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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-25
YIELD OF 10000 ORANGES
ONE TREE SINGLE SEASON

One orange tree in the Azors is
said to have yielded 10000 oranges
in single season. This is line
in an article on Citrus Fruits of
Florida" by ]. H. Ross, president of
the Florida Citrus Exchange and he
goes on to say that no Floridian has
had the willingness to father a story
as elastic as this one from the Azores.
DR., James Stanfll, of Marysville, Fla,
a noted physician. jurist old-time
grower of oranges in Calhoun county,
when the native Florida sweets were
the popular orange, years ago, picked
from one tree in one season and
shipped to Columbus, Ca, by river
boat, 10000 sound oranges, delivering
in good condition in Columbus.
This is a true story, vouched for
by many who knew the good charac-
ter of the doctor. This report is of
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-25

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the tax
payers and citizens of the City of lakeland,
Polk county, Florida, that petition has been
filed in accordance with Chapter 6SGa Laws
of Florida for the purpose of validating
ninety one thousand dollars 1891, 100000 Of
bonds Of the City Of Lakeland issued for the
purpose of improving and paving certain
streets in said city, and an order has been
issued, requiring that cause be shown, II
any, on the 9th day of September, A. D.
1919, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, In the
City of Lakeland, before the Honorable John
S. Edwards, Judge Of the Circuit court Of
Polk county, Florida, why said bonds should
not be validated and confirmed; and his no.
tce is given under section two of said chap
ter, for you to show cause, II any there be,
at said time and place, why said bonds
should not be confirmed and validated
Dated this 18th day Of August, A. D. 1918.
J. A. JOHNSON,
Clerk Of the Circuit Court Of Polk County,
Florida. 95i8
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-25
Imprisoned for Ten Days For Editor
ial Criticism of Corruption in Pol
itics, He Says Afterward That
He Is Not Sorry He Was
Sentenced

Memphis, Tenn, Aug 21.-A news
paper editor in jail-gets no rest.
/ never worked so hard in my life
as during the ten days of my impris-
onment.
When | entered the Jail | started
to keep record Of my visitors. But
| gave up in despair and lost count.
l came with a suitcase, but I left with
a monograph, electric fan, water
cooler, boxes of cigars and candy,
baskets of fruit, cakes, pies, bottle
of disinfectant, cans of insect powder,
thermos bottle filled with hot coffee,
cans of preserved fruit, jars of jam,
books and a great stack Of newspa-
per clippings, editorials and letters
from every part part of the United
States.
Every day the patrol wagon pulls
up to the Jail to get prisoners who
have been sentenced to the work
house or the penitentiary. A negro
prisoner to whom has been delegated
the honor of calling the prisoners
signs out their names with wall like
Caruso singing the Sob Song. will
INN MN RrO-O-W-n.n-n pnt all vOu
got and come on" he cries, in a voice
that runs the whole gamut from basso
to tenor.
And yet, it hasn't been all pleasure.
had sadder moments in Jail than l
ever knew before. | never felt 30
helpless and hopeless in my life.
For on all sides of me were men
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-25
Second Half State
League Schedule

Sanford at Orlando (2).
Monday-Tuesday, Sept. 80
Tampa at Bradentown.
Orlando at Barlow.
Lakeland at Sanford.
Wednesday, Thursday, Sept 1011
Barlow at Bradentown.
Sanford at Lakeland
Tampa at Orlando.
Friday-saturday, Sept. 1918
Sanford at Barlow.
Lakeland at Orlando.
Bradentown at Tampa q games
Saturday..
Monday-Tuesday, Sept. 1856
Sanford at Bradentown Ia games
15th.)
Lakeland at Tampa.
Barlow at Orlando e games 15th.)
Wednesday, Thursday, Sept. 17.1S
Barlow at Sanford.
Lakeland at Tampa (17).
Tampa at Lakeland (18). Two
games.
Orlando at Bradentown.
Friday-saturday, Sept. 1920
Sanford at Tampa.
Orlando at Lakeland.
Bradentown at Barlow.
Sept. 22-Open Date
Tuesday, Sept. %
Sanford at Lakeland (2).
Tampa at Orlando (2).
/ Barlow at Bradentown (2).
Wednesday-Thursday, Sept. 24-25
Barlow at Lakeland GA.
Lakeland at Barlow (25).
Bradentown at Orlando.
Tampa at Sanford.
Friday-Saturday, Sept. 26-27.
Barlow at Lakeland.
Bradentown at Sanford.
Orlando at Tampa.
Monday, Sept. Reopen date.
Tuesday, Sept. 80
Tampa at Bradentown.
Orlando at Sanford (2).
Lakeland at Barlow (2).
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-25

