Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 2, 1915, Page 4

-§j&?‘.¢nnd class. Aol SO | | Ine fvenmq Telegram F olisked svery afierncon from the| Welegraa Building, Lakeland, F.a. kntered in the postoffice at Laxe- Asad, Florida, as mail matter of the! 3. F ALETAKRINGTON, EDITOR. | $6.00! SUESCRIPTION RATES. e gear &ix moacn= . 8.50! Jhree monuns . ... .. L35} Delivered anywhere within the: fimits of the City of Lakeland for 10 reats 2 week ¥rom the same office is Issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, i ]llfe and constant devotion of duty, L 'a marked characteristic with him, and running through his make-up was a golden thread of humor and he could tell and enjoy a good story with the best. But there is too much worth tell . ing of Frank Mayes to put into the space at-our command. We of the Florida press have suffered an irre- parable loss, for we shall not look upon his like again, and those who were closest to him and felt the magnetism of his presence, the charm of his simple, kindly, unaf- fected character and devoted friend- ship, and the inspiration of his clean feel a grief not to be expressed in words. He believed profoundly in the lm.l in North Carolina, says: Editor The Courier.: THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., FEB. 2, 1915- P e rm— ‘;md had the fore sight to have itaken up some of the homesteads !then to be had for a mere song LETTER FROM MR. FRALEY. Former Randolph Man Writes and stayed with them, I now Another Interesting Lettet About His Adopted Home, Florida—He Corrects {could have been rich enough to {have a fine winter home in Lake- {land and a fine summer home in Some False Statements | the mountains of Western North Regarding This | Carolina. Country. | Lakeland was just thirty-one 1_\'cifl‘s old January, 1915, and has, a population of 6,000. This is a Fraley beautiful spot, situated upon a hill 235 feet above sea level and Lakeland, Fla., Jan. 19, 1915. only about 32 miles from the | Gulf coast. Nine beautiful lakes The publishing of my letter in ‘are situated in and around the Writing to his old home paper Mr. your valuable paper in the issue city of Lakeland and all stocked Mirror,” one of the organs of of Nov. 19th, has caused me to with various kinds of fresh water Lots of pedple out of work. We' would like to have all to come and see for yourself, but would not advise ypu to come just now urless you have money enough to stay after you are here or enough to return if you should so desire’ My remarks are so scattering that I would not be disappointed if they should be cast into the maste basket. I will close with best wishes to all my Tar Heel friends. T. J. FRALEY. Our Modern Equipment Set of Teeth $8.00 Up Fillings soc Up H | | l (By Associated Press ) London, Feb. 2.—“The Nursing i | | | | trained nurses in Englands, calls at. Modern Dentistry This is a day and age of Specializing.. We are Specia in every branch of GOOD DENTISTRY.™ lisg and years of practical exper ience insures you Best Work at Reasonable Prices. L Crown and Bridge Wy $4.00 Up Roofless Plateg B Specialty S L5 higgs disease, Loose Teeth treated and cured. Tee extracted without pain. Come and let me examine yo » weekly “‘”D..p" "““ » mn':monamy of the soul, and now that 9. Jovs. mabtarh L0 eiuditions, lie has passed behind the veil that dranty alisics, ste) . ent .n"h‘"ihides the inscrutable future, we r $1.00 per year. know that all that is well with him; try my hand again to give to fish. your readers a few more lines Opn account of our favorable {from| the Peninsular State, the jocation, we seldom have frost in {land of sunshire and golden or-|Lakeland. While you in Caro- tention to the danger of spies mas- querading as nurses, and adds that Lord Kitchener, himself aware of this menace, caused an investiga- § § Sstroneet, + FRANK L. MAYES It is very hard to realize that Frank L. Mayes, of the Pensacola Journal, is dead, and when the As. socdiated Press dispatch came yester- day announcing it, it sent a shockl to the heart of every newspaper man | 'n Florida that read it, and to those who knew the Pensacola editor and had been admitted to the circle of his close personal friendship, the brief sad story that came over the wires carried a deep and poignant sorrow. It seemed unbelievable. To associate the ghastly, grewsome thing called Death with the bright, keen wholesome personality of Frank Mayes was grotesque—out of the natural order of things—a| cruelty so wanton that it was not Poseibie M@ World ‘governed by a kindly Providence. But the great A. P. makes no ‘ designed for Heaven, we take it, is the place for those who wrought well on earth and, being called hence rich in the treasures of mind and heart, leave behind them the memories of just, clean, generous | lives. \ S A Chicago mail order house has just declared a stock dividend of fifty per cent on a capitalization of $20,000,000. And yet the people who put up the money to pay that dividend could doubtless have had better bargains from their home papers. Pt ARG Congressman Emmett Wilson, who has been on the sick list for some ; weeks in* Washington -and--has; re- rned