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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-12

raid. twisted and turned in every
sible design, trims the smart serge
sses being shown in so many
.es. One of these costumes in
v blue had its border design fin
ID with a gray fringe hanging be-
the hem.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-12

ly no sleeves at all, were also of the
silver lace.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-12
BY Pictorial Review

A dear little frock for dear little
rirl is that pictured today. 1t is made
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-12

USE FOR THE OLD STOCKING
Cut off the foot of an old stocking
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1916-11-30

to make April president, but he
wouldn't have it. But he would act as
treasurer, so the Methodist minister
turned over the collection.
swat a minute" said April Jones,
you amt through with this here col
lection yet. Here's this hill west of
town, that sends half the farmers to
Spragueville with their produce be-
cause it's too hard to haul. How many
men1l give a days work with teams
to grade her DOWN."
Fifty hands went up in the air like
Dayonets. "Good!" said April Jones.
THAT'S the first thing we tackle. But
we're going to git power plant at the
old dam, and we're going to pay off the
mortgage on the Methodist church, and
do a few more things. And, as for the
mortgage, put me down, Mr.. Secre-
tary, for two hundred for a starter"
There isn't any mortgage on the Cen
trail NJ. E. church at Hometown, and
there is a power plant at the dam, and
Dan Meeker is working in the bank.
No, April hasn't taken him into part
nership.
But June has.
Copyright 1916. Western Newspaper Union-)
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1916-11-30

amt no heather, that you have to start
missionarying mel"
1t took little time to convince him
that there was no conspiracy of cordi-
atty against him. Suddenly the old
fellow got up, raised one finger at
arms length above his head, and said:
Il tell you what I'm going to do: !
amt going to any of 'em, and I'm go
ing to 'em all" And with this para
doxical announcement he stonped off
to bed.
Next morning April Jones sent the
cashier to ask the three clergymen to
meet him at the bank.
''I'm much obliged to you all for your
invitations" he said, while the Congre-
gationalist looked at him mystified, and
the Methodist and Baptist looked at
each other, "but can't be in no three
places at once. That shows you the
ruinous effect Of competition. Now,
I'm going to suggest this: Let's open
up the school auditorium and have cne
big, bang-up Thanksgiving service and
invite the whole town.
sand well have three choirs get to.
gether up at June's house tomorrow
night" suggested Dan, land practice
each others hymns!"
So one idea suggested another, and
before Thursday arrived the whole
town had been invited, and had agreed
to come.
No one in Hometown will forget that
Thanksgiving service in the school au-
ditorium. What singing there was by
that chorus of nearly thirty voices,
mingling in the best old Methodist
and Baptist and Congregational
hymns! How the preachers We'd with
each other in eloquence! And when
the Methodist minister took up col
lection, although nobody knew exactly
what for, everybody laughed right out.
But that was April Jones' turn to
speak. II don't know whether it's
just regular for me to speak now, after
these good brothers," said April, cor to
speak at all, but 1 tell you what we
are going to do with this money. Us
folks here in Hometown have got a
lot to be thankful for, but we don't
know it. We ought to give thanks for
these three brothers here, who are pull
ing the weeds in our little vineyard.
We ought to give thanks for our good
school. We ought to give thanks for
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1916-11-30
First Shipments of
Ripe Strawberries
Bring Fancy Prices

The initial shipment of strawber-
ries from Plant City was made Sat
urday, when the Plant City Growers
association sent out a pony refrigera-
tor bearing seventy-seven quarts. The
berries went to Harry w. Merrill,
Philadelphia, and Manager H. E. Gal
yean was confident they would reach
their destination in ample time for the
Thanksgiving trade.
The fruit was very good, and some
of it could be classed as fancy. The
first lot came in Friday night from
the Kathleen Growers association, of
which 1. S. Coon is secretary. He sent
thirty-four quarts to Plant City, sell
ing to the local association. Satur-
day sufficient quantity came in to
bring the number up to seventy-seven
quarts.
AS to prices, the first to reach the
platform brought so cents, but the
bidding became spirited in the after
noon, and several growers realized 81
quart for their berries. Robert DAN
iels, who purchased eighteen quarts
of the days picking, sold 10 the 2sso-
citation at 81 per quart. The average
return to the grower was said to be
10 cents.
Mondays picking produced $50
quarts and the price which prevailed
on the platform was 80 cents. The
berries were shipped in three boxes,
one full and two partially filled. The
boxes were expressed to Philadelphia,
New York and Boston. The quality
was fine, the average cover layer con-
tanning only sixteen berries.--Plant
City Courier.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1916-11-30

