Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 1, 1915, Page 1

THE LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM *\PUBLISHED [N THE BEST TOWN 1N THE BEST PARY OF THE BEST STATE BOOST-REMEMBER: THAT.SATAN STAYED. IN HEAVEN UNTIL' NE BEGAN TO KNOCK HS HONE TOWN' No.79 MANSNOW [GREEEE WL o o mees i s TR PERSA, FGHT ON THE VNG |ENTERTHE AR gl (CCUPED BY | SHP PURCHSE P WL CONE 10 RUSSANS AND | BILL RESUMED OFCONERE SERVS AD TURKS ROUTED, N THESENATE GERMAN mmnmu ARE {PROMISES mvu ALL HER RUSSIANS OCCUPIED THE CITY | SENATOR FLETCHER IN CHARGE 41 T LAKELAND, FLORIDA, MONDAY, FEB. 1, 1915. JLE TO OPERATE 1,000 MILES | FORCES IN CASE OF AN IN. VASION BY AUSTRO-GERMAN FORCES; GREAT MILITARY ACTIVITY AT ATHENS FROM THEIR BASE, DANGERS 0 SHIPPING IS GREATLY IN- CREASED (By Associated Press.) London, Feb. 1.—The view that Germans have entered definitely on a policy of destroying Eng- Ind’s maritime commerce with sub— rines ig corroborated by German papers, which mention the hking of British merchantmen as mew course of action. The papers pe this will produce striking re- Its. Five vessels have been tor- oed, three in the Irish sea and 0 in the English channel. The man claim that submarines are ble to operate as far as ane thou- nd miles from their base dis- Inetly increases menace to ship« JERMAN SUBMARINE OFF SOUTHPORT (By Associated Press.) ondon, Feb. 1.—A message from uthport says that a German sub- ine was seen off there this morn. Southport is eighteen miles of Liverpool. e ITCHELL DECLARES PLAN OF ROCKE- FELLER ABSURD (By Association Press.) ew York, Feb. 1.—John Mitch- former president of the United Ineworkters of America, told the eral relations commissicn today t Rockefeller's plan of settling Colorado labor troubles was ab- d. He said the working people not want charity, but independ- ce and the right to bargain col. tively. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS rnished by the Security Abstract and Title Co., Bartow, Fla.) Jan. 28, 1915 John Edmonds and wife to Lee R. Inehart . : M. Trammell and husband to H. Nysewander. ohn O'Keefe to Jacob M. Levins. nk Adams et al to Walter H. 8. ary D. Adams exc., to Wllle\'K LewNs. . 1. Mann to C. O. A. Grover. C. Getzen and wife to Mrs. mes C. Getzen. [Bowman Realty Co. ith . (W. T. Overstreet and muel F. Smith. no. B. Speth and wife to Samuel Smith. ‘Walter 1T Waldo. Maud Elma Qakman and husband Skipper Realty Co. Jan. 29, 1915 Florida Hizhlands Co. t Jackion et al. ‘W. J. Hower Land Co m H. Jackson et al. J. D. Botkins and wife to R. W. kin: . John D. West and wife to S. A. tingham . . B. Tison to Daniel C. Ryals wife. W. J. Howey and wife to G. W. to Samuel ¥. Lewis and to William to Wil wife to wite to M. | (By Assoclated Press.) Paris, Feb. 1.—An Athens dis. patch says Greece will come to Ser- via's aid with all her forces in every fresh invasion of Servia by the Aus- tro German armies. Great military lactivity prevails in Athens. CONDITIONS OFF PORT AU PRINCE ARE NORMAL (By Assoclated Press.) Washington, Feb. 1.—The crui- ser Montana, with six hundred ma- Tines, stationed off Port Au Prince, ‘Hayti, to protect American interests, with Rear Admiral Caperton com- manding the naval forces in Haytian 'waters, reported today that condi- tions were unchanged and all is quiet. FRANK'S APPEAL ADVANGED TOFEB 23 : (By Association Press.) Washington, Feb. 1.—The su- preme court today advanced the Leo JFrank habeas corpus appeal to Feb. 23 for oral argument, on the joint request of counsel for Frank and the State. NO FURTHER PROSECUTION OF BURNS' DETECTIVES (By Assoclated Press.) Atlanta, Feb. 1.—It was an. {nounced todiy that no further pros- ecutions were probable in the case iof Dan S. Lehon, manager of Burns Detective agency; C. C. Tedder, a former Burns employe, and Arthur Thurman, lawyer. acquitted in the superior court yes- terday of the charge of subornation {of perjury in connection with the | Frank case. {TWO THOUSAND ACRES OF FLORIDA OYSTERS Galnesville, Feb. 1.