Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 22, 1915, Page 2

Development Now in Progress ~In_ Florida MANY TOWNS ARE GOING FOR- Towns In Fla Are Doing Gas Engine Club has been or- Cost of Liying Is Advancing g H London, April 21.—The cost of WARD, MAKING IMPROVE-|ganized in Miami. The object of the living continues to advance slowly MENTS AND GENERALLY DE.|club it to take up the study of dif-|In London. VELOPING ALONG ALL LINES Arcadia is trying to get a $25,000 tour from that place to San Fran- Prices of all grades of beef, mutton, 'over they call it to attend the auc- He expects to get there in POrk, and veal showed on the quota- 'tion sale and while standing there Carnegie library. Her citizens are working hard and have confidence to believe that they will be successful. Preliminary work has been begun on an immense drainage tion in Sumter, Pasco, Hernando and Lake counties. It is proposed drain 70,000 acres of land in these counties. The Everglades Drainage Board ferent lines of gasoline engines. Ernest Greco, a Latin American of |l—'lnnt City, has started on a walking ! cisco. itime to see the Exposition. Prof S. L. Woodward of the Plant Per cent above the high wter mark 'yompt to get something for nothing ar- of all records since 1890. “Not a 1 engaged POS: | a prominent Sanford man proposi- | rangements to have a moving picture | Putcher in London is making a e s in ' to [the school building to be used for Journals. City High School is making machine permanently installed educational purposes. Jacksonville is making arrange- ments to install a modern cotton Prices of meat during the last week of March reached a point higher than at any time in {twenty-five years. The wholesale tion board a range of onme to fifteen profit today,” declares one of the trade In other lines the increases have generally been more moderate. Glassware of all kinds has gone up In England! anford Man Says No Better Investment Than Real Estate Has Made His Pile and Declares That There Is Much Money in Florida Lands (Rambler, in Sanford Herald.) Attracted by the band and other | noises I wandered out to Sanford Heights or Markham Park or what- watching the crowds in their at- .in conversation. He has made his| pile and most of it on Sanford real !euate, 80 the rumor goes and I ask- .ed how he obtained his start or the 'idea that there was money in real 'estate and he replied as follows: | | (Copyright, ISLND GASTAWAYS By CLARISSA MACKIE. r Syndicate.) s ched at Pine ger— who lake steamer tou lsl'::de and left a solitary passen, a decidedly pretty young woman, carried a suitcase and umbrella. Mona Fairlee walked down the i pier to the shore, where 'the red- shingled roof of the Bensons sum‘:ler camp peeped through the surrounding ees. p‘:‘h:rruched the cottage and stood amazed to discover that doors and windows were closely shuttered. Pine camp had every appearance of being closed for the season. " first of August. onz::;thlng must have bappened to change the summer plans of the Ben- YRR 1915 by the McClure Newspa- long although it was home still nothing by soldier, but wearing on . a military medal coveteq seneral who has not ye IER ENTERS FIRST S0 SOLDIERS' HOME 2 Drivgy his hf&g by every: (By Associated Press.) o Paris, April 21. ~The first inva-: 1id soldier of the war of 1914-15 to enter the French soldiers’ home, the Invalides, is ‘private Jean-Marie- Caujolle with both legs missing at | the age of 26. Caujolle enlisted III'I the army at 20 and after four years cervice in the marine infantry at Tonkin, returned to France free from all military obligations Aug. 1 last year. Instead of returning home on dis- embarking he went to the nearest recruiting office and re-enlisted . Cited in the orders of the day for his work in the field he was again cited for his bearing in the hospital wards and he goes into the soldiers’ DEKAY TRy, —_— Providence, R. 1., Ap ,case of Henry DeKay, of Ner ij who was convicted wth | e Metcalf in connection wni ure of the Atlantic X, dwarg P I the fail. ati B will come up today. Jax;i';a]\\-h"‘ borne, attorney for DeKay, , g pared an appeal and wllifl;; case or the way. The Penalty ; years at Atlanta, Ga., Prison B thought that DeKay will ge( , . ther extenton before sentey, i der to test the legal Points, ¢ in gn, has made a contract with George F. [compress to handle the coming sea- |ten Per cent. Window glass, which| .. : Miles of St. Augustine, under whl‘ch sons business. % iwu made almost exclusively in Bel- ;canlre‘:noe‘:!ll‘:te:etp:ealw::dsn:;l-‘m:l:lfll’ he is to place two and one-half cu- The case of John Ashley, convict- ;5lum. has advanced a hundred per spoke to me as she bade me good- bic yards dippers dredge on the Cal- |ed murderer, of Dade county, Han | Linen sheeting is ten per cent ‘bye when I was leaving home to oosahatchee Canal for the purpose |been granted an appeal to