He give US a navigable river, but it
amt never been navigated by anything
much but bullheads and canoes. He
give us high hill to shut off the
west wind, but there's some of US that
amt been to the top Of it yet. He
give US good soil, but we're keepin'
it more or less of secret. He give
US lot of natural advantages, and
quite bunch of natural loafers, one
Of whom l guess I am which. Fac.
is, he give us darned sight more than
we ever give ourselves. Six days he
labored and made Hometown; and it
amt never had any next week SINCE"
Of course, it wasn't as bad as that.
Dan Meeker, who had been a tent-boy
with ChautauGua last summer, came
home to realize that Hometown had
about the best people in the world in it
Industrious in their work, honest il
their dealings and kind to their neigh
bors. But it hadn't any navigable river,
Harry to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. The old mill dam below, long
out of use since the jawmill was gone,
but still in existence, backed the river
up for mile and bred canoes and bull
| heads.
"Three squares a day have come so
easy to most of us here" said Dan to
! himself, that we've kind of forgot that
there is anything else"
AS Thanksgiving approached, the
three local pastors began to thiLk
about their Thanksgiving services. The
choirs were rehearsed, and certain
Thanksgiving sermons were busted off,
looked over and rewritten. One day
the minister of the Methodist church
said to his wife:
There's April Jones. He has more
to be thankful for than any of US, as
far as this worlds goods go. Wouldn't
1t be fine thing to get Ape out to
our Thanksgiving meeting?"
His wife Immediately said it would
and she couldn't help wondering if
| 1t might not ultimately have some
effect on her husbands back salary
| although it was worldly thought. So
that very afternoon her husband called
at the bank and invited April Jones.
April Jones said he'd see-ard he
was so decent about it that the min
lister told his wife that April Jones
was a misiudged man. The Baptist
pastor saw them through the bank
window and, as May taught in the Bap-
fist Sunday school and June sang in
the choir, he decided that it would be
no more than RICH" " drop in and have
talk with their father and mention
the Thanksgiving services.
'"The absence of our lea ling citizen"
said the pastor, ''would throw cold wa
ter on the whole service"
"Well, little cold water amt going
to hurt Baptist, is it," asked April,
with something that aprroache4 a
chuckle. And, not quite so pleasantly,
he said he would see.
April Jones was a suspicious per-
son; and that night when Dan asked
him if he wouldn't come to the Con-
gregational service, he roared:
what are you fellows up to? I
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1916-11-30

our good soil, and the good power In
our river that we amt never developed
yet. But I tell you what think about
Thanksgiving: I think we ought to
give something more besides giving
thanks!
"There's young fellah setting down
here that has been secretary of our
committee of arrangements, who has
been Citing of lot of ideas up at our
place about US folks Citing together,
and want to tell you they're sound.
I move you that we 60 into commit
tee Of the whole, or something, and
that, after we git organized, that Dan
Meeker be made secretary Of the
blamed business, whatever 1t Is"
It didn't take more than minute
TO make Dan secretarY.-T They wanted
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1916-11-30
Pity the Poor Dyspeptic.

"Bacl1 home" we used to gather
around the piano of an evening, Cod
fearing, respectable family, and hold
orgies of sentimental melody, seeing
Nellie home, and imploring the winds
of heaven to bring back our Bonnie to
us. To chance dyspeptic sitting on
the hydrant outside, it must have been
sickening.-Robert NJ. Gay, in the At
lantic.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1916-11-30

month IN which he was born. Especial
iy since he had had to go through life
with the nickname APE" natural
shortening of his longer name, but one
that was not so very complimentary.
Yet April had acquired funds, if he
hadn't made friends. And he had 9TH
er riches. Chief among them was
June, daughter, named for her birth
month, like her father. She was well
named, too-for she had roses in her
cheeks, and eyes that were twin.
patches of blue sky. Nearly every.
body preferred her to her sister May
Dan Meeker certainly did-or to any.
one. April, May and June were the
whole Jones family.
AS for Hometown, and the kind of
town Hometown was, this is the way
Harry Dee described it when he went
down to the city, and they asked:
Hometown is the best little town
the Lord ever made, but there amt
anybody else ever worked at itemuch.
When he quit, everybody else laid off.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1916-11-30
BeIated Vindication.

