Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 5, 1914, Page 2

PAGE'TWO ——— BEFORE Cut Price Men's $1 Shirts for 79¢c J Cut Price Men's $1.50 Shirts $1.19 $2.50 Monroe Hats for.......$1.68 | $3.00 Herald Hats for ....... $2.19 $4 and $5 Stetson Hats for....$2.89 Cut Price on Wool Dress Goods. 1-2 Price on Coat Suits and less. Cut Price on Sweaters. [ L e ettt aal [nventorydALE A Good time to doll up for a small price RO PR zzui)AENZN;):tn{)@uiy*ni'nmmnéumm.u‘u.n‘n‘ @ U G. BATES i | ¢ . s 3 : B3 R Hats going at $2.00 t $1.50 and $5.00. . a2 down in pric s. - e 5 . The Hub The Heme of Now is your tlme' i To Buy an Automobile We have in stock twenty touring cars, with six more touring and six roadsters on side tracks. Ford Touring cars, $610.50; Road- sters, $360.50, delivered anywhere in Polk county. KELAND AUTOMOBILE AND SUPPLY CO. ] st Look At ‘Thzs’ All our $3.00 and $3.50 5 Those Shoes still going that were $3.50, $4.00 Our Spring Styles of Hart Schaffner and Marx Clothing are in and greailly reduced in price. Boys’ Suits and Pants are way Now is your t:me to get Fresh goods very cheap. 20 OPOPQEOTOPOEO T bbb P PR Pdrd S b dd g bbb ISP IIdedd Pddodbdi g " Lakeland, Fla. B Foedral = | 1 | ' \ <8 PP PP PDDDDD G PPIPRRePePODDRRER RS ed -l-l-mm-nww o @ B SRR B B BB DD G el el B & S Bdfedibd bl Bl feoodeoddodededde e S drd B ' bdde B b RRRESBd bbb 5 ‘..Wik JON. { \ LeVAY Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing FeEm TSR \ Telegram 10c a lveek THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK "'":"""'""""":030“!*:‘:fo'ow;:' g.v.:.-..:.:.:v-q,.. -o-b:;.m'q:o'o.\wi (] i THE PEOPLE BACK HOME § 4 TRUTHCRUSHEDTO EARTH 5‘ K] :" s x ,:é By JESSIE FAKTER, :E E:o By FANNY ELLISON. ;;f &‘ 00000000000000000000000’0 “I never use sugar on them,” said the young woman with the gold-brown hair as she dug out a section of grape- fruit daintily. “This is nothing but cornstarch sweetened, anyway,” answered her friend. “I do hope things will be de- cent. I ordered luncheon here in the railroad station so that we need waste no part of our two precious hours hunting a more delectable spot. Har- ry's thoughtful business engagement gives me a chance to hear all about this splendid good fortune of yours and Harry's. I was so glad to hear it. Tell me how it hapuened!” “First, how am I looking?" asked the wife of the new president of the | Firefly Match company. “Very lovely, indeed. Claret colored clothes always did suit you.” “Never a word abeut ‘I always diu; like that suit!” You are a dear!"”| hu;,‘uu her friend. “You saw it last | % But T gave it so little wear. And thv winter I have needed it not at all in California. Th a wonderful trip, dear. So I am weari it back home bravely—comfortable for the first tiino in five yea “It is perfect and I ra 8 ved ahout it last y Dut you know I am a { expecting o «ce some unugual creation | when you telegranh me to meet you | on your to I cwood., That town | is such a dressy place that no one ca: blame you. [ xu ver go back there. | That is the way I golve the problem.” | “ny B Our re ves are no longer | there,” d her guest. “That makes all the difference. I have simply had to go and sce mother and dad once a vear. If it hadn't been for you to talk to each way for two hours I couldn't have lived through it. “You see,” she went on, “we began all wrong. It was partly mother's ! training, but she couldn't help that, coming from the southern home, as she did, and iiving there in Ridgewood. We have always been paying for my dress for Amy's reception or Harry’s tuxedo for the Waltons’ dinner or | that new card FLAND, FLA, FEBRUARY 5, 1914 SOOXRODDDLOXXXI <] “It's queer,” said the little stenog- rapher, “but men haven't the least in- stinct of honor. That is true, at least, 80 far as this office force is concerned. 