Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 23, 1911, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Jackson & Wilson Co AT ALL TIMES Strong in supplying the needs and wants of customers. 4 But their LONG suit is in Orange Picking Ladders and Orange Clippers of the kind that pleases the user. 4 ARMOUR’S FERTILIZER FOR STRAWBERRIES 4 Shot guns and shot gun shells for the sportsman And not last or least, ;4 The Celebrated THORNHILL WAGONS All Sizes EVERY LINE OF INSURANCE Carried With the Best Companies P.E. CCHUNN Successor to Johnson and Caunon, Suite 7, Raymondo Building Central Pharmacy | Opposite New Station Phone For Quick Delivery ANYTHING IN DRUGS Rember Quality : The Modern Drug Store QOOOOVOVOVVIVPVNVOCONCO 3 POV DDICTHOBIOIOO Notice to the Public We are now ready to snow a full line of fall and winter goods. BLANKETS the best made, SHOES. of Shoes that can’t bhe hea Our Blankets are rom ..$1.25 to $8.00 \ Tine Men's in Quali'y and prices, ¢ childeer's CORSETS. if you want a perfect fit A style Ladies” ar Ladies, in your dresses. try a Kabo Corset for your's i figure S B F S AT line of Rilks, Messalines, every of g4 4, PIECE GOODS. Cail and let us show you our full type among them, -— and Worsteds. Also one of the best assortments of ging- hams in town, Always glad to have you call whe J. W. CHILES LAKELAND, FLORIDA ther you buy or not THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., e | Gre Hedge By Carl Jenkins Miss June Freeman had been disaj- pointed in going to Kurope for the summer. She had been disappointe! in going to the country for the sea son. She had asked a girl chum to| visit her for a month, but had been | disappointed in that. l On that hot morning Miss June sat on the front veranda of her father's house in a suburban village and shed tears of disappointment. She blamed her father, her mother—business— everybody! The parrot in his cage at the end of the veranda squawked at her, and she shook her fist at bim. A big bumble bee came bumming around, and she gave him a slap with a magazine she had brought out. The man of all work came dragging fifty feet of garden hose around from the back yard to water the flowers lu| front. “John, you needn’t do a thing to the old flower-beds! Just let them dry up and blow away. Everything has gone to the dogs anyhow.” John started to drag the hose back, when Miss June got a sudden inspira- tion and called out: “You can leave it here. Attach it to the pipe. | may feel like using it my- ' self by and by.” John walked off, and five mlnutes“ later the hose was shooting a stream here and there. Along the front fence was a high hedge, and only the hats of male pedestrians could be seen as they passed on the walk. Presently Miss June heard steps approaching and saw a straw hat passing. She elevated the nozzle to play on that hat, and somez one jumped and called out: “Bless my stars, but I'll knock that gardener's head off!™ Miss June was getting even for her various disappointments. The drenched man passed on, aind five minutes later he was replaced by another. The sec ond man was more astonished than the first. He was thinking of Niagara “falls as he walked and all of a sud den they hit him. When he had somewhat recovered from his aston- ishment he called out: “By gum, you dunderhcad in there, if you are not more careful with that hose somebody will break your neck' What are you up to, anyway?" No answer. Miss June was feeling better in her mind. She let the next two or three men pass, and then caught sight of a silk hat topping the hedge. She could have directed the stream to hit that hat and Knock it clear across the street, but she didn't. She directed the shower into the limbs of a shade tree overhanging the walk, and was rewarded by hearing the own er of the hat gasp out: “The devil, but what mean!"” The stream ceased, but the shower- ! bath had been very falr. “Say, vou boy in there'" drenched one. There was no boy and no reply. | “Boy or man, you had better lwl careful. If | had you out here ,\nur{ neck might be in danger!” | Miss June shut off the water and took a seat on the veranda and be- came complacent. At noon when the father came up to lunch he sald to John: “Look here, man, if you can't use that hose in the front yard without drenching pedestrians you'd better let it alone.” “Yes, sir,” replied the loyal John, who knew what had happened, but wasn't going to give anybody away. “You drenched the butcher from head to heel.” “Yes, sir.” “And you drenched a Mr. Folkstone, a young lawyer who is going to set up In his profession here. Mr. Thom- A8 was passing on the outer side of the street and saw it all.” “Yes, sir.” “l can’t say but what the lawyer may sue me for damages. They are a risky lot to play games on.” | “Yes, sir.” | After lunch Miss June slipped lnhnw half a dollar and a grateful look and | sat down and mused: “So there's a new lawyer in town, V eh? And he's a young man and fa | swelling around under a plug hat to! make folks think he's some pumpkins? I drenched him. and I'm glad of it, | and I'll do it again. If 1 can't swell around Europe no one else shall swell | around the United States. He must be a nice specimen of a Young man | to play the cry-baby just because a few drops of water hit his hat' Sue father for damages will he? Well let him try it on! [ know every girl in this town, and if Mr. Folkstone goes to acting too frisky his cake will turn out to be sour dough.” Next morning John was ordered to bring the hose around again. He looked at Miss Junesdoubtrully | “Oh, you won't lose your job," she replied. “If there is any complaint I'll stand for it “You might wet down the butcher's boy, the carpenter and the cooper. but when you come to wet down a party as wears a plug hat it's different ~\n;i mavbe vou heard your father say he was a lawyer and might sue for dam- ages?” “John. if that young swell passes here this morning he'll run into an- other summer shower!