Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 15, 1911, Page 2

e T — O Ry T S IRy vy s P i { k 4 i ¥ " e e e racE TWO 0000000000 0C000Q 2 "= CHUKRCH CALENDAR. 0000000000000 000C Rev. W. P aalmers, pastor, Sunday ool 9:45 a. m. Morn’ sermon 11:00 a m, Ev .g sermon at 7:00 p. m. Y. P. S. (. E. meets at 6 p. m. Prayermeeting, Wednesday, 7:30. Presbyt-rian Church. ! i Christian Church. Geo. W. Weimer, Pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Communion 10:435 a, m. Preaching, 11:00 a. m. Y. P. 8. C. E. co-operates other societies at Cumberland Pres- with wterian charch, Evenitg sermon, 7:50 a. m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Corner Florida avenue and Bay St The Rev. William Dudley Nowlin, i ., pastor. Sunday school Stevens, superintendent. Preaching Sunday at 11 a, m. and 7:15 p. m. Weckly prayermeeting Wednesday b. 9:45 a. m. H. C, evening at Woman's Missionary and Aid So- ciety Monday 3:30 p. m. Baptist Young People’s Meeting at 6:15 p. m. Regular moithly business meeting first Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. East Lakeland Mission. Sunday school at 3 p.m. E, A Milton, superintendent, Prayer- meeting Thursday at 7 p. m. Lpiscopal Church. Rev, J. 1l Weddell, rector, Eao. sunday excepting only the third Sunday of each month, Sur ey school every Sunday at 1v m. Service L1000 a, m. Eveniug Prayer 5:00 p. m o ) chmch South. W, k. aouer, Pastor, ~anday school 9:45 a. m, scrmon 11:00 a, m. 0 League 6:00 p. m. Pvening service, 7:00 p. m. Prayermeeting \Wednesday 8:00 p. m. rn Lutheran Church. Rev. H. J. Matblas, Pastor. Sunday school 10:00 a. m Preaching service 11:00 a. m., and 7:00 p. m., sccond #nd fourth Sun- days. Catholic. Church, Rev. A, B, Fox, Pastor. Services are held on second fourth Sundays at 9:00 a. m. and Cumberland Presbyterian. Without pastor. Sunday school at the regular hour Y. P. S. C. E. at 6:30 p. m. La8@ Tailored Suits and Skirts, @ MISS MINONA HERRON Herron Rlock n L. M. Futch. . H. Gentry. Gentry llllderlallllc Co. Successors to Angle Undertaking Co. :: EHBALHERS AND FUNERAL S. L. A, CLONTS DEALER IN ‘| “You will have to go at once. | hardware store, Cornelia’s Customer By HARRIET LUNMMIS SNITH (Copyright, 1411, by Associated Literary Press) “It really isn't anything to get ex- cited about, Aunt Nancy,” Cornelia said soothingly. Cornelia herself was not at all ex- cited. Her serenity was in moest agreeable contrast to Aunt Nancy's fluttering perturbation. To be sure, it was Aunt Naney's silver closet to which Cornelia had lost the key. “If it falls into the hands of a dis- honest person,” observed Aunt Nan- ey, on the point of tears, “then good- by to the silver, including the loving cup from which General Washington drank and the tablespoon on which | vour great-grandfather Bennctt eut ) his teeth ™ “Dear Aunt Naney,” Cornelia rea- soned kindly, “unless the dishonest person were a mind reader, too, he | | ecould not possibly know that this particular key fitted your silver closet.” She was about to continue her argument along this line when Aunt Nancy executed one of her illogical flops. “It will be necessary to cancel our | invitation for Friday,” remarked | Aunt Naney, “With the silver locked up and only hal a dozen spoons and three forks avallable it is out of the question to entertain a dinner party.” Cornelia looked at her wateh. *1 will get a locksmith at once,* she replied. “The key will be ready by tonight and Mary can clean the silver in the morning.” She went to put on her street things, wondering that Aunt Naney could not see how much better it was to he ealm and philo- sophieal in case of some trifling an- noyancs like losing the key of the silver closet, Cornelia is an observant young woman. Weeks before, when nothing was further from her expectation than the need of such services, she had noticed the sign “Locksmith” in a window of a little hardware store near where she was waiting to take the car. In the direction of this hardware store she now bent her steps. A bell clanged loudly as she opened the door, and a wizened, elder- ly person swooped out from a back room and asked what she wanted. Cornelia explained, *I should like to have vou see to the matter at once, it you please,” she said, “for my aunt is In a great hurry for the key.” “Can't do a thing before Saturday,” snapped the locksmith, seemingly of- fended because she had not wished to purchase a range for the kitchen. “But you must, you know,” Cor- nelia answered him kindly. “l must have the key tonight. My aunt en- tertains at dinner tomorrow.” “l won't have nobody to leave the store with before Saturday,” persisted the locksmith obstinately. “Then my grandson’ll be out of school, and, if he teels like it, he'll stay here while I get the impression of your lock. Them jobs Is more trouble than they are worth.” 