Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 3, 1914, Page 2

e e PAGE TWO (Classitied o2 BDhBgedede FOR SALE PARK HILL LOT3S FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS—AI streets clayed, cement sidewalks, electric lights,! city water, shade trees. See G. C. |pop 1y BEST REAL ESTATE IN- Rogan or S. M. Stepnens. 829 B B S M S Having purchased aud subdivides the Jesse Keen estate of B8O acre one-half mile west of city limits, we are now selling in 10 and 20-aem tracts some of tne finest truck ané farm lands in this section at tha‘ right price and terms. For partien | 1ars gee G. C. Rogan, Room 1 aad 3 |« Deen & Bryant Bldg. Phone 148. [ 2T R R SR 2R SRR LR R LS s a ‘E%W‘MW @ & Adve'rtisir;g PR s o = = X POLICE CALLS { The public is requested to phone all night calls to police after 6 p. im. to Police Department, phone 55. VESTMENT in lots, see or Lakeland, Fla. Tampa suburban write L. J. Sloan, 2641 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Lakeland, Fla., July 10, 1914, All contractors are notified that n and after Oct. 2, 1914, that no Union bricklayers will be allowed to e —————— FOR SALE—Good 4-room house, and lot, 40x135 feet; 12 bearing or- ange trees in yard, in Northeast | Lakeland. Price 1,200. Part cash, | balance $10 per month., Address G. J. W., care Telegram or phone 242 Red. — | | —————————————————— FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-—6-room house and two lots for vacautl property, preferably on South Florida avenue. See A. Biewer, Gilmore Ave. 2016 e i s FOR SALE—One horse, harness, buggy and wagon for $125. Also one horse mower. See me quick. G. P. Quaintance. 2912 —————————— i FOR SALE—One of the best Cadillac autos in the city. Cheap for cash, Cost $2,350; will sell for $1,100, Box 111, Tampa, Fla. 2920 FOR SALE--Ford touring car, first class condition. Price $350. Also small Buick roadster, price B 2036 R. M. Marler. Iave you tried a can of match- less sauer kraut? It's packed in FOR RENT Lakeland. 2918 FOR RENT-—Ten-room house, all modern conveniences, on Gilmore | LOST—Red cow, spotted white, and Bay streets. Rental $30. See rather large. Reward. A. F. A Biewer, Gilmore Ave. 2915 Pickard. Phone 163X 2030 YOR RENT-—Six-room house; all modern improvements; ten min- Lakeand, Fla,, July 29, 1914, utes’ walk of postoffice. Low rent A special meeting th the stock- to gooq tenant. Inquire A. J. Hol- [holders of the Central Construction worthy. Phone 277. 2627 | ¢ FOR RENT-—6-room cottage. Apply |4V office of 1. 2494 [t I 1 Mrs. 8. T. Fletcher. FOR RENT—oune suite in the Ste- phens apsrtment house. Apply to 8. M. Stephens, ofty. 2383 D — | FOR RENT—Modern house, 8ix rooms and bath, screens and shades, block and half north of school on Florida avenue, 1 [§ L Sum- mer rate $17.50. Pillans grocery. —‘)71 a FOR RENT—Three rooms for light housekeeping all con- veniences, 307 S. kla. Ave. 2846 BB + OFFICE ROOMS : : FOR RENT { ‘j In Telegram Building e Coolest and Best Lighted & 3 b 4 in the City :g Running Water in Each Room & Call at TELEGRAM OFFICE MISCELLANEOUS PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER—Work |- done neatly and promptly. Room 200, Drane Bldg. Phone 6 FISH, wood and coal. Also agent for Marvello face preparation. Phone D ——— ——— e LOST—Waltham watch, size 0, sev- |“H. 0. DEN 1667 | work on any job where non-union plasterers are working, nor union plasterers be allowed to work with non-union bricklayers. The union will furnish competent and skilled workmen of each sepa- rate trade to do the work if con- EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA, AUG. 3, 1914, S —————————— e — Qe ! DOLLING LizzE UP O 213 = Do§$S$ O By BEVIS ALTON. _—————— “Say, ma'am, some folks is scan- dalous mean In a town like Haver- sham. Now, there was that Lizzle | Smith that I have in mind. Lizzie was verging on twenty-five and never had | % a beau. You see, she's been a sort of drudge to that cranky old aunt ofl& hers, and when Miss Rogers dled it & was found she’d only left five hundred ‘vg a year to Lizzie and the rest went to an old beau of hers who was a married < man with nine children in Littlefield. 