The Punta Gorda herald. [volume], September 08, 1922, Image 5

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PINT A GORDA HERALD-. PUNTA OoKDA, .!T.Ortin.
Friday,
i Hili. 1923
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TOWN TOPICS OF A WEEK
The Important Happenings oi Punta Gorda and
Vicinity Brielly Told
H. W. Smith paid a short business
visit to Arcadia. Tuesday.
50c the
I he best boiled ham
pound at Smith's Market
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raint
hf (re Friday and Saturday after-
noon-.
Mood
bank;: a
closing.
being
Labor
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rved it by
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Compete line of all kinds of
at Smith's. Prices are very low
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feeds
adv.
H. C. Col
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peni Thursday
to business in
tyeatrrri
Barlow.
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Try one of tho;
teaks at 15c the
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poll 11;:
ndid chuck
Smith';
adv
Market.
W. L. Koon returned
night, from an extended tour
as and Colorado.
Monday
of Tf x-
m Myrtle Jack of Avon Park,
B nday here visiting her par
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Jack.
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Swift's Premium Hams (whole) 35
cents a pound at Smith's. None bet
ter, you know. adv.
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Colonel C. C. Morgan, Fort Ogden's
lawyer, was transacting business with
the circuit clerk here Tuesday after
noon. Jj: : s!
Color1:! C. A. Walt in ire went to
Oilant'o on a business errand, Wed
nesday rght, intending to return to
day (Friday).
If fcorcetbing to eat is THE QUES
TION see us and we will answer it
satisfactorily. Manhattan Cafe, S. F.
Stephens. Mgr. adv.
MiHS Nell Dinquish, bankercss of
Fort Mytrs, came up Saturday after
noon, and visited her home folk here
till Monday, when she returned to her
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Mr. aid Mrs. D. S. Decker of Rer
moct, and Mrs. Hilda Evans of Flor
adonia, moved to town. Friday, to
give tu.r children the advantages of
our fiplendid high school.
Auto Troubles
Corrected
Don't Worry Bring Your Car
Here Overhauling aud Ite
rutiting i- our Business.
lOspert and Guaranteed Work
oil Any and All Cars. Magnc-
toe Re-charged. Free Air and
Water. Lubricating Oils and
Ford Parts for Sale.
Goff s Garage
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Captain and Mrs. W. H. Johnson
returned Saturday, from Rora
vimius, nucr mey spent two weeks
looking after their interests
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Good grade oi smoked ha rnn 1 in-
ed. for
ket. Try to duolicate tl. m..li j
price elsewhere. a(jv
mis. Tom Daughtrey of
Ogden. spent Sunday here vi
her sister, Mrs. Ennett Adams.
Fori
iting
She
went home Monday morning.
The local hi eh school nnened nrlth
appropriate exercises Monday morn-
Ing, a lull corps of teachers and a
I irge number of pupils being present.
II your appetite is strong, we satis
fy it. If your appetite is weak we
give it strength. A test is what we
Invite - Manhattan Cafe. adv.
Local grocers have discontinued
the Wednesday afternoon holidays.
Other merchants will continue to ob
serve the holiday till the end of the
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Judge William F. Cooper led Mon
day afternoon, for Chicago, where he
Will remain till the middle of next
i month giving attention to his Inter
ests in that city.
.Miss Mary Deale, a very attractive
young lady of Wauehula, returnine
rrom a visit to Useppa, stopped over
here and lunched. Saturday, with
Mrs. Joe Harrison.
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C. R. Crowcll and family, who
have been living here since July of
last year, left in an automobile, Wed
nesday, for Miami, where they pro
pose to make their home.
! Miss Hattie Heusted, after a pleas
ant visit of three days here to her
mother, returned Tuesday, to Dade
City, where she is book-keeper for
I the Florida Cane Syrup Company.
W. Wocaseck, a very amiable and
energetic man who came here from
the mining regions of Montana sev-,
enteen months ago. left Monday af
ternoon, for Tonopah, Nevada, where
he will resume his favorite occupa- j
lion of mining.
nr and M. P.rnvo fnphran :i ml
their grandson, Joe Addison, return
ed Sunday night, from a two-months
tour of the Middle West, during
which they visited friends and reta-!
tlves In Chicago and Williams' Ray,
Wisconsin. Xeedless to say, they i
enjoyed the trip immensely.
