The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-01

PONCE PARK, Feb. 1.-The every
day quiet for which Ponce Park is
characterized, a quietude which com
mends it to folks who have acquired
NERVES" through a too close attention
to shops and trades in the hurly-burly
of the busy marts; Ponce Park, the
haven of belle and matron who, sur
! feited with entertainments and clubs,
want to flee from it to recuperate;
! Ponce Park, the mecca to which fish
ermen turn for real results while ang.
ling; Ponce Park, quiet, restful, nest
led among the live oaks, the white
cottages peekin coyly out from a
background of blushing tangerines
and temptingly fat grapefruit clusters;
Ponce Park, with its multiplied thou
sands of graceful gulls and clumsy
pelicans; with such a setting you will
agree that Ponce Park thrill" seems
altogether homogeneous, and yet this
\ 10 JUST NidI OlCc ain 10 cAPcii
encing, and a thrill different from the
current sensations of Marcy Darnalls
with a bunch of weeping young wives
and newling infants; no footing OF
bank and dashing off in high-powered
car firing at brace of cops behind
lamp posts while the villain has one
foot on the bullying handbag of swag
and is kicking at the speed pedals with
the other.
Ponce Park is all stirred up over
the discovery of seven skeletons
which Postmaster Frank Stone has
just dug up from his back lot. Mr..
Stone has busted himself for several
days past grubbing some palmetto,
live oak and bay bushes near the east
line of his property, and along the
road leading south to the lighthouse.
Imagine his surprise on a recent after
noon to strike into a human skull!
The skull was broken into fragments
by a stroke with the grubbing hoe,
and picking up a piece of the Uranium
wall Mr.. Stone lamented that he had
broken piece of pottery which he
thought might have been a we'll
preserved little stew kettle. Upon fur
Their search he was surprised to find
that it was human remains he had
dug into. He then began a careful eX
cavation and was rewarded by finding
the entire skeleton, save only few
of the smaller bones.
Extending the search he found other
skeletons and kept on until he had eX-
humed seven.
Naturally one would surmise-who
were they? what the occasion of their
death, how long ago? Truly a history
of their coming, their mission, ex-
periences, their untimely deaths-un-
timely unless perchance they were cut.
throat pirates would make an inter
esting chapter.
Ndpl ID, d. I'dCettl SUGGESTS tHdl
they may have been the crew of some
sailing vessel, and We're vic
tins of an Indian massacre. Others
express the opinion that they were
of Or. Turnbull's colony
brought over from the Balearic isles,
many of whom met violent deaths
from time to time from one cause and
another; others think they may have
been good Indians" of the long ago;
another thinks they may have been
killed during the civil war, as a num-
Der of skirmishes took place in the vi |
entity of the inlet during those days. !
It is recalled that when the road was
graded through from river to ocean
fifteen or more years ago 24-pound
cannon ball was dug up in the grading
This ball was dropped by Union gun
BOAT.
Charles w. Jones, now one of the
oldest citizens here, cleared tract of
and where he now resides, and in his
clearing found a human skeleton /
Among the bones he found an old
iint-lock pistol. a small "daguerreo- /
ype" picture frame and some brass