The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-05-02

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A fine rain fell here yesterday
afternoon and did lots of good.
Mrs. James Robbins, on Tues
day morning, went over to Tampa
and st. Petersburg to spend a
week visiting friends.
After a fortnight's visit to
/ friends in Sarasota, Miss jose
phine Reid came home Monday
night.
Linly o. Curry, en- expert sig
ar maker of Orlando, has been
here for the past fortnight, visit
ing his parents at Harbor View,
and shaking hands with his many
Punta Gorda friends. He expects
to return to Orlando tomorrow or
next day.
Jack Rutherford, genial COM
panion and expert angler, left,
Monday evening, for his home in
st. Louis, having been called
there by business demands. He
expects to return in a few weeks !;
if he does not, many friends here
will be greatly disappointed.
Lieut.. Geo. R. White, aviator,
of Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, who
was amongst the soldiers visiting
here Sunday, took boat in the
afternoon and went up the bay
towards Cleveland. He put out a
tarpon line and, pretty soon, he
had five strikes, the fifth being
made by tarpon, which, after
nearly two hours fight, he sue
ceeded in landing. This beautiful
"silver king" measured five feet
four inches in length, and was es-
timated by experts to weigh near
Ily, if not quite 100 pounds.
Hon. HI. A. Ware of Fort Og-
lden, member of the school board
for this district, was here Monday
interviewing our voters. He is a
candidate for reelection, as an
|nounced in his card in this paper,
and The Herald is free to say that
the people would be wise to con-
Itinue him in office. The entire
school board has done well and all
the members, if they wish, ought
to be retained in office. And The
Herald feels the same way about
the county commissioners. Let S
re-elect all the members of both
boards.
Our Red Cross ladies are doing
a noble work; they never fall
short of the demands made upon
them, except that they are so very
busy that not one of them has
time to make to The Herald a
weekly report of what they have
done and are doing. But, wheth-
err they report or not, you may
feel certain that they are doing
their full duty and even more.
The Punta Gorda chapter is not
working for glory, and that is
why the members never boost
themselves in this paper; they are
thinking only of the noble work
in which they are engaged.
| Sundays Tampa Tribune con-
tains a picture and notice of Fur
man B. Noodle, boy scout and as
sistant scribe of Troop No. 4, who
has won fame in Tampa by sell,
ing liberty bonds to the amount OF
So, 10000. He is the 12-year old
son of DR.. and Mrs. B. M. Noodle,
formerly of Fort Ogden and later
of Punta Gorda, in which places
he and his parents are well re-
membered. A surprising thing a.
bout the boys work is the fact
that he sold $1,50000 of liberty
bonds to the Kreher family, who
have been suspected and even
openly charged with being Ger
man sympathizers.
Ralph G. Hill, the accomplished
and obliging young gentleman
who, since April LIST ult., has been
acting cashier Of the Punta Gorda
Bank, received on Friday tele-
graphic summons to report at
Camp Taylor, Louisville, KY, on
Tuesday of this week, and he left
for that place Sundaymorning.
He is one of the Kentucky selects
for army service, his home being