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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
BOYS CORN CLUB

Stanley Johnson, in an article in
the American Magazine, makes the
startling statement that Boys Corn
Clubs of the State of Ohio brought
about an increase of S20,000,000 in
the productive wealth of that State
in a single year. He declares that
they increased the yield of corn from
thirty-five to eighty-one bushels to
the acre, on the average, thus
tremendously increasing the farm
wealth of the Buckeye State. This
he attributes to the work of just
1900 boys. These boys, by their in
dustry. showed the experienced
farmers what could be done, that by
little more effort an acre could be
made to produce more than twice as
much as it formerly did.
The great good accomplished by
the Ohio Corn Club boys stands out
as shining example to other States
Great good is already being accom-
plished by the Corn Clubs of Flor
ida, but there is room for greater eff
fort along these lines. Florida should
be one of the greatest corn-produc-
ing States of the nation.
Mr.. johnson speaks as follows re.
garding the manner in which the
people of Ohio are giving the boy
of the corn clubs encouragement.
1.-THE business men Of the State
| went deep into their pockets and
sent the entire twelve hundred boys
to Washington, to New York city,
and later gave them trip to the big
Panama show at San Francisco
Roung Arnett Rose, of Lima, won
! the honor of being the boy cham
pion corn grower of Ohio two years
! in succession, raising Ill bushels on
an acre in 1915, and 1853 bushels in
1914 But the Ohio people under.
stood that it was the entire twelve
7; hundred boys who deserve theil
gratitude.
There was a real need for this
help. The corn crop of Ohio dimin
ished 2S,0O8,006 bushels between
,1912 and 1918. That is very grav'
loss. Ohio's greater population still
lives in the country-and her rura
population embraces one-twentiet!
of that of the Republic.
But Ohio is not alone in thi
economic affliction; it is nation
wide. And the young generation
between the ages of ten and eighteer
, nan all-over- the-natiOn splendid
organized club movement, under til
direction of the United States d.
, partment of Agriculture, is going
D pull the country up and out of il
. dilemma. Jacksonville Metropolis
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
SALOON MEN WILL TEST
LEGALITY OF DAVIS LAW

St. Augustine, Sept. 3o.-sa-
looms will test out the Davis pack
age law enacted by the recent State
legislature. A prominent saloon
man stated that the law would not
be complied with here until it is
tested, as there are many drasic
clauses that may prove uncOnstitu-
ional. The law takes effect at mid
night tonight.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
FIRST CAR OF CITRUS FRUIT
LEAVES STATE

Jacksonville, Sept. 30-The first
shipment of citrus fruit northward
out of Florida was handled this week
by the Georgia Southern and Florida
Railway. The shipment was one
carload of grapefruit made by p.
Phillips, of Okeechobee City, to the
Northern market.
Several other car loads have been
handled by the G. S. & F. since this
first shipment, which marks the be-
ginning of the citrus season in Flor
ida. From indications, the output
of citrus fruit this year should be
god, and as the season advances the
railroads entering Florida will OBJ
tain considerable business.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
AGAINST AUTO SPEEDING

Good roads, no matter how good,
are not immune from damage by the
speeding automobile. Advices from
communities where they are sup
posed to have only the best of brick
roads will show that heavy car
rushing at a speed of forty or fifty
miles an hour will frequently tear
brick from the bed and throw them
er-skelter-unless, of course,
they be firmly imbedded in concrete;
and even in such cases the car and
the friction of the great weight pro-
PEELED at such terrific speed will not
allow the road to long remain in
good condition.
Several of the business men of Or
-.ndo are asking that every citizen
in that locality join the un-uniform-
ed brigade of road preservers, and
when ever there shall be found g
case where driver is making more
than twenty-five miles an hour ovel
those new roads, enter complaint
that he chauffeur may be arrested
/ and fined And the Post would sug
| gest that the penalty be not mere
| ine. That frequently does little
| good-eXcept to enrich the OK
chequer of the city or county.
ySrtianl, Oregon, has had hardl!
one case of speeding within the pas
year, merely because the jude de
cided that there should be no fin,
taken from driver who was proven
guilty Instead of that he wa
placed on the rockpile for ten, TWEEN
ty of thirty days-,as the severity o
the case might demand. After
few of the rich as we'll as the poo
were served in this manner the prat
tice stopped and the records sho'
| that there has been no speedin
there for more than eight months
And the streets and roads there al
most specious argument for
. HAPPY trip.
L Make man pay a cash penalt
! for breaking an ordinance and b
will not fear to risk one more try :
Iit-when he has the money. Ia
him work on the road ten days b.
: cause of the offense-and he'll RI
/ no more "whizzers. That is a sur
: enough resultant the people
Q Orlando might do worse than r
member the fact.-Palm Beach Pos
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
(By Associated Press.

