Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 20, 1914, Page 7

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For Sale n Laketand by HENLEY & HERLEY Are You Getting Satisfactory Results with your KODAK Come in and ot us explain the successful way to make good pictures Your summer’s trip will be pleasantly remembered by the use of a good kodak. “The Red Cross| Pharmacy” « The Kodak Store” “ON THE CORNER™ A complete assortment of “Cranes” Stationery fice 109; Res., 57 Green. —— f vou want your Shirts and Collars Laundered the VERY BEST bkelana Steam Laundry Veare better equipped than ever for giving you high Phone 130 ONE 248 BLACK: for Touse Piers, Cement, and all Concrete MATERIAL LAKELAND, FLA- 'THE EVENING TELEGRAM La} FLAND By MILDRED CAROLINE GOOD- RIDGE. “It's a strange world, isn't it?" “Yes, and this is probably one of the strangest corners of it at the pres- ent time."” “Shouldn’t wonder, neighbor. Tak- ing in the sights?” ! “Yes,” nodded Dale Armstrong, and strolled on, deeply interested amid a | babel of bustle and noise. It was just dusk and the picture iwhich young Armstrong surveyed was | one rarely accorded even for the ! world-wide traveler. It was on the old | border line of Indlan Territory, now i known as Oklahoma | Upon the following day a new res- ervation was to be thrown open to ‘,‘ the public. The pre-empters were | present in a mass. A rope fully a ‘ mile in length was supported by | stakes clear across the entrance to the rich valley. So was the other end guarded miles away. Inside this vast enclosure, mounted government guards kept watch that no daring in- | terloper got to the land of promise | ahead of the appointed hour. i That was to be at daybreak. A !flag would drop, the rope would be' lowered and the mad rush for choice locations would begin, mingled in by representatives of probably every na- tion under the sun. Long since the last of this great | mob had left behind them the little | | border town of Brocton, where they had filled the hotels or lived around | in tents and dugouts for the past | month. There had been a traveling ' 'i circus at Brocton and it had reaped | & rich harvest. To this aggregation Armstrong belonged. He had been a great rover in his time, had become {nterested in aeronautics, and, pressed | hard for money, had engaged with the circus people for the season to make an ascent daily in a small gas bals| loon. There were not enough people left in Brocton to fill a row of seats that | afternoon. All the bustle and excite- ment was transferred to the border land. Nearly every resident in the town had a one hundred sixty-acre tract in view. So Armstrong had come to the scene of confusion and about fifteen miles toward the the valley,” explained Nina HER BALLOON TRIP ! thoughtfully. ! gection of land myself. FLA,, AUG. 20, 1914. PAGE SEVEN end ot “He has me landmarks and other points | ; go by in selecting a locatic me favored part of the tract?” inquired Dale. “Yes, because he is sure it will be a place which the railroad will cross, and near a town site. I am sure I can readily find the place, for my friend showed me a map. It is near a grove, a creek and a hill—the only combina- tion of that sort in the reservation.” Nina went on to explain her plan. She was a mountain maid by birth and could run like a deer. Her idea was to start on foot when the signal came. Her old mother and her crip- pled brother could follow leisurely with the wagon. Dale departed from the home- hearted group feeling that he had passed one of the most pleasant hours of his life. He could not get brave, winsome Nina Gordon out of his mind Ha circulated among all the great crowd of land contestants. Then he incidentally learned some facts that sent him straightway back to the old canvas covered wagc “Miss Gordon,” he said quite grave- 1y, “I fear you are too sanguine as to your exclusive knowledge of the pro- posed town site. The information has leaked out and has become general, and a large number of pre-empters | BB SR OOE SR DR BB RBOY %Mayes Grocery Company § A BUSINESS WITHOUT BOOKS™ : WHOLESALE GROCERS elet T S S S e e S e 1] We find that low prices and long time will not go hand in hand. and on May Ist we will instal our new system ot low prices for Strictly Cash. Bl PR @ We have saved the people of Lakeland ¢ and Polk County thousands of dollars in ¢ the past, and our new system will still % reduce the cost of living, and also reduce 2 ¢ our expenses and enable us to put the & knife in still deeper. i i & We carry a full line groceries. feed. = ¢ grain, hay, crate material. and Wilson & # g Toomers' Ideal Fertilizersalwayson hand @ o @ - Mayes Grocery Company : & i 211 West Main St., Lakeland, Fla. ¢ are arranging to make a break for