Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 31, 1915, Page 4

The Ev o b R &' ng_Telegram Published every afternoon from The Telegram Puilding, - Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the wecond class. We always like to hear a fair- minded, discriminating tourist of adepuate powers of observation, who has spent a winter in South Florida criticize, appraise and compare our section with other parts o6f “the country, especially California, our chief rival for the touristfpatronage. A man of this kind is ). John H. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR |Long, who has this to say in the Tampa Tribune: ‘“‘Before leaving Florida, where I M, F. SUBSCRIPTION RATES v ightful vaca- One year ......... L ..$5.00 [have spent a very del F,; n’mnthl ___________ .. 2.50 |tion during the winter months, thus Tiree months .............. 125 Scapilg the cold and inconven- Delivered where .within . the |iences of the worst winter ever ex- Lake perienced in the North, I desire to gttt express my own and the sentiments of the thousands of visitors who spent the winter here. When com- pared with California, Florida in its efforts to please the individual tour- ist, its genuine hospitality, its mod- erate rates, its equitable climate, has California backed off the stage, Ithas none of that boastful ‘better- than-thou’ spirit that becomes so tiresome and objectionable to the Speaking of the low prices brought | yourigt in California, and so far as on the country by the alleged Wood- |T have been able to determine the row Wilson Democratic panic, [number of tourists will continue to what’s the matter with the follow- |increase yearly when the truth be ing little dispatch from Marshall, | COmes more fully known about Flor- ida—itse beautiful resorts, its ele- Michigan, telling of the prices under | .\ ,ni0q jts fruitful sofl and the the Republican panic of 1897: numerous advantages as a locality “You need not go back to 1840 for | for the homeseeker.” starvation prices on farm products,” said Joseph Cunningham today, and vt tne toroming. - manvet|STANDING OF CONTESTANTS 3 conts per donens vaten, 13 cence| WILL BE ANNOUNCED THURSPAY AT MAJESTIC per pound; pork, 5 1-4 cents per pound; maple sugar, 6 cents, corn, Wrist Watch ‘4@ Million Extra Votes Will be Awarded. Iimits of the cents a week. 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 $1.50 per year. in the ear, 11 cents per bushel; po- tatoes, 15 cents; cloverseed, $4. e Governor Trammell was recently compelled to decline an invitation Standing of contestants will be to attend the convention in Chat-|announced Thursday night at Mn.l tanooza called to promote the Dixie |jestic Theatre, and the wrist watch Highway which it is proposed to|DBOW on display at Cole & Hull jew- - elry store, will be awarded to the have constructed between New York contestant standing first. and Florida. He was in full sym-| 1y order to give all contestants an pathy with the plan, but he was |opportunity to make every day count overwhelmed with work in view of |for something, standings will not be the fact that the legislature mets|announced again until April 1st. the fact that the legislature meets |Cotestants are not required to make the time to go to Chattanooga. |report to Contest Manager until Mar, Since he declined the invitation he |[31st. No reports will be accepted has been criticized by a number of |after 12 o'cl?ck, noon, on April 1st. people and papers as though he had Standing of Contestants committed some grave offense, some | Miss Georgia Lanier..... 6,754,850 shocking breach of prpriety and|Mrs. Kate Booth . ..6,601,900 bad without reason or excuse made | Myrs. Chas Conner. . ..5,859,900 himselt an obstacle, if not an|Mjss Laura Southard . .5,787,900 enemy, to the great cause of good |Mrs (. Livingston.......5,437,850 roads. The criticisms were grossly | nrg W, J. Merrill . .5,109,800 unjust, if not malicious, the gover- Mies Susie Tucker. 4,845,600 nor's reason for not going to the |y yejen gneed. .. .. ...3,979,650 convention being perfectly valid and Mise Clara Tomlinson. ...3,798,550 conclusive, and we are glad to see 13,469,150 that the State Good Roads Conven- ©3.356,700 tion in St. Petersburg passed reso- "3'208.900 1208, lutions fully endorsing his course. hiah ‘Toss Leb Slenson 12,984,600 LS Mrs. R. J. Perkins . +2,667,800 The biggest industrial concern in Mrs. W. B. Moon . 