]. S. Warren has on exhibition in
the window of the Cooperative Store
a New Guinea butter bean of his own
raising that weighs nine pounds, is
more than three feet inlength and
measures about twelve inches in cir.
conference. The bean resembles a
gourd more than a bean, but it is said
to be very palatable when properly
cooked-Manatee Banner.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-25
Editor Leech Tells
What He Learned
In Ten Jail Days

and women, boys and girls, to whom
the visit of an editor in Jail, with
friends calling constantly, seemed so
strange that they have come to be-
lieve | could get them out of the
plight they were in.
Last night in Jail | was climbing
the long iron stairs to my room, after
exercising by nightly walk in the
lobby, when a girl slipped me note
through the bars. She and another
girl were sentenced to one year each
for shoplifting and with four other
charges yet to be tried. The jailer
and he's thoroughly good man
beloved and respected by the prison
ers-had told me of her. He believes
she is the innocent and ignorant vic
tim of bad company. And so do l.
When | got to my room | read the
note. Misspelled and ungrammacital
it was a plea for assistance from
girl who has no friends, who says her
baby is sick and her old mother in
poverty in Jail without help
or support of any kind.
And negro back in the tiers of
cells where scores and scores of ne
gro prisoners are confined, sent me
out petition by the guard, petition
10 pages long, and every letter of it
carefully printed, instead of written.
A railroadAma on charge of rob-
berry, and others, appealed to me for
help-yet l couldn't honorably keep
even myself out of Jail. Whatever
can do for them l shall, but am
afraid it will be little. Perhaps it
will be possible to induce the court
and prosecuting witnesses to drop the
cases against the girl and let her go
home to her mother and baby. l
hope so.
Living in Jail and visiting in jail,
have discovered are two different
things. AS newspaper reporter, |
used to go around many jails. But
never stopped to think what Jail
was before. never had seen so
many men and women lolling around,
day after day, in absolute idleness,
nothing to occupy their hands or their
minds, wasted and sidetracked. 1t
seems to me that Jail can best be
compared to the railroad sidings
travellers pass so often, where strings
OF rotting, rusting and dilapidated
box cars stand seemingly forgotten
and abandoned. It's the same way
with these people. Because of some
deficiency, they, too, have been side
tracked and deserted, left to rot and
rust in idleness-and yet the world
wonders why they're not as good as
new cars when the time finally comes
to put them back into service again.
Manus stole IS cents from a little
boy. So the law arrested him and
the law put him back in the same cor.
ridor with at least five negro muir.
derers, numbers of robbers and bur.
glars, petty thieves, bootleggers, and
what not. Three days later Manus
was tried and sentenced to one year
in the reformatory. And at 4 o'clock
next morning l saw Manus taken
away to start his sentence.
There was such a clang and clamor
and shouting down in the corridor
that l got out of bed to ascertain the
trouble. l looked down and saw a
long chain lying across the floor, with
pairs Of handouts fastened to it at
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-25

