The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-02-14
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Mr.. E. o. COrdrey Is gathering his
oranges. He estimates the crop to be
500 boxes.
Mr.. Everette Mills. the Vulcan and
sawmill man, is saving a bill Of lum-
Der for Captain HatJon Howard Of
the William Howard With the lum-
Der Captain Howard will build a barge
for the William" The freight traf-
fc is so great on the S.. Johns that
the captain is forced to build the
barge.
The Wilson Cypress Companys
boat, the Rust" passed up the river
Friday.
Captain Harrison of the Hiawatha
was living the strenuous life on the
palatial steamer the fore part of last
week. One Of his pilots was sick
throughout the trip, and the captain
lad 10 double up"
Master J. ". Randall, who goes to
the Ocala High School, is spending
the weekend al home with his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Todd Ran
dali.
Locating a yellow jackets nest in
the side OF a pine tree the other day,
Masters Davis Long and Eric Mills
planned an informal call insIauter
without invitation. The call was
made and the boys were greeted with
a warm reception. The latest from
the boys homes is to the effect that
they were doing fairly well
Mr.. and Mrs. AlOnzO Long and chill
dren spent last Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. p. L. Durisoe at Petersburg.
Mr.. S. A. Stewart of Plymouth. af-
ter a few weeks visit with relatives
in our village. has returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Randall have
as their guests Mrs. Ruth Tucker Hill
lizard and children of Birmingham. AL
ALBANIA.
The wet and dry election" at the
Grahamville school the other day re-
suited in favor of the "drys" by a big
majority. Miss Holley gave the boys
and girls equal voting privilege.
Mr.. Thomas Randall is busy ship
ping his oranges.
Mrs. Charles Gibson and Miss So
phie Howard, the daughter of the late
Captain Howard and her small sister
and brother, have moved to Palatka.
where they will in future reside. We
regret very much to part with these
eStimable folks.
The many Grahamville and Connor
friends Of Mrs Howard B. Hall Of Ar
cadia are very much pleased TO learn
that she is up and around from her
recent spell of sickness.
Little Misses Helen and Kate Mills.
Rebecca Counts and Masters Eric
Mills, ClaudiuS Counts and the writer
formed a bunch Sunday and hunted
the pastures green for violets and
other wild flowers. In our rambles
we visited the little red school house
where DR.. Russell now at Starke,
used to make the writer 'toe the
mark" We are a little under the
weather with the grip just now. but
we gathered enough flowers to prop
erly decorate the bOnnets of Miss AL
berta and Rosebud, the Grahamville
and Lynne Star correspondents.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Smith, Rev. 3.
I. Hull and Rube Long were among re-
cent visitors to Ocala.
Mr.. ]. c. Pillans. the Electra mer-
chant postmaster and farmer. is the
busiest man across the river. We do
believe. Mr.. PiIlans is not idle a min
ute in the day, and he makes his time
count. Along with other farm pro-
duce, Mr.. Pillans grows sugar cane.
which. of course. is common for any
farmer TO do. but in the harvesting Of
the same he shows himself to be a
farmer Of quality. Before cane-grind-
ing time he goes up to the Brick City
and buys up all the bottles he can
find. and lays them away until the
proper time. Then when his syrup is
made he bottles il up. On each bottle
he places a label bearing his name
and hamlet In this way Of his we
are quite sure that he gets a third
more on the gallon. as the syrup is
fresh the year round.
Mr.. Alonzo Long has a curiosity in
the way Of an orange tree on his place
at Connor. Mr.. Long is a professional
orange builder and he has at the
northwest corner of his house a three +
year old orange tree with four varfe- .
ties Of orange limbs. all joining very
close 10 the ground. In this particu- F.
lar tree the four different varieties Of .
the limbs are Barnes Seeding. Nedft- .
erranean sweet Parson Brown and
tanEerine. We are anNiously waiting 4
for the tree 20 bear fruit.
CHATTEN CHUNr
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