The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-11-09

ed at Lake City with a full docket.
: A Bureau of Retail Affairs has bee
organized at Jacksonville.
! Farmers day was successfully an
appropriately observed at st. Angus
tine.
An additional fund of $4,000 ha
been made for the endowment of ST
Luke's hospital at Orlando.
Florida oranges and grapefruit ar,
beginning to move quite perceptibly ii
car lots to northern markets
There seems to be larger acreag,
than ever before put out in truck OF
all kinds this season, and every
grower is predicting banner year.
1t is learned that Jim Barnes, the
undisputed king of professional golf
VIII again entertain golf players and
fans in Florida this winter.
A new organization will begin oper-
ations soon In the manufacture OF
grape juice at Largo, which they esti-
mate will amount to 10000 gallons
during the season.
Columbia college defeated Rollins at
Winter Park by the close score of 7
to 9. 1t was one Of the cleanest ex-
hibitions of football seen on the Rol.
Inns field In several years.
An unfavorable report was made
by the United States Engineers on
the matter Of the government taking
over the Florida East Coast canal.
from the st. Johns river to Key West.
Contract has been let to build the
solid reinforced concrete bridge
across the bay from Charlotte Harbor
TO Punta Gorda for the sum of $1O3.-
08128.
1t is estimated that the truckers in
Florida will put in so per cent larger
crop this year than last Other big
crops will be tomatoes, beans and
peppers.
News was received of the death In
Denver, Colo, Of Frank G. Boyleston,
formerly travelling passenger agent for
the Atlantic Coast Line Railway com
pany, with headquarters in Jackson !
vile.
The third annual meeting Of the
Florida East Coast Canal association
Will be held at Fort Lauderdale, No
vember IA and Is. The meeting is
said to be Of greater Importance thap
usual.
Boisey Long, the negro convicted
Of the murder of Deputy Sheriff
Wynne at Newberry, was legally
hanged at Gainesville. Fla. The kill
Ing Of Wynne resulted I'm Ave negroes
being lynched and another shot to
death.
Practically without accident or de-
lay In the entire stretch from Akron,
D., to Jacksonville, distance of
l.3OO miles, was covered in eleven
lays by f. s. Eblen and wife, by
auto travel.
The sale of tags on the streets of
Jacksonville tOtaled about thousand
iollars for relief In starving Syria and ?
according to A. Ben Kori u
prominent member of the local Syrian V
olony, and Others who had charge Of e
he arrangements for tag day. "
While trying to earn quarter of IL
cred him, Elmer Owens, negro en- +
loyed on a barge lying near the foot P
f st. Johns avenue, South Jackson h
He, to get hat that had been blown |,
ITO the river, lost his life by drown :"
lg. "
The Tampa reunion was attended =
y a great throng of veterans, Sons VI
veterans, United Daughters of the q
onfederacy and the entertainment al
had arranged what proved Ii
lie Of the most enjoyable and well re-
ranged reunions ever held. n.
BIZ Williams, negro fireman on h,
e tug Martha Helen, fell overheard p
Jacksonville and was drowned in !,
e river near the Merrill Stevens :"
ck. The body was recovered near '"
e scene of the accident and turned
er to an undertaken for burial. ia
The National Nut Growers asso- al
alton will convene in Jacksonville in 81
lnual convention November 1924. tC
lie local entertainment committee in m
arge of plans for the entertainment ri
the visitors held meeting at the -,
amber of commerce to perfect all -
Elaborate arrangements are being
mpleted for the entertainment of "
e visiting Shriners, who are expect
In Orlando from Jacksonville and
lmpa on November for the bis "
remonial session, and it is expected ca
at forty novices will cross the desert oil
nds. 60
Pensacola boasts of recently or 4.
lnized Anglers Club, the result of 4
enormous development Of sport Z
'hing in nearby waters during the \
lst Few years. 1t is said that there Z
no city in the south, perhaps, that y
It's claim to as many expert nimrods Z
does Pensacola.