5 “Yes, but you see I can't wait for your grandson,” Cornelia explained. I will stay apd take care of the things until you are back.” She seated herself on a stool be- hind the counter as an evidence of good faith, “Anybody in charge of this here store has got to be on to the job,” the owner exclaimed. “Only last week & rake was stolen out front while I was waiting on a customer. There's an fce cream freezer by the steps now that worth threefifty. If somebody was to come along and snatch that—" “Nobody will snatch anything while I'm here,” said Cornelia. “The ad- dress is on this card, and please say to the servant that you are the lock- smith Miss Hawes was to send.” She folded her arms and gave her atten- tion to a shelf of cooking utensils several feet above the locksmith's head. That individual after several half-hearted attempts to distract her attention, put on his coat and de- parted on his errand. { The echo of his footsteps had hardly died away when the customer appear- ed. At first view, Cornelia had no thought that he was a customer, for he seemed to be strolling along in a somewhat almless fashion, “Good morning,” said Cornelia ris- ing. “Can 1 do anything for you to- day?" Then with sudden dismay she realized that out of the stock in the she knew the price It happens, how- | of but one article. of resources. “Perhaps I can interest vou in ice cream freezers,” she said | Real [state CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY—| SOME FINE BARGAINS. Office in Clonts’ Building. J W ELLI@ REAL ESTATE AGENT City and Country Property; Im- proved and Unimproved Orange Groves a Specialty: WE HAVE SOXE OF THE FINEST TRUCK LAND IN FLORIDA Room 1, Raymondo Bullding. Phone 309, ,-nh her most hu«in(‘ulxl\e air. Oddly enough, .this ® was ; what the young man was looking for. “(), ves,” he exclaimed, with seeming relief, | thing first class.” Cornelia led the way to the door. | “This is our best freezer,” she said, | indicating by a gesture the article in | question. “If you'll just set it inside, | please—it's quite heavy.” “It's a trifle large for the a family, isn’t i1?” asked the young man. Cornelia | have had no objection to eelling a | smaller freezer had she known the | price of the others in stock. “1 shouldn’t advise you to get a | smaller size,” she said firmly. “It is much better to have a freezer large enbugh to meet an emergency. Your S—| | and Cornelia ! grandson, ever, that Cornelia is a young woman | exactly i “1 should like to look at some- | ige took alarm. She would | amount of cream in a large freezer.” The young man was lmpressed. “That's a good idea,” he axclaimed. nothing 1o prevent making & smal (O e———— “Perhaps a still larger one would be | even better, give a regular party.” in case we wanted to It was necessary to head him off ' “No,” said Cornella with de- cision. “If you give a party you will need 8 caterer. A freezer Inrxer lhun this would be in your way." “That's right,” agreed the custom- | er, who for tractability left no!hing; to be desired. “I'll take It: wha!‘si the price?” | Cornelia had no idea that business | success was so simple a matter. It occurred to her that the ability of the | men who made fortunes had tw@n‘l greatly overestimated. Then a sud- | den startling thought broke in on her ' self-congratulation. In her efforts to' ensnare her customer she had forgot- ten the price the locksmith had made. | “Thrforr and a hailf,” she said un- certainly. The customer made no protest. He drew a five dollar bill from his pocket | made change from her again own little purse. “Now, I'll have this | sent, please,” he was beginning. | “Oh!" Cornelia looked at him in blank dismay. “I'm afraid 1 can't| gend it. Not before Saturday, any- | way,” ske added, remembering th(!{ “1 suppose, it would be too | heavy for you to carry, wouldn't it?” | There was appeal in the gaze she lifted to his. She could not bear the thonght of losing a sale for so trifling a reason. l.uckily the customer was still accommodating. He protested hastily that the freezer was not at all heavy, and looked about him with an air of a man about to make purchases with a view to setting up housekeep- ing. Cornelia felt it was time to as- sume a distant manner and she did so with immediate effect. The customer left the store, carrying his single pur- chase in his hand. When the locksmith returned grum- bling, Cornelia announced her sale, and he looked at her with reluctant admiratiog. “You done him out of a dollar,” he observed. “That freezer wasn't worth but $3.50." His