Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 12, 1915, Page 4

pvs i In the face of what's happening'representative who attended in Europe, Villa and Carranza Tae_ Evening Telegram ' Lvening lelegr . ued overy afternoon from the|Mexico, and mere party spirit in the siderably more activity after this Telegram Building, Lakeland, F.4.|United States Senate trying to de-|{week and a freer movement of “utered In the postofice at Lake-|feat a great patriotic measure to fryjit. It is fair to assume that and, Fiorida, as mail matter of the sive this country merchant marine, with this activity better prices ‘ wcoud class. so that we may be independent of ]| prevail. We usually look M ¥ HETHERINGTON, EDITOR.|forelgn ships to transport our own for petter conditions in prices in convention, expects to see con- to products, the Clearwater Sun says 1 . SURSCRIPTION RATES. the’ JFeid e Srowipe better. Wy ;‘i‘fi .,V;i'r:';itm:\::?:lt cg::il‘;:g Jne gear . $6.00 | think so, foo, but. we have to dig'.’ as i J o3 are as good. as usual, better 4ix moatn* . . « 2.50|deeply beneath the surface to reach _ . d af . ‘bree monmuns . ........ esee. 1.26]that conclusion. i prices can be expected after this. “The quality of Florida fruit going out of the state is the best in years, particularly grapefruit. Delivered anywhere within the tmits of the City ot Lakeland for 10 sents & week. *rom the same office is 1ssued THE LAKELAND NEWS, « weekly newspaper giving a resume 12 local matters crop conditions, «vunty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere w $100 per year. it No matter what the result of the fight in the Senate over the lhlp‘ % purchase bill, Senator Fletcher, of |1l & prospective customer eats this State, will come out of it with |one of this'ygar’s crop, he is sure enhanced fame. He is in charge of |10 b!-‘y 3‘9“‘“" I_ha"e bee“.on the measure and has done all that|a trip to sthe various packing! was humanly possible to put it|houses and never saw finer qual- through., But the rule which per-|ity of fruit or a finer grade of mits unlimited debate in the Senate | packing going out. If there is A FAME THAT ALWAYS GROWS The 2nniversary of Lincoln’s birthday is being observed as a na tional holiday today, hnd through. out the North generally there will be formal ceremonies and much fine oratory in celebration of the event. In parts of the South, also, the day will be observed in some more note - worthy form than by merely closinz the postoffices, banks and other pub lic buildings, and here in Lakeland there would have been impressive memorial services but for the unex- pected illness of the gentieman who had been selected as orator of the day. avail when there is a stubborn ma-[it will develop rapidly.”—The jority, and no matter how worthy a | Packer. measure may be,:if it is made a par. —_— ty issue, it cam be killed by mere SAVING THE CITRUS party spirit, especraily when there ~ are insurgents on the other side, as GROWERS BY GOI?C?ADS in thig instance, to help in the kill. ing. Senator Fletcher is now a na- ¥ i H tiona] figure, a statesman in the The Florida Good Roads As- tront rank, fighting for both the |Sociaton desires to advance the best interests of his party and his|interests of Florida in every way | country in behalf of the ship pur-|possible,” said Secretary Clark-' chase measure, and the people of [son today, *“and it appraciates Florida have a right to he proud of [ the fact that every automobile ¢ him. It was a fortunate duy for|stuck in mud or sand; hauled them, not less than for him, when jout at considerable expense and they returned him to the Senate by great discomfort, and then ship- Year after year Lincoln's memory [such an emphatic majority. pe dbach North, prevents at goes on its conquering way, destroy e g least one hundred others from ing the poisonous hates and stub.} THINGS TO FORGET. goming. With State supervis- born prejudices left us as an unhap - ! ion of main highways these py but inevitable heritage trom the| If you would increase your conditions can be overcome (ereat sectional war of which he Was hapniness and . prolong your|within the next year or two. l the pre eminent figure, and, now,|jife ‘forget your neighbor's faults.