The Florida agriculturist., 1889-07-17
LAKE HELEN NEWS.
Newsv Notes and Comments from
the Lake City.

CFrom our Regular Correspondent
Gone at last-Mr. Wright and family
Inquiries are being made for cottages
to rent.
Arthur PeIton is only half ''bach >
he takes his dinners at the Granville.
Mr.. E. T. Johnson is boarding at the
Granville during the absence of his wife
Our people will be glad to know thai
Mr.. and Mrs. Baker are to occupy theil
cottage next winter.
The COWS of one of our aldermen were
clapped in the pound 6. few days ago
They did not stay long.
The name of Col. Schoonmaker's towr
of Cummings, in Pennsylvania, has beer
changed to the more euphOnious one o.
Elmhurst.
President Westlake has called a special
meeting of the council for Monday night
to consider the time of bolding the an
nual election.
Mr.. J. r. Hurst has bought a half in.
terest in the New Smyrna Breeze, in the
interest of his son Albert, who was for q
time connected with our Life.
It is announced that the Gould divorce
case has been settled, Mr.. Gould signing
deed of separation and giving his wife
the mansion at East Saginaw and $3O, ,OOC
in money.
The Millersvllle State Normal School
has closed its summer session, and Mrs.
Westlake al d Gertrude are visiting Mrs.
Westlake's aged mother at Schellsburg,
Bedford county, Pa.
Prof Webster and his son Burchard
have taken thirty five colonies of bees to
Hawks Park, near New Smyrna, to
pasture them, so to speak on the man
grove fields. Bees find poor picking now
on pine land.
A correspondent of Life says that Ed
gar S. Lake and 0. and r. G. Clifford
shot twenty-one alligators in three nights
hunt recently on the lakes near Shep.
pard's place. The largest was ten feet
six inches long, and six feet two inches
in girth.
Seven columns of ''log' in last week
Life-enough to keep an ordinary saw
mill running some time. Was our friend
Coon cabin boy or pirate, or what, in
his early days? He sings the nautical
vocabulary as if he were brought up ON
it. When he talks of ''fying jib, }"
"triple reefed mainsail," etc., we know
he's "been thar"
Take notice, We Lake Helen poets, that
"doth" is of the singular number. You
might as we'll write, "The groves ring
eth," as the "Groves doth ring" do
ring, thou dost ring, he doth ring; wedo
ring, ye or you do ring, thew (or the
groves) do ring. (See "Fair Florida, "
in Life.) "Then dash thy serge along
dark Africa" is little obscure. We are
not sure whether it meaDs Africa Is
serge" coat or his pantaloons.
Mr.. James Mott. in letter to the edi-
tor of Life, speaks of the luxuriant ap-
pearance of the Lake Helen groves, and
says: "The tree prune' had not been
that way often, and that grandest of al
fruit bearing trees was being saved from
that murderous quackery called pruning
trees" Mr.. Mott would have found, had
he examined closely, that the luxurianI
groves are those that haze been pruned-
prudently So and in some cases the
good effects OF pruning are 80 marked
that blind man can see them. The non
pruning theory recently advanced by some
fruit growers was invented to excuse
neglect. 1t is very convenient theory fol
the grove worker, but it contradicts one
of the fundamental principles of fruit
culture recognized the world over. Has
not Mr.. M. little private crank in his
pocket?