The Florida star., 1901-06-28
BITS Of FACT and GOSSIP.
Current Events OF the Present Week
Portrayed In Brief.

Portrayed In Brief.
DIR. ]. NJ. Dixon spent Sunday with his
mother, Mrs. Jane Dixon, at City Point.
Rev. A. @. Sirdefield will hold divine
services next Sunday morning and even
ing at Georgiana. All are invited.
Mrs. Braswell, of New Smyrna, paid
visit this week TO Mr.. and Mrs. S. q.
Vanlandingham, returning home Tues
day.
Judge Jones has called special term
of the circuit court for Dade county TO be
convened at Miami on the 18th of August
next.
Miss Narcissa Coleman, of LAGRANGE,
was among the departures Wednesday.
She goes to Columbia, S. c., to spend the
summer with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adhemar Brady (whose
purchase of the Hall cottage has already
been noted In these columns) are expect
ed to arrive from City Point today.
The second quarterly meeting of the
Nj. l.. church will be held at Melbourne
July 9th and 9TH. Rev. J. g. A. Martin,
presiding elder, will preach Sunday
morning and evening.
Mr.. J. p. Stanton, of Ormond, former
ly agent hsre for the Southern Express
company, arrived Tuesday afternoon to
relieve Mr.. Howard, our present express
agent, for few days.
Mr.. Leon Wilson left Wednesday for
Derby, Conn, where he will be with his
brother Trez in the factory OF the Sterling
Piano company, and will probably re-
main there permanently.
Fred and George Scobie arrived home
Wednesday with the yawl Merle S. from
their extended cruise down the coast,
which carried them as far as Key West
and lasted about two months.
Among the visitors to our town Mon
day and Tuesday We noticed Messrs. +.
5. Coutant and Il. A. Marsh, of Oak Hill,
and Mr.. Erickson, of Daytona, who took
advantage Of the cheap excursion rate to
spend day here.
The West Palm Beach News states that
Mr.. L. NJ. Lett, formerly manager for
Julius Kline, of Titusville, has accepted a
position with John Sewell & Bro. in
their extensive store, corner of Banyan
and Narcissus streets
Mr.. X. Thomas, of ThOmasville, Ga,
brother of Mrs. T.. s. Wiley, arrived
here this week and is inspecting the
Wiley properties in town. We hear that
it is probable that Mrs. Wiley may ac-
company her brother to Georgia to live.
Geo. NJ. Robbins, Esq, of this place,
has just completed the appeal to the su-
preme court of the case of w. II. Hull
VS.. the town of West Palm Beach. The
notice OF appeal, as prepared by Mr..
Robbins, occupies 75 closely typewriter
pages.
Mr.. q. F. Duren has gone to Lithia
Springs, Ga, 10 ascertain if change
from low altitude will not restore his
health, which has run down by too close
attention To business. While he is away
Mr.. Sembler is assisting Mr.. Hinton at
the meat marKet.
The picnic held at this place by the
colored people Monday was largely at
tended, crowd of them coming from
DaytOna. Among the attractions in the
afternoon were bicycle races, in which
two local riders and Daytonaite and a
COcOaite also rode, the visitors winning
the prizes, pair of handle bars and a
bicycle bell.
While returning from Jacksonville
few days ago the yard engine of West
Palm Beach station ran into a herd of
cattle near West Jupiter throwing them
III all directions. 1t was raining very
hard and the engineer was unable TO see
a half dozen car lengths ahead. The en-
gine was running light, having gone
north with MIR. Flager's special car,
which was left at Jacksonville.
Mr.. w. 4. Cook, of Little River, is
now champion grower of celery, on
which he took the prizes at the Dade
county fair. He was for many years
a newspaper man and was the founder of
the Nolusia County Record, of DeIand.
Mr.. Cook has informed the Miami Me-
trOpOlis that his experience with celery
last year just equipped him for raising
that succulent edible, and he expects to
plant largely the coming season. Mr..
Cook is also bringing on a fine orange
grove.