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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09
Legislature Adjourns.

The fifth legislature has adjourned,
after completing in only a few days
over the legal limit, more important
legislation than any other session in
the states history. The session theo.
retically closed at noon on Tuesday
March %, but the clocks we're stopped
and it was long, long noon till the
boys went home.
The senate, of course, will remain
IN session long enough to try the i'm
parchment charges against WEIGH and
Watson.
The house quit doing business after
- O'Clock, noon, and the remainder
of the day was given over to receiv-
ing reports and acting on senate meas
ures.
Resolutions were presented by the
republican minority of the house and
also by that of the senate, thanking
the presiding officers of each and
also the members of the majority for
the fair treatment accorded during
the session. In this respect the fifth
legislature is almost unique since
statehood began.
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Defines Authority to Grant Licenses.
According to an opinion by Attor.
mey General Freezing, the state board
of agriculture has no authority to
grant a license to a nursery located
i'll another state to do business in
Oklahoma. The opinion was re-
quested by the board following re-.
ceipt of request for license by the
Texas Pecan Nursery Company of Arp,
Texas. 1t is held by the attorney
general that the company, being cor.
poration, must comply with state laws
regulating foreign corporations.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09
Worked for Public Good.

The future of democracy, after all,
is conditioned primarily on the moral
qualities of people. In seeking the
reason why the present congress has
written more constructive legislation
than any other in half century we
have not far to look. 1t is to be found
not in any new-fangled theories but
in the possession of the plain. old.fash.
toned virtues of honesty and regard
for the public good. The nation says
"Well done!"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09
SEVEN BAYS
OF NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
War News.

The German headquarters staff, in
its latest report on the progress Of hos
tilities, makes the statement that in
the month of March the German east
ern army took fifty-eight thousand
Russian prisoners. including officers
and soldiers, and captured also nine
cannon and sixty-one machine guns.
T. + T.
For the third time Austrian airmen
have attempted the lives of King
Nicholas and members of the royal
family of Montenegro. An Austrian
hydro-aeroplane flew over the city
recently, dropping two bombs near the
royal palace. The bombs exploded
without doing any damage
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Taking advantage of an apparent
weakness in the German lines west of
Warsaw, the Slavs have delivered
number of swift smashes against Gen
eral Mackensen's forces along a fifty
mile front extending from the Vistula
to OpoZno.
f. + +
A concentration of Turkish troops
at Adrianople, the nearest important
Turkish town to the Bulgarian from
tier, is interpreted in Sofia as Turk.
ish precautionary measure in the
event of war with Bulgaria.
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The Germans are building Zeppelins
much faster than England is building
ships. There is every reason to be.
lieve that en- masse aerial attacks
upon fortified cities of the British will
be made before long.
T. T. T.
The battle of the Carpathian passes
now rivals the bombardment of the
Dardanelles in political possibilities.
German experts assert that the efforts
being made by Russia are OF such vi
tai importance politically that the SUI
preme command of the Teutonic al
lies is justified in exerting every eff
fort to check the invader there.
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Austrian losses in Lyutta Valley and
the province of Berge Northeast Hun
gary the day of March 2S are esti-
mated at eighteen thousand, accord
ing to dispatches received by Swiss
newspapers.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09
One Thing Pretty Sure.

The Mckinley example OF prompt
achievement is precisely what the peo-
pie are today determined shall be fol-
lowed by the Republican president Ger.
tain to enter the White House on
March 4, 1917. His name is of no con-
sequence.-New York Evening Mail.
Any servant of the interests will
answer the purpose, but his name will
be of the greatest consequence The
first letter of it will be Monopoly Tar.
if, Of course.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09
Samuel Named For Insurance Board.