—Mmong the prominent visitors to Gainesville Saturday was Hon. Texas R. | Hodges, of Tallahas:ee, State Shell !Fish commissioner. Mr. Hodges 'was enroute to the Capital City from his boyhood home, Cedar Key, where he spent several days inspecting the oyster bed: There are about 2,000 res plarted in bivalves in the im ediate Commissior i state: ations he made the pros for the d are bright | from obser 3 his upon its present basis, is only about but thing for the rovided sufiicient protection ca |two years old, | prove State, a great n be thrown about it | | FOUR HELPLESS CE ‘{ILDREN EACH DAY CARED FOR | Feb. 1.—The ace number of children taken in each day by the Children’s Home So . ciety of rida is four, according to Marcus Fagg, superintendent of the society. At the present time there Jacksonville, aver- These three were , A palace such as any oriental potentate would envy is th completed by Henry Clay Frick, the coke man of Pittsburgh, which will be occupled by Mr. Frick FRANK L. MAYES OF THE and his daughter, stands EDITOR PENSACOLA JOURNAL DIED EARLYATHIS MORNING HIS DEATH, WHICH WAS sun_’juurnalllm he came finto ownership DEN, REMOVES FROM THE| STATE ONE OF ITS SHINING LIGHTS; HIS TFASSING DE. PLCRED ALL OVER FT.ORIDA (By Associated Press.) Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 1.—Frank L. Mayes, editor and owner of the i enncoln Journal, and part owner of the Meridian (Miss.) Dispatch, died today, aged forty one. He was prominent in State and national politics and twice cerved as delegate | to national Democratic conventions. Frank L. Mayes was a native of | Tllinois and while still a youth moved to South Dakota while that rregion was comparatively unsettled. In the office of a kinsman there he [learned the printing trade and a few | years later, equipped with transcon .| transportation, he nur(ed} tinental out for the Pacific coast by way of the far South. A mere caprice of judgment Induced him to go down to Pensacola when he reached Flo- maton Junction, forty miles above the city, and after he got there he was so charmed with the place that he made it his permanent home. He set type on a local paper for a time and in the changes of Pensacola L H. §. BASKET BALL of a small paper nnql ultimately ac- quired the Morning {Journal which he built up from a small affair into one of the leading papers of Flor. ida. After some years residence in Pensacola he returned to South Da. kota and married the sweetheart of his youth and brought her to his Southern home. Three boys and two girls have been the result of that union and Mr. Mayes was never B0 happy as when, after his day's ‘work, he could go out to his pretty home on Pensacola Heights and be wm- his wife and children. While never an office holder, he was re- lnrded as West Florida's leading citizen, and was frequently men- tioned as a candidate for governor, ,almost the entire State press urging him for the place. He had been a \citizen of Florida about twenty yvears ‘at the tima of his death. | RAILROAD SHOPS TO REOPEN Mobile, Ala., Feb. 1—Announce- ment wag made here today by Vice President and General Manager R. V. Taylor of the Mobile & Ohio railroad that the Whistler shops of that road, located near here, em-. ploying 800 men, will resume opera . tions on Feb. 1. The shops have been closed for six weeks., ms | WON THREE GAMES ON LOGAL_COURT _SATURDAY LARGE CROWDS WITNESSED THE EXHIBITIONS; AT NIGHT, THE VISITORS WERE ENTERTAINED AT A THEATER PARTY nity of Cedar Key, and | that | { high school added three new scalps f thit year's to their string Saturday afternoon, when Ruskin Colleze and Plant City | H. 8. industry, | it is destined to | I plled into the city on the 1 { from *Tampa, The boys and girls of the Lakeland met defeat at the hands of L. Owing to a slight misunderstand . ing about the schedule, the Plant City and Ruskin College bo; train demanding a ame with the Lakeland boys. The girls from Ruskin accom. panied their partners from the col lege, each between them and the L. H. S. girls. This made it necessary to play three games, as everybody wanted to play basketball. both | as a game had been arranged played on the Lakeland court. The | 'first halt ended 5 to 4 in favor or\ Ruskin college. In the last half the Lakeland Imym {rallied and in the last few minutes | lof play piled up enou:h points to! { win the third and final game by the score of 13 to 11, | This is how it happened that L. H. S. added new laurels to her al ready famous basketball For the Lakeland