The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-08-09

monthly meeting Thursday night,
Aug. 10th, and there promises to be
something doing.
Mrs. ]. NJ Brown is spending the
weekend in Ocala.
The two Mr.. Davenports, father and
son, motored up to Jacksonville and
have returned after spending several
days very pleasantly in the metrop-
oils.
While Mrs. Grant was in town
Thursday she dropped small bunch
of keys, and would feel obliged If the
finder would return. them.
The writer had the very distinguish
ed honor of meeting the Rev. Sidney
j. Cats of gubernatorial fame, his
son and Mr.. Brantley of Altoona, as
| they stopped in town for a breathing
spell last Friday afternoon on their
way to Oxford.
Mr.. George Arthur Camp passed
thru Belleview for the first time in
many months last Friday morning. He
has been UP in Georgia adjusting his
business affairs. He had with him a
long bottle of peanut oil.
Mr.. Donald c. Stanley made bus
mess trip to Ocala last Thursday and
disposed of number of gallons of
pure honey.
Cheerful DIR. Henry spent an hour
or SO in town last Thursday afternoon,
smiling, saying howdy and expressing
his views on the proposed bond issue.
Belleview has little bit of bonding
proposition on its hands that stands
out in bold relief. The city fathers
saw fit to buy gas lighting plant,
said to cost about $500. We had no
money to buy it with but Belleview
is rich in the expectation, so we
bought the plant. A number of So
called bonds, notes or certificates of
indebtedness were issued at 500 per,
and a number of people looking for
or 10 per cent returns, confdingly
deposited good, hard money for some
of thehe bonds. They still have them.
The town is in debt nearly four thou
sand dollars. The revenue from tax
alton for each year is only about $500,
and the interest bill is about $500 per
year. We stil owe for the plant. We
have lights about rs nights in the en-
tire year and one of these days the
people that think the town of Belle
view owes them some money are GO
ing to make little requests to please
remit, and after that they are going
to do something else, and then there
is going to be an awful big row in
this little bit of a town. Oh, yes!
Relleview is fine field for talking
and boosting for an issue of bonds.
Come on down and listen to our tale
of woe. About the first of the year
bought city lot for $40. I asked the
county tax collector at Ocala how
much taxes / owed for it. He rem
dered me a bill for $9.17. / then
went to the tax collector for the town
and he gently touched me for 1926.
Oh, yes / am for bonds. Sure, Mike.
]. D. Melvin, still darkey, was
found dead in his quarters last Mon
day. He had been in poor health for
some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Al. E. Ashworth of
Zuber are nicely located in the Lee
cottage and will open up our school
the last Monday in August.
Mr.. John E. Tremere writes that he
lis pleasantly. situated on the borders
of Lake Winnepesauke, near Mere
ldith, N. II. He has a Chandler six
boat and couple Of barrels Of cold
ones down in the cellar. He begs to
ones down in the celler. He begs to
be remembered to Dad Hardison,
Harry Peter and host of others, and
expects to be in Florida some time in
September or October, and has made
arrangements to have few barrels of
cold ones places in cold storage
against his coming.
/ Mr.. Eugene Dobbs, the gasoline
king of Ocala, spent an hour or so in
Belleview last Thursday, talking good
roads, gasoline, lubricating oils, au-
tomobiles and other subjects of inter-
lest.
Mr.. j. O. Hightower motored into
town last Monday morning, picked up
Mr.. Tremere and went off to Ocala
with him.
E. F. Pettigrew, one of the old re-
liable subscribers of the Star, among
the colored people, cheerfully renews
his subscription.
Mr.. M. r. Turnkey of Tampa, who
is summering in one Of Mr.. Claude E.
Connor's cottages at North Lake,
motored up last Monday to make train
connection for Tampa
| Miss Mary Gale, who has been
spending the summer at the the state
normal school at Gainesville, returned
home last Saturday.
Mr.. Harry Jones is up from Fruit
land Park, spending a few days
among his friends.
Miss Lula Thompson of st. Gather
inc, after taking in the barbecue at
Ioxford last Saturday, came up and
Ispent couple-of days visiting with
1.-THE Tremeres.
/ Mr.. r. S. Rogers Il mean the good
looking one) with Mr.. Charlie Miller