The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-15
WHAT THREE LEADING
PAPERS THINK OF IT

Some further testimonies from the
experts of the State press as to the
quality of the recent Progress and
Pros perity edition of the Telegram
will be found below. We are glad to
reproduce them in accordance with
newspaper custom in order that our
leaders may see how people in other
parts of the State are impressed with
a distinctly home enterprise designed
to tel. the story of Lakeland and
Folk county, not only in Florida, but
in many other States, both North
aad South. Here are some opinions
from three of the big leading dailies
CT the State. The Jacksonville Me-
tropolis says:
Editor M. F. Hetherington, of
the Lakeland Telegram is to be COM
llimented upon the annual year
hook which he has just issued. A
copy OF the initial number of 1.-THE
Annual Progress and Prosperity Edi-
tion of the Lakeland Telegram has
just reached the Metropolis and it
toes without saying it is a credit
to the fertile brain of it's editor as
well as to the people of Lakeland,
Polk county and section who were
generous with their advertising
space and booster articles. 1t is the
Intention of Editor Hetherington to
make the publication an annual one.
This was his first attempt and if it
speaks anything it speaks volumes
for what the people of Polk and the
State of Florida are to expect in
these editions. F."
And this from the Miami Herald:
The Annual Progress and Pros
perity Edition of the Lakeland Even
ing Telegram, is the latest booster
supplement gotten out by a Florida
paper and from its name, alone, one
would expect something out of the
ordinary. The papers of Florida
have achieved many notable things
in the way of getting out special is
sues or special supplements and this
from the Telegram is we'll in line
with the best of them. Nothing else
could be expected of anything to
which M. F. Hetherington puts his
mind and hand, and the Prosperity
edition deserves all that the State
press can possibly say of it. The
edition is fifty-two pages, of magazine
form. with delightful illustrated
cover. 1t is printed ON tinted paper
" hich gives effectiveness to the null
tltude of fine photographs shown in
the magazine, all giving the most
comprehensive idea of the beauties,
the resources, and the comforts Of
that part of Polk county which the
Telegram tells about. 1t is a fine
thing for Lakeland that a magazine
of the kind can be published there
and 1t is a fine thing for the Tele-
gram that it is published in so pro-
gressive and up to date community I"
And this from the Pensacola
Journal:
''The Lakeland Telegram since it's
beginning has been one of the States
most progressive dailies-progres-
sive both in politics and methods
When the balance OF the State press
was suffering considerably from the
business depression which was so
widely felt in the South and East,
the TELEGRAM astonished the newspa-
pers OF the State by moving into new
and up-to-date quarters. Apparently
the Telegram has never suffered from
conditions which have affected other
Florida newspapers And one does
not have far to look for the reason
of this. The Progress and Prosperity
Edition just published as supple
ment to the Telegram is an answer
as to why the Telegram has con-
tinued in a fourishing condition
since its beginning. Every evidence
of prosperity is given in this splen-
cid magazine supplement, each num-
Der Of which has borne testimony of
the steady growth of Lakeland as
well and to the business acumen and
the abilities which have gone to
make the Telegram one of the lead
ing newspapers of the State.
1.-THE Journal extends to Mr..
Hetherington and his co-workers the