Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 12, 1915, Page 4

The f!e_n_lno Telegram Published every afternoon from The Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES ..$5.00 Six months ceseses 2.60 ‘Three months .. Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week. From the same office 1s 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. ——— e In this wet and dry campaign, the liquor forces seem about to be ef fectually bottled up. e State Chemist Rost is still in full bloom, despite the efforts of certain interests to pluck him. PSR No use in reading the first column of the Tampa Times' editorial page. We all know what it is—just the daily knock on Governor Trammell, o They were about to have some- thing over at St. Petersburg they called a Concordium-—whatever that may be. But note it has been abandoned—probably sounded too much like peace. o The Legislature is about to take a swat at Coca Cola, now that it has floored old Demon Rum. Cultivate a taste for Lakeland water, boys, which we have faith will not come under the ban. Get the habit! we We've got nothing agin’ this fel. low Straub, over at St. Petersburg, but we hope about s of his best friends and townsmen will run for the same office some time, so that we may see what he'll do. Powell insists on printing it “Dixie Hiway.” Just for that we in- tend to see that the road crosses the bay from Tampa to St. Pete, leav- ing Clearwater out of its benevolent &cheme. Rube Allyn has declared war on Germany, and has notified the gov. ernor that he is ready to go to the front. War is hell, declared Mr. Sherman—but he probably would have said the same thing about a country newspaper if he'd ever tried to run one. STt It looks like the last act in the), tragedy which cost little Mary Pha. gan her life will be enacted June 22, on which day Leo M. Frank is sen- tenced to hang. There are many who think that Frank will not be executed on that date, if, indeed, he ever be. ——— It is generally acreed that this is a mighty good Legislature, and it is trying to pass laws to make every- body else good. Claude L’Engle says it will soon be a crime to do any- thing except sit on the church steps. This will be good for Claude, who probably has not got that near a church in a long time. The statements of Taft and Roose- velt, in connection with the Lusi- tania incident, are characteristic of the men. Taft talks like a big, broad man; Roosevelt like an irre. sponsible fire-eater. It is matter for national thanksgiving that the latter does not now occupy the ‘White House. 5 —_———. The Dixie Highway is going to branch out in every direction, as soon as it reaches the fertil soil of Florida. Where there will be but one route until the Florida State line is reached, there promises to be a dozen as it extends downward through the State. And all of them will be worth traveling—and will be traveled. O R How gratifying it must be to Woodrow Wilson to note the confi- dence the people of the country evince in him. Their faith in his leadership seems to grow with every demand untoward circumstances im poses on it. No president since Lin- coln has been subjected.to the trials, both personal and political, that have marked the present tive's administration, and there are few living men who would have coped with them with the ability,! execu-) graph company. | operation during the seod SIDE TALKS - R - k- RN - - By Ruth Cameron My Favorite Hobby Herse “lI haven’'t a record in my collec- tion that cost less than three dol- lars,” a man told me the other day. He was evidently very proud of the fact. To my mind he had rea- son to be ashamed of his money-rid- den viewpoint. He evidently enjoyed his records, not as music but as money. If some one should offer him a record that was not at all beautiful as music, but for some reason cost ten or twenty dollars, I feel sure he would buy it and be very proud of it. ; You see I'm astride my old hobby horse—the folly of confusing rost and value. Cost Versus Value What factors determine the cost of an object? The cost of produc- tion and the rarity of it. But what factors determine its value to you? Its beauty, its utility and its sentimental associations? To be able to judge objects by their value to you instead of by their cost—that is, to have taken a long step toward the best kind of culture. We were looking over a collec- tion of old coins the other day. There was one which its owner said was worth fifty dollars—a common- place looking little drab coin. “Why is it so valuable?” some one asked. “‘Because it's so rare,” answered