Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 15, 1914, Page 4

Jacksonville seems to be making TEXT OF LAW GOV'EB-N' 4 a crime record these crisp winter ING CAMPAIGN days and nights, of which her good{ (Continued from Page 1) ; - Toe Evening Telegram' Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. |citizens can be anything but proud. 3th. Candidates for county or~( That city doubtless has a good po-|fices are required to ftile with the] lice force, but pickpockets, holdups|clerk of the Circuit Court detailed Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the [and other kinds of cranks are ap- [itemized statements of (;amgaigu second class. parently doing a flourishing busi- | expenditures and contributions. ! . |ness in the :netropolis of Florida. One statement to be filed not more | M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR.| s Sl on than thirty days nor less than twen-, That Pastor Russell stuff in the|ty-five days prior to the primary;! SUBSCRIPTION RATES, LR A S e $5.00 | Tampa Tribune doesn’t look as good [One statement not more than twe!w' W anontns 2.50 {to us now as it did hefore the Tri-|days nor less th.an eight days prior S MO e 1.25 |bune had some editorial remarks of|to the primary, also a statement Delivered unywhere within the]a singularly cold-blooded, non-parti-|®iall be made within ten days after san character to make about it re-|the primary. The candidates for cently. We no longer devour it|national and State offices are re- with the almost passionate avidity|duired to make and file similar re- that we did while we thouzht it was|POrts with the secretary of State. the ‘steady spiritual readings, joy 14th. The woid “candidate” in and comfort of Wallace Stovall and|this act is defined as meaning any! person who has announced to any person, or to the public that he is a candidate for a certain office. Af-' A news item in the Tampa Tribune|ter so announcing each cam’.id‘utej e st s informs us that Willis Powell has[shonld under the law keep an ac- A NOBLE MISSION FOR THE retuined to Florida with a view of |curate itemized statement of his POSTMASTER GENERAL establishing ‘a daily paper at Clear-|campaign expenditures. water, the county seat of Pinellas 15th. Persons other than candi- The way Postmaster General Burl- | €Mt Willis is a ncéwspaper man|dates who vinlz.ue this law shall be! eson has enlarged the parcel post all right, born for the business, and|punished by a fine of as much as one | system so that it becomes a larze and he will put Clearwater on the map tlwugand dollars, or twelve months'| practical benefit to the whole coun- with such distinctness that unin- lmpr'lsomrnem or by both such fine try, emancipating it to very consid- formed people abroad who peruse his]and lm;.msonment. : erable degree from the monopolistie columns are likely to suppose that Candl.‘dates who violate the law exactions of the express companies, that town is the metropolis of Pinel-[are subject to the same penalty and has won him praise and thanks in las and St. Petersburg a promising)in addition their names shall not be tributary village. printed upon ‘the primary ticket, or limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, |/ Lambright. county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere i e tor $1.00 per year. every State in the Union. And now it MF. Buvieson wants to Wiy i SEEESY et the general election ticket, and in mortal fame and fix his place in his-| Bven though the country has|the event the crime is not discov-| tory as the greatest of all postmast-|Pasved out of the grasp of the 13" erfdiunfi::lm#irlih e?:c:;o:lfien:flzzgj er generals, let him concentrate allihoodoo with the beginning of 1914,{™ T;:n ;as lefl::u TEih6 getaiint the enthusiasm of his soul and pow-|the'Ocala bar seems to be getting no|°F }f he was elected. it i benefit from the release. Three|Office before the discovery of the ers of his office upon the task of ri he shall then n discovery Thorol _ltragedies and near tragedies quite|Crime, he shal (im0 y oroughly and permanently depriv. of the offense, 'be removed or im- ing the frauds and fakirs of the use recently among the lawyers of that peached. of the malils in “skinning suckers” lcitvdo ar; t:ll\mlreferrod to by the Or- B L ¢ an entinel: by the hundreds of