The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-07-11
BELLEvIEW

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Belleview, July 10.-Mr. John
Brown lost a pair Of gold-rim spec
tacles in case and seems lost with
out them.
Miss Eleanor Tremere came down
from Jacksonville to spend the 4th
and 5th at home
Word from Edgar Rothschild states
that he has finished his course of gas
engineering at Columbia University
Out of class of sixty-seven. ten
passed and Edgar was number three.
Pretty good for little Belleview boy
who has pulled peanuts, hoed corn
and steered mule for a living. Ed
gar r. Rothschild, chief machinist's
mate, is now his official designation,
and the next we will probably hear is
that he is in charge of important
work and doing his share.
Tom Hames drifted in from Camp
Jackson, S. c., on a limited leave of
absence last Saturday, expecting to
leave here this Friday. Late Tuesday
night party went to Mr.. Summers
nolic " see nn W ko " tile ucPoe
ana send telegram Tor MN. and
when through dispatching, the opera
tor at the other end of the wire hand
ed Mr.. Summers message for Tom,
Calling MN back TO camp immediate
ly if not sooner. A hastily improvised
bunch of young people gathered to
say goodbye and OIL ne went on the
l:lo a. m. train. Tom Will be the
second Hames boy to go overseas
Mr. J. =. Hightower with mr.. Ire
mere went over TO the Lake George
farm last week and came back the
next day with twenty-five fish led
pigs from the lake in his big truck.
All Mr.. Hightower has to do when
he wants q truck load OF hogs is to
drive his truck over to his Lake
George farm, where he owns almost
two miles OF lake front and where the
fishermen make their hauls. spread q
few kernels Of corn on the ground
and boiler "S0oey," and pigs and hogs
come from all directions. He then
picks up the ones he wants and
throws them in the truck until it is
packed full, fastens the tail-gate,
cranks the motor and in five hours
the pig or hog is feasting on Belle
view raised corn. This lake proper
ty of Mr.. Hightower's is a veritable
hog mine; they propagate and grow
like weeds, are gentle and can be
handled like kittens. The refuse from
the fish camps and the water hyacin-
tbs keep them in good condition until
the corn natures N this end Of the
county and all that is necessary to
do is to transfer them from there to
here to make complete job Of hog
raising. Hog diseases are practically
unknown over in the eastern end of
the county. The refuse from the fish
camps and the water hyancinths fur
nish sustenance and the lake gives
them unlimited wallowing ground. A
real hog raiser by giving it his en-
tire time could raise, fatten and mar
ket five hundred hogs on this place.
Word from Freeman Hames states
that he is across the pond. enjoyed
the trip and is looking for adven-
lures now. He will get them.
People marvel at the wonderful
growth of corn on the old forty -acre
Mason field one mile south OF town on
the Summerfeld road. When people
compliment Mr.. Hightower on this
field of corn he tells them it isIt
much. that he has some better than
that back in the hammock. Some
farmer.
There Is some cotton raised IN this
country and then there is some more.
OF all the fields that one can admire
is about % acres on the old Sutton
field, grown by Messrs. ]. Q. and Carl
Tall full plants loaded
with hollis to the ground underneath
and the tops full of bloom makes >
sight to make real Gotten growers
mouth water.
Mr.. Harry Read killed q big rat
tlesnake that was making itself too
familiar around his farm.
Mr.. Sumner is building himself =