The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-27
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5 UNCLE HENRY !

Dear Editer, l take my pen In
hand to let you no why have not
ben writin in your absense. !; is en-
account of Mrs. H. takin your place.
If | write to the paper l have got
to write to her, and Marthy would
not like it. On account therefor of
things bein as they are wish you
would not print this until. after you
get home.
Joe Dixon has been raggin at me
that | should come GU, hat footed in
the paper and say that he aiut
writin these letters for me. says
one day, says T. ooh, what is the
difference, Joe? You got branes
enough to write them, amt your
Eyes" says he, II have. That amt
the point. ! amt got the hart. "
So now if you want to do me Il fay
er, Mr.. H., / wish you would put
in the paper that he amt writin
them and couldn't write them if he
wanted to. You can fix this up to
suite yourself, only make it kind of
strong. Write it so people will no
| amt got no hard feelins agin him,
but just want to get even with him
for his little remarks to me.
call to mind CRATE nanny sub
jecks on which I was intendin to
write but nanny of them has slipped
my mind
On the subject of as Lakeland a
village, etc. my opinion is we'll
known about this. l amt ever been
one to complane of the Children out
CROWN there close. When Bobby
and Clara Louise was in the CROWN
STAGE | had nanny time to give
away good pare of shoes that was
all rite only got too small, and
was always glad to do it. ] never
made them keep there feet in shoes
that was too small to save me from
gettin others. 1t is true that | man
nv time got shoes a mile too bic
lookin forWerd to there future
groth. but didn't get mad when
they outgroWed them before they
was wore out. We had ought to ht
the same way about our town. In
maxim publick improvements we
had ought to make them as big as
the groth of our fare City. But
when them improvements is out
growed we had ought to 60 cheer.
fully and get some more few sizes
larger. And we had not ought tt
complane Of the expense Of hoin so
AS I walk and talk about the City
| motifs that them which hollers
about high taxses amt them which
bought property here in the last five
yeers. Them people has come here
in faith beleevin that the towr
would grow and expand like 1t hal
done and is still doin. Them people
has been prepared. The ones which
hollers is them which come here ex
pectin that the town would never
amount to much, and they act max
because 1t is goin agin there expec
tations. Yet these is the ones tina
is bennifittin most by the progress
which is goin on. They holler be
cause taxses is high. They ain
complainin because property il
high They say, This here town II
too small for taxses to be SO high,
but they amt sayin, Il had no
ought to asst so much for my prop
erty in a town this size,' or the.
don't say, "The town is too small
for me to asst so much rent No
these people is takin all they can ge
an dnot sayin thank you to the com
munity and there Teller sitizens t,
which they owe all they have got
They amt anybody whose Ian,
here would be with much if all tn
rest of his Teller mortels was t,
move away and stay away. That i
one thing we have not let our mind
dwell on enough. A man will Sc