™ said the girl in a determined way. “Then you are agin him, Miss? “I am. He ought to have taken it as an accident or a joke. If you got a little wet would you play the bahy act?” “No, mum, but you see, the sudden- ness of it must have astonished him. " “And the suddennmess of it will as- tonish him again! I don't know Mr. does this called the | man, and his tace ! cha | equal that of Farmer Marshall NOV. 23, 1911 SOTOIOIOIO OO We Are O FOR MEN'S FURNISHINGS, STET.- SON HATS, WALK-OVERand HAN- AN TAILOR-MADE SUITS ||| akelane's uP-To-BATE Haberdasier | 24 ,_“, O IOOIOIOOIOHOCOTOIOBIBOSOIOIOI e o Headquarters SHOES, SAVOY] SHIRTS SR RO N O N N T S S s SR GUARANTEED FIT AND STYLE Made SIOVOHE HOHOBOLODGDOLODOUNIHO by STORRSRSCHAFER & CO. POLODOIOIOIIFOIOPIHOIOLOGCD s T.l. WOODS &.:CO. DRANE BUILDING (n ] Folkstone Trom a bean-pole, Lut T'Tn down on him. He's evidently come to town to swell around and be a top- | bud on a tree. When he came :|!Ulll~‘ vesterday he was incing like a | school-girl, and | hate a sissy man. Giet the hose ready and then find something to do at the barn. That plug hat is in for another ducking!’ Perhaps Mr. Folkstone had two silk hats perhaps he had got the drenched one ironed. At any rate, within halt an hour after Miss June was on witch she W it bobbing along above the hedge again, and once more al stream of water shot into the branch | es of a tree to come down like April drops | No threats from Mr, Folkstone this time. e simply opened the gate apd | walked In, carrying his soaking hat in , his hand. He was smiling as he bowed | to the astonished girl, “You-—you " she bhegan, not finish Mr. Folkstone was no swell. He was no cry-baby —no sis He was a finefigured, athletic youn and voice showed | but could | ter "’ clse me, please,” he said with | Slaugh and another bhow, hu' do |u'ak to Miss June Freeman? | “Y -es, sir” | “l have letters of Introduction to ! | you from several of your girl friends | in Boston, and others to your father ! from business men. They are a bit! damp, and you must excuse it. | had the misfortune to be caught in the late shower!" Miss June Freeman was called an odd girl. She had done one odd thing in drenching a stranger and belleving she disliked him, and now she did an- other by holding out one hand for the letters and another for a shake and saying: “l ought to be awfully ashamed of | myself, and I am, but I am going to face the music. I beg a thousand par- dons for my silly conduct, and if you will call this afternoon 1 will make further apologies.” He called and perhaps that was the | very best way the acquaintance could have come about, WORTHY OF HIS REPUTATION Farmer Willing to Allow Cider to Bel Tested, But Only in Way He Approved. In all glorious New Jersey it is gen | erally admitted there is no cider t¢ But he is notable for other things besides It is said that he would very much rather receive than give—in short, that he Is a stingy old rascal Young Peterson had heard this, but he was a young man who had consid- erable faith in his own powers of pass. ing on the gentle hint, and to some sportive companions he had boasted that he would get a drink of cider out of the old man without asking for it. As such a thing had never been known to happen in living memory there were | plenty of takers and the next day Pe terson drove over. * "Morning, farmer!"” said he. orchard you have here.” “Ay,” sald the farmer. | “They tell me, too, that you have a fine press.” “Ay: 'tis the best in all Jersey.” “Pretty good cider you get, 1 sup- | pose—eh? But | dare say I've u-ted better.” “Not in your hom dayl "Hnel Tom"— The luscloua beverage was bronght‘ and with a smile of triumph \'t'mll;I Peterson held forth his hand to tne' it. But the farmer's hand got there first. He drained the mug and then ! handed it to the visitor “There!™” he remarked. “If you think | you've ever met the like of that cider, | ; Just smell the mug PHONE 208, flh- LAKELAND, FI3 |We Are Ileadquarters B tor Toilet Articles of All Kinds and| Can Satisfy the Most Fastidiq_l_u_s | Call at the *‘White Drug Store” | For Your Ice Cream and Cool Drinks EVERYTHING IN DRUGS]| —_Uareful and Peinstaking{Care Given to Prescriptions. HE’N_?T&_HF'i LEY E Phone | 62 Prao Tweedell’s Is Headquarters for Everything in Groceries A FEW SPECIALS Sugar. 13 pounds Swift's Premium Hams, per pound Best Butter, per pound, Picnic Hams, per pound Mothers' Oats, per package.. .. .. Heckers' Whole Wheat l'lonr. per blg Heckers' Graham Flour, per bag . 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