to his Pensacola home to re. cuperate, wants it distinctly under- anges. {ago, when 1, a farmer boy in old | Randolph had my first case of real Florida fever. !glowing land companies by fragrance of a good name and the i‘chance happened to get my name and postoffice address and mail- ed me a lot of litcrature concern- ing the wonderful town of Sil-! ver never forgotten how I read ev- ery line of their glowing circu- lars, and how I longed to go to that wonderful land of promise. ness at that date and if perchance merchants if the latter had penlst—il had wandered to this land th.cn ently advertised them in their home and discovered the preserit site of this beautiful city of Lakeland mistakes in such matters. Frank S5tood that his illness has not been Mayes was dead, and it is doubtless serious enough to kill his ambition ! the newspaper ranks of Florida that brought more real grief and sense of personal loss to a larger number of people in the same profession. His was a rare, fine character. He was cast in a mould of almost unique ex— celence, for, combined with personal charm and social graces not often miet with, was a strength of fiber, 'firmness and force of conviction and keen appreciation of the practical slde of life and its Tmperious duties that made him a forefront figure in his community as a worker for the common good and an inspiring ex. ample to all around him. Nevar very robust, his capacity for work was marvelous, and he met the daily duties and exactions re- quired for the management of the big newspaper property he had built up with a quick decision and quiet force that carried the business forward with the smoothness of a perfect machine in which there was the maximum of efficiency with the minimum of friction. He was a wonderful manager, and he made the Journal people as one family, bound by the ties of a common in- terest. No man in his employ ever complained of Frank Mayes, but he would have good work or none, and, while he was paticnt and forbear. ing, and made large allowance natural limitations and infirmities, the one who wag persistently un- worthy had to go and he left with no grudge against the man who “fired” him. He came to Pensacola a raw youth from the great plains of South Da- kota, and when he got there and de- termined to locate permanently he stripped himself bare of every ham. pering prejudice and became a citi. zen of Florida in the broadest trn est, finest sense of the word. Ile was a Floridian to the very core, and in contemplating his many - sided character nothing is more im. pressive than his splendid Io)'alty' to Florida and her people, including fthe old-timers of another genera- tion, his constant and earnest efforts | to aid in the development of the State, to disconrage all harsh or in- vidious criticism and to discover the &ood in all men and all thines. His impress was upon every is of the Journal. He dictated its pol. fcies in all things. He kept his mind open on all subjects. Fe ab~ horred Dbigotry and intolerance as he did the devil, and with it all he ‘was strong in decision of character and lived true to his ideal that as' the editor and owner of a prominent | and influential daily paper he must ! swing it always on the side of right &—not mere expediency-—and make it true that no death ever occurred in ‘@0 the gentlemen who are counting for |’ on his retirement are reclmn!ng| without -full knowledge of the sub- ect. Mr. Wilson evidently intends to succeed himself. RIS RS, HOW A SOUTH GEORGIA PACKING HOUSE PAYS ‘Who said packing houses for hogs and cattle wouldn't pay in this part‘ of the South? And who said that | this section, including Georgia and' Florida, didn’t raise enough hogs} and cattle to keep such an enter.| £ prise going? Moultrie {is a little iclty in South Georgia, not far from the Florida line, and the following from the Moultrie Observer tells its own tale: q | “Eighteen thousand, two hundred and eighty.two dollars was amount paid out by the Moultrie Packing house last Saturday to the; «farmers of this section for stock. | “It was the banner day since the | plant started buying stock, and they lcame from everywhere—South Geor- gla, Florida and Southeast Alabama. Twelve cars of hogs and some cnt-l tle—fifty wagons and then some un- | loaded at the stock yards, and the wards were so full that the Georgia Northern yardg were put into com.' ‘mission and these also were filled. Yesterday was another big day —nine cars having arrived by rail- ['rond and one turned over in tran- 8it, besides a great string or wagons [from Colquitt and surrounding | ccunties brought in hogs and now there are so many hogs in Moultrie. that one can almost feel himself ‘grunt as he goes to business. } “Instead of decreasing after holi. ! days as was predicted by some, the | receipts largely increased, and each Hoy brines more and more to the ‘Plant. The plant is killing several tundred daily but the number in the yards increases, and it now looks dike Mr. Brooks will have to in- struct his agents to hold up for al ‘few days until he catches up with | his killing, as his storage rooms are 'filling so rapidly he