Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 26, 1914, Page 8

FBBBdD QREPEEREERRREE PSRRI R ERbb S b areincluded in our large stock of - Beautiful Jewelry We have here everything that womankind could desire and there are many useful articles that men need. If you are looking for the latest novelties at fair prices, see our display first. “"H. C. STEVENS JEWELER LAKELAND, FLA. GLASSES WILL GET BROKEN Occasionally, even with the best of care, you can save the pieces and get your same correction duplicated. Dr. L. C. Hull is in charge of the Optical Department and will be pleased to give you a examination Free of Charge. All Glasses Guaranteed. ! COLE & HULL JEWELERS & OPTOMETRISTS, LAKELAND, FLA. oo 3 & 3 Boifefedededoseafosedodends PR PP PBBDOBPOI DD IRl SR EPPdde “CONSULT US” For figures on wiring your house. We will save you money. Look out for the rainy season. Let us put gutter around your house and protect it from decay. T. L. CARDWELL, Electric and Sheet Metal Contracts Rear Wilson Hdwe Co. L] Phone 233. PHPEEODIPDSEG DIl PBES DB SBDEE % CPRHFHHBIRBDDOG DI MidSummer , SALE THURSDAY MAY 2ist we will cut all our Suits, Pants and Straw Hats down 20 per cent off of our prices. This is for CASH ONLY as we have got to haveljthe money. Hart Shaffner & Marx clothing included in this sale. Thie Hub The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing JOS. LeVAY B dbidddddddeidbibddddg R A RS 2 EL SIS R SR T T T THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA., MAY 26, 1914. CAMP FIRE GIRLS By LOUISE MERRIFIELD. “I don’'t give a continental hang, mother. It's close on to mowing time, and I ain't going to let a lot of girls like that camp out on my place. They’ll be cutting crosslots through the hay flelds after water and vege- tables and all sorts of truck, and I won't have it.” “They’d be lots of company for me, Pa.” Out of the cool buttery Mrs. Tis- dale stepped briskly, with two palls of milk. She put the covers on both, and waited, smiling at the stoop-shoul- dered, stubborn old fellow making his tollet for dinner at the iron sink. “Just tell them what I say, now, mother,” the old man insisted. “I can’t be bothered 'round haying time.” Somebody was whistling down the winding lane that led from the barn to the brook where the cattle trooped to be watered night and morning. She knew it was Ben, and her chin settled into decisive lines. “Pa, I hate to go against you, but right's right, and these girls are will ing to go 'round by the road. I shall tell them they can stay where they are. I guess after thirty-eight years here, I've got some rights, Alonzo, and they’ll buy milk and butter and vegetables steady for two weeks.” Ben stopped dead short when he came around by the woodshed and saw the girls. Perhaps he might have bolted if it hadn't been for the friend- ly, comradely greeting they gave him. He had never seen girls like these. Dressed in khaki skirts, middy blouses, and hair bound in close Indian plaits around their heads, the girls stood smiling at him. “We're going into camp over on your hill,” called one of them. “Is there a spring around the pine grove?” Ben assured them there was a beau- ty. He'd go himself and show it to them. ; “We're Camp Fire Girls. My name is Dorothy Nevins.” The tall, blue- eyed girl held out her hand to him. 211 heard your mother say Ben would show us where things were, 80 you must be Ben. Is it safe bathing in that pond above the dam?” “‘Sate enough it you know where the holes are,” Ben sald. “Keep toward the upper end on your side.” “It's a darling old place,” Dorothy sald, wistfully. ‘“You want to live in a city all your life to really appreciate this. I wish I lived here, part of the year, anyway.” “So do 1" sald Ben before he thought, and then he stared hard at the fire, and felt his cheeks grow warm. Yet he added huskily, “I % | wouldn't mind a bit if you were here.” 3 It was the last day before the camp broke up. Ben was in the pasture of calves that had stayed when he heard the girls calling for help. The cry came from the old mill pond down by the hill. Ben took the short cut to it through the strip of woodland and the boggy meadow beyond. “It's Dorothy,” the girls called, as he neared them. “She was teaching one of us to swim and dive, and we can't find her.” Ben knew where she was The bank shelved into a rock strata at this point, and dipped down into a deep hole filled with treacherous sunken snags and broken old boughs. Every boy and man in the whole town too knew pond and steered clear of it. Along the road came “Pa" Tisdale, leaning way over, and dreaming his day dreams. He heard the girls' cries, and inwardly resented the dis- turbance of the beautiful morning peace, until he turned the bend and saw what had happened. And some- how, sixty odd years dropped right off “Pa's" schoulders then and there., He, too, knew that place in the pond. He had lived there at the old farm as a boy. “Whoa, girls,” he called to the gray mares, and stood up, tugging at his old vest and boots. Leaving the load of sweet-scented, fresh-cut hay stand- ing in the road, he crashed through the underbrush to the brink of the pond, but Ben was swimming in with long overhand strokes, holding Doro- thy's unconscious body over his arm. It was the old man himself who helped him up the bank with his burden, and took the limp little body from him. “The poor little thing,” he said, huskily. “We'll take her right home to Ma.” So it came about that when the lit- tle body of campers was ready to move along, it went without its leader. Up at Maple View she rested, petted and tended by Ma Tisdale for several weeks, with Ben and Pa both vying in showing honors to their guest. Somehow it seemed perfectly natural one splendid