The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-06-01
EFFECTS OF WAR NOT NOTICED
ON THE RAGING OKLAWAHA

The Helkat, of the Mills steamboat
line, was placed in commission Mon
day Commander, Captain E. L. Mills
The Helkat VIII clear Grahamville
for Muclan for a cargo of Irish pota-
toes. and the Sharp Shooter of the
same line, is up the little stream to-
day for potatoes. These steamers
ship out via Silver Springs.
The U. 5. power boat, Captain Nc
Guire, with dredge in tow, is due
here and at the sand banks at Sharp's
Ferry, this week.
The Silver Springs, the Wehiw a, the
City of Ocala, OF the Carmichael day
light tourist feet, are moored in the
Blue Roads.
The Hiawatha of the Hart Line
which was sunk in the Oklawaha is
now at East Palatka, moored along
side of the Okahumpkee, her sister
ship.
Austin Kelly, mustered out of the
national guards, has joined the navy.
Carl Mason is at home awaiting or
ders to report to the Captain Nc
Guire.
Victor Mason, from the shipyards
at Jacksonville, is with the Captain
Mcguire.
w. Randall detached from the Jo-
sephine, to the Captain MCGUIRE.
Make Mason, engineer on board the
Sharp Shooter.
Claude Counts and John Long are
aboard the Sharp Shooter.
Jack Wellhorner, detached from the
Sharp Shooter to the Helkat.
James Kelly, detached from the
Sharp Shooter to the Helkat
Ivy Long, detached from the City
of Ocala TO the Helkat.
Morris Jordan, from the City Of
Ocala to the Morris.
George Randall drives the Ford for
the Randall dispatch, and Henry
Heinemann drives the Ford in the
mail service. Silver Springs, Connor,
Lynne and Lacota.
John Calvin Haile's logging camp
has been moved from Connor to Gore
Creek.
On the Farm
Milk and peaches, honey, corn meal,
spuds, blackberries and plums, fried
chicken, fish, frog legs, alligator steak
with hillside onions in good Drowned
gravy; grits, homemade, with scrub
stock cream; custard pie, fresh hen
and guinea eggs and green salads;
wine for the "palouser" In between
meals, watermelons, cantaloupes,, and
juicy peaches on lily pads. Musical
treat-the twank-twank of the frog,
accompanied by the limkin's tee-oo
The cows come home after the gath
ering gloom settles down.
May gives US the whippoorwill, the
frogs, the bullbats, dry county, the
measles and a clean crop.
| Plant more pumpkins and water
melons, beans, peas, etc., and go fish
| ing in the leisure hours.
Plant a chufa, and remember the
hog.
Dry as bone-and o, what thirst.
The hardest problem for US over
here is. how in the world are we to
spread honey, jelly, marmalade, but
ter, a piece of fish and a drumstick
behind our Tread at the same time.
The east side has been red in the
face for some time with the measles.
The thermometer stood at 62 this
morning on the river.
| The raging Oklawaha gives one the
most invigorating tonic ever created.
| The Businesses of Hemingway and
the Creep Easies and the wilds of
Moss Bluff and Tiger Den can't un-
derstand why they can't raise mos
quitoes as numerous and harmonious
as the lover east coast, around Cocoa.
Cocoanut Grove and the great Palm
| Beach.
That little bit of "palcuser" now Dor
toned out is just the right quantity
| for the eggnog.
Curious to the stranger, how Old
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