the & favored section.” “Oh, dear! 1 was so hopeful,” sighed Nina, and Dale sat studying her Finally he said: “Miss Gordon, don't think it strange it 1 seem to take a great interest in you and your affairs. In fact, in a measure 1 feel mutually concerned. I have decided to take up a quarter 1 am going to make a strange proposition to you, Miss Gordon. I wish to accompany you in the race for best choice.” “As a modest little 160 acres of a whole town site {8 all I can pick out,” smiled Nina. *“1 shall be only too glad to direct you to the town site.” “Thank you,” responded Dale, “but the prizes may be all seized by swift | er runners, so—" Dale glanced at the mother, who was dozing in the wagon and lowered his volce. As he whispered in Nina's ear she started, her eyes expressed a rare excitement and wonder. “Do you dare?’ he asked. “To trust to your skill—oh, yes!" she declared instantly. *“Oh, the nov- elty of it! What a thought!" “Then do not disturb or alarm your expectancy impelled by curlosity For the most part the majority of the land-hungry crowd had camped on the bare ground. Here and there were tents and horses and wagons. Dale lingered by the side of a covered YOUR TIME PIECE You will find you can have your watch repairing done with the best of satisfaction to yourself. been repaired and you don’t get the satist : ring it to us. We guarantee satisfaction on all repair If your watch action out of “A Pleasure to Show Goods” COLE & HULL welers and Optometrists. Lakeland, Fla. RO L A anald There Floated Up Gracefully In the | Air the Circus Balloon. vehicle with two horses attached. Un der its white canvas roof an old wo man, a young girl and a little boy were eating their lunch The young lady chanced to glance at Dale. Tha look electrified him There was a kindly inviting expres sion in her face She smiled in a friendly fashion “It you are looking for something to eat,” she sald sweetly, “we have plenty and to spare. You gee, wh the race for the land begins in the | morning, we will not care to carry any more stores than we can help” “Thank vou, I am not one of the pre-empters,” explained Dale Wish 1 was, but fore. I cc had an exce so homeli minds me d cozy in there, family circle at hom gsandwiches look only too temp occaslor unique n excellent terms mother by telling her of the plan,” | submitted Dale. “I shall expect you at the circus grounds by six o'clock.” | I shall surely be there,” promised | Nina | Just as at the appointed hour the next morning, the signal was given for the grand rush for land location, there floated up gracefully into the air the circus balloon. There were only two aboard—Nina and Dale It mattered not how a pre-empter reached a location, so that the restric- tions of starting were followed and evidences of first occupation were ap- parent. It was an exhilarating alr ! Journey for Nina. They reached thelr destination far ahead of other con- " testants “We ghall be neighborg—I am 80 " glad, I am so thankful to you for en- abling us to secure this gplendid loca- ! tion!" sald Nina. Neighbors, indeed! then close friends, and then man and wife, and the two farms merged into one, be- came the home of four happy, happy human beings (Copyright, 1014, by W. G Chapman.) CULTIVATION OF COCOA PLANT Original Home I8 in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Etc., and Resembles Black- thorn Bush of United States. Cocoa, from whose leaves cocaine is produced, was known among the In- cas as the “divine plant” long before the western world was thought of in the East, and it played an interesting | part in their lives. The young men of the tribes engaged In athletic con- tests, and among the most coveted re- wards the victors could expecl were little pouchcs filled with certain dry leaves | leaves, or chuspa, as they called it, was a small gourd known as popora, containing lime, the leaves had been carefully plucked from the | | “divinc plant’ w th + served | to make them more pleasing to the | tazte The two substance combined [ form a strength-pr r element of lertui power. oSu 3 of the b ne cocoa leaves believed their | rhur endt bodis ¢ » I n endur horses, wagon and the » vehicle were a that 2 nt world + - - n the >r114 L ito , e eaport In 1912 ; a good many sWwil st exported $300,000 W rth of * ur rece tomorros B vhile Peru, where co- (: manufactured, exports . 4 t I have a definite I $350,000 of that prod ® v exy Nina ( & 1 23 Sr & not be a particular rush 10 = reservation nquired the really s described to me & 8pO who had been over the No Bills to Pay. money on me before we Accompanying the pouch of | ¢ the | & i WM%&@M@%&M%@MW&M @ 3 BB B D A HBEHPDE ; “CONSULT US” g For figures on wiring your house. 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