The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-08-30

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Get your cool drinks at Lanier's il
the new Parker brick,
Bring your COW hides to w. f. Espen
laub. He pays cash for hides.
Mattresses delivered at your station b,
W. ]. odom, Fort Myers, Fla.
1. d, L. Butter, the best in the land
at Espenlaub's always on hand.
Send to WI. odom for moss and
palmetto mattresses Fort Myers.
Several Hundred NURSERY TREES
very cheap. See +. S. Gore.
Pure bred White Leghorn and Whit
Sherwood cockerels for sale. d. c.
Douglass. 32-stpd
S. Rosin returned from his trip north
for goods on Friday night last. The
new goods will be along soon.
Friederitce, the jeweier, at new sb I'd,
is ready for business Call and see ais
fine stock Of jewelry etc, ON the spot
formerly occupied by M. L. Bryan.
Mothers advise us that by the aid of
the guide chart furnished with each
Ladies' Home Journal Pattern they train
their daughters to do their own sewing.
Miss Pearl Pickett is one Of the bright
pupils OF the st. Augustine Blind
Asylum. She is now at home in Ar
cadia spending vacation and is over
whelmed with grief at the death Of her
mother, Mrs. w. A. Brown.
Sheriff Freeman made trip to wau-
chula Monday. He entertained the
wrecked passengers on Tuesdays
passenger train by recounting the bill Of
fare from which he feasted that day at
the Desoto hotel, kept by Mrs. Cason.
The wet weather greatly delays
building operations in DeSoto county
as elsewhere throughout the state.
Hauling lumber from county mills is
practically impossible on account of high
water Whatever can be done is, how
ever, being pushed.
G. S. Hollingsworth, our prosperous
nurseryman, returned Tuesday from a
business trip to Clearwater, St. Peters
burg and Tampa He is much pleased
with Clearwater and says when he gets
able to retire he is going to settle on a
water front over there.
G. S. Hollingsworth, our enterprising
has recently acquired
twenty acre orange grove near TT.
Meade aud spends some little time there,
It is his intention to transplant some of
iis largest nursery trees to this grove
ind thus make it a bearing grove and
,ery valuable right away
We are not sure who had the most
time those people who par
icipated In Monday nights wreck or
hose who waited at the depots south
to take the train that was
eighteen hours late. A number of un-
happy sufferers were at the Arcadia
iepot all night.
r. ]. Youmans came in from Tampa
tuesday. During his absence from AR
,adia he visited Cuba, and saw the Ar
ada folks over there. He says they
ire all fat and prosperous. When he
eft Cuba he had heard nothing of the
evolution, but thinks the Americans
here are in no danger whatever.
On the return from recent trip to
Tampa we were surprised to note that a
arge proportion Of the people travelling
N that train got off at TT. Meade.
,hanges at the depot indicate that the
BUSINESS portion Of 1T. Meade will soon
,e transferred to the land near the depot.
Is everybody knows IT. Meade has
ONE beautiful homes and groves and
hey can occupy that part of the city
While the business portion can be better
near the depot. Fl
aeade, BY the way, altho a little late
GEMS to be on boom Land values
re going up. New people and new
Enterprises are starting up, and we look
Of rival to Wauchula in Polk county