Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 4, 1915, Page 8

Classifigé ORI RO RO RO N T Advertising NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Richardson Hat Works will open in a few days at 312 East Main St. We are not connected with the Tam- pa Hat Works now working the PLEA FOR MORE FOR SALE ! FOR SALE—Fresh young heifer; also yearling heifer. Call 323 Red. 2762 PARK HILL LOTS FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS—All streete clayed, cement eidewalks, electric nna.) city water, shade troes. See G. (o Rogan or S. M. Stephens. 829 B T R B A Havicg purchased and subdivided the Jesse Keene estate of 560 acres one-half mile west of city limits, we are now selling in 10 and zo-ural tracts some of the finest truck and arm lands in this section ai the vight price and terms. For particu- ars see G. C. Rogan, Room 1 .u;d 2, nt Bldg. Phone 146. Deen & Brya) g P i A ——————————— FOR SALE—Five of the choicest business lots in the city, centrally located; lots 25x122; 30-foot al- vy in rear. Bargains at the price at which they are offered. Terms. Call at Evening Telegram office. For sale, at a big bargain, new bungalow just being completed- | Small cash payment, balance like rent. D. H. SLOAN, owner. 3069 | WILLIAMS' BARGAIN COUNTER | —————————————————— FOR SALE—At a hargain, or will exchange for reai estate, a 1909 Cadillac automobile. Lakeland Auto & Supply Co. 3687 | Il I FOR SALF 60 acre improved farm 4 1-4; miles of Lakeland on hard road.} Close to shipping point. Price '2,.' 700. We will sell you 20 acres good farm land close to shipping point and hard road for $500. 6-room bungalow close in $1,660. Terme can be had. Don't miss see- ing ug for any kind of real estate. ORANGE BELT REALTY CO. 3740 SACRIFICE SALE—2 lots in new Dixieland, 3 lots on East Orange St.; 6 acres citrus land two miles from depot. If you want a bar- gain come and talk to C. I. In- man, 8797 _—nn— FOR SALE—Several cleared and fenced ten acre tracts, with five acres on each tract set to budded grapefruit trees January a year ago, located near Valrico with hard and brick roads leading into Tampa, Price $1,600. J. J. Hal- deman, Lakeland, Fla. Office Ray- mondo building. 3819 f FOR SALE Home Restaurant, four tables, fixtures, stools, a good lunch trade, two doorg east of postoffice. Inquire within. Lakeland, Fla. 3893 ————————————————— FOR SALE—Hudson “33" five-pas- senger car. Original cost $1,700. FOR SALE OR TRADE—Choice of two lots in Methodist colony, Black Mountain, N. C., near Asheville. 10 ACRE FARM—6 acres in bearing grove, 4 acres good truck land within one half mile of city, just off Florida avenue. J. F. Crutch- fleld. Phone 292 Black. 3688 e ————————————————————————— FOR SALE—The two Lakeland floats can be bought cheap. See secretary Board of Trade at once. 5000 e s FOR SALE—Reduce the high cost of living by growing your own pro- visions, 2 1-2 acres of fine garden land just at the city limits, with new house of 5 rooms, and a small cash payment will secure it. Also house of 5 rooms and one acre of good land, on the Griffin hard road, just outside | the city limits, with shade and fruit trees, for $800. The John F. Cox Realty Co. 3362 60 HOGS FOR SALE CHEAP Some Berkshires that took first prize at Polk County Fair last week. DR. SYLVESTER, 3889 East Lakeland, Fla. FOR RENT AUTO ¥OR HIRE—Good service, Teasonable rates, long trips a spe- clalty. Have driven more (hln' 25,000 miles in this and adfolning counties. Carriage rates in city. Day phone 109. Resident phone 234 Red. Frank McCollum. scox[ FOR RENT—4 rooms and bath, free telephone, electric lights and wa- ter, all for $15 per month. al'll S. Virginia Ave. "“l | FURNISHED ROOMS with private bath and light housekeeping fa- cilities. 1011 South Flerida Ave. Phone 387 Red. 3429 - ELBEMAR for rent as two separate cottages. Inquire at 301 South Teanesses or phone 122. 3392 1A, ‘ Florida. FOR RENT arehouse on side track. See N. Riggins. 3766 FOR RENT—Modern five.room cot- taze, with garage; $16. Apply to Waring & Edwards. 3826 S FOR RENT—5 room bungalow in New Dixieland. See Dr. 8. F. Smith. 3868 ——————————————————————— FOR RENT—6 room house on East Orange street, modern conveni. ences; garage. W. T. Sammon. | 3881i —————————————————————————— FOR RENT—6 room modern house, 5 blocks of Kibler hotel. 