| “An angle of the road situa- half a century after AppomattoX,|[orget the slander you haveltion in Florida not usually ‘hate and prejudice have both ceased heard. Forget the temptations. to obscure our estimate of the man Forget the fault-finding, and we can see him as he was. The a little thought to th Plain people from whom he sprung |\ pich provoked it. Forget the Company, who has a winter and whom he loved so well, never|pacyliarities of your friends, and|home in ’DeSota county about produced a greater character, and in only remember the good points Saveh sniles Thom Avcadin. BHis his own personality were all the which make Jyou fond of them. ;"itrus fruit grove Sl e 4 magnified virtues of his class, He Forget all personal quarrels of AR o abolt two vears, Be typed the greatness of America, the histories you may have heard by in agbusiney A 00}; i(‘je P huge, gaunt, big boned, resistless(;ccident, and which, if repeated, gien M‘rQCho'll h“' tid epirit of the young republic, in his{would seem a thousand times P,edf C':i, oni 3t Lhg :5 . ‘tlh ; body, not less than his mind and|worse than they are. Blot out; ;e" con itions and makes the sou), and, like Washington, he was|ag far ag possible, -all. the . dis- ollowing statememk c‘oncernmg: one of the emergency men in human agreegbles of ~life; they will thfi expense of fngr eting crops‘. § box to have his fruit country in an awful crisis and in. when you remember them, an Tuke fars his people his own une|the constant thought of the actsSents.per ) i yielding spirit. of meanness, of, worse still, mal-|hauled from his “grove to his He died in the arms of tragedy|ice, will only tend to make you|nearest packing house—an aver- Just when his work was finished, and |more familiar with them. Ob-|age haul of five miles—because g0 well had he done that work that |literate everything disagreeable[of the fact that the country his fame will endure forever and he|from yesterday; start out with a|roads are generally unimproved. is alongside of Washington in the|clean sheet for today, and write| “In California, where the pantheon of the world's great men. [ypon it, for sweet memory’s sake, |roads leading from citrus groves ‘There is no possible excuse for any [only those things which are love- | direct to packing houses are human being to revile or reproach(ly and lovable—The Trumpeter |gencrally improved with hard the memory of this illustrious man. ———— surface, the average cost is ap- With his ‘vast strength he was a| ggr CARS GO TO MARKET |proximately two cents per box. marvel of gentleness, tenderness and “Take the crop of 1914-1915— love, and in all his life there is Florida Citrug Shipments 8,000,000 boxes of oranges and found no trace of hatred for any|Cars moved last week.... | grapefruit—and multiply this by living creature. He never spoke un-|Cars moved week before. . leight cents (difference in cost of kindly of the 8outh, even when hate | Totq] haul) per box, and this will against us raged all around him in show conclusively that the cit- smaller souls, and had he lived the rus fruit growers of Florida lose story of reconstruction would have approximately $640,00 annually been a very different one. creasing. The movement last lLecause of the fact that their erdi‘::n::inn?:lndd:‘z? :et: ng:ot:eg::::; week was 123 cars larger than|roads are not .qum to those of o eto: sl ;uhen thc_ wgck previous. 1:.-'?m thc%(‘:\hfnrmn. This loss would pay our civil war will be but a tragic|Deginning of the scason Septem- thg Itoees at SipsEicett o0 tc‘.l ber 15 to January 23, 3198 ars' million dolars of road bonds, episode that for a moment inter. J . 1 ravs t rupted tre smooth current of our|Of grapefruit and 10,445 cars of which would go a long ways to- national life, these two men will|oranges were shipped, mukiugxwar(_!s I.;riuging _the county roads : loom above all the others, the su-|13,043 cars of citrus fruit moved. of Florida up ti the s.tand:\r\l of The demand for grapefruit is' the roads of California, and as ns. | brought out has heen presented and give|by W. T. Chollar, an official of e cause|the Atlas Portland Cement 991 868 to last Saturday...13,643 Jacksonville, Fla—The citrus fruit mavement is gradually in- — preme Americans of their genera- | < 4 % Sy o tion , cven though one lost and the |increasing, particularly for the ?he citrus growers of Hu.nda ATC Etigd dodubidiedid oy ! El[BIHIG ANU MA other won. smaller sizes and while prices ou|in direct competition with the ... & H | oranges still remain low the de- growers of California, it is im- gpee PP perative that they take definite i steps to change