The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-11-29
LAKE WEIR

Lake Weir. Nov. 27.-The Lake
Vein branch of the Red Cross held
| its regular meeting last Wednesday
with 25 members present, mostly the
committees and chairmen of commit
tees, who made their monthly re-
ports and gave out knitting and other
work to be completed within the next
two weeks. Some new members were
added to the committees already ap-
pointed. Mr.. c. Rheinauer, our eff
c1ent chairman, created a wave of en-
thusism when he announced he and
Mrs. Rheinauer would move back to
their Lake Weir home the first of De-
cember, which means he will be in
closer touch with the Red Cross
branch than it was possible to be liv-
ing in Ocala.
The Oklawaha Minstrel Club gave
a delightfully."- amusing minstrel and
vaudeville show at the school house
last Friday night for the local Red
Cross fund. Proceeds were $3.50.
Prof. H. G. Miller as middle man,
Mr.. Bob Martin as bones, Woodie
Tongue as Rastus, the end men,
Messrs. John Mann, Will Harrell, Joe
Marshall, Hugh Blair, Clyde Scott
and last but not least, Mrs. J. G..
| Spurlin in several side-splitting spe-
cialties, kept the house in a perfect
scream. The school children were
especially good in "The Last Days of
Negro School," with all of their com
| ic recitations, stump speeches ana
songs. Prof. Mann had all he could
do to control two of his advanced pu-
pills, Luke Jackson Johnston and
Annie Marie Josephus Washington,
who at the closing figured in the
typical negro wedding. Mrs. Spurlin
was the blushing bride and Mr. Bob
| Martin the groom. One of the feat
ures of the evening was the dance by
Woodie Tongue and viii Harrell.
| Woodie was dressed as a fashionable
lady coon with all the airs, graces
and dialect complete. Messrs. J. M.
and R. M. Blair interspersed with all
of the old time negro melodies on the
violin and guitar throughout the eve
ming. Mrs. Mann, Mrs. Clements and
Mrs. Miller were general utility la
dies for the show and felt amply re-
paid by the large and appreciative
audience who were loud in their praise
of the work done in one week of prac-
tice.
Stepping out on the beach of love-
| ly Lake Weir every morning one is
not only greeted with the dancing
waves and sweet songsters among the
trees, but by sounds more substantial,
that of the hum of machinery in the
large orange packing houses around
the lake, and the chug, chug of two or
three engines at the sand works.
Things look to a close observer that
old Lake Weir is coming into it's own
after waiting many weary years for
boom. Property is steadily increas-
ing in value, especially farming lands,
which are in great demand for cotton
| and corn at the present prices. Also
lake fronts are advancing, owing to
the increasing demand for the sand
that the waves are piling up as fast
as it is pumped away from any cav
| ity made on the bank.
Mr.. Carl Rose will build a substan-
| tial little bungalow for his own oc-
cupancy near Lake Weir station with
in the next month if possible.
Mr.. Gribble and two sons of Louis
vile, KY, who are regular winter
| visitors to Oklawaha, arrived last
week and are hoping for a successful
season of hunting and fihsing.
The friends of Mr.. ]. G. Spurlin