thousands every| ™ A strange fatality, or chain of! WOrk will be started very soon in year with their rascally, lying liter- \rasoliic evefits seen:t; to have fol-|DBartow on a new two story brick ature sent through the postoffices. ‘ ) business building. It is one of the monstrous iniqui- ties of this age--the ease with which eredulous people are being robbed of millions of dollars every year throuzh the use of the mails by smooth knaves with seductive get- rich-quick schemes utterly fraudu- hunting and was shot, though not lent and worthless. The annual to- seriousiy, by another huntsman.” tal of such robberies is appallinyg ¢, TR and is a sor!?us drain upon the coun- Pensucola sustained but a tempo- try. We notice that Mr. Burleson is rary inconvenience of a few days by lowed the members of the legal pro- fefsion ‘in Ocala recently. A young man went to the office of a lawyer and shot himself dead, another law- yer shot himself accidentally while attempting to load a new revolver, and died, and another went out TO LEASE Col For five years from the first of March next, mnew store building, three floors, sixteen thousand feet floor space, thoroughly ventillated, iplenty of light, best location in the city for automobiles, furniture, im- plements, machinery, wholesale gro- lin arousing himself to the situation,|the suspension of one of her lead.|l©W rental, low insurance, by Jack- and if he can break up this gigantic ing banks and it is now stated that|%°" & McRae., Lakeland, Fla. game which uses our postal system |the depositors will be paid in full. Lk as its necessary ally he will earn the [No, a Democratic administration in thi ONE FLAT—Upstairs in apartment house will be for rent after Jan. 21. See J. F. Councii. 1843 |4, gratitude of all honest people. Con- control of the government didn’t of cerning this widespread system of [have a thing in the world to do with robbing, the St. Augustine Record|the failure of the bank, but it is not Bays: improbable that the general sense of “Such schemes are absolutely de- [security resulting from recent Dem- |LLOST—Gold pendent. upon the mail privilege. |ocratic legislation in Washington| Watch. When that is taken away from them |and the widespread faith in the good they cannot reach the ‘suckers,’ as|sense, character and efficiency of these gentry call the misled people|Woodrow Wilson as president, may Who ‘invest’ in their worthless prop- |have had something to do with iso- open-faced, if returned to Telegram office. 1835 ositions. So the government hag a|lating the Pensacola failure and|WANTED—By a young couple, two powerful weapon to use against such |Preventing the infection from| nicely furnished rooms for light schemers. But these crooks are not |spreading. housekeeping. Apply E. W. Vog- easily discouraged. When thwarted — s ler, Red Cross Pharmacy. 1841 in one scheme they immediately try another, and the so-called ‘sucker lists’ of persons who have such fraudulent propositio It may not be generally known!gryATION i i but it is a fact that State Senator bitten’ on | jiten of Levy county, a man of su- 08 as fake | orjor ability, too, who knows how mines, ofl wells, new, world-beating |ty think and has the courage of his inventions and worthless real estate, convictions, is a strong advocate of are sold time and time again by pro- woman suffrage and wants an i moters to others of their flk.” amendment to our State constitution —_— providing for it. And, we are told, Senator Blitch also believes in the science of eugenics to a certain de- gree and wants legislation that will make it. We have not scen the vol- riage license than it is now. Senator Blitch is evidently a genuine pro- gressive, not one of the nominal kind that doesn’t know the political | jor TRADE—One of the best pay- meaning of the word and s bawl-| jng mercantile businesses in Lake- WANTED__By white lady for housework or experienced waitress. Address “M,” care Tele-' gram. 1840 D. J. SIMPSON has moved his offices from the Morehead Phar- macy to the Groover-Morgan building upstairs above the offices | of Drs. Griffin and Lefers. Phone' 374 or 25. 