The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1903-05-09
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our population 10 fast settling down to
the usual summer staging. The follow
ing residents and visitors have left Sea-
breeze within the past week; G.. n.
Gardner and family; W. j. Gamble and
family for Cairo Mich; ID. Il. Arnold,
wife and ron, for New York City and
other points Of interest; Mrs. Nellie Dorr
and daughter for Chicago; Don Martin
Tor New York City; Wesley H-rriek, vie
and baby on O visit to relatives in Yer
mont; Nm. NJ. +. Cameron for Washing
ton. DC; W. l.. Balm and wife for Tai
lula Falls. Gu, and Mrs. Chas. Hesser for
Cincinnati. We speed them along with
good wishes, and hope Ia hav. them
with us again next winter.
The public school bell and flag have at
last arrived. and the bell has been placed
in position. The children enjoyed their
long anticipated basket dinner on the
beech north of the Post Pavilion la t
Thursday.
Assistant Pos master Williams and
vile have set up their household goods
In the Bari wv Gotta e and ntr cordially
mt home to tlrir rienIs .,i r. olII,c hours.
Even the inJnotonouS. routine ct otiice
work cannot din, his smile these days.
Nothing is small or mean wi hen love
mas :ouli n way"
"ie reporter visited Chas A. Bal
lougl's fine Grunge grove the other day.
". ID. Howells, the novelist, says that
genius is another name for hard work.
II 80, Mr.. Ballough il u genius He has
done vast amount of hard work on his
place within the past six months, and
the RESULTS are most encouraging, His
trees are in a vigorous condition, and it
10 not too much to expect n thousand
dollar yield from them next year He
has put in an eight horse power steam
engine and two pumps, and both pumps
are working at high pressure, sending
copious streams OF the living waters to
the thirsty trees. In passing through
the grove we noticed very small grape
fruit tree whose limbs were laden with
huge ripe fruit, n tiny green fruit and a
blossom. Three generations thriving ON
one parent stem Who says that our
uouinaula ia mot ,,ra1uct;v.p
But the grove il not Mr. Ballough' =
only interest mt home. We scared up
two or three Belgian harrs in our rounds.
II SCARED IL the right term to ust,
Tor creatures 80 g-ntlr that they " III not
touch your finger tips with their fussy
noses. Tie has eight of them There il
little pudgy faced dog On he place with
whom they actually fraternis..; also with
the MuscOvy ducks and chickens speak
ing of chickens, he has taken two hun
dred from the Incubator this winter.
using one of his small outhous,.s ~ "a
brooder, and enclosing about an acre al
his grove for their range, he has had
splendid success with tlrm They are
now roaming around in various stages
OF growth, from the fryer to the "N,1'rhy
teenchy" baby who arrived on the scene
of action lew hours irfurr our visit
They named this it'll. stranger .'AcrI.
dent, az it was the result ui "a STOLEN
hest by one Of his uld-faAhioned hens.
not up to the new ways OF propogatng
her kind. Ii was baby chick ted time
before We left ana we had the rare fun al
being in the roundup" 1t WAS beau
titul sight tn sec the hundred mOthcrlrss
darlings marh up the long Inclined walk
and into the brooder.
Ii Ii encouraging to learn hat freaks
are not confined 10 the human family.
among the interesting things Mi bal
Tough had tn relate ri hIs pets was that
OF the black ducks setting 1t seems
that she had laid her own eggs and had
gone To setting ia the regulation way
when one oi thu hens ON the place was
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