Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 1, 1914, Page 1

§ VOLUME I Published in the Best Town i EIGHTH GRADE ' GRADUATION - LAST NIGHT YOUNG PEOPLE ACQUITTED . THEMSELVES WiT'H CREDIT ations Showed Much Theught and Preparation and Were Well Delivered 3 A large audience gathered in the Ruditorium last evening to witness Bbe exercises of the ecighth grade fraduates . Miss Nannie Funk. as first speak- on the program, launched at once mto a rigorous but well worded ticism of *“‘Street Loafing.” Pictur- g ag she did the dangers from this ctice, we could but agree that ®he loafer is the worst enemy to so- b@lety. This followed by Elmer Mec- MArthur in the oration, “The Wonder ' the Age.' showing a thorough powledge of the latest inventions. i®he speaker made it plain to his 'arers that wonderful progress has en and is being made in almost ev- direction. & The first musical number of the { Wening was then rendered by Miss th]een Carter, which was a rare freat to all. Iiss Redella Gain in an oration | Appearances, showed the fallacy ' judging people or things by ex- na] features, and was very logi- in her-conclusion that correct es- mates can only be made after the st painstaking and careful scru- Yy . #The next number, ‘“Robert E. lee,” by Miss RElizabeth MeHarg, w a fitting eulogy to the life of ?‘ great man. Numerous incidents, ‘f from real life, were cited to jow that true greatness lies not in omp ang splendor but in attention 8 the lesser things of life. 6 iss Jewell Swindell then favored ',audieuce with a musical number ich was highly enjoyed. his was followed by Miss Mar- retto Straw, in a recitation, “The : ety Girl.” The speaker lost no in tearing the mask from her t ect, anq exposing to full light frivolities and silliness of society - Y Perhaps the saddest note, in many #pects, of the evening was sound- in the oration, “It Might Have e s by Misg Elizabeth Dickerson. after 1llustration were " where the destinies of men d even of had pged by the gratification of some fhim or caprice. ker said, had been wrecked on B shoals of “It might have been.” B The last musical number of the ening was given Miss Mary ver. This, too, was much appre- ted as were the other musical Jbl'rs. The next oration was Mlorida,” Miss Gladys Davis. 16 speaker was heart and soul in pP. theme that Florida is the land “epportunity. So well was the pic- ire drawn and so glowing were her #ms, the slumbering poetic natures the audience wag aroused, caus- g them to forget for the time be- f the sordig thing of life. In “Memory's Message'’ Miss Grace urrell had as her oration a theme £ is ever near us. Outlining, as did, the cffects of memory on liveg of all, we were made to that memory was even more [Becious than ever. As a golden Bain, it connects the past, with the nt, serving ag an anchor in time ouble and as inspiration to Ings heavenward. rman Mathiag, as valedictorian, “ heard to good advantage in the on and Dixon Line.” A short @me leading up to the establish- pt of this line, was given, fol- gd by a vivid description of civil struggles and ending in a happy ys who wore the ration nations bheen Many lives, by by pration to the t and to the boys wHo wcre the [Blle exercises| v sptionally rendered and v appreciated ®¥idenced by the liberal applause fgreeted each number xt came the presentation of s followed by Mr. Jones in a @vell chosen words, jularly to the memberg of the »tlu- Fidelity Mutual Life the § addressed |evicted today. graduation class. The first milestone, the speaker Said, had been passed; would they continug and reach the goal of high school ambition, or would they tire ang drop by the way to forget and be forgotten. Many, he said, had launched their little craft eight years ago—and where are they now? Sad, but true, that some had even en- tered the present clasg only to de- spair when the goal wags so near. A very apt illustration, with a direct application, was given of the turtle wito never despaired but persisted al- ways. The principal, after presenting the class diplomas, thankeq the audience for théir splendid attention and good behavior, and the grammar school exercises haq come to a close. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Tracy have taken rooms at Dr. Sarah Wheeler’s handsome residence on Tennessee Mr. Tracy, who recently came here from Lexington, Ky., is associated with Mr. J. G. Herr, from the same city, in the firm of Tracy & Herr, district managers of Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, and they expect to open offices in Lakeland soon. It is a pleasure to welcome these genial Kentuckiang ag residents of Lakeland. MEL BUSHESS HE FOR DLCLPHTON 0F MEL B LS. (By Associated Press Vera Cruz, May 1.