Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 25, 1913, Page 2

e [ cnicaco | i k//erfiarefieen Y/ ene/m.sf man n [59 world il bhe had /oen L the lirst money he earned® HE puT IT IN THE BANK When Jol.n D. Rockefeller went into the oll fields, he went there with Two Thousand Dollars that he had saved and with which he was ready io take a good business chance. HAD HE NOT HAD HIS MONEY AN THE BANK, he would not have been able to take g the business chance that led to his stupendous fortune. John D. § Rockefeller was no different from other fabulously rich men. Their $ Great fortunes were the logical resn It of their FIRST savings. ; Do YOUR banking with US. First National Bank OF LAKELAND | l l Long Lifeof Linen w'ong with good laundry werk it what you are looking for and thiai 18 just what we are givian. Try us. Lakeland Steam Laundry | Phone 130. West Main 8¢, I'MANY HAVE SEEN! The Accumulation ! of a Life Time is a Ruthless Destroyer! rance Policy a Beneficent Restorer! SWEPT AWAY; HAVE[YOU ONE? 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FLORIDA | bave th’ law on ye.’ | They tickled his ribs, which had at. ! forlorn creature with his sharp horl- |« gaw the trunks go!" floated tri- Ougar, 16 pounds i i ey s o 6. oA cesemcicsscomeciimiscomeneisian,an )} I"“M e e St & T mm“"“" stairs o fem- & Gopiglene, 10 pound palls. .. v .m0 e the mule's X-rays. Soon his bone plle | M Gillilly went away, but I'm Cottolens, 4 pound pails. .......camvs . P | ::n;o:::;l:d beneath & couple of u#.n:.;npumaom;‘ Szowdrift, 10-poun] pailt . o . wmeoiemeiieenn..s N £ - i\ rery 3ent the wte uvibl 4 | mm'?.“;:";u‘ ot o"'"'mm, 8 cans family site Cream . .........;cevveveeneee o 4 ! lled up another day's board against| thrust his foot into the crack of the |[§ @ cans baby sise Cream.........;....cmeevevvvimun.. feed. There was a bill against him | story!” excitedly called the fom.|§ Octagon Soap, 8for.. o.........;.ivvvvviimime. o ;| for §7.25 and it was growing larger gflno volce. “Don't you belleve Lin, |i§j Ground Coffee. pu-poul e R 4| every day. The auction was set for | George!” B ] RO two o'clock Saturday afternoon. “I can't hang around outdoors on |} wllows K T ¢ “Colonel Wilson was auctioneer. & nigut like this!” protested Gillilly. “«Crowd up around here, gentle | “Come along with me and I'll prove i men!* he shouted, ‘Now, how much | to you that I know the house!" l G J w ee d e ! I ‘ am 1 offered to start this mule? He's| The blue pajamas wavered, then "gell Jerry just as he stands, fly nets | bread. tea and cream, canned peaches, THB BVANING THLEGRAM, LAK ; OBJECT OF SUSPICION As Gillilly sat huddled on the top B8Y C. G. GRANT. step leading to his house and felt the misty rain against his face he wish- ed he had not been so everlastingly reserved. He wished he had been the traveling man. “I heard a mule | wont to mingle with his fellow men, story while 1 was in that town. especially since coming to the sub- “The city mirshal one day lasti!urbs a few weeks previous to live summer said to Rig Bill McCune fin |These reffeciions were surging front of Hickey's grocery: ‘Bill, if you | through his soul because Gillllly was don't keep that ol' mije o' your'n off | locked out. In addition to this fact, th’ streets of this hyarcomnth. Tl | it was after 12 o'clock, his wife was away on a visit, and he didn't kaow “Big Bill bit of a whacking big | the people next door. chew of tobacco before he drawled | He couldn’t go to a hotel, because out: ‘Well, if you do, Il git chure |there wasn’t a hotel In the suburb. goat. He couldn’t take a train back to town, “That evening Jerry, Big Bill's mule, | because the trains had stopped run- 214 not return to the barn. He passed l:oulid‘e?’ that time. It grew colder ard the night in the viliage pound, a pas- . ture largely infested with v?eedl and | Gillilly felt that he must do some- | ' hemmed round wih a hedge of tall | thing. So, tumbling down his steps, he . burdocks. strode across the wet lawn to the “The next morning Big Bill started | Reighboring house, where he rang the out exploring and,soon found Jerry bell. 5 “Good evening,” said Gillilly to the rolling round contentedly in the weeds, blue pajamas that finally opened the | door. “I'm Mr. Gillilly, and I live next oor. I'm locked out. Would