The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-04-15
The chsmbIiss Cattle Sale.

ed Il more perfect day for his second
sale of blcOded cattle
The day was q perfect one. The
distance from the city was just far
enough to make the drive delightful
and the distance, short as it was,
showed the stranger som ething of
what Florida really is.
The hills, one rising gently above
another, the heavy growth of timber,
the rich, black soil, the orange grove
in the distance, the place selected for
the sale, between slOping grassy hills,
under several outrageous live oaks,
the large number that attended, a
part Of whom were ladies, all
cOnspired to make the sale memoir
able one.
The barbecue and burgOO also was
feature that will long be remembered
and was picture as pretty as a May
day picnic.
On the grassy slopes, under the
grateful shade of the trees, was seated
groupes who were served with DIM
ner palatable for any one with an
appetite whether dainty or rapaciOus.
The dinner consisted of splendidly
barbecued beef, mutton and pork,
bread, pickles, cake, pie and burgoO.
Mr.. Charley Ball was chief carver
and those who served were Judge DIS.
Williams, Mr.. L. r. Chazall, Mr.. Geo.
X. Robinson, Mr.. Il. G. ChaInbliss,
and Masters Phil Robinson, Charley
Chazall, John ChazaIl, and a number
of others.
The dinner was certainly enjoyed,
and the opinion was generally ex-
pressed that if Mr.. Chambliss should
at any time decide to go into the
hotel business he will secure repu-
tatiOD for the West Coast of Florida
that will dim the lustre Mr.. Henry
Nj. Flagler has given the East Coast.
Besides the magnificent herd of
ca.tle-bulls and heifers full blood
ed and graded-there We're on exhibit
ton also fine variety of pigs that
w.re pretty enough for parlOr
ornaments.
The exhibitors were Messrs. 5 H.
GAitskill and w. NJ. GIst, of McIn-
tosh; Mr.. H. H. Whitworth, of Ocala
and number from the Enrol Farm
of Plymouth, Fla.
Col. EdmOndsOn was the autjOneer
and is a superb character in his line
and is known from the Pacific to the
Atlantic, but if he had never been
knOwnlhis success "Wednesday would
have made him famous.
Col. Edmondson voiced the semti-
ment of the bystanders when he said
that Mr.. Chambliss was building a
monument to his memory more en-
during and more enrolling than
marble, brass or bronze, and it is be-
lieved that he is blazing path that
will lead to the making of this Sec
ton of Florida veritable Eden.
Why shouldn't it?
With the climate, soil and land
scape, what's to prevent it?
The Ocala Banner is spleased to
hail him as a benefactOr to Central
Florida.
The cattle sold Wednesday were the
finest ever sold in Florida and the
prices were entirely satisfactory.
The following are the names of the
purchasers and their places of resi-
dence:
H. G. Bystra, Holder; Judge HOl-
comb, Arcadia; VIM. Edwards, Hick-
man, Greer & Co., Plymouth; Ed
wards Bros, H. II. Whitworth, H. L.
Anderson, L. P. Miller, Sam A.
Rawls, Ocala; James Sims, Emeralda;
Walter Ray, Leroy; ]. G. Mathews,
Pennington; Garrett Murphy, Brai-
dent6wn; II. A. Barrow, Monticello;
w. NJ. G.st, Mcintosh; H. L. Brown
lee, Starke; J. c. Howell, Anthony;
E. L. Wartmann, Citra; r. f. L.
Turner, Parrish.
There were in all fifty cows sold.