sudden accession of respect for Cornelia re- celved an immediate check from the dismay with which she received the news, “pon't you think he will come back?" she asked anxiously. “He was such a polite young man. [ can't bear to think I've cheated him out of a| dollar.” The locksmith grudgingly assented that the customer’'s return was pos- sible. He added darkly, *’'Twould have been a different thing if you'd sold It a dollar under price. We'd | never see hide or hair of him again.” The customer did return within a few days. He came In looking about him in the same undecided manner which had characterized him on his previous visit, and yet he did not look to be a young man lacking in deter- mination. After he had purchased a screwdriver and a pound of nalils, he came to the point. “The young lady who waited on me before, your daughter, perhaps—" “She ain't no daughter of mine” sald the locksmith. “Nor yet a clerk She was asking about you this very day,” he added calmly. The young man “What!" he shouted. “She lives with her aunt at the Rutherford apartments, She wanted a key made for a lock and she stayed in the store while I went to get the impression. She overcharged you & dollar for that freezer,” explained the locksmith, reluctantly, opening his cash drawer, “and she asked if you had been back to complain.” It secmed that the young man did not care about the dollar. “Sece here,” the locksmith sald. “The young woman came down this morning to bring the key. It stuck a little, you know. [I've filed it off and it's ready to take back, if you'd like the job. [ promised her I'd send my grandson when he came from school.” The young man thought it would be a pity to trouble the grandson. He said, with feeling, that growing boys need all the playtime they could get. At the entrance of the Rutherford apartments he met Cornelia coming out. “Oh!” erled Cornelia, purse in her excitement. come about that dollar?" “I've come to bring your key,” the young man, and gave it to her. Explanations followed, and then came argument. Cornelia was not sure that selling an ice cream freezer to a stranger constituted an introdue- tion. The young man, on the other | hand, was positive about it. “But your wife?” Cornelia hinted, delicately The voung man blushed. “You in- and I held my tongue. spun about. dropping her “Have you | vented the wife was a bachelor you'd wonder what | wanted with an ice cream freezer.” “\What did you want with it?" Cor- nelia was indiscreet enough to ask. The young man’s reply was not ver- bal, but such as it was it was respon- sible for a marked increase in his | questioner’s color. “Oh, well,” said Cornelia, swinging the key on her forefinger, “it may come in handy some time.” | 1t did. [ it He Knew His Business. Proprietor of Millinery Store—Why Idldn‘t that lady buy anything? New Assistant—Because we hadn't got what she wanted. Proprietor—You'll kindly remember in future, miss, that you're here to ! The Professions I' [ 1 was afraid that if 1 explained that I | — — i E EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, DEC. 15, 1911 —__—._—-'a\| FREE LUNCH SATURDAY AFTERNOOX DOIOBQIOIOTO PO QPO TOTO »Q S 2OFOBOHQ 0 OO QIO QIO IOIODITOIQIOIQ QD O I OTOCOIOTO COGOIOTOIOIOI VIO TDI OGO OIOROROC e o & Cooking Done by Electricity from 2 to 4 o'clock p. m. Everybody Invited; Most Espec- ially the Ladies. Florida Electric & Machinery Co. Store =) Drane Building DR. SAMUEL F. SMITH l SPECIALIST Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Glasses Scientifically Psescribed Phone: Oflice 141, Residence 22, ryant Bldg, Lakeland, Fla. DR. W. S. IRVIN DENTIST v Established in July, 1900 Rooms 14 and 15 Kentucky Building Phones: Office 180; Residence 84 DR. J. P. Getzen, Dentist. ABryant Bu.ding. Office 'Phone, 5-2 Rings, Residence 'Phone 148 I.lkellnd. Florida. DR R R SULLIVAN, PHYSICIAN— Special attention given to Sm‘gely! and Gynecology Kentucky Building 4 LAKELAND, FLA. l DR. W. R. GROOVER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Rooms 3 and 4 Kenmcky Building LARRLAND, FLORIDA. Dr. Sarah E. Wheeler OSTEOPATH PHYSICIAN Rooms 5, 6 and 17, Bryant Building 2 LaRELAND, TUCKER & TUCKER, —Lawyers— Raymondo Bldg | Lakeland, Florida R. B. HUFFAKER, -—Attorney-at-Law— Roor 7 Stuart Bldg. Bartow, Fla. ——————————————————— C. M. TRAMMELL, Attorney-at-Law. Offices, Bryant Building Lakeland, Fla. ROGERS & BLANTON Lawyers. Block. Lakeland, Fia. Bryant "Phone 319 INO. S. EDWARDS Attorney-at-Waw Office Munn LAKELAND, FLORIDA. in Juilding. 7N0. 5. EDWARDS § Attorney-at-Law. Office in Munn Building ; LAKELAND, FLORIDA. J. B. Streater C. F. Kennedy * STREATER & KENNEDY ! 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