The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-10-23
REDDIcK NEWS NOTES

Special Cor Ocala Banner:
The farmers are all busy this week
in their pindar fields, and the streets
of our village have been almost de-
serted. The pindar crop will not av-
erage with those of previous years on
account of bad stands due to dry
weather during planting time.
There has been a large amount of
hay harvested during the past two
months. and some are not through
yet. On one farm am told four
hundred tons have been stacked.
The ice cream supper at the school
house On Friday night netted quite a
nice little sum. which will be spent
for things needed in the school.
The surprise of the season was the
marriage of Mr.. Smith, our turpen-
tine operator, and Miss Rubie Haw-
kins Of Alachua, Fla. No one dream
ed Of anything of the kind until they
alighted from the train here on Wed
nesday afternoon. Mr.. Smith has liv-
ed here for several years. being one
of the firm of Johnson and Smith, en-
gagged in the turpentine business, and
aside from being a man of business
has about as many friends as he has
acquaintance. Miss Rubie Hawkins
was principal of the Reddick Junior
High School last year and gave the
patrons the most successful term the
school has ever had. Beautiful, intel
iectual and accomplished and possess
es the graces that render few women
so attractive. We congratulate Mr.
Smith on capturing such a prize in
at matrimonial lottery.
S. c. Mayo has returned from Col
oradO and will soon begin prepare
tions for his next years melon crop.
Miss Emma Tucker the Bible
reader" as she calls herself, but who
is regarded as very successful evan
gelist, has agreed to give one weeks
work IL the Methodist church at this
place about the last week in Octoo-
Der
If no accident beGalls the hogs in
this neighborhood there Will be n fine
lot of pork saved b. our farmers this
winter.
Reddick is surrounded by as fine
agricultural lands as ere TO be found
in Florida. and our people are learn
ing to raise everything they can for
home consumption instead of depend
ing on oranges and vegetables for
money crops, and buying their corn.
meat, etc, from the Yankees" They
seem TO succeed just in proportion as
they leave vegetables to be grown by
people in other parts of the state
whose lands are not adapted to corn,
oats, peanuts and cotton.
BY the way, Mr. Sam Boynton
planted one hundred acres in short
staple cotton this year and expects to
get sixty bales of cotton. He has
erected a gin house and installed sew
eral gins on his farm, which goes to
demonstrate his confidence in cotton
as a money crop, and especially short
staple cotton. He has been expert
menting with it in a small way for
several years.
L. S. Light has gone to Tallahassee
this week at the request of the rail
road commission. Mr.. Light has been
gathering facts and statistics for sew
eral years in regard to vegetable and
orange freight rates in comparison
with the rates from other states. and
at the Jacksonville meeting some
months ago he is said to have oren-
ed the eyes of the commission to
some facts they were unaware Of,
and no doubt, while they give no
names, he is the man referred to in
the report. and the evidence he fur
nished them was largely the cause
of the reductions already made in
the rates on both oranges and vegeta-
bles, and which will save thousands
of dollars to the shippers.
BARCUS.