The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-03-20
GRAHAMVILLE AND coNNoR
Special Cor. 0caIa Banner:

/ Miss Josephine Bullock and Miss
Sallie Ben RICE CT Oca1a are spending
few days with Nj. and Mrs. P. L.
/ DuIisoe and Mr.. ana MRS. Heinemann
at Petersburg.
The Indian Mound school. Miss Ma
ME Dupuis teacher. closed last Fri
day. An entertainment was given and
a great crowd attended.
Misses Emma Mason and Rebecca
Counts spent Thursday night with
Miss Christina Heinemann at Peters
burg, and on Friday, with Miss Feine-
mann, attended the charming enter
tainment at the Indian Mound school
Mr.. and Mrs. P. T. Randall rave as
their guests at the Randall Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Harvey of PENNSYLVANIA
Mrs. AlOnzO Long and children and
Misses Carrie and Beulah Houav at
tended the Indian Mound entertain
ment Among others who were there
were Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Harvey Of
Pennsylvania, Mr and Mrs. Joe Fore
of Griner Farm and Mr.. Walter Per
kins and Miss Inez ChaIker Of OcaIa.
Mrs. Henry Heinemann and pretty
daughter, Christina accompanied Mr..
Heinemann to Ocala on one of his
trips last week. They went up to do
some shopping.
w. D. Graham. the abstract man of
the Marion Abstract Company, Ocala.
was in our midst a few days this and
last week, visiting his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. L. NJ. Graham. While here
he inspected the old swimming hole"
went fishing and rested with us down
at the grocery. where we snapped
yarns Of the coming presidential and
the rest of the elections.
Postmaster B. L. Hickman Of Ora
hamville paid Ocala a visit one day
last week. He went up on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Long of Gaines
vile are in Grahamville, the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Randall.
Gainesvilleites are all very much in
love with their town-the University
City. Mr. Long says his hat will al
ways hang in Gainesville and that the
city is on more of a boom now than
ever before.
We of the country are always wish
ing for you city cousins to come and
visit us any old time. Our front doors
are wide open to you. Covers can be
laid in our dining room for several at
time. Come and see us often.
Miss Belle Haycraft of Berlin. who
taught for a month the Eaton Greek
school, and gave it up on account Of
the humps in the neighborhood, is
now teaching at Hawthorne. She
says that Hawthorne is a pretty lit
tie place and that she is in love with
her work and her pupils.
The many friends of D. L. Graham
of Gainesville, who has been quite
sick for a while, but is now improv-
ing, are very much pleased to learn
Of his Improvement and hope that he
will soon be out
Mr.. William Hogan has purchased
Texas pony, of which be is very
proud
We are aEXiously awaiting the day
when Tucker and Mathews Will put
their launch on the river.
This side of the river sent quite a
delegation I'D to Ocala Saturday to
do some trading.
Connor was honored one day the
past week by the presence in her
midst of Mrs. w H. Clark, Mrs. c. II.
Lloyd and Miss Louise Harris of
Ocala, and a number OF others. Capt.
Clark brought them down on the Jo-
sepbine i
Our road is being worked and we
cannot find enough words of thank
ing" to here express our thanks.
Our county is quite a large one. We
have two good sized cities in it, with
grocery, dry goods, furniture, hard
ware, and other kinds Of stores. and
/ they are Of the very best, and handle
/ the very best of goods. Our hamlets
are many and have nice mercantile
establishments. Now, if we can get
what we want at home, why need we
go away from home to trade. Yet
we do so. We go up to Jacksonville |.
for barrel Of -four, send down to
Tampa for a dress, and trade around /
like that. Stop! Buy everything you /
can at home and build up the home /
land. Build up the hamlets and the /
cities and the highways around you
first, and then build them a little bit
more.
Recently while chatting with a
charming Marion county school marin
(whO is now teaching out of the
county, in the chat she told us that
she came down to her home town.