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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-03-30
IN BUSY FLORIDA.
In Field and Garden-Rainbow OF
Promise Everywhere Visible.


Fort Lauderdale, Fla, March "a. -
The prospect for a good crop of veg
etables at Fort Lauderdale is excel
lent Owing to excessive rains many
fields were reset several times, but
the muck lands in this section-com-
posed of vegetable matter largely
can stand more rain with less damage
than other sections. During the sea-
son of 1905 about $4,000 crates of
vegetables were shipped from the Fort
Lauderdale district. OF these $4,000
We're from Colohatche, two and one
half miles north. About 80 per cent
OF the output was tomatoes. Growers
are now engaging pickers and unload
ing crates and baskets. preparing for
busy season, and shipments will go
forward in earnest from now on. APP
I'll ] will see all the growers shipping
About all the growers at Fort Lauder
dale reach the loading station by wat
er on New river, which extends some
five miles inland
j. w. Stranahan has placed a fast
line OF launches on the river and in
company with Mr.. Braddock will OPP
crate regular schedule, leaving the
railway wharf at a. m, daily and
az several other times later carrying
passengers, mail and parcel delivery.
This service will be great conven-
lence to the growers. as well as COM
mission merchants. buyers and visi-
tors.
with the building of the canal from
the head of New river. six miles from
the ocean, to Lake Okeechobee, a
tract of $4,000 acres of vegetable and
cane lands will be opened to settle
ment Fort Lauderdale is already re-
eelving many inquiries for facts as to
values and locations of the new sec
lion. The canal dredges will be
launched in few days and active
work begun near Fort Lauderdale in
Strengthening the present channel of
New river and cutting the new canal,
Inis river has an average depth of
~ l-2 feet. running from the ocean
outside the inlet to a point seven miles
inland as shown by soundings taken
at 90 points, which will permit heavy
oratt steamers to enter the river.
Lantana, Fla, March An. b. Ly-
man OF this place has six acres in
eukes, which are nearly ready to
snip He also has five acres of fine
tomatoes. two acres elephants. one of
peppers and two of pineapples. Mr.,
Lyman states that during December
'ast the rainfall at his place was 16
inches, and for eight days in Feb
ruary 10 inches. The maximum rain
lal Tor past two years was 5 81; the
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-03-30
0cala Furniture Company.
There is Nothing Too Good For You.

That's broad Will
greet buying cheap furniture Now you
should exhobant goods you would
know where than
paying
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-03-30
Smith & Roberts,

WI" tak pleasure in showing lowest
prices Everything in the consistent prices
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-05-24

itor in oskaloosa yesterday looking
after business affairs connected with
his interests here. ...
Miss Ida Allen departed yesterday
for an extended visit with relatives
and friends in st. Paul, Minneapolis,
and Pipestone, Minnesota.
Mrs. Nellie Knight Prater, of Ridge
way, Mo-, is in Oskaloosa visiting at
the home of her mother, Mrs. Knight,
corner C street and B avenue.
Misses Vida Minteer, Irene Funk
and Leelia Mendenhall, who have been
visiting in Oskaloosa, returned last
evening to their homes in Cedar
Dennis Ragen this morning received
advices telling that his father, John
Ragen, of Allegheny, N. Y, was dy.
ing. He will leave this evening for
the east.
Miss Cecyle MillIce, of Lynnville,
who has been visiting with friends in
oskaloosa, was a passenger last even
ing to Cedar, where she is the guest
of friends.
Win Ballinger has returned from
two weeks stay at Excelsior Springs,
Mo. Louis Smith and Bert Walton,
who have also been at Excelsior
Springs, return home Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Hagan last ev-
ening entertained party of twenty
five friends. The evening was most
enjoyably spent, the honors falling to
Mrs. c. F. Hicks and ]. S. Vernon,
while consultations were awarded to
Mrs. Charles Walling and r. L. Black.
ford. Dainty refreshments were
served.
Mrs. Semira Ann Phillips today is
celebrating the eightieth anniversary
of her birthday. Mrs. Phillips came
to Oskaloosa when there were few
even of the pioneers of Oskaloosa
here, and has made her home in o.
kaloosa since. She was Mahaska
county's first school teacher, and in
spite of her many years in this COM
munity, or because of 1t, is today so
years young.
Ernest Abrams,who represented the
Oskaloosa high school at the Iowa
state field meet, took third place in
the shot put, but was disqualified by
the board of control. Abrams was de-
clared by the board to nave thrown
the shot Instead Of having put" it.
This is denied by Leighton Perry, who
also represented Oskaloosa at the
meet, and who declares that Abrams
put" was perfectly fair.
(From Mondays Daily.)
Mrs. Ida Hurst, of New Sharon, was
visitor Saturday with friends in os.
kaloosa.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. Cad Sewers, Of
Hooking, were Sunday visitors with
relatives in oskaloosa.
E. L. Shriner and wife, of Abba, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Rogan
in Oskaloosa yesterday.
Mrs. A. Brosnar, of Centerville, is
visiting in Oskaloosa, the guest Of her
friend, Mrs. o. l. scott.
Miss Bessie Crane, of Council Bluffs,
is visiting in oskaloosa at the home
of her brother, George Crane.
Mrs. Floy Mcclure, of Bussey. is
visiting at the home Of Mrs. S. c. Nc
Clure, on South Market street
Mrs. E. Dudley was passenger this
morning to New Sharon where she will
spend few days with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Williams. of Ed
dyville, were visitors Saturday in os'
kaloosa at the w. P. Snow home.
Mrs. Chriswell, Of Eddyyille, yester.
day visited in Oskaloosa, guest at
the home of her son, H. D. Chriswell
Miss Anna Corcoran, now Of Des
Moines, was a Sunday visitor in os-
kaloosa with her mother and many
friends.
Miss Eva Brown, who has been Wis
ting her friena. Ass Editu Wilson,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-05-24