610 East Lime St. 3872 TO RENT—A modern six room bun.! igalow with screen porch and ‘bath. Close in. Apply at Post-' office or phone 398 Red. 3892 MISCELLANEOUS L o ot i A i WANTED—Clean cotton rags at the Telegzram office; 3¢ per pound paid. B2 BB DD PR BB DD D dddiddgidnd GOOD ONE HORSE WAGON and buggy - and harness; will sell at Yyour own price. 10 ACRES excellent truck land un . der good fence and in cultivation, | § izood crop of vegetables now on. in t spread, that citrus fruits, espec- ee ont line (Sane b ttom - Lt L B (i io, the Cty i:{IIv fi}al)efrtlit, are a rich mgn‘s sut Baby 8pindle back line of | you mean business, will give a Running Water in Each Ro>m food and that the man of mod-, Carriages Naturnl Uphol fine bargain for quick sale. lerate means can not afford| in Wood French Saddl 5 NEW COTTAGES, each with large Call at e : and tesd Maple Lkl lot and orange frees at & saorl TELEGRAM OFFICE The Price Discrepancy Well built Cang fice, also 4 acre orange grove with !umma “This idea has been fostered Price Large aod fine crop| ot ifeuts, “This property by the prices charged in North- . Rooiiy lieg in city limits and is a fine 4 tern restaraunts, and in South- $14.85 to proposition for speculation. FOR SALE OR WILL EXCHANGE for property near or in Lakeland, or for good automobile, 10 acres of as g0od land ag there is in DeSoto county. What have you to trade? |M complete Undertakins De- '::J lE‘nc:‘: rc,::;":?:“ l::e't‘: 'll'::e'g NEW FIVE ROOM BUNGALOW and |l partment in the County, and | ‘h faay lot, on Hancock St. in New Dixie= cents, and that is for one-half a 1and offering this at the bar - are the most reasonab e | frui . A 3 ain_of $1:300 for aulck safe in prices grapefruit, With this fruit sell- .—Nice b-room house. 11 1-2 i ing for less than $2 a box in the acres in cultivation, 21-2 bearing orange trees, tangerin grapefruit grove, good _irrigatin rlnnt. with several acres finest truc! and. Thip is a beautiful place bor. dering gl& city _limits of Lakeland. Price $3,800. Terms can be had. Sire. four” biooke. from, dever. oas A oc! m , on g?g:knof :el:ool. oh'ctrlcll:hu. toilet, PR eyt month. Fric G. J. WILLIAMS, Phone 242 Red ——————————————————— LOST—Between Bartow and Tampa Sunday, Feb. 21, large size pres. tolite tank, newly painted, straps attached. $5 reward. Return to Ideal Cleaning Co., Tampa, Fla. 3886 l I WILL DELIVER good pure sweet milk at 10 cents per quart. Phone 246 Green. J. M. Wells. 3795 ! HOUSE—Six roomg and bath, shades and screens, woodshed, 11-2 squares north of school louse on Florida avenue. Inquire at house. 604 North Florida or G. D. Stoner 3860 1 am prepared to do all kinds of well work from four inches up. All work guaranteed. Have had years of experience, and my work has always given sa*'sfaction. W. H. STRAIN, Lakeland, Fla. D — — PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER—Accu- rate work done promptly. Room 200, Drane building, phone 6, 3685 SELECTED MANATEE COUNTY LANDS On the Gulf Highlands of the fam- ous Sarasota Bay District, Soutw Fertile soil, heavy and late shippers of grapefruit and or. anges; heavy and early shippers of winter vegetables; no killing frosts, healthful climate, invigorating salt air from the Gulf; pure water from flowing artesian wells. This proved and tested land, close to transpor- tation, surrounded by prosperous groves and farms, we offer at a low price on small payment down, bal- ance ten years at § per cent. Large acreage now to pick from. Immense leap in values will follow. This spe- cial offer is not to speculators, but to those only who will actually de- velop the land. Exceptionally fine class of residents coming in. Write today for full information. SARASOTA.VENICE COMPANY, Box 607 Sarasota, Florida 3844 We are preparea to furnish Ford Trucks aay style body you may de- side. Lakeland Automobile and Supply Co. 3069 —————————————————————— WILL THE PEOPLE of Lakeland never learn that when Bartlett does it, It is correct. Ask “Bart. lett, the Sign Man."” 3798 S ——————————————— AUTO TOP REPAIRING—New tops, seat covers, auto trimming of all kinds, cushions made and re. paired at Melton’s Garage. North Tennessee avenue. N. J. Loverin. ‘© ' 3862 town. Save your hats for us. Pat. ‘ ronixs Modie oe ity 3887| “Some of these times and not; : far in the future, we people of Florida will have to change our plans in the use of the soil, or we will be in