its owner with an evident scorn for the absurdity of the question. To my wmind he was much more absurd in his delight in possessing the coin. The only value in that coin lay in the fact that there weren't enouzh for everyone to have one. There was no beauty to the thing, no use and no sentimen- tal association. No one of the peo- ple who owned one of them, no one of the possible purchasers who were willing to give fifty dollars for the thing, would get any good out of it except the joy of knowing that the thing was rare, and comparatively few people in the world could have one, Why Don't We Set All the Dia- monds Mined? It is said that a great many more diamonds are produced at the mines than ever see the markets. Why? Because if diamonds, became com- mon, people wouldn't buy them. Would the diamonds be any less beautiful? No, but people don’t value them for their beauty, but for their rarity. If orchids were common and roses rare,, who would prefer or- chids? Not one in every thousand who now rave about them, The happiness that you squeeze out of the fact that you own some- thing which the common run of people can’t get is a tawdry thing compared to the happiness that comes from appreciating true beauty and utilizing true worth, = LADIES, BEWARE! Lakeland should beware of strange agents, for many of them are not what they repre- sent themselves to be. The DeLand ladies have recently been stung, and it is thought advisable that the people here be told of their misfor- tune, so that they may profit by the experience, Quoting from the Volusia County Record: ‘A woman agent, said to be from Virginia, was at DeLand a week or s0 ago taking orders from ladies of the city for a wearing apparel that strongly appealed to them. She is said to have taken orders amount- ing to several hundred dollars, and got the money when the orders were taken. Nothing has since been heard of her, and some of the ladies are of the opinion that they have been stung, their good money gone.: Never deal with a strange agent in this way. Get the goods first, and see that they are as represented be- fore paying.” The ladies of MAGNITUDE OF THE MOVIE BUSINESS Some idea of the magnitude of the motion picture business in this country is conveyed from statistics recently made public by the Vita- The figures cover year 1913, but it is believed that there has been a considerable increase in the calmness and serenity of spirit he|figyres since that time. has displayed. A great, strong and| up without spot or blemish, even in the | “fierce light which beats about the | beautiful character, showing throne.” Clearwater Powell takes us to task for comparing the Associated Press with other alleged news ser-| vices—and justly, for there is no ~comparison. Powell wants us to explain where an East Coast paper, with Associated Press membership, got a story about the battleship New York being sunk. Well, we’'ll wager it didn’t get it from the Associated Press. Powell has been in the came g, long enough to know that some men dre running newspapers Wwho wouldn't know what to do with the During the year in question the people of this country paid $275,- 000,000 of approximately $2.75 each for every man woman and child within_jts borders. This repre- sents nearly fifty per cent —more |than that total estimated amount pended by American travelers in Europe during the same period. Tt is estimated that more than 11,000,000 residents of the United States attend picture shows each day and that more than $120,000,- 000 is invested in meving picture theatres, not including the vast sums invested in the production of the Incidentally, it is stated that one movie actress, Mary Pickford, draws a larger salary than the com- bined salaries of the president of R R-R R-% B-% R-X X-N =2 = B - S - K - I - T - I - O - THE ALLIES VIEW -3 o o -4 By Albert W. Bryce o =3 LR R-R-R-RE R-R R-R X-] Belgium’'s devastation is a catas- trophe singular in history, and the work of saving human beings from starvation on that soil, still torn by the ravages of war, is pre-eminent in its call to humanity. The Ameri- can public has undertaken to feed these landless, homeless, starving ones, many of whom cannot help themselves at all. Contributions of money and food supplies must be forthcoming in generous measure day by day, and next week and next month, or the people will die. The American management of the Bel- gian Relief Commission has been able to save countless lives, and its dependence upon the bounty of this favored nation of ours should not, may not, be allowed to falter. Bel- gium’s need