Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 8, 1912, Page 2

rAGE TWO 0000 Q0Q000Q0RQ ~ [~ CHUKCH CALENDAR. =] O R R <} -~ \ ot | A f FIRST B’&PTXSI CHURCH. Corner | wvenue and Bay St, Tue R William Dudiey Nowlin, D. b, p Sunday school 45 a. m. 1L C Steved superintendent, Preaching Sunday at 11 a. m. and 1L p om Weekly pravermecting Wednesday evening at Jiov. Woman's Missionary and Aid So- ciety Monday 4:30 p. m. Baptist Youug People's at 6:15 p. m. Regular monthly business meeting first Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 2 p.m. E. A. Milton, superintendent. Prayer- meeting Thursday at 7 p. m. Episcopal Church. Rev. J. H. Weddell, rector, Bach Sunday excepting only the third Sunday of cach montb. Sunday school every Sunday at 1 Meeting a m Service 11 00 a.m Evening Prayer 5000 pom M E Church, South. 1 ¢ Jenkins, Pastor « I w45 a.m, k ta.m P p.om ’ T pm Prave eaday 800 r e Lutheran Church. Rev 4. Matbias, Pastor Sunday school 10:00 a. m, Preaching service 11:08 a. m,, and 7:00 p m, second and fourth Sun- day Cathelic Church. Rev A B Fox, Pastor. Services are held on second and fourth Sundays at 9:00 a. m. Cumberland Presbyterian. Without pastor. Sunday school at the regular hour YPSCEnatclpm L M. Futch J. H. Gentry. - Goatry Undertaking; Co. fuccessors to Angle Undertaking Co DIRECTORS. ‘Phones day or night, 245 S. L. A. CLONTS DEALER IN Real [state CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— SOME FINE BARGAINS Office in Clonts’ Building. J.W.ELLIS REAL ESTATE AGENT Properiy; lm- ved pr and 1 Orange mpr Groves 4 Specia WE HAVE SOME OF THE FINEST TRUCK LAND IN FLORIDA Ro m !. Raymondo Building. hone 308, % What Is Prayed For. An old darkey who was asked If In M eyperience prayer was ever an- owered, replied ‘Well, sah, some Pprars is ansud an’ some isn't—'pends on what yo aeks fo.. Jest arter de wah w'en it was mighty hard scratch- o' fo' de culled brudren, 1 'bsarved @at wenebber | pway de Lo'd to sen’ one o Magsa Peyton's fat turkeys fo' de ole man, dere was no notice took o' de partition; but w'en | pway dat be would sen’ de old man fo' de tur- hey, de tlng was ‘tended to befo’ Sunup bex’ morain’ dead sartin” i about em : + to death is talk to stra . 1 know rybody in the apartment " now and she don’t know hard. ny of ‘em, Sister Mattie's lived up north o long she's just like northern peoyple. “Speakin’ of talkin' to strangers, there's the sweetest lookin® young man lives in the apartment across the hall from us. ['ve heen crazy to know him ever since I've been here, and 1 knew he was all ready to speak to me if I gave him the least little bit of chance, but 1 was so scared of Sister Mattie that I never dared to. Every time we'd meet in the hall, though, or in the elevator he'd kind o' look at me and I'd kind o' look at him. “I reckon we'd ‘a’ gone on like that all summer if it hadn't been for the fire the other mornin'. thing that just “Yes, indeed, my dear, we did have a perfectly terrible fire. It was about 2 o'clock in the mornin’, such a scan- dalous time for anything to happen! “The first I knew about it was when Sister Mattie came into my room and begun poundin’ me. ‘Get up! Get up'’ she was sayin® when I opened my eyes. ‘The house is on fire!’ “1 jumped up out of bed and begun floppin round the rcom and screamin’, 8till, I had enough presence of mind to £o back after my black satin slippers when I got ciear to the top of the stairs and Sister Mattie was tuggin’ at my arm and tryin’ to make me hur- ry down. Of course, the first thing 1 did was to zet my best hat and put it on and then 1 put on my white shoes and my Kimono, hecanse Sister Mattio kep' worrvin® me =o about it, ton, runnin® cround bekind me with it in her hand. *Well, 1 lear, 1 give you my word, 1 was clear down on the street when 1 suddenly had the most awful feelin® 1 ever had in my life, 1I'd come off and left my hair! Now, could you ever believe it? My beautiful long switch that 1 paid $2 an inch for! “1 just knew I'd never in the world get money enough to get another one and | had the most awful vision of me goin' around the rest of my life with just the hair that grows on my head and | nearly fainted. For a minute 1 was s0 weak | couldi’t move and then | simply tore back up the stairs. When | was about half way up | heard somebody gallopin® after me. What do vou think? It was that lovely young man across the hall! “‘lLet me go and get it for you, Miss Robinson,” he