8 “Well, ma'am, Lizzie had got so sub- % dued that she couldn’t perk up even g when she found herself sort of fixed for life. She wore the dowdiest old & clothes, and hats that had been out of < style for 15 years. She boarded with ¢, the Flynn sisters, and you know ¢ they're cranks, too. They didn't en- 2 courage her to spruce herself at all. | Results: At twenty-five Lizzie looks | like a sour old scarecrow that couldn't | get married nohow. “Then Alf Perks comes along. Alf ' O o DO @ 5 only 1 only 5 Hay Come quick if you fu>3ud SOV 2 O Q¥ tractors are unable to furnish the BV &P T Uy o Noyw 12 J. W. DAVIS, Secretary. same. 2820 [ HAVE THREE CARSG for publie service at any and all hours. My machines are Caddilacs and I am therefore fully equipped to give my patrons the best service ob- tainable. Day phone No. 65; night, 313 Black. Fern Rocque- more. 1615 PEARS, PEARS, PEARS—We have them, you want them, $2 per barrel, Orders promptly filled. Address Arnold & Bryant, Box 17, Belleview, Fla. 2928 ‘ompany is hereby called for Aug. 15, 1914, at 9 o'clock a. m., at the Tucker, Sr., in the own of Lakeland, Fla., for the pur- se of receiving the statement of he secretary and treasurer showing Al moneys received and disbursed 1p to date and to transact such oth- T business as may legitimately come efore said meeting, d, W, HICK, President Central Construction Co, 2034 | en-jewel, No. 12145496; Hunting case, gold filled, No. 1416074, Re- turn to J. F. Lamb, land and receive reward. East Lake- Advertising In a Good“ Medium Pays Handsomely. THIS 15 A GOOD MEDIUM 0 2 FOR FRESH FRUITS * 2 CANDIES. CIGARS . AND TOBACCO DON'T FORG Phone 226. Prompt Del. 258 Red. R. 0. Park. 2010 Th T. Sh B WANTED—Colored man or woman |3 ROSE ant KY. STS. p 4 under 50. No experience needed. | Back of Centrat Pharmacy $100 month. Write quick. Box :“: VU!CAN’ZING A-40, Cincinnati, Ohio 2040 | & ™ Nd Inner Tabes. > @ Innes Tubes a Specialty. ¢ ICE CREAM orders delivereq on Sun- | All Wori- Graranteed, day. Prompt delivery. J. M.'& PETE RISWER, Mgr. :3, Ansley. Phone 214 Red. 2470800000 SR BB SOy Fodeddefeiorid LR et Z ungalow of six rooms and " wired, two fine lots, 50x140 each o P I I R S T AL L L] f | The John F. Cox Realty Co. FOR SALE ! ¥ ¥ > Parker The & ! ness way. | where Lizzie was setting, and he didn't | It wasn't & month later when the Argus | 'fj | girl in town. There was to be a voting § | was what Susie Riley had wanted. [ ' | coupons filled out won the prize of a gul travels in drugs. He comes through '} : every year, and last year, because he'd : Sl fooled all the girls around these parts, | <5 @ FQEQEQEGIRERGHEQLGLQT0L and couldn't get anyone to go with him, what does he do but make up to | Lizzie. My, how tickled she was! | They hadn’t got half way to the pic- | 8irl in Haversham! ture show before the word was all | her and no mistake. } over town, ‘Lizzie Smith’s got a beau!’ She’ll leave town, sure,’ says Cy ‘Who? 'Alf Perks!' ‘Never!’ That's | HOIt to me, as we read the announce- ment. ‘Nobody but a hippopotamus oould stand for a thing like that and T it v n e ain’t no opota- T = ittt Mt B I heard the result I screamed. Lizzle, who'd never had a beau, the prettiest The joke was on turned her down. She was going into town, and the tears was just stream- ing.” “Now, you may have heard it sald . that an evil thought turns back to the | person that thinks it. And in this : case the plot proved a boom—boom— i boomerang. Ain't that the thing you ! throw that comes back and hits you? | Well, Lizzie Smith’s silk dress and hat - duly arrived by the new parcel post, | and, being only a woman, if she was a ! scarecrow, she put them on. Miss IGeorglne Flynn told me she thought ! she'd wear out her pler mirror, she | [ | Then Lizzlo took the dress and hat 1 off and put on her old rags and hiked | into town. We had been watching to ' see what she'd do. In she goes to the shop of Miss Peters, the women's out | fitter. She hadn't been gone five minutes, ' carrying a whole raft of parcels, when S oo fgrdocdr oot ¢ AT I EE R RN Bhe Btcod Looking at Hersell | the way 1t goes in places like Haver | sham, as'you may have seen for your- | self, ma’am. _ “Now, it may have been deviltry on | Alf's part, or it may have been kln%-] heartedneld, bocause he kney ps well as anybody that Lizefe couldn't get a |#% beall and was beyond hoping for one. ® down the street with that ill-dressed, | FOR But it took courage for him to walk lhomely creature, all glggles &nd'& blushes, because no mah had ever spoken to her before, except in a busi- AR AR B B o ool Sort of made love to her, ' too, but, of course, that was all fool-I fshness. Anyway, when he come back | six months later, on his return jour | ney, not selling drugs this time, he didn't speak to Lizzle. W E Might have | meant to, but he met Susie Riley, ‘ who'd given him the cold shoulder the time before, and they got so thick to- gether inside of flve minutes that they walked right past the Flynn porch, even raise his ayes. Which, of course, at $10 “Now, I was saying folks are mean. N B B Froegr PP PP EPPPE PR started a competition for the prettiest match, and the one that had the most N Y + silk dress and a picture hat. And some :g::: I B 5 ; , of the young people put their heads |&%% n @ ‘ f ; | together and decided to have Lizzle gé.