Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 5, 1913, Page 4

fhe Evening Telegram Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- "and, Florida, as mail matter of the ‘weond class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, SUBSCRIFLIUN RATHES: Mx months ............. 00 2.60 ¥hree months ... sssinsais 1aBD . Delivered anywhere within the ity of the City of Lakeland for 10 pents & week. — e . - Prom the same office 18 issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, 4 weekiy newspaper giving &8 resume M8 local matters, crop comditions, EDITOR. _|unqualified endorseincar to the new hitch his wagon to the Vardaman star and it served him well, for it|} pulled him into office and he pro- poses to try next time for the gov- ernorship. Bilbo has brains, ambi- tion and energy and there is no tell- ing where he will land—it may be the pen, or it may be as Vardaman’s successor in the Senate. 0 CANDY! CANDY! CANDY! : WE ARE THE CANDY MAKERS IT I§ THE ONLY SCIENTIFIC WAY In ihs message to Congress last Tuesday President Wilson gave his <3~ Visit -f= Democratic doctrine of presidential primaries, ana with the enactment of laws to provide for this the rule of the people will at last have been accomplished. State and county conventions in their oid sense have been abolished, and there is no reas- on why national nominating conven- tions as we have known them here- tofore shouldn’t go the same road. With the establishment of presi- dential primaries, there will be neither fun nor excitement left in our great quadrennial presidential conventions, for they will meet merely to register the will of the party voters previously expressed at the primaries and to adopt plat- Next door to Postoffice When you want nice, pure candy, come to Smith's Bakery. We make | it fresh every day. Can furnish it in any quantity. Special price on a large quantity. 1613 ——————————————————————— “OZONE GROVE” building lots sold on easy terms at auction Tuesday, |§ Dec. 9, at 2 p. m, 1609 | complete. purse. The New Jewelry Store Select your Christmas present while the stock is We have them to fit all tastes and every *unty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere ‘br $1.00 per year, Sulzer's lecture tour through the west is said to be a failure—which is ; the best thing we have heard about 1 Bill for many months past. ] thing was needed to give him his [ true measure. 0 the church organ over in Snyder, ‘Texas, just as the pastor had con-|be lackine; cluded a strong discourse against the|chance, no opportunity forms; but there can be no “kick” on the nominations, no “bolting,” no battling of factions, no intriguing, no coalitions, no bribing of dele- gates, direct nor indlrect, no soul-| thrilling oratory by spellbinders in behalf of some particular candidate, Some- i nor any of the many picturesque and jentertaining features which have heretofore made our presidential conventions national shows of the That snake which crawled out of | first magnitude. The element of uncertainty will there will be no sporting to quarrel, evils of strong drink, was evidently | fight or gamble, for everybody will posted on the psychological moment |know the result in advance, the con- stuff we have all read about and|vention being merely a machine to [ knew just whep to make an effctive jregister a choice previously made by &ppearance. 7, R Representative Clark, just returned from Europe, says that “‘a short visit abroad is sufficient to cure any man of Anglo-mania or any other mania.” Good! This means that Mr. Clark returns cured of that obsession about a Japanese invasion of Florida which was worrying him greatly just be- fore his trip. B 0F = i 0 Our store is crowded each : . The Punta Gorda Herald has| The railroads all over the country! Ay WIth iy rbtaen Bu e ing 10 Nichols & \X/anng and known as ) i moved into its new building and ex-|are almost piteously begging the in-| gift i ;l i y n(; 4 pects soon to have a linotype. Such ate 8 8 or heir ers a terstate commerce commission to brothers, ahd Simetinges a paper as the Herald deserves to prosper, for it is one of the best weeklies in the State and Editor Jor and immensely and deservedly popu- lar with his brethren of the State . press. :making as much money as they ]f;;;'to . T ey AUCIION PR'C[S ;i \ 3 o 'ought to in view of their increased ! k' The Fort Lauderdale Sentinelfexpenses, but, looked at in another i says that according to governmentlight, it is merely retributive justice LOOK THESE LOTS OVER BEFORE THE SALEM 4 statistics if Florida land sold to them. Those of us who are old ! B according to its productivity enough can recollect when our gi-|| Cuff Buttons and Scarf Pin to much of it would be rated at $4,- ! 000 per acre. Not a doubt of it and il much of it can be had now for one- tenth that sum. South Florida land America today. 