The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-11-05

morning, feeHng SaI1ST0d with the
amount of fiendish trouble that they
had caused. These boys will all be
grown men one of these days and
they will then have to pay for all
this fun by sitting up all night with
shotgun. to keep their front gate
from walking of
Mrs. Earl Davenport with Miss
James. arrived from New York last
Monday. after spending the summer
with her parents in New York and
Connecticut.
odr. AMI Mrs. Hightower and Mr..
Bolaorf spent Saturday evening in
Belleview calling on friends and
shopping.
Mrs. Norry Fitzpatrick, one of
Belleview's oldest and most respect
ed ladies, has been quite seriously
indisposed the past week or 50. With
skiIlful medical attention and the
loving care of her friends and fami-
ly it is hoped that she will soon be
able to be UP and around again. Mrs.
Fitzpatrick will pass her S7th mile
stone OF life's journey upon the at
tainment of her next birthday.
Misses Eleanor and Minnie Ire
mere motored up to Boardman for
dinner last Sunday, and visited in
iMicanopy that afternoon, and had a
very pleasant time. The pecan, or
ange and grapefruit groves in that
cestion are looking fine. The yield
| is bountiful and the returns are
very satisfactory. "a general air of
prosperity ,pervades that section of
country, bordering on the bound
airy line of Marion and Alaoh1a
counties.
Those baseball players from over
on the Coast Line settlements can
not rest contented, nor can they dis
abuse their minds of the belief that
they can out play the Belleyiew ag-
gregation of swatters, and with that
in their mind the Gambler Peaches
and the yOklawaha Chasers came
over to Belleviw last Saturday eager
for the fray. The Belleview boys
spat on their hands, kicked up the
dust and polished the Oklawaha
C'hasers to the about
The Ok7awaha aggregation de-
rive their name from the fact thai
they chased themselves around the
field in pursuit of the ball, after il
is tapped gently by one of the swat
ters After this little scare the
Gambler Peaches were taken on and
good naturedly chased the bal
around the field while the Bellevieu
boys ran around the bases fourteen
or fifteen times and the game broke
up with everybody feeling happy
Quite a number of visitors from Ok
lawaha and Gambler came over in
automobiles, wagons and buggies.
Belleview was honored a week Oh
two ago by a visit from Mrs Nettie
Roach Garter, of Hudson, Fla. Mrs
i Carter is quite an elderly lady AMI
in talk with the writer she told o.
her girlhood days, when as littl;
girl she roamed at will thru the
i piney woods then surrounding oul
i little Lake Lillian of today, which
was at that time called Roach pond
being named after the Roach family
of which she was was a member
She told with pride of her girlhoos
i home, which we now know as tht
Butterworth cottage, and she expi
i ated at length upon the history O
this locality, the old settlers, the OLE
stage line and the days before ther,
were railroads in this part of tn,
country and it was interestin to lis
ten. Among other things she told
of making her first trip beyond tn,
J boundaries of this state, when sht
{ journeyed away UP to Washington
ID. c., this past summer to visit ant
see the capital of the nation, and shi
was surprised, amazed and awed a
) what she saw Airs. Carter after Wis
; iting awhile with her nephew, Nj
? Warren Smith, returned to he
| home at Hudson, down near tn
| gulf, where she'll have pleasan
! thoughts of the visit to the scenes O
Iher girlhood She will also hav
s more food for pleasant refectio
2 from the fact that she has met an
s talked with the Stars Bellevie1
: correspondent whose notes she ha
: read with eager interest for year
e lpast, she being one of the Stars old
t est subscribers and most cage
: readers.
Mr.. George C. Woods, of ocal
t and military fame. who has just II
! turned from the big military gu
!. shoot held at the state encampmer
e grounds at Black Point, on the S
+ Johns river near Jacksonville, give
I a very interesting account of the rbi