The Persians of the time of Cyrus
were Zoroastrians. The Persian relig-
ion was primitively monotheistic, and
they allowed no idols or other mate
rial symbols of deity in their tenn
pies. There was less enmity on the
part of the Jews against the Persians
than against the other great nations
with whom they came in contact, due
probably to the monotheism which
characterized the Persian religion. So
Cyrus, whatever else may be said OF
him, was certainly not an idolator.-
Christian Herald.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1916-11-30

The British now advocate doubly
armed merchant ships. After your
Uncle Samuel gets his new dread
naughts built they will be advocating
triple armed and quadruple plated
battleships.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1916-11-30
APRIL JONES
GIVES TAANk5
>Douq|as ha||och

PRIL Jones was the
worst crouch in Home
town. Perhaps it was
enough to make a man
grouchy, to have had
parents with no more
originality than to name
him "April" because
April happened to be the
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04
WHY PRINCE ALBERT WINS
Patented Process Is Responsible
For It's International Popularity

Smokers SO much appreciate the
flavor and GOODNESS and aroma Of
Prince Albert pipe and cigarette
tobacco that they often marvel tina
this one brand could be so differen
from all others.
The answer to this question is to
be found on the reverse side o.!
every Prince Albert package, where
you will read Process Patented
July 3Oth, 1907" That tells the
whole story. Prince Albert is made
by patented process that cuts OF
the bite and parch, which makes
the tobacco 50 mighty agreeable and
every civilized nation on the"globe.
Smokers should realize that this
patented process cost three years
continuous work and study and a
fortune in money to perfect. But
the result has proven to be worth
all that was expended upon it, be-
cause it has set free men who be-
lieved they never could enjoy pipe
or maxim S cigarette.
Prince Albert makes it possible
tor every man to smoke a pipe or
to roll his own cigarettes. And no
matter how tender the tongue.
Prince Albert cannot bite or parch
That is cut out by thu patented
process, leaving tor the smoker
only the joys of the fragrant tobac-
co.
It is fact that since Prince Al
bert arrived" just about six years
ago, it has: made. three men smoke
pipes where one smoked a pipe be-
fore!
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04

The death of Mrs. J. Whann
McSherry Friday Feb. 18th. at her
home on East Burke ST., caused
widespread sorrow in this city.
Her loss will be felt not only by the
devoted husband, the loving daugh-
ter, the distinguished brothers and
their immediate families, but by
the rich and poor the white and
black alike; for to all she wa. the
same kind loving friend; it was hers
not to Cypress but to uplift
Her father was the Hon. C. J.
Faulkner learned jurist who at
one time represented this country
as minister to France. Born of
great ancestry, accustomed from
childhood to the walks of refine
ment and culture, and educated in
the rest schools Of the country
Mrs. McSherry was superior wo-
man of rare intellectual ability and
womanly virtues. In the Episco-
pal church, of which she was a de-
vout member, and the social circle
in which she moved, the charm and
dignity Of her personality will long
be missed and mourned. For
those associated with her in state
and civic organizations she has left
an example of beauty and service.
Among the masses there abides the
sad lament, that one SO much loved
and honored is no more. In life
such pearls are rare, and in the
loving companlonship of years their
wealth is untold; thus nature teach
es whose heart feels tho most pain
In his loneliness and bereavement
Safe above the waters swirl,
She has crossed the bar;
Earth has lost precious pearl,
Heaven has gained star
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04
SATURDAY, MARCH 4. 1915

Since Judge II. P. Jacobs adj
dressed the State Bar Association,
the debt Virginia tried without a
bond to sue on, to saddle on West
Va nothing has been heard of it.
The Pioneer Press took in substance
the same ground and declared it
never intended to pay cent of the
slave debt. The bonds were sold
for pennies to the four corners of
the world, nd we venture to say
Virginia has one in her confines
West Virginia wears its sovereignty
under its own hat 1t is not our
debt, and it is honorable to repudi-
ate every penny of it.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04
KEGS HELD FOR ACTION
OF THE GRAND JURY