morning to her home in Fremont, af.
ter pleasant visit in Oskaloosa with
| friends.
Mrs. Ida Thomas returned to her
home in Fremont this morning after
pleasant visit with Oskaloosa
friends.
Mrs. A. Jones, who has been visit.
ing her friend, Mrs. Ed Murray, re-
turned today to her home in Des
Moines. ...... ...
Ottumwa Courier: Miss Minnie
Stinson has gone to Oskaloosa, where
she will visit her sister, Mrs. Charles
r. Boyer.
Miss Maude Ellis, who has been Wis
iting Miss Grace Ellis in Oskaloosa,
returned this morning to her home at
Fremont.
Mrs. Matte Benbow, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. w. C. Warner,
returned this morning to her home at
Knoxville.
Little Olive Shockley, of Grinnell,
is visiting in Oskaloosa at the home
of her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. C.
Wingfeld.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ritter, who have
been visiting their son, Phil Ritter,
returned this morning to their home
at Hedrick. ..
Mrs. ]. w. McMullin and Mrs. N. w.
Pond returned this morning from
Grinnell, where they have been visit
ing friends.
Captain w. H. Heating returned
this morning from Des Moines, where
he yesterday attended the Presbyter.
ian Assembly.
Mrs. o. H. Smith, who has been Wis.
iting with her sister, Mrs. l. Nichols,
returned this morning to her home at
Morning Sun.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ. Swisher, who
have been guests of auditor and Mrs,
John w. Doak, returned this morning
to their home at Brighton.
Mrs. C. L. Wilson, of Ottumwa, ar.
rives this evening and will visit for
several days In 0skaloosa at the hona
of her brother, Dave Newbrand.
F. H. Kramer, conductor on the run
between Evans and Rock Island dur.
ing Conductor Davenport's vacation,
has returned to hS home in ElHon.
Bert Walton a11 Louis Smith, who
have been sperd1Ig few weeks at
Excelsior Springs, Mo-, returned this
morning to their businesses here.
Mrs.H.Schook, who has been spend.
ing several days in Oskaloosa with
her sister, Mrs. James Erwin returned
this morning to her home at Swan.
Miss Beulah Drinkle was a Sun.
day visitor with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. T. Drinkle, returning this
morning to her school duties at Pella,
Rev. A.Corkey was a passenger this
morning to Winfield, where he was
called to deliver an address before q
body of ministerial graduates of the
NJ. E. church.
Mrs. T. w. Jones, of Lyons, and her
friend, Miss Martha Wilson, Of Lynch
burg, Va, who have been visiting Mrs
Jones' son, Rev. John William Jones
returned this morning to Lyons.
Conductor Lew Davenport. who has
been spending vacation Of a couple
Of weeks in Colorado. has returned &c
his duties on 40 and so between Os
kaloosa and Rock Island. He is
much bettered by his rest.
Rev. Judson Reynolds, of Los An
geles, who was called to Oskaloosa by
the marriage Of his sister, Miss Mae
Reynolds, to Mr.. Charles McIlvaine
left this morning for Oak Park, Ill.
going from there on to Toledo, Ohio
where his own nuptials will be cele
brated In early June.
Prof. Douglas has retired from the
4 - A. q
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-05-24

