The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-10-26

lTG CITY 10 raise IdllGT trees anu en-
deavor to save them. In all probabil-
ity satisfactory arrangements can be
made by property owners to have the
city gang raise trees blown down on
private property. -. 80. -. ...
STORM NOTES
Just as the Telegram was ready to
go to press with an early edition, the
power was shut off at the light plant.
making it impossible to operate the
big press Tuesday. Arrangements
were hastily made with the Keystone
Press for getting off a smaller and
limited edition on hand press, even
though it was impossible to supply
the paper throughout the city. BY
distributing it through the business
section, the latest news of the storm
and the strike was given.
Lakeland in general ate supper
early, sighed over the absence of the
regular Evening Telegram. the alb
sence of the picture shows, and the
postponement of the American Lee
gion Minstrels, grew weary of read
ing by lamp light or candle light, and
went early to bed The storm in
creased in violence during the early
evening, then decreased and died
away. By morning, the wind was
gone, and only an occasional misty
gust remained of the rain.
Morning light revealed much dam
age to fruit. shrubs and trees. While
sheltered citrus tree, here
and there, showed almost no loss,
other trees had lost probably fifty per
cent, and the usual less is probably
thirty per cent. Fortunately citrus
fruit is more tenacious than apples,
peaches and the like.
Trees that had stood the storm of
Monday night and Tuesday morning
gave way at last in Tuesday night S
gale: Mllny Ornamental trees and
shrubs were uprooted. Many OF
these will be replanted.
n A. higgins is able to compare
the present storm with that of eleven
years ago in the loss of the big trees
about his home on Lake Morton
Thirty-one went over eleven years
ago, and forty now. He is confronted
with the task of removing them, as
/ they are too large to replant.
! r. E. Lufsey is a philosopher to the
/ last. The wind tore out the top oi
eucalyptus tree at his home on Lake
Morton Drive, but he says he ha.
been intending to cut the top ou
anyway.
The damage to roofs is consider
able. The paper roof of the Lake
land Steam Laundry was much tat
tered. A new one is being laid to
day.
! Lovers of the wide-spreading Flor
7 ida oaks will regret the loss of th'
two fine specimens that stood on eacl
side of the road running from tn,
Barlow road into the Lake Hollings
worth neighbQrhood.
1t is doubtful if many citrus tree
were uprooted, as this is an unusua
occurrence. Some were broken of
some lost large branches. A.
Pickard, who has large grove inter
ests, estimates the loss of fruit a
ten per cent on oranges and los
running from twenty-five to forty pc
cent on grapefruit.
w. D. Sperry, who lives beyon
. Lake Beulah, moved his family an
: furniture out of the house into a neN
building in the yard, when the storr
gave the house an alarming twist o
it's foundation. Fortunately, MI
I Sperry was planning to biuld a neN
} house, and was living in the old on
) temporarily
That most of the groves in tn
Lakeland Highlands section escape
serious damage is the opinion of Mr.
2. P. Emmerson who drove to tow
| at noon from the grove located jus
7 below the Club House. The Emmel
: son trees escaped practically unhuI