Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 30, 1912, Page 6

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Let me show you some Lakeland homes I have built, LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green, FLORIDA THE VERY BEST WHEAT only is used to make the flour which 56es into our bread. And thy very best methods only are employed to produce both the flour and the bread. still better when you try it. Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exerclsing great care to sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wide streets, shade trees, fertile sail, building restrictions. Inside the city, one block cast from Lake Mor- ton. SMITH & STEITZ and G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building. Whatever yeu want in rea lestate. we have it _over this afternoon. You'll like the looks of our bread when you see it. You'll likg its taste The Modern Bakery Barhite Brothers TYE KEVENINC [TELEGRAM LAK ''A Woman of Her Wor. By Clara Inez Deacon (Copyright, 1912, i ciated Literary Flisha Ridgeway was a simple man of forty and lived ou tarm alone tand made his own b d did his | own cooking. Time after time he was | asked why he didn't marry, and time | after time his reply wus: | “Mebbe I orter and mcbhe not. I dunno 'bout it.” But there came a time when he did | know. It was about a year after the [denth of farmer Ba Llisha had known him and his wife for ten years. | For twelve months he went over and ‘1helped the widow out as a duty, but 1one day he stopped his horses at the plow and rubbed his chin in a reflect. j ive way and s2id to himself: | “Gosh all fish-hooks, but I guess I "ought to marry Nuncy! That hired | man of hers needs a man to boss him, and some of her cows are always ailin’ or the hog ' the cholera. ! Elisha Ridgeway. it's your duty.” That evening he went over to see :!he widow. Ie was more quiet than usual, and by and by she took notice § | and asked: ! “'Lisha, anything on your mind?” “Jest a leetle,” was the reply. “‘Tater-bugs ain't come, have they?” ! “Haven't got a squint of a single one.” “Didn’t lose any turkeys by the last cold rain?” | “Noap. What's on my mind, Nancy, is gettin’ married.” “For the land's sake!” “Yes, I thought you'n me would get married.” “Hear the man talk!"” “Yes, I'm a-talkin’. Thought it all Better set the weddin' day.” Elisha Ridgeway was a good-natured man and meant well, but he made a mistake. le¢ made it because he was an old bachelor. It did not occur to { him that a woman riust be won. Even |a cro: ved, lop-shouldered woman isn't going to be picked up and hngged [ off to the altar without enough hang- ing back to save appearances, Had Elisha been courting for even a month things might have becn different, hut he hadn’t courted at all. He had sim- ply sat on the porch with the widow and talked crops and country gossip. There had been glorious sunsets and silvery moong and songs by the whip- poorwills, but not so much as a sigh from him. And there was something Wagreas “Yes, Lisha, Them Are the Very Words.” else to obstruct the way. The widow looked at him for a moment and then said: *‘Lisha, there ain't goin’ to be no weddin' day!” “Rut why? “In the first place I'm all eat up with astonishment, and in the next you must have heard what Sarah Jones sald the day my husband was burled?” “Don’t remember.” “But | do, and so does a heap of other folks. She keeps quiet for a minuto and then nods her head and [ *‘You jest put it down fn black and white that Nancy Baker will marry agin as soon as the year is up.'” “Yes, 'Lisha, them are her very words, and more'n a dozen women have got 'em writ down. D'ye think I'm goin’ to let the words of that old grasswidow come true? No siree! “But it's over a year,” he protested. Jones would giggle just the same.” | pected us to get married.” {on him or continue being good. “Yes, it's thirteen months, one day and two hours, to be exact, but Sarah | “I thought from what Jim said whea he found he'd got to go that he ex- “Mebbe he did, but we ain't goin’ to ELAND, FLA., MAY 30, 1912. | I ' had Invaded the farmhouse and wers making threats, Elisha went for them like a locomotive running away. He banged them and slammed them, and | ¢lammed them, and booted them, and [ when they had crawled away to the | road he grateful widow said to him: “Lisha, [ hate to break my word, vut we'll take a year off them iour. ke the time three” 1d bachelor sighed over it, but his way. Three vears was not r as four, no matter what al- the house. . She will slam-bang | 1 and let him find a fat | v allet in the i on the next. In this | case, she didn't slam-bang at all. She t cuddled