Paris, Sept. 20. Although most
of the laborers employed by the city
are at the front, municipal improve
ment is not being neglected. The
Champs Elysees is being repaved, as
we'll as number of other streets,
and public buildings needing repairs
are receiving attention. Many OF
the workers are Belgians free from
military service and Frenchmen who
are in the military classes not yet
called, or who have been declared
exempt from military duty.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
PIER MILE LONG
FOR PLAYGROUND

Chicago, Sept. 3O.-Work on the
great municipal pier, that Chicago is
building to extend more than mile
into Lake Michigan, is progressing
SO rapidly that it is announced that
the playground will be completed,
except for its recreation features, by
Nov. 1.-The pier will be for the
use not only for Chicago's millions,
but the thousands who visit the mid
western metropolis during the vaca-
| ton months.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30

Poor old Huff. Yesterday morning
with all those wide yawning COL
umns on the fourth page of the Tam
pa Times in his minds eye, waiting
to be filled by the coinage of his
brain and the busy clip of his edu-
Gated shears. while the foreman
yelled for copy, he sat doing in the
WEAKNESS and disgust which only a
newspaper man can properly under
stand, and relieved his system Of the
following, which, allowing for some
exaggeration, is much nearer the
truth than most people suppose:
ITO be a good newspaper man a
fellow has to be lawyer, preacher,
literary light, captain of finance.
sailor, expert bookkeeper. traction
magnate, orator extraordinary,
scientist, doctor, society swell, mas
ter musician, Sherlock Holmes, war
veteran, prize fighter. authority on
charity, real estate dealer, machin-
list, explorer, fisherman, athlete.
grocerymhn, printer, peace-and-trou-
ble-maker, saint. master criminal,
railroad builder, aviator, master pol
itician, office boy, saloonist, cham
pion of prohibition, paragon of hon.
esty and cheerful liar. Any man hav-
in2 these few qualifications can earn
about three dollars a day on the
average newspaper. He will have to
work only eighteen hours day and
can then rejoice over the fact that
there's 'nothin' to do till tomorrow.
Certainly snap, isn't it,"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
MARX GRAVE OF
FIRST - $3.50 ----.N0R


Kansas City, Kan. Sept. 30.-A
marker was placed on the grave OF
William Walker, the first provision
al governor of the territory now en-
braced in the State of Kansas and
Nebraska, in Oak Grove cemetery
here today. The memorial was fur
nished by the Society of the Daugh-
tiers of Founders and Patriots OF
America. Descendants of Wyandotte
and delaware Indians attended the
ceremonies, in recognition of the fact
that Walker was quarter-bloot
, Wyandotte.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
TEMPERANCE WORKERS
WANT SUFFRAGE PLEDGE

New Haven, Conn, Sept. go
Delegates to the fortieth annual con-
vention of the Connecticut W. c. t.
U. who gathered here today will ask
suffragists to declare themselves on
the temperance question before TAX
ing official notice of the votes for
women movement.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
ESCAPED LIFE CONvIj
HAVE BEEN ri

Tallahassee, Sept.
Andrews and William
convicts who recently
the State prison farm
have been recaptured {
to the prison farm. Ma
tured at High Springs
in Suwannee county.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30

General Kuropatkin is again at the
head of the Russian armies to do the
real work of commanding, while the
Car sticks to his old job as figure
head. Kuropatkin is very high
class man and if he, instead of the
Grand Duke, had been in command
of the Russian armies from the be-
ginning, it is probable that history
might have been written very diff
ferently. He is Russia's greatest
soldier, a big man in every way
highly trained in his profession, and
he failed in the japanese wal
through no fault of his. II the stu
alton can be redeemed in Russia ku'
ropatkin will do it He mas some
thing of both Grant and Lee in hi
military makeup.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
(By Associated Press.)

