The Florida agriculturist., 1882-02-15
LOCAL INTELLIGE ENCE,

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See revised descriptive circular of De
Land, Fla., in another column.
Prayermeeting Wednesday evening at
the school house.
Sabbath.school next Sunday afternoon
at o'clock, J. Y. Parce, Superintend-
ent.
We want a steam laundry and a
bakery.
Many of our citizens attended the fair
at Sanford.
The Palatka & Indian River railroad
want n, 900 ties.
Build your houses on live oak blocks
in preference to pine.
Voting for the. most popular lady and
gentleman at the picnic.
Sixty dwelling houses can be seen from
the cupola of the new church.
Choice beef at Robert Rawlins' store
every Tuesday and Saturday. 1914 If
Mr.. B. F. Finical refused $3,5OO
for his place of 20 acres. last week.
Mr.. W. w Hulings, and Mr.. A. G.
Mum, of Louisville, KY, have arrived.
Teams for passengers to the picnic
will please meet opposite Mr.. Dreka &
Co.'s store at 9 A. NJ.
Col. T. E. G. Brinly attended the Or
ange County Fair and will probably be
at the one in Sumter County.
Mr.. Burke, of Indiana, has pur-
chased two lots on Indiana avenue, one
for his residence and the other for a
store.
The Rev. Farr will preach here next
Sunday at IL A. M. and at 7:30 p. M.
Rev. Lewton will perform service at
8 P. NJ.
Last Wednesday a large number of
young people from this place enjoyed a
very pleasant picnic at Spring Garden
Springs.
A brother and son of our worthy clerk
circuit court, j. w. Dickins, passed
through DeLand last week from Ala
bama, to settle at Enterprise.
The orange trees are putting on the
finest growth we have seen for some
years past and should the weather be
mild promising year may be expected.
Mrs. W. W. Hulings gave an agree
able picnic lunch at her cottage last
Thursday that was much enjoyed by a
number of our citizens who were invited.
Preaching at Beresford Presbyterian
Church on the second and fourth Sun
day in each month. by Rev. Gilbert
Gordon. Prayer meeting every Sunday
evening at O'Clock.
Major Couper and Capt. Cosart, en-
gineers of the Palatka and Indian River
railroad paid US visit last week. The
survey is proceeding we'll and the road
will come into or very near DeLand.
We neglected to announce the arrival
last week of Mr.. Sam. Webb and fans
lily, of New ALBANY, Ind. We learn he
has b, ught twenty acres of land from
Mr.. McConihe, one mile east of town
I. L. Chandler reports his yield of
oranges at IT'S boxes, 144 to the box,
nett per orange q cents. Sixteen eight
year-old buds, fourteen six-year old
buds, making thirty~two trees which
netted over 500 dollars to the tree.
Two trains day will be run on the
st. Johns and Lake Eustis railroad, to
accommodate those who wish to attend
the Sumter County Fair. Half rates
will be charged, or one rate and return
| free
There are large number of visitors
here but there is s5ill accommodation
TO: more. We mention this as people
are deferred from coming here by re-
port that the hotels and boarding houses
| are full.
Winter Park is new town in Orange
County, Fla, 18 miles south of Sanford,
on the South Florida Railroad, with a
frontage of two miles upon three beau
tiful lakes. Winter Homes in the midst
of Orange Groves, for wealthy North
erners is the main idea. For pamphlets
and maps giving particulars as to locac
ton, lakes. railroads, hotels, society,
hunting politics, money making, refer
ences, climate. health, and orange cul-
ture, address (shall have p. o. soon),
Chapman q Chase, Maitland, Orange
q C1untV Elo