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Colored Soldier From Worth While Arrival of Overseas Tells Story Spring I New Suits We have Jutt received a nice assortment of New Spring 8ulte all of the nlceet shades and styles New Spring Hats Our etock of New Rouge Straw 8prlng Hata hae Just arrived, all colore and ahapee to seleot from New Spring Waists t New Spring waieta are now on aispiay m ounuancc, all shades to select from and Interested Audience. (Trench and Camp) Shelby', biggest Graduate rlad i,. i ' ,1ftd to elt back ter oV . Missippy. Ah didn't bare much chance ter t'lnk of de gals in France, but Ah t'inks Ah is goin ter marry an' git one er dem soldier farms dat Uncle Sam's goin' ter let his boys have on de long 'nstallment plan. "Well, Ah was mighty glad ter do mah paht an' Ah axed de Lawd ter help our country an' me in all dese troubles,, an' what Ah t'lnk of de hull business is dat dey should be better ter d colored man dan dey has been, caze dey wuz a mighty big lif ter em." - New Skirts This Department In our Store cannot be equalled, In Plaids, Stripes and Plain Colors, all sizes to select from 8END US YOUR MAIL ORDER. ALL ORDERS FILLED SAME DAY RECEIVBD La MODE1- Mrs. H. Logan, Mgr. i ' , ,, J.j Laundry Work That Excels Let us to your Table Linen Sheets, Pillow Cases, Etc. Satisfaction Guaranteed Lakeland Steam Laundry PHONE 130 R. W. WEAVER, Prop. BARTLETT MARBLE WORKS MONUMENTS, GRAVE 8T0NES AND MARBLE WORK OF ALIKINDS GET OUR PRICES-WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY PLANT LOCATED NEAR CEMETERY i . Styleplus Clothes $25 and $30 "Each grade the same price the nation over" Melton-Ott Clothing Co. I Eagle Roofing and Plumbing Co. Practical Tin, Copper and Sheet Metal Workers Having located In Lakeland, we are now prepared to make esti mates and giro satisfactory service on all work, large or small. In the above-mentioned line. We are First-Class f lumbers and Gas Fitters, and make a specialty of Roofing, Cornices and Skylights, also of Radi ator Work. We have satisfactorily carried out many large contracts in Booth Florida and wo can do your work right See us at PHONE 154 305 MAIN STREET Private Cleveland Oowens was cir culating among his old comrades who were, along with him, raw recruits in Camp Shelby last August. Owens hails from Yazoo county, Miss., and is a veritable giant, tipping the beam at 212 pounds. He stands six feet high on a pair of feet which fit into a pair of No. 14s. He presented his first difficulty to the army officers when he was drafted into Camp Shel by last August. That difficulty was that the officials of the post had quite a problem on hand to secure clothes, especially shoes, to fit this tremen dous ebony-hued giant. It would be only fair to Owens to say that this was the only difficulty that the offi cers ever had with him during his term of service in the army. "Ah show is glad ter git back to de states an' Ah is more'n glad to git back ter ole Missippy," said Private Owens to a curious crowd of his old friends of the Recruit Brigade, who had gathered around him to hear him relate his experiences in overseas ser vice in France. Ter sees, boys, it's lak dis: Ah was drafted from Yazoo. When All let' dere dat mawnin fur Camp Shel by Ah fought dat Ah wouldn't nebber see Yazoo ner de good ole state of Missippy an' Yazoo nebber no' more'. Yer see, hit makes a feller feel kinder funny when he leaves his bes' gal and his kin folks and de man he's bin workin' fo not knowin' dat he'll ever see 'em ergin. Well, Ah jes' keep feelin' funny twell Ah reached Camp Shelbv. Ah staved in dish yere ol' camp three long, worredsome weeks, den dey sont me ter a camp in Ala bama McClelland, Ah be'leevs dey calls hit. After dey kep' me dere fur two weks dey sont me to New Yawk. (Some town, New Tawk. Oh boy!) Den Ah realizes dat Ah was on mah way ter fight them cussed Germans in France. Hit was den Ah axed de Lawd ter forgive me all of mah sins, when Ah went from New Yawk ter France. Ah fought Ah had a funny feelin' wen Ah gits ter Camp Shelby, but wen Ah gits erboard dat ship on dat ocean Ah just tells yer dat mah