the Su- pesret, : 41d; Shoos, Wre: About fitteen |4, po my cold plunge into the world. of doing the work necessary to deep- |preme Court. The State will pay { DT CERE Ta0ke expensive. Butter wnd o, parting advice was: “If you are en and enlarge it. costs of appeal, but attorneys will chioete show a rise of four cents a! sons, who were distant cousins of Mona. “What shall 1 do?" asked Mona in for there was no way of reach- ing the mainland except by boat. Ell it hadn’t been for Dick Master- | son—" Mona paused and bit her lip.: The Hardware Co. | dismay, “How I hate Secretary of the navy Daniels says that $1,000,000 will be spent for aviation at the navy yards at Pen- sacola. ‘The first shipment of potatoes from Hastings occurred last week. It is estimated that the yield will be forty barrels to the acre. They | are bringing eight to ten dollars a barrel, * A Jacksonville policeman has challenged Jess Willard for a fight, The champion says he will meet him after he has had a year's rest, + Tbe Sholl Hotel at St. Petersburg was damaged by fire Sunday to the extent of about $5,000. Ample in- surance was carried to cover the loss. Nine cars of celery were shipped last week from Zephyrhills. It was | the product of the Colony Company near the town. Wauchula has a crate mill, which when running at full capacity, em- ploys 500 people wilth a pay-roll of about $15,000 monthly. An automatic telephone line for the East Coast, to run from Jack- sonville to Key West is another stride forward for Florida. The Florida Association of Coun- ty Surveyors met in Gainesville last week. The Florida Funeral Directors will hold their annual convention in Jacksonville next month. Motor bus service was established in Gainesville last week. The car useq was constructed in local 'q!xops € (Continued on page 4) —————————————————————————— SEE AMERICA FIRST— ! THE GREAT TREES. — (By George Fitch) The great trees are located In Californis about $4.50 from San Francisco. They are the oldest set- tlers in America. Even a New Eng- land family with Mayflower furni- ture n its house 18 an upstart bunch beside these trees. American tourists love to go to Europe because of its age. Coming from a country which fights Indians one decade and public service trusts on the same spot ten years after, the venerable buildings of Europe il bim with awe. He loves to lean up against & crumbling church and gaze with respect upon a weather- Deaten stone saint who lost his nose from extreme debility 450 years ago. His brain staggers as he counts the birthdays of the Coliseum at Rome and when he views the living rep- resentative of an English family whic hasn’t worked for 19 genera- tions he takes off his hat with ven- eration. But the big trees of California were a thousand years old before Burope was organized for business. There were aged giants when Ho- mer was peddling poetry and claw- ing for a new rhyme They are older than anything in civilization except the mummy of Rameses and the mother-in-law joke. The most impressive feature of the big trees is the fact that they do not give up and retire from busi- ness in their old age. They still keep on growing. A thousand years from now they will be larger than ever but this does not interest the tourist except in the most casual manner. We make this statement with confidence because mo ome i going to step ardund with a tape- measure 1,000 years from now and cll us a liar. The big trees are from 1,000 to 4,000 years old and the tallest of them is nearly 400 feet high. Whole houses could be built from the larg- est branches and when the govern- ment ran a road up to one of them it did not take the trouble to go around. Tt tunmelled through and stage coaches save 100 feet or more thereby . Nothing in America is more ma- jestic and awe-inspiring than these trees which have suceeded in living from the early strata of history. But they do not inspire the lumber man. Nothing pleases him so much as to turn a gang of men loose on a 3,000 year old forest monmarch and make shingles out of it. It is in- deed pleasing to know that the gov- ernment now owhs what is left of the big trees and the mext lumber- man who tries to turn hoary age fight for bandit without compensa- tion. A commission manager charter for St. Augustine is being discussed by the commercial body of that city. The Bank of Monticello, a new in- stitution, started business last week with a capital of $25,000. The Florida Pharmeceutical Asso- clation will meet at Atlanti¢ Beach in June, Palaika has a new ¢ommercial | body known as a Chamber of Com- merce. ! $30,000 will be expended on lhe‘ Hotel Huntington at St. Petersburg | on improvements and alterations for the coming season. According to the department of commerce a total of 245,463 bunches of sponges, valued at $656,776.43 were sold through the Tarpon Springs Exchange in 1914, The Baracas and Philatheas