Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 11, 1915, Page 4

Evening Telegram ished every afternoon from The sgram l'uilding, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- and, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year Six months ... 5 Three months ... .. Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week. .$5.00 2.50 From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters, crop conditions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. e — that Hon. W. A. Rawls, of Pensa- The hasty judgment of the herd is oftener wrong than right. “Kill him, kill him!” cried everybody, in-;Capt. Rose decides to enter the race cluding most of the Florida papers, 1.25, TJacksonvilles new city directors ‘gh—es her a little more than 92,000 ! population, which is not bad at all, |athough it won't do to look too i closely at the city directory me!hod' iof taking the census. There is no| jealousy anywhere in Florida of | Jacksonville. We all want her to |grow and grow rapidly, for the vis. {itor to our State gets his first im- pressions of Florida from the city | at the northern gate. South Flor-! On occount of the heavy cast of ida, of course, has her own metrop- votes each week in The Majestic olis and the development of Jax will |theater's big popularity contest, it in no way impede it or interfere . will be impossible to announce the with it. !standing of contestants on “Thurs —_—— !day nights” as heretofore. l There is a well founded political! <Contestants are requested to make rumor that some changes are likely their reports on Thursdays as they {to be made at Tallahassee on the ' have been doing, and we will make | next go.round of offices. It is said jannouncement on Friday night at that Capt. R. E. Rose, now the the Majestic theater and on Satur- State chemist, will be in the race|day in the Lakeland Evening Tele- :for commissioner of agriculture and | gram. All vote coupons must be cast by . cola, formerly State chemist, will try ;tour o'clock Thursday or completed ‘to land the place again in the event standing for the week will be held 'over until the next count. :(or the higher place. Possibly no| On Saturday of this week we will STANDING 0F CONTESTANTS STANDING OF CONTESTANTS IN MAJESTIC THEATER CONTEST WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON FRL. DAY NIGHT AT THEATER when the question of a buzzard ex.'two men are better known in n!l'pumm; a complete list of all who terminating law was sprung in some State paper. ered, the buzard has discovered a few friends, among them the de-|tee and at a time when the G. O. P. partment of agriculture, which de- nies in effect that the carrion bird spreads hog cholera or any other disease. It is really mot a subject to be treated flippantly, for beyond question the buzzard does a prodig- ous amount of good in scavenger work and until we get a reliable substitute we had better think twice before we exterminate him. A buz- zardless world might be @ much worse one than ‘t is mow. It would recently‘i Florida than these two. But as | friends the question is more calmly consid- They have ! were nominated in the Majestic con - ' by the thousands. Mr. !test, and the management requests {Rawls was once chairman of the all who do not intend to be active | State Democratic executive commit- | contestants to advise them by letter or in person, and their name will be dropped from this list. Special Offer Number Two One Million Votes To the contestant who stands first in the Majestic theater contest on Powell, of the Clearwater Sun,|April 1st we will give one million can get his hammer in order. The extra votes. | people in charge of the State falr| To the contestant who stands sec- movement up in Jacksonville are ond five hundred thousand extra preparing to inaugurate a button | votes. ‘campnlgn throughout the State, the To the contestant who stands i gave us some little anxiety in this section. He is clean, progressive and would make, as he did before, a model official. Bl 893,500 875,800 863,000 745,850 736,300 Genevieve Duggzan Mrs. Walter Bates . Mary Groover Emily Wilson Mrs. T. C. Watson Hazel McMullen !Caroline Brusie ... Florence Zimmerman Beulah Watson ... Vera Buchanan . Kathleen Carter Hazel Williams . Maggie Yates Edna Aylor 356,000 Alpine Richardson 345,600 Reported today; other names have not been dropped. OFFICE HEADQUARTERS ARE ABOVE AUDITORIUM THEATER. Directory of Business Houses Where | Coupons Are Issued Cole & Hull Jewelry Store. Silver Palace. Lake Pharmacy. The Hub. Thé La Mode. Majestic theater. Lakeland Hardw. & Furn. Co. Smith Bros. Grocery. Smith’s Bakery. Cut Price Store. Dutton & Harris Shoe Co. Dutton & Harris Repair Co. Bryant's Billiard Parlor. Genera] Office Supply Co. W. B. Arendell Bicycle Shop. Lakeland Evening Telegram. The Flynn Cleaning and Pressing Company. OF LOCAL INTEREST Some People We Know, and We Will Profit by Hearing About Them RAISE GRAPES IN THIS i —Officials_ the ! Qeaboard Air Line Railway have selected several —sections %uf Florida in which they are to lexperiment with the growing of | California grapes, in the hope of makng this an importat 1n- dustry in this state. |} E. D. Mays, agent of the company eadquarters in who was in Sarasota today, while here made the announce- ment that fifty plants, including e.ght varieties of grapes, been presented to ex-Mayor Harry L. Higel, who will plant them over at Siesta. This ex- periment with the growing ol California grapes in the Saara- sota bay district will be watched with unusual interest and it is Sarasota, agricultural with Transformation scene to the Land of the Moon the Auditorium Thursday night, March 18th. iat Jacksonville, | had | _which he has just erected over and which is to be opened soc n.