Berlin. Sept. 29.-Such schools
of macherel as have not been seen
in German waters for many years
are now visiting the seacoasts in
both the North Sea and the Baltic.
and the fishermen are making enor-
nous catches. The fish are entering
the Baltic through the Cattegat in
great shoals, and the Danes are also
taking their part in the, catch. The
German fishermen are taking enor-
nous hauls in the waters around
kiel, Eckenfoerde and Fehmarn
and many shiploads of ice are COM
ing down from Denmark and Nor
way for packing the fish for ship
ment into the interior.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30

War, bitter, uncompromising war
to the last man and the last ditch is
on between the two papers in Brad
entown and gas bombs that smell
almost as loudly when they explode
as those in use in the trench warfare
in France are being employed by the
hostile editors. We hereby proclaim
a rigid neutrality between the COM
batants, and we urge the Hon. w.
J. b. to hasten to Bradentown
where he will have an elegant OPP
portunity to try his much advertised
recipe for peace upon the editors
there and see how it works before M
takes Ii to Europe.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
Too Many.

1t was W. s. Gilbert who once re-
marked: ut is easy enough for bishops
to be good on salary of five thousand
pounds a year, but We have to be good
for nothing pause-"and s"me OF
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
What They Escape.

Lots of people who complain that
they don get q. TIN Y deserve should
really cougm tu>. : e. IN. i'es Wall
Street oulE.t.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30

Again has it been demonstrated
that those terrific storms which
gather in the Caribbean sea and hit
the gulf coast such heavy ticks in
spots, for some reason or other fight
shy of Florida They went for Mo-
bile and New Orleans last night and
did damage a plenty but Florida got
simply cool and exhibaratine
breeze.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
THE LAKELAND NEWS.

weekly newspaper giving q resume
o, local matters. crop conditions,
county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere
TOR $3.50 per year.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30

The saloon mon up in Ocala are
q level-headed set and they don t
propose to antagonize the new Davis
law, with the public sentiment be-
hind it, by seeking to evade any of
it's provisions. They will obey it in
letter and spirit. The Ocala Star
says:
"All the Ocala saloons are prepar-
ing to observe the Davis law, which
will go into effect Friday The sa-
looms will open at 7 a. m. and close
at 6 D. m. Not less than half pint
of liquor can be sold, and none OF !,
! is to be drunk on the premises Al
the saloons have ordered brand o.
i whiskey which sells in 15-cent hal
! pints for retail trade.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30

Evidently the little bull terrier
states in the Balkan regions are all
going to get in the scrap. with Bull
garia to lead the way. Political, ra-
cial and geographical conditions are
suci that neutrality would seem -
be impossible for any ,nt OF them.
Bulgaria has been merely waiting to
see which way the cat would jump
and it has been purely question OF
eXpediency with her. She wants to
train with the side she thinks Will
! win and she has selected the Ger
! nanir allies. If time proves that she
has Guessed wrong she will pay a
fearful price for her mistake wher
the allies subdivide Her and wipe
out her nationality after the war.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30

The population is growing faster
than the crops. There are 10000
coo people near by one million acres
CT idle land in New Jersey.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30
AN EPOCHAL DAY IN FLORIDA

