The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-05-28
LAKELAND CITIZEN GIVES REASONS
WHY ELECTION SHOULD NOT CARRY
A. Higgins Offers Some Additional Information the School Stu
alton as Affecting the Proposed Bond Issue-Advses De-
feating the Bonds and Calling Another Election 10
Cure Defects In Present Plan

As a matter of public information
the deed that my good friend, Robert
Bryant is going to make to the school
board should be published. 1t viii be
interesting 20 know what kind OF 4
deed he will give to the school board
that will make the title clear. when
he has already made a deed to the
municipality of Lakeland. it VIII he
something new in the deed line. for
the school board holds no deed what
ever. clear or otherwise, and Rob
ert Bryant doth not hold a clear title
himself.
The City of Lakeland and the school
district are as separate and distinct
from each other as the district and
Polk county, or the city and Polk
county, so when McRae and Bryant
have done all they can to clear this
title, there is still a larger account to
be settled between the city and the
school district and this must be set
tied and a deed that will hold good
passed from the city to the district
before the district will have a clear
title. Robert is quite a philanthro-
pist but his original deed to the mu
nicipality of Lakeland was strictly a
business proposition to boost tne lots
in the McRae and Bryant addition to
Lakeland and nobody blamed him for
moving the school from the site
bounded by Florida Ave. to Lime St
and Tennessee Ave where the title
was good to the Lake Wire site and
give a title with Il string tied to it,
The history of the way it was done
would be good reading il the people
were not too busy to care for such
things. McRae and Bryant got their
boost, sold their lots and for long
time have had no excuse for holding
on to that string to the deed and
should have cleared the title to the
city many months ago. 1t seems there
was an attempt to do something along
this line when the district built that
large addition to the Cd city building
and the county board was made t.
believe that deed had been made
clearing up the title to the property
This deed can not be found nor is
there any record that it ever existed
or any way to find out how much it
cleared up the title to the property
Every taxpayer should see to it that
there is no more money spent on this
site until the title is made good. any
one of them has the right to see to
that and the power to prevent it and
hold the parties who attempt it to
strict account for the expenditure of
public funds.
On the petition of one-fourth of the
qualified voters of the district another
bond election can be called immedi
ately. There is no reason why we
should issue two hundred thousand
dollars in bonds and keep more than
hundred thousand dollars of them
somewhere subject to theft or doing
some other stunt like certain very
yaluab BILE deed seems to have done and
nobody financially responsible. OF
course there are some people who
want so much money spent on the
Lake Wire site that it will be impus-
sible to move the high school from
there and voting bonds under the
present plan is their chance to carry
out their plan to nail the high school
TO the Lake Wire site
Enough bonds should be voted to
build another grammar school, So
cure site for high schcol, buy a
location fer another colored school
properly equip all the schools and that
is all we can do at present The high
school will have to remain where it
is for number of years despite the
fact that our children are being
cheated out of their birthrights In
selecting the site for high school.
options should be obtained on all the
available places and let the people
select what they want, if they say it
shall remain at the Lake Wire site.
there is no appeal from their de-
cision
What is to become of the school