The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-27
SUMMERTIME IN FLORIDA

Winter having firted with spring
until the middle of April it is not sur
prising to many when summer APP
pears and suggests that there's really
no need for spring to linger. The
weather has apparently assumed the
summer schedule and people of the
state generally are accepting the fact
although the calendars indicate a sea
son Of mild temperatures, gentle
showers and balmy breezes. Truth to
tell Florida gets its spring in small
assorted lots, scattered from January
to April 10 and it's summer. Every
where, even in northern Florida. the
people have come to the point of
wearing summer clothes, the half-hol.
idays have begun in some sections
and with a great part of the winter
visitors already started homewards
and remainder planning to get away
the home folks would usually be
stretching a bit and composing them
selves for quiet time.
We have said usually" because
this summer is not likely to be any.
thing like the summers before the
war, for instance. The old-fashioned
summers, with very little to do and
less ambition to do it, have been put
into the discard permanently. Flori-
da doesn't take six months off as soon
as the tourists leave as perhaps was
the custom at one time. Lately there
has been so much to do all the time
that people really cannot get all that
they plan into the twelmonth. The
things planned for the winter run
over into the spring and the summer
finds everybody busy with the finish
ing up and starting for the season in
view.
From all parts of the state reports
come in Of building improvements.
new industries, splendid plans for adj
vancement, new features for the bet
ter enjoyment of life and activities of
every kind. Some of the best known
winter resorts in the state are now
compelled to accept the title of sum
mer resorts, also. as people insist up-
on having the hotels open the year
round, and with the exit of those who
came from the North their places are
taken by Southern visitors. Numer
GUS industries that have been attract
ed to the state by favorable conditions
and excellent promises, are establish.
ing themselves in the state. Indus
tries already here are extending their
activities.
In the field of agriculture and hor
ticulture Florida presents never fail.
ing source of interest. The summer
will find extensions going forward in
groves, ranches and the cultivation of
general crops. The possibilities of
drainage plans, the projects for in
creasing the fishing industry by open
ing lnlets, improving waterways for
transportation, building roads into
sections where they are NEEDED most,
all these things will go forward stead |
lily, swiftly during the summer and
Florida will be hard at work at the
months 60 by.
Florida people will all get holiday,
sometime during the year, and MANY
Will slip away during the summer. for
lew weeks or month, but the work
will not stop. Construction has been
planned that will keep the greater
part of labor busy every day in the
year; the industries and the fields and
groves, river and harbor for improve
ment and development Of great acre
ages and numerous towns and cities
will 60 right on.
once upon a time it was rather
quiet in Florida during the summer
but all of that is changed now, and
we are all the better for it, People
VINO are ignorant of our climate NAV
pity us-but we are more generally
happy than they and almost certain to