Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 29, 1914, Page 4

PAGE FOUR The tvening ielegram Published every afternoon.from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fia. Eutered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., MAY 29, 1914. to clear expenses and make them self-sustaining. “We are not aware, of course, of the terms offereq by the would-be p;:rchaser or the inducements held out for acceptance; but they would have to be very advantageous for the second class. M. city, to prevail upon us to withhold HETHERINGTON, EDITOR.|the advice that we now offer, earn- SUBSCRIPTION RATES. estly and emphatically—DON'T.” Jme year .. ..$5.00 & #ix montns " 2.50 | Beckwith-Trammell Wedding Three montns . . .... 1.25|Takes Place June 17. Delivered anywhere within the| Invitations have been issued to the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10| wedding of Miss Lessie Trammell eents a week, ‘and Mr. W. S. Beckwith, which will be a brilliant social event. The invitation is as foltows: Mr. and Mrs. Erasmus Ripley Trammell request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter ! Eowie Lee | i to Mr. Wightman S. Beckwith on the evening of Wednesday, the 17th of June at a quarter after 8 o'clock First Methodist church Lakeland, Florida. A reception at the bride’s home will follow immediately after the ceremony . w — e ¥rom the same office is Issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A w-ekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, eounty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere tor $1.00 per year. . 5 e N S No higher tribute to the extra- ordinary ability of Senator Fletcher and his rare merit as a faithful and efficient public servant could be giv- en than the venomous warfare his enemies have opened upon him early in the campaign in behalf of a man without experience in public life and whose only claim to succeed the sen- ator so far as we have been able to discover is that he wants the job and | wants it badly. It is not urgeq that he has superior ability, industry, character, conscience, fidelity and influence over Fletcher and this be- ing true we are reduced to the con- clusion that Mr. Stockton and his friends have nothing left to urge in his behalf to outweigh the years of experience anq valuable influence ac- quired through the experience of Senator Fletcher but the sentimental i CYCLECARS END RUN Ind., May 29.— Tndianapolis, expected arrival of the Detroit Cycle- car Club, consisting of nemrly fifty members, who are expecteq to arrive !in this city by this afternoon. Many others who entered this run are from Chicago and Buffalo. —— et (ARCADIA SHUT ouT BY FAST LAKELAND TEAM They came, they saw BUT we con- quered them, yes, and shut them out. besides. As one fan remarked at the game: “Those Lakeland boys don't treat their visitors at all nice.” It was a good game, king of draggy in places but the finishing score is what suits us to a T. Gillespie pitched an- jother grand game, was given gilt ledge support and Dy clever head- work got himself out of many tight places, Special credit is due Sawyer for his work behing the bat. He was right there with the PEG at all times ang .had those Arcadia base runners gave Mills poor support, making six errors, two of which were costly. The score by innings: First Inning For Arcadia—Davis and Garner fanned, Mills flied out to Meharg. For Lakeland—-Branch got to first on Davis’ slow fielding, stole second anq went to third on catcher’s vild throw, Spivey singled scoring !Branch, Ginter hit a pop fly to third, iSawyer struck out, Riggins out, }Riggins out, third to first. O ne run. Second inning For Arcadia—Standby singlel to left, McClure forceq Standby out at { | For Lakeland—B. Meharg got a | clean single, Smith fanned, Meharg got caught playing too far off first base, Garlet fanned. No runs. Third Inning For Arcadia—Scott out ati first, fanned, |scoring on Smith’s single, Garlet Yavig got to first, Garner 4 e took a‘fanned, Gillspie out at first. One Mills hit a fast cne which nasty bound in front of Gailet al-jrun. lowing him to reach first, Smith got Stanby's grounder ang tagged Mills y on his way to second. No runs. | Seventh Inning For Arcadia—Williams got to first on Garlet’s error, Del Rio popped a fly just back of first which Ginter nailed to the hags. The Arcadia team For Lakeland—Gillespie walked, Branch and Spivey fanned, Ginter bunted, catcher threw wild to first, first threw wild to third, Gillespie scored, Sawyer out pop fly. One run. Fourth Inning For Arcauiar—sawyer caught Mc- Clure's foul fly, Durrance walked, Williams hit a line fly right into Gin- Durrance could get back. For Lakeland-—Dawis made a spec- tacular stop of Riggin‘s fast drive and got his man, Garner dropped Me- harg's fly, Smith singled, Garlet ‘fiied out to third, Gillespie singled, g out trying to score. No runs. Fifth Inning il[ohar l | !third where Sawyer caught him nap- ping, ‘Davis flied to center, Garner ‘hi( a high fly between second and Smith caught running 'oonlnr which ground ‘hackwards anq fell to the Istill holding