boys, {center and MeHarg at | played perhaps the teams. Adams at forward game of their basketball career, which i a pretty strong statement, consider ing the showing made by these lads st year while on the L. H. S. team | Phiiiips, best Flanagin and Hogan also played star zames for Lakeland, re. mindinz everyone of the hmmw‘ team of 1913-14. | For the girls. Elizabeth McHarg | and Clemwie Tucker played a won - ver. G. W. Weaver and wife to E. C. eltzer. orida Development Co. to G. |nre more dependent children in Flor- ida than on any other occasion and the society is handling the largest number it has on record. However, it is said that the applications for children to adopt equal the number taken in and on some occasions more. Therefore the society is dis- posing of the children nearly as fast as taken in. An annex will be erect= ed to the receiving home of the Children’s Home Society of Florida, this being decided at the annual meeting and banquet of the direct- ors and ladies’ auxiliary, held at the Seminole Hotel Thursday night. The society closed the year with no indebtedness. The report of the treasurer showed that over $30,000 had been collected in the past twelve months, which carried on the work and found homes and gave care to oy Springer nine hundred end fifty-nine chil- . W. Dickinson and wife to ¥, [dren. Supt. Fagg gave a detailed Ryall, trustee. report of the work during 1914, giv- . Hosmer and wife to Sher.|ing all fgures and the causes for the F. Pinafre. ' dependent children, alto explaining ward O. Flood and wife to Ir- situations which the soclety faces A. Yarnell et al. every year. orida Development Co. to H. W. tmyer. ". F. Hallam & Co. to E. F. . F. Porter to W. H. Over- . Land Co. to W. H. Overocker. . K. Clark and wife to G. W. on . . A. Evans et al to William M. nnah L. Bonus l:fl husband es J. Peter. da and Georgia Land Co. to B. Chapman. . R. Robertson et al to Florida Georgia Land Co. 11145 M. Corder and wife to Not at all daunted by the pros. |dnrnv| game at the forward posi- pects of facing two strong teams’one ] tions, while Ethei Ccoke and Mil. after the other, the Lakeland boys | dred Bowen did the best gulrdlmu agreed to take on Plant City first|ever witnessad on the lecal court. and Ruskin College afterward. So As centers, Evelyn Adams and at 3 o'clock the first game between | Dora Dickerson played a star game ! Plant City and Lakeland was called. |for L. H. 8. This was followed by a game be., Tn fact, all the Lakeland players tween the girs from Ruskin and the acquitted themselves with much dis. Lakeland girls, after which thetinction, and the new honor of win-| Lakeland boys took on their second |ning three games in one afternoon opponents of the afternoon. was well deserved. | The first game was lightning fast,| The visiting players were carried but a little too one-sided to be very |to the homes and entertained by our interesting. |boys and girls. The L. H. S. boys smothered Saturday evening at 7 o’clock all their opponents and when the whis.|the ball players in town gathered at tle blew at the end of the final half |the home of Pat Flanagin on Flor- the score stood 21 to 7 in favor of |ida avenue, where a theater party Lakeland. was formed. They then went to The girls’ game was even more |the Auditorium in ome large body, one sifed, the final score being 23 enjojying the show till 9 o'clock to 7 in favor of Lakeland. |'hon the Ruskin players bade us The visitors were unable to cage, good bye, and witi many yells for the ball while Lakeland’s forwards Lakeland and her people, returned found little trouble in piling up a to Ruskin, Fla. Everybody voted ‘bl‘ score. the day a huge success, and the Then followed the Jast game,, Ruskin players were loud in their which for excitement and Interest praise of the hospitality shown was one of the best games ever them. $4,000,000 house in New York which has just been ho is to make his permanent home there. The palace, on the ground formerly occupied by the Lenox library. WEEKLY HONOR .ROLL FOR WEEK ENDING JAN. 29, 1915 JAN. 30; DESPERATE FIGHT- ING IS REPORTED ON LEFT { BANK OF THE VISTULA (By Associated Press.) Petrograd, Feb. 1.