00— man a second term unless he falls down during his first one, and the A\ Jasper News endorses the statement. And that's Just as true of the Sen- ate as the House and applies with special force to Senator Fletcher, for he has not only not fallen down, but he has climbed up among the stars in the senatorial galaxy. Y| — President Wilson is considering place near Corpus Christi, spend the Christmas holidays. Wilson take the liberty to which implies such a serious With Flor- story lapse in that judgment. Christmas outing, incomparable pif swinging from every woods full of orizinal Wilson men,character, s | ‘ we cap think of no good reasop why | proportion of the people believe that w I I_I_ [AM 8 ON. 8 the president should invade the|he is a consummate knave, while f k chapparel wastes of far-off Texas|perhaps a larger proportion of the Sale conducted bY Fiorlda S beq known Aucuont €r, PO where a norther is liable to freeze him stiff any moment and State. dap is a man of recognized ability' compel | him to fully endorse what Phil Sher-| idap said about that too versatile Lord to lead them out of the wilder- jness. the party at the primaries. We must give up much which we have been taught almost to revere and around which much of our great political history clusters to get the presiden- tial primary, but it is the only scien- tific way to do the thing and it is inevitable. It means the rule of the people in fact as well as theory and it will help greatly to purify our politics and eliminate the demagogue. permit them to increase their freight | ‘rates in order to keep them from| {starving to death, or words to that, effect. Doubtless they are not mak- ing as much money as they would /like to and perhaps they are not gantic American railway system was is the best real estate investment in inated them with pitiless tyranny. The Ocala Star says that any fair-| mission, no agency of any kind to minded man would give a congress-; restrict or restrain them, and they flooded the world with stocks and| ;bonds, regardless of the value of the' iroads built. The stock of every railroad company was watered out-; rageously during that formative pe-| riod and now that things have set-, tled down and the roads must smnd! on their actual earning merits, they! find it impossible to make money | enough to pay interest op their, A Washington dispatch says that|bonds and dividends on their stocks.' a|Whose fault is it? ‘ Texas, to|course, for they did the watering. Mr. [Squeeze that water out, abolish the Their own, of, governor of Mississippi. and one of | ida at just the right distance for a|the slickest little schemers that ever in | broke into the politics of any State climate, with grapefruit and oranges|in this Union, has becn indicted for limb and the!bribery over in his State. Bilbo is a and in Misgigsippi a large less educated element regard him as their political Moses, who, next to Vardaman, is commissioned of the He was smart enough to ‘ SEFHDHEPIIDESIIIDBBDOIEFID ‘ 3 i o BB S S o ot & . A GREAT REDUCTION ON COATS, COAT SUITS, WRAPS AND MILLINERY [ Only 16 Sho- pingdaysbefore CHRISTMAS some one else's brother. Our gift suggestions for tasteful men have an individuality that can’t be found elsewhere. The list below should be help- Match Full Dress Vest Military Sets Traveling Sets Collar Bags Laundry Bags Handkerchiefs, Ties and Hose to Match All Christmas good boxed individually. &R ‘5:‘) MOORF €0. Fashionshop for men “0ZONE GROVF’ The Profit Spot in process of construction all over(] Bath Robes 66 9 , 1 'the country and they had their feet Mackinaw Coats jon the necks of the people and dom- Full Dress Sets ) SRR e N glo;eun | Is today without a doubt the One Residential Health Spot, and many of our best people 7 commission, no State railroad com- mbrellas i are sure to buy and buil Skt y uild there in the very near future for they realize in OzOne (irgze asy has shown such admirable’fictitious values and present freight M (o) worth more than double t m t ill b oy £E€rve your fn e the amount it will bc sold for at this auction long before it will jgg judement in al things sinco he en-|rates Will pay. fair futerest on the|| VIAY WE £ be paid for, ON THE TERMS THAT WE ARE GOING TO G i tered the White House that we shall | investment. ’ 3 1 O GIVE YOU. 00l discredit this e O i This is an opportunity for the man an! woman of limi o bl Mr. Theodore Bilbo, lientenant' 1T, y ted means, DON'T MIS! iche | \ : ERETTS AR THE DEVELOPMENT WITH LARGE LOTS (50 BY 120 FEET) ‘As An Investment; Yours to please, Conner, 0’Steen & King Of the Entirc New Development Belong CiTY OF LAKELAND, FLORIDA The Place to ann THE DEVELOPMENT WITH EVERY CITY IMPROVEMENT THE DEVELOPMENT WITH PROTECTIVE RESTRICTIONS THE DEVELOPMENT AT AUCTION PRICES THE DEVELOPMENT ONLY FOUR BLOCKS FROM HEART OF CITY FRUIT TREES ON EVERY LOT 5383 No better investment opportunity exists in or around Lakeland t ; st oday than OZONE GROVE bulldmg lots. Property values in that section are advancm)é most rapidly, (more so than in any part of Lakeland), and we believe that every lot will be ?‘ BEEE Remember the sale continues for TWO DAYS, at 2 o ‘clock each d on hand the first day. try to be ay! -1 UESDAY, DEC. 9TH, 2. P. M. SHA l’;; of St. Petersburg, Florida LA MODE R . N N, S at % PPEIIIIS SHIPIIIIDIIPRIIIREEII MRE. H. LOGAN, ‘ PROPRIETOR