Tuesday, Aug. 10
Barlow at Orlando.
Tampa at Lakeland.
Sanford at Bradentown.
Wednesday-Thursday, Aug. 2o-21
Lakeland at Orlando.
Bradentown at Barlow.
Sanford at Tampa.
Friday-saturday, Aug. 1929
Orlando at Sanford (22).
Sanford at Orlando (23).
Barlow at Tampa.
Bradentown at Lakeland.
Monday-Tuesday, Aug. 1926
Tampa at Barlow.
Lakeland at Sanford.
Orlando at Bradentown.
Wednesday-Thursday, Aug. 27.28
Barlow at Sanford.
Lakeland at Bradentown.
Orlando at Tampa.
Friday-saturday, Aug. 1880
Tampa at Lakeland coy.
Lakeland at Tampa (30).
Bradentown at Orlando.
Sanford at Barlow.
Labor Day, Sept. I
Sanford at Orlando, pm.
Barlow at Lakeland, p. m.
Bradentown at Tampa, p. m.
Tampa at Bradentown, a. m.
Lakeland at Barlow, a. m.
Orlando at Sanford, a. m.
Tuesday-Wednesday, Sept. 20
Barlow at Tampa.
Orlando at Lakeland
Bradentown at Sanford.
Thursday-Friday, Sept. rs.
Tampa at Sanford.
Bradentown at Lakeland.
Orlando at Barlow.
Saturday, Sept. 6.
Double-headers all the way.
Barlow at Tampa (2).
Lakeland at Bradentown (2).
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-25

record in the archives of the agricul-
tural department in Tallahassee.-St.
Lucie Tribune.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03
President Praises Wounded Fighters

Washington. D. C. President
Wilson, in the midst of his labors
in connection with conclusion of
peace, has not forgotten the SOL
diers and sailors whose valor and
sacrifices made it possible for
America to end the war as a VIC
tor. In a mersage to the wound
ed men President Wilson says:
Il could tell you what the sac
rifces you have made have meant
to the world. | could tell you
what history for all time to come
will say of you and of the suffer-
ings you have experienced on
your great crusade. But these
things other men will tell you.
Il prefer to remind you that
the wounds you bear are the no
blest badges of honor any man
has ever worn; that they exalt
you to a supreme place in the
minds and hearts of your Country
men and of all the world.
Il prefer to assure you that
America realizes that she has no
more solemn obligation. no more
patriotic duty. than to express in
practical terms the gratitude
that every American man. wo-
mari and chid-feels for every
one Of You. America will not
forget. .
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03
THREE DAYS MEETING
AT PLEASANT VALLEY

The Fifth Sunday meeting o
Enon and Wiseman Associations
of Missionary Baptists was helC
with Pleasant Valley church
near North Springs, beginning
on Friday, March 28th, at ter
O'Clock and continuing three
days. There were in attendance
the following ministers: Elders
| C. B. Massey, A. J. Sloan, Phil
ip Dyer, A. G. Stinson, }. A,
Rich, and Calvin Gregory, Of
the Baptist church; Gilbert Crab,
tree, Jeffie Clark and Davis, OF
the Christian church; Mil
ford Wakefield, of the Cumber'
land Presbyterian church. As
this was a meeting to which
every faith was invited to attend
and take part in the discussion
of the questions on the program,
everyone was made welcome and
urged to set forth his views of
the teaching of the Scriptures.
There were lively discussions,
but all seemed to be done in a
brotherly spirit. Many questions
of interest to all were freely dis
cussed, and a better understand
ing of the doctrines of the diff
erent churches represented was
arrived at. 1t is certain that
much and lasting good was
accomplished.
Large crowds attended during
the entire three days and good
order prevailed. The good peo-
pie of Jennings Creek threw
open their homes to the visitors
and made all feel welcome.
Sumptuously filled tables greeted
the visitors in every home and
showed that prosperity and hos
pitality are not strangers in that
section of Jackson county.
Arrangements for another
meeting of the same kind are
being made. This meeting will
be held with Teel's Chapel chur-
ch, near Pleasant Valley. A
program announcing subjects
for discussion with date of the
meeting. will be arranged at
once. The program will be pub
lished in the Sentinel as soon as
completed.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03

