Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 22, 1914, Page 4

PAGE FOUR [he Evening 7ielegram I Uncle Joe Cannon is the most re- modern instance of a <ublished ek‘u‘y afternoon from the|statesman bounced out oi his job Celegram Building, Lakeland, Fla.|who can “come back.” Nearly eighty wutered in the postodice at Lake-|years old, he was renomiuuated for land, Florida, as mail matter of the|Congress up in lllinois tae other sccond class. day, and as his district is normally Republican he is pretty sure to be F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR.!¢j¢cted. Everybody likes the sturdy old fighter and he can alwa;s be re- lied on to add piquancy to the sauce of congressional debate. markable M. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Jae gear #X moucn= fhree mMONLAS . ....vnvnnn 1.25] =0 ! Delivered anywhere within the The Jacksonville Metrcpolis puts \mits of the City of Lakeland for 10| the value of the total products of sents & week. Florida for 1913 at $32,688,000. But this is far short of the truth, From the same office is issued for it fails to take into account the THE LAKELAND NEWS, many millions brought into the & weekly newspaper giving a resume | State for phosphates, naval stores, ot local matters crop conditions,|lumber, fish and oysters, strawber- county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere|rjes, vegetables, etc. Fifty million for $1.00 per year. dollars would be a fairer estimate of e e | the value of Florida proaucts for The other day the governor of 1913. Texas signed a bill just passed by the Legislature providing for a sys- Editor Woods of the Eustis Lake tem of warehouses owned by the Region has his back against the wall Sta?e in which the farmers can store |54 his feet planted on that bit of their cotton for a nominai fee and|gu;q oi] road in front of the hotel hold it until they choose tu sell it, |;\ his town and cries aloud to all in the meantlme raising enough | goypters and assailants, Powell pre- money from the State on the cotton ferred: to tide them over the emcrgency. This is better than holding conven- tions every year to confabulate and resolute for the good of the farmer and then going home and forgetting all about-it, s g ks S The other day in England David Albert Williamson, up in Jackson- | Llloyd George, chancellor of the ex- ville, finds a new application for one chequer in the British cabinet, made of his old campaign stories as fol-[a speech to an audience in Wales lows, which is not bad: justifying England’s course in going “We used to tell a story of the|to war, and among other things he bully who first declared he could |uttered these striking words: whip any man in that bar-room;| ‘Prussia is the road hog of Eu- then in the county; then in the|rope. Men, women and children and States. When he finally “‘got all that | naticns are ordered out of"the way. was coming to him and a iittle bit |Even Great Britain is ordered out more,” this bruised and battered |of the way. If the old British spirit piece of humanity piteously re-|is still left, the bully will be torn marked: ‘Well, maybe I tcok in a|from his seat. They thought we little too much TERRITORY!’ Won- |could not beat them. It will not be der if that is the case with the|easy. It will be a long job. It will Kaiser?” be terrible. But in therend we PR LERTIES shall march through terror to tri- Reduced freight rates will not|umph.” benefit the Florida farmer ghipping A his produce to market, thinks the| Secretary Bryan, who is the au- Tarpon Springs Leader, which says: | thor of pretty nearly all the modern “For instance: If the rate on a|Progressive policies of the Demo- crate of tomatoes from Tarpon |Cratic party, must be careful or he Springs to New York is now 80 |Will get in bad with the ‘‘Progres- cents, and the railroad reduces the |SiVe’ Wing” of the Florida Democ- rate to 60 cents, it enables the New |F2CY. In a recent issue of The York merchant to sell the crate for | Commoner he pays a high tribute to 20 cents less—the freight being pay- | Senator Fletcher of this State as able always at the other end. The |ONe of the strong leading Democrats consumer in New York, not the of the Senate whom ‘Florida has | farmer in Florida, gets the benefit. |Wisely decided to continue in the | Perhaps a very fair statement of |Senate.” And yet during the re- the problem. Now, what's the an- cent senatorial campaign in this swer? State We heard no end of talk by 0 the Senator’s enemies that he was Tmportant truths are sometimey|® “Teactionary.”’ Oh, Poiitics, how more effectively conveyed by irony |Much humbuggery is perpeirated in than by direct statement. This, for |thY name! instance, from the Orlanda Senti- —_— nel: A local correspondent of the “A magazine writer declares jus- [O0c2la Banmer, writing about the tice will be more nearly done in|War in Europe, says of the German our courts by shortening trials. But |emperor: ‘His people are denied he forgets that it takes time to se- [the right to vote or othcrwise to lect the twelve most ignorant men |have any say in the government.” in a community for a big murder “The gentleman is badly misinformed. trial, and then more time for the |The German people elect their own lawyers to so befuddle those twelve | Parliament or a large part of it, that when they retire to consider a|2nd while suffrage is more qualified verdict it is to determine not the |there than in England or this coun- guilt or innocence of the accused|tr¥, Germany has in large degree a but the merits of the debate. representative form of government 0 in the making of laws and the Kai- In the course of a sound leadlng.s” has been having much trouble article showing how the world is|fOr Years past with refractory sub- steadily progressing despite the jects who wouldn’t vote to suit him. prejudices of ignorance and selfish | The Socialists, for instance, who personal interest that would hold it |have more than a million votes if back, the Ocala Banner says: our recollection is right. Even in ‘“Search the world as you may and | Russia, where the will of the czar you cannot find one who does not|is almost absolute, a qualified suf- believe in the theory of the rotund- | frage now exists and the people elect ity of the earth.” a legislative body called the Duma. Alas for the credulity of the O learned! Why, Bro. Harris, the CAN'T SELL OYSTERS YET woods are full of folks, most of = whom have had their turn in the FRQM PUBLIC E.l3 public schools, who haven't the re- motest suspicion that the world is round like an orange and revolves on its axis. They have the testimony of their senses that it is not round and is stationary and they flout as nonsense the education which teach- eg the contrary. And very many of those who deny this elementary fact in primary science, or never even heard of it, wear tailor-made clothes and are supposed to belong to the educated classes. And we don't than a hauled through the country by wag- doubt that there are more few of the public school teachers|,; " giate Shellfish Commissioner T at the oysters who are also wandering in darkness R. Hodges stated th sold here were planted nine months 01‘1 this subject. Fifty years ago every boy and girl that attended|,g0 and demonstrates what can be school was perfectly familiar with accomplished as a profitable indus- the fact of the rotundity of the earth try. Mr. Hodges stated that at Fer- and its daily revolution on its axis, nandina and along the coast south and not to know that much was a of Tallahassee the people are going $5.00 —_— — “Come one, come all; Thig rock shall fly From its firm base As soon as I.” Tallahassee, Sept. 22.—The first oysters of the season were sold here this week, having been procured from a private bed at Spring Creek. 1t is a violation of law to take oys- ters at this time from a public bed but there is nothing to prohibit a person from selling them from his private beds during any season of the year. However, they cannot be transported by common carriers ex- cept during the winter season. The oysters sold here this week were I State News of Interest GOOD BOOST FOR BUY-A- BALE-OF-COTTON PLAN Jacksonville, Sept. 22—The man- agement of, the local branch of Swift & Co. received a telegram yesterday‘ from headquarters stating that ev- ery branch house of the concern was instructed to buy a bale of cot- ton at 10 cents per pound. In giv- ing this unequivocal endorsement of the “buy a bale of cotton” move- ment Swift & Co. will perform a valuable service to the movement, as the company has over four hundred branch houses in the country who will buy, in the aggregate, more than $20,000 of the staple. DEATH OFNOTED FLORIDIAN Jacksonville, Sept. 22.—Senator A. S. Mann of this city died at Bar Harbor, Me., Saturday night after an operation for appendicitis, per- fomed there last Thursday. His body will be brought to Jacksonville for interment, former Gov. W. 8. Jen nings, his son-in-law, having left last night for New York to meet the body and accompany it with “Mrs. Mann and Mrs. Jennings to this city. Senator Mann was one of the best known citizens of Florida, hav- ing represented Hernando county in the State Senate for several terms, and having been engaged promi- nently in real estate busincss in this and other parts of the State. He was also an enthusiastic good roads ad- vocate and did much to stimulate road building in Florida. He was born in Centerville, Ohio, some six- ty-three years ago, and spent the last thirty years of his life in Flor- ida. TELEPHONE FOREMAN DIES FROM INJURIES Gainesville, Sept. 22.