The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-06-30
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The busy shipping season IS now
over here 1t has been the shortest in
many years, but the largest ship
ments of cantaloupes and melons in
the same length of time. Up to date
there have been ten thousand crates
of cantaloupes shipped by express
and forty-six refrigerator cars and
ten cars of melons, and quite lot of
okra, tomatoes, squash, beans, etc.
After all the drouth and bad seasons
Sparr leads as being one of the best
all-round farming and vegetable grow
ing sections of the county.
While the farming and trucking in
terest sare increasing the merchants
here are losing no time, as Grantham
Bros, A. S. Lambert & Co., and Civil
& Civil all are increasing their stocks
of merchandise, and all are doing a
good business.
Spar has several different names
to more definitely locate or designate
it's location, boundaries, etc, such as
Bunker Hill, where the Souters, Luff-
mans and Burtons reside; Fort Val
ley, where Lee Grantham holds his
own, and Rutland Farm, where reside
the Ownes, Thomas, Martin, Bayles,
Colbert, Clemmons and Grantham
families, and Shenandoah Valley
Farm, where John Huffman and
Frank Meadows spend the noon hours
under the oaks, counting their canta-
loupe and chicken money, and won
dering why everybody can't be hap
Ply; Hickory Holloy, on the Quality"
where resides Allen Stephens, the
man who doesn't only furnish water
for the S. A. L. r. R., bur furnishes
about half the pupils of our school,
and then there are those who live in
the city limits, on the hard road, etc.,
Browns, Hookers, Notes, Caidwells,
McDonalds, Youngs, Johnsons, Nc
Caves Dyes, Galbreaths, Meadows,
Perrys, Halls, CARTONS. With all
these good citizens, farmers and
truckers, and different places, it real
ly makes Sparr an interesting commu-
nifty. Can't you see why?
On last Sunday evening at o'clock
there gathered at the Baptist church
the largest crowd that has ever as
sembled together at Spar on such
a noccasion, to attend the Children's
Day services. The exercises were
gotten up and conducted by Mrs.
Daniel Grantham, assisted by Mrs. w.
B. Dye for which they deserve much
credit. The program was nicely got
ten up and systematically arranged,
and consisted of recitations, dia-
logues, solos, duettes and songs by
the choir. The little folks, as well as
the larger ones, who took part in the
exercises were nicely dressed to suit
the occasion, and the rostrum and
stand being suitably decorated with
lilies, daisies, ferns, roses, etc., and
cross arranged in the center of the
stand made a lovely picture.
After the exercises a collection was
taken up for the benefit of the two
state orphanages, representing the
Baptist and Methodist churches, and
neat sum was obtained
Quite a number of visitors from
Reddick, Lowell, Anthony. Citra and
Fort Mccoy were present, which add
ed to the pleasantness of the occa-
sion.
A certain young gentleman from
Citra, with his automobile, makes fire.
quent visitors out this way, going to-
ward Rutland Some attraction, of
course.
| A protracted meeting will begin on
Tuesday before the second Sunday in
next month, conducted by Rev. J. N
Thompson and Rev. Entzminger. We
hope to have a good meeting Every
body cordially invited.