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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14
SIR CECIL SPR|NC,R|CE
DIED OFF HEART
FAILURE TODAY
By Associated Press.) J

Ottawa, Feb. 14.-Sir Cecil Spring
Rice, former British ambassador to
the United States, died of heart fail
ure this morning at the government
house. His wife and two children
were with him.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14
AMERICANS,
FIGHTING On
CHAMPAGNE
front, DOING
coo Good Work Work
ASSISTANCE HAS
BEEN RENDERED ON THIS
FRONT BY AMERICAN GUNNERS
(By Associated Press.)

Paris Feb. 14-American batteries
took part in the artillery lombard
ment in connection with a large
French raid in Champagne yesterday,
it was announced officially. Effective
assistance was given by the American
gunners. This is the first mention
that American batteries are on the
Champagne front.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14
Important Peace Debate
BY Associated Press.)

"a by ASS0C1dJeu PTtSS.J
Ion, Feb. 14.-An important
debate will begin in the Reich
&eb. 81. according to a wireless
Eh from Amsterdam. Hertling
eply to Wilson, Lloyd-George
flando.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14
or No Change in Cabinet
(By Associated Press.

|on, Feb. 14.-Major General
b R. Robertson, of the Daily
ele declares on his own infor-
he will remain chief Of the
ii staff with the full approval
bnfidence of the war cabinet.
General Filson will continue
lcipal British representative at
lles.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14

.ov 42s, Clearwater, 800; Lakeland
oo4. Bradentown, 1875; Palmetto
42q; Mulberry 1913; Plant City s, aS,,
s,rosota. 327; Winter Haven 264;
Tarpon Springs, 289; Tampa SfSO'
Port Tampa 50.
The number of telephones IN Yarl-
oas places when the last directory OF;
y,.,, ,,.os issued. August, 1917 were as fol-
'a,,s, %,, Bartow. 4o7; Clearwater 46s'
; Io leland 9S2; Bradentown, US; Pal
n,etto, 42o; Mulberry, 1872; Plant
city. Az; Sarasota, 814' Winter VIII 1, Hav-
=, w. go. Tarpon Springs, 2s7; Tampa
OK. Port Tampa, 6o.-Tampa TIL
hume.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14
ENGINEER DEAD,
"A PASSENGERS
INJURED, IN
SAL, Wreck At
R|CEBOR0, GA.
(By Associated Press }

Savannah, Ca, Feb. IA. -Engineer
]. D. Rogers, of Savannah was killed,
q negro fireman is missing, fourteen
were injured when Sea :
board passenger train from Washing.
ton to Jacksonville, collided with a
freight at Riceboro last night.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14

Since the War Department gave no
orders for the observance of Abra-
ham Lincoln's birthday, members of
the Dixie Division were not given a
holiday Tuesday. The training work
continued as usual.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14
Two Women and
A Baby Burned
To Death Near
New Orleans
(By Associated Press. J

New Orleans, Feb. 1.-two women
and baby were burned to death
and three others injured in fire in
the tenement houses at Harvey across
the river from here, today.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14
bune

French inventors horizontal
.,i,, is 60 shaped that nine
4ns ~.l If tbe vanes utilize the force
=, .,"t Aha wind, no matter in what d.
raction it is blowing
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14
z French Ships
Sunk Past Week
By Submarines
(By Associated Press. J

Paris, Feb. 14.-One vessel Of over
10000 tons and one less than that,
are reported lost the week ended
Feb. 8.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14
All Saints (EpiscOpaD Church
Lenten services

Lenten services:
Wednesdays, 1880 p. m. Evening
prayer and address.
Fridays, D. m,-Litany and ad-
dress.
REV. VIM B. CURTIS, Rector.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14

The City Council of Wauchula has
called a special election to vote bonds
to the amount of $4,000 to put in
municipal light plant and pay off
some outstanding Indebtedness.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14
Wise Ships
Put Under The
Supervision OF
W. H. Peasants
CBy Associated Press.)