—The occupa. tion by the Russians of Tabriz, Per-! sia, is offlelally announced by the general staff of the Russian army of the Caucasus, which gays the Turks were routed and guns, munitions and prisoners taken. Tabriz was occupied Jan. 30. Other Caucasus fronts reported unchanged. The e who have made 90 per cent | Russian general staff issued a com- or above in have been perfect punctuality and attendance are en-|ate fighting on the scherarship and who [ munication in deportment, | Progress in East Prussia and desper- last night reporting Vistula’s left titled to have their names placed on | bank. the following honor roll: GRADE XII Mary Groover. John Baskin. GRADE XI Genevieve Duggan. Mildren Hampton. Glenn McRae. GRADE X A James Boulware. Virginia Lufsey. * Alma Bassett. ‘Eolia Leighton. GRADE X B Robert Edmiston. Brunell Swindell. GRADE 1X A ‘Hazel Padrick. Marguerite Straw. Eunice Keen. GRADE IX B Ethel Cook. Elizabeth Meharg. Gladys Kerr. Effie Johuson. Henry Conibear. GRADE WIII A Roy Mitchell. Esther Gill. Kirby Baline. GRADE VIII B D. H. Sloan. Mary Weaver, Maude Adams. GRADE VII A Fannie Carleton. Clifford Ayers. iladys Teed. Nora Kanode. GRADE VII B Jonnie Haynes, Ellen Watson. Elmer Hinckley. Walter Miller. Bronson Bryant. GRADE VI C None. GRADE Tyler Jackson. VI A Annie Helen Mor:e, GRADE VI B William Mellwain. Fay Fletcher. Opal Lee Bullock. o Hetherington. Helen Futch. GRADE VI C None GRADE V A Lois Fitts. D. H. Houser, GRADE V B None. GRADE V C Winston Smith. Mortimore Haynes. GRADE V D Mary Louise Boulware. John Cannon. GRADE 1V A Edwin Robertson. Edith O'Doniel. Wiarne Bevis. Gettis Riles. Elizabeth Forster. GRADE IV B /Raymond Clary. Isabelle Todd. George Matthews. GRADE 1V C Bertha Cameron. Clara Goddard. GRADE IV D Audrey Sims. [Charlotte Redgrave. GRADE III A Donnie Miller. Boyd Holland. GRADE III B u-»m‘m-i. Elizal Yarnell. Ula Shepherd. Charles Brandt. Mary Fixter. GRADE mI C None. GRADE It D irace Haldemaa. Sallle Bryant. Seixas MecGlashan. (By Assoclation Press.) Berlin, Feb. 1—Official dispatch- es received today from Constantino- ple announce that the Turkish fleet successfully shelled a Russian mili. | tary position on the west coast of the Black Sea. POPULARIING GRAP: FRUT AND ORANGES Editor Telegram: I fear the Florida railroads are not doing their part to popularize the pomelo (why call it grapefruit?) serving them in their diners at 6c and 10c and 10¢ land 15¢, as published in the news- papers two to four weeks ago, for a friend from Minnesota arriving here a week ago says he was charged 25¢ by one of them. This seems close to an outrage, when pomelos are 8o cheap, and especlally after the publication of their far.sighted plan for building a big freight and express business from citrus fruit; it certainly was a great mistake. The pomelo throughout the north (everywhere north of Florida) s offered at such high prices that it is universally considered as a luxury, used by very few regularly, by many only at semi.occasional spreads, and 'by the vast majority never. I sel- dom used them till after I got to wintering in Lakeland, and found ‘that fresh ‘“‘drops” were as good as any and could be bought cheaply at the grove. Then I tried them out thoroughly, and formed such an ap- petite for them, better than medi. cine for my health, and habit for eating them, that now T won't start ly the year round as they can be had. Humans are very much alike, land T count that half our population | would be if only civen a {decent chance to form the habit. { 1 believe the growers around {Lakeland and throughout county, with little e lana congiderable "hr\lr groves and the public health, |can do much to create in the North like me Tort, pre-ent {such a widespread demand for cit {rus fruit, by first starting the appe |tite and habit here, that inside of of this country would be doubled, and that the increasing would continue indefinitely. How do this? Why, by the| my breakfasts without them as near.| Polk | no expense | benefit to | three years the ecitrus fruit demand | OF DEMOCRATIC FORCES; SEN. ATORS TO SLEEP ON COTS IN THE CAPITOL UNTIL BILL IS DISPOSED OF (By Assoclated Press.) H ‘Washington, Feb, 1.