it. For Lakeland—Branch flied center, Spivey struck out, Ginter out at first. No runs. Sixth Inning For Arcadia—Mills fanned, Sand- Great interest is bemg evinced in the second, Williams and Del Rio fanned. [by got to first on Smith's error, Mc- {Clure and Durrance flied out. For Lakeland—Sawyer out at first, Rigging got to first on account of the short stop’s slow handling of his grounder, Garuer juggled Meharg's 'erounder and Riggins got to second, V ————— — reason that Stockton has long want- ed and sought the office and a gooa man at the maximum of efficiency should be turneq out to give it to him. Really this is all there is to it. |. And if ever a man had simply no case at all in his efforts to oust! Fletcher that man is John Stockton, Of course there is nothing in the ‘“progressive” slush his friends talk about for it is a mere assemblage of vague and meaningless words with- out form or substance considered as the peculiar personal asset of Mr. Stockton and the term is no more characteristic of him than of Mr. Fletcher or any other administration Senator in Washington. If Wood- row Wilson is a progressive, so is !Senator Fletcher for they are both /agreed on all the vital policies of the party and the president has no more [cordial friend and supporter in the Senate than Duncan U. Fletcher. RS s DON'T DO IT Foegocd e o Gosds present. 223 &4 The Tampa Times under the above head admonishes Lakeland not to sell her light and water plants, cit- ing the experience of Tampa under private ownership, The Times edi- tor {8 a little misinformed on one thing—the city commissioners are not considering the sale of the plants. The matter was broached through the columns of the Telegram by a prvate citizen and the agitation thus aroused is not official in any sense. The Time’s able editorial fol- lows: @ : % | | | “We must crave the pardon of our ' good friends of Lakeland for again venturing to discuss their local af- fairs; but the truth is that they keep such interesting problems before the people up there and there is always something of importance going that it is difficult for a newspaper - that Lakeland Telegram: As there h'as {been so much written about the dis- takes an interest in public affairs to | : refrain from dipping in occasonally position of the light anq water plant 3 "' |but nothing in my estimation has “The Times hopes it will be be- . : lieved that its comments upon Lake- |Pen Written touching 'th‘\ V“f“ land’s municipal matters are actuat- |POInt: “Does it pay; has it “"":"“‘”d ed by pure gooq will and fl‘iondlyion(' cent over actuhl .ox]u\nsp.'. 1f feeling and not from a desire to be |0t Why hold on to it “".“] tax “h“ officious and to intermeddle ith people to keep it up, but if the city can show by actual figures that the Ip]nnt is paying something over and what does not concern us. “The immediate occasion that 5 prompts these preliminary remarks above actual expences, then [ think is the fact that we have learneq |the city ought to keep it. T have been acquainted with some towns [Ih:n the light and water plant was from the columns of the Telegram that the city commissioners are con- Rt owneq and controlled by individuals and also by the city and I have never i sidering the proposition of selling to a private company the electric light- ing and water plants that are now |S¢en @ city controlled plant paid. 1 wish to cite the reader to the jone of " Greenville, Tenn., about municipally owned. “Tampa has been all along that itwenty-five years ago Umfrey Reeves “of that place asked the boarq for a road and we have seen the error of our way. We commenced at the op- ; ,ten-year franchise to put up a plant ‘and proposed to give the town free posite end of the problem from that lights for streets and water in case oo el Bl WANTS PLANT RETAINED IF IT IS PAYING where Lakeland hegan; we inted franchises for these public utilities that | G CONDITIONS IN MEXICO are not more unsettled than conditions in our quarters.at Like the A. B. C. Mediators, we are working heart and soul to rush the work of bettering them, but, unlike these estimable gentlemen, there is no uncertainty in the accomplishment of our aims. When the work of remodeling is completed we will offer to the public Banking Rooms With Strictly Modern Equipment and all the comforts and conveniences in the transacting of your business that careful planning can devise. STATE BANK OF LAKELAND of fire; the council granted Mr. Reeves the franchise and he put the water and lights to the corporate limits and made money, but when his franchise was out the city said to Mr. Reeves: ‘“You must sell out to the city or we will build one of our own;" so the deal was made, the city taking charge of same and charged the same. At the end of the year they came out about $3,000 in the hole. They then added ten per cent anq still lost money. I have it from good authority that it never paid its own expenses. You may ask (if an individual can make money out of the enterprise why not the city. i'l’hv fact of the matter is simply when an individual hires a man he es that he earns all he gets, and Greenville was only too glad to un- load on the East Tennessee Electric Co. ang now they have cheaper lights than they ever got. This is one case, and these are facts. P. OTTINGER SEBEIDDDBPPDIDHEBSPeBIIEFIDIDBIFPIDEIIDIDEID GPDIFIPIDIFDEISIDEDIIEID 3 AR EEEDDEDDOPDEI DS % g & & S Beegeeg BEST OF TABLE View House. 