Prof. Douglas has retired from the
superintendency of the Montezuma
schools and has accepted like posi-
ton at Woodstock. Ills.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-08

should rely upon auto suggestion. not
speaking, to reform Maynard children.
Auto suggestion will do very we'll for
aenemic children, but for healthy
Texas brats hickory switch in the
hands of the strong parent is indis-
pensable.-Houston Post.
There are some citizens in Grand
Forks who would rather have advo-
Gated taking some peoples children out
IN the back yard and lamming them
with whiffle tree about Halloween
time-Ed.
Mrs. Charles Hinzie and Mrs. John
GlenOker will entertain tomorrow af-
ternoon at the residence of Mrs. Hinzie
in the Dlnnie apartments.
Miss Inez Wilder will entertain the
mothers of the members of her kinder
garten class on Saturday afternoon.
A girdle of cameo pink accompa-
MES lowered gown, the crossed fichu
is h"'1 At the upper edge of the girdle
~ two pink rosettes and an old-fash-
Toned cameo brooch is fastened in the
lace OF the corsage. There is that
quaint, old-time look about the, whole
that is so attractive with certain faces,
though the gown Is in the very latest
mode.
Word comes from Conway that Mrs.
M. Howe has been quite ill this week.
but at last reports was little better.
More than one weary being has been
cheered and gladdened by merely look
ing at a sunny countenance, and sent
upon his way happier for a young
girls smile. says Gabrielle Jackson in
the "Delineator." Isn't that an incen-
tive to cultivating pleasant express
sion instead Of frown that comes so
readily?
Lovers of the light fantastic look
forward with pleasure to Friday eve
ming the date of the Elks' Chrysan-
themum Party" The ARRANGEMENTS
are complete to make this the most
pleasurable party given yet, and so
many have responded their intention
of attending, that there will without
doubt be good gathering of society
folk. The decorations will be Of
chrysanthemums and green of which
a goodly quantity has been ordered.
Though many black evening gowns
are highly ornate, simple one of very
good style has no relief from the SOM
Der tone but a narrow band of gilt
tering spangles, trimmed around all
edges of the bolero.
49,
Alberta Gallatin the actress who
appeared at the Metropolitan last
evening is charming southern wo-
man, native Of Virginia. Ye edi-
tor had the pleasure of meeting her a
few years ago in the south when she
was scoring such triumph In Ibsen's
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-08
Mrs. j. Henry and Mrs. Howes If
Larimore are the guests of Mrs. I n
Mcllwain this week ~ III

Mrs. j. Henry and Mrs. Howes of
i.arlmore are the guests of Mrs ~
Mcllwafn this week.
one full white octrich feather start.
ing at the right side of the crown
crosses and falls over the hair at the
ie,t OF turban Of Persian lamb worn
win a PERSIAN jacket. The Jacket ia
guite plain also, the only decoration
,oeing SIX handsome buttons and a
buckle, and the effect of the hat and
Jacket Is at one simple and elegant
Friends and neighbors of Mr.. and
MRS: William Miller, who live in the
Skidmore addition, to the number of
thirty-fve couples, gathered at their
nome last evening and gave them a
nearly surprise, as sort of farewell.
as they are leaving that neighborhooi
LOT new home on Sheyenne avenue.
delicious refreshments were carried.
ana dancing and music made the eve
nlne pass quickly. Mr.. and Mrs. Mil
Ter were presented with a handsome
water set.
Gifts displaying the handiwork of
the giver are always most acceptable
ana the pleasure in fashioning the
DAINTY articles endear them, and so
the recipient, to the worker. The field
or the craftswoman is no longer con-
nned to embroidery and other reforms
or needlework, but is broadening every
nay, now including such varied occu-
pations as stenciling. oil and china
painting. wood burning and engraving,
fooled leather and bent iron work.
Surely she who would make her gifts
with her own hands has ample field.
-
One of the prettiest and most artis-
TIC functions given this season was
the luncheon by Mrs. E. w. Eisenhard
on wednesday. Covers were laid for
twenty-five guests and a four-course
luncheon served at one O'Clock on
beautifully decorated tables. The dec
orations were all carried out in a pur-
pie, yellow and green scheme. In the
rooms. yellow chrysanthemums, green
smtlaX and purple bunting were used
with artistic success. The place cards
were dainty little hand decorated af-
fairs. in pansies> and the score cards
were pretty little "sunbonnet girls"
making delightful little souvenirs,
for they were the work of the
fair hands of the hostess her
self. The afternoon was spent at five
hundred and prizes awarded to Mrs.
John Shelby and Mrs Rand Smith. Mrs.
Etsenhard was assisted by Mesdames
Frank Carnathan and Charles Hinzie.
~
Very little food satisfies the Bedouin
Arabs. Six or seven dates, soaked in
melted butter, serve a man a whole
day. with very small quantity of
coarse -four or little ball of boiled
rice.
No Auto Suggestion In Grand Forks.
A new York woman says parents
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-08
THE EVENING TIMES. GRAND FORKS n. D.

