The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-06-04
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
Mcintosh Mention.

special Correspondence Ocaia Banner.
Some Of our people are leaving on
their summer outing.
Major :. G. Means, who has been
spending the winter on his grove, has
returned to his summer home in Spar
tanburg, :. G.
Mrs. Chandler Sampson has gone to
Boston for the summer.
Miss Elma Crawford, OF Dotham,
Ala, is visiting relatives in our city,
accompanied lay her brother, Master
Tom, Alabama's youngest democratic
orator. We wish them a pleasant
visit.
J. J. Bass, one Of our society young
men, has accepted a situation with the
Owl Cigar company, of Quincy. The
girls all say, "Our loss is Quincy's
gain"
Mr.. Billings has returned from a
short visit to Nashville, Tenn.
We are sorry to lose the Misses
Paine from our midst, they having re-
turned TO Benedict at the closing Of
the school,
Mrs. Grace, of Micanopy, visited
relatives and friends in our city the
past week.
Mr.. Babcock, of Reddick, had quite
an unpleasant experience while in
our city the past week. His horse
took fright and ran away, smashing
the buggy and throwing Mr.. Il. out.
No bones broken.
Quite "A delegation of Micanopy's
iair ladies and brave men enlivened
our streets one of last weeks glorious
moonlight evenings. Come again,
kind friends, and we will have music
for you next time.
Some Of our young boys are indulg-
ing in a species of mischief that may
result in serious damage. They have
been tying lines and swapping buggy
whips and robes on lodge nights, and
last week they stretched wire across
the street, causing one of our ladies to
get a severe fall, You had better stop,
boys, before some indignant man
gives you a sound thrashing, or your
fathers have to pay pretty heavily for
your malicious mischief.
The blackberry crop had given
promise of a large yield-at least a
bale to tho acre-prior to the drought,
and the hears Of our people had been
made glad at the thoughts thereof, but
the long dry spell has blighted our
hopes and dire distress threatens our
good folks, and we don't know how to
exc out the summer, unless we move
down to Lowell and help those i'm
mense truckers spend part of their
mighty earnings.
One ofour society young men boasts
of trained horse. A short time since.
while attending services at our pictur-
esque ''little church around the cor
ner," this educated horse got loose.
Some Of the bystanders began condol-
ing with the young man over his long
walk, only to be met with the COM
placent remark, ooh, old George is all
right; he is under his regular hitching
limb in front of -" a certain pie
turesque dwellingl
Tomatoes are going out with rush
now, and next week will be at the
maximum, Our shipments will not
approximate those of few years ago,
when Mcintosh station put off from
twelve to fourteen carloads a day.
Our truckers are diversifying their
crops more and planting such vegeta-
bles as will permit them making a
corn crop. Hog and hominy will be
in evidence here another year, our
farmers having planted the largest
acreage in corn we have ever known,
while the musical call of the hog rises
on the morning and evening air with
all the regularity of the Muezzin's call.
You are right, "Silverite." Farm
eT" should haul down his cred fag;''
but then, you know, you must he to
his faults little blind, for he is lust
hack from South Carolina, where he
attended n marriage. They surely
must have turned the water at the
feast into something stronger than dis
pensary wine, or he would not be so
bellicOse.
That was a wise step taken by our
!. o. G.. T. lodge in electing W. l..
Miller chief templar. We believe in
in pushing the young men to the
front.
With hat in hand and hand on
on heart, we make our profourdest
bow To Content" and trust we shall
always merit her good will.
The old idea was that "a public Of
fee is public trust" but our late
county commissioners seem to have
thought their office was given to them
to further political ends The people
are not in il little bit.
IOCCHSTONE.
Pants made to order at J. j. Fuller's
from - up.