presses day by day, and the response must not fail. £ SO - - T - T - S - - B - - S - -4 o © THE GERMAN VIEW. 2 =] k=3 b=3 By Hugo von Klest, =4 o o L= S - SO - S - K - 2 - K - K - N - B - O - } Those who indulge in the belief that public interest in the sale of arms and ammunition has subsided because the Hitchcock bill died with the adjournment of Congress are doomed to disappointment. Am- bitious statesmen who were glad to find a politician’s escape in the con- venient declaration that it would be unneutral to refuse to sell arms to belligerents, may see this unhappy phrase come back to plague both its authors and its sponsors. To the minds of those who upon grounds of morality and decency are opposed to this traffic, the excuse offered for not placing an embargo upon these sales was adding insult to injury. It was not recarded as an honest excuse; but as the invention of men who wanted either to evade the is- sue or to find a way to aid favored belligerents or both. JITNEY BUSSES By George Fitch The jitney bus is a contrivance for making a perfect democracy out of the automobile. Ten years ago only millionaires rode in automobiles. Five ago only the prosperous or the fool- ish could afford them. But today the scrub lady holds up three fing- ers at the street corner and steps into a tonneau as carelesslv as if she had a stable full of touring cars at home. The jitney bus is an automobile which is trying to earn a decent liv- ing. It is also an illustration of the marvels of science, Ten years acgo it took a four figure income to keep an automobile out of the repair shop. Today the brave young son pats his ruined father on the back and says, “Cheer up, dad. All is not lost because you were defeated for alderman” Then he takes the fam- ily auto out and supports the home by hauling passengers at five cents a head. The jitney bus also illustrates the power of words. It was impossible to make any money hauling people in an automobile for five cents un- til some word could be found to pop- ularize the job. Suddenly the word “Jitney” was discovered in a pitia- ble condition due to lack of em- ployment. Immediately ten thous- and automobiles were equipped with the new word and the public passed up a dozen street cars apiece to dis- cover what the blamed thing was like. The jitney has flourished most where the street car president is proudest and haughtiest and street car company ig soggiest as to cap- italization. Up to the last year the American citizen who didn’t like to hang by a strap with a fellow citi- zen on his feet and another in his thorax could walk and tell his troubles to the ash man. Today he stops a jit, hops in, gets home in half the time and regards the street car with a cold independent grin. This is a very serious thing for SPECIALS Initial Stationery ....78c-48c soc Value Stationery ....38¢c We Are Agents For HAWKES EYE GLASSES Let Us Test Your Eyes TOOTH BRUSHES 25¢ Value 35¢ Value . 15¢ Value BRYAN'S SPRAY For Flies, Mosquitoes, Fleas, Ants, and other Insects. WHEN YOU WANT SERVICE PHONE 42-43 years | DEATH OF JAS. B. PRICE Friends of the family of Mr. A. B. Newman will greatly regret to learn of the death of James B. Price, of | Keuka, this State, who married Miss Madge Newman last September. Mrs. Price has returned to the home of | her father here. The particulars are given in the following, taken from the Palatka Herald: “The people in this community were shocked to learn of the sad and sudden death of Mr. James B. Price, the popular postmaster and merchant of Keuka, which occurred at St. Luke's hospital, April 29th, Jack- sonville, where he had been taken for an operation jfor appendicitis. He was on the operating table Thursday noon and died some time during the following Friday night. Mr. Price was taken sick on Sun- day previous, and his condition was | considered serious from the first, but to not such a degree. The doc- tors informed relatives that there was no hope. And the candle of life did cease to shine and the apirit' passed serenely from these earthly scenes to the reward which awaits the righteous in the skies. His mother and young wife stood at the bedside when the end came. The body was prepared and shipped to Melrose, where the funeral services were conducted Sunday, May 2, and the interment was in the family lot in the Melrose cemetery., Mr. James | B. Price was the second son of Mr, and Mrs. Allen Price. He was mar- ried to Miss Madge L. Newman of Lakeland, Fla., Sept. 1914. Be- sides his bride of eight months he leaves a mother and father, two brothers, Mr. Henry Price of