The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-08-21
BELLEvIEW NEWS ITEMS


Maggie Whisenant and her little sister
Unice.
Prof. A. B. Connor returned from
Gainesville on Thursday and Mrs.
Conner, Vivian and Beverly arrived
from their summers outing in the
Carolinas ON Saturday. The stay at
home" folks are pleased to welcome
home the wanderers.
Mr.. Buford Hopper, of Ocala arriI-
ed Sunday for short vacation among
his old friends.
Mr.. ]. D. Lyles was a Sunday visitor
at the home of his uncle, Mr. ].
Nelson.
Mrs. W. R. Fitzpatrick, who has
been spending a number of weeks
with her daughter Ida in st. Peters
burg where she has been receiving
medical treatment has returned home
much improved in health.
The ball game on the Belleview
diamond Saturday was more interest
ing than they have been recently.
The resulting score was Weirsdale
5; Belleview 5.
Miss Gertrude Turner was a bust
ness visitor in Ocala Friday.
Mrs. c. A. Tremere left last week
for visit to her early home in Ga.
Mrs. J. w. Harrell and son of Jack
sonville are visiting relatives here.
Mrs. Harrell accompanied her sister.
Mrs. John D. Harrell on her return
home last Saturday. They left their
| father, DR.. Abshire, who has been in
Jacksonville for an operation on his
eyes, much improved he having re-
turned to his home in Welaka.
Mrs. Emma Vaughn who is well
known here as the sister of Mrs. Wor
ry Fitzpatrick died in Jacksonville last
Wednesday, the 18th, and was buried
Thursday.
The Civic League met at Hotel
Marion with the president, Mrs. H.
NJ. Perry on Tuesday afternoon. The
principle business of the day was the
subject of the new cook book which
is under construction. A few of the
members who are now in their north
ern homes have not yet responded to
the request for some of their favorite
recipes. AS soon as all are in the book
will be placed in the hands of the
printer and will be ready to go on
sale in the early autumn. The regular
fortnightly dance and ice cream socia.
was held at the Hotel Marion Thurs
day evening under the auspices of the
league.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union met on Tuesday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. ]. G.. Sullivan.
Quite a number of visitors were pres
ent-some of them taking part in the
special program which was prepared
for Mothers Day" Dainty refresh
ments were served by the hostess.
Mrs. w. L. Evans, has gone from
! Gainesville, where she went to take
the state primary teachers eXamina-
ton, to visit her daughter, Mrs. Mar.
garet Seymour, at Hastings.
The village schools with Prof and
Mrs. Connof as instructors will open
the first Monday in September, the
7th. Every parent should make an eff
fort to have their children ready and
in their places at school on the open
ing day and then insist that there
should be no tardy or absent marks
during the term except in case of
real sickness.
Mr.. VIM. Gaines of Dallas visited
our village on Wednesday on a trial
trip as a vender of frehs meats. II
Mr.. Gaines can get sufficient patron
age to make it pay he will run his
mea cart through Summerfeld and
Belleview every Wednesday and sat
urday. AS we have no market in town
at present this arrangement should
be highly appreciated by many of the
housekeepers.
Tomato growers at Belleview and
vicinity met Saturday with Mr.. Durl-
ing of C. S. Durling e Co. New York
and his Florida representative, Mr.
E. n. Webb; the object being to close
tomato contract for this section
The contracts finally rested as fol-
lows: Mr.. Durling agl eeing to pay
sixty cents per crate at the depot for
all fancy and choice tomatoes. he to
furnish crate, nails paper and pay all
packing charges. This to last from
the opening of the season until the
fifteenth of June. From the fifteenth
until the twentitE of June the price
to be fifty cents FER crate under same
conditions as previously stated. After
the twentieth the grower may use his
own discretion in disposing of any