The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-07-31
Nominations of
Uncle Henry

! MY pms lOh III ullHu anu
to write to you. The subject i have
got on my mind at present is weads.
The weads in this town is altogether
! too numerous and prosperous to suite
me. | am wanting that We should
all arise in our mites and get these
weads cut down At the present
Writin they are all going to sede
and it will not be long until the
/ fCundasions for a better crop next
yeer will be lade good and proper
by these here sedes bein flung far
and wide on the summer breazes,
etc.
We had not ought to allow these
things to be this way, Some smart
click will asst me how we are 60
in to get things different. And they
is some truth to this. 1t is pretty
easy to get one man to do something
but when you are workin on severel
people or hunderd people all at
oncet you would think some of them
would do something but such is not
the case. The more they is to work
on the less there is of them that
will do anything. 1t is now time,
however, that something was being
vvn ho1 n IL,
like good rodes day, it would be
good idee, but such is not neses-
sary. Nobody is rasin there Weads
out of spite or because they like
weads or because it is such hard
work to cut Weads. Cuttin weads
is not hard work, out it is awful
hard to get started. 1t is like takin
a bath. kind of like to take a
bath but it makes me so blame mad
to have to pump the water and cart
it into the wood shed that by the
time i get the sope and the towels
and my other suite of unde1close and
my clean socks and the wash rag
ready, and If it is winter time,
have to get the water het up, and
it all togather about gets my en-
thoosyasm wore out before get to
the ackshal work of takin the bath.
So it is with cuttin weads. 1t
aint the cuttin that worry's most
folks; it is the gettin redy. And
besides they is good nanny pee
ple-the most of the peeple-that
amt reely fixed for cuttin weads.
1t amt hardly wuth while to keep
a slthe around all yeer to cut a lit
tie 2 by 4 patch of weeds, and then
your nabor feels the same way, and
they is NANNY block or two blocks
in this City in which they is not
a sithe to be found, let lone
gflnstone or even milestone to
sharpen the thing with. And in the
same way, a man which owns a va
cent lot don't hardly feel like keep
ing mowin machine Just for that
one lot.
And now we come to the question,
is they man in this community
which has got a mowin machine
which he is willing to use for cut
tin weads if we'll payed for the same.
The city had ought to see that such
a man is found, and then order
these here weads all cut. They is
nanny a persen which would gladly
pay for hayin there weads cut if
man was to come to there d0re and
speek to them on the subjeck. |
would gladly be willing to do this
if | had time, but you know, Mr..
II. that | haint got the time, and
besides i am gettin too old to handle
a sithe like uset TO. Still would
be willin to lend my sithe to amy
good onest man which is willin and
reddy to go out cuttin weads and
aint got no sithe of his own And
recken they is somebody which
would be willin to lend there now
in machine and horse, and in this
way we would soon get these here
weadS moved down.
The idee is for the city to order
the weads cut down at onct, and
then may be that will be all that
will be necessary if they vii say it
like they meen it. But as in the
times past it is likely that not much
attension will be payed. And then
it had ought to be seen to that they
is men reddy and perpared to cut
the weads
Then if these weads aint cut |
am in fayer of the city takin it
upon thereselfs to have these weads
out nnd tho ovnoncoe nboruo1 -,