you mind lending me all the door keys you have? Perhaps one of them will fit my door.” The blue pajamas laughed a cold, sarcastic laugh. “You have your nerve,” he said. “Quite likely tbat I'm going to help you break into a neigh- bor’s house on any such yarn as that! I happen to know that the people next door are away visiting!” “I'm just in from Plumville,” said We Won’t Sacrifice Qualm Lt we are always studying how to; Increase The Quantity We give the “most now but we are anxious tc L ve more. Phone us and|prove it. Best Butter, per POREE . ... e ccameres coeenn .. ... tained undue prominence while ram- | bllnx the streets of Plumville in search | ' of julcy grass. “When Big Bill saw Jerry so oon- | | tented he said to himself: ‘Guess | luve the old fellow there for the rest | of the week. I'll be out to Hen Cal lister's, anyway, diggin’ that well.’ “That afternoon Aunt Betty Brown happened to pass the lot where old Jerry was nibbling. The sight of the ° old Jerry. ‘At 26 cents a day, that will | door, make pretty nigh fva dollars aglin th' | 1 gon't blame you,” he sald, “but l'.-l'l'l“M.......-a-.-..-.--......_. -.. end of th' monil.' he sald. | I'm telling you the truth. Here are let- 13 NMHM..--. seeiesimmi@setittican .. 1) Picnic Hams, per ponnd ........... Cudaby's Uscanvassed Hams. . ... . “By the middl» of the rext month ' the marshal anncunced that he would auction oft old Jerry to pay for his ters and cards—" “He may have murdered Mr. Glllilly and taken his papers to help along his I l | | guaranteed not to scare at automo- | slipped on an overcoat and tramped "biles or thrashin’ machines. He's a | across the lawn with Gillilly, In the [ family animal through and through. l porch behind them the owner of the e | Now, what do I hear to start him?* | feminine voice stood watchfuliy. “There came a deep sllence, while | . “I've ot the hatchet, George, if ho Wwwm POPQEQPOILIOBOTOEC IO e a4 does anything to you!" she called. The third key the neighbor lrled turned in the lock of Gillilly's front' door, but the blue pajamas stopped him., “What wood,” he demanded, “is in the dresser in the back bedroom on your second floor. Gillilly s the most unobservant of men, If Mrs. Gillilly should paper the whole instde of the house with pur ple wall paper with vellow polka dots Gillilly would not be likely to notice it “I don't know!” he said. i “There!” cried the blue pajamas, sternly. “I knew you wcro a fake!” | Then, pocketing the key, he strodef away indignantly, “Wait a minute!” Gillilly begzed, “It o won't believe me and let me| into my own house, let me sleep In| | — —your barn.” i “Don't do it, Georze!™ cautloned lho! RUCLRVVOCONVDEOCVOLLODINOO RONOOROGIOOOOOHOC - miniei | STEITZ & LANE. smoke or something and set the gaso. For All hinds of REAL ESTATE] See Us Fur R(lS[I]Al[ &fg; PARK Illlll(ls Jamas firmly. “All I've got to say to Lakeland. Fla several of the farmers tried to lift the gunny sack that concealed Jerry's striking points, “‘Gentlemen,’ eald the colonel, ‘we IF YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDING. SEL MARSHALL & SANDERS The Old Reliable Contractors Who have been building heuses in Lakeland for® years, who never “"FELL DOWN or failed to give satisfaction, 2N classes of buildings contracted for, "he n I res Cences built by this firm are evidgnees of their abiit wa. e good, : MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue mo«wow«rwo‘ PEALT DHOBOPOROBOBOBOPIE O¥0s and all. How much am I bid to start him? “*Twenty-five cents,’ suld old Jack Pemble, “The colonel fiddled around for ten minutes trying to get another bid, but they were not game sports, ‘Twenty. five once, twenty-five twice, twenty. five three times! Are you all done? Sold to Jack Pemble for 25 cents!’ “It you happen to be motoring along the rond five miles from Plumville and gce an old mule standing patiently near a corn crib while half a dozen | children pull themselves up by his ears and slide down over his sides you'll know it's Jack Pemble’s place.” BETWEEN TCWN AND COUNTRY There Is a Vast Amount: of Difference About What Is Considered a “Bite to Eat.” urd T O AT AT A OSBGOSO ENe you {8 to beat it quick before the pa- trol wagon gets here! I'm not going to permit Gillilly’s house to be robbed, even if he is a stuck up dub!” Gillilly slunk away and passed the night in a secluded corner of the sub- | urban railroad station, where only three-quarters of him got wet. At noon the next day he walked into ' the office where he knew he should ; find the owner of the blue pajjamas “How do you do?” he said beaming- Homer Davies' motor car broke down while he was several miles out from Concordia, and the good house wife near whose place the car was stalled insisted upon getting him and the other occupants of the car “a cup of tea and a bite to eat.” Mr. Davies writes: 1 Deen & Bryant Building “We protested against so much trow- | Iy to that nonplused person. “My 20 ble on our behalt, and she protested | name's Gillilly, I'm the stuck-up there wasn't going to be much to it, | dub who lives next door to you. l' g as she said she had nothing much in ' think I owe you a lunch. Besides, ld OSOEIEIIOIPOFQU IGO0 D408 the house, and we believe ghe really | like to impress my countenance upon e SOHDHOERFOPOPO IO meant it. That's the thing that| your memory by way of preparing fur FROSTFRCCF FOR SALE FROsTEReS We own. or have for sale, some ot tue chulcest propertics a icent to the town of Frostproof, including a ‘cw good beai groves. Timber, turpentine and colonization tracts, Also see us ° Takeland strawberry farms, groves and city property. Ohlinger & Alfield | amuses us—‘nothing to eat,’ you know, and inside of twenty minutes the ! whole party of five were seated at a ! well-furnished table, wiia ‘nothing te cat' in the way of hot home-made | ausage, hot potato patties, fine light | future emergencies!"—Chicago Daily News. e lnfluence of the Cinematograph. A striking illustration of the infln. ence of the ubiquitous cinematograph is reported by the United States con- apple butter, and the Lord knows how | stlate at Belgrade, Servia. American much more such truck, enough to call | fashions have recently become very it a banquet for town folks, popular with the young men of “Now we have asked Mr. and Mrs, | that eity, tlcre is an unprecedent. Wiliars to visit us when they come to | €@ demand at the local shops for hats, | town, and we are roing to show them | beuts, and other wearing appare! sim. | what town folks call a ‘licht luncheon.’ | {lac to that In vogve in the United | -arSar e - EER R TY T, Therell be bread sandwiches, cut | States; and the American style of | cater-cornered, with just about enongh | hair cutting has come into favor. | & LAKELAND FLORIDA ham between to make bait for a fish- | These Innovations are unmistakably | GEOSOEOFOELIFGFIHFOIIIO SISO+ ook. There’ll be ancther course on | the vesult of the exhibition of moving small plates with pictures of flowers | piclures of American origin. The ob- around the border, with a little \'ellowl vious moral of 21l this, as the consul | | dab of something on a lettuce lcaf on | Points out, is that the cinematograph I them. Then we'll have a spoonful of | might be used to great advantage in | some sore of frozen stuff, served in| 2dvertising all kinds of American hand-painted dishes, standing on queer | Products. For Instance, pictures of | little legs, and then will follow a few | American agricultural machinery in spoonfuls of coffee, as an excuse to/ OPeration would probably create a | parade our souvenir spoons—the | Ereat demand for the thing itself. This | light luncheon will be over, and our | Plan offers an econonical substitute ! triends will still be hungry. for the actual exhilition of American | “There’s an awful lot of difference | Products in commercial museums and | between ‘a bite to eat’ In the country | the like. and ‘s light luncheon’ in town."—Kan- sas City Star. t DeREE STEAM PRESSING CLLB and MANN PLUMBING CO, Cleaning, Pressing and Alteration. Ladies’ Wcrk a Specialty. ¢ All Work Called For and DCeliverec. Prompt Service. Satisfaction Guaranteed. C. A. MANN € MANAGER N. Kentucky Ave. PHONE 2567 Bowyer Bldg. Putting It Mildly, “Does the gentleman mean to say | that 'm & lar?” shouted Senator-A. | “The gentleman,” replied Senator B, *has too much regard ‘for the cour tesies of the chamber to utter the sen- Lol 2l Lol tat Tal ToT Tal Wae Wat Nel W ueer e Kept 'Em Guessing. “How did Skimmel make his money?™ “He was one of those old- i Subscribe for The Telegram G e w -