Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 1, 1915, Page 2

Miami Chamber Of Commerce Credit Rating System THIS LANCE SYSTEM IS TO BE INAUGURATED BY THE NEW CHAMBER OF COMMENCE OF LAKELAND Miami, May 1-—An interesting and enthusiastic meeting of the mercantile bureau of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday after- noon in the chamber rooms. One of the important steps taken up was that of providing for the merchants to include in their advertising in the newspapers and other publica- tions: “Mcmbers Miami Chamber of Commerc In this connection Chairman Smith pointed out the advantages which would be given both the or- ganization and the merchant, saying that new customers here in the win- ter months would naturally purchase their articles from live dealer, af- filiated with a live organization. Another feature of the meeting was the enthusiasm evidenced by the merchants over the credit rat- ing stem in connection with the mercantile bureau. The merchants are taking considerable interest in the credit rating, and many of them have already prepared lists of their credit customers together with their standing. The effect of this has al- ready been shown by the fact that geveral old accounts have been wip- ed off the books, they declared, which indicates that the customers are becoming interested in getting good ratings. (Continued on Page 1.) — UNIQUE WAY TO LEARN HOW RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ARE TREATED | (By ociated Pre; Petrograd, April 30—More than three hundred letters from Russian soldiers hav ereached prominent Petrograd woman in response to a note which she enclosed in a large number of hampers of food which she sent to the front few weeks ago. She had expressed a desire to get some letters from the front which would show what the ordin- ary Russian soldier really thought, instead of the stereotyped letters of thanks with which the soldiers or- a dinarily acknowledge gfts from per-| soins of hgher social station. Ac- cordingly she signed the which she enclosed with the names of her three maid-servants, making it appear as if thse young women had slipped the notes into the hamp- ers surreptitiously. The receivers were asked to reply to these maid- servants and tell them how they were faring in the war. The plan worked well. Fifty of the replies are to publish in book form shortly. Several soldiers re- plied in verse. Several made love in pretty, fanciful style. Only one let- ter out of the whole number was offensive. A Cossack sent the following pen- picture of himself: “l want to tell you what a Cos- sack looks like. He is not hand- some, no, indeed! Yet he looks like an eagle, and whether the foe he meets be German or Austrian, he wll beat him like an eagle. A Cos- sack is small, but brave. Small is the grain of gold, vet of great val- ue. So is the Cossack, in his gray coat and waist held tightly in leather belt. However hot the fir- ing, he will not drop his gun, but will ride his brave horse and arrive in time, wherever he may be sent.” A scout tells of a reconnaisance from which he has just returned, “the moon shining as elear as if it were daylght and the Germans fir- ing at us constantly and doing us much harm.” He adds: “Let my letter fly from the Ger- man land to the metropolitan town. 1 bow to you, sister Katinka. T am a hero from the River Don, fighting for our religion and our country. You and friends listen to the holy Dells calling the Christians to ser- vice. We here hear only the roar of the cannon and the rattle of the German machine guns.” From Orenburg comes a prettily wordedl appeal for a pair of trous- ers: “My dear friend Katia: 1 hasten to inform you that T am in good health and all is flourishng with me. T am well, and my horse is well, and for you I wish the same good health, and accept my deep de- votion, and let me bow to Yyou. Against my will, tears coursed down my cheeks as 1 read vour let- ter. « pave a humble request to mak of you. 1 do not ask for tobacco, for 1 do not smoke. But if such be your kindness, pray send me an old pair of ridine of which 1 am very much in need. If you have 2 divine spark of love for the soldiers who are defending their country, do not refuse what 1 & One of the letters in poetry roughly translated as follows: trousers, is «“@Greeting from all the hero soldiers! We shall end the war in glory For the Russian colors. And through the streets of Berlin Shall march the Russian reziments With the Giant at their head-” The Giant is a favorite soldier's pame for the Grand Duke Nicholas. __—__________-_—-————/——’_' 'Fort Meaae Elects Teachers For - Coming Year 18 TEACHERS WILL TEACH THE YOUNG IDEA HOW TO SHOOT THE COMING TERM i Pleased with | Fort Meade, M quietly known for some weeks that Prof. John A. Miller of Knoxville, | Although the people generally|Tenn. would be Fort Meade's “‘"-“i are interested in the proposed |Principal of the High School, but | change in the school law, as sug-|public announcement was withheld !gested in a bill drawn by L. D.