nearer saying dammit without doing so than any other edi- tor in the State. He is a very can- did and emphatic writer.—Punta Gorda .lerald. The words, “damn” and ‘con- demn” are synonymous. There is no harm in properly using either word. Jasper News. You are condemned right, Bro. Caldwell and your way of looking at be no retrocession for our lands will more and more appreciate in intrin- sic value.” 'IN CIRCUIT COURT, TENTH JUDI- CIAL CIRCUIT OF RLORIDA, IN AND FOR POLK COUNTY.—IN (‘hancery.—A. B. Hull, Jr., vs. Whitaker Phosphate (ompany, a corporation et al. It appearing from the return of the sheriff of said county, endorsed upon the subpoena heretofore issued in said cause that the said sheriff is un- able to make service of said writ upon the defendants, Florida South- ern Railroad Company, a corporation created anid existing under the laws of the State of Florida, and Florida Commercial Company, likewise a cor- poration created and existing under the laws of the State of Florida, on account of the failure of both of said corporations to elect officers or ap- point. agents within said State, as well as on account of the absence from the State of Florida for the pe- riod of six (6) months next before the issuance of said writ of all of- ficers and agents of both, of said cor- porations, and because such officers and agents, if such there be of both of said corporations are unknown to the said officer, and the bill of com- plaint herein filed by and on behalf of the above named A. B. Hull, Jr., as complainant and against the said Whitaker Phosphate Company, a cor- poration created and existing under the laws of the State of Missourf, and the above named Florida Southern Railroad Company and Florida Com- mercial Company, both corporations under the laws of the State of Flor- ida, and also against Frank Q. Brown it is a condemned sight better way than to think a string of red-hot profanity a yard long and imagine you have escaped sinning because you didn't say it out loud. We dis- approve both ways, and as we hope to escape condengnation hereafter we indulge in none of it here except for the sake of illustration, as above. e . It seems but a short time ago when Henry Watterson and others were re- ferring to William Jennings Bryan as “Young Mr. Bryan of Nebraska, the boy orator of the Platte.” But time flies and a recent dispatch from Phoenix, Ariz. says: “William J. Bryan, Jr., son of the secretary of state, is now a practic- ing attorney in Arizona. He appeared before the supreme court at the cap- ital recently with sixteen other young men who passed he bar exami- nation and was given a certificate permitting him to practice before any tribunal in the State. For sev- eral years Mr. Bryan has been a res- as receiver of the Florida Commercial fdent of Tucson. He graduated from Company, a corporation, Anna M. the law department of the University Johnson, Frank G. Johnson, George of Arizona and is gaid to hawe much E. Morin. Mary B. Parsons, Fannie of his ‘ather's oratorical ability.” W. Gr(\cn‘, John C. Green, Henry M. Green, John C. Morin, Ida M. Morin, - |Albert C. Morin, Ade Morin, John R. A district attorney up in New York Waymire, Kate Waymire, Mary Ag- disgusted with the senseless repeti-|pes Losher John Losher, Effie A. tions required in indictments there, (‘arruthers,'floorge Carruthers, Aa;on - as well as in every other State in the|q, Zook, Emma Zook, Margaret C. Union, which are merely so many Lockwood, C. Lockwood Nelson D. looqholos for the eseape of criminals Waymire, Mary \\'aymiré, Keran A. andihave nothing whatever in either|Neff, Jesse W. Noff Ferdinand K. senfle or sentiment to justify them, Harter, Lina Harter,' Mary Ada Nor- hasf'suggested a reform which Will|ris, John Norris John Parson, Mattie mee} the approval'of all his country-|B. Parson, William Harrison Cline, metf, who Pelieve in the eftective ad- Angeline Cline, Mary E. Gowdle J. minjstration of the law. He suggests| . McKillop, J. H. Wilson and H. that an irdictment for murder shall{s, Wilson, said suit having been in- read as follows: stituted in the above styled court, , “The grand jury of the county of|by the said complainant being for Kings by this indictment accuse the|the purpose of quieting his title to defendant of the crime of murder in|certain lands in Polk county, Flor- the first dégree eommitted as follows: ida, described as: All of blocks three, The defendant on Oct. 15, 1909, in|four, thirteen fourteen, fiteen, six- county of Kings, wilfully, felonous- teen, twentithrea twenty-four, 1y, and of ma}ice aforethought, shot |twenty-five, twenty-six thirty-one, Peter Smith with a