--Questions of the future policy of the States are loduy beginning to en- grosg the attention of American refu- ge:s and Mexican business men. It was admitteq that the inhabitants are .safer in the city and maore pros- peroug since the troops arrived here. Some thoughtful Mexicans declar that the complete occupation of Mex- ico by the United States would be the only solution to the problem. Others favoreq a partial occupancy and the establishment under Ameri- can protection of a government sim- ilar to that of Nicaragua. Tt is be- lieveq that the American government is working through many agents here to spread throughout Mexico as- suranceg of the friendly attitude of the Uniteq States, but what future intentions are indicated by such a policy are unknown. avenue. HOME RULE BEFORE [ HOUSE OF LORDS | London, May 1. of the British Isles awaiting the day on which the Home Rule for 'Treland bill will reach the House of Lords, which is expected to be early this month. The bill has passed its most crucial s in three by are i8¢ suécessive sessions, as required the Parliament act, and ought to be on the statute book by June. The time the closing debate on the measure was distinctly conciliatory, but it cannot be saiq that any great progress was made toward a settle ment. The suggested way to peace hy Federalism received scanty sup- port, and all the other various plans for conciliation were again can- vassed, yet no bargain was struck. It would seem that the government has made its last offer and that the Unionists must either accept or re- fuse it before the third reading of the bill unlesg they are reconciled to seeing the bill become a law in its present shape. of (By Associated Press) Washington, May 1.—The admin- istration’s interstate trade commis- sion bill as framed by a sub-commit- tee of the Senate interstate com- merce commfittee, was made public today. It would provide a commis- sion of five to investigate the organ- ization, financial conditign and man- agement of any corporation engaged in interstate business and would em- power the commission to require an- nual or special reportg from any cor- poration ang would prohibit inter- locking directorates in competitive business. STRIKERS TO BE EVICTED iHHoughton, Mich., May 1. ing copper workerg living in dwellings owned by the mining com- who have not moved, were he companies claim they have been unable to collect rent Strik- mine pani United f ‘Al]l the ])u(mll-l eagerly [ theen added to quite generously since 1ly, the | n LAKELAND, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 1, the Be. 14 Part of the Best State OIEAMER SIBERIA 500 AMEWRANG IN" PERILIOUS POSITIONIN MEXIGO GITY REACHED THERE SOON AFTER |various s IS REPORTED ASHORE OFF IS- LAND OF FORMOSA Prominent People of the Philippines Are Passengers on the Ill Fated Boat (By Associated Press.) Tokio, May 1.—The steamship Si- beria is ashore and reporteq in perilious position off the coast of the island of Formosa. She carries eighty saloon among them Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison, wife of the governor general of the I‘hilippine,. Wireless callg were re- ceiveq ()n.thv Japanese coast and Japanese warships were dispatched to her aid. A dispateh receiveg here from Fo- mosa intimated that Chinese pirates may have had something to do with the digaster to the Siberia. Details of the vessel's plight had not reached here late tonight and grave anxiety ig felt because her wireless talls had ceased . a passengers, (By Associated Press.) Washington, May 1.—The State department received a message today from Consul Willlamson at Tansui, Formasa, saying that the Siberian wireless calls ceased this morning and he feared she had foundered. George M. Egan, ore of the Si- beria’s passengers, was recently re- instated as governor of Batanes in the Philippines. NEW SANITARY CODE New York. May 1.-—The new ilur.\- code relating to rmfimunicublu diseases will take effect today. The public health council worked seven months on the code, which under- takes the supervision of all contag- ioug and infectioug discases. Viola- tion of*iis provisicns is made a mis- de¢meanor. Chief among its provi- sions is that which declares it un- lawful for any person ‘‘affecteq with any communicable disease to handle food or foed productg in any manner whatsoever.” This applies to workers on dairy ang produce farms, in res- taurants, hotels or boarding houses. | CHARITY FUND FOR MRS. SCALLY ! Ths Telegram charity fund has Mrs whom our last anpeal for little to report i to are glad $19 has heen sivk lady we improving; the $10 of the many ted in lit- addeq fund, anqd this donated by Hines hotel strangors but inter the hasg amoung was Fues of the them humanity tle bravely Dad are an( of the case who borne stricken woman up until down by ill | ness there o( account was for and who donated last cents we could not asked be informeq it. Our request was kindly answered by Mrs. G. W. Watson who states that her little daughter Mary donat- ed $1 instead of 50 cents with which we credited her. after- noon some person either donateq $2 or two persons $1 each-—we failed to get down the name. We have en- tered the donation as from a Friend and will appreciate it if the right party or parties will let us know whom to give the credit. We regret these seeming acts of negligence on our part, but we are «doing this work because there isn’'t any gen- eral charitable organization in town, and with our other multitudinous duties it sometimes happeng that we fail to get down the name of the person donating. The following received since we Last report Neilson Lange W. C. Norvell b K Teetie Battle Dad Hines hotel guests Misg Sallie Timmons. C. A. Cole Friend In our report to Yesterday are/ the donations last reported: 00 00 A military company or- ganizeq in Sanford. of | so | oflLL REMAN LAST TRAIN LEFT