Washington, Feb. l4.-Coast-WisH
and Great Lakes steamship lines op-
Grated by railroads, were today
nIaced by McAdoo under the super
yision Of ". H. Peasants, New YORK.
nreeident of the ocean Steamship
co,onanv who was designated as
manager of the marine section oi 'ne
railroad administration
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14
OUT THAT
OVER PRODUCTION
MAY NECESS|TATE
EMbARC0ES ON
SHIPMENTS
(By Associated Press.l

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE danger
OF Industrial over-production which
may swamp the railroads, causing
erlbargoes and temporary factory
shutdowns. was pointed out to the
Senate military committee by H. L.
Grant, army production engineer.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14
INVESTIGATION
AMERICAS
FOOD SUPPLY
TO Be MADE
(By Associated Press. }

Washington, Feb. 14.-Investiga
tior of the nations food situation
with particular reference to wheat
and meat was begun today by the
Senate Agriculture committee.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-14

birthday of William |, on March ",
1877, and was cast from French guns
captured in 1901.
The Washington times., 1918-05-17

The first aeropane that brought mail from Philadel-
pha to Washington 140 miles, in la minutes carried among
other letters addressed to Postmaster General Bureson
signed by John Wanamaker who Postmaster General
during the Harrison Administration.
This letter is reproduced in facsimile because you will
be interested not only reading the letter itself but in
ing the signature of the who, although of the
busiest merchants in the world finds time address letter
of congaaton and commendaon to the Postmaster Gen
er who has succeeded in adding to the already complete
service he giving another newer better faster
efficient form of delivering your messages
1t must be a source of very great satisfaction to Mr.
Wanamaker to the magnificent which has at
tended the development of his two ideas the Postal Savings
and the Parcel Post.
It will be Just great satisfaction to Mr. Burleson
TO watch the tremendous DEVELOPMENT which bound to
tend the flying mail service which he has just naugurated
Liberty motors better planes, and other products of
American genius shall increase speed and dependabity
100 per cent OF possibility.
And just so sure as the Postal Savings and the Parcel
Post and the Aeropane Mail Service have become realities
also will become the Government ownership and control
of the telegraph and telephone lines with better service
lower rates. and wider use
In the accomplishment of bigger better service for the
people this Government is going ahead faster than
at any time in its history,
What would the stage-coach Americans have thought
of such postal service that of today they could
looked ahead from the early S0s and compared their &C.
complshments with those of the present?
Then result Of the work of Postmaster Generals
Mclean of Ohio and Barry of Kentucky the service had
been improved that letters we're brought from New York
Washington in thyX hours and grave Senators made
speeches about the progress Of the department.
In the course of debate on newspaper postage Nav
1892 Senator King of Alabama expressing approval of the
expansion of mail facilities, said:
"The Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Bib has caIcu
lated that there will be half million dollars at the dis
posa the department the iS of July This was
the first time had heard Of such suggestion had under
CONTINUED in Last Column
The Washington times., 1918-05-17
The High Price of Meat
By EARL GOODWIN.
People Want to Know Why Commodity Goes Up Little
Every Day.

in the face of the rising cost Of beef mutton and pork
Also the Food Administration itself the promise of
finding out exactly why Washington housekepers pay
ing higher and higher cost of meat No Government de-
parment function of administration and admins
tratve officials have the respect Of the community and the
confidence of the people unless the whole TRUTH is known
about matters of universal Importance For that
the Food Administration it to itself well to the
public to find out WHY the price of meat is increasing
ever before.
If the Food Administration will find out who is getting
the money for meat the public will be less satisfied
If the farmer getting the bulk of the profit the city
will be less than he would be if it is found that
speculator middeman is getting your money and mine
The Food Administration is looking into meat COSTS
and this remind the gentlemen involved in the nvest
cation that the people dissatisfied with present eond
tons and you will confer boon by getting all the facts and
then TELLING them in loud voice
The Washington times., 1918-05-17

Mistake piled on mistake. moth
ing that life might give her will
equal what she has lost.
II people who toss aside all that
life has to offer for what they are
pleased to call-"a grand pas
sion," could only see, the final
chapters of sonfe of these affairs,
they would hesitate a long time
before taking the step toward vio-
lence.
Some years ago l was in Pisa,
the Italian city famous for its
leaning tower. An American cou-
pie in the same hotel spoke to me
in the lobby and asked if would
sit at their table. ! didn't know
them or anything sbout them, and
their only excuse was all of US
spoke English. | don't remember
whether they called themselves
Smith, Jones or Robinson; it
doesn't matter; they spent all
their time asking questions like,
S SAASAN AAlaAAg NAAoAtENo III 1 VI
ty-second street; we hear the the
aters have all moved up town."
Living in the heart of a wonder
full medieval town, their most
treasured collection was a bundle
of American postcards that fellow
travellers whom they had met in
Pisa had sent back to them.
They seemed famished for talk,
commonplace talk about restau-
rants. shops, hats, fashions, any
thing on earth but about the coun-
try where they told me they had
lived for ten years
wondered continually why,
when they crayed for Broadway.
they continued to stop in Pisa:
then, one day. came the cNplana-
tion. The woman lent NE a book:
on the fyleaf was a name with
which the readers OF newspapers
were familiar ten wears hack
both had families from which they
had eloped.
The Washington times., 1918-05-17
Read What Beatrice Fairfax and Madame x. Write About
The Strange Waukesha Case" Another Page
of This Paper.

