Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 4, 1913, Page 2

¥ P Thé Cost of Living is Uniess You hngw Where to Buy Ll IF YOU KNOW The selection will be the bes The variety unmatched The quality unsurpassed The price the lowest All these you find at our store Just trade with us This settles the question of living L Best Butter, per pound. ...... ... 3 ‘o cwe @ ® ' #ugar, 17 pounds ...... e 1 ‘ Cettolene, 10 pound pails.......... - w3 b Cottolene, 4-pound pails..... ...... s e 108 4 4 pounds Snowdrift Lard. swemsansme = 88 Snowdrift, 10-pound pails....... .. —A 6 cans baby sise Cream. ....... ...+ weowie o1a somen B b 1-8 barrel best Flour ...... et av e rees geosmens B0 : 18 pounds best Flour..... .. R e TS | Dotagon Boap, 8 10T ........o..oo o i w Ground Coffee, per poumE ... ... ..o weonn o o B | E. 6. TWEEDELL Sell your hammer and buy a horn! Enter with- ; out; knocking-=go out; Blow in your horn for i Lakeland, THE town;. Phoenix 'Barber Shop THE shop. { | The PHOENIX BARBER SHOP lis the largest in Polk:County L. E. PEACOCK. “MANAGER PLEASED CUSTOMERS [ ————————————————————GVSSSS_Se L 4 Build up a solid, success- ful institution, which ac- counts for our phenome- nal growth g Your patronage solicited end appreciated ° AMERICAN STATEZBANK ] J. L. SKIPPER P..E, CHUNN President Cashier ¥ c ‘. e T R S —— r\fl LW ‘\.!’ { -, ! y customers ar 3 S LTI - - s will find n f- pow just in tront ( d. over in Van Huss Build COME OVER! 1 wili make it to you interest. Will have an up-to-date . place a: soon as | can straighten up. s THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., D e Great 1 WioE LITTLE WOMAN | | | | | | | | By GEORGE ELMER COBB. “You're not afraid, Lizzie?” “Not a bit of it, father.” “All this talk about maraudin’ bands and the like over in the next town- ship is probably a scare. I'll have mother and the girls back home by ten o'clock. And say, Lizzie, that thing you've set your heart on—an automobile.” “Yes, father,” murmured Lizzie, a | faint little pucker at her lips. “I'm going to look at one up at Norwich tonight. If it's reasonable, 1 may think it over.” 0ld Daniel Bangs drove off in the ricketty family surrey with slow pa- { tHent Dobbin attached. Lizzie waved | her hand after him in a forlorn sort of a way. That word “automobile” had touched a sore spot in Lizzie's heart. There was only one young man in | the district whom Lizzie loved and | an automobile had parted them. Ned | | door. Then she Darrow had been keeping company with her for a year. His folks lived on the next farm one-half a mile dis- tant and he worked in a garage at Norwich. The-charm of Lizzle’s cgm- ' pany brought him home regulfrly every evening. There was a con- stant companionship and consequent happiness. Then the Bellows family did what nearly all the progressive farmers in the district were doing—bought an automobile. And then for three eve- nings Ned did not put in an appear- ance at the Bangs home. A gossipy neighbor dropped in to tell Mrs. Bangs of “the scand'lous doings down at the Bellows farm.” Three after- noons in succession “that young Dar row had come there to take out Miss Olive in the new automobile!” “If it was anybody but Olive Bel- lows!” Lizzie had said to herself re- sentfully, as she recalled that a year previous Ned had been very friendly with the young lady in question. The fourth evening Ned came; to the Bangs home, Mrs. Bangs treated Fired a Shot In the Alr. him rather coldly and Lizzie went up to her room without seeing him, re- | porting a sick headache. The next day when Miss Bellows drove by alone proudly exhibiting her skill as an expert chauffeur, Liz- zle went straight to her father. “We must get an auto, papa,” she insisted. Everybody else is and we don’t want to be back numbers.” Mr. Bangs was indulgent and the result was that several salesmen from the town brought up their ma- chines. Lizzie had several rides. The prices charged staggered the thrifty, careful farmer, however, and no bar gain was consummated. So that evening, left alone to wait for the return of the family from a relative’s, Lizzie had some rather bit- ter reflections. She was really spiteful because Miss Bellows could parade around in a new shiny four- cylinder. She felt resentful towards her lover for a new reason. He had sent her a note chiding her for Qeclining to see him when he called. Ned added a line saying that he would like to make an explanation of some things that his lady love had probably misunderstood. Lizzie would possibly have relent. ed and would have sent for him, but not two hours since the Bellows ma- chine had come whizzing down the road, Miss Olive at the wheel and the perfidious Ned by her side. “I shall never speak to him again!” resoived Lizzie, as her father drove away. There were no lights in the house and losed ar scked the front she ¢ tie sum + h nd t - \ br led to ied herself to s It must have been an hour later when the chug-chug of a machine aroused her. “It's an automobile and it's stop- 1 D . B D I C ipmg here,” she murmured. “They are :} —— 2 \ 2 EC. 4, 1913. g;chlne into the shadow of the trees. dear!” Lizzie shivered as she thought of | the reports from the next township of a band of robbers who had raided’| a score of farmhouses while the occt- | pants were absent. Two men silently and mysteriously ' stole past the gate, glanced up at the : grim, silent house, went around to its side and then the