way system in this section Of the
state is as follows:
State Highway No, 8: Beginn-
ing at the corporate limits of
Nashville, thence via Lebanon,
Watertown. Carthage Junction,
Silver Point, Cookeville, Living
ston, Byrdstown to the Kentucky
state line in Pickett county, to
connect with a through highway.
State Highway No. 20: Begin
ming at Cookville on State High
way No. 8, thence via Monterey
to CrosSville, to connect with
State Highway No. l.
State Highway No. %: Begin
ming at Sparta on State Highway
No. l, thence via CooKeville,
Gainesboro to Celina.
State Highway No. "a: Begin
ming at Livingston on State
Highway No %, thence to Gel
ina.
State Highway No. 25: Begin
ming at Gallatin on State High
way No. 4, thence via HartsvilIe
to Lafayette.
State Highway No. 26: Begin
ming at Hartsville on State High
way No. 25. thence via Carthage
Smithvile to Woodbury. on State
No. |.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03
RURAL EDUCATION CON-
FERENCE ATCOOKEVILLE
Prominent Speakers on Pro-
gram----AN Interested
Invited to Attend.
Special to Jackson Co. Sentinel:

Special to Jackson Co. Sentinel:
The condition and needs of
the Rural School on the Highland
Rim and the Cumberland Noun
tainS will be considered at a
| Conference to be held in the
Presbyterian Church at Cooke
vile, Tenn, on the afternoon of
Thursday, April II, 1919 at l.
p. m.
All persons interested in this
subject are invited to be present
and will be at liberty to take
part in the conference.
THE PROGRAM.
Genral Subject - The Condition
and Needs of the Rural School.
From the viewpoint of the
State Superintendent, Prof.
S. W. Sheriff., Nashville, Tenn.
From the Viewpoint of the
State Inatitution, President
Thomas A, Early, Cookeville.
Tenn.
From the Viewpoint of the
Patron, Rev. Van N. Smith,
Buffalo Valley. Tenn.
From the Viewpoint of the
County Superintendent, Prof.
S. G. Hatfield, Cookeville, Tenn.
From the Viewpoint of the
teacher, Prof, Paul E. Doran,
Sparta Tenn.
PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVEMENT.
Pending Legislation, In United
States Congress and Tennessee
Legislature.
Compulsory School Law How
the Schools are Helping.
Old Zion, Consolidated School,
Rev. K. H. Brown, Sparta, Tenn.
Alpine, Secondary School, Miss
M. K. Schoonhale, Livingston,
Tenn.
Tennessee Polytechnic, Presi-
dent Thomas A. Early. Cooke
vile, Tenn.
How the Church May Aid,
Prof. Frank March. Crossville.
Tenn.
The Parent Teachers Associa-
ton, Mrs. Rutledge Smith,
Cookeville. Tenn.
Would be glad to have many
teachers present.
J. H. Miller, Chm.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03

10 to 25 dollars per acre. DeVe'
loped land is from 25 to so dollars
per acre.
We have a fine climate in East
Tex. 1t never SHOWS here often.
The seasons is long enough to
raise 2 and 3 crops on the same
land, such as pototas and all kind
of Vegetables.
This country is coming to the
front very fast, and it want be
long until 10 and % dollar land
will be a thing of the past.
Polk county has just voted one
million dollars for good roads.
We have a good school here in
Livingston. with II teachers and
8 months session.
This town needs more merch-
ants, and the county needs more
farmers. There is only 3 geners
al stores here, that sells every
thing. and they sold last year
eleven hundred thousand dollars
worth of goods.
Cotton is the principle crop,
but you can raise anything on
East Texas land. You will find
all kinds of soil, such as sandy
land, for pototas, peanuts and
red land, good for toba-
co, oats and corn; black land,
good for cotton, and some land
no good for anything only to
hold the earth together.
1t is very easy for strangers
to get fooled on the quality of
land here, and | would advise
any one to investigate before
buying.
N. l.. Bailey
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03
INTERESTING LETTER FROM TEXAS.
Livingston, Texas.
March q, 1919.
Editor Sentinel:

