The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-06-04
BELLEVIEW

north has changed its schedule. In
future it will arrive in Belleview one
minute ahead of the old schedule time
which will necessitate the south
bound mail closing at the postOffice
one minute sooner than in the past.
Please take notice.
Mrs. c. H. Miller accompanied by
her daughters, Misses Grace and
Ethel of Eustis, spent a few days in
town last week at their cottage on
Robinson avenue.
Mr.. C.. A. Tremere spent last Mon
day in st. Petersburg and Tampa,
and made his first trip over that new
rail line from st. Petersburg to Tam
pa. Having a couple of hours to
spare in Tampa, he called on Prof.
Richards and family and found them
well and hearty, even tho business is
dull with them at the present time.
Mr.. C. A. Reed, representing the de-
partment of agriculture at Washing
ton, made an official visit to the pecan
grove west of town.
Her. many friends are pleased to
see Mrs. Ella FAINT up and around
once mores after her recent quite ser
ious indisposition.
Mr.. w. A. Moray, travelling audi
tor for the Seaboard, with Mr.. III. s.
Grimes, route agent for the Southern
Express Co., were in town on official
business last Thursday.
BILE demand these days by different
boards of school trustees and school
boards throughout the state. He was
called to confer with the school trus-
tees of Jasper last Saturday and
while he was there another school
board was trying to get him on the
phone at Belleview to know If he
would accept their school, and hardly
had he reached home when he was
rendered a large school away out in
the west end of the state at a prince
ly salary, and requested to come at
once to close the deal and close con-
tracts with the teachers that would
be under him. Prof. Common has one
of the highest teachers certificates
obtainable and a number of schools
in different parts of the state are
making determined efforts to secure
his services.
Train No. leaving here at las last
Wednesday morning carried with it
that most charming and friendly
couple, Mr.. and Mrs. Sands Haviland
headed for their home at Marlboro, N.
Y, via Jacksonville and the Clyde
Line, also Mrs. ]. Walter Nelson and
her mother bound for Short Beach,
| Conn.,, and last but not least-with
a brand new mileage book in his pock-
et-Prof. A. B. Conner bound for the
wilds of the extreme west end of the
state. with a brand new school build
ing in sight and corps of seven or
eight teachers.
Mrs. w. T. Evans and Miss Flossie
came in on train No. last Tues
day afternoon and will open up the
old home and settle down once more.
Mr.. John J. Balkman, of Brooklyn,
N. Y. owner of the famous Hilton
grapefruit grove, wishing to keep
in direct touch with the happenings
of Marion county hands out the reg
ulation one fifty to have the Star
come to him where ever he may be
for the twelve ensuing months. 1t is
wise man who knows a good thing
when he see it.
Andrew Jackson, in his seventy
seventh year, left this world Friday
morning May 28th. AS the sun climb
ed out of its bed in the east, his spirit
took flight and began its great jour-
ney. Andrew was one of Belleview's
respected colored citizens, leader of
his race and well thought of by the
white people. He was one of that
type that preserved the peace and re-
spect between the two races in the
South and his kindly councils will be
remembered for years. He was born
in Jacksonville and came to Belleview
over forty years ago, before the days
of reconstruction and was a power
with his race, and his late years have
been passed peacefully on his farm
about one mile north of the town. His
favorite newspaper was the Ocala Star
which he had subscribed to ever since
the days of that martyr, William Nc
Kinley, and for him to miss an issue
of the Star was equal to missing a
meal. His funeral was one of the
largest ever held in Belleview, being
attended by both races and even tho
the heaviest downpour of rain that
has ever been known here had begun
to fall as the cortage left his home
and continued throughout the process
sion to the cemetery at Mount Pelier
church, and during the services there
the attendance was not diminished
Numbers of his family and friends
came from great distances to pay their
last respects, some of them coming
from as far as Jacksonville and Tam
pa. During the past few weeks Uncle
Andrew had suffered from misery in
his head and stomach and all relief
offered was hopeless to aid him and
a stroke of heart failure released him
from his suffering. This passes one
| of Belleview's old landmarks. May he