moonlight night, out un- der the maples with the whip-poor-will calling over on the edge of the woods, when Ben told his city sweetheart all she meant to him “Dad says he'll ‘sell the old farm it I want to, and move nearer town where mother wants to be, if you will marry me. Will you, Dorothy?” i “Dorothy,” called Ma from the side door. “It's 1. H chilly out there for you { with the dew. You need something around you Dorothy's voice sounded the least bit indistinct, but it might have been only the night air. I have something around me, thanks, Ma.” Ben said nothing at all. (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspa- per Syndicate.) next the woodland hunting a couple’ that black hole in the Tisdale mill | e oe e POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS L s e S FOR REPRESENTATIVE The friends of Mr. Eppes Tuckef‘. Jr., desire to announce hs candi- dacy for the office of representative of Polk county. FOR COUNTY TREASURER 1 announce my candidagy for the office of counmty treasurer, subject to the action of the Democritic pxil- mary. Having been bookkeeper in that office for five years, I am thor- oughly familiar with the work, and refer to any county commissioner or member of the school board concern- ing my efficiency. Being thus emi- nently qualified for the position, 1 respectfully solicit the suppert of the voters, and promise, if elected, to give the same conscentious and pains-taking care to the service of the county in the future as I have dene In the past. EDWARD J. YOUNG. L s e FGR COUNTY TREASURER I announce myself a candidate for county treasurer of Polk county sub- ject to the action of the Democratic primary election June 2, 1914. WERNER G. JONES, Auburndale, Fla. FOR TAX COLLECTOR To the Voters: T hereby announce my zandidacy for the office of Tax Collector of Polk county, subject to the action of the Democratic primary, June 2d. I solicit your vote and support. Respectfully, PHIL. J. LANGFORD. FOR COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD — I'me frienas ot Mr. J. O. Owens, recognizing his valuable services as a memher of the county Board of Piublic Instruction, present his name for reelection to this position from the Third district, and urge the vot. erg to support him. FOR COMMISSIONER. DISTRICT NO. 2 I take this method of announcing to the voters of Polk county that I will be a candidate for the office of county commissiener in and from District No. 2 in the primary of 1914, In making this announcement, I, in a measure at least realize the im- portance attached to the office; that with the board of county commis- sioners rests the duty, among oth- ers, of equalizing the valuation of taxable property of the county, and of the construction and maintaining of roads. fTn this connection I de- sire it understood that I believe in equality in taxation, and that all persons, both rich and poor should alike, bear their share of taxation in proportion to the value of prop- erty owned by them. I also believe that better roads should be built and maintained. If nominated and elected I shall !work to this end. | MARK S. BOWEN. ( 1T0 THE VOTERS OF POLK COUNTY I respectfully announce myself as a candidate for the office of county commissioner of District No. 1, and earnestly solicit the support of the voters throughout the county. If elected, I promise to fi llthe office to the best of my ability to and for all parts of the county, Respectfully, 2457 J. E. LANCASTER. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER To the Democratic voters of Polk county: The many friends of Mr. F. B. Swearingen hereby announce him a candidate for county com- missioner for district No, 2, sub- ject to the primary June 2, 1914. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER The friends of Mr. A. T. Mann nominate him for the office of county commissioner from district No.3, and solicit the support of the voters for Mr. Mann, who has in the past ably discharged the duties of this position. TAX COLLECTOR I announce myself a candidate for Tax Colector of Polk county, sub- 1ject to the action of the Democratic vrimary election June 2. F. M. LANIER. BEDESEE %C. A.Jones C.T. 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We buy, se]] o o change. lWe Auction off anything z Brdefedefrdocdededofeodrd oo g ool B Godeforde Who Are The Brighten--Up Folks? wN They are the people that carry the most complete line of Paints, Var- nishes, Stains, Decorative Materials, Etc., in Lakeland. Call at 213 S. Kentucky Ave, and be convinced Phone 384 G L L L L S L SRR LS L R R R R S R DT R e e 4 W. K. Jackson W. K. McRae 5 § JACKSON & McRAE REAL ESTATE g Large Listing--Always Some Baroains PEEEIRBIIE PP P IIL P DI E DG KIMBROUGH & SKINNER IRRIGATION (0. WATER THE EARTH TO suit conditions. No better irigation in existence, J. W. Ki: brough, of Lakeland, Floridd has the management of the Sts of Florida, Cuba, Bahama Isl nds, Alipines, West Virginia, Nort} Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. AnY one interested in irrigation can obtain information by writing bia or the company. They are now prepared to fill all orders promptl!. Address Kimbrough and Skinner Irrigation Co, LAKELAND, FLORIDA i G g Y 3 & & FPPEDESBdR bbb If you want your Shirts and Collars Laundered the VERY BEST Send them to the Lakelana Steam Laund Weare better equipped than ever for giving 70 class Laundry work, Phone 13 FREPPIPLBEDPIIE Oftice Phone B. H, Belisal® 347 Black Home Phone %2 Why Our Sidewalks Are the Be I\Tnvnirj‘g mixed, Lake Weir Sand. Best Flint Rock and Lehigh Cemer Best Pressed Brick $11.00 Delivered: lakecland Paving& Constructionte ., vement, Sand and Rock For Sale ( 10 315 Main Street . : Lale G. H. Alfiel¢ . Home Phone 39 Blue &