Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 5, 1912, Page 6

g T e TYE EVENINC [ELEGRAXM LAKE When you plant money in the bank you expect it to bring you a harv- of m est ofit and pleasure—sam-~ as your garden. the produce of your garden it grows best \mh care- hecome a fortiure, s 4 harvest \()\\ is “plant- Think it over. FIRST NATIONAL OF LAKELAND Under Control of U. S. Government BANK [ e ol o mm:::mmwmm WE OFFER YOU PLUMBING he highest class at modorate rates, Got o fizitres for converting e s old bath room into @ handsome | anag sanitary lavatory. They will be mueh lesg than you think and will convinee you that you necd no longer o withont the Inxury of medern riumbing lakclaml Ilardware & I’Iumbmg Co R. L. | MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakeland Lomes I have built, LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green, FLORIDA -m Mmm__— THE VERY BEST WHEAT g | | Methodist church. Two Widows nd Another By Bryant C. Rogers (Copyright, 1912, o 2 ociated Literary | | Moses Davenpor: in the village of Dort. hali-owner of a grocery stove. He also owned the vacant lots opposite the It can thus be seen at a glance that Mo:es was a man of importance. Added to the facts alove given, he was forty years old and a widower, and it had been repcatedly announced that he would never marry again, having promised his wife on her dying bed that he would not do so. He was also ! [ beating heart: | Ing around here. One spring day the village of Dort buzzed with excitement. Nobody had | fallen downstairs, and the doctors had not discovered a case of measles. The | place had not Leen turned into a sum- mer resort, and ncuo of the hogs roam- ing the sticets had come down with | | the cholera. All the excitement had | been created by the report that Moscs Davenport had quarreled with his si ter, who kept house for him, and that | she was going heard to say: “You can go and he hanged to you, and you need never come back! In six | months I shall have a wife to run the house for me!” Those were the exact words of Mo- | ses, as overheard by neighbors, and as they were repeated from mouth to mouth the excitement was intensified. There were widows in and around Dort, and everybody decided offhand thut in case of marriage it would be | 2 widow. There were Mrs. Davis, | Mrs, Stringer, Mrs. White, Mrs. Elkins, Mrs. Bacon and others, and who would | draw the lucky number? They were each and severally notified of what { had happened, and what might hap- pen, and thongh more or less flus- | trated each one tried toassume an air | of incdiference as she replied with | away and he had been | “Is that all? Well, Moses Davenport will waste his time if he comes spoon- I wouldn't look at him twice." These words were faithfully report- ed to the widower, and in one way and “I can't afford to marry no such man.,” another the excitement was main- only is used to make the flour which | talned for a week. Then an agent for 56es into our bread. And the very best methods only are employed to produce both the flour and the bread. You'll like the looks of our bread when you see it. You'll like its taste The Modern Bakery Barhite Brothers still better when you try it. Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising 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 strects, shade trees, fertile sail, building restrictions. Inside the city, one block cast from Lake Mor- ton. SMITH & STEITZ ad G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building. Whatever you want in 1o have it rea lestate. a new liver pad came along, and peo- ple rushed to buy, and other things were forgotten. Then Moses Daven port went courting. His first call was on Mrs. Davis. No girl would have called it by that name. Ile talkel about the weather, predictod a thun- der storm and said t was his opinion that potatoes would be high in the fall. The widow agreed with him. She smiled and laughed as she acreed. She congratulated him on the way he looked, and when he advized her to set out her tomato plants early she | owned the sawmill | © Uhen the widow Davis called, and af | the peint of asking for my hand when [ cool reception.” | early. | house of Mrs. Elkins and said: | day, | Teans and ple “{hy, 1s Mr. Davenport going to ask you to marry him?" “He certainly is.” | “But he talked about string heans.” j “yes, when you can get a widower | to talking about string beans some- | ring «lse is bound to fellow. It's but ym that to matrimony.” | I never heard of that he{ore"‘ a good many things you | vd of before. Now then, don't md that I'm try- nport, for I'm lonely, and [ but you know ied to anyone. where went to when { 5 I 10ld you to?” “He went "to Mrs. Stringer. Mebbe | Pe was going to taik string beans to her!” \iss Het'y reccived a box on the car for her impudence. and for the vext three days the mother flattered herself that her market was made. b a8 yon w ‘nt 1 several complimients she re- mm'}. nl vou know it was all over the | village that T was to marry Mr Dav- enport?” “No. T hadn't heard a word about it, | He called here first the other day, but | of course when he began to talk love ked him off about his business. 