will have to get some of the cured meats out lest his storage reach their capacity. “One of the finest cars of hogs re- iceived last week came from Bar. ‘wick,wick, the famous town of| Brooks that does everything it does well. The average of the car of sixty which was all that could be got into it, weighed 269 pounds and a fraction—the largest average of any car that has yet come to the plant. There was not a poor hog in the bunch and Mr. T. M. Mas- see, the leading citizen of Barwick shipped this car for his neighbors. The Barwick people were greatly pleased with their superior effort in G P rn instrument for service and con- structive work in every good cause within its range. Under this in- epiration he doubtless wrought moere for Pensacola and West Flor. ida than any other one man of his time, and in the things he has done for the betterment of his home city and section along moral, educational and material lines he has left an enduring monument to himself and & noble heritage to his wife and children. The people of Pensacola honored him as their chief citizen and they knew always where to find him in every issue betwesn right and wrong. He knew journalism as few men do, and he was one of the clearest and mast eon- vincing writers pn tne State press . A leader from Frank Maves went all over the State. His mind was won . derfully quick and encompassing and it drove straight to the heart of ev tion and was not to be di .WANTED—Partner in established side lssues or specious Intellectual honesty was: this matter and incigentally, they were pleased with their checks for those hogs.” LYRIC'S BABY SHOW The baby show which closed Sat urday night at the Lyric theater was a grand success, especially Friday and Saturday nights. On Friday night the crowd was so large there was not standing room and on Sat. urday matinee and night the side. walks were thronged with people waiting for a chance to get in. This was by far the largest crowd in the history of the show, there being over nine hundred paid admissions. For|- benefit of the hundreds who were unable to get in Saturday night the hohy and schon! pletures infludipg over a hundred new ones to be tak-|. en this week will be shown azain|3 Thursday matinee and night. § 3733 | @ i real estate business. Add. “Busi. nees,” care Telegram. 3761 It was some thirty yearsllina have had lots of cold weath- er so far this winter we . here, have had only one light frost this season., We have ripe strawberries ev- ery day in the winter and our to- mato vines are blooming and {bearing, not being cold enough to kill them this winter. While ,we have such lovely winters you would imagine that we would have awful hot summers. This is a mistaken idea. The summers ‘are long but not any hotter than in the Carolinas. The thermom- eter scarccly goes over 9o in the summer time and there is near- ly always a good breeze. The nights are fine for sleeping all the summer. Somte may say the mosquitoes are so bad here you could not stand them. This is another mistake. There are al- ways some here during the sum- mer, but all you need is to have ‘your house screened and then you can sleep under the gentle breezes with perfect delight. There are many wonderful springs in this country that are worth a trip of many miles to see. Sulpher Springs near Tam- pa, Florida, gushes up out of the ground and at the first leap from ~ the spring flows a stream of water much large than either Fhomas Creek or Second Creek, which T remember so well in my boy hood days. Also Silver s in about four miles of e ala, Florida. This spring is Yawe= the head of the Oklawaha river and steamers run from Palatka to Silver Springs and anchor in this spring. The water is said _ to be about 80 feet deep and so clear that you could see a ten- One of those Springs, Florida. I have Florida was almost a wilder- the Scene from ACROSS THE PACIFIC, cent piece on the bottom. the great G reel Western and In- You might sum it up that Flor- dian feature at the Auditorium jdy 5 a good place to live and Thursday night. One of the great - that would be right. At the est features that ever came to pregent time the war has struck Lakeland. \is hard and business is very dull. [A210] ' q The Building of the Panama Canal Was a Great Achievement It requires determintion, energy, pu:h and iumber to build anything —even a House, Barn, Shed or Fence Whateyer you determine to build SEE US FOR THE MATERIAL Red Cedar Shingles a Specialty o ———— D Lakeland Manufacturing Company LAKELAND, FLORIDA SPPPPPPPVPIPPESOBIHE Fresh Groceries B e e Clean Store Right Price Good Service Large Stock Yours to Please D. B. Dickson 1 this implies was not made clear. tion to be made at one of the South- ampton hospitals some weeks ago. There he found, according to the journal, that four women had been ‘indiscreet in the matter of discuss- 'ing matters relative to the army. While they were not spies, they' showed so little common sense that they were dismissed. On the other side of the channel . the state of affairs has been more Offie Hours 8 to 6. :fnund to be out-and-out spies. B'oth xo'w FRENCH PEOPLE were Americans with German sv™. CURE STOMACH TROUBLE pathies, according to the “Nursing Mirror,” and both, it says, were “ef-| 5 jougehold remedy of the French fectually dealt with.” Just what peasantry, consisting of pure vege.