—Times-Union. | OUR TRANSPLANTED ~ BOOSTERS. | \We love and sure admire | these transplanted boosters— !the men and women who come lto see Florida, and, seeing, ad- 1mire_ learn to love her genial | climate and fruitful soil, and in- |vest their money here and be- lcome enthusiastic boosters of Ithe fairest state in the _group, | represented by the stars in our national flag. Among these transplanted boosters is former Governor! \'an Sant of Minnesota, who! made a happy address to the! members of the Tampa Real in the Musical Spectacle, “The Prince of Tonigy; county property, He is one of westerners who § colony at \alric neighborhood, making a fine hancing the valye throughout tha adding to the and consequently the county by p: as well as by the their development. It is the Van Say big in the general velopment in Flor ing expression | of his neighborbo is their naming aite new sub-school dj created there. G Sant was a large the fund tha went handsome and mog el Ibutlon to be sold for one dollar each |third, two hundred and fifty ‘hou-] and the proceeds to go to the State sand extra votes. fair fund. Powell can now pull all To the contestantwho Stands the that ‘“‘punk dollar” stuff again|fourth one hundred and tyent which he used on the coterie or|fourth, one hundred and twenty.| committee that was trying to raise |five thousand extra votes. funds for a Florida exhibit at the To the contestant who stands the San Francisco exposition. Jfil‘th. seventy five thousand extra PSR AL Sl votes. LLive Oak gets the next State con-| To vention of the Woodmen of the St almost certainly smell worse. % % S Estate board at the dinner given'edifice which will on Thursday evening at the, the needs of the dic Tampa Bay hotel. Governor|people for some tim Van Sant is a real booster. It Tampa Times. isn't a mere case of kind words with him. He is an investor and is adding more money to There are 78,000 his investments in Hillsborough Russia. This is a purely local event. It took place in Lakeland. Not in some faraway place. You are asked to investigate it. Asked to believe a citizen’s word; To confirm’ a citizen’s statement. Any article that is endorsed at home Is more worthy of confidence That one you know nothing about, | believed that if they can be raised anywhere i Florida with success, they will be here. In all, the Seaboard official a ergiving away about 1,000 | plants in localities which have promised to try a hand in devel- |oping the grape industry of Florida. “ Years ago,” said Mr. Mays' The one conspicuous railroad need of Florida will soon be remedied. The contract has been let for a road connecting the East and West coasts between Miami and Fort Myers and work on the road will soon commence. It will be a big, hard job, for the right of way will be through vast marshes most of the ? the contestant who stands the fifty thousand extra votes. 0006 $EEEEFEED D222 20004040 way. —le Mexico seems to have lapsed not only into chaos but into idiocy and is now merely a headless monster 3,191,700 2,820,300 12,331,800 .1,994,650 1,991,450 .1,987,890 World and the selection is an excel- | Mrs. Chas. Conner lent one. Hospitality is a cardinal | Georgia Lanier ........ virtue with those people up there |l-aura Southard and they will give the Woodmen |Mrs. Kate Booth the time of their lives next year. Miss Helen Sneed But it will not be possible for even Mra. W. J. Memill .. Endorsed by unknown people. Mrs. P. Ottinger, 507 E. Bay St., Lakeland. says: *“We have used Doan's Kidney Pills in our home and wouldn’t be without them. :;:TZI])ES were grown in some sec- When - | home ever I feel that my kidneys are not, manufacture today, “large quantities of tions of the state, but mostly for concsumption and the of wines. The thrashing fts huge body in all di- rections, without plan or purpose. Carranza is ratted and Villa seems to have disappeared. But for thelp“.m, our incomparable Monroe doctrine any European na-|tion city has extended to the con- |y tion could land a small, disciplined | vention which adjourns today. army there, whip out the whole| bunch and annex the country. Heav<| en grant that we may never Live Oak to do better by the W. O. W.’s than has Lakeland; the best TN CESEE R property. tiger of the seas is no myth. Rose Branch O'Donald ... Mrs. B. K. Young ishe can hope for is to equal the hos. ;:e léee ]itvenson CONVen=| zriss Susie Tucker irginia Mecllwain Mona Turner ... Clara Tomlinson That shark caught in the ocean \rs. R. J. Perkins be|off Miami with human remains iny rs. R. E. Skipper called on to annex such undesirable | his stomach is more proof that theyrs. W. B. M:;:, i Lurline Pillans 50 1,983,635 .1,750,800 1,568,400 1,545.900 ingston 1,279,600 1,165,000 894,700 acting right or I have suftered from |plants that we are girving away slight inflammation of the bladder, I!now are of the very best variety take a few doses of this remedy and|and grapes grown can be ship- am benefited. 1 advise my neigh ped out of the state. We be- bors to use Doan’s Kidney Pills, as lieve that our efforts will be the they live up to the claims made for‘m,:m,s of stimulating the grow- them.” ling of grapes and that, in time, Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't it will nrove profitable to those simply ask for a kidney remedy—|\ho engage in vinevard work. cet Doan's Kidney Pills—the same | o that Mrs. Ottinger had. Foster | . Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. |a_number of the plants around Hicelhurst, the new hotel. Mr. Higel intends to set out _ L= LT 28 R0 oD BOD B BB BB FHEEPEEDRDDGPODIENDIBD Db "REYNOLDS’ Opening Display ¢ Miluinery Thursday and Friday, March 11 and 12th ring and Summer See the 1915 Buick Models Buick Automobiles Grady Deen. Local Agent SESPEPPIeDEId Gage, Fiske and many other noted Models will be Shown to which your attention is respectfully invited Minnie Reynolds Ladies IZurnzshzngs, Dry Goods, Fancy Notions l; and Millinery LAKELAND, e ‘A 1k ' a8 FLORIDA