affrighted Lizzie heard a window raised. | “Dh, they are robbers, sure enough!” she gasped. “They have broken into the house. What shall I do?” | A sudden inspiration came to her | mind as she glanced at the automo- bile. She did not believe she could quite run one alone, but she knew a good deal about its construction from ‘ casual observation. | “T can creep under the fence, reach the machine and they can't see me,” she planned. “Then I'll hurry down the road and give the alarm.” i Lizzie reached the stalled machine. She leaped nimbly to its step. For only a moment her hand was busy groping over its mechanism. A little flutter of excitement and satisfaction escaped her lips as she glipped some- thing into her pocket. sped down the shadowy road with fleetness. “Oh, dear! I wish I had gone the other - way—but then the robbers | might have seen me,” she breathed, as at a turn the first window light that showed was in the Darrow farmhouse, | a quarter of a mile away. | | Lizzie halted as she came directly | up to the house. There was a light | in only one room and beyond its open window sat the only occupant of the house. It was Ned, at a table, writ: ing. Lizzie faltered. Then the urgency of the occasion impelled her to ac tion. She ran into the full radius of the bright lamplight streaming out into the garden. “There's robbers at our house and the folks are all away,” she cried out, and Ned was on his feet in an instant. He was outside, a gun in hand, be- fore Lizzie realized it. “Tell me all about it as we hurry back,” he directed, and she thrilled to feel the firm, steady clasp of his hand on her arm as he urged her to the road. Lizzie could never tell afterwards how she blurted out her story or how she acted during that wild run. She jost all her resentment, once again in that dear companionship. “There they are,’ she fluttered, as they came in sight of home and the figures of two men were to be ob- | served moving about the automobile. | The machine was loaded with plunder | they had taken from the house. Ned shouted at them and then fired a shot in the air. That was the last of the robbers. “] don’t see why they didn't make off with the machine,” he remarked. “Why, I had taken away the spark key,” explained Lizzie, producing the article in question. “You wise little woman!” exclaimed | Ned admiringly. “Come back to the ' old loving arms, darling,” he added, | “while I tell you a little story about another automobile.” | And then he entirely satisfied Liz- zie that it was in the line of work necessary and paid for that he had been so much in the company of . Oltve Bellows. The robbers never returned to claim their machine. By right of the | | law of jetsam it became Lizzie's auto- | mobile, and Ned Darrow continued to ! be Lizzie's lover. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) | & | strangers and they havedflwnm! | 'UNABLE TO SEE THE IOKE| Pat’s Witticism Easy to Perceive, but | It Made No Appeal at All to the Doctor. Dosem, an old village quack, (‘oundl the calls and fees did not come tastl‘ enough to please him, so he added an | apothecary shop to his business for | the sale of drugs and medicines, [ He had a great sign painted to at- ! tract the wondering eyes of the vil-| lagers, and the doctor loved to stand | in front of his shop and explain its | beauties to the gaping beholders. | One of these was an IriShman, who | gazed for a while with a comical look, and then exclaimed: “Och! and by the powerd, doctor, if it isn’t fine. But there's something a little bit wanting in it.” A | “And what, pray, is that?” asked the | doctor. | “Why, ye see,” said Pat, “you’'ve got a beautiful sheet of wather here, and not a bit of a bird swimming in " “Aye, yes,” replied the doctor, ' “that’s a good idea. I'll have a couple of swans painted there. Wouldn't they be fine?” “Faith, and I don’t know but they would,” said Pat; “but I'm after think- ing there's another kind of a bird that would be more appropriate, “And what is it?” asked the tor. “Why, I can't exactly think name ji doc- 1, most pe against it." ople do set their faces Strange. “Those are excited letters I have been getting.” “0Odd, when somebody must compose them before they are sent.” | Then Lizzie | Rings Pins Broaches Charms ¢:: LaValiers bourhtrightand sold right CUT GLASS This week we will open up and display the largest line of ¢ut glam . we have ever bought. It is from the best manufacturers and will be sold at a price that will interest you. SCOUTS COMPASS WATCHES (good gift for the boy) Iy ana carefully done and all work guarzntees. Repairing prompt H. C. STEVENS The Lakeland Jeweler A. C. L. Watch Inspector G | AR - OUR TOOLS ARE MADE FOR Hard Service @_‘%’ [ It is the quality of service our tools give that will make them own your friendship. You will do better work with them, with greater ease, and ip less time, It is the quality of work you cap do---the ease with which you cap do it--and the length of time the tool will last that sets its value. Judged by these points, our carpen- ters’ tools are the cheapest you can buy. The steel is the best made. They fit the hands just right. They give you your money’s worth with a good margin. You run no risk in buying tools here for they are all guaranteed. Wilson Hardware Co. Phone TI Oppaosite Depot e An Announcemznt of Direct Intere§ to Builders and Contractors. 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