Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 7, 1913, Page 8

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PAGE EIGHT. FOR SALE POR SALE—3 beautiful lots, close in, facing mnortheast side Lake Morton; eheap if sold at once. Apply Tele- gram office. 11-21-tt - e ——————————————————————— FOR SALE—improved and unim-| proved city and suburbam prop- erty. For quick sale list your oroperty with uoizl-‘l:;’& Gn.B ll;ladn:; ! lephone . Muon 5 i 10-35th POR SALE OR RENT—Modern sev- en room, two-story dwelling, with all oonveniences; choicest loca- tion for a home In Lakeland. No 301 South Florida Ave. See or| address W. Fiske Johnson, om;«;l;. #OR SALLE—One large lot, 125 by 145; well fenced. Corner Gilmore avenue and Peachtree street. Theap for cish. Also five-room jouse and six lots, <with good sarns, 21 bearing oranve treesand sther imrrovements; corner Lake avenue and Magnolia St. Tnquire af 1. E. Marshall, corner Gllmore Ave and Magnolia St. 224; PR AR o SRR S POR SALE—House of 4 rooms and hall; nice lot 100x200, with bear-| tng orange trees, for $1,200; on sasy terms. The John F. Cox | Realty Co. 354 ’ g T L e el | MR 3°'LE—On easy terms, a new five room bunealow, finely finished throuchout, electric lights, city wauter, toilet and bath, Located in a gplendid neighborhood, one block weet of Florida avenne, in \Waring aubaivision. D. H. Sloan. PO SALE—22 acres of fine land with o fine new crove of 650 trees, beautiful lake front, house of 5 rooms, 1% miles out. The John F. Cox Realty Co. 354 Forty acras of gnod 1and fand; two good honsges, packing houge, barn, ete. Will sell twenty acres if purchaser prefers. Address RBox 273, Lakeland, Fla. FOR SALE In; rewer to Lo Inid in front and paved street within short distance. A good ha L2725, The John F. Cox Realty (o. 354 FOR SALE—FEight room, two-story plastered dwelling, modern con- veniences. Price $4,000. Terms reasonable. W. Fiske Johnson, - owner. 267 PCR SALE—New bungalow of five rooms and bath. Electric lights, city water and all modern conven- fences. In best Dixieland dis- trict. Address Owner, Box 1. 297 FOR SALE. 11 acres at city limits, good five- room house, 2 acr efruit and orange trees, irrigating plant, all the land cleared, fenced, part ir- rigated. Fine for twruck. Price, $3,800. , city limits, good barn, ail ared except two aeres, art ir- rizated, fine building site. Price, $1,750. ¢ acres at city limits, fronting on good street, main thoroughfare into city. Price, $1,250. See own- ers. Don’t miss these bargains, 369 SCALLEY & BA Y FOR SALE—Fine large family and farm horse. Good looker, gentle and kind. A bargain. Ohlinger & Alfield. 342 POR SALE—3 acres, all In grove, near Lake Mirror. Will make twelve 50x200 foot lots. Price $3.500 for a short while. Mann- Fitts Land Co.,, Raymondo Bldg. 357 FOR QUICK SALE—One 100x200-t lot, East Ora St., with small room and shed; also wire fencing. Price $900. J. R. Boulware, 407 South Fla. Ave., or phone 281. 338 POR SALE BY OWNER—New six- room house, large hall, 75 feet of porch, garage, servant's house and poultry house. Lot 100x145, high and dry, with fruti trees, overlook- ing Lake Morton. No nicer place to live in Lakeland. Price and terms right. See Dr. N. L. Bryan, Room No. 1, over postoflice. Phona 39 or 232 Blue. 333! ONLY A FEW MORE of those lots| with the beautiful big orange trees on them can be had. Have| you got yours yet? If not better | see Futch & Rogers, Futch & Gen- - try building, without delay. 344 POR RENT—2 rooms. nice 352 ~Good lot, 100x200, close | bearing orange trees; | * ply to 306 S. Virginia Ave. miles north of Lake-! [ | i work. dress Do B > & one g unfurnished | everyb 215 South Missourl Ave.!fast with.—Llicn Thornycroft Fowler. ROOM WITH ROARD—Excellent front room with beard nay be had at 211 South Tennessee Ave. Mrs. Henry Bacrn. G e e — FOR RENT — Desiradle six-room house, with nice sleeping porch, with electric lights, etc. Splendid- Iy located. 309 S. Missouri Ave. Apply to Mrs. F. A. Morrell, phone 114 Green. 279 FOR RENT—Furnished room with board at Elbemar. Rates reason- able. 364 I;OR ;!“EA ’l‘:-One Vlnrze furnished room for ght housekeeping, Ap- 359 o MISCELLANEOS | J e WANTED—Three or four furnished rooms, Mrs. J. E. Bartlett, Gen- eral Delivery, Lakeland. 