Efforts Are Being Made to Get Rail- [quota of traffic way Service Resumed with the Border (By Associateq Press.) Washington, May 1 ada reporteq today that still there the most part new arrivalg in ico just after the last refugee train left to have railroad with the capitol restored. MR. J. B. SMITH SAYS The Evening Telegram is in re- ceipt of the following letter: Lakeland, Fla., April 30th,1914. Editor Evening Telegram, T notice in this afternoon Paper that you state that the candidates enumerated in your paper, is all that have announced. I see no good why you should go out of your way to do me this injustice. You certainly know that 1 was the second man in Polk county to announce as a candidate for the Legislature, for you see it in the Bartow papers every week, and besides T told you so myself, if you hag said these were all that had announced in the Lakeland paplr, you would have done me no injus- tice, but you know it was not cor- rect when you make the statement that that was all who had an- nounced, I am calling your attention to this that you may understand that if T do not agree with the Tele- gram, that should not constitute a just cause for the Telegram to do me all the harm it can without a cause, at the proper time I shall commence an active campaign to win, and whither T win or loose I will be on the fielq at the finish, T wag the first ‘man in Polk County who ever qual- ified to run for any office under the new primary law, and a great many people know I am in the race and have been for some time The Tele- gram to the contrary notwithstand- ing | reason truly B. SMITH yours very JEREMTAH If Mr | extraordinary that which had acumen Smith oxercised for he s 80 justly famed, he wonlq have ob- that of which he complaing says nothing him served the item about having announced candij- not as a date, The article enumerateq thoge candidates whose announcements were found in the TLakeland papers, nd distinctly addeq that these were |all who had IHCRE. 1t dig not state, directly or by infer- ence, that there might not have been announced other candidates who had announceq at Bartow, or other points; it simply stated the fact that the list given embraceq all the candidategs who had HERE in this instance, as always, Evening Telegram maintains invariable habit of absolutely accurate state- ment, and we fail to see where Mr. Smith has a grievance. Mr. Smith intimates that he does not agree with the Evening Tele- gram. We are sorry and surprised to learn this. The Evening Telegram stands for the most approveq prinei- ples of Progressive Democracy; for the highest ideals of citizenship; for good morals and good government; for the best interests of this county and this community; and, generally, for for the thingg that are just and honor- It Hence, the its announced every righteous cause, and able and of good report. always have anyone proclaim that they do with us if not agree We Mr Smith does W, reasons are SOrry could zood and substantial zard us in quite a The will City ber. Exposition this month White in London and lastu ntil Octo- )-American open at the ~Consul Can- are ,000 Americans in Mexico City unable to get out because of inter- rupted train facilities. These are for the Mexican capital from the surround- ing country and they reached Mex- Consul Canada has made efforts communications HE IS A CANDIDATE shocks ang grieves us, therefore, to | SHIPPING CONFERENCE AGAIN Cologne, May 1.—Another con- ference of the transatlantic steam- ship lines comprising the North At- tantic pool is being helq here today. Aside from the brief announcement hich frankly admitted that the de- :arations in Berlin in March had lc“‘{; no results and that today's conft pce was planned, nothing of- flcial e given to the public. From wrees, however, it was aarned lh‘, the stubborn demands of various lik, ¢or y rovision of the n favor of them- made it ‘pparent that no agreement could be.goipeq at that nwolm';z. The trouble were almost exclusively connected wiep (e steerage passenger traffic selves g Mrs. C. M. Clayton left Yetep- day for her old home in Illincg where she will spend a month ver pleasantly with her parents. NEW AERO BOAT AWAITED Pensacola, Fla., May l.—Navy officers anxiously awaiting the delivery at the navy aviation station of a new Wright aero boat, the first ever constructed by the Wright con- cern. are PLAN FOR BIGGER IND BETTER FA FOR NELT YEIR During the past winter under the auspices of the Farmers’ Club of Lakeland, there wag held a mid-win- ter fa,jr and farmers’' institute and the success of the venture was so great that at the request of growers generally, it wag decideq to hold an- other fair during the coming win- ter. The fair helq the past winter was a purely local show and as many county showeq their willingness to cooperate with the local body, it was decideq to make the next fair a gen- eral county institution, thereby giv- ing growerg from all parts a chance to show their prowess anqd ability to grow angd produce citrus fruit, veg- etables, hogs, cattle, sheep, goats. poultry, ete.. of better quality and finer grade than any produced else- where, In order therefor to stimulate gen- eral interest the Farmers' Club of Lakeland, as usual, proceeded to get busy at once, and by appointing managers for each department, with £00d board for general supervision, are now in position announce that the should anq will eclipse anything of Florida i executive to coming fair its king held in Southern By would that each department manager is an in manager will of course have the best way of explanation, say expert hig or her line and each it is possible to procure for his de it how what partment, and to make worth V\\‘lnl.