The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-01-12
PERSONAL.
E Hill spent Sunday at Lake


dale, was in the city Tuesday.
Mr.. w. ii. Thomas, part owner Of
the famous Green grove, is in the city.
Major E. w. Green, who has been
quite sick for some time, is oonvalesc-
ing.
Mr.. Jno. Pasteur now occupies his
fine new residence on North First
street.
Mr.. L. NJ. Sparkman, the oldest
milk man in Ocala, is dangerously Ill
with pneumonia.
Judge Hill issued a marriage certif-
icate Tuesday to Willie Carter and
Miss Henrietta Lewis.
Mrs. Harry Wright, OF Macon, Ga,
is visiting her parents, General
and Mrs. Bullock, at Lake Weir.
Mr.. Win Irvine has rented one of
DIR VIM. Anderson's cottages on South
Second street, and will occupy same.
r. o. Conner, who has been working
for MIR. Hutchings, returned with his
family to Columbus, Ga, this morn
ing.
MIR. Zach Zacharias shipped the
stock of goods contained in the Red
Letter Clothing Store to Jacksonville
to-day.
Mr.. w. e. Galbraith, well known
in Ocala, now resides at Waldo. He
is an express messenger on the F.
c. & P. r. r.
General j. J. Dickson and Colonel
John %. Martin are attending the en-
campment of the Confederate Veter-
ans at Tampa.
Mr.. J. A. McIver has severed his
connection with the Standard mine
No. 2, and will devote mis- attention
to farming at Fantville.
Miss Annie Waldo, who came down
TO attend the New Year Kermiss at
the Montezuna, returned to her Mill
wood home last Saturday.
Bryant Hier, the Insurance man,
went up to Orange Lake yesterday to
shoot ducks. If he killed any he
nevar brought them home.
Mr.. Volney FAINT, the old reliable
farmer and fruit grower of Fantville,
was in the city Tuesday and said
he could not get along without the
Banner.
Messrs. Geo.eL. VanEchop and d. s.
Woodrow have gone for a trip
down Indian River, and will take in
the Royal Ponceana Hotel at Lake
Worth.
MIR. Turner, who came to Ocala
Monday with a car load of horses and
mules from Orlando, left Saturday
for Valdosta, Ga, finding this market
stocked
Mrs. Plumer Pike died this morning
two miles west of the city. She lived
seven years in Florida, coming here
from Ohio. She was sick only four
teen hours.
Mrs. Frank Bugbee left for st. Au-
gustine Tuesday TO attend the grand
opening ball of the Ponce de Leon
hotel. She will be the only Ocala
representative.
Mr.. L. c.. Simms, of Marshville,
was in the city Saturday and did not
forget to autograph for the Banner.
Mr.. s. Is a prosperous farmer of
Marion county.
Miss Ella Mersman, of st. Louis,
who is so pleasantly remembered in
the Brick City, is in Jacksonville, Wis.,
iting Miss Robinson. She will vis,y
Ocala early in February.
DIR. Geo. F. Center, of JacksonvI.e,
committed suicide Sunday at his place
on Cedar Creek, six miles from the
city. Business difficulties and debt
drove him to the rash act.
Miss Sallie Bell Hamlin, of Danville,
Va, who is SO pleasantly remembered
by many of our young folks, is repre-
sented by her mother this winter, who
is visiting Mrs. Jeffie B. Bell.
Myer Crown, the hopeful son of
Nathan, is back from High Springs,
and manipulates things as head
Ocala agent for the Plant System,
over the s. S. o. Il G. r. r.
The venerable DIR. E. c. Hood and
his estimable wife are back from
their Georgia visit. The doctor
has undergone severe spell of
sickness lately and is quite feeble.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. E. Potter, of Will
limantic, Conn.,, accompanied by his
sister, Mrs. Geo. S. MoultOn, of Bos-
ton, arrived Wednesday night to
spend the winter at his grove near the
city.
Mail Route Meeker is quite sick
with grippe. For several days John
Jenkins took his run. Mr.. Meeker
said if the Homosassa mail route is to
be discontinued he, as agent, never
heard of it.
Col. d. G. Wharton Smith, of Dar-
lington, Del, who is largely interest
ed in Florida realty and much of it In
this and neighboring counties, arri-
we'd Saturday and is registered at the
Ocala House.
The Rev. ]. B. Ley, so blessed by
the Ocala Methodists, is not whit
proud because his wife presented him
with another daughter the other day.
We met him on his way to Confer
ence smiling as usual.
A. NJ. Jones, representing the pro-
| urietarv medicine firm of the Begg's
Manufacturing Company, of Chicago,
was in the city yesterday, called on
the Banner and renewed an ad to in
form the public of the excellent quail
ity of their drugs.
Mrs. w. HI. Marsland, the proprie-
tress of the City Hotel, Belleview,