|until this week. Prof. Childs vet there has never yet|fine type of intellectual manhood, is been prepared a statement of the |about forty-five years old and has| facts relative thereto. The au-la wife and daughter. He comes to; thor of the bill was actuated in!us with the highest credentials, is preparing it because he felt that|a man wanted in various towns to educational advantages, were inlact as head of institutions of learn- a way, hampered by the prc,\cml‘lllt. He has been teachinz in the been PROVISIONS OF NEW LAW | ARE CLEARLY TOLD. Miller is a| | | Florida Needs €ix And Seven Per Cent Money Jacksonville, May 1—Declaring that Florida needs a law providing for 6 and 7 per cent money to fa- cilitate its development, Donald Woodrum, of Chicago, who is the secretary and treasurer of the Or- lando Development Company, talked at the Aragon hotel last night about the land values in the state and the prospects for the coming 4 At the time of the'years of prosperity sure to follow hooting last night he was on the yp. pyropean war, viaduct with a woman, w' says she | | 2 ho Aay e} Mr. Woodrum says that his com- lives in Bartow, giving her name as y v 22, d in Mrs. J. E. Mann. :pan) owns .Oflf\ acres of .lnn - G o Orange and Seminole counties, and, Following the shooting Loveless is not trying to sell it. They bought was taken'to the Gordon Keller hos- Bartow Woman Figures In Tampa Shooting Tampa, May Mystery sur- rounds the shooting of Paul Love- less by an unknown assailant on the Washinzton street viaduct crossing the Seaboard Air Line railway tracks at 10:30 o’clock Thursday | night. Mr. Loveless resides at ‘.'In] Cardy street with his brother and; ster and has for years been con- nected with the store of Maas the haberdasher. s! 1 | | | | notes | state law. lis statement, re-| quired by the bill as drawn is as| follows: { “Posibly it would be easier to! state the provisions in the pres- ent school law which impede in| educational and to, tate that these are the portions of the present school law, which the proposed law will change. “Ome very dangerous ]rl‘lr\i' ion, or lack of »rovison, in the present law is, that ther is no system for the distribution of {school funds, the County B oard being left to apportion the st‘huolI fund as its judgment dictates. | The proposed law provides that the distribution must be made accoording to school enrollment, thereby dedicating to each child his pro rata share of public school funds. “The propoed law provides against neopotism, the lack of which is a serious omission in the present law. “The present law gives to the people only a shadow and no substance in the management of their schools. The special school district which votes bonds for school buildings has no authori- tv in the sale of those bonds. Tt has no authority, except by suf- ferance of the County Board, in and contract excluding schopl funds. =z While the law provides a semblance of responsibility; the district trustees have absolutely no authority in the selection of teachers for children, whose pa- rents they represent. “] am told that this is felt in all the larger cities and towns of the state, but in St. Petersburg it has amounted to actual disas- ter as evidenced by a change of principals, or city superinten - dents cach year for the past ten v ; and today not a teacher in the St. Petersburg schools has reason to feel any security or confidence in the future. y “Under the present law there ,is no public acounting to the ,people of the school funds. Even jthe boards of trustees receiving ,only general and meagre state- iments of the receipts, and expen- ditures of special tax funds. ;l‘ululicitv undoubtedly tends to- jward cconomy and efficiency and’ the proposed law provides for a idetailed accounting by the trus- tees of all school funds, by re- quiring an annual report to the _circuit court, the same to be re- iceived by the grand jury and {filed with the clerk of the court for public inspection. The act does not affect the ,vision by the County Board and County Superintendent of Pub- lic Instruction, but rather em- phasizes that function for which and only which they should ex- ist. “Believing in government by the people this act provides for a! referendum, and must be voted! upon by every community affect- ed by its provision before be- coming effective. It is believed that the legislature will fall in line with other progressive states and enact this law so vital to the democracy of government and the advancement of educa- tion.” Fxchange. progress, To Remove Match Marks. Careless guests often drive a hostess | to distraction by striking matches on the walls. If the walls are painted these marks can be removed. Rub on them