W. R. Samuel of Vinita, chairman
of the democratic state campaign COM
mittee during the last campaign, was
appointed by Governor Williams as
the third member of the new state
insurance board, created by an act of
the last legislature. The state insur.
ance commissioner and the state fire
marshal are the other members of the
board. Samuel will act as secretary
Of the board and will receive $4,000 a
year He was appointed by the COVER
nor for a four-year term.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09
Wilson: Statesman and Politician

In discussing Woodrow Wilson as
statesman and politician we take up
the latter aspect of his administra-
ton of the presidency, for the reason
that no mans statesmanlike qualities
ever benefited his fellow-beings unless
he was a good politician to begin
with. Craftsmanship is concerned
with ends; politics with means To
arrive at the first one must command
the second. The presidents leader.
ship of the legislative branch of the
government has eventuated in the
most constructive session of congress
in fifty years because he is a consum-
mate politician.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09
New Woman Is a Marrying Woman.

The alarmist assertions that the
spread of feminist" doctrine is going
to destroy the home are disproved by
statistics. More women marry today
than did in 1900. There has been
gain of nearly per cent in the num-
Der of marriages of women over fif-
teen in the last 20 years.
Among the 3O,0O0,O0O married wom-
en- whom the last census takers re-
port, only 1906 had been divorced.
Ida Tarbell calls this Small per
cent of disaster" and says that there
is no other human relation that can
show anything like so large statis-
teal proof of success.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09
Abundance and Prosperity.

In four months deposits in Kansas
City banks have increased more than
$2S,000,OO0 and are now larger than
ever before. There has never been as
large an increase in any similar pc
riod of any previous year. The rec
ord gives evidence of the prosperity
and the wealth of the territory of
which Kansas City is the financial and
commercial center The profits aris-
ing from last years big wheat crop
and the business stimulated thereby
in large measure accounts for the big
increase. The present indications are
that another big crop will be raised
this year. Never before was the sub.
stantial basis of prosperity more solid
in the West than it is at the present
time, and there is every reason to ex-
pect a year Of expanding trade and
good times in Kansas City territory.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09
Realize His Worth.

Now it is Senator Underwood, and
the Democrats in the senate will wei.
come his able leadership.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09
Washington.

President Wilson believes some sort
of etiquette should be built up to gov
ern relations between Presidents and
ex-Presidents. lie expressed the sen.
timent recently in saying he did not
believe it proper to reply to recent
comments upon his administration by
Taft and Roosevelt.
T. T. i,
That British merchant ships, clear
ing from Newport News have been
supplying coal to warships of the Al
lies off the Virginia Capes lying in
wait for the German cruiser Eitel
Friedrich, was reported to Washing
ton.
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With Brownsville clamoring for pro-
lection, England demanding that its
TampicO oil interests be saieguarded,
and Obregon marching to attack the
City of Mexico, the Mexican situation
again presents a complex problem.
T. j. r
Carranza is making determined eff
fort to show that he and not Villa
dominates the Mexican situation. Off
cial reports received show he has
stripped his Vera Cruz and Southeast
ern Mexico forces to the lowest posi-
BILE unit and sent the troops against
Villa.
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The fight for nationwide prohibition
will be renewed with greater vigor
than ever at the next session Of Con
gress, Senator Sheppard of Texas
has announced. Senator Sheppard
started the movement for local pro-
hibition in the District of Columbia.
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Germany mas agreed to throw open
her military prison camps for an in
spection by an American commission,
United States Ambassador Gerard has
informed the State Department. Eng
land is understood to have accepted
the same offer and the trips OF inspec-
ton are to begin Immediately upon the
arrival of the commission in Europe.
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All Krag-Jorgensen rifles, long since
discarded by the United States army
and stored in government arsenals,
are being distributed to government
civilian rifle clubs" in the various
states, which we're organized under an
act of Congress, it has been announc-
ed by the National Rife Association
of America.
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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09
Domestic Items.

