The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-12-06
". M. RIDDLE MAKES
STATEMENT REGARDING
HIS MILL LOCATION

W. NJ. Riddle, former proprietor of
the DiXieland Novelty Works who
has made arrangements TO open 4
mill on the sidetrack near the Col
Inns Canning factory, made clear
and evidently fairminded statement
to Telegram representative regard
ing the objection raised by some of
the citizens in that locality to the To-
cation OF a mill there.
Mr.. Riddle states that he has pur-
chased the property and feels that he
| has right to proceed with the in
stitution OF his mill, but that he is
holding off to discuss the matter thor
oughly with the obiecting citizens in
order that, if possible, he may 20 to
! their community with the good will of
the residents. He believes that once
the matter is understood. no fair
minded person can fail to see his side
of it,
( In selling the Dixieland Novelty
| Works, Mr. Riddle contemplated a
more advantageous location. and after
carefully going over all possible To-
cations, he found the present one the
! best for several reasons, especially
/ for the fact that it is on a sidetrack
of the railroad.
Wherever 60" says Mr.. Riddle,
! Il will have to be near somebody, and
even at higher price, | can not find
another location as good | have told
some of the DIRECTORS that will take
a poorer location, however, if they
will pay the difference in price be-
| tween the present location and the
| poorer one. Surely my mill can not
be a greater nuisance than what they
already have-the trains putting
along"
! Speaking further, Mr.. Riddle says:
! 81 could move out of Lakeland, but
| don't want to- l have built up a
good business here. l pay the wages
that support ten families. and | pay
large sum of money for my electric
current, besides paying my taxes,
Chamber of Commerce membership
and other items. If | move away, it
means taking that much out of Lake
land and compelling my customers
here to send their money off to an
other town. | like Lakeland and |
want to stay here, and | want to
stay with the good will of the entire
community"
Perhaps there has been a misun-
derstanding as to the nature of my
business at my new mill My inten-
tions are to use principally individual
/ motor driven machinery and | do not
intend using any large noisy machin-
cry or steam engines. do not expect
to run any at night, nor blow a whis-
tie. The machinery which | use | do
not intend to use continually through
the day as it will be driven by motors
and as soon as work is done with
machine, switch will be pulled and
the machine will stop, making likely
about one-third of one-half of the day
that any noise can be heard of dis
lance. can assure that it will not
De more annoying to that community
than the trains that pass there daily
and stop on the d rail, or other bust
ness in that same locality, or other
mills of same nature in other parts of
our city.
He states that some of the object.
ors have already admitted that they
We're mistaken. particularly as to
where the mill is to be located,
rumor being current that it would be
on the old laundry site, and he Is
taking up the matter today with 9TH
ers OF the petitioners, fully explaining
MS position. and hoping to have it
understood.