The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-05


error in my last weeks notes, / stat
ed that the bunch of BelIeyiew Ma
sons who visited the Ocala lodge
came struggling home, and your OPP
orator worded it that they came
staggering home. This statement in
itself was a patent libel for every
one in this town knows that the sew
en- that went up to Ocala are abso-
lutte teetotalers. strict prohibition
lists, upright church members and
believe in votes for women, at least
they ought to, and that one little
word has caused me hours of sleep
less agony, so please Mr.. Linotype
man don't do that again.
(He does US the same way, Ellie;
allow US 10 mingle our tears with
yours.-Editor)
Dad Hardison celebrated the pass
| ing of his seventy-seventh mile
stone in life's journey last Wednes-
day, March 4, by smoking one of
those famous cigars dressed up in
| tinfgoil, which are handled by the
'Belleview Trading Co., and which
insures him free pass to the next
stopping point one year hence.
Mr. R. L. Sumner is treating his
cottage to a coat of paint
On account of Mr.. Hilton's illness
the playlet the Family Album.
that was to have been held in the
town hall last Tuesday night, and
also the S. S. class meeting that was
| to have been held at Prof. Connor's
house, were Indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. Beaufort Hopper, of Ocala,
spent several days in town this
week
Mr. ]. ". brown came up from
Wildwood Sunday to look over his
tomatoe field.
Mrs. J. n. Shedd paid a visit to
Bushnell last week to spend few
days with her friend, Miss Marie
Weihe Winton.
| March came in like lion and not
content with making noise, he
gave two or three loud roars on two
or three successive nights that made
our truck growers shiver in their
boots and cuss the luck.
If l could catch that ground mole
that came out of his hole the first
of February and handed out a wrong
decision, l would hit him a swipe
with a stick of cord wood for fool
ing US on the weather. | always
have maintained that the ground
mole business was a fake.
Ut isn't a ground mole, Ellie; its
a grounding. Remind yourself OF it
by thinking of ausage.-Editor)
In a Letter just received from Miss
Miriam Rothschild, in Brooklyn, \.
Y, she gives a program of her do
ings since arriving in the north.
After spending a few days in New
Haven, Conn. with relatives, she
went down to Brooklyn, n. Y, and
has been enjoying one continual
round of pleasure in the shape of
tea and theater parties, dinners,
luncheons and all the other frills
that society is addicted to. In a few
days she will leave Brooklyn for
for Montreal, Canada in response to
telegram from her father, stat
ing that the skating was good and
that her friends were longing to see
her.
Miss Maggie Lyles, of Ocala, has
been visiting with her cousin, Mrs.
| VIM. J. FAINT Jr.
His numerous friends were de-
lighted to see Mr.. Haywood Hale on
the streets once more, after his long
confinement in the Marion County
Hospital.
In letter just received from one
of my friends in the far northeast
states that the thermometer reads
about forty degrees below zero. IT
: excites my curiosity to the extent OF
| wanting to know what that means
so / believe that / will get me an ice
box and sit in it for while and sing
How l Long to be There" and see
if the experience will touch my com
prehensiveness.
The oyster supper given by the
Civic League at the Hotel Marion
under the management of Mrs. H
NJ. Perry and Mrs. Adam Hafner
!: who acted as chess-de-cuisine, was
grand success and in the estima
ton of Mr. Warren w. Cowles, the
: only thing and the whole thing il
!; the way of an oyster supper, giveI
!: in Belleview this winter. There
were real oysters in the stew. The
; frys were rolled in genuine butter
!. and cracker dust and the raws were
: the real thing. Several parties buy
ing one supper bought two more fo1
7 the sake of getting the whole cate