—N. B. Hall, plant foreman of the Southern Bell Telephone Co., is dead from in- juries inflicted at 2:30 o’clock Sat- urday afternoon when an awning, upon which he was supervising work, collapsed, precipitating him to the pavement. A ton cf brick, which formed the cornice ahove the awning, fell to the pavement and Hall was found buried in the debris. His left arm was broken near the shoulder and his left leg broken near the thigh. In addition to th‘s. he was horribly cut and bruised. J. L. Mooty, lineman with Hall, was painfully injured, but it is thought he will recover. BROWN WILL SEE FRISCO Jacksonville, Sept. 22.—With J. G. Wilson, who is charged with én- ticing a woman to accompany him from Sacramento to Jacksonville, in custody, U. S. Marshal J. C. Brown left last night over the At- lantic Coast Line for San Francisco. Marshal Brown intended leaving on Sunday night, but decided to post- pone the trip a day in order to be in the city until his chief deputy, N. L. Pinder, arrived from his vaca- tion trip to Canada. In Marshal Brown’s party was not only the pris- oner, J. G. Wilson, but the woman witness in the case, and Deputy Marshal Osteen. MWWMQS'MS@.M‘ Qg W. J. Reddick’s #EEEEEMOVED This is to notify my Patrons that I have moved from Main Street into my own building at 220 Missouri Ave. next to the Christian church, where I wil} serve you with First-Class Goods at Reasonable prices. Yours to Serve W. J. SRS OBOE NSO PO OIS ,50%%!’0‘2"2‘{(‘2@@0‘3’0@%0‘3’%% TR Sonin it =T o . Brmae EUNTING FOR ABSCONDING FLORIUA COUNLY TREASUREK Jacksonvilie, Sept. —A care- 1ul searca of the city by local po- lice detcctives has so far railed to disclose tne whereabouts cof r. Andrews, iue treasuier of Bradford county, tor whom Sherift 3. B. ven- mark, ot tbhat county, is scarchius. Andrews 1s charged with abscouu- ing witn $1,084.15 of the county funds, and also with highway ruu-! bery. According to the story told by Sheriff Denmark, the ofiicial drew out that amount of money, and en- | gaged in a gambling game. Shortly after tue incident, which occurred| last saturday night, he held up and; robbed two men of $500, it is claimed, and he is supposed to have lost -the amount to the two, takin: that method of recevering. It is said that Governor Park Trammell § yesterday wired Andrews’ removal from office, and , the town-State sheriff has three warrants for An- drews’ arrest. He is said to have come direct to Jacksonville from Worthjngton Springs. o WOMAN FORGER IN JAX STILL ON THE JOB Sept. 22.—Mrs. Annie Walker, a handsome young woman who was arrested early in the summer on forgery charges, con- victed, and her sentence suspended on condition that she leave town, was again arrested Sufiday by De- tective Henry H. Moore, on a sim- ilar charge, and was held by Judge E. E. Willard today on a bond of $300 for her appearance in criminal court. According to the volice, she cashed another check for $150 soon after she was released, and the name | which is alleged to have been forged , on it was that of C. C. Clayton, a' local hotel proprietor who was ac- | tive in the former trial in securing the suspension of her sentence, ln-! terceding with Judge J. M. Peeler. Mrs. Walker ig said to have been | positively identified by officials of the Citizens’ Bank gs the woman who cashed the alleged fraudulenti document. ; The State Bank of Florida is also | said to have been involved in a loss on another similar check, since the! woman's release. At her former | trial, che pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery and was found guilty of a third, the Florida Na- tional Bank being the chief victim. | Since her release, she is said to have used another name, and dis- guised herself. Jacksonville, FIRE ESCAPES MUST MEET REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW On account of there being a num- ber of fire escapes erected through- out the State, that do not not meet the requirements of the State law, I beg to ask that each and every one having to have such work done be- ing governed by the State law, chapter 6475, No. 55, section 14, acts of the legislature of 1913, submit their plans to me for approv- al before the work is done, and when such fire escapes have been erected, they have them inspected and approved by State hotel com- missioner before paying for same. A. L. MESSER, State Hotel Commissoner, BOEFOIOSOSOEC rocery 2128002 e i acsd OB BB 308 G PPPEEPPOPPPRPPRIERRPIDRR SPhbdd bbdddddddddihdd be glad to REDDICK B e s s Invest Your Money! BUY DIAMONDS At Present Prices they will Make you Money The war in Euvope has stopped the cutting and shipment of all kinds of gems, If you have any spare money, we can offer you a splendid bargain from new stock just received from abroad. 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