Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 25, 1912, Page 7

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FLOUR SALE! i i Mill Made A Mistake and Shipped Me Too Much Flour! ¢ll it for several days beginning SATURDAY JUNE 22nd, below market value as follows: I8 0 ... oniciainies 40c 241b.sacks ........ ...80c 98 1b. (half bbl) sacks........ 295 Wood, half bbls .............. 3.10 GUARANTEED HIGHEST GRADE---not cneap [ennesse grades as sold {by some---Some other =t uxl.ll\ D. B. DICKSON Lakeland ’ Florida Tis Ihere- p here ou. nee here must be something in our reat assortment of hardware you eed. Think carefuliy--isit a spade, ce tongs, air pump, hammer? o matter what it is, come to our tore. Pick out what you need, nd you will be surprised to find uchgood articles at a small cost. e ylease the hard-to-please—our best customers are those people hardest to satisfy. v N omas, and see our merchandise before deciding on your purchase. ¥heat costing $1.17 per bushel in Chicago and it takes %ake a barrell of flour. Therefore flour must go higher. 1 another rige, m‘! £ 3 “¢ on the Market. 7. 12:1b sack. . ... -P. PILLANS & CO0. U "¢ Food Store Ask the Inspector il . &atter what you need in the way of hardware, it will repay you THE EVENING TELYGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA, The Hardware Clerk’s Summer This thing began at & New England seashore resort a year ago last sum- mer. The young man concerned in the case was from and is of New York. 8o was and is the girl. The young fellow at that time had a job in a New York hardware store. He was a hustling, alert salesman, and a pretty good handshaker, and got $20 a week by way of salary. When he reached the New England seashore resort, however, he didn't look like any $20 a week hardware clerk. On the contrary he looked like several different shades of prompt money. He had a number of very flossy pairs of white duck trousers, a bunch of outing shirts that were, as he him- self well knew and suid, all the bon- bons, and other attractive wardrobe features. In" addition by ways. posseszed winning en he L tWO Wee i wad in tion to have time for hims he was away f(r ort he had . a little bank i determina- heap of a good d hiz money while 1 o' New York. The hotel w he found when he got there, littered, cluttered, loaded up. jammed, stuffed and packed to the gun'ls with oodles and slews and slath- ers of pretty girls. Peaches, all of them. Lookers. every one of them. They were all heautitul enough to cause a young hardware clerk on two weeks leave of absence to suffer at least momentarily from the blind stag- gers at the first sight of ‘em. And to match this tremendous as- sortment of pretty girls scattered all over and around the seashore hotel, there were just four male persons. The hardware clerk didn't have to be even a little bit conceited to discern that he had the other three male persons backed off the hoards in every imagi- nable respect. He could see that they wouldn't do at all. The girls had been tolerating al ‘em around, but the clerk saw right Sat on the Sand During the Long Aft- ernoon. away that they were all platers, and that there wasn't going to be any trouble for him to get in good, or pret- ty good. As a matter of fact, he didn’t have any. He just looked "em adl over with the greatest care, and it was all right He dldn’t have any bother whatever in getting Introduced to her. Fact 15, there wasn't any Introduction. She was belng chaperoned by her aunt, but the chaperon didn't figure ot The hardware clerk permittedq his lordly cholce to fall upon this rnvh:r. staving, maddening beauty, and n'l the rest of the girls immediately began | to knock her, of course, whereas they been parading around the hotel pfaz zas with arms wrapped around her waist before the one presentable you'! the hardware clerk, had made his - pearance upon the scene. Now, at the outset the hardwu« clerk only meant.to $e a gay dog ar ! an awful eutup and clip among th« girls. Dut he hadn’t been going aroun: with thig one girl of his eareful sl tion for two days before he began t perceive that he was in bad. That is to s he that was falling most hope and f ously and idiotically in love with girl. Fatuously and idio didn’t take him lo the girl really belc kind of family in these parts. “And me pedding alligator filc monkey wrenches for two gaw! the lunar week!” was the way pressed it mentally when he i himself falling so enormously in ! “I'm a fine iron butcher to be ¢ ing about asking a girl like thot ! tie up with me, I sure am.” However, he didn't feel ! bing his vacation, =0 to couldn't make out how he the girl—who can®—hut he « that she ceemed to like to & with him. He doped it out only possible or imaginatle this was that he was the only | ticable male person about th tically becau-« to find out 1 to a mone New Y Dremises, and he was sure that thistiur JUNE 25, 1912, was the only correct appraisal of the situation. They sat on the sand during the long forenoons under the shade of the big umbrella listening to the melan- choly monotone of the sea and chuck- ing sand into each other's shoes. They paraded along the sea’s verge under the same old, big old moon of all the ages. He didn't whisper anything to her about the