—The fight {over the administration ship pure chase bill was resumed in the Sen- ate this morning after a truce since midnight Saturday. The Demo~ crats declare' they are determined to keep the bill continuously , before the Senate until it is finally ds-. posed of. The Republicans con. tinued their attacks on the measure and say they will meet every Demo- cratic move. President Wilson gave permission to put cots in his room at the cap- itol so that Democratic senators may keep near the chamber at night for the ship bill roll call. Senator Fletcher, in charge of the bill, de= ‘clared that they will stay until the vote is forced. SHIPS WILL NOT BE BOUGHT THAT WILL CAUSE FRICTION (By Associated Press.) Washington, Feb. 1.—Secretary Bryan issued a statement today fore mally denying that any government had protested against the bill pend= ing In Congress for the purchase of ships by the United States. Admin. istration sources, close to the presi- dent, reiterated that it is not the in- tention to buy ships which will cause friction with belligerent na- tions. PRESIDENT WANTS TWO BATTLESHIP (By Association Press.) Whashington, Feb. 1.—President Wilson told Senator Tillman today that he believed Congress should provide for two battleships this year Ho did not agree with Till. man’s plan of none thig year and four n.xt MAY WHEAT REACHED $1.57 TODAY (By Associated Press,) Chicago, Feb. 1.—May wheat ‘reached $1.57 per bushel today. and you with the far better Florida orange and pomelo, what? I have been told that not a few citrug growers declare they will not sell their fruit at such low prices as now prevail, but will let them rot in the groves the rather. This, even though detrimental to the next . ar's crop and to general health. | T think such growers, it not true | pessimists, do, at least, need to try |to get a vision of the future, and remember that the greatest success. ve been attained by failures and have been used by determined men ungs of the lad- i"rr to their su es. Better than |do what they say in their discour- |agement, brace up, and get theip {fruit into the big country that knows nothing of how superior . Florida oranges are, and show the | obstacles, which demand | natives there hy your cheap fruit, for they are “willing to be shown,” better cleanup your groves for next growers, little and big, selling their year's crop, with a vision of better pomelos at a fraction of a cent aplece—rather than let them rot on the ground breeding harmful in. sects, and polluting the air we breathe—to worthy and rellable men, needing to earn more than they now can, and arrange to have them sell these “drops” from house to house at one to two cents each to the hundreds of northerners winter. ing or visiting here, and not over= Jooking actual residents. At such price as that they will go, and they will start a movement for thelr great future benefit, sure. Selling the fruit crop rizht now, ‘when at Its best, filling the great country north of us with cheap fruit, and the best grown, at even present low prices, as the Telegram has been advising, would be the best paying advertisement the growers ever did for can do—and they must advertise in some way, or fail, or live at a “poor dying rate.” Why not ape Califorians this once, and flood the country with cheap oranges, “the best ever,” as an effectual advertise~ ment to be certain of good results, «+++ @8 they were, and they got there— things to come, even if you don't realize a profit of over 5 or ten per cent. 1f citrus growers do not broaden their markets, they may as well pre- pare for other occupations. For hundreds of acres are belng added to the south Florida citrus groves an- nually. Enough are now being raised for the present markets. Es- pecially it green fruit is to continue going upon these markets to destroy them. But with proper efforts the market can be so enormously extend= ed that all south Florida planted to citrus fruits can scarcely supply the demand at reasonable, paying prices. I deem citrus fruit growing an ideal occupation in this ideal climate No “get rich quick” scheme, but a profitable business, and were I now & young man with my present knowledge, I would lay out a grove in Polk county as fast as T could buy and clear the land and plant 1t, from 10 to 100 acres—the more the better within that limit—as a man can give it his attention and handle it himself and succeed. M. G. WILLARD.