first a slice of lemon, then whit- {ing, and finally wash with soap and water. This will be found to remove all trace of the match marks from | paint. Drink and Live Long. According to a Roumanian scientist, anyone may live to be a hundred, bar- ring accidents, if he drinks enough water. This sclentist claims to have demonstrated that old age is due to | teachers overflow, icompleted shows what a crying! SUT Atiar e Al Meef Bign iaken Tt AL ISR has v of g 8 will hold it as such. He declared ty of and thelto the Plant Park Infirmary, where authorities there are loth to give |he expressed a wish to go. He was him up. Fort Meade is indeed ('nr-‘nm accepted at this hospital, and t in thus securing one u(‘\\'us finally taken in the police patrol Tennessce's gifted educators to su-,wagon to the Gordon Keller hospital perintend education of our Florida lafter-there had been much delay. hoys and girls. The Board selected him a strong faculty. The local school board has given the following the for the Univ Tennessee has | Dr. Helms was sent for and operat- (ed upon him. It js feared he will not survive and was reported today to be in very bad shape. Three| school | bullet wounds were received by him, [one in the abdomen, one in the right jarm and the other in the chest. It 'is thought the two latter wounds | were made by one shot. i Say Negroes Fired the Shots Both Mr. Loveless and the woman declare they walked across the via-| duct and had started to sit down to| rest on the steps when two nozroes‘{ came along, one a tall one and the | other shorta one. The tller fellow | S d to have turned around after he had passed and called to them to! throw up their hand At the same time the first shot was fired, taking | effect in Mr. Loveless’ body. Mrs Mann said she asked the man why he wanted them to held up their hands, just as the shot was fired, | and that Mr. Loveless then called to | him not to shoot. Another shot wns‘ fired and then the two negroes | went on their way, where or in which direction they do not know. The sound of the shots attracted the attention of a crew of railroad | men who were shifting g train close | to the bridge. This train was back-' ed to the viaduct and one of the crew quickly climbed to the top of ' a car and from there to the floor of ' the bridge. He told Detective Rhodes it was not two minutes from the time the shot was fired until he stood on the bridge, and saw no one there excepting Mr. Loveless, who was lying down, and Mrs. Mann. Other trainmen who were work- ing close to the viaduct claim they saw no one on the viaduct either before or after the shooting but the man and the woman. In response to a summons from a woman who lives close to the via- duct and who heard the shooting Motoreyele Policeman Fuller re- sponded. Captain of Detectives Rhodes also went to the scene and closely questioned both Loveless and Mrs. Mann about the shooting, both telling the same story regarding the two negroes. The was immediately searched, but no trace of them could be found. Woman Had Been Here Some Time Mrs. Mann has been in this city for some time, spending a part of it at the hospital. One week ago she went to live at the Bristol hotel, next to the fire station on Zack street. She paid room rent for two weeks in advance with the under- standing that one should be return- ed to her if she decided not to stay than one week. She was in the habit of going out evenings, the landlady says, and sometimes stay- ed out until after 11 o'clock. She was remonstrated with for doing this and in explanation stated that she was teaching and had to go to her pupils at night. When she came home last night she was in an exceedingly nervous condition and would not talk to any- one except Detective Rhodes. Friday morning early she sent a telegram | to her husband at Bartow and later | received a telegram and then went out on the street. ; Police are Doubtful The police are inclined to doubt the story told regarding the shoot- ing and are working on other theo- ries by which they hope to estab- lish the identity of the would-be murderer. There was no attempt at robbery and no violence offered to either Mr. Loveless or the woman excepting the shooting, and the po~' lice are not altogether ready to ac- cept the statement that this was the | way in which the shooting was done, ont names as ensuing yes Mi Mabel Miss Marie Turner, Scaggs, prin first ie Judy, second Lightsey, third Altman, third erade, grade, | grade. | Gertie grade overflow. i Miss Ruth fourth grade. Miss Millie overflow. Miss Elsie Happell, fifth grade. Miss Harriet Shaver, fifth grade | overflow. | Miss Addie Thomason, sixth grade. Miss Sarah Shumate, grade Miss Lula Doke, eichth grade. Mrs. Effie Durrance, eighth grade Patterson, Nash, fourth grade! seventh | | | I ( | Josie Clement, ninth grade. Mary Stebbins, tenth grade. Katherine Tucker, eleventh