revolver, thereby | thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-five, inflicting injuries of which he died|thirty-eight and forty and all lying on Oct. 18 -1909.” east of the Atlantic Coast Line rail- There are just sixty words in this road as the same is located through indictment and it teils all that need the town of Homeland in blocks five, be known to put the defendant on twelve and thirty-four, and the west trial for the crime alleged. At pres- half of block thirty-nme, being por- ent in that same county an indict- tions, to-wit: Florida Southern Rail- ment for murder requires a long non-|and plat of the town of Homeland, in sensical rigmarole of repetitions and the county of Polk and State of Flor- verbal bosh containing 900 words, |ida; whereupon it is ordered and de- with a chance to throw the indict- ment out of court on demurrer con- cealed in nearly every line. power to this lawyer who wants to mercial Compan n . y do appear in said abolish the medieval indictment! " ————— . E P velifo o4 i _ o - 2y jeach week for the space of imonths. |action at the office of the clerk of |1573-eat-2m THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., NOV. 28, 1913. SICILIAN NOTES Observations of Mr. G. L. Palmer of Lakeland, While Sojourning in Sicily. . The Florida Grower.) ing and fruit-picking are regular 9 Bonia IOV ‘eminine duties. As human nature For ages poets have sung of Sicily. | ;le. when the women work the men ier glorious climate,fi}:er blue skxe? lassume more lordly airs. When the nn?d L vontrous \lbtfl.'S o moun_ women pull the carts the man walks ain, ;eamand ]?lmlll] tltlla‘:voll)‘fsu \r\?e behind smoking his pipe and onlt)' loyneCIDNBR L Sy ! lends a hand when his wife gets ILTaE HEY ,“ LCHI 1Otus'stuck on the road, when she “can no -ater&‘..\'wherielld :\l:'as alway?im;:;e; more,” as the literal translation of 1won. Now a en gome g e Ioga no puedas mas,” says. 3 V. has NuaTta e Wend e CUEAEY ) The groves receive three or four louded our idealistic picture of the sland, and these we ignore and soon ! ‘orget and Sicily remains ideal poetic :ountry, when the main, if not the‘ ole, occupation of the inhabitants| good spadings or hoeings, whichever you choose to call it, every year 1n addition to the working at fertiliz- ing time. L Fertilization s writing Italian blank verse (in Inglish), admiring the scenery un'd% eading Homer. i Of course they would eat oranges nd drink wine between whiles in| his classic atmosphere. Still we wave found from sad experience that} ranges and wine don’t have much endency to produce themselves vithout some human encouragement. To those of us which have irecamed of honeymoons or happy ienescent, sécond childhood in her las n the American frutt market, pro- weing both lemons and oranges. \lso, the: discussion of the methods vhereby Sicilians fertilize and culti- ‘ate citrus fruits is very much more jertinent than how they scan Vir- sil's poetry. The commercial sound of the notes vhich follow may jar your esthetic sensibilities, but please consider :hem in view of the rew tariff sched- tle and forget poetry. General Conditions The Sicilian citrus industry is con- ined to the production of very con- tiderable quantities of oranges and emons, Agricultural methods are yrimitive, crude and effective. fTrri- zation is imperative, as the soil is a ~vhite hard clay, which bakes badly. Che introdiiction of water for all the, jroves are on slopes or plains near vater courses. Rainfall is light, about 16 inches wnually. Marketing and rental systems are different from any ex- sting elsewhere in the citrus pro- lucing regions of the earth. Planting Orange and lemon trees are treat- :d exactly alike in maing features in sicily. The soil being naturally fer- :le, and secondarily being a white|trees until needed to cover the com- The garbage, consisting of :olloidal clay, which bakes very hard ) exposure to the sun, supports and justifies close planting of trees. The best orchardists plant from 180 to 200 trees per acre, the object oeing first to utilize all possible space because arable ground is both scarce and valuable, and, second, to shade the soil as much as possible and prevent baking and working with consequent loss of soil moisture, Mechanical and physical injury of sourse follow' the hardening of the s0il and the burning of the sun. The octare, 1,000 meters square, I8 the standard measure of land, but Inasmuch as this is a tract of sev- aral acres extent and groves are all small‘, it is of .little or no value to state the number of trees planted on an octare. Sufficient to say, 200 trees per acre is the most usual and most