trouble,” yester- day said George M. Chapin, manager , Florida department Southern Settlement and Devel- opment ()rganizatiux_l, in discus-} sing the work of his organiza- BONDS FOR SALE On Thursday, March 18. A. D. 1915, at 10 o’clock a. m., the Board of Bond Trustees of the City of Lakeland, Florida, will receive sealed bidg at the Commissioners’ room in the City Hall for the fol- ..., throughout the South lowing municipa} bonds: | “It used to be said that the $130,000 of & per cent lght and 4, ,00iny effect of the freezes of water bonds due and payable $3,000 , 1894 and 1895 were greater be- in 1925 and 'same amount each year cause fruit growers had all or | thereafter until 1934. $5,000 annu-' o+ i their eggs in one bas- | ally beginning 1941 and contlnulnglket, and when that basket was until 1961. $1,000 denominations. | p. 1 on and the citrus groves of ment bonds due and payable, $2,000 | 5 15,00 part of the state were in 1932 and same amount annually ‘\\'iped out, they had little else in thereafter until 1941. $1,000 de. any other pack;}ge," said Mr. nominations. Chapin, continuing. $15,000 of 5 per cent hospital The Citrus Industry. bonds due and payable $1,600 due $ 1932 and same amo6unt annually un— “In some recent traveling til 1941, $500 denominations. about the state 1 have seen ? All bidg must be accompanied by | good many thousand boxes O a certified check for 1 per cent of | oranges and grapeiruit hanging the amount of bonds bid upon. The{on the trees, still unmarketed, Board reserves the right to reject|and the reason given was that any and all bids. All communica. present prices do not \\~urrq11t tions should be addressed to C. D. ! {he expense oi picking and ship- { Clough, secretary of the Board. ping. 1 admit [lm} Lln_?' is an BOARD BOND TRUSTEES, unusual year and financial con- , Lakeland, Fla. [ gitions have lessened the pur- i ' _|chasing power of thousands of people in all parts of the coun- try. They are practicing rigid 3739 | : [ aaaaad d o o ] 3 : ¢ / because they have to ¥ OFFICE ROOMS 'LI'LI:.:;"L;\:A\'CL uiways regarded FOR RENT Florida fruits as luxuries and ¥ In Telegram Buiiding Coolest and Best Lighted not as necessities, and they have Istuppe(l eating them. And there is still a notion, very wide- 1} ern cafes, too, for a portion of | grapefruit, You don’t have to |go outside the state to find a | portion_of grapeffuit on the KINBROUH SUPPLY (O T R SR Has the largest and most Licensed Embalmer in attendance at all times DAY PHONE 386 NIGHT PHOME 224 |Chicago and other Northern markets, that price is not fair to fruit growers in Florida. Taking sixty grapefruit as the contents of a box, the cost of each, at the rate of $2 a box, is just a_trifle more than three cents. The cost of the raw ma- terial to the hotel man or the restaurant keeper for a portion tis just one and one-half cents. Allowing for service, overhead expenses and all the rest, the profit is more than legitimate. Calls answered at all hours BRIDGES' Wood Yard For good Stove and Fireplace WOOD CHEAP. Apply Fernleigh Inn, Cor. Missouri Ave.and Muain 8t PHQNE 144 Railroads’ Cooperation “It is gratifying to see that several of the more important {railroads coming into the South, the Pullman as well, have re- duced the price of a portion on their dining cars to ten cents, or ':" one or two cases, fifteen cents, —————————————|in plage of thirty-five to fifty cents, was told the other day by MOVED AGAIN!! a New Yorker that the famous I am nowl ocated in the $!Childs" restaurant in the metro- room formerly occupied by the |pulis reduced the price to ten White Star Market on South cents with the result that the Florida avenue. orders for grapefruit increased Thanking all my former pa~ 300 per cent. trons for past favors and so! “Those who have the inter- liciting a share of your trade a campaign of education, to vours truly demonstrate that these fruits 3 A~ e 3|are within the reach of even H. O. DENNY $|moderate conditions, or that PHONE 226. Prompt Del. $|they can be made so. $0000000000000000004000 000 The Present Difficulty ———————————— SAYS TO YOU TODAY SAVE MONEY GET A HOME BECOME INDEPENDENT 00 IT NOow est of Florida at heart must push in my new location, I am between 8,000,000 and 0,000,000 boxes, what will we do when Making a start by taking 5 or 10 sh wLakeland Savings-Loan Co."" For "al e {(mrlmoooo to 20,000,000 boxes?