345 WHEN IN THE CITY visit my boat yard. New and secondhand boats for sale. The best work and ma- terial, any size you wish, E. L. Raiford, 3ulphur Spring, Tampa. . 343 DR TAKING-—Nice sewing done reasonably. Phone 146, between 9 and 11:30 a. m., or write Mrs G. B. Carter. 360 IF YOU WANT A LOT in the beau- tiful orange srove subdivision of Futch & Rogers on South Florida avenue, you had better speak quick. "They are going fast. YASCN will soon be here. Pro- teet Yo home from disease and discomfort by nsing door and win- dow ecreens which may ve had of | Lakeland Manufzcturing Co. Our prices 50 per cent less than north- ern concerns, Phone 76. 2] 'HOME PHOTOGRAPHY. W. I H. Elmer will he pleaced to make an appointment with you for a picture of your home, your children and their pets, or any photographie Phone 199 Blue. 339 SOUND BANKING our motto American State Bank of Lakeland. J. L. Skipper, president; S. F. Smith, vice president; P, E. Chunn, cashier. 26 LOST—A pair of gold bowed spec- tacles; card Inside of case marked “Sylvester.” Finder leave at Mrs Henry Bacon's, 211 South Tennes- gee avenue, and receive reward. S A. Sylvester. YOUR ACCOUNT sollcited and piotected. American State Bank i ). L. Skipper, president; S. F. Smith, vice president; P. E. Chunn, cashier 26 AN IDEAL HOME by big bearing orange trees, sucn as you will find In the Futch & Rogers subdivision, on South Flor- | {da avenue. See owners, Futch & Gentry building. 344 LAKELAND FUEL SUPPLY AND TRANSFER (O.—Charcoal and all kinds of wood delivered promptly. - First class service in furniture moving and general transfer guaranteed. Phone 258 Red. Hours, 6 to 7:30 a. m.; 11:30 to 1 noon; 4:30 to5 p. m 331 WE ARE CONSERVATIVE, yet progressive. American State Bank J L. Skipper, president; S. F. Smith. vice president; P. E. Chunn, cashier. 25 WANTED—AIl of my old custom- ers and friends to know I am back in Lakeland on the job at the Phoenix Barber shop. Call and see me. L. E. Peacock. 363 WANTED—A young lady boarder who will do a little tutoring for cheap board. Address L. E,, car. city carrier No. 2. 361 ENXPERIENCED YOUNG LADY STE- NOGRAPHER desires position. Ad- 996, Jacksonville. 365 Cheerful Breakfasters, Peopls wre nearly ziways nice «hen w them and pierces | through e husks of artificlality, Whicki 1 wear before the world. 1 | detest haps of reoula thal 1 have jonly met at dinner, but 1 think i like vt 1 have ever had breake lives in a two-by-four flat with folding > kih ! beds squeezed into one corner and has | s i E’i&. P 344! 350 | THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., MARCH 7, 1918, S ———— ST 1I'I' WAS A COLD DAY l BY ELIZABETH ALLEN, “Isn’t this a lovely winter day!” re- joiced the hostess as the young wom- ! an with the extra fine lynx furs came |13, | wOh, by all means!” agreed the { young woman with savage politeness, as she made for the open fireplace. “Still, you can talk till you're black in the face about the joys of smow and ' ice and ruddy cheeks and all the rest | of that rubbish, but as for myself give me a thermometer that is climbing to the top like & new-rich family on the social warpath. You might throw in a few palm leaf fans and a case of sunburn into the bargain—I'll take them all!” “What has happcned?” inquired the hostess. “You are so violent, dear.” “Violent!” echoed the young woman who had just come in, hurling her muff at the Pekinese spaniel and dashing her gloves into a thicket of Boston fern. “I'm a mild ethereal gephyr | 5 i compared with what I'd have to be it | In the “ships’ graveyard, i 1 expressed the sum total of my emo- «verue cutter Mohawk, which tions! In fact, | have 80 many emo- | tions that I feel like the person who | her grandmother's mahogany four- poster bestowed on her! [I've got to move, that's all! Violent! Come here, Chow, and let me bite you!” “Leave that poor, {innocent dog alone!” ordered the hostess, hurricd- ly. “Is your new velvet dress spoiled, or what?”" The young woman sank into a chalr and groaned as she regarded the fire. | “Worse,” she related. “Beyond the; Forrest Crissey has the followin? ll{nlt of thg lmpossilfle! You know 'y, gay regarding Florida Syrup cane | Winston W 'Id'.'r‘ .dont you—the one in the Saturday Evening Post: | we all call Winnie because he looks i 8 ke 1 v Bk | like it? Why, once when we were hav- ew smal] farmers in the South, ing conundrums somebody ‘Why is a Winston Wilder? and tte hors, are finding a live opportunity answer was, ‘Because he was out when in the commercialization of a crop the fool-killer called!’ 