throughout Florida are making pre- parations to attend the,third annual | State Convention, which will be held in Arcadia May 7 to 9. The Clearwater Golf Club will vote a $10,000 bond issue, part of which will be applied on the grounds and part on a new club house. Lake county ‘commissioners plan for road construction involving about 200 miles of highway with an expenditure of about $500,000. The foundation for a new 75,000 gallon water tower has been com- pleted at Tarpon Springs and the pteel construction is well under way. Tampa has six jitney buss lines in opgration, ‘ | Henry P. Davis, of Ormond, Fla. died on the streets in Jersey City, ) N. J., last week. Davis drove a horse from Ormond to Jersey City on an election bet. A State Demonstration Farm has been proposed and a bill presented to the legislature asking that onme be established. Those at the head of the State Fair movement in Jacksonville have asked the railroads of the south to help them out to the tune of $15,000. The Georgia-Florida pecan grow- ers will hold their annual cbnven- tion on May 2 6and 27. The bean season is on in full blast at Fort Meade. Large shipments are going north daily. The State Peace Convention will be held in Orlando April 29 to May 2. Orlando has a local organization of 150 members. Reports state that Dade county will have one of the heaviest avoca- do pear crops ever sgrown fn that county. The mango crop will be small. The T. A. Bass Fisheries Company have begun their shipments of fish from Okeechobee. Their large fish house is now in full operation, and this means that over a half million dollars will pass through that place during the next few mouths. The Paltaka Military Band has been mustered into the state mili- tary service. The selection of the Platka organization as a regimental band is a distinct compliment to its efficiency and standing. There are only two regimental bands ii the state, the other being located at Jacksonville. The strawberry shipping season is drawing to a close. At Plant City there were 39,700 quarts shipped last week. From the Plant City ter~ ritory there were shipped this sea- son 912,640 quarts, bringing the growers of that section $168,224.96. Three alleged wire tappers were arrested at West Palm Beach last week and bound over in the sum of $5,000 each. The men were L, Hayes, J. D. Chase and D. Dueme. They werg unable to furnish bond and were remanded to jail. The annual state convention of the Knights of Columbus will be held in Jacksonville on May 11; however the date has not been offi- cyially announced T. S. Akin, former postmaster of Kenansville is being held until the next term of the Federal Court on a charge of embexxlement. In default of bond he is being held in jail at Tampa. \ fPhe local option bill will be voted on finally in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives today. The Gov- Jernor and his associates feel confi- 'dent that the bill will be passed by a safe majority. The liquor men pound; bread twenty-five per cent; poultry twenty per cent. Gas and electricity” have gone up about ten per cent, and all the Lon- don laundries will add ten per cent to the total amount of each custom- er's bill after April 19. This is necessary, they assert, because of increased prices of coal (100 per cent), soap (40 per cent) and labor (50 per cent). THE ALLIES VIEW. By Albert W . Brye. - de- conclu- It is not the movement, spite all this, for hasty sions. 1 have intimated that likelihood o fRussian success in the mountain” region would acce- ferate peace with Austria-Hun- gary; it must not be supposed that Russian possession of the , Beskid barrier is yet acquired or ieven demonstrated as extrémely most any other investment save in probable in the near future. Since March 21, the day of the fall of Peremcyl, the Russians have undeniably made sive progress. They have none the less the hardest part of mountain campaign stil them. impres-\ able to save any money put it into' land, which God made and which |the schemers cannot take away .rrom you.' I never forgot her ad- {vice and } consider the best and ,most profitable of my investments ito be those in land or bhaving their security based upon land.” It requires no argument and no “especial experience to appreciate the truth of what that man’'s mother (told him. She was a poor woman jwith limited opportunities but the {truth was so plain that her in- stincts seized it. If you put your heard earned mon- ey into real estate you are making the safest of all investments. But there is no investment which is safe if it is not intelligently made There are ‘‘schemers” often in the real estate business and men DO lost money through their schemes. We should all beware of them. If you buy stocks or bonds or an interest in u business or make al- 'the land, you are obliged to take some ones else’s opinion almost en- | tirely concerning