Palat- ka, Mr. Russell Price, and one sis- ter, :\lrs. F. H. Vause of this place, with a score of relatives and friends to mourn his death. The floral of- ferings were both numerous and beautiful, wreaths and flowers be- ing sent by friends from miles away. “This world is full of mysteries that cannot be solved by man, and death is one. That so pure a young man of only 24 summers with an unapproachable character, honest and upright, just in the prime of manhood with bright future be. fore him is taken! We do not un- derstand, and will have to leave it to the All Wise—‘“He knows." When the sea of life is stormy and o'er cast, And the clouds of trouble gather grim and fast, And the heart is weary sighing Al e 8 OO the street cars. We are not going to see so much calm content here- after in the street car magnate who rides home each night in his auto- mobile. We will be more likely to see him standing on a down town corner ballyhooing for trade with a dinner bell and calling attention to the fact that each street car pas- senger gets a chance on a fine set of dishes to be given away on Satur- day afternoon. Just about the time anyone gets too almighty imperial in this coun- try some little thing like the jitney bus co along and reduces his ps- sessed valuation about $11,000,000. Great is American ingenuity! haidddaan s 2l AT T TR EEY PR T TR PR ey i lakeland Cash Grocery G. W. McCorquodale, Mgr. 214 FLA. AVE. I EARNESTLY INVITE THE PUBLIC TO GIVE In the breast where hope lies dying2, And all joy of life is o’er and past— Sink not, oh, weary one, Fear not the awesome tempest as ”I Revive thy stre i For, behind the clouds now lining Thy path, God’s sun is shining. “He knows” OFFICERS SUSPENDED suspended by Governor Tramme: Bradford 16, 1914. Escambia county, 29, trict No. suspended Jan district 12, Lee county, suspended | Dec. 5, 6, Bradford county, suspended Oct. '15, 1913. district, Jan. Bay 1914. er, pended Dec. ‘neath thy woes, Erows; 5 h declining; BY GOVERNOR TRAMMELL The following is a iist of officers 11 county treasurer, suspended F. N. Andrews, county, Bept. county treasurer, suspended Dec. J. Ed Willia 1914. J. T. Whittington, constable, dis= 3, Washington county, 2, 1914. W. D. Fraser, justice of the peace, 1913, Mallors Jones, constable district constable fourth suspended J. T. Tracy, Duval 15, 1915. K. Middleton, county, suspended county, county judge, April 7, T. Bowen, county commission . district 1, Duval county, sus- 10,881 Drysdale, county commi: BN R Dy Last Special Offer on Payment of Ac- sioner, Duval county, district suspended Dec. 10, 1914. Frank P. Williams, county com= | missioner, district Duval county, suspended Dec 10, 1014 In addition to these Sus- i pensions of three sheriffs, fol - lows: Spencer Hillsborouzh, Potsdamer, of Suwannee, and Baker of Palm Beach. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE ..TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA /IN AND FOR POLK COUNTY. — IN CHANCERY Luke McCormick vs. Clara Me- Cormick.—Bill for Divorc It appearing from the affidavit of counsel for the complainant in the above entitled cause that the de- fendant, (‘lara McCormick, is a non- resident of the State of Florida, and | resides in the city of Chal ton, in‘f the State of South Carolina, and| that she is over the age of twenty- | one years, and there is no person re- siding in the State of Florida the service of a subpoena upon \\'homl would bind the said defendant. It is therefore ordered that the said Clara McCormick do appear to the bill of complaint filed in the said cause on or hefore the 12th day| of June, 1915, else the allegations in said bill will be taken as con- fessed . are the as of tice be published in the Lakeland Evening Teleeram, a newspaper of general circulation published in Polk county, Florida, for four (4) consecutive weeks. Done and ordered at Bartow, Flor- ida, this Tth day of May, A D. 1915, J. A. JOHNSON, Clerk of Circuit Court, Polk County, Florida. 1161 PHONE 290 It is further ordered that this no-| ME A SHARE OF THEIR PATRONAGE, AND ENJOY THE BENEFITS OF THE CASH PRICES I AM MAK- ING. YOU WILL SAVE MONEY AND GET THE BEST BY TRADING WITH ME AND PAYING CASH, AS THESE PRICES WILL SHOW: e—— B ———— e ——— 24 pounds Flour 12 pounds Flour .. 10 pounds Meal 10 pounds Grits Head Rice, per pound Best Rice, per pound Bacon, per pound Lard, per pound I ge Shreaded Wheat age Puffed Wheat pound can of La. Coffee pound Bulk Coffee pound Green Coffee pound can Trimi Coffee 2-pound can Tomatoes 1 can Clipper Corn Roast Beef Corn Beef . 