The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-20

On Saturday evening we will give
you a complete list of subscribers to
date. We have quite a number to
add to the former list, but hope to
have good many more. If you are
not already on the list, call up tele-
phone No. 81 and ask that Mr..
Agrees or Mr.. Belts call and get
your subscription
The writer has for several years
been an enthusiastic golfer. Have
played on many courses in the North
and South, and I know the require
ments of a good golf course. 1t is
my firm belief that when this sub
scription list is completed and the
money put into developments on this
! beautiful tract, we will have the be-
ginning of playground, which in
a few years will become one of the
most famous resorts of Florida.
Mr.. Pearson, the golf expert of
the Lake Shore Country Club of Chi
cago, says in a letter to me under
date of the 18th:
THANK you for your letter and
blueprint of the proposed Lakeland
golf course. am pleased
to know that you are meeting with
success on the subscriptions, as you
! n,ruht IN T,,g ;,,ly 30 al
Lakeland without golf course. The
ground near Lake Scott is ideal for
course, and will make a very good
as well as a beautiful golf course
] am sure If a course is laid on beau
tiful Lake Scott it will become very
popular with the Lakeland people
and ought to get lots of northern
people into Lakeland during the
winter months.
81 think for FIVE or six thousand
dollars you can have good nine
hole course ready to play on for next
winter. The Lake Scott property
will be so easy to clear that it may
not take so much, but as you know,
you can spend much more later on
through bunkering and identifying
, the course; and the balance can be
, used in developing the second nine,
club house, improvements to grounds
and boulevards.
IF you start soon, ] will lay out
the course for you and give you as
much information as necessary. II
will only take. me a few days to lay
out the course, and l could run down
occasionally to see that the work is
going along all right.
We must get our subscription list
completed promptly so that we can
take advantage of Mr.. Parsons
very kind offer He is one of the
best known golf architects in this
country, and if we can start work
on our course before it becomes nee
essary for him to leave for his spring
work on the Lake Shore Country
Club at Chicago, we get the benefit
of his very valuable services for a
merely nominal cost, largely through
his friendship with the writer
Help us in every way you can to
get the thermometer to the ten thou
sand point, and if your name is not
already on our list give us your sub
scription to be added to the Satur-
day list of names. The moral sup
port of your name on the list is
worth as much as the subscription
itself. 1t is difficult to reach every
man individually and personally,
and if you have not been approached
it is not because we have intention
ally neglected you, but because per-
sonal calls upon two hundred people |
necessarily takes time. We are doing |
this work for the good of Lakeland, |
but cannot afford to spend money in
hiring solicitors to call and see each |
man. Make it as easy for us as pos I,
sible. Call us up and give us your
or if you have already |
done so, get a friend to go and do
likewise SECRETARY.