Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 17, 1914, Page 4

PAGE FOUR D, FLA., AUG. 17, 1914. THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKTI . = - n Ine Evening ielegram 1 1hlisked every afternoon from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. S ——————— 2. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. P ————— SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Jne pear 3 ... 85.00 BIT MOULA® '« oviesrrssssnnnsie 8iB Fhree MONLAS . .voo-vreners .0 1:2b Delivered anywhere within the Limits of the City ot Lakeland for 10 eents a week. [ prom the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume rf loca) matters —crop conditions, ¢ounty aftairs, etc. Sent anywhere tor $1.00 per year. T to the iSuropeai con- Petershurg Times rested a Referring flict, the St “Nobody has yet sug for this war.' W ed man a few days ago refer to it as says: name heard a disgust *and while it will | 1h P a “damphool war,’ hardly fizure that that preity close to the facts and (hat the way istory, we suspect that citizen was | people who will have to pay the bill | in human lives, suffering ana treas- ure fully agree with him. 0 Carranza's troops entered the City of Mexico and took possession with- out bloodshed —and viithout Villh, which probably seems to a| zood many people that country as stazing the drama with troubles also down in the hero left out. Mexican have pretty nearly vanished from the horizon of world interest now, but Pancho Villa has his country- I8 R ap- men guessing at a fively rate, very sure that Carranza has to pease him or he will pull out anoth- er full-born revolution from under his greasy old shirt, for that is the Mexican way. : B EIREE AR What about that new brand of diplomacy in dealing with foreien natinng which Woodrow Wilson in- | augurated in our relations in Mexico ! and which provoked the contemp- tuous guffaws of the enemics of his administration until recent silenced their foolish noise? good diplomacy wasn't it as by comparison with the brand? The latter plunged a'l Eu- rope into war after one short week of impotent effort, while the Wilson kind saved this country from a need- Jess war, vindicated the ricite and dignity of the American flag and sailors, helped to drive Huerta ent of Mexico and put the government of that country in the hands of the constitutional party. The poliey of President Wilson stands gloriously vindicated before the world today and his foreien diplomacy marks an epoch in human civilization . events Pretty tested Furopean e With some pride in our past per formances in the line of war pro- pheey, including notable prize ring events, we hail a supporter for our latest prediction and take him into our school of propheey as a bright and lando Sentinel failed to preserve the peace of Europe through diplomatic sources, the Lakeland Teleeram pre- dicts that actwal fighting wiil within eight months. That's a safe prediction. In these days of quick transportation and quicker ¥illing devices if actual fighting lasts ecight promising novitiate, The or- says: “Having end months there won't be enough live soldiers left to bury the dead AR ey The blood-thirsty millions of {lect to writing thig to inform you that al- itongh Mr. Wessels did come here with that purpose in view, the com- mission failed to sign a contract with him and he returued to New York wi.hout collecting any money. The commission has all of its plans made to raise the necescary funds for this undertaking, but so far as I know, no outside solicitors are to e em- ployed in this work."” The dignified Miami Herald tells a contemporary with whom that pa- per is at issue to “keep your shirt on.” The advice will probably be taken except at bedtime, although it was hardly necessary to give it the cold type. Sl e s DO NOT NEGLECT TO BOOST YOUR OWN CITY publicity of If you live in town vou should be i) If you don't believe your a little better in | lieve in it. own town or cit most respects than any of its neigh- move Like | has advantages that hors, you should out. other places, it have not, and should not prevent you from making | ithers your modesty known whether the oppor- itself. At suing that fact home o1 pleasnure tunity presents abread, whether p zod in business, do not neg- or ent those whom yosu come to understand that give in contact with yon live in a live town, populated by enterprising, wide-awake, 2o-ahead people, and one that is advancing in- stead of retrograding. If truthfully speak in commendation of the ability of your professional men, you can | the square dealing methods of yonr merchants, the superiority of your churches, schools and public nstitu- tions and industry, energy, and so- | briety of your citizens, let nothing prevent from