The Punta Gorda herald., 1919-02-27
WEST VIRGINIA LADY
Writes Very Kindly About Punta
Gorda People

Editor Herald,
Punta Gorda, Fla.
Dear Sir:-No doubt this check
will look good to you but it will
not look any better to you thar
The Herald looks to me, | can =
see how any one who ever lived il
Punta Gorda, if only for a few
months, c:n do without The Her
aid 1t tells me so much about
those whom / have met and al
the happenings of the town ant
community, all of which is inter
esting to me. Some of then
make me sad and some make mt
glad.
| wish to extend to the Blazer
family my sympathy in their loss
of one so good and kind as Grand.
pa Philip Blazer was. | boarded
with his son and daughter-in-law
for months, and in all that time
grandpa never failed to make me
happy by going to the postoffice
every day and getting my mail. If
| had letter to mail he would say
II want to take a walk "and off he
would go with it. Three years ago
| bade him farewell. He and some
others came to the station at Pun.
ia Gorda to say "good bye" ]
heaped some grapefruit, (which
friends had given me, in his arms
as | left. Although on the shady
side of so he was. a helpful friend
Let us not overlook the little
things of life which add so much
TO the happiness of others.
Congratulations to Mr.. and Mrs.
Emmett McEver over the arrival
of a little daughter at their home.
/ am still thankful to them for a
fine trip to Cleveland in their
boat. On our return it was nec-
essary to anchor out in the bay
and Mr. McEver was kind enough
to carry me to the shore. The
other ladies were more self re-
liam but they insisted that did
this on account of me having
asthma. ] shall never forget the
little fiddlers. 1t rained while we
were away, which, / suppose,
brings them out, There were
thousands of these funny, little
side-going creatures and ] had
never seen one before. Your
frogs don't sing like our (West
Virginia frogs. | didn't know
what they were when | first heard
them and / had heard frogs halo
all my life. | mention this on ac-
count of those who are interested
in nature in different sections of
the country. | have never seen
a mocking bird in West Virginia,
except in captivity. I'VE have no
butcher birds, either.
Now The Herald has told the
people everything else let it tell
them that when we get cold we
just turn our gas a little higher,
but when our birds went South /
would have enjoyed going too. In
stead of doing so | stayed here
and had the flu. Many of my
friends died of tiny own son
came very nearly doing SO. ]
spent four months in Fayette
county, w. Va, and then came
home and took it and am hardly
able to write now. Maybe you
don't care, Brother Jordan, Il am
certainly interested in every read
er Of The Herald and every form
er and present visitor to our little
city.-Ed. III. but / have friends
who read The Herald, who do
care. Now let me thank The
Herald for making all those regu-
lar weekly visits. 1t does me
good to hear from the "Land of
Sunshine" flowers and big-heart-
ed people. / don't wonder that
Roosevelt wanted to go back to
Punta Gorda and other points
near there, and he would have
gone of he had lived.
/ read in the papers that Billy
Sunday, William Jennings Bryan
and many other noted speakers
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