The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-07-03
BERLIN BULLETIN
Marion Is 10 Be Queen-The Motto
BE BUsy'-A Birth Announced


BE 5usy"-A Birth Announced
Special Cor. Ocala Banner:
Well, the election sail over now
And now all for Sunny Florida pull,
Covering every inch of rope within
means;
Pull with the vim OF an Everglade bull
To fatten ard stack g-eenbacks reams
OF reams.
As We pen this the sun is in eclipse
and the elements are cool and dark,
and the chickens are going TO rOOst,
but in the Fellowship continuous
woods the cattle are lowing, the EOrs-
es neighing and mules braying; in
their lofty perch the birds are sing
ing, softly singing; over in the city
Ocsla-church bells are ringing, call
ing Marionites TO worship, and Miss
Marion" comes out into the drawing
room today ready for Sunday school
in a gown made in Marion" only,
and wearing a gorgeous Merry Wild
ow" hat, decorated with thunderheads,
and later on from her lofty pew up
here on Florida Heights, she Marion)
earnestly prayed for more men with
the coming OUT spirit" as she is
very much in need of more gowns
and things" and prayed that when
the next eclipse occurs-in 1878
she would then be the queen Of the
nation, and that her beaux would all
be in the Hall Of Fame.
The signs of the times read thus:
Berlin and vicinity farmers are all
laying by their crops; the women
from Key West to Pensacola are as
busy as bees canning fruit. Politics
being over, hard roads and irrigation
are the issues discussed down at the
country grocery. Old Sol starts from
the TrOpic of Cancer TO Capricorn.
Democrat delegates are hitting the
trail" to Denver, and Denver, of the
wild and woolly west, is polishing up
her keys and getting in tune her brass
band. And July will soon come in
and do a lot Of blowing over our Miss
Marion''-bless her, And June will
leave them honeymooning, and the
rest crOO-OO-ning.
Mr.. William DeHon is up from St
Petersburg. He is in love with the
Los Angeles of Florida. Says St.
Petersburg is spreading like hot lava
over the Pinellas peninsula, and the
city Improvements are keeping neck
and neck with the boom now on.
The Farmers Union will meet at the
Fellowship school house on the 4th.
Dinner will be carried and a great
time is expected.
We are lin the swim, so to SPEAK.
DOVER here in our village. Every Sun
day we tall the boys) HE over TO
Blue Sink. a bottomless pool of wa
ter, about one mile north of Uncle
our eyes" and try TO get bottom"
We wet our eyes all right, but it is
impossible TO get bottom Trial af-
ter trial is made down into the blue
depths for bottom, but each time we
come up empty handed and complete
" empty of breath. This sink has
no bottom, or at least it has never
been found
Mrs. L. Dow Beck and son, Mr.. Gary
Beck, spent Sunday in Ocala with
Mrs. w. ID. Graham.
Misses Reggie McCulIy, Eleanor
Seckinger and Belle Haycraft are in
Gainesville taking the normal course
Miss Altahula Beck, the charming
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Beck,
is in Ocala visiting friends and rela-
tives.
Mrs. H. E. Snowden and pretty
daughter, Miss Annie Snowden, were
numbered among the recent shoppers
going TO ocala.
The Times-Union is always brag-
ging about the peachy-cheeked. orange
fed lass of joyous Jacksonville. The
writer who pens the lines i'm the
great and good" in favoring that
towns daughters ought to come up
here into the cream of the salad
bowl country" on Florida Heights.
and bask a portion of a calendar day
on the firing line of half a dozen Ber-
lin sweetnesses. Our bewitching
eream-fed beauties are girls that will
in a twinklinig twist you around their
little finger and turn your bacherlor-