exercising that. You should learn to helieve, if do not already, that we have all of these and in addition the best locat- od town, the finest country surround- ing it, with the most intellizent cl of farmers to be found. If there a drawbacks it will not sary to mention them. The people of competing towns will relieve you of that task by attending to that part of It themselves. Strangers seeking locations are always greatly influenced in favor of any town whose citizens are enthusiastic in its praise., No city or town expeets to attain prominence over its rivalg un- less its inhabitants appreciate the excellence and virtues of each other and will collectively spread abroad their faith in the present and future greatness of their local- tity, Talk ig a cheap commodity, hut when rightly utilized 1t can be made effective in many directions, and this is one of them.--Goodwater ]‘ZIHWI'—Y vou you any be neces- prosperity prise. AFTER PASSING YEARS Lakeland Testimony Remains Un- shaken Time is the best test of truth. Here is a Lakeland story that stood the test of time. It is a story with a point which will straight home to many of us. Mrs. F. M. Smith, Bay and lowa Sts., Lakeland, have Doan's Kidney and on for without has come gays: 1 used Pills off time and wouldn't be them. 1 had no doubt brought on by tion. The kidney action became ir- regular and my health was afiected. some attacks of backache, over exer- | PROGRESS MADE SINCE """ el lment sent out its first expedition for |Oregon and remained effective to the Americars came | nfluence FORT MEADE PLAYS day ,“ I.“\“. i ce y later. | J- Lo Clifton to G. W. ( the Baldwin Piano ( to occupy it a half century I i Aug. 15. 1914 | ; HEHE IUMUHHUWK Lpon his return he :ml\ounwd.lh:u‘ ¥ W Sv;xl%; to (ieo. \\. Stone. Florida. he had discovered a new CONUK 0 l‘l. I ] I'w’x'lhx.\u:) to Bertha John- | They are one of t} ARy 2 . the Antarctic regions which he o il LSO [ facturers of pianos The Fort Meade team will be here | ‘“m.. pame of Wilkes Land. His son. ! v AL Stewart. States and have th tomorrow to cross bats with the lo- """ \'\‘ -“'AuAr‘l' 1ed with ridicale and W. H. Parrish to 1 - ;\_ Me- | having the Dbest tor Sl doei Tl el ’ni,“[m‘zn subject of bitter fiha o Sl IR B O | pianos and there w be played—tomorrow's ganmie here, T Coy. 5 lina Wednesday at Fort Meadc and |troversy. s R H.m‘,-;; ..]_ A, Garber to Martin A Mor- tth.l, . Thursday on the home grounds| Today P! feally ‘l‘l, 3 ;.\ ,‘, ton WRLHECL & B0l again. 'I:lu» Fort Meade is one of the |S¢as have hesnehaticty (.wvmu | nald B. Ohlinger to W. J. 'unos, players, upri : 1 : 21 7.000,000 square miles, or one-eighth | Lond | erands within the n sn'oneth \l‘:lllllh t:m[ l\\-t- llmw ;;!;1)4-(1 "“ rhr. total land surface of the earth | Howey Land Co. jd-n\; yet and as-.the locals 1:ave een i 2 7 JEE—— i i & fontly sl ienathaned) by the)addition)| are stll HnknOWR GO SHER st FOR PLAIN IWING—Unde "" It you contemplat: of Brazier and Vaden, some good [ The zreat Am Tigan explotel H‘”“l}‘, P nd children's clothes, see lgoon and want to bu contests are looked forward to. Beck | vindicated and the \n‘mrln: ‘m““.' | \u; Avlor, who necds the ' colutely guaranteed will probably be in the box for Fort [nent is an established I;\(‘l: ].'\':M_-‘. \. i sows cheaper than you can | ppjce wait.and s Meade and Gillespie for Lakeiand in |ers have not only I‘mwf] fhaig St i ewhore. Mrs. Aylor iives in fuqp our prices bei tomorrow’'s game. There is strong |is o Wilkes Land but have di i vlvania ave- | wpere, i South Pole. The ext 5.000 talk of forming a league consisting ered of Yhor City, West Tampa, Liewster | et by Wilkes in the An and Lakeland to determinc the|been emulated in the _'\ championship of South Florida and ! day North Pole is we want our boys to not only give |tablished fact. Today, a sood account of themselves but to | cific ocean is a great c¢inch the pennant and let it fly over | commerce and SRSl =iy L the New Athletic park, and then we knowledge gath- ory ship findit accurate can say we are a regular baseball LMD the unlighted mazes | he of the South ed hy the; the nited State ring Expedit N 188 WILRES EXPEDITION 10 o torically, The Liits B RE !m: States still has an une veelled (By Associated Press.) e o Cdintion fh tha amtd-pacif i New York, Aug. 17.