1 don't know product that has long been a general A CASH CROP A Long Neglected Product Which Is Beginning to Be Recognized an a Great Asset. why any of us have tolerated Winnio ,i1,16 article of home uce, This lons- i all these years except that he is gen- zlected product, which in som? erally havmless, in spite of his super-, . i Ratiral conceit, ;sznds and in certain localities is “Then, too, as for myself, I always taking on the dignity of a very proi- was interested in counting the six itable cash crop, is cane syrup. hairs of his mustache and secing if by | One of the pionecrs in this com- chance there were seven, but therg wiercialization of ecane syrup is G. ;never were. 1 think he has those six . glued on, and even they are kind of m‘l-‘lorid'x Al dbas Tatrine 1 pink. He fsn't even decorative at a ' @ and does farming on the I tea, because he insists on talking and side. He declares that cane syrup that shrill voice of his sends every onn &% the most profitable erop that he i home. We have accepted him as ono produce, and that hundreds of of the drawbacks to existence. Well, Ul farmers in these localities of when Winnie appeared yesterday @M< (o South, where the soil is adapted ernoon and said he had come to tak me skating he seemed so sure about it that 1 went. Besides, I had nothing else to do and 1 like to skate and I thought T conld forget ke was almg. "'| have raised sugar cane and “We had a lovely time at first, until made it into syrup for years,” de- Y . I noticed that it was trishtfully cold. clared Mr. Storter, “and it is the When 1 gm'chillr-d ;nyt fu;:ln always :10- best crop 1 can grow. My averagze comes 80 frozen tha e muscles 1, qyction §s 500 gallons of pure won't work and I can't talk. It's just :‘_““ feonh a :wregf . ho b lt l' as though they were set in a vise. I ™ " it OF SRn Ry I didn’t know it had happened until Win- | ¢rtain seacons I have Leen able to ple began to propose to me.” take 800 gallons from an acre. And “Propose!” shrieked the hostess. this result has been had without the “Well, perhaps you wouldn't call it use of a pound of fertilizer and with- proposing if you are finicky about!,. cultivation, after the first year words,” admitted the young woman, . planting who had dropped in. “Rather he be- 4 gan to inform me that he had decided ; Ll to marry me. It never would occur to | r""' ten or twelve years, and cer- Winnie to ask a girl about a little tain of my plantinzs produced hand- thing like that—his idea is that she'scmely without renewal for a still would hurl herself at him in hysterical Jongzer time. Iere we never start to ‘:":‘"" l"r hj"(;' “h;"“l‘l he l'“: l'}“'""fi“ grind up cane oefore the first of at she had a chance to gnv tim: AS January. This means it has a chance soon as I realized what he was doing I e lo s turned upon him with a chilling sen. ' Feach complete maturity. In lo- ‘ tence on my lips—where it staved. I calities where the frost is earlier the i couldn’t ret out a word, £0 1 sawed crop m"f'- be cut when it is only the air wildly and protestingly with about 75 per cent matured; but in j one hand. !lcealities where the earlier cutting { ‘1 know what 1 have said has compels a 25 per cent sacrifice there | startled and overcome you,’ remarked is still enoush left to make it a de- | Winnie as he grabbed my hand and = | . : . . | pulled it down, ‘but try to be calm! ;(‘“m(ny profitablle crop. My net prot- | Try to control yourself! It isn't 80: strange when you come to think of it —you are a very attractive girl if you aren’t a beauty and I never would mar | ry for money anyhow. 