Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 11, 1913, Page 2

KELAND, FLA., JUNE 11, 1913. e ———— Hunt For "HUNTS" No Lie on the Can No Lye in the Can Peaches Pears Apricots Cherries Hawaiian Pine APPIS Pure Food Store W.P, Plllans & Co. PHONE 93 Lakeland Paving&ConstructionCo. Artiticial Stone, Brick and Concrete Bullding Material Estimates Cheerfully Furnished on Paving and all Kinds of Artificlal Stone Work 307 West Main Street- Phone 348-Black F.J HOFFMAN ~ J. N. OIS J. P. NEWBECKE Pres. Sec.& Tres. Supt, & Gen, Man. V. Pres. & Asst Mas lumbing For a House Com- plete Only $115.00 Consisting of a complete bath r oom, containing one enameled sav tub, one enameled lavatory complete , one closet complete with oak tan) ‘and seat, ono 18x30 sink in kitchen and 130 gallon range boller with ai SLOWWITHWIDOWS| But Mrs. Crabtree’s Lemon Pies Were Good and She Was Coy. By CARL JENKINS. Ot course Deacon Hartley, widower, knew that there was such a person in the village of Dalton as Mrs. Crab- tree. He knew that she was a widow. He knew that she attended his church. In fact he passed her house at least ten times a week. The Deacon knew things and would not have denied them, but he was going slow on widows. During the eight years he had been a widower four different attempts had been made to lasso him for another trip in the saddle of matrimony—two by widows and two by old maids. The Deacon was a sly old bird of sixty. He was comfortably well off. the days passed peacefully, and he wasn't taking any risks. And the four attacks on him by the four women had made him so suspicious of the sex that if a woman stopped him on the side- walk arnd asked the time of day there seemed to be a hidden motive some where. . The widow Crabtree had never sought to advance herself in the at- tentfon of the Deacon. If he bowed as they encountered each other at the church door she bowed. If he remarked that it was a fine morning she agreed. On one occasion he asked whether old Mrs. Thompson was dead or not, and she had replied that she guessed not, as she had seen her out mending the stable door the afternoon before, It cannot be said that Mrs. Crab- tree was either sixty years old or a sly bird, but she may have. had thoughts and plans. It's just possible that she may have picked up a hint from a remark dropped by a neighbor one day. The Deacon’s name hap pened to come into the conversation, and the neighbor said: “Isn't it queer about the Deacon's appetite?” “How do you mean?"” “Why, he’s a regular fiend for lemon ple. e wants one at every meal.” “You don’t say!" “And that's about all he does want. He's had about three housekeepers a year since his wife died, and has let ! them all go because they couldn't i tore, it possible. { widow Crabtree?” “Thank you, Deacon.” “ never tasted as good.” “You are so kind.” “If 1 could only have such pies every day—yum! yum!"” On the next day Aunt Sally deter- mined to suit the Deacon's taste for lemon pie or break a leg. She went to no less than five of the neighbors for advice, and she was as careful as she would have been with the works of a watch, but when the good man came to sample it he shook his head and said: “There’s a leetle improvement—jest a leetle. 1 could tell it from drled pumpkin, but that's about all!™ “But what can be the matter with it?” asked Aunt Sally in despalr. “'Tain’t lemon pfe.” “But I put in two lemons.” “Guess they crawled out again!® “You know they couldn’t, Deacon. Doctor Sholes says that too many lem- on pies will destroy the stomach.” “But I don’t want but three a day!” “It's so funny that I can’t suit you. You must get a peculiar taste in the mouth jest before your meals. You don’t chaw tobacco, do you?" “You know better.” “You don't eat sorrel?” “Course not.” “Nor pucker your mouth up with green plums?”’ “Humph!” “Well, I see that I may as well com- mit suicide first as last!” she wailed as he left the house. It was down Spruce street againm, and again the widow came to the door. This time she said: “Deacon, 1 just happened to make another lemon pie today.” “Good!" “And if you will step in—" ‘Why, of course.” The ple was devoured and pro nounced even better than the one be- He lingered for a few minutes this time, but their conversa- tion was only friendly. He was bland and the widow was coy, just as should be. It got to be the thing for the Deacon to stop and eat a lemon pie every eve ning, and sometimes he remained for an hour afterwards. This can't be done In a village without gossip By and by, without the principals having heard a whisper, the parson of the Deacon's church called him to the study and said: “Deacon. they say you are courting “Hain't even thought of it, parson.” “But you call there every evening.” “Parson, do vou like lemon ple?” was asked This is the most complete hardwar, store in this community. We supply th needs and requirements of everybody. And we are determined that every cus tomer who enters our store shall be com- pletely satisfied or we refund their money The best thing about us however, is our’ prices. We buy in car load lots--take tht‘: smallest possible profit on each article w : sell-- and depend on our volume of sales:f for what proft we make. We invite yo, to call and inspect our stock and prices, ano I { 1‘, make good lemon pies. Aunt Sally | ‘“Why, yes" ] EJ f mecessary pipes to complete job and pay nspection fees for $116 ! Smith Is there now, but she was tell-| «well, the widder Crabtree makes | ¢ ; f Call and talk it over, Hot and cold water to all fixturea !lng me the other day that she don't!