-—Sixty ,\'wursi,v\,‘:”,h is due to the blue-paper | azo today the United States govern-| with its quill-penned agrec treaty drawn up by Wilkes and the vian chief. Because of the de- exploring and charting the sonthern seas. The squadron of five vess ‘o action of the American ex- and a storeship set sail from Nor- plorer, Hawaii today is an Amori- folk, Va. Its chief, ('mmn:mdwrvwh territory and not a French pos- (harles Wilkes, was on board the on. The South Sca Island na- flagship, the Vincennes, which was tives remember “the Americen,” as to carry him around the earth dur- they called Wilkes, to this day. Ac ine the next four years. Rounding i tanght lcording to their myths he them hospitality which they practice tnday by sending the fairest of their islands, he| ..ion6 to greet the stranger South America, after a leusurely journey in which he stopped to ex- plore many unknown sailed northward along the coast of California at the time when it was under Spanish rule. He continued onward to the present States of Washington. Ile ar- rived in Honolulu at the time when the Hawaiian islands were about to vamg and hamboo tubes of water REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS (Furnished by the Security Ahstract and Title Company.) fall into the hands of the French Aug. 14 1914 But Wilkes made it so evident M. H. \\';mi to T. R. Preston. that the United States would tole- gessoms Tnv. Co. to Edwin C rate no such event that Hawaii re- mained an American appanage. In Samoa he drew up a treaty with the)p (. tribal chief that gave to the United! . p. McLain to States one of its most valuable nav-'p. 1ty Co. al coaling stations. He displayed \. B. Coker to M. Engsbrighton such a force in the Philippines that Alfred Fruit Land Co. to McComb. (arter-Deen Realty Co. to John John R Cox Lake Mrs. Logan, who is now in New York City, « Has just Sent ¢ La Mode a Shipment of the Newest Skirts, Silk Waists Dooan's Kidney Pills acted quickly and drove away all symptons cof the trouble.™ No Trouble Since On May 29th, 1914, Mrs. Smith said: “1 am glad to again testify to the merit of Doan's Kidney Pills My opinion of this remedy has not American newspaper readerg who have had their thirst for lated by the preliminary Furope until they are impa- tiently demanding still more, with every issue of the daily papers, re stimu- giiting in now more and much Ger- won't have to wait The armies of many and France are rapidly near- longer. vast ing each other at some point we are not permitted to know, for a sunreme trial of stren2th that will thrill and horrify the world. Such a conflict can't he delayed many days tonger, for huge bodies of troops on both sides have been converging to a com- mon center for many days past, and when they each new have finished with other we will probably have a that record in war will make al previous murder roilg seem small hy comparison . MR. WESSELS IS NOT IN IT has received a let- Metealf, of director of The Telegram ter from Mr. Ernest Jacksonville, publicity the Florida commission to secure an exhibit at the San Francisco cxposi- tion, from which we Jowing, which fully exy “In the issue of your paper of| Aug. 11, you have an editoria! in re- | New | to solicit rdto Me. E. J York who came to Florida Wessels of furds for this State's exhibit at the| Inter: Rxposition. I am just | | tional changed in any way. [ haven't had to take Doan’s Kidney Pills for quite awhile, as the old complaint has not |« returned." Price i0¢, at all Don't | remedy--get Pill that had. Foster-Milburn | , Buffalo, N. R. | dealers simply ask for a Kidney Doan's Kidney the Mrs. Co., Props same Smith —— . [CONVENTION FOR FALL BUYERS ‘ . New Orleans, La Wholesale Merchants , Aug. 17 The and Manufac- | and Jackets s ’ y La Mode is also showing The New Feather 8 Toques 2| The Ladies of Lakeland are Burean of this city, which the turers’ | represontative embraces most element in the wholesa aistriet, have planned the entertainment of the visiting merchants durmg the | annual Fall yvers' convention which and will Over forty opened here today continue for four days thousand invitations have been dis- tributed throuzhout the south, as far north as Oklahoma and as far west Mexico. After the tusiness d style show, an cnter fam has been arranged S any heretofore ntion weel The ty oflicials and of the lead- cordially invited to inspect these latest conceits of Fashion a Mode : Mrs. H. LOGAN, 3 Prop. v ged to en- tertain the famili visit buyers and it is that will be one of the 0st prosperous conventions New ing has ever | & held | & with The Kimbrough s, made contract as 1 W i]rlii'uin Gaine 7. M. Thomas to Mrs. A L. ' smith. Lyle. | IS LIKE (0TI, @ an advertisen. 3 oA personality, W dandy line, THE STYLES ARE R, QUALITIES ARE Rt PRICES ARE Riig {THE BOOK STOR ! ;(MWxixi)éks‘(S)Q's oo Briudrndd 4 b | Guess Wheo' ) i Weddings Fine selection of the latest designs in Sterling Silber made by Gorham, Alvin and Whiting Mfg @ “None Better Made” 6 Cut Glass from;Pairpoint Corp., Hawkes and (!arl‘ Also the Popular : Hand Painted China, _ Remember the Gold Initial Chinalin_ piece dinner set. : H. C. 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