Lemuel T. Rathell, wealthy mer-
chant, is dead from injuries suffered
in rescuing a kitten from the slip
perry ridge of the glass skylight above
his office in Philadelphia. Rathell
climbed out on his roof to assist the
cat and was bringing it back in his
arms when he crashed through the
skylight and fell
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09

American Ambassador Page at Rome
has been urged by member of prom
inent persons in international politics
to inform the United States that the
time is now ripe for formal sugges-
ton to the European powers to discuss
terms of peace.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09

Refusing to be a "piker" and com
plain to the police, c. T. Swanson, a
wealthy rancher of St. Hilaire, Col.
swallowed his $4,000 loss on a fake
horse race and was glad he had left
enough for train fare back home from
Denver. "One more lesson he OBJ
served.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09

John Brisben Walker formerly a
magazine publisher in New York, now
retired to a Colorado estate, has an
nounced through the Editor and Pub
Usher an offer to give a site of forty
acres at Mount Morrison, Colo, to es-
tablish home for newspaper men.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09

Four persons were drowned in the
Duwamish river near Seattle when
motor car belonging to Mrs. Morgan
j. Clarke ran off a bridge ten miles
south of the city. Mrs. Clarke and her
Japanese chauffeur were the only per-
sons saved.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09

Marie Louise Welsch, said to have
been associated with Ensign Ullmo,
who was sentenced to life imprison-
ment in 1908 for selling French naval
plans to a foreign government, has
been arrested on a charge of espioh-
age in Paris.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09

A movement for the calling of con-
vention of legislators from every state
in the Union for the purpose of advo-
eating and obtaining more uniform
state laws throughout the country, has
been started in the Illinois legislature.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09
No Bids For River Bed Leases.

Not one bid was received by the
school land commission following its
advertisement for bids on oil leases in
the Arkansas river bed near Tulsa.
The bids were asked for under the
new regulations made by the commits.
sion following the action of the fed
eral court in placing the royalty of 25
per cent and whatever bonus offered
in addition. A number of leases wep
cancelled giving the former holders
an opportunity to bid them in on
terms which was thought would allow
them to operate.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09

Mrs Anna Marley, a Divorce and
medium, shot and killed Peter Mcclure
of Madison, ILL.,, who she says tried to
force a window of her room in st.
Louis. The shooting occurred few
minutes after Mrs. Manley had closed
a seance
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-09

Isaac A. Ketcham, inventor Of the
Civil War time alright submarine
mine with clockwork for exploding 1t
against the side of a ship, is dead at
his home, Brooklyn, at the age of 49,.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23
Women's List
DADE co. SCHOOLS TO
HONOR HOOSIER POET

Miami, Sept. % The Dado
county public schools will celebrate
Oct. THE birthday of James Whit
comb Riley-as "Hoosier Poet s
Day." according to Superintendent
of Public instruction r. E. Hall.
and next week he will issue for.
NAL request to all the schools of the
county to hold exercises on the an
niversary of the well-known poet,
whose winter home is in this city
The exercises will consist of reel
tation of many of the "Hoosier
Poets verses, and Is in line with
similar exercises which annuallv are
held throuQhout the schools Of In
diana, by those of indianapolis,
where Mr.. Riley resides during tho
summer months.
According to Superintendent Hall,
It is also planned to hold a Riley
DAY" in Miami sometimes this win
ter when the distinguished poet will
be In the city, and invitations will
be sent the Hoosier Poet to attend
these exercises.
Last winter Mr.. Riley was hon
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23

OF Texas and other places were
thinking Of planting heavily
Now should Florida, Texas
Louisiana, and Mississippi plant
a very large cabbage crop coming
IN say March and April and a
large storage crop then in ali
probability the crop would be a
loss to the planter.
advised my questioner to
spend a little money on seed and
seed beds and plant some at
proper times for perhaps the cold
storage of cabbages in the north
may be but normal: the plant
ing in the south but normal: and
with but a normal planting in
the south, a normal cold storage
in the north paying cabbage
crop would be the result, barring
no serious disaster.
Will be able to tell later how
much ] will put out. AS to the
onions, they are short about &c
per cent. of a normal crop. On
ion shipment of Texas was big
last year, it payed but little.
like to plant the crop that paid
but little last year. Usually two
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23
SIGN THE PETITION

