The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-04-17
Examinations
of Uncle Henry

Dear Editer, | have been reel
PIE, sed lately TO see "A few arlickles
in your paper writ by citezens o.!
our own fare city. There has been
some by jeff Smith about chicken
lasiI and there Was one b! Mi.
Cloush about how the names was
given 10 our lakes. Such things as
them is fully as interrestin to the
geherel publick as a love story about
"A Teller fallin in love AT first sight.
as everybody knows that
there don't nobody do that way and
ii they do, they are plum fools. \
man or women ether aint got no
sense that picks out a life pardner
without KNOWN anything about
them and | wouldn't encourage any
body to do so. That is why think
the Young OF our city and surround
in country had better be recdin about
rasin of chickens and the names of
the lakes and other things OF inter
rest and valuer. Besides. il is a
GOOD idcc-now. don't think. Mr.. IL,
that | am trying To tell YOU how TO
run your paper because amt. You
are doin reel we'll don't say your
runnin is jest as | would rum it If
i, was mine, but do say you are
doin reel well. believe in givin
he devel his do, as the sayin is.
Well, what was sayin, 1t is a good
idee to put in things about this cOun-
try so that the newcomers and So
iourners as well as them in fOrein
states which reeds the paper can
have some facts TO relate to there
trends. There amt nothin which
makes man feel that he belongs to
any secksiOn of the country like
KNOWN things about it that he can
tell to other pcple that don't know.
If all the citizens of this fare town
would write things for the paper,
how blessed that would be. Every
boldly cant write like you and me,
but we would all be willin to over
look a few short comins like that
if the articklcs was intcrrestin and
TO the point.
| have been thinkin that | would
like to see a literary society here.
1t had ought to include the dramatic
club which We have got but which
aint done nothin this winter There
i. severel reesens for having such a
society. One reason is they would
give entertainments say Oncet 4
month. which would be enjoyed by
all and would make mOny which we
could use to help bid Il new libcr-
rary or any other worthy objcck.
There is lots OF things We could do
with that mUny. and at the same
time. entertainment of the best kind
would be furnished to our ritcz"ns,
and all the money would be kept
here and spent for the good OF all.
Then, them that was takin part would
te rcccavin Iastin bcnifit in the way
of trann, etc. would be willin to
be president If nobody more willin
could be found | have took part in
q good nanny entertainments that
was give by the littcrarrary society
OF our ncghborhoOd when ! was /.
good dccl younger than am now
took a prominent part in SEVERED
debates. One was on the subjcck
Was the hen made first or was IA egg
And another was ON the subjcck j.
the arth round or HAT? That was
dcsidcd agin our side on account oil
Il tool schooltcccher that was one
OF the jugcs. Everybody knows the
arth is round, but he Saycd that
didn't make no difference, he was
coin by the arguments and he claimed
ne other side was the best argucrS,
and he got the other JUICES To seem
his way. guess he forgot | was
on the school bord, and when the
next ycer come around, he wanted
to tcech agin aud | saycd, No sir, /
amt goin to vote for no teechcr that
can let three men argy him into say
in the world is Hat, and so We got
a girl by the name OF l.aurct'y
White And, one time, | give a
speech writ by a fcllcr named liam
let. Maybe you have red it where
the Teller is tryin to make mp his
r,ind whether TO kill hisself or not.
but YOU have Ia read it a couple 81
times to get the sense OF il. Every
boldly thought ! done we'll and |
would have trycd to get a place on
the stage but was kinder gcttin in
tcrrestcd in iarmin on Il Sirntllic
plan, and there was Marthy. She
:ift got enough ability that way to