his late wife's blood-despite a
possible acQuittal-is no wife for
him.
Imagine two people, sitting at
a prosaic meal like breakfast,
with a hideous domestic skeleton
like that grinning at them from
behind the coffee cups or the
cereal dish. There would be all
sorts Of impossible associations;
the way the present wife poured
coffee would recall the coffee
pouring methods Of her predeces-
sor. Then the husband would re-
member other things; the way his
wife looked after she was killed;
her burial; the trial; the wrangle
Of the lawyers; the dragging into
broad daylight Of every incident
Of the school teachers life.
Che "man in the case" will
probably say. when he thinks these
things over, mot for me-" He
will seek green fields and pastures
new, and if he marries again, he
will marry some young girl whose
history is still a white page.
If, however. he should happen
to be the one man in a thousand
and marry the woman who killed
for his sake-nO one need envy
their dome stiCity. There will be
too many ranting skeletons around
that household to make it livable.
Life is so magnificently worth
while, such a splendid fish pond in
which all sorts of prizes are COM
ing to properly baited hooks, that
The Washington times., 1918-05-17

TN q small town in Wisconsin.
Waukesha, there is a woman,
a school teacher, on trial for
her life for killing another
woman.
Her plea is that the crime was
the result OF Love Gone Mad. I"
l wonder if, during the past year,
while she waited in jail for the
law to pass judgment on her case,
she hasn't had some terribly
sane moments in which she real
ICES that love gone mad" is a
pretty sorry business.
She lost her heart-and head
TO q veterinary surgeon. He had
a wife who declined TO give him
up. The school teacher shot her,
then made an unsuccessful at
tempt 20 take her own life. To-
day, she sits in public. every Sc
cret Of her life dragged into the
sordid court room atmosphere.
Twenty feet from her sits Or.
Roberts, the horse doctor, that
caused the tragedy.
In event Of her acquittal. will
DR.. Roberts marry her? 1t Is
doubtful, judging from the con-
clusion Of the majority Of such
cases in the past
No matter what the verdict OF
the jury may be, in the way Of
emotional or temporary in
sanity, Dr.. Roberts, If he follows
the precedent Of the hero" Of
such affairs, is apt TO have
severe case OF what We may call
the "proprieties,' after the trial.
Men are conventional creatures,
and the fascinating horse doctor
will be apt TO reason. that a
woman whose hands are red with
The Washington times., 1918-05-17

one is tempted to ask why human
creatures will throw everything
TO the discard for a moment Of
riotous emotion. For. in the be-
ginning. these grand passions are
within the grasp of sane people.
If the school teacher had been
wise, she would have realized she
was becoming too fond Of another
woman's husband and would have
sought new surroundings. Wau-
kesha, Wis, may be a highly at
tractive town. but it is not the
world. The woman who killed her
rival was a teacher in the high
school; it is not difficult for a
woman thus equipped to find a
new situation.
She might have gone to a big
city where there would be greater
opportunities than in a little town
in the Middle West. She might
even have gone to France and
worked for a heroic people. If
she had thrown herself into such
work, heart and soul. fate"
would have dealt happiness in
stead Of tragedy.
But she stayed where everything
served to send her case from bad
to worse; she stayed where she
saw the man, she saw his wife. the
sight Of whom goaded her to jeal-
GUS furies the very street and
houses served to recall her un-
fortunate love affair. And one
fine day she fred the pistol.
The Washington times., 1918-05-17
One Postmaster General to Another
Continued from First Column.)