up to Elisha and told him .ad and she would back him,I and ma | - o yud and 4tk Mondays at 7:30 p. LOVE, W. M. " WILSON, Secy. Lakeland Chapter, R. A. M. No to g0 al and he went aliead, Two day. v the tramp episode | 20 meets the first Thursday night in the widow I raised a ladder be- ! each month in Masonic Hall. Visit- ‘ide the house to tie up a growing | ing companions welcomed. C. G. e, and by a bit of carelessness she t her hold and hung head down- It was Elisha that came to | vin 1o | Arendell, Sec'y.; J. F. Wilson, H. P 9 | her rescue n, and it was the wom- Pulm Chapter, O. E. 3 meets every an who, after drinking a pint of hard | socond and fourth Thursday nights ly her nerves, looked up srateful eves and said: \ Ridgeway, I'm a woman of but I'll be snummed if I| year off them three, leav- v two for you to wait! But for be a dead woman now."” thought of the two long years hed and went his way with a + that Luck might keep things zoing She did. Only three days later, when he went to carry back a bor- rowed hoe, he found the widow Baker in the well, where she had been for three long hours, and was chilled throuzh and throuzh. In drawing a bucket of water she had leaned too far | over the curh. “I was praying for you to come,” she said with chattering tceth as he looked down at her. “You tie the end of the rope around yon vhen I let it down. Stop! Does e off another year?” Jisha, you know I'm a woman of | my word,” was the reply. | “You are, Nancey.” “. said four years and then three 3 . and now, though I know how | Sarah Jones will giggle, I'm goin’ to | knock off still another year.” “Good for you! <Come up!” One yeur now—only one! Elisha wondered if Luck was going to turn If he | conld only smash that other year! He had his opportunity. There came ci Mrs B of each menth at 7:30 p. m. Flora Keen, W, M., Lucie Faton, Secy. B | ‘ Lakeland Camp No. 78, W. 0. W., meets every second and fourth Thurs- day night. Woodmen Circle first and third Thursdays. C. F. Ker- nedy, Council Commander, Mrs, Sal- lie Scipper, Guardian of Circle. 1.0.0. F. Meets every Friday night at 7:30 at I, 0. 0. F. Hall ,corner Main and Tennessee. Visitiug brothers cor- dially invited. R. M. DAMPIER, Noble Grand. Y. M. SMAILES, Rec. Sec. K. OF P. Regular meeting every Tuecsday 150 at 0dd Fe'lows Hall, Visit. members alway. welcome, J. W. BUCHANAN, JR,, Chancellor Commarder. A M. JACKSON, Secretary. it ing G.L A toB of L E Orange Blossom Div. No. G. I. A. to B. of L. E. meets every second and fourth Wednesda of each month at 2:30 p. m. Visiting a thenderstorm one midnight, and the | gisters always welcome, bolt that struck the widow Bakeor's MRS J. . BROWN =ac'y hous» and set it afire raised him out Mrs. J. B, LOGAN I'rns‘v of bed and sent him running. The aided by a few pails of water, | doused the flames, and some more | hard cider brought the widow clear of | Grand Order of Eaglec, Meets every Wednesday night in hock. She had given herself up {0dd Fellows hall, G. W. Rowland.: s dead. After she could talk Elisha | osidon; W, n. Hicks, soerotary. see to expect her to say some- g thing. She realized that he did, and therefore led off: { 5 et G. A.‘R..“ ;i . “’Lisha, I'm a woman of my word! |10ntd at J M. Sparlinz’s, South I said five vears, and then four—three | Kontieky J.R.TALLEY, Adjt. —two." “And now, Nancy?" “Sarah Jones is goin' to giggle.” | OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. City Officers. Mayor—3. L. A, Clonts, ('Phone 210-Red.) Clerk aund Tax Cofiector, HIS ONE GREAT ADVANTAGE Bachelor !s Frae to Get Married at Any Time If He Wants H L To! Swatts. 9 Treasurer and Assessor, A, O, The advantages of being a bachelor A"'f”“"‘"’- are so many that their mere number | Collector of Light and Water, C, is confusing, While one is lolling | D. Clough, around in the midst of them, so to speak, this confusion may be disas- trous, for it is just in these moments that one is most likely to fall in love with some one, lLet us, therefore, dwell on only one advantage as being | paramount to all of the others. Marshal, W. H. Tillis Night Watchman, F. L. Franklin. Municipal Judge, Gen. J. A, Cox. Keeper of Park, Neil McLeod, Members of Council--Morris G. This advantage then, is that a bach- | Munn, ClLairman; W. P. Pillans, elor is always free to marry {if he|Vice-Chairman; Messrs. 