The preliminary hearing Of William
G. KEGS, who Is charged with killing
M. G. Carper while the two were en-
gaged In a quarrel last Saturday at
the ). e. Baker auarries at Bunker
Hni, was held this porning at 10
O'Clock before Justice j. n. Lloyd
and the prisoner was held to await
the action Of the grand jury, being
returned to JILL NoIl and Boyd ap-
peared for KEGS while Downey and
Luttrell represented the state.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04
MR.. HUGHES AND THE ISSUE

Ex-Congressman james A..
Hughes, who is the personal man
ager of Attorney General Lilly's
gubernatorial boom, uses the col
umns of the Wheeling Register to
Inform an anxious public that the
only issue in the gubernatorial fight
is whether or not Governor Hat
field can name the next Governor
III West Virginia. Mr.. Hughes
accompanies this momentous an
nouncement with vicious person
al attack upon Governor Hatfield.
The Intel1igencer regrets that the
managers of General Lilly have
seen fit so early in the campaign to
raise personal issue, as it was to
be hoped that the campaign for q
high office, such as the Governor
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04
FACE AND ARMS BURNED
BIB DYNAMITE EXPL OSION

An Italian with an unpronouncable
name was brought to tho Kings
Daughters. hospital yesterday after.
noon from the South quarries, whero
his face and arms were burned from
a dynamite explosion.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04
TWO YOUTHS ARE GIVEN
TWENTY YEARS IN PRISON

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 3.-Wil-
liam Mcclure and Joseph White, the
tWo youths who confessed to murder
Ing Mrs. Caroline Viehmier, were SEN
fenced today to 20 years each in hte
state prison, following the trial OF
Aaron Fell, son-in-law of the dead
woman, who was tried during the
past week as an accessory to the
murder
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04
A Suit to Your Measure.

Another call for that spring suit or
overcoat, one tailored-te-yor measure.
Is being made by John w. Dean Com
pany. Many new samples have been
added to the showing in the past two
days and you will now see a most
magnificent display at their store.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04
JitneY Iurna Turtle

A 3itney bus Of the Potomac line
turned turtle last night on the WI
Transport pike. The big glass win
dows were broken and other slight
damages done, but nobody sustained
any injuries.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04
Measie Epidemic.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, March g.
The physicians at Ronceverte hays
reported to the state board Of health
serious epidemic of measles. They
report 1870 cases.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04

SALESMAN WANTED TO 1ook
after Our interest in Berkeley and
adjacent counties. Salary or Com
mission. Address The Lincoln Oil
Co., Cleveland, O.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04

Hotel property for sale in a good
town of two thousa nd inhabitants.
Easy terms. Address 81 care of
this omcs,
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04

| conducted on somewhat higher
plane.
So far as Judge Robinson is CON
cerned, thousands Of people in
West Virginia know that he is no
temporary political accident As a
teacher, as a lawyer and as a public
man he made good and won the
respect and admiration of a large
circle of friends throughout North
ern West Virginia long before eth
er Henry D. Hatfield or A. A. Lilly
had begun to figure in the public
affairs Of the State at large
He was big enough man to be
| formidable candidate for Congress
2 years ago. He was big enough
man to be accorded the unanimous
nomination of Republican State
! convention for the Supreme Judge
ship of this State after having filled
| the position by the appointment Of
| Governor Dawson In the Judge
ship he has been big enough to rem
der many decisions Of remarkable
power and originality, and stamp.
ing him as man strong enough to
resist public clamor, political pres
sure and disturbing influence, un-
der most trying conditions.
The Intelligencer quotes one Of
the most distinguished Circuit
Judges of the State of West Virgin
! ia in the statement that:
The opinion of Judge Robinson
in the martial law cases will cause
him to be remembered as one of the
greatest, if not the greatest, Judge
that ever sat on the Supreme bench
of the State of West Virginia.
To speak of such a man as the
candidate or tool of any other man
is an absurdity. However, should
it become necessary to compare the
kind of support that is being ex-
tended to Judge Robinson with the
kind of support that is being ex-
tended to General Lilly, the friend 5
of Judge Robinson need not shrink
from the comparison.
No great combination Of special
interest is backing Judge Robin
son s candidacy.
No men who have special favors
to expect from a Legislature are
backing Judge Robinson candi-
dacy.
No organization that maintains
constantly large and active lobby
in and about the Legislature al
Charleston, is backing Judge Rob
inson's candidacy.
No combination of men who de-
liberately framed the laws of this
State to relieve themselves from lc-
gal damages for the killed and in
Jured in their plants is backing
Judge Robinson s candidacy.
No combination of men who
sh1rked the payment of their fair
share of the casualty charges under
the workmen' compensation law is
backing Judge Robinson's candi-
dacy.
| The Intelligsncer can be much
palmer, if necessary, but it trusts
that it will not be necessary to 20
into the details of the particular in
SEPARATION for the opposition of
Judge Robinson. There is every
evidence that Judge Robinson s
candidacy appeals to the very large
5 majority of the farmers, business
men and working men of West
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04