Whether you at present believe in,
understand or are in favor Of the
proposition to bond the county for
a system of hard-surfaced roads or
not, sign the petition to the county
commissioners which asks only that
this great and important question
be submitted to the taxpayers of
the county. All other questions, as
to the particular roads to be built
the material to be used, the total
mileage, thewidth of the roads and
many other similar questions will
be thrashed out in the time that
must necessarily elapse between the
presentation of this petition and the
calling of the election, because if the
commissioners act favorably on the
petition asking for the election, they
will first have an engineering sur
vey made, contractors will be asked
to submit bids for the different
kinds of material and some bid con-
sidered satisfactory before the bond
election will be called
Your signature now is only nee
essary to ask the county commission
ers to consider the calling of the
election in so far as to proceed with
the survey and advertising for bids
When the legal call is made later,
it is believed every intelligent tax
payer in the county will have in
formed himself as to what Is best
for him and the county generally
and only. then-at the bond election
will he be actually voting for
bonds or otherwise. Sign the petit
ton.
POLK COUNTY GOOD ROADS AS
ISOLATION
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23
CROP CONDITIONS IN FLORIDA
Jacksonville, Fla, Sept. IS, 1915
The Lakeland Telegram,
Lakeland, Fla.

Jacksonville, Fla, Sept. IS, 1915
The Lakeland Telegram,
Lakeland, Fla.
Dear Sir:
BcinS very much interested in
the welfare of the farming and
trucking interests of this State.
and being better situated to CLEAN
facts connected with these indus
tries than ! have been. and if the
newspapers of the state will CO.
operate in the publishing of the
several articles will get up, I
will devote my very best efforts
and much time in the preparation
on subjects which the agricul-
turists are deeply interested.
Every one of our truckers want
to know what shall 7 plant?
Which of the crops will pay?"
and my efforts will be along this
line of gathering all the informa-
ton | can connected with pres
ent supply, prospective supply of
such vegetable and farm crops
that will be in demand from the
state
Lately this question has been
Put to me. will it pay to plant
cabbagcs this fall? ?"
NV reply was as follows: The
last government report on the
cabbage and onion crops are
something like the following:
The planted area north is rs
per cent larger than last year.
The prospects for yield is IS per
cent, larger. Barring disaster
the cabbage crop will be so per
cent more than last year and in
all probability corresponding
large lot put in cold storage
which will come in competition
with our own cabbage shipments.
Cabbage sold well last season,
md ! have read that certain parts
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23
DENENTFD WOMAN
CREATES EXCITEMENT
ON KY. AVENUE

A negro woman caused consider
able excitement near the Lakeland
Book Store about Q o'clock this
morning by screaming at the top
Of her voice when taken in custody
by Marshal r. E. Ellis. who found
her acting in a manner which would
indicate that she was mentally I'M
balanced. II appears that the WON.
an is a dope fiend and was being TAX :
en- to a physicians Office for treat
ment when she began to be unruly.
Marshal Ellis was standing near and
hailed transfer wagon In order to
get the woman safely home. During
the time that she was being escorted
into the wagon she rent the air with
her screams. but she was finally got
ten to her home. and will be more
carefully watched in the future.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23
POLK COUNTY FAIR
OFFICES NOW OPEN
i'm CITY HALL

For the coming season the Office OF
the secretary of the Polk County
Fair, Edwin R. Schurman, will DE
in the City Hall in the room former
ly occupied by the Chamber of Com.
merce, which has been offered the
association through the generosity
Of Mayor Eaton.
Those who are interested in the
success of the fair are cordially in
vited to call and receive any infor-
nation or offer any suggestions
The management is striving for
greater results from their efforts for
this year and hope for hearty CO.
operation In all parts OF the county.
Work on the premium list. which
Is to be revised and improved in
many ways, Is being pushed rapidly
and the books will be ready for dis
tribution at as early date as pos
sible.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23
POLK COUNTY GOOD
ROADS ASSN TO q
MEET OCTOBER |

A special meeting of the Polk
County Good Roads Association is
called to meet at the City Hall in
Barlow on Friday, Oct. /, at the
hour of 1890. This is a most i'm,
portant meeting at which it is de-
sired to have presented all the pc
titions which have been signed call
ing for the bond election and all per-
sons having copies of the petition
are earnestly urged to bring or send
them at that time in order that a
preliminary survey may be made Of
the situation and the fact ascer-
tanned as to whether or not the re-
quired number of signatures have
been procured.
By order:
JOHN s. HOWARD,
Chairman.
A. ]. HOLWORTHY,
Secretary.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23