said. Wasn't it sweet of him to know what my name was? “l was just pantin’ by that time, 1 was 50 out of breath, and bein' so kind o' crazy and excited, 1 just told him the truth. “1t's my hair, | said. ‘I'm afraid you wouldn't know where to find it “Well, for a minute 1 thought he'd ‘ die laughin’. and it wasn't any langhin’ | matter, I thought, so | started on up ‘u::.m He took hold of my arm, | though, and said for me to go on down- | stairs, and he asked e where my hair was D'y that time he d got over laugh- in’, so 1 told him it was on the dress- er, and he went on up and 1 went down to the street “1 didn’t have any more than time to | begin thinkin® how perfectly terrible I'd feel when he came back wavin' that hair in his handl was thinkin’ navhe it'd be betier to have gone through life lookin' kind o moth eat- en than to face such a terrible sit tion, when he jown the st and care up to we and handed me 1 hair. What think? He |I stopped and wrapped it up in a piece r* Wasn't that the sweetest car do you of pagw thing you ever heard of? My dear, could any girl have helped fallin® in Jove with um? the fire didn't amount to a hill | of beans. We all went back to our rooms in about halt an hour, but .\ln' Sheldon came over the rext morning that “No to ask how we were. Wasn't sweet of him? And Sister “Lll'iv‘l found be knows some people that she f know® and s asked him to come 1o and he's boen over every day “Rister Mattio’s just as crazy about m I but 1 never did tell her about the ! I know she'd think it | was perfectly scandalous.” ] An “Appreciation.” A young lady wbo had returned from a tour through Italy with her father informed a friend that he liked all the Italian cities, but most of all he loved Venice. “Ah, Venice, to be sure!” said the friend. “1 can readily understand that vour father would like Venice, with its gondolas, and St. Mark's, and Michelangelos.” “Oh, no,” the young lady interrupt- ed, “it wasn't that. He liked it be- cause he could sit in the hotel and fish from the window."—Catholic News. iSlow Stephan | E EVENING TELEGRAM LAKBLAND, FLA., JANUARY 8, 1912, they are beautiful LA SRR TSR ;s mild b! n, but that ook of tl 5" taunts, The reason thut he had so little tinie to devote to worryirg over his countrymen’s opinion of himn was that Stephan’s mind was taken up with Rosa to the exclusion of all else. He had fa'len in love instantly with her pert little smiling face and charming ways. Rosa darted aeross the line ot Stephan’s vision and left him gasp- ing, fizuratively speaking. Sometimes he gasped in reality—that was when | Rosa turned the batteries of her quick wit upon him and left his mind | whirling because of his inability to | reply to one speech before she at- tacked him again. She laughed at him along with the others, yet she did not seem displeased at his de- | votion, Stephan was good looking, although this fact had never occurred to him. He was modest, and allowed himself to be elbowed out of the why by others more audacious if less worthy. Rosa was always surrounded by ad- mirers and Stephan lurked dismally in the background, patiently waiting for a glance in bis direction, Rosa'’s glances came his way at times. and up. 1912, i | SRR T s e - L e et R Stella, who was Rosa's most intl- mate friend, jeered Rosa for being fond of her slow admirer. “Why do you waste time on Ste- phan?” demanded Stella. *“He is so big—and so slow! He never dances or anything! He just sits and looks at you!” “Maybe that's it,” Rosa answered with a toss of her head. Stella shrugged her shoulders. *1 like some one who is gay, myself,” i g Ihe l’rofessions DR. SAMUEL F. SMITH SPECIALIST Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Glasses Scientifically Prescribed she gaid. “Some one like Josef.” a5 99 Rosa smoothed her apron and | Phone: Office 141, ~ Residence 22.) frowned. Josel was very attentive to Bryant Bldg, Lakeland, Fla, her, e had sparkling eyes and a little mustache, which he kept curled and sharply pointed, and he made pretty speeches on the spur of the moment and was very sure of kim- self. Rosa flirted with Josef and led him on, but that was nierely girlish coquetry, and she shrank from any- thing more, Of late Josef had wearied her. Stella, watching Rosa, burst out of DR. W. S. IRVIN DENTIST Established in July, 1900 Rooms 14 and 15 Kentucky Building Phones: Office 180; Residence 84 DR. R R SULLIVAN, a sudden. *'1 suppose you think you'll ~—PHYSICIAN— catch some one grander than Josef— | Special attention given to Surgery but let me tell you—" and Gynecology Rosa turned on her. “Oh, Josef!” she mimicked. “Why don’t you mar- ry him yourself if you think he's so fine? [ would if I liked him as much as you do!" Stella, routed, retreated, scarlet of face and vengeful of mind. Rosa, us it to prove her power, was kinder to Josef and paraded him before Stella and the others. Perhaps this unusual leniency on her part really pleased him, for he seemed more natural and Kentucky Building 'Pone 132 LAKELAND, FLA. DA. W. R. GROOVER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Rooms 3 and 4 Kentucky Building LAllu.un.l"Loum Dr. Saral\ E. Wheeler sincere, Rosa even thought she had OSTEOPATH; PHYSICIAN misjudged him. There seemed more i ildi Rooms 6 17, Bryant_Buildin to Josef than she had surmised—per- o = haps he was not such a shallow man | 1 LARBLANSH after all, T P iz X Before she knew how it happened [ C. M. TR“MELL ‘ she found herself engaged to marry Attorney-at-Law. x Josef. All the other girls envied her Offices, Bryant Building and the excitement of preparing for = the wedding bore her up. Rosa as- Lakeland, Fla. | sured herself that she was happy. This usually was after she had caught ROGERS & BLANTON a glimpse of Stephan, in the back- hwye“' ground as usual, looking dumb devo- tion at her, ? Stephan had a very sober face these days. The thought of him irritated Rosa strangeiy. Once when Joset spoke slightingly of him Rosa had started to veply furiously, but bit her lip and was sullenly silent. She knew Josef would not care for her anger, She had grown to feel that he did not care deeply for anything. Bryant Block, 'Phone 319 Lakeland, Fla. JNO S. EDWARDS Attorney-at-Waw Office in Munn Building. |’ LAKELAND, FLORIDA. Otephan had been asked to the wed- ; TUCKER & 'i'U(;KER. ding. which was at the charch at an | carly hour, but he was not there. —Lawyers— “He'd be late to his own wedding!™ | Raymondo Bldg some one laughed. *“So why mot at | | Lakeland, Florida | another's?” Y ok bt e Some one else was missing—the FAKE bridegroom. At first there was only | R. B. HUF x' restlessness on the part of those who E —Attorney-at-hW— were waiting, then came whispering and surmises. After an hour a mes- senger was sent and reported that Josef had not been at home for two days. Stephan arrived as they were trying to calm the hysterical Rosa, desolate Bartow, Fla. F Kennedy | Roor 7 Stuart Blde. J. B. Streater Contractors and Builders. in her wedding finery. It was an hour Furnished. | and a half after the time set for the Estimates ufkhn;lfalllyyou about | wedding. For a moment Stephan| LetUs " | looked at the weeping girl and his mrhllfingMmIS: Bnll:e hands clinched. Then quietly he Telephone 169, or 1t e walked to her side and, brushing the others aside, bent over her. “Rosa,” he half whispered, me—it is Stephan. Forget that wreich of a Josef! [I'll have the papers to rn:n T WII.HAXS C. E | “Jook at ! Special attention siven to design and | construction of Sewerage and Water Works marry you in half an hour if you'll System. say yes! You know that I love you!* iy ida. Rosa's little hands clutched his Sanford oo sleeve and she went on his shoulder. ¢.D & H D MENDENHALL A wonderful happiness was stealing Civil mfl over her. “I—I'm glad Josef is not 212-215 Drane Bldg. here!™ she whispered. O | LAKELAND, FLA. Phosphate land examination. Veys, examination, reports. Blueprinting. Drains Immense Watershed. e The Missouri river drains a water shed of 580,000 square miles. v ansmie B v e thousand in number. and the price is right. 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CAN SAVE YOU BUILDING BLOCKS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS 12 and 18 inch Drain Tid for Sidewalk, Gate Posts Mounds, Ete, Good Stock on Hand WE Deliver Free H B ZIMMERMAN prourletor e e SRIO0I0: we will he pleased to have you call on us for such. We have some nice Groves, Im Farms, proved Farms. and raw land lose to Lakeland, and we them to yo: TODAY! WARING &EDWARDS FLORIDA SUITE 12 BRYANT BLDG. LAKELAND - - - . . . - “Lakeland Artificial Stone W ark s SRR partial Lakeland. ! REAL ESTATE If you are in Florida for the purpose of buying a Far= raw land, City or Country Home, or get into some line ¢t ° cantile business, or rent a home, or get information of ar: concerning our City or surrounding country, or State 1n = T (AN