| subscribe for runn ! . f Tore the las publieicy D14 up stock, be ith the present bearing sur- e chart become charter members, with all the honees and privileges that go with such “for always. and in addition, the privilege to secure loans before those subscribing later. Lakeland Savings-Loan Co. members have equal rights, co-operating, they save money face and with that already ma- turing, the lower FEast Coast counties will probably produce 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 boxes an- e honors mn:::“m'mmn ey 1o tach Lother. Diride nually, within the next fourl M ll.:.nd“u::.:: ::m-‘ ‘T’m'm Play | Years. T}:me output from the -operation,” all - | res i i gother o large” Quaniies cheaper.” s, 0 | 1ot 01 thE _state s likely Y el Lo the public at lower prices, | PTING the totals to nearly m"m:n ::;::“m themselves as well as for quite 20,000000 packages. “Savings-Loan” co-operates and econo-| It seems to mizes by not paying blg salaries or big pm‘:- SAL0 e’ it its a8 do other corporations 1o s ‘tew, Vi or: other baskets must be found to der that it may pay 50 per cent to 73 be filled, a v of cent greater dividends to all ity members. This | 1], lf oy e gty of 1s why it is worth while to “belong * em. In my work with the These local institutions throughout the U. S, 2.l ke th-ore i kot (e U. | S outhern Settlement and Devel- members that they now have standing to their credit available for whatever they want to use it, more than a Billion Dollars. Hundreds of thousands of them, starting with nothing have become independent home owners, while thousands of others have grown 1o become strong. influential and $10.000 to $30.000 of the world’s wealth Not only can the poor thus become inde- pendent or rich. but the Independent and rich ean improve their condition financially, and may also secure the higher riches and satis- ] receive hundreds of letters ask ng about conditions here chances for the agriculturist the horticulturist, 3 Want to Grow Fruit faction that come with the consclousness that | €Xpress i ces fi they 'i‘e‘umm with others to better f press their preferences for “'?u l.,l.:,‘ ,:o.:fl, n'a'"‘: "‘nr" rut - growing and vegetable TREC NOW, as in iy i particulars -, nm-: raising as opcupanons.. should Ofice *Indleated betow ,...",,',.,.. ney wat |they decide to make their homes bscribe f. \ Subecribe for stock. and while securing All.:_n‘!\erc_. There seems to be a fac- o] T nation about citrus raising ehia Jou can make will be absslutely SAFE more than about any other soil Imdustry that Florida offers. “But they are lished in the Telegram flIIM:l-l.‘hM- with such a board of officers and directors as are pi fected lha!.uenot._ such varying condi “But with the difficulty in the| i shipper to other less favored present season of marketing at;States and sections, paying prices a citrus crop ofi this annual outputs mounts to! ‘the entire vear. { to| this industry in Ofithe tick can be some I opment Organization in Florida, | “|tle if it were b ;|would cost a few and|{lars only. \ majority of those inquirers | [cKay Furniture The Happy Home Furnisher; - Of Lakeland Join our (] of the P Join our Furniture Club A Single Robm &A New §y on terms r da Your Flat, or an _anda entire Household Ne‘:t .. ‘ Furnished 2 Lonih IRON BED SLT : l | SO you To Suit You l Can be ply Library Table Fomed Ok, With 42-ipch Top. rxira wide PRICE $11.25 Felt Mattresses§ $9.00 to $18¢ We also have cheaver if vou want them gt Buifet 42 inch ‘Top Goiden or iumed Oak BABYCARRIAGES $21.00 | ROGKER Price $2.70 broioiiaiize v vk avivaviva o e je\iie /et eiie ra e LlieN a1 @ 4 e e e e’ e e L a0 e ———————————————————————————————————————————— tions such as affect the prices of calling on the North for that and in any instance our fruits and vegetables, kind of product. 'refreshing and health “The potato growers of the Think of some of Hastingsand Macclennysections‘nights in the north! ship their Irish potatoes to the know who have tried North in May and June and get when the heat falls lik top prices for them, because et on z northern cou they are the best in the market. one is pretty well ple “It has recently been argued in the columns of the Times- Union that Florida buys every year outside the state $35,000,- 000 worth of products that she might raise herself, and I think|But in August and September can breathe, much e this is quite within limits.