Some weak-kReed Congressman
would make the American govern
ment accessory to it's own ignomity.
Chicago News.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-03-04
Senator Silxar lnnroued

Senator silver Improved.
The condition Of Senator Gray Sill
ver, who underwent an operation re.
Gently at the City hospital, Is report
ed being much improved.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-29
TWO YOUTHS SENTENCED
Motorcycle Trip Has Ending Never
Dreamed OF.

A trip through the west on "A
stolen motorcycle came 70 its hnaI
end Friday morning when ElwOOd
Igou. Ia years old. Of Springfield. O..
was sentenced to one 10 eight years
in the Jacksonville reformatory.
and Joseph Schaffer. - years old. of
Urbana, O., was sentenced to six
months at the state penal farm for
breaking into the Loughman and
Loughman Coal Co. Office, by judge
Funk in circuit court. Both boys
pleaded guilty 10 the charges.
According 70 the stories told 10y
both of the boys. IgOu planned the
tri pthrough the west with a third
Springfield boy IgOu admitted that
he stole a motorcycle, but said that
when the other fellow found out ne
had the machine he refused to go.
Schaffer was induced TO leave mis-
home and the two came 10 South
Bend, where they were arrested for
entering the coal office.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-29
DRAKE MYSTERY is
PUZZLE TO POLICE
WagOnman Earl Parker Has Prob
lem That Would Battle Even
Old SherlOclxo.

Police authorities are at a loss to
solve the battling mystery of sub
stitution presented 10 the depart
ment by one of the members Of the
force.
WagOnman Earl Parker was the
victim of the deep-dyed plot which
as yet remains buried in mystery.
An embryo duck farm is the proud
possession that has long fed the
flames of hope in the heart of the
ambitious Croesus. Parker. The
proper growth of the farm demand
ed the purchase Of a drake and at
this point the mystery lies.
After the supposed drake had en-
joyed himself, or rather herself, Of
the Parker premises for some time.
it was discovered not at all by acct
dent that the drake was really q
duck. The three horns Of the
dilemma have offered great difficult
ties of solution.
Either the duck was substituted
for the drake at the time the trans
was substituted some time between
the purchase and the arrival of Par
ker, duck Cor drake) under arm, at
the farm or, finally. IL was not a
drake in the first place over which
the bargain was made. Parker de-
cIares, however. that he was right
in the first instance.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-29
ROLL Is
APPROVED BY BOARD
Members Make Special Trip to New
Improvement on Leeper
AV.

At the meeting of the board of
public works Friday, the assessment
roll for the improvement of Leeper
av was approved though special
provisions were made for the rem
edying of any defects that may be
found in the construction. A special
investigation was conducted We'd
nesday by the members of the
board following a complaint of
owners of adjacent property. The
approval was considered advisable
A favorable resolution was adopt
ed in compliance with the petition
presented at the meeting requesting
the paving of the first alley north
of Division ST. from Scott st. to
Chaplin st.
In compliance with the request OF
the city officials. which has for some
time been in the hands of the
Michigan Central railway company
the latter party has signified its in
tention to remove the turn table
from the city's property on Cedar
st