very soul felt queer. T'ink erbout home? Yer Jest better bet Ah did, but as dat ship wafted me ' on ter France, as de ol' ship ion sails de Christian folks ter de ol' new Jerusa lem, Ah begins ter feel lak a soldier of de Cross. "At las' we landed at Brest in France, den Ah begins to strut lak re sure nuff 'merican soldier, fur to show dem Europeans dat Ah was on de job and dat we wuz gwine ter bring de bacon home. Ferglt de Lawd? Well, no suh, Ah guess Ah didn't. Ah says ter de Lawd, Ef you don' help me please don't help dem Germans, an' Ah'll show you de stuff dat a 'merican nigger solder is made of; an' we would show dem French peoples dat we wuz dere wid de goods wiv bells on.'" At this stage of Omens' narrative, the interest of his auditors became very accute. Perhaps a slight feeling of jealousy and envy prevailed among them. "De fust fing we done after we landed we begun ter unload grub; peaches, fmaters and taters. While we unloaded we filled our pockets wid dem good ol' eats wen we wuz not fighttn' dem Germans. Den dey named our company de 'labor battal ion' an' sot us ter buldin roads an' buryin' de parts of de soldiers dat dem bombshells lef. Ah didn't lak dis much, caze Ah had Iosted all de yeller Btreak an' Ah wanted ter fight, but dey needed road -fixin' and dead turyin' as muchly as dey needed fighters. "Ah tells yer, boys, when Ah seen dem shells bustin' an' men huntin' de moon Ah had a feelin dat Ah wanted to git in de front line. Ah was jest struck brim full of fightln rf)ut we had so much ter do to fix fer de others ter do de fightin' dat we jes natchelly couldn' git ter de front line. You fellers dat wuz let here don't know nothin.' We wuz kep' so busy we had ter sleep on de groun' for free months. Ah takes sick an' goes to de hospital. Ah tells you, boys, dat dem Red Cross nusses are shua fine. Dey gives me anything Ah wants ter eat an' smoke. Dey would tell me about home. Ah tells you dat hit is a pow'ful fine thing wen you is in er hospital house In France ter have a Red Cross nus ter tell you "bout de folks at home. De Y. M. C.s an' de Salvation Armys am mighty good folkses too. "Dem Germans am a wil'-lookin' set er folks. Dey is fraid er de colored soldiers. Dey said dey dose gassed all de 'merican soldiers black an' dey still come. Ah seen some er dem German soldiers eaten' oaten de gar- MILK AND HONEY AGAIN , (Macon Telegraph) What has happened to food in At lanta, the sudden drop of prices on table staples from twenty-five to thir ty cents in one day, is just what will be happening all over the country within the next few days, or weeks at the most. The war demand Is off and the food market is easing off and it will ease off further regardless of what artificial efforts may be tem porarily exerted by interests holding it to sustain the price until they can "get out from under" the moun tain of high-priced commodities they are caught with on hand. It meant something when the price of dairy products started falling like a burntout rocket in Chicago the oth er day. It was not merely manipula tion on the market by some of the men selling "short". It was Instead the response of a great wholesale market to the changed conditions rapidly setting in everywhere. It will take some little time for the lower prices to work themselves all out and through the country to retail count ers, but they are bound to come and will stay when they do arrive. The local wholesalers and retailers are too far removed from the source of the market for it to hit them all at once in its changed quotations, and most of the goods they have on hand at high prices existing under war con ditions will be sold to the customer mostly a,t the war prices. Else the merchant will lose money, and none of them like to do that What has happened in Atlanta is that the market there has been cen tered by some interests operating ln- depently wh obegan to offer standard food products by retail on the basis of the new prices at the great cen ters. The others had to meet their quotations or lose all Instead of part of what they had tied up in stores of food acquired at war prices Much food in