1775 We publish today an Instructive synopsis of the law passed by the last Legislature limiting and regu- lating the campaign expenses of can- didates for office in'this State. It is & drastic statute, but notorious abuses which were but corruption under another name, made it neces- sary, and the penalties are so se- FOR SALE—Jersey cow, second calf, fresh; can be seen at Dr. W. R, Groover’s, Lake Morton. 1834 vere that it is quite likely to do its ;:)litcher‘immonmy i o oo g S o i s 4 work well and be obeyed by all can- S et didates. To disobey it means a bar- ren victory for the candidate who| George M. Chapin, of Jackson- WANTED-—I am in the market for any old house that is going to be torn down or removed. C. Cook, 400 Rose St., Lakeland. 1830 wins at the polls but can be proved|Ville, has written a history of Flor- guilty of violating its provisions. |id2 in two volumes which has just a been issued from the S. J. Clark press. Mr. Chapin has thus ren- Dr. Howsley, one of the worst|dered a service of very great value criminals ever sent up from this|to his State, for it is only less im- county, has escaned from the convict |Portant to write history than to|FOR S*LE—Large wholesale groc- camps after serving less than a year|Make it. We have no scen the vol-| ery building, packing house and of a ten-year sentence. It is with|umes, but have heard them hichly much difficulty that our most notor- !5poken of. It is a task of much dif- fous malefactors are arrested, in the|flculty to write a history of endur- first place, and also very_difficult to ing value, for not only does it re- secure their conviction. Tt is rather|duire the necessary literapy ability disconraging that after one is safe-|and courage for the drudgery of ly “landed” he manages to easily ef-|Seeking details and digeing up a fect his getaway from the custodians|Vast mass of forgotten facts, but the to whom the S.tate has leased him.|high conscientious spirit and rare —Tampa Tribune. temperament of the true historian The Telesram has repeatedly |[must be present, and a man thus called attention to the importance|Qualified is hard to find. .We trust of this growing evil of the escape of | that Mr. Chapin is that kind of man convicts in this State. And we no-|and has done his work in that spirit, tice that the most dangerous one[A large proportion of our histories who have been difficult to capture|are greatly impaired in value and and convict, eet away more fre- many of them worthless because the quenty than the less imnortant ones, | Distorians couldn’t keep their prein- We might as well have no jails and ‘dices out of their work and wrote A, l erty. See Waring & Edward Bryant Bldg. 1828 ] Alonza Logan LOGAN § TOWNSEND BUILDING CONTRACTORS We Furrish Surety Bon liab TELEPHONE 66 EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK 'vELA_Nb, FLA., JAN. 15, 1914, several southern States are here at- tending a meeting called for the purpose of devising plans by which growers will be enabled to secure 'better marketing systems for hand- ceries, or general department store. | PAINTERS AND DECORA- The painters and decorators of orators and Paperhangers of America 6:30 p. m., Saturday night, Jan. lady’s| 17, Hunting case, but lid to|tion fee $1 and 1 month's dues 75 front recently broken off. Reward |cents, “ =) E never repeat the same clothes order for two different men. Good merchant tailoring never calls for two suits precisely alike, for no two men are the same. Ready-made clothin can never compare in excellence with clothes which you tell us "to have tailored-to-individual order by Ed. V. Price & Co. and we can prove it. Williamson - Moure Co., “FASHION SHOP FOR MEN” storage warehouse, situated im- mediately on side track close in to business center, at a low price. The owner must have money. Jackson & McRae. 1844 EXPERTS TO HELP FARMERS Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. 15.— mmissioners of agriculture from g the staple crops. TORS TAKE NOTICE s city will organize a local union the Brotherhood of Painters, Dec- Orange hall, opposite city hall, at All painters welcome. Initia- Respectfully yours, T.. .. WOOD. Orzanizer. by the City Pure Food Depart from cows inspected and pasec.; went. Manufactared under the most jeodern and perfoect conditions ALL (ingredients that go to make our eream MUST be the standard of pur- ity an4 quality. There & a difference o “Frozen Cus- learn to say snd POINSETTIA ler “ream. 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