Ghosts" which acquaintance we were
glad to renew last evening. The
south adores Miss Gallatin and where
ever she appears south of the Mason
and Dixon line she is feted and ap-
plauded. She comes of one of the most
aristocratic old Virginia families, her
father was General Gallatin Jenkins,
a federal general during the civil war,
and when Miss Gallatin evinced de-
sire In her youth to go on the stage.
such a furore was raised in her own
family that she has never appeared
IN her own name but took the Chris
tian name Of her father "Gallatin" and
has always been known in her stage
career as Alberta Gallatin. She is an
honorary member Of the Daughters of
the Confederacy. and when she APP
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-08

S'o' PuASudocu SOme years ago the
dupont circle home built by the late
James G. Blaine, but have taken little
active part in Washington society in
recent years.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth has &C.
complished the seeming impossible in
onio-she has made politics fashion,
able.
Princess Alice" social butterfly
whose cratic travelling flights kept
society guessing, has disappeared. In
her place the people of Ohio have dis
covered Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wo-
man politician.
Mrs. 1.ongworth is ambitious; she
also is imperious, and likewise anx-
lous to retain her place as public
parsonage. From Representatives,
senator Is but one step, from senator
10 president. not mpossible-and there
IS always the governorship of Ohio
en- the Side for live man able to win
the voters of the Buckeye state.
And that is the real reason for the
sudden outpouring of society at the
mass meetings in and about Cincinnati.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth has made
politics fashionable fad. Never has
the republican party had such a time
IN political campaign. Men, women
and children flock to street meetings
and crowd public halls where the q
y. +. spellbinders hold forth. To hear
the speeches? Not by any means
Mrs. Longworth's dresses, her smiles
and her wonderful hats are the mag
nets that draw the women, who ,]raw
the men.
It's campaign of clothes Chiffon
broadcloth and the new shade of wood.
brown that Mrs. Longworth affects this
autumn are the only live issues It's
boon to the tired speaker and worn
out candidates and the restless people
The daughter of the nation and the
stepdaughter of the Queen City has
only to appear on stage or platform
When the red fire begins to sizzle
prominent citizens fade away into me-
pulous nothingness. Candidates siile
out the stage door to moisten their
parched threats. and the masses never
mss hem-they are breathlessly de-
Datlng the question: Is she as pretty
as ner pictures in the newspapers?
democratic to degree undreamed
OF Dy other women who have en-
deavored to help their husbands win
votes, Mrs. Longworth does not shirk
the smallest detail of clever poli-
tician's duty. She stands in line for
hours at time shaking hands with
people whom she has never seen before
some of them untiiy and unkempt.
But every man has vote and it is
her business to see that it is cast for
Nicholas Longworth.
Society-at least that part of society
that will not attend mass meetings
and whoop 'er up for "our esteemed
fellow CITIZEN" is being ignored by
Mrs. Longworth. What's a tea fight
to a real, live, red-hot campaign?
Society will send Alice Roosevelt inyi-
tations every day in the week, but
campaign with ones husband as can
d1date and stump speaker is an ex-
perience to be grasped.-Cincinnat
correspondence in Chicago Record
Herald.
Clergymen have strict orders never
to preach longer than fifteen minutes
before the German emperor.
The best cork comes from Algeria.
There are two and a half million acres
OF cork forests in that country.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-08
STATE GRAB BAG
Tillman will speak at Devils Lake.

