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

PAGE FOUR EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKEL AND, FLA., JUNE 29, 1914, The Evening Yelegram rublished every afternoon from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the gecond class. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Jne year Bix montne 'hree montns 1.25 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week $5.00 2.50 From the same office is issue THE LAKELAND NEWS, » weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, cuunty aifairs, etc. Sent anywhere fur $1.00 per year. —— e There ought to be a place on the staff DeBerry's for A T Angle—fighting editor, would | of paper we PRy U i If all the defeated candidates had the faculty of telling “how it hap- Harry | Floyd, this would be a weary world. pened” as voluminously as e The proposition of one navy fer eight while savoring of economy, strikes us as being open to objections. Too much like one kitchen range, or one automobile, for eight families. PUELINER Y Tl Victor Star the bri lando poet, has a contribution to Current Literature, the refrain of which is: “It is done! Henceforth 1 will ride, ride, ride!” From this we infer Victor has purchased a Ford. R The Undertakers’ Union should pass resolutions of commendation to the memory of that Hillshorough county man, who, finding himself about to die, wrote out a check to cover his funeral expenses. ——0 nations, ek, liant Or- St. Petersburg is agitating muniei- pal ownership of its light plant, and a bond election will probably be called with the intention of purchas- ing the plant from its present own- ers. Municipal ownership is the only way. Thought the *“‘old-fashioned man’? who advertised that his wife had “left his bed and board” was extinct ~—as he ought to be. He crops up down in DeSoto county, however. Usually it’s a hard bed and bum board that's referfed to in such an advertisement. Dassiecy That $10,000 now available as Florida's portion of the agricultural appropriation under the Smith-Lever bill, was not just forced upon us without our consent. The fact that it is available is due to the efforts of Governor Trammell, who never loses a hance to see that the State gets whatever is coming to her, and who is particularly watchful of her farming and agricultural interests. Editor Russell, of the Brooksville Argus, broke into the ranks of the Benedicts this week. The leading article of the Fort Meade Leader, when its editor went through a sim- ilar experience a few weeks ago, was “How to be Happy Though Hot?" Brer Russell’s leader this week is entitled “Editors Should Be Chris- tians.” Doubtless hig first experi- ence of intimate association with an angel has turned his thoughts to heavenly things. B SRS Now the “purity league” folks want sex knowledge taught in the Sunday schools. Impure things would not be discussed half so much if it| were not for these so-called “purity” people. We have no patience with the prurient ideas which would rob little children of their innocence by filling their minds with things they cannot understand and have no need ! to understand until they are near- ing the end of adolescence. Tt used to be that all the sex knowledge HOW T0 IMPROVE GONDITIONS N FLORIDA The Lancer, in the Florida Grow- writes interestingly of road con- , etc., in the lasy 1s follows: er, ditions, firing fores issue of that paper, I am asked to attack the practice of burning over tracts of land on the ground that every fire takes more humus out of the soil than five years can put back again. It is the com- mon practice in Florida for the ca‘- tlemen to start fires on all vacant land that their stock is running over, not their own land mind you.‘I but lang belonging to others, so that ' the gra: will start up quicker in the spring. These fires are not par- ticularly dangerous, but they do run |throuzh thickets and burn much of ivalue that the soil would otherwise take up anq convert into humus, and they also for a time bring ruin to !1!1n appearance of the landscape and the 1 turpentine many thousands of dollars. operators T am not taking up the cudzet for the turpen- tine men, for they in turn have done more to ruin the appearance of the country than any other factor, though I suppose that turpentine is wealth that it would be a sin to al- low to lie fallow, but the ugly gashes on the sides of the beautiful pines, dumbly speak the agony of the mu- tilated tree, and are an affliction to the eye of any lover of nature. Settlers, real farmers, must come in hordes before we can hove to rem- edy the evils that we see in front of Lots of newcomers will restrict will no us. the range and then fires Srip e e PEDD P PP HPEPEREE nearly ready for BB PP B DBPP BB 3 GGG oo QBB o 0 e ool g ugeg Dok o] KBy Sy longer be necessary, the razor-back and long horn will be a thing of the ipast, anq the tapping of the pines, I for turpentine will be a forgotten irn- jdustry. I hope also that if we are to continue to rip up and gouge the surface of our lands for the mininz| of phosphate that we can at least use this phosphate at home, ang not | :ho obliged to sell it to Germany I'where it is mixed with other ingre-| idients anq millions of tons of it are {shippod back to Florida itself