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Charlotte county's first sale of
property for delinquent taxes occur-1
red on Monday and consumed but
little time. Owing to the illness of
the accountant who assisted, the re
ceipts have not yet been footed up,
but they are estimated at $1,500.00.
Most of the property was bought in
by the state.
Henry Quednau has bought ol' D.
.1. Meadows the lot opposite The Her
ald office on Taylor street and has
let to W. D. Speck the contract lor
a brick veneer building to be erect
ed thereon, for which materials are
being placed on the ground. The
lot is fiftv-three bv ninety-two feet in I
sUe, and the building will be 63
by 53 feet. Mr. Quednau is the j
local representative of the Standard :
Oil Company, and he will use the
building he is to erect as a tilling
station and warehouse. The location
is one of the best in town.
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We keep service constantly in
mind and that is one of the many
reasons why this bank meets with
so much favor from its patrons
is that it isn't haphazard bus
iness. It is a regular, unchang
ing and consistent feature of all
our dealings with all our customers.
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The Advertiser of Huntington, I
West Virginia, of the 27th tilt., con-1
tains a very interesting illustrated
report of the forty-fourth annual re
union of the Blazer family, which j
was held in the fair grounds of Gal-I
lipolis, Ohio, on August 16th. More
than a hundred members of the fami
ly, were present. The paper speaks'
of them as an "historic old family."
They trace their ancestry back for
four hundred years, two hundred Of
w hich I hey have lived In the United
States. For distinguished services!
in the Revolutionary War, congress!
granted one of them a large tract of!
.land in the Ohio valley. The gran-
tee in this case was a direct paternal
ancestor of Punta Oorda's well I
known citizen, H. B. Blazer.
soi. ana m:vs
i James A. Kellogg returned home
after a two month's sojourn into the!
north and Pittsburg. Flivverlng up
is one way of getting there, but fust
class passage by sea coming back is I
still better, with meals and berth in
cluded. As sir Herbert Spencer has ex
plained: "Everything is divided in1
two objects; the known and the un-
known." Whatever that means? It i
was either one of these objects, how-I
ever, that came bouncing into the;
house occupied by E. I,. Livingston I
last Saturday morning. Fortunately j
it selected the unused room of the
house to show what it could do with
out killing off the family. And w hat j
it did was enough to convince the
brave and fearless that there Is some-1
thing in this unknown quality, II
rained ami it thundered and then
a flash of the unknown; The Liv
ingston house quivered and groaned.
It also lurched and rocked, and more
thunder. When the Livingston fam
ily recovered from the shock of the
"unknown" they looked around for
the dead and wounded. One, two.
three, four! thank heaven we're all
heir! and the cat was perched on
the sewing machine waiting for its
breath to come bark. It was a nar
, row escape all 'round,
j Little Satsuma, surrounded by
'water, wonders what class to enter in
the swlmming-to-shore contest.
Dave Hill has decided to make the
seed bed. It is for one with possi
ble re-adjustments later depend
ing on future developments and
otherwise uncertain conditions down
the bay, which, trustfully speaking,
iis all set for the "ring" and "the
(live happy forever after"--and after.
Witness says: "It does seem Incre
ditable that anyone would live
j through a succession of rainy seasons
i with water ankle deep all around and
mot make some effort toward drain-
age."
Mrs. Ellen Judson Drown enter-
tained the Solatia Improvement Club
Saturday evening at her home, bay
view. The occasion was cordially
damp -to the few members who
walked, "being as" it were high-tide
water from the recent deluge laying
in low spots of the road which foot
steps usually find. Mrs. Mary K.
Rankin read a series of views on
famious artists. Mrs. lirown has a
clever little story, original, "Do Wom
en fear mice?" There was ice cream
and cake With the usual good time.
Sixty-one and a half of that 6fi inch
annual rain fall soaked into neigh
bor's rocks as he passed through the
unditChed roadway on his way to at
tend the meeting of the S. I. Club
Saturday night.
The little touch of autumn has
awakened Utile Miss Field Sparrow
to soni
It appears, from competent author
Rjr, that, botanically speaking, tin
dahlia is an American genus con
fined to Mexico. When the Spani
ards tirst visited Mexico, they found
the dahlia cultivated in the gardens
of the natives. It was first grown in I
Madrid in 1 7S9, and in England :n
1700. About twenty-five years ago
there was organized the American
Dahlia Society, devoted to questions
pertaining
flower. In
to the cultivation of this
the early part of the
nineteenth century horticulturists be:
gan to produce the brilliant vari
ations In form and color of the dah
' Ha which seemed like new creations.