1 mean the men aren’t truthful!” '~ “Excépting bookkeepers,” supple- mented' the bookkeeper. “Oh, yes, I didn’t include book- keepers—or office boys or clerks. They don't count one way or the other. I had reference to Mr. Gray ard his type. “Mr. Gray had a long-distance tele- phone call from New York today. l' was sitting waiting for him, so I over- | heard what he said. The man at the other end was mad ahout something and Mr. Gray was trying to pacify him. ‘You know, he said to the man in New York, ‘how clerical errors will creep into letters and get overlooked. I'm sorry I didn't read over that let- ter more carefully. TI'll see that it doesn't happen azain!’ i trembling in my | was some big mis- | z a letter. hut up the receiver | aung PO U U ROR SO R UCOTUR PO U Ut SR U UY O ‘That man has a| 1 promised to mect him in New \(1 k last night and I forgot it entirely. But I made him | think it was enly a typographical error in the date T gave him in my letter—so it'l Lo all right for me to meet him next week.”” And he never once thought about his having put the blame for his mistake on my innocent shoulders! “But I'm not the only one. There's poor Mr. Elliot. That man worked nights for two solid weeks getting index system into shape, and when he got it finished he was as proud of it as a peacock. I didn't blame him a bit—for you know what a really good thing that new index system is going to be. “But Mr. Gray, who fully appreci- ates the worth of it, didn't hesitate to tell the president, right in my something. It has been foolish, of course, for in the city we go to so few full dress affairs. A tailored suit and a few dressy blouses could go almost anywhere 1 go, so in the city I feel overdressed in my Ridgewood ward- robe. “The first summer, when we went home, we should have taken a firm stand, but we didn’t. We had done the best we could and were glad that sum- | mer things cost so little. Then came that elaborate dance of the Kings' at the country club. “You remember Richard King? Well, so did Harry! He had come into his uncle’s money and was living up to it. To think of me having to go to that dance looking less prosperous than Ruth King did almost broke Harry's heart. His wedding clothes were stiil perfect, but I couldn't wear mine. “Mother came to the rcscue. She sent me to Mme. Gereau, who made very presence, that he’d had that lit- tle system in mind for some time— and with Elliot’s help he'd got it up! Talked just as though Mr. Elliot had done the rough work under his super- vision, when, in fact, Mr. Elliot was the whole show from beginning to end! Actually it made me angry. “Then today Mr. Gray deliberately told Billy to take a letter down to the printer's and to wait for an an- swer. But when Billy didn't get back until five o’clock and it was time for him to go home Mr. Gray wanted an- other errand run—so what did he do my wedding things, with the tale that I could find nobcdy her equal in the city and had come home for her to make my clothes. So we went to the dance looking wonderful—our status veiled in white chiffon. “The minute we got home and could do so Harry sent mother a check. We all but starved to do it, but he wouldn't iet it go, and he declared that it should never happen again. It didn't. We have managed to go back each year in the style demanded by Ridgewood. [ have simply hated the whole thing. Mcther has always planned far in ad- vance and has always sent us 2 list of functions she expected us to attend bee fore we even knew that Harry could get away. They are so hospitable and I do appreciate—" “It isn't ne so much that,” broke in her cynical friend, “as using you for an excuse to outshine each other in entertaining'!"” “There was that side of it,” ted the guest, laughing. “But you talk as if it were over,” said the friend. “It is. With the death of Mr. Holmes and Harry's electicn to the presidency and the great increase to our fortunes our worries are over. Not the money side of it. that part fairly weli for two years past. It is the reputation of the thing that has finally rescued us. “Mother sent us the home papers announcing Harry's ascendancy. ‘Wealth comes to Ridgewood's son. Harry Willet becomes president and chief stockholder of the Firefly Match company.’ The entire column was fun.. It was more than that—it was en;ahclpation. Then mother wrote us to-come for father's birthday and not mind getting new clethes! “So we started last night on 24 hours’ notice. that he didn't mind if I didn't have a new outfit. ‘Wear any blamed old thing you please,’ he said. ‘They know now we can afford it, so why worry?' And I don't!" —— Warmed-Over Sensation, The professional fire fighter is too frequently face to face with danger to revard fires in an esthetic light, but the of the amateur w a passic g with the ma- admit- chine” occasionaily show an epicur- ean flavor. Wiile r to a fire in a large town in M chiusetts, one citizen overtook another who was going in the same (]1"9(‘“0“ "0 dear!" the last gasped, quite out of breath. “I hope it's not the stove-lining works; I've seen that twice already!"—Youth's Companion. We have been able to stand ! I begged Harry to sayl COVPPPPP F P PP PP PP PR P PP P T PP TP T T T T POV s v v v T TP vev'vo'"vmvvv'o “Had a Long-Distance Telephone Call.” | but say that he had not told Billy to waste all the afternoon at the print- er's, and, therefore, Billy would have to run that other errand before he { left! And poor Billy didn't dare say anything.” “But what's your own specific par-| ticular trouble today that calls forth all these harrowing reminiscences?” asked the bookkeeper. “Well"—the little stenographer smiled in spite of herselt—“since you're so anxious to hear I'll skip the other offenses on my list and pro- ceed to the gravest of the lot. “Here I've been sitting over my | typewriting machine for hours creat- ! img a nice form letter that will make | 3 -‘g VOLLTLEOPL Oty QR UTOREOPOPLYe JL-W’O.Q o our customers sit up and take notice. It hits just the right angie between, politeness and friendliness. It is very l respectful, and yet it doesn't hesitate ' to say in good, clear English that we | know a lot more about our line than ! any one else does—and that we are merely waiting for a chance to impart our knowledge to others. “I'm not ashamed to acknowledge It is the best form letter that has been put together in this office in a long while! “Well, what do you think? Mr. Gray, after examining it—and telling me to send it out to our best custom. | ers—kept a copy on his desk, and | when our publicity specialist came in he handed it to the specialist, saying: ‘What do vou think of this letter I'm | ' getting out? with emphasis on ther T! I'd like to—" “Yes, why don't you punch his head?” sympathized the bookkeeper.— Chicago Daily News. Only Action Has Weight. Every man instinctively feels that all 1the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less M Y dulo lov action. —Louu il l ———_\ _—.——————\ FIRST NATIONAL BAN My examiners always Spy in the highest terms of ;}t o assets and management .. this bank.” 1 Go d T ste is the Keyn of our I'ne of Postcard Folders, el ————— '\lovelms, Pany Decora ations, ete.. For St. Valentine’s Da Bur the v. are inexpensive also The Lakeland Book Sto ’ 'Benford & Steitz BB P PPh PP PP R PRPdddin 20 GOSEPIEPEH44 MESH BAG SALE We are offering our line of Mesh B: at a special price to make room fort Spring lme This offer does not I long- @ “A pleasure to sh w Gooe COLE & HULL Lakeland, F HEOSCHOHOHCIONe: Jewelers and Optometrists Faadd s 2L ST IR TR XS T XTEEEN CLEAN FRES! GROCERIES RN THIS IS WHAT YOU FIND AT MY STORE—ALL THE LOWEST PRICES. WATER FCR A MONTH AFTERWARD, JusT THINK ABOUT IT. MY SAUSAGES WILL MAKE YOUR MOU'] ! RN . P. chxsm’ f Phone 144 " One Moment, Pleast Have yeu been to our; Shoe Sale ? 1 If not,you had better come and be fitte’ We are selling the best Shoes to be ha_ at just what they cost us When up town drop in, be fitted in th best and save money Some great values in Boys’ and Misse: ‘ Shoes. just the thing for School Shoes for Father, Mo her. Sister. Brothe! or any one eise. Lest we forget the Big Shoe Sale not raging at Kimbrough & Rutherfort | SHOE STORE W Opposite City Hall 3 eTme—— V m