stood the fifteen years the department had
expanded ITSELF far and fast its would allow to
the accommodation of the whole country by increasing its
mail facilities. Within my knowledge, have trweeky
and daily mails passing roads where but few years
since there none and only single horse mails
week fortnight Mail stages pass through most of
and the benefits of this useful establishment duse
themselves into every neighborhood.
This morning find on my table letters and
papers brought from New York, distance of $50 miles,
hirty-s hours and from Boston, 500 miles, three davs
We have the mail expedited from New Orleans to Washing
in one-haf its former time from Baltimore to Pittsburgh
within the hast few days there arrangement by which
DAYS gained There is scarcely week
a day in which improvement is not made,
facilitating the transport of mails The department has kept
pace with the country in its march of improvement"
Last year the Postoffce Department with a revenue
of about 330000000 expended only S320O00000. THAI
would have made the Senators of 80 open their eyes
soo
But WE would undoubtedly be considerably amazed
ourselves could look forward to 1894 and the real
zaon of ideas and plans that will be born and developed
brains like those of Mr. Wanamaker and Mr. Burleson.
The Washington times., 1918-05-17
HEARD And SEEN
An Answer to George Ramsey.
RIIJ, PALMER SAYS:

An AnsWer 70 George hamBey.
BILL PALMER SAYS:
"Tell MR.. RAMSEY that McIn-
tyre and Heath first hit this town
around about the time that Colonel
Snelbaker ran the old Theater
Comidue; when Lester and Allen
and the Russell Brothers were do
ing amateur nights.
At this period in the Capitals his
tory Bill Dewduly operated a "whis-
per gently" opposite said theater, in
Eleventh street. Also Jake Budd,
stock coon comedian Of the Comique
was in the heyday Of his glory.
The Washington times., 1918-05-17
I've Felt the Same Way Myself.

I've Felt the Same Way Myself.
ROGER W. BARSON, chief Of the
inquiry and education division Of the
Department of Labor, makes a time
ly complaint:
Couldn't you do something to
stop the motorcycle noises here,
says he. "The efficiency Of the Gov
ernment offices IS certainly being
retarded by these unmuffled motor
noises. Now that the windows are
open the outrageous machine-gun
drum fire motor noise is enough to
stop anyone from doing his best"
Miss SARAH POOL, of ITO
Fairmont street, has been reading
the efforts to name the tub at Fiji
teenth street and New York avenue
and now offers Life Saver" as the
proper title. A good one, too.
Miss POOL also calls attention
to the decrepit specimen Of Stars
and Stripes now flying from the
Liberty Hut.
The Washington times., 1918-05-17

Speaking of old times, heard
TODAY from ". D. HAYES, living at
Clarendon, Va. He spoke Of going
to STRONG JOHN THOMSON'S
SCHOOL.
The Washington times., 1918-05-17
A Government clerk asks:

A Government clerk asks:
II enjoy reading you. but dc
not remember reading anything
about subtenants who have TO pay
nearly as much for part OF unfur-
nished premises as the whole rents
for to the tenant. 1 am a Gov
ernment worker. and have a fam
lily and sister to support. Am
paying S35 for half OF an unfur-
nished house. and the whole
house rents to the tenant for $40.
VIII the snti-proiteering bill be
any protection and benefit to me
and others similarly situatedf
Would appreciate a word in your
paper about this"
In general. the anti-proftsering leg
lslation is aimed at gouSinG. but high
prices will continue until the piping
times OF peace. l fear.
Saw DR.. ALBERT HALE the
other day. He goes to South Amer
ica about once eVerv weekend.
The Washington times., 1918-05-17
How About Thsi

CHARLES A. HAMILTON tells me
that on Lamont street northwest, be-
tween Sherman and Georgia avenues.
every night the Surface Department
The Washington times., 1918-05-17

NY father attended that mans
school; so did my uncle; and l sup
pose twenty thousand others in this
town.
The Washington times., 1918-05-17

Latest News.
Comes a rush letter from JOSH
CALLAHAN who states positively
that forty-eight yesrs ago he was
taken to ,Barnur1 and Forepaugh's
show in this city and that in the
concert following the main perform
ance Mcintyre and Heath appeared.
The Washington times., 1918-05-17

wish some of you older boys
would send me a few choice bits
about Strong John. believe the
youngsters who attend the school
named after that famous character
ought to get an insight into the well
known old schoolmaster's character.
The Washington times., 1918-05-17

OF the District government leaves
tools, wagons, wood. steam rollers,
and other large impedimenta, on the
line Of tho sidewalk, outside the
building line and unlighted. Further
more Mr. Hamilton says this has been
going on for several years and that II
a private citizen attempted such a
thing he would be Jailed for life.
The Washington times., 1918-05-17
HAy I4th, 1918.
" doar. s1r:-