MI ;nguin be put into Iand, at muen, | profit to the German mixer ang thr'{ many hands through which it must‘ pass to get back to the Florida| | farmer. | Also will these newcomers help us get gooq roads, though we are !doing quite well just now, the prog- | ress made in this direction in thfl’ past two or three years being splen- ! did. However, we do need more| 'roads and better roads; better than {we are now making on the whole, {Some counties are laying brick, Wwhich will last for many years, bnt1 most of the money is being spent for |roads made of clay or other native materials and will not last; it muet {soon be renewed at a great expense. {1 Delieve that oil roads with rock , bottoms should be thoroughly inves- tizated by counties not contemnlat- ing brick on account of the cost. This king of a road would cost bt little more than native clay where ! 3 v oare length until such time as they are [costs Dbut it often 1 ! hecause they were lto be ltoo many period of flaxible consistency the ruts will be kept out of them .;m‘d they will remain smooth the whole worn out the whole distance. If yon cannot get your county commission- eors to try this plan, get a road drag I ) : government wiil ang it consistently vourself, the U. S. furnish you with the 1 and plan lras the road in front of your own place as an object lesson to Ui whole community . I am indeed glad to note the way the State press as a whole are beost- ing for good roads. Almost without are for the bond is- but too e¢xception they sues that mean better ro have been told ainst such bond issue simply afraid rhe money and that vot were g would be illy spent, or 2ra not because they did not want to see etting nation ‘Good roads” is whol ood roads the soon of the i ang Wi his a nation wide | who had as ouc of planks, a pledee for cystem of good roads. T am not one v building who believes that we are but help think 20oq roads the time I cannot of how many miles of price of one battleship would build, and then remember how much has bheen spent for battleships in the past. Why we coulq ride from Flor- ida to Main ang on to California same the funds will not permit of any- thing but native material. T know that roads can be kept in shape much longer if they are properly ang sys- tematically attended to. If such roads are smoothed with a roadq drag after every rain storm at a certain over 100 foot wide asphalt and then back again another route and all over every State in the country on such roads if all the money thus spent had been put into ‘“good roads” for the past 50 years. ever, we need the battleships; 1 do How- BERDEGDDPIDESDELDDIG BITIBIDBBDIDDN N2 e BB BB BB S BB B BB BRGDEE DD DDDEGDE D DD DG DD oo b Bt The Good News has just been received that our new fixtures are shipment,. Once here the work of Installing them will not take long. Our Atrractive and Convenient Rooms will be at Your Service. MAKE YOUR HEADQUARTERS WITH US. State Bank of Zakeland PEPGDBBDIDDG SPPIDPIIIPDPIIIDBEESHE SHIHEE D1 ger We Ask Your Patience a Little Lon 2§ G BEPODDHPEEBE PDPDPEEFFPPEPPEEEDOOSB DO B 3 & BEBOOGFDEPDDEGIEFLTEPDISDDEFPDIDEGDD biddd Senator John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, who is accounted one of the best story tellers in the country, told this one to several old cronies the other day. A generation a<o a want the rounds that Dr, Gwin, of California, the some time “Duke of Sonora,” the title given him in jest because of his efforts to colonize that Mexican State during the Second I'mpire, and the Hon. Robert J. Walker, of Mississippi, ex- secretary of the treasury, were goinv to fight a ducl with tomahawks. The quarrel was reconciled, it was said, in consequence of Walker's laughrer at discovering the erratic results of Gwin's private practice at throwing story deemed necessary was taught in the home, and there have never been turned out better men or purer wom- en than those whose instruction in these matters was thus limited. — i President Wilson predicts an era of unparalleled prosperity, following the completion of the administration anti-trust program. With the restor- ation of settled and stable conditions and the reforms contemplated pending legislation, there seems to be every reason for confidence in the by correctness of the president’s predic- tion. Down here in Florida the ef- fects of unrest and general unsettled business conditions have been felt less, probably, than rt of the country; but od times in the North and East, with the result- ant loosening up of money in the financial centers, will bring high tide of prosperity to this section, and & tremendous tourist season, with a large number of investors, is among next winter’s probabilities. the tomahawk at g stump. “There is a story of a similar na- ture told,” said Senator Wiliiu.as “of duel between Charles a Jam:s Fox, the famous English W hig statesman of the eighth century, and Mr. Adam of the British ordnance department, growing out of Fox's bitter attacks on the management of beinz that supplied to met and useless the ammunition The two exchanged At the second fire Adam was not hit, but his bullet struck Fox and stuck in the waistbanld of his thick leather breeches. ‘By Jove,” exclaimed Fox, on the instant, smiling at his own wit, ‘if you had not used ordnance powder I would now be a dead man.’ “A laugh followed, Adam offered his hand, Fox took it, and they were good friends ever after." forces. shots WANTED TO BUY -Water pumpin that department, the chief charee | W :L\" [L().\"l‘ Brown coat containing foun- tain pen, between Lakeland and Club House. Finder please return to J. H, McKay, Sought Information, Following Frank Mayo's wonderful success in “Davy Crockett” in this country, he took hig play to Lond, where, because it dealt with characters of western failed to succeed. performance in I proached by man, “I say, old chap,” said something in the meat. In this country a bar is either made of wood or iron. What, may | on, rural America, it After the first night sondon Mayo was ap- an English theatrical he began, “you play about b'ar outfit engine pump and talk. Box 517, = Will come Qood Crop assur Distance to plant Izeposits of one dollar accepted L Plant one small sum in the Bank up rapi deposits— It will grow! RESOURCES $150,000.00 ask, do you mean?” v..m:mmnmu,;.»‘..144..4..4 T ey N dl){— Grow into large fortune ed if attended to regularly not very far apart at our Bank. =S ey Comfort Firs Resolve this summer to be clac .y ably as possible. It’s easy to my. ¢ 0 dream of cool, safe and sane gyp) come true. Be Tailored in a Suit of Mohair, Alpaca or ‘France, in fact over Europe. Even SR, el Sl e e e T B ES - " [matter anq about. satisfy you beyond Keep You Cool. SPECIAL Feather- Wetght Wooleng The fit and finish will be & thing ¢ Toe gsrments will please all . measure o OFFLR Extra Pair Trousers FREE it Each Suit Order Williamson Clothing ( FASHION SHOP FOR MEN not doubt that in the least, but we are a rich nation and some day we will builqg good roads everywhere as they have done in England ang in (‘uba has some splendid government roads, ang they are very good in- deed. Speaking about citrus fruit keep- ing, 1 wish to state that I received a box of oranges and grapefruit from a grower at Winter Haven over two months ago. We had other fruit at the time and this lot has been wait- ing for us. We are about to finish the lot ang have kept careful track of the keeping qualities. Just one orange out of the whole lot has shown decay. We can understand from this why it is that Diamond “K"” Koplin has been able to estab- lish a paying mail order business and receive better than prices, A man writes me an insulting let- ter-telling me that the ruined him by enticing him to buy lanq in Florida that was no good, complaining that the land broke him and that the best job he has been able to get is ilearing land at $1.50 a day. Terrible hard work he calls it. Judging from the content of the letter, the handwriting anq the gen- eral make-up, I should judge that the last land he cleared contained many Slitzweiser Busches, We have always contendeq that a man was unwise to buy lang in Florida, or nywhere else, without seeing it There is a breconcerted movement on foot to form some plan Whereby this State may be advertised to greater advantage, An association of newspaper men have taken up the an organization complet- ed with Holly of the Sanford Her- ald president, Kettle of the Home- seeker sec retary and Hamner of the Growep treasurer, will have for This organization o its main object the raising of funds for tpe work con- templated anq it is hoped that the next Legislature may be induced to further the and put Florida on the map. cause ——— Advertising made grang California the State that it ig t»r at least made it much sooner th q It would otherwise brought about, progressive an have been While the little : State it- self spent ve ry comparatively, tunate of this money, Co-operation of they were for- he head of their Ystems men who ind who knew ng, their obh- i1 Or rather | 'z Ject being to b uild road : in traffic for the ; » not or the carrying of, people to C i I ) + but in the car- burn, anq and doing fane metrist who is cay ination, JEWEL American State Bank BE AN AMERICAN—ONE OF US. ment, South Dakota says: teen across the center of my b market |often got so bad that I cou on my customers at the kidney secretions frequent in passage and f Grower [sediment . | i | the boosters were for. | 4 in having the : want hauled as soon g producers. ( ihave been behing in this are waking up, the Line in particular amount of good advertising ; time. The hery doing g |A LARELAND MAN'S EXPE Results Tell the Tal Can you doubt the this Lakeland citizen? You can verify Lakeland o Read this: E. L. Kimbrough, mero avenue, “I was troubled for years with lan3 ack dnt ore acute were m I was in terrible and although 1 tried every rexd heard of, nothing did me any I finally began taking Doan's K Pills and I felt better after i one box. had taken four boxes 1 was it trouble. a symptom of kidney erouble sl in good health.” I continued and o Since then I havem Price 50c, at all dealers, simply ask for a kidney remeff Doan’s Kidney Pills ¢ Mr. Kimbrough had Co., Props., Buffalo, FOR SALE—Porto R 3 & | g o $1.50 per thousand Biogosfoefoe o DRr. SaMuEL F. S SPECIALIST AN EYE, EAR, NOSE HOURS 910124 2T0 41 SUITE, BRVANT LAKELANT does your head ache at ; We invite you to cons able to advise and give you a = COLE &HULL ERS & OPTO.\IETRISTS, LAKELANI