Editor Sentinel:
| will write another letter to
your paper for publication. Per-
haps it will be of interest to
some of your readers. as well as
my relatives and friends in Jack
son county. 1t may also be the
cause of some other former Jack
son county people. who have
moved a ray to other parts of
the country, writing to the Senti-
mel. | would be very glad to
read letters through the Sentinel
from others who have moved
away, and to know how thev
have found things where they
have settled.
This is pracdcaiy a new countrg
there are thousands of acres OF
land in Polk county undeveloped,
the price of which ranges from
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03
Fourth and Fifth Grades.

The majority of student in
these two grades are making
fine progress, especially is this true
of those Children who come re-
gularly with needed equipments.
One may not hope to make sue
cess in school, if he be not dill
gent. The child who goes to
school without books, tablets,
and pencil, is like unto the man
who goes out to till the soil with.
out tools. 1t is not possible for
such one oaccomplishvery much
On Friday, March q, these
grades rendered an interesting
: p~opssu1. 10 which Grace Gentry,
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03
GOVERNORS PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by Senate Joint
Resolution ", approved March
%, 1919, it was ordered by the
General Assembly that a mass
meeting be held in the Court
House at the County seat in each
county in this state at one o'clock
P. M. on Monday, April 7, 1919,
at which time the qualified vot-
ers are requested in orderly
mass meeting to express their
wishes with respect to the pass
age of a bill pending in the Leg
islature providing for the issua-
nee of not exceeding fifty milli-
on dollar serial bonds, the prin-
cipal and interest of which it is
proposed shall be paid and dis
charged by tax on motor vehl.
cles, and the one mill property
tax; that if amendments are de.
sired, the mass meeting may
suggest such as may be desired
and that the Governor issue a
Proclamation requesting the
people to attend such mass meet
ings.
Now, therefore. |, A. H. Rob-
erts, Governor of the State of
Tennessee, in pursuance of said
Joint Resolution, do hereby re-
quest and call upon the legal
voters throughout the state to
meet at their several court house
in the various county seats at
one o'clock, P. M. on Monday,
April z, 1919, and take such act.
ion as will be expressive of their
will respecting the proposed fifty
million dollar bond issue. Such
action will be certified by the
Chairman and Secretary of the
mass meeting to me as Cover.
nor Immediately after the ad.
journment of the meeting.
In testimony whereof, | here
unto set my hand on this March
26, 1919.
A. H. Roberts,
Governor.
BY the Governor
Ike B. Stevens,
Secretary of State.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03

lead, Wonetta Wheeler, Edgar
Reeves, Maud Huff, and Ravene
McGlaSson, were a tie Next
in excellence was Mark Tardy
and Clio SDurlock.
The pupils on Honor Roll for
the sixth month were: Fred Tar
dy. For the seventh month, Fred
Tardy and Grace Gentry.
Those who were present every
day during the sixth month were
Brocket Morgan, Ravene McGlas-
son, Edgar Reeves. For the
seventh month, John E. Gist and
Ravene McGlasson.
Miss Jennie Anderson.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03
Governor.
BY the Governor
Ike B. Stevens,
Secretary of State.

Washinton. D. C.-American
exports to all the world in the
seven months ending with JAM
uary, this year. had a value of
So. 1877. 925. 724. This was S927.-
CAB, 657 more than the value of
exports in the period ending with
January. 1918.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03
SOLDIER ANXIOUS TO GET HOME.
Forwarding Camp.
Lemans, France,
March 1st, 1919

