The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-02-02
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ermen predict that they will continue
to manifest their hunger for bait I'M
til the first of April.
George E. Snow has resumed or
ange packing operations, with his u.s.
ual competent force The grapefruit
trees are being washed
]. G. Lege is now shipping the fruit
from the grove at the foot of the lake,
formerly owned by E. G. Stafford
The lumber for the completion of
the Lake Weir Yacht Club house is
now in the planning mill at Ocala.
Building operations will soon be re-
sumed and pushed to a speedy con-
clusion. The new dock is a delight
to all members of the club.
Mr.. W. o. Matile of Chicago is a
guest at The Oaks, coming over from
the Lakeside Hotel. He is familiar
with the east coast, and is delighted
with Lake Weir.
| Capt. r. L. Fosnot, the boat builder
of Lake Weir, is at work on the motor
| in Mr.. Carmichaels new launch,
which will soon be put overheard at
Silver Springs.
Preparations are being made for a
pole-raising at The Oaks. The live
oaks in front of Commodore Good
| wins bungalow are so high that his
present pole does not display the COM
modore's signals, so that they may be
read across the lake, and a 60-foot
pole is being made ready to replace it.
Judge Alexander Wynne, who has
not been in his usual health for a year
past, has now recovered much of his
old-time vigor.
Eastlake never had so large a win
ter population. People have gathered
here from east and west, including a
number of families who have never
before come to Florida for the winter.
All are delighted with the climate and
the lake.
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bound trains and of the local tele-
phone, which sometimes fails when
most needed, occasioned the keenest
disappointment on Friday, January
18th, when members of the Lake Weir
Yacht Club and residents of Eastlake
| assembled nearly 100 strong to extend
a hearty and noisy greeting to Com
modore ". r. Goodwin and his fam
lily, who were due from Chicago on
that day. The belated northern train
missed connections at Jacksonville,
and a telegram sent by Mr.. Goodwin
to Eastlake was hung up at Ocala on
account of broken telephone service
When the train pulled up, the crowd
made such a demonstration that the
passengers must have imagined that
some high dignitary was expected.
The disappointment of the welcoming
party was none keener than that of
the commodore of his family, when
they learned of the elaborate prepar-
ations made for their reception.
On Saturday afternoon the entire
population of Eastlake assembled
and store, postoffice, packing house
and depot property We're all literally
decorated, while the entrance to the
Newport store was festooned in or
anges. When the Chicago party
alighted, Mr.. J. w. Chapman of Bos-
ton, as acting mayor" of Eastlake
made very felicitous address of well
| come, to the strains of The Star Span
gled Banner on the photograph, and
presented Commodore Goodwin with
huge wooden key, silvered with alu-
minum and gorgeously beribboned,
with which to unlock everything in
sight about Eastlake Mr.. Goodwin
replied by stating that to a family
from the storm-swept north this key
appeared to be the key to paradise.
He expressed the keenest disappoint-
ment in the failure of his family to
reach Eastlake in time for the elabor-
ate reception arranged for the day
previous, and expressed his intention
of devoting his efforts to making the
wheels go round on Lake Weir like
the propellers of a twin-screw ocean
steamer.
! Col. William J. Bryan has informed
Commodore Goodwin that he will visit
him and see Lake Weir when he
comes to Florida next winter. He has
the Oklawaha and Kissimmee trip in
view, and when Mr. Goodwin inform
ed him of the beauties of Lake Weir
he promptly expressed his intention
of visiting the lake next winter. The
commodore assured him that the fleet
would be turned out to receive him.
Mrs. Nathaniel Pinkham of Quincy.
Ill, reached Woodmar on Sunday on
visit to her daughter, Mrs. Thos. E.
Thompson, who with her husband and