The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-04-30

| Out-of-town visitors to this city yes
terday included Homer Henderson and
j. M. Mitchell, of Elfers.
| Paul A. Northrop, son of Rev. and
Mrs. G. H. Northrop, arrived in the
city last night, having completed the
school year at Wauchula, where he
has been teaching. His stay here win
be for an indefinite time.
Mr.. Chas. Spading reports the sale
of a fifty-acre farm one mile from
Goldstein station and eight miles from
Tampa, known as the Sam Becker
place, to Charles Miller, of Louisville,
KY, for $4,000 cash. Mr.. Spading
says that Mr.. Miller secured a bar
gain. Mr.. Miller moved onto his new
farm this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Watkins will
leave Wednesday morning for Lawtey,
Fla, where they viii visit the Rever-
end and Mrs. Alfred Evenden for a
short time, going on to Jacksonville,
where they take the boat for New
York en- route to their northern camp
ing ground, Summit, N. ]. Tarpon
Springs is their home, and they say
there is no place like it.
There must be quite few people
in Tarpon Springs who are easy
marks-like ourselves. We mentioned
the Indian gypsy woman who has been
going about telling fortunes for the
past week and how she gave us so
cents worth of good luck for 10 cents.
Well, the city marshal informed us
this morning that he had decided she
was a nuisance about the city and was
going to have her disappear but
thought he had better see if she had a
license first. On inquiry at the city
hall he found that the woman had paid
fifty dollars license fee for the privi-
lege of operating for half year, so
nothing could be done. But the point
is that Tarpon Springs of necessity
must have lot of credulous soft
snaps for this woman to be able to
pay license fee of fifty dollars for
the privilege of buncoing them. Has
she been to your home yet? Well,
just give her SO cents or dollar when
she comes and tell her to send the
good luck by mail. Laying all jokes
aside, we wonder if there is really any
one in Tarpon Springs who believes
in such foolish rot?
Some will recall the Burleigh family
who live across the bayou and who
were rendered assistance at the open
ing of the winter through The Lead
er's having given publicity to che fact
that they were in need Mr.. Burleigh
secured work at the Tarpon Inn as
dishwasher, where he worked through
out the season, but has been out of
work since the hotel closed, and mon
ay is getting tight again. Mrs. Bur-
leigh will be glad to send for and de-
liver laundry to any one who will drop
her a letter telling where she may
send her boys for it. We have been
told that she does lovely washing and
ironing" and suggest that you give
her your work. There is a big FAMILY
of small children which makes it inn
practicable for her to go out to work.
In connection with this case last fall
there was preacher who claimed to
belong to the Church of God, Holy
Rollers, or something like it, who
took great interest in these poor
people and collected something like
seven dollars for them. This minister
bought some groceries, and was re-
tanning about three dollars for the
purpose of buying books for the chill
dren to go to school. However, this
wolf in sleeps clothing absconded be-
tween suns with the three, and we UNI
derstand he also forgot to say good
bye to the people with whom he was
rooming. But that doesn't alter the
fact that Mrs. Burleigh will be glad
to have work. Can you give her some?
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