the unfavorable footing which he now occupies.” —Florida Grower, Winter Haven has a new paper,|mand is somewhat improved. the Saturday Wiorld, “the only pen here is not much improvement ny paper in Florida.” It is a six-|in weather conditions through- column folio, printed on pink paper |out the peninsula. There have and Park H. Adams is its editor. |been heavy rains in aymost ev- He's a good one, too, and knows how |ery section and growers.at some to write live stuff for @ paper. Flor-|points are much discouraged, as ida has an increasing number of {bright sunshiny days and cool good papers and we welcome the nights are needed to insure the NEW POSTMASTERS NAMED FOR FLA. * TOWNS Saturday World to the list. arrival of the fruit in good con-| The Postoffice Department FERCENTIAal Ty dition an distant markets. No!annuonces the appointment of We are still faithfully tearing|matter how carefully handled,|the following Florida postmas-| ters: Francis, Putnam county, Pos- eph A. Cannon to succeed A, T. Browning, resigned. Carleton, Putnam Minnie A. Smith to succeed \W. Cole, resigned. g Osteen, Volusia county, Alvin|a A. Brooke to succeed K. B. Os- teen, resigned Pittsville, Duval county, Wil-! liam H. Pitt. This is a new of- fice and Mr. Pitt will be the first incumbent. Wabasso, St. Lucie county, Wiliam L. Leisher to succeed J. O. Jamesson, resigned. It is annuonced also that Frederick J. Kennedy, postmas- ter of Biscayne, Dade county, has been covered into the per- manent civil serve. The postoffice at Yukon, Du- val county, will be discontinuel. A commission has been issued’ to Charles C. Voorhees. mnewly | appointed postmaster at Red- land, Fla. the wrapper oft of Chris Codring-|graded and packed it scems im- ton's DeLand Daily News in the hope , possible to dry the fruit out. of finding something better than | Despite the adverse weather plate matter and clubbing offers on | conditions Florida fruit is now the editorial page, but thus far|at its best and shows bright col- without results. But patience is a}or and is good and sweet. It is noble virtue and Christopher is sure | is estimated that 50 to 55 per to come across in time. Some of [cent of the orange crop and these days he will get mad and boil | probably 35 per cent of the over or bust, and when that tiwme|grapefruit crop has moved. comes his editorial page will come|There are still about 3,500,000 to the front in great shape. boxes of grapefruit in the state. ——— L. D. Jones, general manager INo fouler crime wag ever commit.|of the Florida Citrus Exchange, ted in this State than the murder of { reviewing the citrus fruit situa- the Gardner brothers on the Okla-|tion this week said: “While the waha river by the negro cook and|prices of oranges have not ma- pilot to whom they had entrusted |terially changed in the last week themselves with the confidence of or two, grapefrunit prices, while children, and who killed and robbed |still low, are improving. We them both with devilich deliberation |should not expect too much dur- and then made his escape. Heaven |ing January, as the records of grant that he may be caught and|past years show that the market hanged for his crime. The two|is always slow during this brothers were fine yvonng men from month, the North who had coms to Florida = “Another reason tending to for a pleasant vacation, ecampine make the market slightly slow and fishing, and, doubtless thinkinz at this time is the fact that a @il negroes harmless, honest and majority of the big commission faithful, hired this cook and =nide men who handle Florida's crop without knowledze of his character, when it gets to market have | and paid for their carelessness with | been to Detroit for the last few of the fir lives. Probably no white man |days attendinggthe annual con- cnattancoga, Tenn., Feb. fie State would ity | ve - ch & crime, and there are thou= | Of o Merchants,]birthday of Abralam Lincoln atithe tional League«an elaborate celebration sands of good Florida megroes|which met here at the Tampa Patten hotel has been arranged by @qually incspable of such a fendish |Bay hotel last year. During the local camp No. 7, of tha Sonms | @et, This negro murderer came from | their firms are c’testo 0--S ,waha of Veterans, U. S. A., for tonight. the slums of Jacksonville, the last|their absence their firms are do- Forest V. Brown will make the pof. in the State to find a decent jng little buying. principal address, which will deal of his race. s “The Florida Citrus Exchange | with Lincoln’s life and charactar. county, A. 12, THE EVENING THLEGRAM LAK BLAND, FLA., FEB. 13, 1915 el the[FLORIDA ' STATE GdOD Jacksonville, Fla.