Telegram called attention
lay q : needy family living
spsct str6ef. composed of two
mothers recsnt1y deserted by
luuban6s. Mrs. b. NJ. smailes
: ~ thai one OF the young
hes Two other children. one
ich = . boy ten years old.
hid could 80 to school if ne
thing. ~ any charitably in
psruoan who have underwear,
wai6fs, ahoes or stockings
: for = boy Of this age are re-
/ 70 Donate what they can and
vlIl b greatly appreciated,
1 y ! family Of six with no
Of llyelihood Whatever. it can
di1y seen that they will have
provided FOR for some time to
and any groceries,. money or
3 en- - INT either to Mrs.
5 The Bepttst Aid Society, OF
g. =. D. Any one who
infor1natloa rsgarding this
en- phone MrB. Smailes, Mrs.
Pa1rick o. 0GFs. Dale.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23
LOOK OUT FOR u.
STOLEN FORD CAR

Orlando. Sept. 23.-Sheriffs all
around the State have been advised
by telegram TO watch out for Ford
touring car stolen here last night
j. X. Dey of 0cala, travelling
salesman for the Porter Mallard Co.
of Jacksonville, was enjoying tn ;
evening at the skating rink. goin :
there about $40 O'Clock, and when
he left at 10 o'clock his car was
missing. Sheriff Gordon was advised
this morning and is making every eff
fort to locate the car and the thief
The car was Ford two-seater
The right front fender is slightly
bent and there is patch in the
middle of the top.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23
MRS. HOLDERS MILLINERY
OPENING ATTRACTS LARGE
NUMBER OF SHOPPERS

Mrs. E. M. Holders millinery
parlors have been visited today by
large number of ladies. who have
been viewing the many stylish and
attractive styles on display. this be-
ing the occasion of Mrs. Holders
millinery opening. which continues
through tomorrow
Mrs. Holders parlors are located
upstairs in the Elliston building,
and here she has on display a pleas
ing array of the latest New York
conceits in the millinery line. which
cannot but please the most fastidi.
GUS. The opening will continue
through tomorrow, and a most cor
dial invitation is extended the ladies
of the city to call and inspect the
exquisite line now being shown.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23
In Society
Silver Tea Tomorrow

Silver Tea Tomorrow
Afternoon and Evening
A silver tea will be given at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. ]. Drane,
under the auspices of the St. Agnes
Guild Of All Saints Episcopal
church, on Friday from four to FIVE
thirty o'clock in the afternoon, and
from seven-thirty o'clock through
the evening.
A special program has been ar
ranged for this occasion, and re-
freshments will be served. The jit-
ney will leave the postofice at four
O'Clock for those wishing to go out
to the tea. and will also make a trip
to the Drane residence from the
postoffice at seven-thirty in the ev-
ening. In this way, those who have
no means of getting out will be ac-
commodated, and the members of the
Guild will appreciate your attend
ance.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23

ored on the occasion of tree plant,
ing" exercises at Alton Beech when
he took prominent part in the en-
tertainment and penned a verse in
keeping with the occasion.
James Whitcomb Riley was born
at Greenfield. Ind. Oct. z, 1853. con-
sequently. he will be sixty-two years
OF age his next birthday. His first
book appeared under the penname
Benz. +. Johnson. of Boone"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-23
Mrs. Detwiler Hostess
Tt Y s C1uh

The members of the Y. S. Club
were delightfully."- entertained by Mrs.
Walter Detwiler at her home on
South Tennessee avenue.
After the guests arrived, the time
was spent very pleasantly in sewins.
crocheting and other needlework,
and in social converse. delicious Re-
freshments of cake and ice cream
were served by the hostess late in
the afternoon.
The members who attended wer 9
Mrs. George Peterkin, Mrs. william
Steitz, Mrs. Walter Bates, Mrs.
Thomas Cardwell, Mrs. w. Marion
Bevis, Mrs. w. d. Galloway, Mrs.
Guy Toph and the invited guests,
Mrs. A. c. Jones and Mrs. U. w.
Iversen.