Atlanta is today un doubtedly being sold for a loss, at less than was paid for it two or three months ago. The same sort of thing Is liable to happen in Macon any day. Some merchants will suddenly find themselves buying on, the new and more normal market at much lower prices and will of course take advan tage and cut prices largely. The rest wjl lhave to follow ;suit and take their losses or go ut of business. It will not be pleasant for the business houses which stand to lose, but it is bound to happen on a breaking market and the food market is cer tainly breaking. The one big and sure thang about it is that living cost is coming down 'not gradually but in a fast slide down the face of the cliff itself. Clothes, men's to start with, are al ready cheaper. It will not be long until all other lines of essentials will te ioiiowing. wnicn to the great mass of American people, the folks who buy the things the price of which go into the cost of living, Is news like unto the tidings that the Prom ised Land Is in Bight the land flow lug in milk and honey. , Citrus Trees that are worth while are produced fc -b laiq tsu. field Nkreeriei, not merely because inaae the claim la our ad, Using, bat becaie e perform the necessary labor, take the greats 'ji ecautioBB, and take a pride In each individual tree mat we put out We have no bide-bonod, rmnty trees that have stood In oar nan. nr for four er five yearn te attain a jrrowtt lu snould be accent pUshed in one or twe years. ' , in our nursery if a tree is slow of growth and does not attain standard grade we set for thai particular lot ot trees, we take it j and do not sell it, for it it is slow of growth in our nursery It would be the Bame in your grove. ' ( This means to the planter that If he buys small grade trees of he does not get the runts of our nursery, and If he buys large siz! trees he does not get trees that have been rrints and taken years to attain the size required. ; ".. This is as important to the buyer of trees as most anything .l know of. It is one of the things that makes our nursery practletf different ' "; ., . v SEND FOR CATALOG Lake Garfield Nurseries Co. BARTOW, FLORIDA PlllMiiljil Florida has 13 of the 68 federal na rrations for the protection and pres ervation ot bird life. Honey Is produced In practically every Florida county. No state pro duces a greater number ot nectar bearing plants and flowers. See W.K. JACKSON For a Home, Grove, Farm, or Land Office Over First National Bank WOOD Any Elad, length er Sbe Good Woed Fall Measure Prompt service CASH WOOD YARD New Management E. Rose Street Phone 2& Very properly manyoffus have hesitated about buying even as freely as we needed while the war was on. 1 Now however, it is to our advantage, our duty, to avail ourselve of every improvement,' every purchas that will help increase our prf ductlon. In all hardware needs we are particularly well prepared tl serve you. ,', r j Southland Gran lefruit Juic "The Drink of Sheer Delight' Pure as the morning dew, unadulterated and unfermented, tf I lfled and sterilized, "Southland 'la bottled as extracted from 4 T fruit M; "Southland- Grapefruit Juice Is unequalled as a thlrst-qne J lng drink tnd is recommended by high authorities for use to f? treatment of Spanish Influenza and .kindred ills. . IT At the Fountains say "Give me ' Southland". Use "8outhli- at home as an "ade" in punch, Ices, sherbets, etc. At a tonic, th g a wineglass full In glass of hot water before meals and at bedt"X. addmg a little sugar or salt If you like. Sick people should bs icecold, diluted and sweetened slightly. fi Pints, 30c; quarts, 60c; case of plnta, 5; case ot quarts, H;f all progressive druggists and grocers. Ask your dealer Jor "8flW land" if he hasn't It, he can secure a supply from his wholsL- house. To those unable to bnv "Sonthbmri" . J K ot ten quarts, express prepaid, for only 6. Collins Canning Company Botfiere and Clarlflers. Lakeland, Florlds case it 7 J11 ICC T. W. PERRY D. K. TL' Perry Garaf AT OLD STAND Auto Repairing of All Gas and Oil For S" - Used Cars Bought and !. 21S W. MAIN 8TREC PHONE 407 i T. W. PERRY, Propr1. IT