12,345,300 North America is the United States 12,109,800 Steel Corporation and it is the quick- est to respond to the influence of good or bad times. The other day it zt ‘:::;m}:.mflw“n i :‘i:g':gg added fifteen hundred men to its Miss G ikve D “;1‘”!‘451,300 pay-roll and six of its eight blast | V188 Geneviev ggan ..1,451, Mrs. R. E. Scipper .......1,429,900 rnaces at its great plant at Gary, ::flla:n. :re .‘:m in operation and Miss Florence Zimmerman.1,203,600 there are orders in hand to keep the | Miss Caroline Brusie 1,021,400 Miss Mary Grover.... Mrs. B. K. Young . Miss Nona Turner . {Miss Vera Buchanan. Miss Lurline Pillans . .2,359,600 | legislature, says that since the passage of the law limiting sa- loonsto one to every 750 of po‘f- ulation, 1018saloons have gqdit have AMUSEMENTS B A A s st 2 2 Y £lk’s Bulletin No. 11—*"Its never to lne sto mend.” Oh, what a world of truth in this little motto. This little phrase Brother Bowden (who | District convention of the W. C./ is liable to be seen in the Elks'[T. U, at Kissimmee, Thursday Minstrel April 9), is trying to com-|and report a pleasant and profit- mit to memory and “go thou and do |able time. A bounteous picnic likewise.” Bowden was a fast liver [dinner was spread, Mrs. Ander- (Smith Bros. pay mno attention).|son was re-elected district vice- Brother Bowden being of an unmar- president, and Mrs. Turner sup- ried state, had hard work sewing|erintendent of institute work. his own clothes and did it pretty slowly. He took a bottle of Dr. Willcure’s tonic and now he is MENDING rapidly. business and-407 to wns voted dry. Mrs. J. W. Turner, and Mrs. H. J. Anderson attended the See the line of cameo rings. Spe- cial sale. Coe & Hull. 3996 FOR RENT—Modern 8-room house dn heart of town. All modern conveniences. Phone 236 blue. The announcement of the stand- ing of the auto contestants will be made at the Majestic theatre tomor- row night and the awarding of the gold watch also. The Kimbrough Supply Co. has Jjust received a large shipment of Columbia Graphophones and Grafon. The C. A. Philips Company which |olas and a large assortment of the opens at the Auditorium tomorrow |iatest records. night has had the best houses of any company of its kind that has They also have a complete line of been in Florida this season. The |the Baldwin Piano Company’s in. excellent ten-piece band which they Struments at their showrooms and carry is a great drawing card. “Old will give votes ‘on all cash purchases Arkansaw” will be presented as the (2nd collections. 4000 opening bill, FOR RENT.—Two unfurnished || aWay with k. rooms corner New York ave. and || hazy vision §o00000000008000000009888¢ | Lonon ot Apply Mrs, B, S, Me- || the ordinar Glashan. 4015 § W. C.T. U. Notes i $0000000040044004 44444455, | FOR RENT—Two rooms turnished for light house-keeping. Mrs. E. PROHIBITION ADVANCE.| y poger o coPine. Mrs M. Holder. 4016 The cameo window of interest to Cole & Hull 3996 —— Couldn’t See Use of It. Six month sago there were nine prohibition states. Today | you. there are nineteen, provided the governor of Utah signs the biil just passed by the legislature,| At#& town meeting a large taxpayer Manufacturing Optometrists s s GirR rose up to protest against building a P ' i ;‘c',‘,t“‘i;'“;:;es “t'h::"]:aj';d';“’;egfi', new school house in a certain part of Tletiais-Grovhdilérs NEW BRICK STORE BUILDING—In the city of Lake- ‘|the town. “What's .the good of it? E land; Leased for five years at $2,600.00 aj § - Arkansas, lowa and Idaho ‘were They are an lsnou.nt set sfl?.,nom,“ LAKELAND, FLORIDA ¢ E ot grichorg gl v all made dry last month by leg- islative enactment, the law to go into effect January 1, 1916. South Dakota’s legislature has submitted the question to popu- lar vote at the next election, 'l'hel lower house of Vermont has | passed a prohibition referendum‘ bill. South Carolina, tired of unsatisfoctory dispensary law, has referred the question of state-wide prohibition to the people, vote to be taken Septem- ber 14. Montana has submit- ted a statutory law to be voted upon in 1916, In cight other legislatures state-wide prohibition measures have been introduced, namely, New York, Delews re, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Min- nesota, Pennsylvania, Indiana, | Wisconsin. States planning for campaigns next year are Cali- fornia, Florida, "Kentucky, Ne-l braska, Texas Wyoming. Ohio, enters a campaign this year un- der the initiative, the question lto be voted upon by the people nxt Novmber. anyway.” Best Round Steak Best Loin Ste: Chuck Steak . Pork Ham (sl Pork Ham, whole .. Pork Roast, whole Beef Roast, whole . Pork Stew, whole . Stew Beef, whole . ., Home Made Sausage, 2 pounds . Beef and Pork Liver .. White Bacon ..... ...... Kingham’s Hams (sliced) Kingham'’s Picnic Hams . Kingham's Hams, regular Bologna Sausage .. Oil Sausage .. Flour, 12 pounds .......... ... Flour, 24 pounds ._..... .. Best White Lard, 10 pounds Sugar (granulated, cane) Whole Grain Rice ...... Meal __...... ... Jap Rice .. Lima Beans . Navy Beans ... A MESSAGE OF APPRECIA- TION. works in operation for many months, [ Miss Kathleen Carter . 