" dOaF s1P:-
Il Will not intrusive for thu
eldest Postmaster General to offer his eeneratu-
4At1ens TO ths Postmaster General Of ths United
States, Ia whose administration the great var
uA41 service emergency has besn 90 we'll orrsn3zsd
and eendncsed' and 70 Whun has cone the greater
and ever 70 be memorable privilege Of 1nauerat3ns
a GSFeplAas nail service.
A. tbs head OF tbs postal system for
four years. 1GboFsd 1pdUtrteus1y to tain tha
First steps IN the Parcel Post and ths Postal
Savings, 70 scceup13Sh tbs greatest forward
step Of a11--thS GovOrnsnt ownership and control
Of the telegraph and tslsrhsns, In which failed.
mainly ca Political grounds.
very earnestly hope that you Will add
90 yeu honors and ussfulnsss in gaining for the
people Of tbs United States Governmental guardian
ship OF the4T personal eoETsSpondsnce b wire,
which can en1y b attained By esrsh4p which would
rebuilt in deubtsd economies and much reduced rates
60 hundred n1111ens Of psepls
The Washington times., 1918-05-17

ROBERT BENDER, the well-knoWn
Washington administrator Of the
United Press affairs, is now taking
matted milk and egg to keep up his
health.
The Holbrook news., 1918-01-18
.-~-O4~
Patriotic Affairs

The ladies of Holbrook will meet on the second and fourth Mondays of each month for social afternoons. Those not caring to play cards will knit or sew. These meetings will be held in four parts of the town, a chair man for each section having been selected. Refreshments are not served, but twenty five centsf is asked of each member at every meeting. This money goes to the Red Cross and it will help the general fund very material ly.
 A pleasing feature of these afternoons will be the gener- al meetings which will be held every fourth Monday. A number of the members whose homes are adequate to entertain a large number of guests have very gener- ously proffered the use of them for these affairs. The initial meetings, which were held last Monday afternoon, were a decided success, and all are looking forward to the next meetings which will be on the afternoon of Monday, January 28.
The Holbrook news., 1918-01-18
A New Homestead ProUision

MT. Fen s. Hildreth, the Phoenix land attorney, writes "The Oasis" that on the 18th inst. President Wilson affixed his executive signature to a new enact ment by Congress which provides that homestead en- trymen may take leaves of absence from their home steads and perform farm labor upon other lands, talk ing credit upon their home stead for the time actually consumed in working upon the farm lands of others.
 The object of the bill is to peII!llC oIlCEyIIl0H lodVlIlS their homesteads and apply ing themselves to other pro- ductive work during the pendency of the war.
 Of course, to take advant- age of the new law, entry men must execute and file in the land office at Phoenix notice of their absences and returns to their own lands. Oasis.
The Holbrook news., 1918-01-18
Oil Companu Incortorated

Articles of incorporation of an oil company to develop the Holbrook oil fields have been filed with the corpora tion commission in Phoenix. A. M. MacDuffee of King man is president of the com- pany and R. w. Wildey of Kingman, is a stockholder. As soon as the proper au- thority is granted by the commission, the company will probably start drilling.
 During the past week Mil ton A. Allen, of the state bureau of mines, has visited this locality and while here he was shown around the country by Dan Snowgoose, an oil expert who has been here for more than a month. MT. Allen was much impress sed with the prospects here and believes that this will develop into a real oil dis trict.
 Jack Martin, a prominent engineer of Prescott, is now in Holbrook and is being shown over the dis trict by MT. Snowgoose. Beyond question, one or more companies will begin development work here in a short time.
The Holbrook news., 1918-01-18
Mir. Robinson Visits Old Home

Mir. Robinson Visits Old Home
 G. V. Robinson, the well known merchant of Castle Butte, spent a few days this week in Holbrook look ing after business matters. MT. Robinson returned last week from a visit to his old home in St. Joseph, Mo. Concerning this visit the News-Press of that city published the following:
 George Vest Robinson of Castle Butte; Ariz., is visit ing friends in St. Joseph and Buchanan County. MT. Ro- binson is the youngest son of the late Capt. Joseph Ro- binson, who for many years was one of Buchanan Coun- tvs most prominent farmers and stock raisers, whose home was Easton.
 Captain Robinson, who died in 1895, also was a leader in politics in this To- cality Nand was a staunch Democrat. His widow is now living with her two daughters at Albuquerque, N. M.
 "Vest Robinson, as he is best known, was, of course, named for the late Senator Vest, and this is his first visit to Missouri in eighteen years"