The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-09
Nominations of
Uncle Henry

Dear Editer.
| seen where a man was writin In
your paper about the cows and thu
buzzerds which is disfggerin Oul
fare city, and he says he thinks
will agree with him. Well, do. II
sounds like a joke to speek of this
town as a city when there is cows
runnin around. If the town must
support somebody's cows let us see
to it that ii is the cows of widders
and Orfants and such as is not able
to take care of there own cows. There
had not ought to be a cow in the
limits of this fare town, no matter
how fur it is. If COW so much as
sets one foot over the city limits it
had ought to be took up. Still We
had not ought to blame the cows.
The reason there is cows in the city
limmit is because We have got peple
here that don't try to ebay the law.
They know it is agin the law for
there cows to be runnin lose, and yet
they amt good enough citizens to
care when they are goin agin the
law. Cows runnin lose is a sign
that there is bad citizens somewhere
in the town.
Likewise with the buzzerds We
had not ought to blame the buzzerds.
We have sOmethin in this town that
Is worse than buzzerds, and yet We
can not get along without the buzz
zerds as long as there is this some
thin in town, and that is peplc
which depends on the buzzerds to
eat II pwhat they are too lazy to bury
There was man left dead cat
laying around until all the neigh bors
was mad and he says he was levin
II Tor the buzzerds. II you ever
trycd to get to alike Bonney by fol.
lerln along the clay road, you know
Mr.. lletherington, that we need them
buzzcrds until peple has Termed no,
to cart there dead horses and COWS
out there for the buzzcrds to eat rs
soon as they have time to get tc
them. Dead carcasses laying around
makes flics and lots of diseases, be.
sides being unplcsent to the nose Of
The passer-by. These things is wha,
makes peple from other places say
that the peple down here is Shift
less and careless and things like
that. ! would like to see a lot OF
the buzzerds killed Off but before
mat is done we have got to get in
the habet of buryin and burnin I'M
the things that is now left out lose
Tor the buzzerds to eat. Sometimes
| get to wondcrin if some of them
buzzerds don't die off from over.
eatin'.
would like to speek word here
about the vacent lots around town.
II man owns a peace of ground he
mad ought to feel proud enough to
Keep 1t fixed up a little. There is
FENCES In this town put up aroun'
some vacent lots that wouldn't keep
OUT Sick calf, and anyway there
amt anything in the lots but weeds
One day | was passin' one of these
kind of lots and seen the weeds flour
ishln' and goin to seed and | saws
to myself. says | What is the diff.
ference between the man that rases
weeds which scatters there seed over
IN the other peple's yards and the
teller in the Scripters that sowed
the tares in the other mans wheat
Held And. hain't figgered out tho
anscr to that yet. Let every citizen
'hat owns a vacent lot take down
The old fence that amt no good and
am needed and cut down them
weeds and set out some rose-bushes
ana shade-trees. AS things is now
IN This fare city. Lakeland is like n
good lookin' lady which amt a good
housc-kceper.
nave cot TO close now. Our VAL
er rooster got ont when | left the
cate open and now | have got to go
'ut and hunt him up. Marthy is
eel mad about it. SO | guess the
'ooner | find him the sooner she will |
lur talkin about it. So no more aft |
present from our humble servent.
UNCLE HENRY.