Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 3, 1912, Page 6

g lF T‘S : REAL ESTATE g You are needing we can give you thebest on earth Pl THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK X 2, oY, One Glorious Fourth By DOROTHY BI.ACKMORE ; PROROR SIS RSN (Copyright, 1912, by Associated Lllerary Press.) she tied a string carefully around her | end to the piece of twine that hung over the window sill. Then she turned out the light and crept intgl bed giggling like a schoolgirl into ]| It was the night before the glori- cus IPourth and Detty d decided | that inasmuch as the lol came ng the vacation d was | spending back at the old ouse | where she was born, she child again in her e Shte had tired of the « of the life that was city in which she earner, and thoce quiet country were as days of gold to her. To be sure, the farm was no loniger occupied by her parents— they had gone to another world— but in their place there were kindly people who willingly ced to take Detty for the holidays, As good fortunc would have it, Bet- ty's childhood chum was visiting at her old home next door. She, too, toiled in a distant metropolis, but it was Carolyn Harmon's pleasure to send home each week a portion of her weekly salary to help her father and mother to keep the homestead. And it was a sentiment alone that made Betty take her own room in the home that had been hers instead of ac- cepting the hospitality of her neigh- bors and friends. “We'll try to repeat some of the fun we had when we were children,” Carolyn had said that afternoon. “Let's have a really, truly Fourth, Bet!" “And tie strings on your toes to wake up early?” Betty had asked. Carolyn nodded. “Even that! Mother always wakes early and I'll call you. Just tie a string to your big toe and fasten it to the white picket fence between the hedge: and I'll pull it as early as you like, Wasn't that what we used to do?"” “Exactly—for mother, poor, dear mother!—would not let me get up early, and [ had to do it quietly. When you feel like that ccme straight to this bank and open an account, It is the only cure. No matter how small the deposit it will be heartily welcomed. i Then cut down your expenses and start on road to fortune by adding to the account regularly. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAKELAND Under Control of U. 8. Government You want, We have it anywhere and in any size tracts, and if it is INSURANCE gee us lufom iyou buy. and treat you rurhl Polk County Real Estate & Insurance Co. Office: Roem 7, Deen & Bryant Bailling QPRI D00 L el e L R AR 0 OUR METHOD CF LAYING TIN ROOFING. makes your house absolutely water- it ottt ettt ettt ettt e e e e s proof. Leaks seldom occur when we do the work. Every pquarc Rin laid by our workmen is carefully scldered and tested before the next is joined. See us if you want the best roofing for the least money. w7 AraENRIE . J Lakeland Hardware & PIUTDING G0.|v . crermcr v R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will farnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Then—we'll take our firecrackers and | go down to the meadow just as we | once did to join the boys—" “Ah—the boys! rupted with a sigh. they all are now.’ “You can make sure there won't be any of them still in the old Carolyn Inter- | “I wonder where | their bunches of firecrackers and toy cannons, Carrie. That's all over” Betty's eyes were wistful as her thoughts trafled back over the dozen years or more. I‘ en now as Lot me show you some Lakcland Lomes I have built, LAKELARD, sho dropped Phone 267-Green. Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors took the string rubbed its sti We are exercising great care to jerk had nearly sell cur ROSEDALE lots only to the bed. best class of pecple. Thus we give She dressed hastily iu you desirable neighbors in addition ) to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. she opened her door s Wide strects, shade trees, fertile up her basket of firecra sail, building restrictions. Inside the crept steadthily down he city, one block cast from Jake Mor- None of the good folks in the ton. house was awake. white linen frock and pin . ) 2 laden hat on her sunny Betty sought the side stepped out to the porc Betty laughed softly to herself as| great toe and attached the otherl .. the pillows. o | steps from the altar to the carriage,” | ble because well-meaning but thought- | | tess friends had carpeted the path | meadow as they used to be with | SMITH & STEITZ wd G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building. Whatever you want in rea lestate. wa bave it. the adjoining grounds fence. No Carolyn was , looked about. Surely s il:ad imagined the ls!rlng_ for it lay broien as self evie dence 1t was a glorious i% Dawn was just b hills in the distance a | pink and golden glow was fast light- & the eky. Betiy inhalel long .raughts of the fresh morning air and stepped out upon the close-clipped lawn. Sbhe would remain up now and LELAND, FLA,, AUG. 3, 1012, Dol b b dac b a0 Carolyn at her own Whore could she be? | petty walked to the corner of the white farmhouse and stood still. There, in the center of the good farm foiks' most prided flower bed, was a monoplane. A little to one side and leolng ruefully at the wreck of his| ¢ .1 aircraft was a young man in fi togs. 'y coughed. The man looked :d morning,” he said. ¢iod morning,” repeated DBetty, seem like a good t won't be when the— i ‘overed that I have a lovely flower bed,” he ing of your own mon- ded. She was grad-' ¢ 'r, for though she Ll seen iy of this sort of flying the air it had never been to inspect one at close monoplane,” re- | : a keen but po- at Detty. "I suddenly «d that my engine was not properly and had to make a : here in these grounds. 1 en-| red a bit of wire, or cord, or— something, just as I was reach-1 but we are 41\'ays studying how t., the ground, and it caught me across the face and—why—what?” I"ur Betty had burst into peals of lncrease The Quantit\ the merriest laughter Bob Norton | . ! £ i s - | We give the “most now but we are anxious t, it As she continued to laugh appar- ently uncontrollably he began to | think he had encountered a beautiful | insane sleepwalker or some young girl whose mind was sadly affected. “It—it was my toe!" crled Betty, ending in another laugh. For some reason or other the situation had ap- pealed so strongly to her risibles that she found it impossible to make lucid explanation at once, The man stared. “Your — your toes”" he exclaimed. “But--" | “My toe!" repeated Betty, “The | hud ever heard. e more. Phone us and prove it. Best Butter, per pound . Sugar, 16 pounds ........ Cottolene, 10 pound pails Cottolene, 4-pound pails. Snowdrift, 10-pounl pails 118 4 cans family size Cream. . S AR 7 cans baby size Cream. .. ... 2 1-2 barrel best Flour...:.............c.ooovnvvnns dE 1 3 100 128 80 e e e b e e i 1? p_onndl DRRERRABNN. v 140 between paroxysms of laughter. Picnic Hams, DRTRDDIARE . oo 1212 “You—but the string was high up Cudahy’s Uncanvassed Hams 18 in the air," explained the man, be- Unhel Siiidared. [ Octagon Soap, BH0r. ...oo..\viiiiinieniiiiyiiioin | Betty laughed again and wiped the | Ground Cofiee, per pound ..... Gy Al i Reedie S R % 11 tears from her chieeks i “I'll tell you,” she said, sensibly, and taereupon related the little bit of | conversation she and Carolyn had in- \ dulged in and acted upon, “And the very healthiest thing for | you to do,” Betty said after a hulf: Lour in which they—two strangers— | had watched the sun come into its | full glorious splendor and break over | the fourth of July, to get that monoplane out of the flower bed be- | fore the good people wake up. You might even come down in the meadows with us and we'll help set | your ship a-sailing. Only get out of here."” “Will you—be in the meadow with- | out fall?" he asked as she turned to | meet Carolyn coming across the | lawns in the distance. i “Without fail," Betty answered. | Something compelling in the man's | personality appealed to her and made her answer yes. That same persistent something made her make the same answer again to another and more important question before another glorious Fourth had dawned on the old farm meadows. 5 gallons Kerosene ...............oooovvnnnnn 60 E. G. Tweede¢! 5 rm 8 THE SUMMER has only begun—it's not too late yet by any means to iuicst i ELECTRIC FANS—ELECTRIC IRONS, ELECTRIC COOKING DE VICES. There is still about two to three months of warm weather ahead of us. Bride's Path, Before the rush of weddings begins admiring friends would do well to con- sider the sensibilities of the bride be- ! fore strewing her path to the altar | with rosebuds. “Notwithstanding that 1 had just been married to the man | wanted, the most unhappy road I ever trav- eled was down the church aisles and Drop in and sec what we have—our prices are righ stocks of superlative quality. 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