0. M. wants to. Think of it! There Is no | Eaton, G. E. Southard, R. 1 Scip- other condition like it! Wl Bonh P Aot ‘ per, W. H. Pugh, P. B, Haynes. | For example, If you are once mar The followi ried, you are then not free to marry e SUGINE ;- Gomis mittees for the year were appointed: Finance and Fire, Messrs. Eaton, Pillans, Haynes. Light and Water, Messrs, Haynes, Pillans and Southard. Streets, Messrs, Scipper, ard, Haynes. Ordinance, Messrs. Southard, Pugk and Scipper. Sanitary, Messrs.. Scipper Public Improvement and Cemetery, Messrs. Pillans, Eaton, Pugh. ¢ State Officers. Governor—A. W. Gilchrist, Talla. hassee. Secretary of State—H. Clay Craw- ford, Tallahassee. Comptroller—W. V. Knott, Talla- hassee. Treasurer—J hassee, Attorney-General—Park M. Tram. mell, Tallahassee |agaln when you want to. To do this |you must first go to your wife and {explain the matter and get her con- sent. You can do nothing without | ber cooperation. Now, it is by no {means easy In these days to get an | appointment with one's wife. The ob- ject must first be fully explained be- | forehand or she will have none of you. With a bachelor, however, no diffi- culty presents itself. At any moment he has only to say to himself, “I be- lieve I will get married,” and the thing is as good as done, Not that he is compelled to avail himself of the opportunity. Of course not! The ldea of any kind of freedom is never to avall one's self of it. The great advantage is that it is always there. We never draw upon it It does us no lntrinsic good. It is just there. And 0 for a bachelor, “being mar- ried” is always “just there.” He con- templates it with satisfaction, He can do it it he wants to. Therein lies his supreme strength. To avail himself of South. Pugh, Eaton C. Luning, Talla- ! sulur communications held on | Visiting brethren cordially in-| City Attorney, Epps Tucker, Jr. | 499 ! more than before, or the presents you can i . is more appreciated 1), ice candy now and t},.; Our Candies Taste Goog and Are in Good Taste This is about all 1) needed for the young :c! member this.. After such things are appre.)..; Ske iy you think more of her, o still she likes to be told anq < to be shown even bette; she can't tell you this but cr.ce with a box of our cang {how much it means. Why » Norris, Atlanta, Candiey Quick Delivery R»ed Cross Pharmacy { PHONE 89 Good News! The latest news can aw. s found at my News Stand, & leading newspapers and j. magazines, etc., are on sil: after publication, Good Views! }ol Florida scenery, incl ‘land postcards, are also in great variety. No Blues! For those who smoke th. - cigars carried, Lakeland a: makes. Fine smoking toba Come, Choosc! From my varied stock, anyt! may desire in my line. You w!! be disappointed in quality or i’ Miss Ruby Danicl News Stand Lobby of Edisonia Theater = The Cigar That Made Lakeland Famous the opportunity is, of course, to take away his own freedom.—Life. — Bolivia Without a Seaport. —not yet, anyway. ‘Lish, I'm a wom- ! an of my word. When I heard of what | Sarah Jones said I sald to myself that 1 wouldn't marry agin under five years | | at least, and I'll keep my word " In territorial exient Bolivia stands | | There was a groan from poor Elisha | third among the republics of South | _ c | that touched her heart. and her voice | America and is one of the two without | " DUrT Chairman; Newton A ] | was sympathetic as she s | & seaport. Her natural outlet to the | 5/i'¢h. Royal C. Duun. W. C. Yon, ® [ | "1 aiz’t sayin’ that 1 don't like you, Pacific 0cean was taken by Chile at | Secretary. All communications | but I'm sayin’ you'll have to wait four | the end of the war of the Pacitic, and | €hould be addressed to Tallahassee years more.” | today she is shut off trom the sea like | ———— Another long-drawn groan, | Switzerland. La Paz, Oruro and Po. | Sensible Man, Commissioner of Agriculture—w. {A. McRae, Tallahassee. Supt. of Public Instruction—Wm | M. Holioway, Tallahassee. Railroad Commissioners—R. Hui- “But you come over Courtin’ is next to ma Flisha groaned widow Daker was . but the Four stone dead! 1t was a lon man that went home to a lenely house The very nest day. while he was at l¢ of tramps nd court. tosi are all clties standing over 12,000 | | feet above the level of the sea. Bo- | livia's economic advance during re- cent years has been noteworthy, par- ticularly in the line of railroad ex- tension. La Paz, Lake Titicaca, Oruro and Potosi are all linked with Anto fagnsta on the Pacitic coast, and ex- press trains CAITY passengers trom La Paz, the capital, 10 Antotag, the sea coast in two days. A “Twenty-two Yearg 3 Ago” from the Wiison Countvn ‘Once in a while we hear of ften *! ped with another fellow . y receiveq ..:uce from a neighboring City that the couple had arrived there. pe promptly telegraphed: the Tunaways; them go to the Star. ‘Doat arresy BLUNTS &t Cltizen: | | who knows of a good thing w b H | gets It. 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