grade. | George E. Childers, twelfth grade, Prof. John A. Miller, principal. The local board is composed of J. M. Maddox, chairman; E. R. Child- ers, secretary, and J. W. Davis. ROADS AS CROP PRO- DUCERS. That an improved road \villl‘ increase vastly the productive-! ness of the area through which it! runs has now been satisfactorily demonstrated by studies con- ducted by the United States De- partment of Agriculture in Vir- ginia. Conditions in Spotsyl- vania county were investigated with particular care and the re- sults have proved surprising. In 1909 the county voted $100,- 000 to improve 40 miles of road. Two years after the completion of this work the railroad took away in 12 months from Fred- cricksburg, the county seat, 71,- 000 tons of agricultural and for- est products hauled over the highways of that town. Before the improvement the roads this total was only 49,000 tons annually; in qther words, the quantity of the coun- ty’s produce had risen more than 45 per cent. Still more interest- ing, however, is the increase shown in the quantity of dairy products. In 1909 these amount- ed to 114,815 pounds; in 1911 to 273,028 pounds, an increase of practically 140 per cent in two years. In the same time ship- ments of wheat had increased 59 per cent., tobacco 31 per cent, and lumber and other forests products 48 per cent. In adition to this increase in quantity the cost of hauling each ‘ton of produce was materially reduced. In other words, the farmer not only produced more cheaply, for the cost of transpor- tation to market is of course an important factor in the cost of production. From this point of view it is estimated that the $100,000 spent in improving roads in ‘Spotsylvania county saved the farmers of that county $41,000 a year. In the past two vears the traf- fic studies of the federal experts| show that approximately an av- erage of 65,000 tons of outgoing products were hauled over the! The Industrial Survey just; of more necessity there is for Florida to! produce more than she does out of the soil. Take for example;* the item of eggs and poullr_v e\._}hrsl, because it lacks reason, and,! ery vear. The amount paid for second, because n onegroes ,were o8 decrease in the amount of water in the system. He contends that old Father Time may be checkmated by :YB!HBIHC water drinking during mid- le age. €ruisers and Battleships. There is a difference between crui- sers and battleships. The battleship is, as compared with the cruiser, larg- erd, more powerfully armored, and carries much heavier guns. Of course, the cruiser, especially the armored crulser, is, in a sense, a battleship, but not in the fullest serse of the word. Barbers for*Dogs. Barbers who shave dogs are numer ous in Parls. Some of the shaved ani- mals are fantastically shorn, with rings of hair adorning their bodies, al- 5 ternaticg with denuded strips. this one item in a year is $1,213,- S¢en around there by the train crew, | 500. And this in the face of the they say fact that Florida is the best place' Mr. Lovless is about thirty-eight | say: neighborhood | that in, his opimion land values in| Florida had already reached rock | lottom and would from now on tend toward a rise, this he based en the general prosperity about due in the’ United States and particularly that’ which is bound to follow the close’ of the European war. i The Chicagoan said that when | Northern capital can be induced to operate within the state and he meant capable financiers, for in his' opinion, the days of the sharks” of Florida are things of the past, the state will need cheaper money or its d‘relopment will be retarded. Northern and Western| bankers look with much distrust up on a mortgage that bears eight and ten per cent legal interest, he claims and said that when the bankers of | the cities are spoken to about a ten per cent mortgage in this state they “Way down in Florida, no wonder!"” and they don’'t deal in the mortgage. —————— e North Carolina, until she married! about four years ago, set up in busi- ! ness for herself in a millinery store at Fort Meade after her husband's failure, it being understood here that they had separated. She was in business at Lort Meade for some time but is said to have sold out her millinery store to her partner about three months ago. What she had been doing since is not known but it is said that she and Mann had not been living together, though it ' is understood they had been in com- munication occasionally. Mann, after leaving the when his meat market failed, city was | out of this citv for some time but re- | i turned recently and has been work- | ing at one of the local hotels. His father is a prominent socialist at Fort Meade, it is said. Where Mrs. Mann late is not known. had been of Value of a Hearty Laugh. When a man laughs heartily there is a change in the character of his blood like unto that of