Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 9, 1914, Page 6

A Cold Wave Is Liable to Come Any Day How about your supply of fuel? Are you ready for cold weather? If you wait too long to let us have your ctJdey may you regret it E N B BN We sell Tennessee Jellico LUMP COAL for Grates, Cooking, and Heating Stoves at prices that will interest you e ———— WILSON HARDWARE CO. e ——————— BSOSO PO Richelieu Loganberries Jams ‘ Corn Blueberries Jellies ! Beans Blackberries Preserves ! Beets Raspberries Catsups ! Soaps Pineapple Lobsters i Spmach Apricots Salmon | Asparagus Peaches Shrimp i Pumpkin Cherries Tuna fish e Tomatoes Plums Olive oil i : Succotasch Pears Maple syrup & Lima beans Olives Chili sauce ; Pork & Beans Pickles chicken I have the LARGEST Stock of FANCY GROCERIES in Town Call and Inspect. < Yours to Serve and Please D. B. Dickson - Attention! § Some good things in Ladies’ Coat Suits Not the latest Fads, but see the Quality, then listen at the prices, $12.00 to $35.00, to close out at $700t0 5] 2 00 With a little alterations you have a good Suit, Glad to show you. BATES STORL FOFRPCTOFAFOSOPIPOIOPY IPOEOY Prompt Delivery l THE EVENING TALBGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., DEC. 9, | H 3 dows, screen doors and all Lakeland,Dry Cleaning Customers. please Phone 405 Red Cement, Pressed Brick, FLORIDA NATIONALVAULT ©0 || s & We wi'l do tae rest, i. W J WARING —PIANT—_| reinforced Building Blocks of all discrip- ’ 1914. Femeneneneenerenenensss HER SUBTLE STRATEG By GENE MACK. 0O OOOTONOLOLOLONOLONO “Jt's got to stop!” imsisted Pilkins. Mrs. Pilkins maintained her placid- ity and continued sewing. SANITARY PRESSING CLUB | CLEANING, PRESSING. REPAIRING and DYEING. Ladies Work a Specialty. Satisfaction Guaranteed. GIVE US A TRIAL Kibler Hotel Basement. Phone No. 393 WATSON & GILLESPIE, Proprietors F3 [ & [ ] & [ ] & [ & [] & £ 2 n;v-un;onofl “No, it hasn't,” said Mrs. Pilkins, and when Pilkins showed signs of ex- ploding sheo finished, “because it won't!” Bryan’s Spray An Insect Destroyer and Disinfectant For Flies, Mosquitoes, Fleas, Roaches, Ants, and other Insects. «] fail to comprehend you,” her hus- band said, with great indignation. ’PI your daughter is on the point of elop- | ing at the age of seventeen and you | refuse to raise a hand to stop her! You say you won't stop it!” sweetly. “I said I couldn’t stop it! And neither can you nor anybody an unusually exasperating woman This is one of the times! “You are an unnatural mother! Here l “Not at all,” sald Mrs. Pilkins, lel-o!" ‘nometlmes! Direction for use—Spray on porches, kitchen floors and around the sinks, win- Thompkins seven nights a week?” parts of the house. ?’ slon. Prices: Quarts soc., .1-3 * Gallons 8sc., Gallons -1.00 amplified Mrs, Pilkins, Sprayer soc. by g Phlarmacy making a very grave mistake in act- ing as though young Thompkins was the only male creature on earth! If you will take your time and look around a bit you'll find dozens that can give him cards and spades! More- over, you are far too idiotically young to be considering matrimony and will probably ruin your life and have to get a divorce. Kentucky Bldg. Thompkins never will earn over eight dollars a week.” —_— T GC. Williamson, Prop. ‘"' PHONE 405_. | We Give Service and & “This Is One of the Times.” “Well, that would be something like it!” murmured Pilkins, with {inter est. Mrs. Pilkins kept on sewing. “T || ®uppose you fancy Guinevere would: at once be smitten to the soul with: the conviction that papa knows best! ‘Yes,’ she would say, ‘I can see the truth in your wise remarks, father! How can I thank you? When Tommy comes this evening please assist him down the steps quickly!’ “Not at all, my poor deluded hus- band! Your child would set her teeth grimly, turn pale and vow heroically that wild horses would not drag her from Tommy. She will be true to him forever! And then she'd write him a tear-stained note telling of your cruelty and her heroism and ever- lasting devotion! And it you forbade him the house that would merely make it all the more romantic and Instead of 298, OUR SHIELD MOTTO Which is proven by our six years success in Lakeland. Maker of the National Steel lars from an upstairs window to meet him on the corner!” Pilkins groaned and clutched his head. “You may be right, Elmira,” he admitted. “They are that way, now that I consider the matter! How do parents stop their offspring from concrete Burial Vault tions. White Brick, Pier Blocks, 3 nd 4 inch Drain Tile, 6, 7 and 8-ft Fench Post; in fact anything made of Cement. selves, anyhow?” “They don't,” said Mrs, Pilkins. “Did: you ever hear of a parent's circum-- venting a love affair by force? You know you never did! The only hope or chance is that our child will be smitten with an attack of common sense. It does break out occasionally, in fact, for 17 years I've been train- ? | ing Guinevere for just this occasion. | “Inever told you, did I, how I.came g near running away with the grocery & | delivery boy when I was fifteen? It & : LAKE PARKER BOAT HOUSE (JOYLAND PARK) Power Boats and Row Boats $1¢dial Rates to Fiskirg and Picnic Parties Best Service—Reasonable Rutes W. F. MooxEY, Prop. P. O. Box 32 b | Residence Phone 234 Black & | | sounded lovely, and I lived in a dream. @ | outside of which the fears and moans. of protests of my protesting parents < | substantial background. Then some- < | thing inside my head reached out cald, ;;I clammy fingers and smashed all the ‘i'.i romance and I didn't take the fate- ¥| pen in Guinevere's case!” & Soh ! kins, somewhat tremulously. TEEINNRVINIRENGI0e :‘I}..“ Pilkins. “So last week I wrote that school down East and got Guinevere For GOOd Dr) £ accepted. 1 heard from there today. - © She leaves next week! She's excited 51 ov E < over the girls she may meet, and al- ready planning to whose seashore home she'll be invited next summer, so Phone 201-Red or 18 & that she is now forgetting Thompkins at the rate of a mile a minute!” “Thark heavens!" groaned Pilkins, “Why rnder creation- didn't you tell me so before?” 3 ‘Oh, 1 love to hear you talk!” saig = Mrs. Pilkins~Chicago Daily News. “Hasn't 1t?” he added, more mildly. “Elmira,” sald Mr, Pilkins, “you are ii l Pt ”S It you haven't lost your tongue or for- | gotten the English language, do you mean to say you can’t tell Gulnoverel not to see that young whiffet of & ° “Oh, dear no!” said his wife. “And I could tell her the earth was a rub- ber ball and that we had interited $10,- 000,000,000, any of which remarks would make not the slightest lmpren-l “If you want to exercise your vocal cold#s you might try it, William!” “Just take Guinevere aslde and say, ‘Daughter, I want to point out to you that you aré I know men, and thfof l she'd be sliding down the porch pil- making everlasting fools of them-J sounded faintly and made # pleasant | ful step. I hope that's what will hap- “But what if it doesn't?” asked Pi) . “I thought of that” admitted Mrs. ' 37 B. STREA T CONTRACTOR 2ND BUILy [laving had twenty-one years' experience in i, and contracting in Lake_land_and (vicinity, 1 jeel comge to render the best services in this line. If comtem, building, will be pleased to furnish estimates ang ) mation. All work guaranteed. Phone 169. P T i i J. B. STREAp, I ,, b e Be Your Grocen CBNINEDN We handle only fresh, cl; goods and we keep a fullj of Fresh Meats, Including: s | i Nice Steaks, Roasts, Chops, Breakfast i ¥ lims, Brains, Chickens, etc, Vegetables Our Specialty. We Keep Fresh Fruit ; ¥ anything in Can Goods that you may suy inciuding Vegetables, Soups, etc. ..Is & buy your goods where You cam get the mest for the That place is the grocery of 1 E. G. TWEEDEL PHONE 59 Lo N vl | | 1) Save Ten Dollars By having yeur Fall Clothes made to yourINDIVIDUAL ' Measure by us =t = e Bty Suits or Overcoat $ No More | No Less e Soft Hats ._ a:nd Derbie: S — T~ | | __:Large variety of -Shapes and Shad- i - ings, Trimmed with Contrast Bands ‘ — the Season’s latest Conceptions $ $5 Styles e ————————————— $3 Quality ———— _—— ENGLISH WOOLEN MiLl Hatters and Tailors Futch & Gentry Bldg, LAKELAND, FL R. A. BLUMBERG saM B. SCt