—“Taking jn- Union which have good roads laws, and which have profited thereby, the question of details ated in such a law for Florida, is one which must be worked out by able minds,” said Chas. Foote, the good roads speciaist, who is conducting the campaign for a State ment to be created by the enact- ment of the necessary the next session of the Legisla- ture. “In no one of those forty-one makeg parliamentary skill of little |anything in the market situation,|States, that are building roads under more or less comprehen- sive “Sfate Highway_Laws, has the power of -authority or re- sponsibility of county commus- sioners, or other county author-, ities, bee abridged. | “It has been the invariable ex- perience that ‘Sfate “%suprvision, | which is almost tififvérsally con- fined to main roads in these 4I. States, has resulted favorably. The engineering assistance which has been given localities by competent State Highway Departments has always oper- ated to protect the people of communities and secure ecomi- cal expenditure of their funds. These factors add to rather than detract from the work of county: authorities.” S eooo0otooot o { $ ¢ Y ROADS ASSOCIATION. onscideration the experiences To the Public: Beginning FEB. l1st our business will be Strictly Cash to All We carry nothing but High-Grade Shoes And will give you THE BEST for your Money at All Times Our SERVICE and SHOES arc ALWAYS of the BEST We Make A SPECIALTY of FITTING FEET Cur SHOE RE PAIRING DEPARTMENT is in a class by itself. One of tbe BEST equipped Machine shops in the to what should be incorpor- E Highway Depart- laws at Look! Something New!: * { We have just opened up an Entire New § Stock of Fancy and Siaple GROCtRIES also Meat Market and Country Prcdsce. We will be glad to sell you at the prices below: Best Round Steak, per pound Best Loin Steak, per pound ... All other Steak Pork Chops Pork Hom, Sliced ... Pork Roast, Beef Roast, Best White Bacon, cut .... . Besc White Bacon, Sides 5B B e Bl L o e B o BB BB B 51 DB B DD DD DD DB B DB B Sl B o BB B ool AL Nice Stew Pork, per pound . MOT-FIWERS » & 3 Jest Seli-Rising Flour, 12 pounds .. 60¢ ¥ i Best Plain Flour, 12 pounds ........ ?(2)19 \g.} State. All work done promptly Best White Flake Lard ... ......... .. ¢ & 13 < Fresh Water Fish ..... . 8¢ gé by an expert. Work called for Best Granulated Sugar .. 8¢ I 34 and delivered. Best Whole Grain Rice . gg | i Water Ground Meal ....... IS 6 s LX) Eiwg DM o« coiuny s 10¢ & | & There is a Reason Navy Bedhs ©.. . 0.0 ... . 8¢ i BE PR i o 10¢ Sweet Potatoes, peck .. 30¢ ' Irish Potatoes, per peck . 30¢ ll 0“ - arr s 0 Onions, per pound ...... .. 5S¢ 4 . Nice Stew Beef, per pound .. 8¢ to 10¢ . Western Pork Loin Chops .. . . 20¢ Shoes that Fit Shoes that Please All Pork Sausage, Western ....... .. (N ATy STy 18¢ 123 Kentucky Ave. Phone 358 Blue Frank’s Sausage, per pound ..........c... ... .. 20¢ § Bologna Sausage .........o00 b Poneless Ham, per pound .... 20¢ $ Morris Matchless Smoked Ham, sliced, per pound 22 1-2¢ AR AR AR AR A A A 25¢ Matchless Smoked Breakfast Bacon, per pound ..... B G DEPPIDPRBPDPDDEPPIDD G %“M Liver, per pound g Fresh Country Eggs Dozen 5 Quaker Brand Tomatoes, 3 cans for . Barington Hall Coffee, pound can Best New Florida Syrup, per quart All kipds of Tobacco, Cigarettes, and Cigars, Chewing Gums, Cadiés and Fruit assorted; Crackers of all kinds Country Produce of all kinds, We have a full line of groceries and all prices are ac- cording to above. Let us sell you. We will treat you right and give you your money's worth. We also deliver our goods in any part of the city. Our phone is No. 337. Call us up and let us fill your order. 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HAS MOVED TO WEST MAIN STREET, NEAR YATES HOUSE This coupon is g ood for 1000 votes j Majestic Thetre b Popularity Contest when Seed -Irish Potatoes White and Golden Dent properly si ; ‘Beans, Com fokt M:n:gi':-ed and turned in to the Con- ‘Onion Sets Sweet Comm . Millet, Rape and Rye ‘Blackman’s Stock and Poultry Fofiég;:]a%rfi}:"%less:" Magic and Bee Dee Liniment and Dip ‘Call and Set Us in Our New Quarters. THE LAKELAND SEED. COMPANY. MR SbE R0 e LAKELAND EVENING TELEGRAM