high oxygeniz- ation. And, as a matter of fact, the mere mechanical action does oxygen- ize the blood, providing, of course, that the person is in the open or a well ventilated room; but this phe. nomenon, due to laughter, is more psychic than phvsical Lucky Stumble. A man in California suddenly lost | his power of speech several weekll: ago. The doctors said that a vocal | nerve was paralyzed. Now he has re- gained his speech in an equally sudden way. While carrying a bucket he stumbled and exclaimed, “Ouch,” with much force. Immediately his full pow- er of speech was restored. —_— Worth Knowing. Here is an excellent cure for asth- ma: lodide potash, one ounce; com- pound spirits of lavender, two ounces; fluld extract rozan weed, two ounces; distilled water, one quart; best alco. hol, one ounce. Dose, teaspoonful in three teaspoonfuls of water after meals and at bedtime. Let distilled water cool, then add ingredients. Special Sale| Wed., Thur., Fri.and Saturday ————————————————— TOOTH BRUSHES 25¢ Value 15¢ Tooth Brush s0c Value...35¢ “tand ' [ 1l and say you've saved our Coun Flag. And to the magnate sliy with none to cheer him or defey the man who's always in the Wroy who seeks in vain to find a friegq You ask what is the magnge crime, that every cudgel " breaks? He made this natiop :: sublime, and so we hate him y, thn snakes. RIPPLING RHYMES. By Walt Mason The Magnate. The magnate, in these WD days, is but a timid, nervous wih; he trembling goes his destined vs, though pursued by oid ck The legislatures of thest cherad on as Ketch have robbed him of his goat, and in the east he has ncst —reformers have him by the tht. It you would rise in politics,e way is easy, smooth and broad;st slug the magnate with some brs, and all the Peepul will applaud.- vestizate him every day, and hy him by methods raw, and maken fool his wealth away, with foa Anpoin —~ Making News. Reporter—Madam, you may pe lect that we printed yesterday y, denial of having retracted the coppy, diction of your original stateme, Wou'd you care to have us say ,} you were misquoted in regard to i Life. Cause of Bad Manners, Pride, ill nature, and want of ge, are the three great sources of {l] p, ners; without one of these defects man will behave himself ill for wap, 4 experience of what in the lan 'nags: fools is called knowing the worlg Dean Swift suits in courts of law. dozen crazy ‘‘hoards” to harr | and restrict his biz; no symp# the world affords to him or thing of his. It's safe the mage to abuse, to villify and bully and then the Peepul will enth SPECL:L SALE T e Saturday nd Monday | Oppotunity Yors! U. G. JATES | ‘The Vilson Hardwze Co. Place of usiness Is where you SDULD GO at all ti for HARDVARE Building laterial Suchs Lime, Cement3rick, Wall { Plaster, Sash,)oors, Qils Paints, Stains « Varnishes Stoves, Ranges, Oind Gasoline Boss Os Farming Implements, yws, Cultivato Garden Tools, Hoes, kes, Hand Plows 'R ] Our highest : Is are Quality an®rpice We have scriptions. fill yours. filled 7766220 Pre- Why not let us We carry the best line of Drugs in town. BRYAN’'S SPRAY . For Flies, Mosquitoes, Fleas, Roaches, etc. SOAP Any kind and all kinds, from From 5¢ a Cake to 50c While on Sale SHOE POLISH in the world to produce poultry Years old, while Mrs. Mann looks to and eggs! Be about twenty-four. Mr. Love- Then there is another item to 178 has four brothers in this city preserved and canned foods. 2nd one sister and the entire family There is shipped into this cit well known. There have been no every vear $000.820 worth from ariests. other States.And do vou know| MNrs. Mann Known in Bartcw where much of this comes from?| Bartow, Fla, May 1—Mrs. J. E. It comes all the way from Cali-|Mann is known in this city thou‘;h! fornia. We are buying canned |she has not lived here of late so far goods and preserves, shipping|as can be learned. Her husband them clear across the continent|ran a meat-market here until about | to a country that can raise just|{two years ago when he failed in as good vegetables, jut as|business, though it is understood good preserves as can be made|that he and his father, a well-known in California and make them justcitizen of Fort eade, paid up all as cheaply.—Jacksonvile Metro-|claims. polis. 3 Mrs. Mann, who was a Miss Lee of | Any Kind and All Kinds HAIR BRUSHES .00 Value .00 Value .00 Valwre 3 0oc¢ 205, YA : ;35¢ HOT WATER BOTTLES $2.50 Value ...........$2.00 $1.75 Value .. 1.25 The Nexa Three Days e b i B R If it is Drugs don’t forget to Phone 42 and 43, where you can get Service. Lake Pharmacy Come to see und let us supply youleeds WIL HARDW 8T an AT AGAT AT e SBDP PP J. B. S CONTRACTOR Having had twenty-one years' and contracting in Laykeland and to render the best services in thj buflglng, will be pleased to furni: mation. All work guaranteed. Phone 169. 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