‘_ & West Side Munn Park & win the prize. 'S @ Justaroundthecorner ' “You see, Lizzle was a sort of re | % 5 Every call appreciated & proach to Haversham with her dowdy ways, and they thought it would teach her a lesson. Everybody knew she was as homely as sin—and yet it wasn't exactly homeliness, but a sort | of disspiritedness. 1 remember once actually thinking her pretty. That was —let me see! Why, now I recall it, that | was when I met Lizzie and Alf Perks | & walking to the picture show together. | “Well, the long and the short of it was, everybody be sending in cou- _ ..o pons naming Lizzie Smith as being the « % prettiest girl in Haversham. Every- body in town almost was in the secret except Lizzie. 1 thought it kind of mean myself, because, if she was a scarecrow, there wasn't no sense rub- bing it in. Maybe some of the girls wanted to get even with her for walk- | ing off with Alf Perks that day. Any- o how, the fact remains that, when the competition came to a close Liazle Smith was voted the prettiest girl in town with 857 votes, Susie Riley, was second, getting only ‘Of course, Susie didn't care. She knew she was the prettiest, and, for = the matter of that, each of the girls in town thought that she herself was ; the prettiest. There might have been some fighting and heart breaking over the matter if it hadn't been arranged |+ to vote Lizsle the prettiest girl. When | & Prices Acco €L Better (. For fu SOOI OISO BOIOHITEOHEO SOBAPIIINETIOBNBOEHIIENE IO S COBOBIIBOL0 oy They certainly look good to several farmers about Lakeland, as we have sold the most of the McCormick Mowers and Rakes ¢ advertised at “'Special Prices. MOWER REPAIRS We Want YOUR Business ! stood looking at herself so long in it.| | of & heap. Pretty? You bet she was. | I'd never seen such a transformation 'in my life. In her silk dress and the | the other things, she looked like a Dixieland Lots BEGINNING JULY 10th 170 DIXIELAND LOTS NO INTEREST--NO TAXES We will give One Lot Free. j1 never come to you again. Saved Look Good to You? 2-horse 4% Foot Cut Mowers 1-horse 3% Foot Cut Mower Rakes. want to get a McCormick Machine at less than wholesale cost. HARDWARE CO. C. E. TODD, Manager GuOFO LGOI B OIOIDIG D CEIREIEREO AP UEORAFONG 10 = e — pdlgsi UG i o - all Haversham was in the shop to find ' cheeks was like rosebuds. out what she'd bought. Some folks: “And I don't know how it happe are 80 snoopy, you know. I asked Miss but suddenly the thought of how 1. Peters. Well, you could have knocked ' Haversham had been to her, and me down with a feather! She'd spent'the folks had tried to hurt her o { five and twenty dollars. She'd bought | over me like a blow. I took Liz underwear and shoes and gloves and face in my hands and I kissed it, | Jabots and hankerchiefs and waists! | “That's all. No, that ain't all, n¢ | Say! I met Lizzie that evening on the 'er. 1 forgot to say that when street. | Perks come through this year he ‘ “‘Why, what's happened, Lizzie Lizzie and he wouldn't go to the s Smith?' I asked her. The shock was , with any girl but her. And the terrific. She was all dolled up like & going to be married next month | actress. | Alf can get a couple of weeks leay “‘Haven't you heard?' she answered. ' absence.” ‘The Argus has voted me the prettiest | (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapme girl in Haversham by a majority of) S e S e 833 votes. My! I never dreamed that ! | I was pretty at all. Did you think me pretty?” she asks, throwing back her | head. | “‘Not 8o as you would remark it,’ I wanted to say, but I didn't. For Lizzle | was standing under the big electric light in front of Hi Taylor's drug store, and the change in her struck me all Family Secrets. A man with an uncanny mania juggling with figures produced pe: and paper and commanded a frien “put down the number of your lis brothers, Multiply by two. Add th Multiply the result by five. Add number of living sisters. Multiply ten. Add the number of dead br ers and sisters. Subtract 150 the result”” It was done. “Now,” he sald with a cum picture hat, and the new gloves, and smile, “the right-hand figure will be number of deaths, the middle fj the number of living sisters, and and her eyes Was | eft-hand figure the number of li stars. queen. All the droopy look to her mouth had gone, shining like two And her prothers.” And it was so. wwwww@g DEDEBEDBSDIDIHO THIRTY DAYS WILL OFFER - Cash and $8 Per Month locks of 10 Lots from $125 to $200 ’ rding to Location | buy now as this opportunity may rther information Call or Phone 72