state of his feelings. Yet he couldn’t help but glance at her with | 8 heap of wistfulness as the two weeks' vacation drew to a close, and once or twice he fancled that she re- turned the wistful gaze. But he wasn't going to take the‘ chance of making the bad break of de- claring himself unless he knew posi- tively that he had at least a little bit | of a one in & hundred chance. So after the most delirfous two weeks of his life he returned to New York the most miserable hardware clerk on the face of the inhabitable globe | When he had parted from the glrl! in a shadowy corner of the hotel plaz- za on the night before his departure ! he wen sorely tempted to tell her ! He refrained, however, by a {e effort, although he did pick | rolden hair from the lapel of ! vo coat when he got to his t tegd him upon parting to be v ocall upon her in New York »antumn, and he told her that would, and— ta moment, pleage. Now, il thiz were of those hi- larious, made to order yarns there's not a doubt in life that the average reader would get a whole lot more good ont of it But it isn't one of those things. On the contrary, it's a strictly veraclous narrative, The professional funny men would have the world believe that young folks who meet each other at the sea- shore never by the remostest chance ever think of keeping up the acquaint- ance made down by the sea's verge when they get back home, and that such seashore affairs never, never on earth result in anything worth men- tioning int they do. They result, as a heap of ma I The professional sereech evoker would wind up the story in this man- | ner: at v matter of fact, in | He'd have the girl drop into the | \ hardware store some gray day of the | roller skates or to examine some and- home, and she'd come face to face with the young hardware clerk, upon whose blue serge lapel she'd left a couple, if not more, of her golden hairs at the seashore a few months bhefore. ‘The jokesmith would have the young clerk start with an expression of acute pleasure to greet the young woman, addressing her with the phrase, “Oh, Miss Gotgllt, how exceedingly well you look! And don't you recall our Jolly times at the senshore a little while ago?” And then the young wom- an would “draw herself up to her full helght” In a most freezing manner and address him as if he were a lightning bug or a German carp, asking him to be good enough to show her a coal scuttle, anq that would be the windup of the seashore romance according to the usual view of it. This, however, is different, for real Iife doesn’t trot to pole with the joke- smith's gage. Consequently, as a simplo matter of fact, when this young woman returned to New York the hardwaro clerk called upon her at her folks® handsome home almost fmmediately, and he got a mighty pleasant reeeption from her, | and she looked mighty glad to seo him. | She Introduced him to her father and mother and he made a prompt hit with both of the old folks by his frank and on the level manner. They may and probably did have all sorts of other 1deas for the girl, but when she told them, a few months after the _\nung hardware clerk had called, that lie'd asked her to marry him and that | she'd fixed the date for the following June—the June of 1908—they accepted i 1he situation as it was framed up, and the marriage camo off exactly as per | program. I'ke that, maybe, but facts aro facts ".d not fancies, and so the prosalc windup really can't be helped a bit. :Holeu in Ships and Compressed Alr. | A method of rendering vessels un- in of water | it off the rough holes in t! the hull, was rece « battleship cribed In Poj The important featire of applying the co event water from « | through hole: i of air exerted in rtments surrounding the punctured ipartment, If a vessel has a t, the applicatic « 10 keep the of f the meth- ed alr to the cssure t of, say, 20 ole near the b of tl.«' hull .!rl tubject the lecks to a ry considerable ro which zht cause bad gt «.er, a hole is punctn rtion of the hull, ar e required by the b re is exerted to keep o < compartments immediately above 11 around the punctured compart- ut are reinforced by a lighter! © pressure, and these compartments « In turn supported by applylng a {1 lighter pressure to the next sur- nding compartments. This, it s ned, prevents the stralning or k]ing of decks, bulkheads, etc. en, how- It's a prosalc sort of finish and all | nkable by means of compressed alr, | .| pplied In such a manner as to plug | c«.xmfloeoo«:romwmooooood PATRIOTIC MUSIC cn the Fourth as a matter of course. But how about a piano to accompany the singers? You certainly should Pave one and there is no reason why you can’t, and at once. Our pay as you play plan will enable you to se- cure a splendid piano right now. Some barcains in slightly used pianoe. Perry-Tharp-Berry Music Co. SIS S G SIS RGNS (SIS DTSRGS ll@@ Maps ot any description compiled on <hort given to compiling city, maps kept on hand sunable rates, MAPS, BLUE PRINTS Speclal County and State notive, attention display and advertiving waps. Chemically prepared, von-fading blue prints st res- Special rates for prints in lavge quantitiee. Prompt attention given mail ord ers, South Florida Map and Blueprint Co. 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