The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-04-08
Examinations
Of Uncle Henry

Dear t.diter. Oifen in the cool anc
dewey eyenin stroll down 10 The
new dppow and amuse myself wach-
I'm the homeseakers comm in and
others. and onct got TO thinkin
what | would think and feel if | was
a homcseaker and my observasions
and conclusions is very intcrrestin
| | think and so | am writin them 10
you. If was Il homescaker passin
| through on the way To Fort Myers
or Arcadia, when the Teller went
through the trane hollerin Lake
land like them fellers alters do SO
you don't know what they say un-
less that is where YOU are goin and
maybe not then, would turn around
and say To the Teller next to me,
Did you ketch on to what he
sayed? and the fcll,r would say.
NO. | didn't. Sounded like Lincoln;
is there such place." and would
say. BLAMED if know" When we
got here 10 the depow. would look
out and say jest like I've hccred them
say manny's the time. well, look
here al this depow. | guess this is
a right smart of a town" And then
! would look all around stretchin my
he'd out of the winder. and
wouldn't see no sine nor nOthin that
way. and would continue my re-
marks and say. What in Sam Hill
i; the name of this place." Maybe |
would pass on my way without ever
KNOWN, and maybe someone would
tell me. Anyhow | am sure | would
like that depOw and the site of the
crOuds around. If there was sine
on the depOw could reed that and
know forever more what was the
name of the pretty little town was
passin through and maybe would
tell the folks when got back home
something about Lakeland lOokin
pretty good If there was a eleck-
trio sign which would show up pref
ty at night, that would be- Il world
better, 50 if was passin through in
the night even and was to look out
OF the windcr. ! would see that name
writ in letters of fire. Now, suppos-
in 1t was daytime again. and was
lOOkin out the winder and was to
see nice sine bOrd on that lot
where now confusion ranes saying
like this, Lakeland, Flor
ida, the biggest town in Polk cOun-
ty, hart of the strawberry session,
6 900 inhabitants. munisipcl owner
ship of light and waiter plant. all
convenicnres of tcllifonc,
gas, ice, etc, finest of frutc and truck
land, good skOOls. and other re-
marks like that, guess | would be-
more impressed and likely would
say, That sounds good to me. l.
guess ! will get of and look around
II was to by some strawberrys there
at tho depOw, however, and was to
find that they want fit to eat. below
the top layer, like has happened to
more than one persen passin through
here | would maybe cuss the hole
town and continue on my wecry way.
There had ought to be law agin
peple selln berrys at the dcpOw
which they would be afradc or
ashamed to sell to peple in town. We
have got to perduce the best impress
sion We can on everybody that is
passin through here in the breaf
time they are here, and sellin the n
bcrrys which aint fit to eat amt no
way to perduce the sayed effect. Well
| did get off. and u reel cs-
tate man was to grab me before
had set foot to the ground that
would make me mad, too. | am of
the notion that there is some reel es-
tate peple in this town which has
been RELY to anXsiOus that way, be-
ing afrade the peple would go to
some other fellers oils. This had |
not ought to be SO. 1t don't make "A
good impression on tin" HON '"aKer.
and il makes him think Of tie Soc
md hand clOthen store men back |
where We come from which stands at
here door and grabs everybody that
goes along and trys to sell them
some clothen. 4 good reel estate
nan is the homcseakcrs best friend,
o my notion, but there is nanny "A
me of them that siickcth clostcr
han brother and thereby makes
he hOmeseaker mad. And, if was
homeseaker and a man was to get
o talkin to me whether he was a