the value and safety of your investment. But in real estate, the facts are as plain ' TO YOU as to anybody else if into them. In almost every other | fighting back the tears. him!"” she sobbed passionately. ; It was the old story of a lover's quarrel and a hasty parting. Mona had written a long letter to Edith Ben- son and followed the letter herself, seeking refuge from the world i_n thfi solitude of Pine island, said “golitude’ being enlivened by the gay doings of the inhabitants of the group of little islands that dotted the lovely Maine jake. Now, with the Bensons away, she must return home, where she might meet Dick at any inoment. Mona was growing hungry. She walked disconsolately down to the strip of beach that bordered the island. On the western shore, where one had | a clear view of miles of unbroken wa- ter, she came to a halt and stared de- !lightedly. A small fire of driftwood | and pine cones burned cheerfully over a circle of stones. On the stones were five lake tiout broiled a delicious | brown. A gray coat was thrown on the sand and near by was a fishing rod. There was no one in sight. How good they smelled! How hun- gry she was! “I may not have an- other bite to eat until tomorrow,” thought Mona, throwing all precepts to the winds. f he were here I am sure he would share them with me— and yet | don't want anyone to know I'm here. He can catch more.” She salved heN conscience with this, thought, as she bit into the juicy brown before YOU will take the trouble to 100k |and white tenderness. The afternoon wore on. Great clouds Their efforts have been direct- investment you have to let SOME- | piled up in the northwest, and there | ed at six practical passes, lying to the south, touthwest and southeast of Peremsyl, from the Dukla Pass on the west to the ONE ELSE judge for you. If you buy real estate in a local- ity with which you are acquainte you will almost surely be safe. Get | was a distant grumble of thunder. | Mona was afraid of thunder storms. ; There came a long, rumbling roll of | thunder and she fled to the front ve- | randa of the cottage, where she Wyszkow Pass on the extreme all the information you can from I-nu‘ht a sheltered corner and sat dis- cast, At the outset of the pres- others, but protect yourself by get-|gonsolately on her suit case with her ent advance the Russians al~|tlng all the facts yourself and form- |umbrella spread protectingly over her. reayd held the upper hand in the Dukla region. Here they have ,ing your own opinion. A real estate investment not only eéxtended their positions south oiiyields a safe and a comfortable re- the divide, in the valleys of the Laborez and the Ondava, which turn, but it stimulates the habit of saving. It helps to give us stability. flow southward and lead eventu- A great majority of those families a“y to the plains and Budapest. iwhleh have obtained an independ- Striking eastward from the territory they have taken the Lupkow Pass in the rear and cut its railroad, the only line traver- " sing the mountain range. Ad- vancing into the Lupkow from the north by a simultaneous movement, other Russian forces had at last accounts penetrated well into the its fastnesses and had more than half won the clear rail route through the highlands. THE GERMAN VIEW. By Hugo von Klest. Wasington has been officially notified that England was guilty of a flagrant breach of neutrality in attacking the German cruiser Dresden in Chilean waters. The Chilean government reports that it was about to interne the Dres- den for overstaying her time in making repairs—she was in Cumberland Bay and within fifty yards of the shore—and the Governor of Juaan Fernandez was in the act of enforcing his order “when the British cruisers Glasgow and Kent, and the aux- iliary cruiser Orama opened fire on her.” The report says that the governor was “obliged to turn back on account of the broadside she (the Glasgow) sent toward the shore.” Of course, Chile vigorously protests against this violation o her neutrality, but her protes will slumber in the archves of our State Department. We further read in the Wash- ington dispatch, printed Times, “It is understood that the British government already has shown a desposition to make reparation to Chile for the inci- dent.” This is very indiscreet for England. She is committing the blunder which she charged against the German chancellor when in a moment of ill-consid- ered sincerity he said somthing about violating Belgian neutral- ity INSURANCE AGAINST DAMAGE BY WAR Berlin, April 21.