|the housekeepers of Jacksonville fortable. You knov Watch the unloading of any|have to pay almost twice as catingly hot and disig coastwise steamer from the much for Irish potatoes as the St. Johns county growers re- ceived three months earlier. With such splendid section as that which surrounds Jackson-| ville, it is almost highway rob-! bery to pay fifty cents a dozen for eggs. is and how unpleasan how you suffer when ly hot in the north nothing like that i While thousands die i states in the summer, effects of the heat North and count the tons of hay and the packages of pork prod- jucts that are consigned to local or state dealers. Remember the fact that Jacksonville has to bring ninety per cent of the eggs and poultry products consumed hear of a death from jhere from outside the state. Re-| “Tpoge men who are influenc-;ing in Florida. It isn {member that much the largest jng immigration to Florida,'fortable, more cond share of our beef and other should seriously. study these health and life herc in} meats come from Chicago and economic questions, to see jn mer time than it is in Kansas Citv. Remember that what directions the incoming | When the sultry heat ! {the big hotels on both sides the workers can best be advised in Sweeps ‘the country. [state have to bring their milk the kind of soil, culture N 5 they| We need more all 00 haton, becaure a1 undertake.” Timer-Union, | round resdents ke ; I —_— need more people who cannot depend on a local supply. and stay ail the time o Matter of Products. FLORIDA AS A HOME |make any of them a able in summer as in “And then remember that we Thabe an ! e o Ko GG R Mg i - B articles F j % I:h:_\‘ ‘2“ kl;:l ;r ;;:Ze:ls g;:;‘!'and who come here every winter where on earth, and remember}:lgfl,gh: benelfit < ome woslie that Florida should mnot only thosc“mh“ .hc - Smme. ot supply_her own needs but be a winter zozle ;‘;iecg:‘e; :l:tli‘u:) t; e to stay during ‘he summer, and establish sum homes, and’ most of those w are here all' the year 'round lie the sum- | mer climate as well as the win- ter. And the man who | out door life—loves to § fish and go motoring ing. There isn't an place than Florida in mer. You can catch ¢ and you can have morj of weather fit for swim all manner of outdoor ¢ Florida than anywhere Some of you who i Florida in winter and ! ,it, try it next summ oty Twill i 1.— Florida’s summer climate is ;\?etrg;oli:ehght“ 5 good. There are no nights that “The cattle industry is one of the great opportunities of this state. Florida has the climate that makes housing of live stock practically unnecessary through t It has a great- er variety of forage crops and ‘one cannot sleep because of the !ans,:es_ than anv other state in the union, and it has water for heat, as is often the case in the' stock evervwhere. Tt jg arguedl n}n:r!h, There are few nights that one does not require cover that the tick. which produces |during the nights. There is no the Texas fever, is a menace to|time when on Florida. But!|place in Flori e can’t find a cool da, day or night. banished from|The breezes t 4 e one vear, if Y hat sweep the pen- insula from east to west, and growers really (West to east, and from the south accomplish And are all cool breezes from off the lons of the state are|Water of the Atlantic or the Gulf at the task in earnest. would add some ten millione dollars to the v In the Day of Tempts® Some day, in the grea! oome, you will be wrestling great temptation, or tremb! the great sorrow of your the real struggle is he these quiet weeks. Now decided whether, in the supreme SOrrow or teu shall miserably fail or g quer. Character cannot cept by steady. long-conti —Phillips Bror is the state within Florida cattle want to 'cnm(‘ sect going fif alue of our cat- anished, and jt thousand dol- SPECIAL SAL Rexall Goods THIS WEEK See Display. Al Rexall Goods Guarantt Lake Pharmacy Missing Best Chances. “To my mind we are missing our best oportunities, that is most of us are, who are interest- ed in soil cultivation. Florida mxgfit raise enough of the choicest varieties of hay to take care of its own stock and ship to other states $5,000,000 worth every year. Florida poul might feed all of Florida, all'of Cuba and help Tennessee and. Kentucky to feed Georgia. _might be shipping milk and cream to the North instead of.