Today will be memorable in the
annals of Florida, as the saloons in
this State this morning opened their
doors for the last time in the old
sense of the word. With the stroke
of the clock at midnight tonight,
what is known as the Davis package
law goes into operation and drinking
at the bar will be thing of the
past. Whiskey can be bought in no
quantity less than half pint, and
it can't be drunk within fifty feet
of the PREMISES where it is bought.
Reer drinking is also abolished eX-
cept by the bottle outside of the nj
tv-foot dead line prescribed Tor
wbiskey. Nor can either be served
in restaurants.
It is understood that the saloon
men in Jacksonville, having been ad-
vised by a prominent lawyer that the
law is unconstitutional, win make
test case by having one OF their num-
Der to violate the law, be arrested
and by habeas corpus proceedings
get the case before the supreme court
for early and final adjudication OF
course the object of the law is to
diminish the drinking of intoXicat-
ing liquors by cutting out the social
features of the saloon where men
gather and under the warming and
expansive influence of the seductive
beverages drink more than they
would in an environment where such
seductions did not exist. But the
fact remains that it will be just as
easy to get the liquor as before TX
the man who can raise the price Of
half pint, and it is question i
he won't drink more when he ha
it in larger quantity before him thai
when he buys 1t by the drink at tn
bar. At best the Davis law Is al
experiment, and we would like t.
see it fairly tried on its merits with
out any attempt to evade it by tn
saloon people.
Whiskey drinking is a necessity t
no man. 1t is purely habit, an
admittedly a harmful one, terribi
harmful in many cases, and Wha'
ever tends to abate that habit, witt
ont setting I'D worse one in II
place is obviously right. In elite
like Lakeland where we have no ST
looms and wouldn't permit one undo
any circumstances, we are not wo
rying about the operation of the ne
law. but in Tampa and Jacksonvil
and other cities where the saloo
has existed from the beginning
will seem to those who are wont
gather at the bar that calamity on
less cruel than the war in Euro
had come upon them and their che
ished personal liberty" had gone
the dogs. But a great man has to
us that human virtue should
equal to human calamity, and in d.
time we doubt not that the imbibe
will adjust themselves to the ne
situation
Meanwhile the shadow of Stat
wide prohibition is over us all. al
there is no telling how'sOon the pit
less fact itself will hit the State al
make the operation of the Davis la
seem to the drinkers as highly SO
isfactory condition of affairs If on
it had been permitted to endure
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-30

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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-14
Crop Report
Shows Enormous Yield

Washington, Oct. 8.-American har-
vests this year will be the most valu-
able ever produced, according to the
governments October crop report, is
sued yesterday. The wheat crop, the
report stated, will exceed billion
bushels, the largest ever produced in
one season by any nation, and the
corn crop also may prove to be the
largest ever grown. At the same
time the government forecast indi-
Gates record harvests of oats, barley,
rye, sweet potatoes tobacco, rice and
hay.
Corn still is king of crops with in
dications of 3,026,159,O00 bushels.
While that is 98,0O0,O00 bushels below
the record of 1912, the final produc-
ton, when the harvest is finished and
all statistics compiled, may more than
make up the deficiency. The higher
prices this year assures the most val
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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-14
McHenry County Jail Is
Filled to 0veraowing

Velva, Oct. 10.-The county officers
at Towner have been very active the
past year and those who have been in
the habit 81. winking at the law n the
past are re- having q, hard tine States
Attorney Thorpe stated While il the
city last week that at, the present
I'll time the' county jail IS fufil and oyer
flowing with law ylolators. During
the past few few weeks skks three Of tie Old
time and notorious blind piggers have
been gathered Ii. Il is alleged these
men have operated IL IL the county for
years, butt were always able to evade
the law The officers Have been es.
pecially active in the enforcement
Of the prohibition Jay; apd at the pres
ent tine meth the e'o'uppty is reasonably free
from the blind pig element e N their.
activities taal along SIT this olip line rs both States
Attorney Thorpe sRd S. Sheriff y ,f Mlik
have iaf4 hearty supppfrt ,l of the PEG,
pie pie Of of the fqnapqtya naassfbnh va
Several Of these y ~ Jail at the pres
ent time line haze stgaiaaed their intention
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-14
Celebrated Birthday Of
Little Catherine Young