- for every grower to s can do, a very liberal prem- ium list hag heen made up, the total will run consider- he or she amount of which ably over $2,000, besideg which there will be many special premiumg giv- en by individuals and firms. Of course, vegetables and fruits can and will be grown at about the time for exhibition, which will be during the last week in February but it is necessary now to get ready for the big show with such things as hogs, horses, cattle and poultry. These should have special attention from now on and grown to their best advantage. The younger generation should be encouraged to get busy with poultry ang where a likely bird is discovered, it should be given specia] attention and care. Get out your broodg of chickens, ducks, ete., amnd watch them closely and when the time comes, have them ready for exhibition. You men that are raising blooded hogs, cattle and horses look after your stock and show that as good or better stock can be grown in _Polk county in the State. | The time has come when it is neces- | that Florida must and should get away from the northern can, and northern smoked and salted meats, and to do this we shoulg en- citrus as anywhere sary | deavor to make use of our own re- sources by raising such meats as are needeq by our own people. Anq af- ter you have raised such meats, don't hide your light under a bushel, but bring your productg to the county fair at Lakeland and show them in ANIETY FELT . FOR SAFETY OF OR. RYAN REPORTED THAT HE WAS T0 BE EXECUTED BY MEXICANS Was Arrested as a Spy: Secretary Bryan Trying to Ascertain if He Still Lives (By Associated Press ) May 1. negotiations the Mexican em- broglio today waited on word from Carranza. The meoediators met but it 'vas expected that no steps would be ten until the rebel leader expressed his ttigude toward the proposal for 4 geliwgl armistice. The envoys were hoeful, but the constitution- alist representative here declared that his chier's reply wag forecast by his orders for a concentrated attack on Tampico. Unoflicia] reports that Dr. Edward Ryan, in thg employ of the American government at Mexico City, was to be executed as a 8py failed to halt mediation procecdings. Representations have been made in behalf of Ryan. Little attention has been drawn, by firing by the rebels upon the 'Ward Liner flying the ‘f’ubun flag at Tampico. The State department today ex- erteq every effort to learn what has become of Dr. Ryan. Secretary Bry- an telegraphed Consul Canada and the military authoritics at Vera ('ruz to attempt to learn whether the Wiashington, Mediation in growers from «different parts of the | sentence of death was carried out and to make vigorous protests against the revorteq action of the Mexico City authorities, The Span- ish ambassador here, who 1§ acting for Huerta, was also asked to_look out for Ryan's safety. At the cabinet meeting today it was said that no important steps had been taken. Members of the cabinet saiq the outlook for succesg in med- iation was hopeful. MR. TUCKER APPRECIATIVE Editor Telegram: | see from yes- terday's paper that my friends have announced candidate for the Legislature. I had no intention of entering the but days a large number of gentlemen have asked me them T their me onored to represent me as a race for several to allow to announce me, appreciate confidence in ang would fee] Polk Respectfully, TUCKER, JR. county EPPES [ — with for yourself where you excell or fail and try to what this year, comparison others. See then improve on you raised take away our money angd ribbons for your (‘fome and exhibits and at the samgp time, place in to supply your g fortunate neighbors with better than they are raising. But above all things, bear in mind that NOW is the time to prepare for the yourself les stock position big show. The ladies also are prepared to look after their inte 3 ang ev lady and girl in the county is ex- pected to show what can be done in household economics, fancy work, The in thig de- partment ig also quite extensive and well worth while going after. Preparations in all departments are going forwarq rapidly and we are prepared to annoéunce weekly what progress each department is making and what every exhibitor should make an endeavor to find suc- cess in, The committee will be pleased to answer all questions pertaining to the fair anq any communications ad- dressed to the secretary, Mr. Edwin R. Schurman, will be cheerfully an- swered. And now, Polk county residents, let's get together and make this fair a rousing Let's show the balance of the State that we are far ahead of them in everything possi- ble and and thereby boom our countv to such an extent that within a few there will not be an acre of ground left that is cultivation, Ui "W ete. premium list success., to grow raise years not in IVERSEN, Manager. A. C. SCHAFFER, Assistant Manager, County papersg please copy.