Tillman will speak at Devils Lake.
The Devils Lake Republican has in
stalled a new press.
1t Is said that Alex Mckenzie has
ofered B. G. Skulason liberal price
for the name of the brand Skuiason
used.
Variations of temperature do not
extend deeper in the ocean than 900
feet: Below that the temperature never
varies.
The fellow who told you SO will be
as pestiferous for the next two months
as the candidates have been for the
last two.
1t IS stated that if all the gold in the
world were melted into ingots it might
be contained in room % feet SQUARE
and l6 feet high.
Wearing of corsets by the pupils
in the girls schools of Bulgaria has
been prohibited. The penalty for doing
so is expulsion from the school.
Up in Ramsey county the prisoners
in the Jail became involved in the cam
paign. That's a new kind of punish
ment not found on the statute books,
The Milton Globe has the following
advertisement: "Wanted-A Demo-
crat." The Milton Globe is respect
fully referred to the Herald Office for a
full supply.
The only trouble with the democrats
now is that they have so little expe-
rience in success that it makes them
feel like man in threshing costume
at fancy dress ball.
The Evening Press said in glaring
type they had licked the republicans
from hell to breakfast. 1t hardly
seems that the ministers who were
helping do 1t were at the front end.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-08

bors, there are no insurmountable OBJ
stacles to social success, as shown by
the really large number of ruling spir-
It's In society today who were totally
unknown to Washington even five
years ago.
All of which goes to prove the abso-
lutte fairness of the Washington stand
ard, and that any individual or family
failing ito arrive" must be conspic-
uously lacking in some of the essen
tial qualifications of what is truly our
best society,"
AS most of Washington's would,be
residents pass a first season at hotel
or rent furnished house for a few
months. the long list of palatial homes
erected or purchased about Dupont
and Sheridan circles may be taken to
indicate fixed purpose on the part
OF such prominent Americans as Mr..
and Mrs. George Vanderbilt, MIR. and
Mrs. Perry Belmont, Mr.. and Mrs. Her.
bert Wadsworth, Mr.. Clifford Pinchot,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Phelps Emo, of
New York, all of whom have recently
established homes in the above men
toned neighborhood. Mr.. Vanderbilt,
as stated last week. has leased his
house for three years. with view to
building before the end of that time.
Mr.. Belmont, who already owns homes
on Fifth avenue, at Hampstead, Long
Island and at Newport, paid $780, 900 for
the triangular lot between New Hamp-
shire avenue, eighteenth street and r
streen, in this city, where he will be-
gin building this winter. The Wads-
worth house, also built on triangle,
and without an inch of garden, or even
an archway, was designed by Mrs.
Wadsworth, who was Mss Blow, of
st. Louis. and erected at cost of
100000. in spite of its extremely plain
exterior.
OF the Chicago millionaires follow
ing the path blazed by Mr.. and Mrs.
Letter. recent additions are Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Moore. the latter a
daughter Of Mr.. E. c. Swift, head of
the great packing industry bearing his
name. who are building on Massachu-
sets avenue just below Dupont cir
Gle; Mr.. and Mrs. r: W. Patterson,
who are near neighbors Of Mrs. Letter;
Mrs. Charles A. Mum, who was for
merly Mrs.Armour on Massachusetts,
avenue and Sixteenth street; Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick A. Keep; who are build
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-08
Social Life at Nations CAPITAL

Washington, Nov. S.-If any visitor
to Washington in the past year can
donbt that the time is fast approaching
when the capital will be the recognized
social centre, not only of the United
States, but of the entire western hem
fsphere, he must indeed be that man
ner of man described in the Scriptures
as having eyes that see not and ears
that hear not.
And never has this future greatness
been SO Enthusiastically indicated as in
the past few months, when nearly ev-
cry large city in the country has con-
trlbuted one or more of its most PROM
inent families to swell the ws,ter COL
ony OF brilliant. wealthy gracious and
pleasure-loving men and women, who
are In process of envolving the most
distinctly American society in the his
tory OF our nation.
For society ia understood in all its
broadcast and best sense in Washington
meaning something more than we'll
cooked, well-served dinners. cotillions
in ball rooms made over for the even
ing into Japanese gardens or arbors
OF tropical vendure, and the exchange
OF hundreds of calls with the cere-
montus at home days, which prevails
to a superlative degree from Deem
Der to May. Dinner parties at which
assemble the foremost men of the ma
ton, have a more important mission
than the giving of food, and balls that
include among their guests the repre-
sentatives of nearly every nation of
the earth, as we'll as the handsomest
and most popular maids and matrons
of our official and social life, bet
ter object than display of gowns and
jewels. Hence its charm and the will
lingness of the millionaires late of
New York. Pittsburg, Chicago, Cleve-
land, Cincinnati or San Francisco to
part with his accumulated millions to
establish himself and family in WASH
ingtcn and Washington society. For
one is not always the sequence of the
other, as has been discovered by more
than one ambitious hostess, whose
chefs are of the best and whose bank
accounts are of the longest.
For the majority of newcomers, with
just the average amount Of brain, edu-
cation, good manners, and good taste,
to be found in any respectable Amer
lean community, whether a large city
or country town, but much more
than the average income of his neigh