1 package of E. Apples 1 pound Bulk Apples Prunes Best Butter 1 pound Navy Beans 1 pound Lima Beans ..... 1 pound Black Eyed Peas . 1 peck Irish Potatoes Lamp Chimneys ... 1 pound Cheese 2 pound can Best English Pea Pink Salmon . Half Galkih‘&aple Syrup 1 quart Maple Syrup 1 pint Maple Syrup . 1 gallon Pure Cider Vinegar Battle Vinegar ..... ..... 1 pound Best Tea .... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 > 2 1.10 55¢ 25¢ $ pound Cracker Boy Coffee pound can Cracker Boy Coffee PSP PP IIPPOBID STANDING OF CONTESTANTS AT MAJESTIC THURSDAY NIGHT counts During Majestic Contest The standing of contestants in Ihe! jc theater's voting contest will | Majes ! : ounced Thursday night at 8 be ann o'clock. Two Thousand Vote Coupons l Two thousand vote coupons will be siven with every admission at the Majestic theater Thursday night, ac- count standing of contestants. Extra Special Offer; Payment of Accounts | 5,000 extra votes will be given on paryment of accounts at stores giving Majestic vote coupons. Offer closes May 27th. Accounts must be pre- | sented to contest manager on or be- fort May 27th, for extra votes, or will not be accepted. Accounts must be presented with coupons procured from the merchant at time of settle- ment. This offer does not apply on any payment of advance business in any way, shape or form. Accounts must be at least one week old. This is positively the last offer on payments of accounts during the Ma- jestic theater contest. OFFICE HOURSE CONTEST DEPT. 9 to 12m.; 1:20 to 3 p. m. Daily Auditorium Theater NOTICE Palm Chapter No 26, 0. E. 8., will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 o’'clock in the Masonic hall. As busi- ness of an important nature will come before the order, it is urgently requested that all members be pres. ent. FLORA F. KEEN, Secretary., LOST—Green pocketbook between Henley’'s Drug Store and Mrs. J, D. Lovel residence. Contained $11. Finder return to Henley’s | Drug Store and receive reward. 4162 FOR SALE—Lumber 2x10x16 IX10x16 ft; 4x4 ft. s Cruse LITTLE STYLE SH( LAKELAND'S BEST CLOTHES Shop! DAILY NEW; Dear Doctor— YOUR CLOTHES— Reflect your individval per. sonality, are you mirrop just right? If your appar is not all that it should pe j fit, style and quality—yg haven’t been shopping in ‘th right store. WE ARE— Not familiar with the med;. cal profession, but we g Clothes Specialists—we (s sect every suit that gey through our store from hy. tons to inter-linings. T smallest defect sends it ek to the manufacturer. INTELLIGENT SERVICE— Is being demanded today more than ever before. W stand ready to give vou 1 per cent Clothes Service -| Come in Today. PALM BEACH SUITS $10.00 and up MOHAIR AND WOOLEN SUITS $15.00 and up MOORE’S Little Style Shop PHONE 243 DRANE BLDG. Kemper Co., Gas Works, 4165 TUOBUTONR Diamonds at present a large selection of your purchase from, | Every stone sold under a LAKELAND, oy, of Quality Are still the Reigning Fashion in Lakeland. We have Imported Diamgnds to sclect § guarantee, “A PLEASURE TO SHOW GOODS” Cole & Hull THE DIAMOND HOUSE In Large 4nd Small Tracts SUITABLE FOR Fruit, Truck and ) ——— Improved and Unimproved General Farming Unimproved and Improved Samples 23,000 ACRES—In Pg] worth more than half the : plant, g miles from Lakeland, FOR NON-RESIDEN In ten, twenty and opment Plan, BARG.—\IN—4 acres, 2 acres in beariy garden. forty a , inside ¢ g trees a Close in a 100 bearing orange trees. Payment required, $ TWO GOOD SUBDIV and desirably located, 34 ACRES OF R [ ter Hill. 1,200 ear Griffin, Fa, t half cl a fine combinat; : nd par excellence. tion farm; both ment and half j Price 35000.002.!lf : _FARM—One quart s matdxon fruit and ¢r, se and b i . arn - Cheap if erms, UNFINISHED k County at ISION Propositions, HOUSE—T. $6.00 per acre. Timber price, Price $30,000.00, TS—Good Fruit Lands, well located cre tracts; Co-operative Devel ity limits, with 6-room house, nd two in highly cultivated 1 cleared and fenced; about Y Price $3000.00. Large cash Close to Lake down and terms, Both close i? close to hard roat some citrus trees ' fruit House and barn; mule in crops goes with tht eared and nterest er mile south of city limitt uck, partly cleared; smal sold ‘soon; will give goo n Dixieland, $900.00 For Further Information See Associated Press report if they ot tne United States, the chief justice if,, and who exercise wonderful in-'of the supreme court and the secre- gepnity to get things wrong. But 'tary of the state—Pensacola Journ- that’s not the fault of the service. g] _Lake Lakeland Cash Grocery Pharmacy G. W. MCQRQUDALE, MGR. J. Nielsen.[,ange PIPVPL999P