845,800 And news of this same character of [Mrs. Walter Bates . -1,005,600 reviving industrial activity is com- |Miss Emily Wilson .. 893,600 ing from all parts of the country.|Miss Hazel McMullen..... 701,800 But for the hurt to our commerce |Miss Edith Lundstrom ... 538,900 and industries by the war in Europe | Mrs, Nellie Walker ...... 302,550 times would be entirely normal ane prosperous in the United States, and We have left out some names aa except among the hidebound and contestants failed to make report hopelesly prejudiced in politics who |this week, but we have not drop. still hold to the simple and primi- [Ped same from our active list of con- tive delusion that the party in pow- |testants. We must ask, however, er makes good or bad times, nobody |that all contestants positively re. now charges the Democratic party |port on Wedn of each week, with the depression from which the juntil further notice. country is so rapidly recovering. To the contestant wno stands firet ' trange things about |[in the Majestic theater contest on pr&”n;;ell::lo:n nu“mly l:' Florida |April 1st we will give one million but in many other states is that the extra votes. big dailies of the state, whose inter~ est in such associations would seem T"fl“" :’“:'::‘“ ""‘::::““.::: to be as vital as that of the smaller °‘: ve hun papers are so seldom represented at |votes- Lo ‘“.::‘ mz“:l‘:o:lmm: i To the contestant who stands N ain. yo8 dred and fifty ‘hou- reason for it which does not impeach ::':‘a:;: ::::'. . Y 1 ;“c:y:p:tr::f. '::\ll‘:ti,o:,,::: .bn: To the contestantwho stands the t;: .:,.“ ‘:hlllu, but 4t is true|fourth, one hundred and twenty- five thousand extra votes. nevertheless that the State Associa- tion would be much more robust,| To the contestant who stands the vital and influential it our leading [fifth, seventy-five thousand extra metropolitan papers would join the | Votes. gang and help to swell the crowd| g, 4pe cont A Whu tanEs Ahe and the chorus at the annual events sixth, fitty thousand extra votes. The Miami Herald commenting on OFFICE HEADQUARTERS ARE this absence of the heavyweights, ABOVE AUDITORIUM THEATER. _e such | Directory of Business Houses Where “It was unfortunate that men as Frank Harris of the Ocala( =~ ae:x':;n :.-‘.L‘J'E'.E';. Bannerand M. F. Hetherington of| 0 "o/ i the Lakeland Evening Telegram, and Lake pn.m.;y others, could not be present, ‘;"‘ The Hub Y reason for 3 there was a very good The La Mode. their inability to grace the occasion with their p’rflenle. for them and| Majestic theater. e others” fi~ TIX& “eircumstancés thefe| ~LUREland HardW. & Furn. Co._“‘_‘ is ampje excuse, although the re-| Swith Bros. @rocery. .r} aret that they were not here fsnone | o\, o L % theless deep. Perhaps it is not enc‘l- L - Cut ‘Briba Sikee. 1y @iplomatic to mention names, in t:h. :elpect. but when it is under- ;::: : ';m ::\:’ ?éo stood that the press association is A BTR d . an fnstitution that contains withtn | Bryaat's ; fi8elf much potental good for the General Office ?’Iy 3 «pbullding of the state and ought to| W. B. Arendell Bicycle Shop. - be made stronger by the assistance | Lakeland Evening Telegram. ofatill other members of the protes-| The Fiyan Cleaning and Pressing sidh ‘over the state, one is justifiea [ Comguay. in’ wondering why ne:flnm es-Union, the Florida mo Pensacola Journal, the c““uw':fin Life. Pessacola News, the Tampa Tribune Camels are serious work st asd the 1\:‘!-';‘-"- the 163018 | to deciine at twenty-ive years, present and taking an active inter- est in the proceedings.” Black Eyed Peas —...... Irish Potatoes, per peck Sweet Potatoes, per peck . Onions ........ ... see v New Florida Syrup, per quart . Senate Brand Coffee .. Tampa Bell Coffee .. Bulk Coffee ..... . . Country EgEB ...... ....... The following letter has been isent.to the Czar by the president of th National Woman's Chris- n Temperance Union: To His Majesty the Czar of Rus- sia. Sir ; It is my high privilege on be- half of four hundred thousand | women, members of the Nation- al Woman’s Christian Temper- ance Union of the United States, to extend to your majesty an ex- pression of thir profound grati- tude for the far-seeing action of | your majesty in abolishing = the liquor traffic in Russia. This act of your majesty is exerting a might influence for good in the United States of America and wil prove an incal- culable blessing to the whole world. With great respect, ANNA ‘A. GORDON, President. ) Fresh Mullet __.. ..... Oysters, per quart ...... . PROMPT DELIVERY TO ANY PART J. D. McLeod 214 W. MAIN ST. Buick By anacting a statutory prohi- bition law to become effective January 1, 1916, the legislature of Idaho checkmates any move on the part of the liquor inter- ests of Washington and Oregon to transfer themselves and their wares across the border into that state after January 1. The con- stitutional amendment will be | voted upon in November, 1916, but Idaho does not propose to be the dumping ground, even temporarily, for saloons driven out of neighbdring states. The governor, Moses Alexander, a Jew, is an ardent prohibitionist and recommended both the con- 'Fiflfional and the statutory Salesroom located W. Main St. at B R R O O O ORI PO ROr To The Public:— eagures; 13 ) } ! 'WHAT THE BREWERS i* BELIEVE. * acting business:im this country, and much been given to the causes that stimulate, g& Payment by check creates a decidaly 5y check are SYSTEMATIC IN THEIR safeguard their resources by keeping thei bank. THIS Bank offers to its patrons the A circular letter sent out by “Malt,” 18 Broadwav, N York City, contains this signi- cant warning to the brewing trade: “Woman suffrage in the State of New York, which is now free- ly predicted, will, it is greatly feared, place the State in the prohibition column in a few]| years. This would kill the malting industry of the United States.” New Yark’s Commissioner of Exise, in his report to the state FOR SALE IN LAKELAND BY HENLEY AND HENLEY TORIC Lenses Widen Vision - The deep curved form. of the Toric lens entirely does lenses are an imporvement of the flat lens, greatly icreasing the efficiency of the eye. Let us examine your eyes and fit you with the glasses that will aid your vision most. Examination Free Cole & Hull J. D. McLEOD’S MONEY-SAVING PRIGES ON MEATS & GROCERIES Phone 273-Red Green Bone Ground for Chickens See the 1915 Buick Models Automobiles Grady Deen. Local Agent Favorable Effect The credit system has become a great factor in trans- bcause everyone realizes that those persons who pay by the transaction of all financial matters that are consistent with our well established policy of Responsive Banking. Yours very wly, o < o Qtends Y FIRSTNATIONALBANK THIS BANK IS A MEMBER OF THE RESERVE SYSTEM. In Large and Small Tracts " SUITABLE FOR Fruit, Truck and General U"im&oved Farming Improved Samples BARGAIN—4 acres, inside city limits, with 6-room house, 2 acres in bearing trees and two in highly cultivated garden. 20 ACRE FARM—Close in all cleared and fenced; about 100 bearing orange trees. Price $3000.00, Large cash Payment required. the unavoidable at the margins of y flat lens. Toric 23,000 ACRES—In Polk County at $6.00 per acre. Timber worth more than half the price. 40 ACRE FARM—35 in bearing Orange Grove, 8-room house, packing house and barn, large lake front. New Irrigation plant, good heavy soil and good road. Six miles from Lakeland. Price $30,000.00. ! FOR NO 77 IDENTS—Good Fruit Lands, well located in ten, nty and forty acre tracts; Co-operative Devel- opment Plan. 000,00. Will trade for Orange Grove as part payment. 9-ROOM HOUSE and three vacant Lots. Close to Lake Morton $4,200.00. $1,200 down and terms. TWO HOUSES In Dixieland (5-rooms), rented. $3,000.00. Terms. TWO GOOD SUBDIVISION Propositions. Both close in and desirably located. 34 ACRES OF RICH HIGH .HAMMOCK land near. Cen- ter Hill. Close to school post office and store. Five acres clear. Price $550.00 For Further Information See J. Nielsen-Lange Lakeland, Florida Phone 354 Green. Office Evening Telegram Bldg. Ra s an g s d it ) e ——— ; Get Your Coupons in the Great Voting Contest at the Hub. This is the only Gents’ Furnishing Store in Town giv- .ing Votes with Purchases of Goods Our Spring Line Is Coming infDayy T OF THE CITY See Qur Windows They reflect the Superb Stock with which our Store is filled. The Hub by THE HOME OF Nart Schaffner and Marx Good-Clothes Motor Shop JOS. <comsideration has LCVAY !nvon%l?% g DEALINGS and ir money in the best facilities for ilis 20T +