; More new varieties are produced
1 front time to time.
The crate and veneer mills of the
Exchange Supply Co., at Plant City,
began operations this week after
being closed during the summer.
Kmnlovins about four hundred men
nnil women the operation of th
in ills
is a great help to th
interest of riant City.
commercial
Duval county has 12,256 antos,
one to every ten persons; Hills
borough's ratio is one to every eight,
the total number being 11.34C; Dade
county has 10,518 cars and with her
small population each rotirth person
owns an auto.
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I SECOND HAND STORE
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if SAMUEL NAIL
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FOR NATIONAL
BEAUTY HONORS
The Annual National Beauty
Pageant at Atlantic City, N J.. al
ready has two winning entries.
Above is Miss Gertrude Shoemack.
who folks of Harrisburg, Pa., se
lected as their prettiest girl Below
is Miss 1 .in un' Kaskey, who will
represent Toledo, O. These are the
first two entered. All states will be
represented.
Hie Weather
The folowing report of local
weather conditions is furnished by J. j
J. McCann, local V. s. weather obser
ver, for the period beginning August
31st, and ending Sept. 6th, 1!22.
Day Temperature
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fall 0.00
0.35
0.45
0.00
0.00
0.23
0.70
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Low
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71
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Cloudy
Cloudy
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Cloudy
Clear
P. C.
Cloudy ;
Three New Babies
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Joiner,
Saturday, September second, a
daughter; to Mr. anil Mrs. Dave Ern
est, of Cleveland, Monday, the fourth,
a son: to Mr. and Mrs. Ceorge
Knight, Tuesday, the firth, a son.
Pig Roast
The Boy Scouts will give a pig
roasl lor their own and the benefit
of a few invited friends on the water
front parks athletic field this after
noon. Some or the chiggers have six legs
and others have eight, but a leg here
or there makes Utile difference. It
is with their sense ol' direction and
their temporary abode that most peo
ple are concerned.
The Tampa Electric Company has
secured franchise grants from the
counly commissioners which will en-
. able the Tampa plant to carry current
to various cities and towns outside
of Tampa.
One way to help your community
is to see to it that the boys and girls
who have the inclination get to col
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That's the reason we serve the
same customers year after (rear.
Join the ClOWd ami see what
satisfaction means.
EVERYTHING IN GROCERIES
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Lake County Agent DeDusk is for
warding to the pomologica.1 division
of the department of agriculture, at
Washington, D. C. an avocado weigh
ing three pounds and three ounces,
taken from a seedling tree on the
place of C. B. Tread way, on Lake
Eustis, adjoining Tavares. The j
tree is just coming into bearing and j
is heavily laden with fruit. The'
strange part of this giant fruit Is that
the seeds are very small. One peat !
weighing three pounds and eigh
Ounces had a seed weighing but two
ounces.
Barron Collier, the street car sign
advertising magnate who recently
purchased hundreds of thousands of
iacres along the lower west coast and
who is establishing a number of high
Igrade sporting hotels, has decided to
I go ahead with a drainage canal that
i will drain the Big Cypress Swamp and
the western hverglades into the Ol
of Mexico. The lower coast got
j Jute start but it's on its way.
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Put "pep" into your grove by ap
plying fungus to reduce the white-
files that act as robbers by feeding
Upon and reducing the yields from
your money-making crop. Do it now
the rains are here, says Ceo. B. Mer
rill, associate entomologist of the
Slate Plant Hoard.
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Camargue is the Island "wild
Southern France. It lies be-
! west o
tween
j Rhine
the two main arms of the
river and Is twenty-six miles
with a mean width of eleven
i long,
miles
A sea snail fount! along the New
England coast is a living bottle of
indelible ink. very beautiful and
quite durable
any that one
for some
buys.
purposes as
The West Indian crab is born in
the sea, matures in fresh water and
then passes the remainder of its life
on dry land.
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Guaranteed Satisfactory
Gas, Oil, Fonl Parts King Street, Near Marian Ave.
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S. F. J. TRABUE
Real Estate Agent
In Punta Gorda where property Is advancing nd in vestments
safest, I hare Real Estate to Ml and desire to buy for clients.
List your property with me while there Ls a demand. All chusses
of real estate handled bouses, lots, truck lands ami groves. The
long: looked for advance ill realty is here ACT WHILE THE
ACTING is GOOD.
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