The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-11-16
ROUND ABOUT FLORIDA.

Pensacola is bidding for the mex
convention of the w. o. w.
Thirty-six novices were initiated b,
the Shriners at Orlando recently.
Third annual meeting of the Won
ems Synodical Auxiliary Of Floridi
was held in Ocala.
A big modern -four mill, with a ca
pacity Of fifty tons of mixed food ne
day, Is to be a Jacksonville industry
VIII Dixon, negro boy, was rur
over by a heavy truck at Jacksonvill,
and received fatal injuries.
Many homeseekers from the west
and northwest are arriving In Florids
by every train.
The Bureau of Crop Estimates
places the corn crop of Florida at IL.
100000 bushels.
West Florida fair at Mariana was
attended by large crowds. The ex-
hlbits We're reported to be unusually
attractive.
Between 5000 and 1000 cigarmak-
ers In the clear Havana cigar factories
left their benches at Tampa to enforce
demands for higher wages.
Captain Sanders, for ten years head
OF the Pensacola police department.
has been deposed in the interest of
harmony, it is said.
Read Holiday. motorist of New
York, made a 6,000-mile trip in thirty
days, taking in Los Angeles, Portland
and Jacksonville.
Many entries have been received for
the Alachua County fair November
Il to "a, and prospects are that it
will be one of the best held in the
state this season,
That the prospects are very bright
for Jacksonville being the training
quarters for at least two major
leagues is the belief of men who are
in close touch with the baseball world.
Oneo of Orlando's best known winter
residents, Q. A. Hovey, died suddenly
or heart failure. Mr.. Hovey recently
returned from Glens Falls, n. Y
where he made his summer home.
Lacking 743 men, the Second Flor
lda regiment, now on the border at La
redo, Tex, is only two-thirds com
plete, according to information on
hand at the office of the United States
army recruiting officer.
Florida papers announce the an
marriage of Mrs. Henry NJ.
Flagler, widow of the Florida railroad
to Judge Robert W. Bigham,
OF Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Flagler is said
to have been left 100000, 900 by her
late husband.
A glass jar containing the body of |
a white infant was found at Jack
sonville in a pile of trash at the civ
lump, near the corner of Davis and
Eighth streets. The child was fully
developed and apparently only a few
lays old.
Inc great commercial progress din
Ter TO be held at the Hotel Seminole,
Jacksonville, on the evening of No
'ember 21, has attracted statewide
ttention and many prominent state
nd civil officials from other cities in
florida have made reservations for
he event.
Andrew Carnegie, the multi-mil
lonaiTe. will spend the winter on
ekyl Island, it is said. Jekyl Island,
Which is near Dungeness, Is a winter
iecca for the ricS, who have wonder
III clubs and homes on the island,
oming by rail and yachts. Mr.. Car
egie expects to spend several months
here. 1t is said.
The large grain elevator owned by
he Louisville and Nashville railroad
Pensacola viii be torn down at an
arly date. 1t was built about fifteen
ears ago at about cost of $250,O00. I
When demolished the space which it
coupled win be used for tracks and /!
Their PURPOSES.
A meets Of 'hc executive com. +;