The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-03-23
PINE PARAGRAPHS.

Tommy Burlesop sost the mail
pouch near Pine Saturday morning
and was almost to Citra before he
missed it. Mr.. Henry McQuag, of
Fort Mccoy, who was going to Citra
found the. pauch and carried it ON to
Mr.. Burleson. The Burlesons have
| been carrying the mail between Citra
and Eureka for about eight years and
we can speak in the highest praise Of
their faithful services. We, therefore,
, hope that they will have no further
annoyance over the little accident
which resulted harmless to anyone ex-
cept the worry of the contractors.
There seemed to be some misun-
derstanding among a good many of
the citizens here about meeting the
tax assessor. The people have been
in the habit of meeting him at the
school house in the afternoon and 1t
has been the custom of the tax asses
sor to remain here in the neighbor-
hood over night. Therefore a good
many arrived too late the last time as
Mr.. Aver went on to his home that
evening.
Some thoughtless' person has been
most too handy with matches here
abouts, setting the woods on fire
where peoples fences and property
were endangered. And the question is
What motive had they?" 1t is very
evident that the meddlesome one had
no interest whatever where the fire
was set out.
Hon. Ed. Davis and Mr.. w. d.
Thomas were guests at the Stanley
Cottage, West Pine, Saturday. From
here they returned to the Brick City
via Fort Mccoy. 1t is said that Mr..
Davis was on an electioneering tour,
but if so he must have been making
derstand) as he failed to leave any
demonstrations of such business here.
However, Mr.. Davis is highly spoken
of here and in all probability will poll
his share of votes in this part of the
county.
A wild cat sneaked up to the post
Office Sunday evening and stole a fine
goose from the flock of Mrs. Perry.
This was a most daring act of the cat
on account of Several packs of fine
hounds in this neighborhood. The
readers will not the fact that it took
advantage of the Holy day. Watch re-
ports Tor results.
Say, Mr.. Editor, (and also the candi-
dates for Tallahassee jobs might note
this incident) the buzzards killed and
actually ate up a herd of line pigs
for your correspondent the other day
and they tell me out here that the law
protects these birds and there is no
redress. These were very choice pigs.
The mother of them had been we'll
cared for and was in fine shape. When
the pigs were about three days old a
pack of these hungry fowls pitched
onto them and destroyed the entire ilt-
ter-literally ate them alive. What a1e
we to do in these cases? They destroy
hundreds of pigs, lambs, etc., and have
been known here to attack young
calves. These are facts, serious facts
to the man whose hands are roughen-
ed by the constant use of the helve
and whose bones are made to ache
from labors hard licks-whose larder
grows lighter when the pigs go dead
and whose labor gets harder when he
makes his own bread.
Alright, so much for the buzzards.
but tell me if you know about this
law that keeps me from killing them
when they eat my pigs before the pigs
die.
Mr. Badger Brison of the Orange
Spring neighborhood was here Satur-
day, and we learned through him that
Messrs. Sam and Joe Prevatt are
naming from there to Webster, Flor
ida. That's strange old man, Sam
Prevatt, poor man and a big family
has now three large banks of the fin
est variety quality and size of sweet
potatoes. Gle housed seven banks)
ham two-thirds full of cam plenty to
do him. has good health. good water
and plenty to eat and to wear. They
say it's strange that he is selling his
produce and naming this season Of
the year to Webster He's q hard
working peaceable gentleman.
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