—A company of- fering insurance against damage caused by the armies at war, in Luxemburg, is the newest outcome of the war. Such an organization, | war, an uprising or plundering. The strongest known timber, backed by Berlin capital, has estabd- l ence through saving have begun the good work by an investment in real estate; usually by buying a home. . In a hundred ways it is desirable for you to own your own home, both in your own interest and in that of the general community. It helps you to take a greater interest in your city or town government, because you seem to have a zreater stake in good government. It is not true that vou pay more taxes after you own your own house than you did while you paid rent, for the rent payer pays the taxes on the house. Yet you get the tax bill if your own the house and you KNOW that you are paying the | tax, while the rent payer often for- gets that HE too pays the tax. The next few years will probably see a great boom in real estate. The losses in stocks and bonds which people have suffered during recent years tend to turn their minds to- wards real estate. It will be a more popular investment. The coming electrification of our railroads and the interurban sireet railway lines will make it easier for men to work .in the city and live in the country. 1t is in the country that the jim- pulse to own our own home is the strongest. We become more at~l‘ tacher to the soil. We like the gar- yden. The neighborhood has an at- traction of its own that is unknown in the city. We know our ne«zmvors | better and like them better. What present does a sensible woman appreciate more than the gift of a home from her husband. 'It is “twice blest. It blesses him that gives and her that takes.” It satisfies a primeval instinct in man, | who has struggled in war and peace ] | - N an 5 own a part of the earth itselt. ' Planned! obscure corner of the New York pecause it is natural it is wise ana boatloads! right. [ MOVED BIG CONVICT CAMP The big convict camp, which has been in use on the road from Lake- land to Kathleen was éoved from hat district through Muiberry on Wednesday to Plerce, where it is 10| be combined with that portion mov-| ed to Pierce last week. With this enlargement of crew and machinery it will be but a short time before the road ffom Pierce to Mulberry shall have been hard-surfaced—Mul- berry Herald. ————————————————————————— and other destruction incident to the company will operate exclusively in into smelly dollars will languish in claim that Governor Brumbaugh is |jished headquarters in the city ofLuxemburg, and will dissolve six s dungeon amid general approval. far short of enough votes to win. Luxemburg. It insures against fire months after the war has ceased Lightning flashed intermittently; thunder rolled heavily. The sound of footsteps mingled with the noise of the storm. They reached the veranda, paused for a moment, and then came around to her sheltered corner. Vell, by Jove!" The muttered ejaculation told Mona that she had been discovered. She dropped her umbrella and looked up into the face of the fisherman whose dinner she had eaten. He was not an illlooking young man. On the contrary, the gray coat covered broad shoulders above which rose a strong, brown throat and a head undeniably handsome. He was look- ing down at Mona's pale, frightened face with quizzical eyes, | “So it was you!" he laughed softly. A wave of color flamed into Mona's cheeks. “1 was hungry,” she explained meekly. “If I had known I would have starved first!"” “But they were good—they must bave been mighty good—they smelled i deliclous,” he said, regretfully. Mona turned a pretty shoulder and stared out at the pouring rain. “I'm sure 1 wouldn't intrude—only ilhen is Do other shelter on the illl;::." he went on apologetically. “The veranda is large,” suggested Mona coldly. . “Ot course—I will go—I beg your pardon,” he said¢ huffily. At that instant there came a hiss- ing shriek of white flame that played up and down the trunk of the white r(ne tree, and with it came a crash- ng peal of thunder. Mona with fear. b The fisherman gathered Mona in A\ to strong arms. “Are you hurt, darling?" was his astonishing question. And Mona, half fainting with fright, seemed not to resent the ramiliarily' Her golden head dropped on the shoul: der of the fisherman and her lips mur- mured a negative. “What are you doing he o she asked faintly. sl ;I have an idea,” “that Edith ‘received your lette y T ves. terday, and, conceiving the idea e:( hrfnglng about a reconciliation be- ::eenlu'l, wired me to come up. Then ey left us marooned et S} on the island, H:r: they come now, two t us go dow pler and meet them.” pelo e The sun was shin ng when th :::hed the end of the pler. -n';.', tioads of merrymakers from the water carnival came laughing up the steps. Edith Benson met the two cast. Aways with outstretched hands d questioning, mischievous eyes, = i it all right?” she agkeq Yes, it's all right” ; —— Poverty and Tuberc: Poverty has been llll:‘::; as a great cause of tuberculosis The tact :'mz tuberculosis, like typhoid, can- and other physical disabilities ig really a grea: cause of poverty ———— Strongest Timber. 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