¢he best in the land. That's what I h | expect to stay long. He says her giop for—to eat one of her fresh-baked T \ gl { MAN N PLI | MBI NG ‘ O lemon pies would kill a qog." | lemon pies.” ,ii\ 8 i + | Nothing furfhv‘r wflls sul%:hbu;)'here? The parson leaned back and thought ity o ; was a germ of a big idea. e Deacon for a minute and then said: f _E"'Y?PMKLZOLEJ(LAi‘f _mf‘i“_' »’?7‘ L always went to the postoffice aftersup- | *1¢ T was a widower—" R AN S ST R BRSO AT TN APOPHOIELELOHOFIISHOFIOIE SEOFEOHOFHOLEASIOS0N0Se | POT Sometimes he passed the widow's - «yes 2 . and sometimes he went the other way.| “Anpd I knew a nice widow—" o = = T | She took her chances the afternoon of | “yag?" ! ) F_E b S B the conversation and haked a lemon| “Who could make the best lemon ) % Eé , ple. Mrs. Crabtree had never boasted {n pavis county—" ple w‘_' POSLPOTO O L0 DR AOOSO BP0 ORPODO HOGO M0 i B E B es E ! B @ 7 i g of her skill as a pie-maker, but when | wyagon ; 1 Y vit came to a lemon ple she had af “T'd fall in love with and marry her f /,, twist of ”‘f' wrist that turned them within three months!” out for a king. | “And darn my old hat if 1 don't do | g g )/ At six o'clock on that rummer eve- qg1» ! P r:lm: the Deacon came \}':’Hiinr: down And he d., and at last accounts he | /! i p/ | Spruce street. He had just got up was eating his three lomon pies a day, | | | 5 | from the 'J\hl:& and on that table had and the counle was very happy. | L been lemon pie. Aunt Sally Smith had (Copyright, 1212 by the MeClure ans-i ! done her level best. The Deacon had | paper Svndicate.) 1 cut the pie in halves and lifted half up | St g « in his hand and taken a bite of it and It's No Use. g l " exclaimed: | Miss Inez Milhoiland, the well- 8 . “Take the darn thing offt” | known and charming suffragist, was | & b e “But it's a fine pie, Deacon.” | arguing with an “anti” at a dinner | ! It “It tastes like a raw carrot!™ at the Colony club in New York. f | “Mercy on me!" | “Oh, you are unfair.” she said. “You Y 4 § g‘ “Feed it to the plg!” | turn even our mer rainst us. g /M"-/ 4 _-—.._ = ———— SreR i g i | “Deacon, you must surely have You are like Raln-n-the-Face g e i o i 7 e LTS ; ; 1 L} . :1' eaten green cherrvies end got a bad “Chief Rain-in-the-Face was onee %: 0{5 8 | - (S taste in the mouth I never took such escorting a woman in a canoe across & mo e 8@» 2 % pains with a lemon pie.” | a Canadian lake which the Indians|* e bad 1 & “You never knew how to make one, held in superstitions dread. belleving 3 . ] ! g and you are teo old now to learn. By that if one spok lo crossing the | An El’lleSS Valie"t}’ E { Q Jinks, T wish I knew of a woman with- lake one would {nevitahly be do { Ny £ In a hundred il here that knew stroved by the Great Spirit | A I i B i ) 'é.‘ Kow to fako a )omon-ple=h vea) lam:| - “Well. tho woman: thought -ale "( Of the Best Prands { & z / / :) on pie!" would cur » Indians of this silly | % RS 5 PSR i - - Z= - i ‘ } Avnt Solly etarted to the kitehen superstition. a €0, in the middle of ‘l' s s ¢ ‘ i . and Deacon Hart. | the lake, she sang a scng at the top | § HAMS-=With that rict.. spicy flavor, : kY the toble and | ¥ ks : B TN si4 & & i : e S i A fnki 1w ' - 1 i & 1f you wall “tackle’ our fishing tackle you'll land any fish that & and started for T was overcome BACUN--That streck cf lean and streak of fet l § e : p i ) vidow abtrea With dr nd T e signed t 3 ; E . . ; B G ‘i:: his padilers to paddlo faster e SAUSAGE & --Ncst any kind to yeur liking %; tackles yoer ba't utxlivlL}I!‘S 2 “A,l‘fl‘{"_"‘_"",‘,,f}l_f& and strong; our 1 2 scowl on his face, Men strained e SR e Y KInG ) (NE. . 1 a point opposite they soon landed the canoc on the op-| & | ¥ R y R ' R Sl thie doe e ¥hetts San ; Potted Neats Canned Mec ) R i E ! "Then the woman said to Raindn-| % o1 W e ' . o Deacon” | thel’ : Fickled Neats ! i % \ r the thouslit of hardvare eaters your mind, also let in i “‘There! % RSt — e ——— : that one ex - . ; ! | id ] i ?,‘.‘:‘.‘Efi sl 5 A different Xind for every cay in the n f ‘ the thonohit that our store is the place to buy reliable hardware. i the Great Spirit” g f { “p i ““Tluh’ said Raindnthe-Face scorne o i [E— S T ——— s “I can ent three a day if they are fully. ‘The Gre rit is merciful. 2 i § T, % s ¢ (made right said the Deacon as his He knows a woman can't keep stil & H ’ 2 ‘ L4 » . { { } ) v vt et Y mouth becan to water, & Py 5 ? Tinning and Plumbinga Specialty . |mu vom ovater 0 3 { ¢ 8 ,. The Mode! Hardware Co.: ‘“' B N . on ¢ nee 9 '. 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