108 avenue. BOARD—Lake North Florida 2624 FOR SALE—One family cow, young, and milking. Phone 232 Red. 2625 PALMS THEATER UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Having assumeq the manajement of the Palm® theater, I wish to as- sure the public that the best service possible will be rendereq at all times and that the theater will be con- dueted as in the past with the one aim—to please everyone. I will continue to have Countr Store on Monday and Friday nights. {Amateur contests and Gibson pic- |turcs on Wednesday nights. Entire jchange of program daily. Good mu- |sic by the Palms Theater Orchestra. { Admission 5S¢ and 10c. |2612 GEO. McCALL, Manager. to private companies and the subse- | quent years have markeq the his- tory of vearnings ang futile efforts on the part of our people and mu- nicipal government to our action and regain the ground that! we lost by commenemg wrong. The | only reason that we do not now own | our lighting and water Tampa is because thes become so valuable that t yond the reach of the after providing for more urgent nature. “Lakeland commen t owning her own public utilities; and her people will regret it bitterly if they decide to private owners. The « ties can afford to serve the people at | lower rates than any corporation | »would ever furnish the same service because the city does not operate these utilities for profit but merely ™ reverse a temple Y ) ‘1 plants in | ants have | ire he city’s means other matter " | always and sell them ity authori- | y @& OMETIME. among exist on fls of e fuol) wiln American State Banl} BE AN AMERICAN—ONE OF US, the ruins of an ancient land § Wwill be unearthed sacred to Success, an high over the altar, hewn into living rock, these i ly in Man—I am HumanWill. All Who doibt themselves dest \who believe, achieve? _Ouman Wil built the Will harnessed the R\ enough of itto s & nest” rQy me; they ' b &l ra. Nave rt a BankR Account? Jou~ a Single Dollar il do i inthis BANK 3 tiful two bagger to right, Scott got | a timely single advancing Del Rio tol to | gathered in and threw to Gillespie covering first before Williams could get back, double play, Scott out at first. For Lakeland—Branch singled, Spivey got a two-bagger, Branch go- ing to third, Ginter fanned, Sawyer hit to short and Branch was caught at the home plate, Riggins fanned. No runs. | Eighth Inning For Arcadia—Davis fanned, Gar- iner and Mills sIngled, Stanby hit to short, double play, Garlet to Smith to Ginter. For Lakeland-—Meharg out on a I first, Garlet singled, Gillespie out at No runs. Ninth Inning For Arcadia—Gartet caught Mec- tClure’s fly, Durrance singled, Wil- liams hit to second, double play, | Smith to Garlet to Ginter, No runs. The summary: first. A 0 PO E i Branch, ef. ....... 1 !'Spivey, rf. | Ginter, 1b..... Sawyer, c. 'Riggins, : }.\I(\hzn‘g. i |Smith, 2b ... LQanlstadR e ) GIHIeRDIe, Dy v b 3 Totals IDAVASHBR . aenah Giarner, 2b 4 NOIBS D v Standby, 1b McClure, 3b DUTPANGCA, @) “vividiv e Williams, cf .| Del Rio, of. +...... 3 Scott, 1f. Two Base Hits—Spivey, Del Rio. Base on Balls—By Gillespie, 2; by Mills, 0. Struck Out—By Mills, 9; by Gil- lespie, 7. Double Plays—By Lakeland, 4; by Arcadia, 0. o Base Hits—Lakeland, 8; Arca- dia, 6. For Arcadia—Del Rio got & beau- 'pop fly to the catcher, Smith out at | ——— yer,-0. e Time-—1 hour, 55 ii:lnutes_ Umpires—Henley and Roga Attendance—5(9. : Comments on the Game Glad to see the increase in 4 ance, It has reacheq the 5o 'now; let's go after 1,000, It took *just” fifty-seven and ope half minutes to play the first t innings. 10rg g Inark hiree} Four double plays is some for a hot day. Big Smith is doing some stick work these days and his hitg usually come when most needed. record Joe Levay is wearing a bigged smile than ever. There's g rease Claire Henley got hit by a throwg ball in the first part of the game ang we thought it serious for a mopey but a little ice water dig the worg No use talking; nobody loves ys fa FOR SALE—10 acres of good and fruit land 2 1-2 miles g town; bearing trees; 4 acrey yy der cultivation; 2 acres of timber; 5 room house just pleted; good cool water, $2,000 with terms. See owner. E. Brooks, near Cumbie's, oy Florida avenue. 62! (i WE ARE BUILDING several I ful up-to-date bungalows in ¢ park, the lovely west [Lak suburb, which we will sell on eag installments. See us at once 1832. D. H. SLOAN FOR RENT—Six-room house; g modern improvements; ten min utes’ walk of postoffice. Low ren to gooq tenant. Inquire A. J, Ho] worthy. Phone 277. 262 FOR SALE—Onions for picking, 3 cents peck. T. Etter, Route Box 46. 262 FOR CHOICE CUT FLOWERS for en tertainments, parties, weddings g funerals, see J. H. Tacker. Lak Pharmacy, agent for Knull, Tamp florist. 24 — J. H. 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