Mafcl lSC, 1919
Dear Mother
We received orders today that
we will leave this place on Mar
ch 10th for the port of Embarka-
tioa, where I'm told we don't
stay very long until we sail for
the states. We have been in this
place for almost three weeks and
believe me I'm getting tired of
it. | am always glad to make a
move, if go into a worse place.
] think the train we ride for
port will be the last freight train
we will have to ride, for they
don't haul US on freight trains
in the states, or didn when |
left, but riding freight trains is
much better than dodiug shells
on the front. | guess James
Draper is seeing just what we
went through with, as ne is up
in the Army of Occupation and
is near Metz, where some big
ones fell.
saw Oliver Norton today,
and have heard of all the boys in
the Division. They are all get
ting along just fine, and of
course they are all anxious to
come home just as soon as a
boat can carry them, or faster, if
there is a shorter way to go.
If nothing happens more than
| know of at present | think that
| will be at home by April lst.
| am really glad that I'm getting
home in the Spring, instead of
mid Winter. | sure will be glad
when | get back where can see
some real sun shiny days, which
| have missed since | came over
here. 1t has rained almost every
day during the past two months.
Has either Harley Richardson
or Carl Flemming ever arrived
home, and have you seen James
Kinnard since he arrived from
over sea? | heard that Jim had
passed through Gainesboro about
the 10th of January, saying that
he had been wounded over here,
and that Sid Denton had also
arrived home.
We have left the place where
worked in the hotel. but | am
having a much easier time, as
am not doing anything that you
would call work.
Bob wanted me to bring him
something when ] came back.
Tell him that he had better come
to see me when | arrive with
about two suit cases. for | will
have a number Of sovenoirs "a
put in them that he wanted ne
to bring MIN.
| am hoping that | will beal
this letter hone but can't say
nov Vh ther | will or not.
Your son.
Henry Trisdale.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03

Washing, d. C.-Net receipts
of twenty-five laundries owned
and operated by the Government
q camps and contonments were
S248 479. 10 for January, tie
War Department reports.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-04-03
STUDENTS CONTINUE
EXCELLENT WORK.

Will Gurndy Quarles,
Roy McCawley,
Miriam Anderson.
Maurice Anderson,
Anna Lee Smith, (leader)
Pauline Rush,
Mary F. Gaines,
Anna Clay Raines,
End Grade
Celia C. Morgan,
Grady Roberts.
William C. Anderson,
Donald Anderson.
James Montgomery,
Cordell Smith,
Zella Smith, Qeader)
Willie West,
Joe West. (leader)
3rd Grade.
Aline Brooks, Qeader)
Henry Dennis (leader),
Ernest Hestand Qeader),
Cordell Hestand Qeader),
Floy Johnson,
Settle Huff.
The following program was
given by the pupils of this room
Friday afternoon at the patrons
meeting:
Memory verse, 3rd grade.
Memory verse. I'd grade. Memory
verse, lst, End, and 3rd, grades.
Primer, word game, Edwin
Smith, winner.
First reader game all tied.
Second reader game all tied. Bird
grade, Story of our Flag, Floy
Johnson, Frances Wooten.
Happy song, lst, End, and 3rd,
grades.
March, Ist, and End, grades.
Spelling battle, End, and 3rd
grades, Zella V. Smith captain
of second grade. The captain of
the 3rd grade, Rosemond Lynch,
being absent, Ernest Hestand
was chosen for the place. The
End, grade won.
A splendid helpful talk by
Bro. Gentry was enjoyed by all.
The following patrons encour-
aged teach and pupils by their
presence: Mrs. Gaines. Mrs.
l.. B. Anderson, Bro. o. P. Gen.
try.
The pupils are delighted with
their beautiful flag record card,
made by Miss Blanch Tnsley.
A unanimous vote of thanks was
given her. when it was hung,
Tuesday morning.
The 3rd grade this week wins
the record of honor from the
second. grade by a small fraction.
The 3rd grade had a delightful
picnic Saturday. After many
games and a splendid dinner.
party returned to the school
building and played a new mul-
tlplication game then more rom
ping games were played on the
beautiful school campus. Miss
Anderson. who shares the third
grade work, was always ready
with a jolly game to play.
Miss Mamie Morgan.