- ‘table oil, and said to possess won- At any rate the agitation has re-'jorty) merit in the treatment of sulted in a close scrutinizing of the stomach, liver and intestinal trou- record and antecedents of all pros-'me!, has been introduced in this pective nurses together with the en 'Icounlry by George H. Mayr, who forcement of ail manner of strict . twenty. years has been one of regulations at every hospital. the'lesding downstown' druggists, of Chicago and who himself was cured teeth and make you estimate. L OFFICE UPSTAIRS FUTCH AND GENTRY BLD| Suite 10-12-14 Separate Rooms and Equipment for White and Colored Children’s Teeth extracted, under ten years, FREE. Dr. W. H. Mitchell’s Painless Dental Offic{ Lo o Iserfous. Two nurses were recently P#¢Peddddsttdddstdstdd be refunded without question ‘quibble if ONE bottle fails to you absolute satisfaction. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 2 Babylonion tablet, believed to been buried in the earth more 4,000 years, and containing ‘earliest law code, recently has unearthed, and is now in posses of Yale University, it became ki today.’ The-tablet ia heavily r but part of it has been cleaned ‘LOOK 0UT FOR BOGUS SOLICITORS deciphered. The laws are wri in Sumerian larguage, the lang by its use. So quick and effective is its action that a single dose is usu- Jacksonville, Feb. 2.—It having been brought to his attention that certain people in the State are so- liciting funds, who tell contributors that the money is for the Children's Home Soclety of Florida, Marcus C. Fagg, superintendent of the organi. zation, in a letter to a local paver, suys that his society has never au- thorized any one to eolicit funds in twe name of the organization. “We have no solicitors,” says Mr, Faeg, “and if any one is engaged in securing money in this manner, it ig not authorized by the society.” { Arg you going to set citrus fruit " e trees this season? If so write the Rockdale Nursery Co., Titusville, Florida, for prices at once. It will pay you to do this before placing your orderg elsewhere. We have more than 125,000 trees available for the market in varieties as follows: Pineapple Orange, Indian River Sweets, Valencia and Hart’s Late, 3 | to 7 feet only; few Parson Brown, ! Jafia, King and Homosassa. Duncan and Excelsior Grapefruit, 3 to 7 feet. Sicily and Everbearing Lemon, Ta - | hiti and Mexican limes 3 to 7 feet. ' Our nursery inspected Nov, 21, 1914, and found to be absolutely free from White Fly, other pest and dis- sease. We guarantee our trees to be well grown and true to name. A ten acre grove (properly planted in Rockdale nursery trees and intelli. gently cared for) should in full bearing make an ordinary family ab- solutely independent. 3888' ally enough to bring pronounced re- lief in the most stubborn cases, and many people who have tried it de- clare they never heard of anything to produce such remarkable results in so short a time. It is known as ‘Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy and can now be had at all leading drug stores. It is sold with the positive understanding that your money will O SHPSEPPEPT Don’t let that cough '\ hang on. Stop it \ before it goes too far. \) Hood the warning. Get ) GE-RAR-DY LUNG BALSAM for coughs and eolds, bronchitis,croup,whoop- lg] ing cough, lung and throat troubles. At # gnrdmxgim in25¢ ttles. Acceptno substitute, 208 BY HENLEY AND HENLEY| FOR SALE IN LAKELAND KIMBROUGH SUPPLY C0 TS Has the largest and most comp’ete Undertaking De- partment in the County, and are the most reasonab'e in prices. Licensed Embalmer in attendance at all times DAY PHONE 386 NIGHT PHOME 224 Calls answered at all hours ELECTRIC MOVED AGAIN!! I am nowl ocated in the joom formerly occupied by the ‘White Star Market on South Florida avenue. TirdmKing a1 my former pa~ trors for past favers and so! liciting a share of yoor tr:de in my new location, I cm wours truly L e OROTINe ENNY Prompst Del. of Southern Babylonia prior to conquest by the Semiles or A dians in the time of Hammar Owing to the imperfect know! of the language the work of dec ering is extremely difficult, but university expects to have com translatjons made and published There laws are believed to been written about 2500 B. C. have Everything That is Kept in a First- Jewelry Store class Se us before purchasing elsewhere We make a Specialty of All Repair Wotk All Work Guarantee Conner & O’Steen | Jewelers NEXT DOOR TO POSTOFFICE YOUR EYES Are worth more to you than any other part of the body. V you feel them growing tired, ! ing, smarting or drowsy, thiu! Cole & Hull for your glasses. do our own lense grinding, all ¥ en lenses duplicated. “A Pleasure to Show Goods. COLE & HUL Jewelers and Optometrists Lakeland, Fla. ELECTRIC oeovososcsososc- o MOVED TO THE KIBLERHOTELBLOC FULL LINE AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES 4081 FLECTR AND MACHINERE: £ ;. THE ELECTRIC STORE Kibler Hotel Building Phone 4¢