1 want my | Storter, who runs a £eneral store th cane culture, can make it one of the best paying crops from their lunds. W00 EAMER DRIVEN ASHORE IN et blinding snowstorm the banana steamer asked, ¢ little more aiert than their neigh- | *One planting has generally served | {its vary tfrom season to scason. Gen-i | erally they are somewhere between 18150 and $200 per acre. By netl profit T mean what is left after de- tducting all labor and manufacturing! Icosts ot every'rort. The manufac- turing cost is about 7 cents a gal- {len. Into this is fizured the ex- lpvnse of cutting, of haulng to the 1 11, of erinding, of boiling and of The total cost of l.u”nluclinn runs close to 17 cents a| {eullon, and I have never recel\'ed‘l legg than 45 cents at wholesale. | ‘“umetimes the price has been very much better than that.” The North is almost wholly ig- ‘roront of the merits of pure cane sorup, and that when the merchants the Sonth do the necessary edu- } ! work this product will come into its own and tring a new degre: ruttns into cans, to thousands of small are bound still by the King Cotton.—Florida Lrower, Freckicd Girl | It is an absolute fact, that one 50 cent jar of WILSON'S FRECKLE CREAM will eithier wemove your freckles or cause them to fude and that two Jars wiil even) in the most severe cases completcly cure them. We are wiliing to personally) guarantee this and to return your money without argume.t if your complexion is not fully restored toits natural beauty, ! WILSON’S FRECKLE CREAM is fine, ' fragrant and absolutely harmless, will not make hair grow but will positively' remove TAN, PIMPLES and X-‘RECK! LES. Comeintodayandtryit. The jara, are large and results absolutely certain,; Sent by mail if desived. Price 50e,l| Mammoth jars £1.00. WILSON'S FAIR SKIN SOAP 25¢c. Ior sale by ; ALL DRUGGISTS o prosgverity formers who traditions of One Chance for Him. bad in his family a domestic—a wom- an-—a strict Roman Catholic, who was always talking about the impossibil { ity of heretics getting to heaven “Why,” said the winisier “de you hink, Mary, that I will not get w heaven?” id e, “it For do, it will be on ac nt of your in eousavahle ———— fenorace.” From Recent Boovs “It takes but very delicate shadinge to mark evolution in the friendship of women-~because worien are so sel dom fricnds"—"The T'nknown Wom an.” W Anne Warwick. RON0VG0V000MNAAOOCOOVOOT 2 VLD DO INOLEMIICH JOCH WM AIHIDQ FH00V0C QO0COLA000GNICAACVVGIAMOT O+ O+O+ wife to be a girl who has been brought up frugally, so ghe won't expect dias mond tiaras and ten servants to walt making things cheerful for her hus-, i band, don’t you think? { | “I made some strangling, guttural sounds and Winnic becamed at me soothingly. ‘I knew you thought so,’ he said. ‘You can trust to my judg- ' ment. I knew you cared for me, dear, | even though you were at such pains to conceal it. The knowledse that you did so was what first touched me =it would have been unmanly to spurn your affection!’ “I stopped short at this and pound- ed on the ice with one ekate and glared at him and waved my hands and tried to talk and my face simply wouldn't work. ! * ‘Poor girl!’ Winnie said, still sooth- ingly. ‘I shall take you home to recov- er from the excitement of the mo- ment. I'll have our engagement an- nounced at once.’ “I live only two blocks from the | park, you know, and between rage and borror I cried all the way home and . the tears froze and pulled out my long- est eyelashes, and 1 thought I'd die. I almost pushed Winnie down the front steps as I rushed inside and when I got my face thawed out I tried to telephone 1 I've broen trying ever since and Prices Right O DIDOPOIPFOPOPOSOPOW OO o OO O l It Will Pay | To See Us | at home or in > his off dTcan't stand 3 another minute to have him dare to 3 think I'm engaged to him! bave it! “What on earth are you laughing at? I won't ’ () - Tice: LARSEST STOCK OF EUMBER IV SOUT You are a heartless, brutal, unsympas ¢ & thetic friend, that's what you are!” ! @ QIO O000¢ o nlete staton the St Promote There will Le a 1o1- Tampa on Ap to all growers as well as cardless are invited to at [here owers of 1 date for u While it s Ll growers 1 ing of their | the obiects o1 an incent e inoone !} that the 1ay ot end il ond r the follow i To act as legislation, t To 1} rertatio sary fac rongenern panies to give leaving day, as it is { To secure tlo ments such To act in maitirs railway compu: perfect service To enginerr of the eiviliz who are t! Fightine and veeetal! To secur the importat fruits fronm fust o a8 ! "n Meking e Foot ¢of IMain St. BLINDING STopy icho’as Cuneo, with a crew of thirt, west of Point Lookout, Lo : Island. 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