approved planting. Young groves are thoroughly worked and sometimes supplied with tover crops. The. usual method, aowever, is to raise vegetables and srain among trees until they reach the bearing age. Recent years have seen virtually 10 increase in grove acreage. One very good reason for this is the fact :hat arable land has been nearly all olanted for many decades and, sec- mdly, a lack of progressiveness umong both owners and renters of Jroves. Cultivation Sicilians cultivate their groves ilong the same general plans as 3paniards, except that they do not 18e plows. All working of the soil is 3y the short-handled hoe of the Med- ‘terranean coast, which is similar to Jur grubbing hoes. Contrary to 3panish custom, however, it is not in the least unusual to find women and girls of the campana working shoulder to shoulder with their hus- bands in the groves. Hoeing, ptun- D ————— T —— said court then and there to defend the same, on the 2nd day of Febru- ary, A. D. 1914, and that this or- der be published in THE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM, a newspaper published daily and of general cir- culation in Polk county, Florida, once two Ordered and done by the honorable F." M. Robles, judge of the circuit court of the Sixth judicial cir- cuit of Florida, the Honorable F. A, Whitney, judge of the Tenth judicial | creed that the above named corpora-|circuit of said State, being absent tions -otwit: Florida Southern Rail-|from his said circuit. This the 29th More road Company and the Florida Com-|day of November A. D. 1913. F. M. ROBLES, Judge. PR P wilmmentz ¢ clime it is quite a shock te!small minority of grc ace Sicily as a possible competitor: A litter of tin cans in the groves looks strange to the Sicilian visitor | and it is not until fertilizing Hmo! that one learns whence came these| ,unusual soil ornaments. Until recent fertilizers have be land of Sicily |porter and seller of ° iquos’ reaps a very ling, as his comp! materials are ut | no chemical used on the Is- years | el Sven now the im-| 1 s chem- | liv-| 1 zers and yery, very The reasons for t remarkable {condition are simple enough, poverty {of grove cultivators and abundance of refuse manures. ! The groves all lie close to cities whose garbage waste is encrmous. Citrus men and farmers in general are the eager voluntary garbage col- lectors. Hotel garbage, market scraps of vegetables, trash, night soil, dead animals, stable manure, meat bones and every conceivable waste of the city is avidiously sought by the orchardist, hauled to the groves. Continuous trenches are du down each tree-middle lengthwise and crossways of the grove. The trenches originate near the irriga- tion ditches from which water can be introduced into them at the de- sired moment. iroves are fertilized at the time | when the fruit is about half| grown (from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter). This would be, absolutely all trash and wastes un- sorted, is thrown into these trench- es. Water is then run on and the mass allowed to compost for two or three weeks, with addition of water Albert Vontoska Teacher of Music 306 South Virginia Ave., Lakeland, Fla.; phone 299 Black. Lessons in piano Harmony and Vocal Culture. Piuno' Tuning. Orchestra furnished for all occasions. Reasonable terms. whenever obtainable, the this period the dirt g ‘hrow:" again, and the heap morg thoroughly covered, .JOHN BRAp)| Violin Telcher’ Gives Lessons VIOLIN AND MANDoy 1008 E. Oak or Phone 45 Ry This is the day for offering.thanks for our bountiful prosperity—can YOU offer thanks with a full heart knowing that you made the best of the past year? Have you any tan- :ible, real assets that you obtained this year? Perhaps you had them but they're now gone through trifling expendi- tures made simply because you had the money handy--expenditures that would not have been made if you had depogsited your money here. Open a bank account NOW and have your funds earning 4 per cent. of course, in the spring and early summer time, when nitrification was most active and the trees could best‘ utilize food. The trenches are rdug about two and a half feet deep straight through the grove, the dirt removed being thrown against the base of ] THE STATE BANK post. QPP P PP PP D B e L L T — ugdubad g L T A R Y ool frgargoRosds edgostreSougdngudicocfocdeodoodoedididociosd Bl é«iv«gngu!xg»«i@u{@m 4’ kA S We Are Thankful That so many of our friends came to see us during the Qpemng. We enjoyed show- ing them around, and we he- lieve our friends were glad to see what we had to show them If you couldn’t come to the Openmg,. drop in at the first OF LAKELAND FLA.