1 to marry no such man.” ay he short- “The ]mnx thing! He was just on mbered what T had heard and d the subject and shut him off. one of us can afford to :.mrl' jurselves for a man of his stamp.” L comes here again he'll get a [ 1 -x fic R’ “The same at my hcuse. he going.” lows were hardly a hun- art when each one satd Well, must The two w dred feet to herself: “ll. «.m cat! Does she think sl.e «l me the least little bit? Mr. pall learn just what she st day the widower received two nous letters conveying the in- and a great deal more. He Ivised in a paternal way not to trust his future to a woman who lin't properly shorten a pie crust suve her neck; who made a bed the foot the highest; who was wiin to have lock-jaw some day running a rusty nail in her foot nse she wenld go around in her » whe stecped over old coffee who had bad teeth. The wasn't 2all. No names were joned, but he had no trouble in 1z who the writers were, Davenport's response was ime ate. On the very next day he tod on the widow Davis to say: ‘idow, it occurred to me that you izht be lonely ™ me, but I can't tell you how was sighed in reply. matrimony is a dangerous Ie “But ve heard say it was, but—" “The other day I called to advise You 1o set ont your tomato plants I now advise you to do the same about your cabbages, and to forget | matrimony.” Moses then made his way to the “Widow, when | was here the other I advised you to plant string- of them. If you are refuse the offer. They never dis- sked to ma tick to string beans, appoint you." “Rut, Mr. Davenport=—" “Sentiment — love = matrimony = string-beans!'” And to the widow Stringer he said: “I called here the other day to ask it you had a catnip bed in your yard. ! have now called to ask you to be my wife.” “But T thonght—thought—!" “Suppose we set the day for a month ahead?” And after a blush and a wriggle and a stammer the day was set. Yuan Knows Hie China. President Yuan Shih-kaf of the Cht- nese Republic is still the shrewd, care ful, and diplomatic Oriental, A spe clal cable dispatch from Pekin de- scribes Yuan's first presidential ad- ]Ealon. Secy, sald she would take the advice of & gress and gives quite a pleasant thrill wise man and do s0. No talk of ad- gq it describes how the president of miration, love or matrimony, but a| China has decided that the new re- very pleasant call—so pleasant, in fact, | public must set aside the traditions that after Moses had departed the | of the emplre and hire foreigners to widow sald to her old maid sister: | place the new fiscal policy on & West: “Sarah, that man will ask me with- erm foundation. ia three months to be his wife * | 8o far, so good. But the farsighted: “How can you tell”™ was asked. | mess of Yuan in taking this apparently “A woman's Intuition.” | bold stand 1s seen to be largely “pol- “But he didn't say anything in pan | lev” for, after all, his new republic ticnlar.” ‘ cannot get ohld of the great loan it so “No. He just came t"mnlng sadly needs unless the terms of the around. I hadn't seen him for six bankers making the loan are carried months, and he wanted to see if [ had | Out. lost any of my good looks. I haiven't, These terms provide for foreign “as- {and he'll be back again.” | sistance,” to say it diplomatically, in | “And If he asks you to marry him?" | using the money when China receives “I shall say ves, of course 1 it. So Yuan, after all, knows what he | | be in too big a hurry to do = is about when he hails foreign advice b | you notice his looks of adm | 1n placing the fiscal scheme of China | The oldmald sister hac | on & Western toundation. any such looks, but she h e — . f Exquimau inventions, | at the Affiliated Col stantiates the au 1s the most ilied engineer le. In support es the first | are not | Didn't | nswered | S- | jeges, San F: | claim that the { able inventor € | among uncivi of this the col form of the oil heat | water-tight boat, arch ing purposes, and w over. | coats, as wel? as the most perfect | types ever developed of the fish spear, W | spear thrower and The | smoking pipes fo With Asia o be haw- lqwd their carvings with prehistor Europe. , more talk about the " derstorms, and on risi said: “Widow, string bea | be scarce and high if T were you I'd get them pan bit early.” That was it upen h ed for roof * build- h the nearest - 91, F. & ions held on | s at 1:30 p. in- Lakeland Lodze No. Regular commun ¢ 4th Mc ) ing brethren cordially J. L. LOVE, W. M. L FOWILESON, Of all the attentions yoy .., or the presents you can b Lakeland Chapter, R. A. M. No |15 more appreciated than . : 29 meets the first Thursday night in each month in Masonic Hall. Visit- ing companions welcomed. C. G Arendell, Sec'y.; J. F. Wilson, H. P nice candy now and then Our Candies Tastc Goog and Are in Good T This is about all the aste Palm Chapter, O. E. 3. meets every second and fourth Thursdey nights of each month at 7:30 p. m. Mrs Flora Keen, W, .\l.‘ Lucie B. . needed for the young felly member this.. After s such things are appreci;::: : She you think more of her. o: (... still she likes to be told and ... to be shown even better. F. — 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 Ccmmander, Mrs. Sal- lie Scipper, Guardian of Circle. imore than before, v, b she can't tell you this but 1y 3. 1.0.0. F. i Meets every Friday night at 7:30 at I, 0. 0. F. Kall ,corner Main and Tennessee. Visiting brothers cor- dially invited. R. M. DAMPIER, Noble Grand. 2. M. SMAILES, Rec. Sec. o1.ce with a box of our cand- how much it means. Why y - Norris, Atlanta. Candiey K. OF P. Regular meeting every Tuesday at 7:20 at Odd Fe'lows Hall, Visit- ing members always. welcome, J. W. BUCHANAN, JR,, Chancellor Commarder. A. M. JACKSON, Secretary. Quick Delivery _' Red ~ Cross Pharmacy PHONE 82 G.I A toB.of L. E. Orange Blossom Div, No. 499 G. I. A. to B. of L. E. meets every| second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 2:30 p. m. Visiting| Sisters always welcome, | MRS. J. C. BROWN Sec'y, Mrs. J. B HGGAN, Pres, Grand Order of Eagle:. i Meets every Wednesday nicht in| 0dd Fellows hall. W. Rowland. | president; W, B. Hicks, socretary, G.A R M. Sparli J. R. TALL! month at J. Kentueky, South | OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. City Officers. ayor—S, L. A, Clouts. ('Phon: 210-Red.) Clerk and Tax Cotiector, Swatts. Treasurer and Armistead. Collector of Clough, Marshal, W, H. Tiliis. Night Watchman, F. L. Frauklin, Municipal Judge, Gen. J. A, wx.‘ City Attorney, Epps Tucker, Jr.| Keeper of Park, Neil McLeod, Members of Council--Morris G. Munn, € man; W. 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