The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-04-04


The family of R. w. Stone, who |
have been living south of town for
the past year or two, left Friday !
for Rita on the Okeechobee, !
where they will hereafter reside. !
j. FL. Allen, after spending sew
eral weeks here looking after his |
valuable property interests and |
particularly his big truck crops,
returned Saturday, to his work at
Center Hill in Sumter county.
Mrs. Julia O'Meara, a trained |
nurse of Charleston, S. c., after
enjoying a visit of several weeks
here to her sister, Mrs. Thomas
Hartigan, started on her return
home, Tuesday morning.
The remaining four girl walters
of Hotel Punta Gorda left for
their northern homes, Monday
evening. The hotel, though, is
still open for rooms and is enter
tanning few guests, family style.
Fred Lanier, a fine young man
of Charlotte Harbor, having been
selected for army service, went to
Arcadia, Friday, to join the con-
tingent of DeSoto county selects
leaving for Camp Jackson, Column
bia, S. G.
Crowds of soldiers from the Ar
cadia aviation camps were here
Saturday night, enjoying the
picture show and the dances, and
other crowds of them came down
Sunday and enjoyed the salt-wa-
ter bathing and other attractions
specially provided here for them.
Again we ask and urge and beg
that friends writing articles for
publication in The Herald, will
please leave two inches of blank
space at the top of the first sheet
on which they write. If they
can afford that much waste of
paper, we will supply them with
blank copy paper.
Lakeland Telegram, Satur-
day Eighteen men, being Desc
to county's white contingent in
the present draft, were in Lake
land for two or three hours be-
tween trains last night They were
good looking set of young men.
and all seemed bent on getting the
Kaiser's goat at the earliest oppor-
tunity.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. Potter and
their two daughters, Misses
Esther and Mabel, their son Jack
and their attractive niece, Miss
Tyler, after enjoying the winter
here while sojourning in the Sand
lin cottage on Retta Esplanade,
started, Friday morning, on their
} return to their home in Detroit,
Mich. They went via st. Peters
burg to spend a few days there.
Marsden Tucker. who lived
here up to fourteen years ago and
is well known by all our people
who lived here then, was here in
.. his automobile, Sunday, and re-
ceived warm greetings from his
many friends. He is now running
a type-setting machine in a Lake
land printing office, and he must
have made a pile of money to be
able to own an auto and buy gaso-
lene for it.
Mrs. C. l.. Hewitt, one day last
week. entertained all the Hewitts
with fine dinner given at her
home on East Marian avenue.
Those present were: Mr.. and
Mrs S. J. Hewitt, Mr.. and Mrs. N.
C. Hewitt, Mr.. and Mrs G. L, Hew-
tit and their visiting cousins from
Mitchell, S. OAK, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Hewitt and two sons. 1t
was a delightful occasion, and our
society reporter is hereby chided
for failing to make report of it.
A note from J. F. Freese of
Brookline, Mass, states that his
sister, Mrs. J. F'reese Robinson,
who is visiting him, is improving
in health. This news will be very
gratifying to her many friends.
Mr. Freese enclosed check to re-
new her subscription to The Her.
aid, which, he says, "she loves
doorIv m road " and he adds, ESQ