The little friends of Catherine
Young to the number of 81 gathered
at her home on Fifth avenue Satur-
day afternoon to help celebrate her
sixth birthday. Games of various
kinds and story telling formed the d.
version for the afternoon. At o'clock
the guests were ushered into the din
ing room, where the shades were
drawn and lights, shaded with pink,
cast soft glow over table gay with
pink streamers and huge birthday
cake, decorated with six candles. De-
licious refreshments of sandwiches,
hot chocolate, pink and chocolate
brick ice cream, cakes and candy we're
served the guests by the mother of the
little hostess, Mrs: George M. Young,
assisted by Mrs. M. R. Nelson. Each
guest was presented with souvenir
of the occasion in the form Of little
baskets filled with candy and nuts.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-14
Holdup, Robbery and
Shooting at Darlington

Saturday night at Darlington four
bold, bad boes entered a pool room,
held up those present and went out.
The proprietor and few friends went
out to round them up and got held up
the second time. Then the chief of
police and his posse got busy and
traced the robbers to rooming
house. In trying to force an entrance
they met with stubborn resistance.
The marshal was shot and so badly in
jured that he was rushed to hospi-
tai in St. Paul by special train. One
of the hold-up men was shot and kill
led, and one was captured. The other
two escaped. One of these was a man
whom Sheriff Kelly had in custody a
while back for a hold-up near Cuba.
He will probably be recaptured, as he
is easily recognized, having long
scar on his neck and the lower part
of one ear being cut off.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-14
Edison Heads the New
Naval Advisory Board

Washington, Oct. 9.-The new naval
board of advisors today at its first
business meeting elected the following
officers:
Chairman-Thomas A. Edison, Or.
ange, N. J.
First Vice Chairman DR.. Peter
Cooper Hewitt, New York. ...
Second Vice Chairman-William L.
Saunder, Plainfield, N. J.
Secretary-Thomas Robins, STAN.
ford, Conn. .
Assistant to the Chairman-M. r.
Hutchinson, Orange, N. J.
Only members of the board were
present at the meeting, although Sec
retaryi Daniels g conferred with them
for a short time. The secretary, said
he understands that the board will d.
vide it's work among committees, cleo
tricalo problems being referred to a
committee composed of electrical en-
gineers, steam problems to steam en-
gineers, and SO On. % = = : = y
Board members were to leave for
their homes today after d luncheon
given by Secretary Daniels at the
Army and Navy club y . v
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-10-14
Will Remain
With Bismarck Church

Rev. Bruce Jackson, of Bismarck,
formerly of Grand Forks, who was
rendered the position of pastor of the
Baptist church at Minot, has decided
not to make the change.
The Bismarck Tribune tells of his
changed plan as follows:
A goodly crowd turned out at the
Baptist church to the mass meeting
held to consider the resignation offer.
ed Sunday evening by Rev. Bruce E.
Jackson, pastor of the church. The
committee decided to refuse to accept
the resignation. Various resolutions
were offered at the meeting One was
signed by 60 business men, another by
the members of the high school bible
class, all endorsing in most hearty
terms the work which Mr.. Jackson has
done for the church and the commun-
ity. Troop 2 of the Boy Scouts march
ed to the church in a body and occu-
pied the two front rows. The audience
was made up of representatives Of
every denomination as we'll as the
members of the Baptist congregations
Following the reading of the report of
the committee, by E. w. Parsons, who
presided, which report declined to &C.
cept the resignation of Mr.. Jackson,
and the reading of the various resolu-
tions, an opportunity was given to
members of the audience to express
their appreciation of the work of Mr..
Jackson. Judge A. A. Bruce spoke
most feelingly from the standpoint of
an outsider of what the work Of Mr..
Jackson meant to him, to the boys and
to the community at large. Mrs. J. P.
Dunn spoke in behalf of the ladies and
the Civic league. George A. Welch for
the business men, which were followed
by remarks by Mr.. Parsons and by
Mr.. Jackson, stating that he would
withdraw his resignation and remain
in Bismarck as pastor of the Baptist
church.