The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-05-16

/ MANY pcoPio' IL was hOlIcI
Day.
Mrs. Geo. j. Alderman of Bowl
ing Green, spent last Thursday
night here with her daughters,
Mrs. Tom Earnest and Mrs. May
Rice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lawrence
and their baby, after a short, but
pleasant visit to friends here, re-
turned to Arcadia, Sunday even
ing.
Hon. R. R. Tomlin Of Plant City,
state convict supervisor, passed
through here Monday morning, on
his return from visiting the camp
at Murdoch.
Prof. c. E. Buckley, who once
taught in the Punta Gorda high
school, has volunteered for militia
ry service and gone into training
at Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. c..
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Meekins of
Jacksonville, arrived here Sunday
on a weeks visit to the former s
uncle, T. G. Crosland. They were
only recently married, and are on
a bridal trip.
H. G. Vogler left Sunday even
ing, for Allentown, Pa, to see his
daughter, Mrs. Beers, whose
health is impaired, and to bring
her back with him, if she is able
to travel.
Prof. and Mrs. f. McCulley left
Friday morning, for Montgomery,
Ala, where they will spend a
week with their son Fern. who is
there in Camp Sheridan, and then
they will go to jacksonville, KY,
and spend the summer there with
the professors mother. Prof. Nc
Culley has received an offer to
teach next term on the East Coast.
1t is to be regretted that he de-
clined re-appointment to his chair
in our Punta Gorda high school.
DIR. ID. N. Mcqueen, who be-
longs to the national medical re-
serve, received Geographic sum-
mons, Friday, to report for duty
at Camp Johnston, Jacksonville,
and obeyed the summons by leav-
ing here, Saturday evening. On
arriving at the camp, the officers
there would not recognize him,
because he did not have on uni
form. SO he wired to Washing
ton fora uniform and came home
Monday to wait for it.
A genuine sensation was caused
here Sunday afternoon, by the ap-
pearance in our saltwater bath
ing preserves" of three girls
who were clad in the extreme
styles of bathing costumes worn
at Palm Beach, Atlantic City and
other ultra-fashionable resorts.
Had their coming and costumes
been pre-announced, there would
have been a thousand men or more
on the dock to see them. 1t is
said that they came from Arcadia
in an auti with some soldiers, and,
when not in bathing, were envel-
oped in rain coats or gossamers.
The scantiness of their bathing
attire Mortified a lot of our wo-
men.
Last week we asked if any one
had ever heard of Norman Hew
lit having an auto accident, and
since then we have been unmerci-
fully leased by friends who have
related a number of accidents in
which it is charged that he had
participated. 1t was charged that
his last accident occurred Sunday
night, when his car knocked Clar-
ence Browns into the ditch out
near Floridonia, but Norman SAYS
that the Brown car ran into the
ditch of its own accord and he
didn t touch it, as the absence of
any marks, scratches or other
damages on his car will prove.
However, an airplane that had lost
its way in the darkness came
down at the time in field near
by, ran through the fence into the
road and was doubtless the cause
of the accident to the Brown car.
The plane tore off one of its
l.