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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03
Wild Flowers of Florida

The woods are teeming with
them and the scents are indescrib-
able in their sweetness. All our
four hundred varieties of flower
ing shrubs and trees and the tiny
little ones that peep up at you
from the rank-growing grasses
are in joyous competition right
row. The groves are in full we'd
ding attire, also, and a ride
through them is a call to the sub
lime. Florida is some well-garbed
state right now, and we pity the
person who must leave to face the
riotous, raw, rainy, cold sleety
spring that comes regularly to un-
luckier parts of our country. On
st. Patrick's day we noticed some
good Irish wearing orange bios
SONS and leaves in their button
holes. Orange-now by all the
shades of the good Irish, can you
beat this? You cannot-but just
the same the intention was good
and the boutonnaire exquisite
Florida Grower.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03
Big Tank to Take Part in Loan
Drive

Tanks will open fire on Tampa
and South Florida citizens during
the forthcoming Victory Loan
campaign. L. D. Reagin, chair
man of the publicity work for
this zone, announced today that he
had received word that an Ameri-
can tank manned by crew of
treat 'em roughs," would be
sent here, and that he should ar
range for an itinerary covering
the 13 counties in the Tampa
zone.
cts going to be a regular SON
of-a-gun tank" Mr.. Reagin said
this morning. One of the scrap
piest juggernauts that ever tore
through the Hindenburg line. And
| am not sure but that there III be
some ammunition to NOW down
the 'slackers' who don't buy Lib
erty bonds as they should" Mr..
Reagin said that speakers will be
sent with the tank, and that it is
likely among it's crew will be the
men whose service overseas will
afford theme for talks"
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03
SCHOOL CLOSES
At Charlotte Harbor With Inter
esting Exercises Last Week

Editor Herald The closing
exercises of the Charlotte Harbor
Junior High school occurerd Fri
day and Saturday evenings of
last week and were splendid.
Mr. Chandler, the principal,
gave an interesting address and
said some things which should be
engraved on the hearts of every
parent and especially every moth
er who has children of school age.
County Supt. Shaver gave an
address to the eighth grade and
awarded the diplomas to a class of
nine, seven boys and two girls.
The drill by sixteen little girls
deserves especial mention, as it
was particularly fine. Such tiny
girls as they were. They must
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03

After an unusually prosperous
season, Hotel Punta Gorda formal
ly closed last Saturday. A few
delighted guests insist on remain
ing, and, for their accommoda-
ton, the hotel will run a few
days longer. Nearly all of the
help left Monday morning. Man
ager Payne has won new laurels,
so to speak, during the season, in
creasing his popularity with both
visitors and our home people. He
is one hotel manager who tries to
make matters pleasant not only
for his guests, but for all the town
people, and his success is attested
by the fact that he is the most
popular man that has ever had
charge of Hoted Punta Gorda in
many years.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03
Will Produce Sugar

The unselfish work of c. Lyman
Spencer, George w. Brown, the
Times Union and the other news
papers and boosters in the state
during the past eight months has
established Florida definitely as a
sugar producing state. The acre
age of sugar cane will be trebled
this year, at least seven steam
syrup mills are being installed
and two announcements have been
made within two weeks of pro-
posed sugar factories, one on each
side Of the state.-Times- Union.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03
MARBLE AN ADDED
ASSET TO FLORIDA
Land of Sunshine and Flowers is
Again Enriched
FAIRLY REVELs IN WEALTH
Already Having Citrus Fruits,
Vegetables, Fisheries, P os-
phate Mines, Valuable Timber
Lands, Marble NOW Discovered.

Florida has already, 1t would
seem to those who are acquainted
with her enormous resources, e.
nough and to spare of the mater
ial blessings of this world. Truly
has it been written "To him that
hath will be given" with her
immense and valuable phosphate
mines, her thousands of acres of
citrus groves, cattle without num-
Der, finest trucking and farming
land on earth, greatest fisheries in
the world, millions of acres of vir-
gin forests, healthiest and most
pleasant climate under the dome
of heaven, she has been given, if
newspaper reports are true, a new
industry-that of marble quarry.
ing We print below clipping
from the Tampa Tribune describ-
ing this new find and we hope
that the newspaper report is true.
A big marble industry added to
the other wealth-producing pos
essions would materially aid the
development of Florida as a man
ufacturing state. We are not too
optimistic, however, in regard to
this discovery, for we lived in an
other state where fine(?) marble
was discovered. 1t proved to be
a good quality of blue building
stone-after numerous men had
invested heavily in the enterprise,
greatly to the profit of the pro-
moters and to the profit of no one
else.
"a Florida marble quarry at
Crystal Springs recently discover
ed is to be developed by w. E.
Bell, owner Of the property, who
has been ordering the latest elec-
trical quarry equipment. The
marble is unlike granite and mar
bic now in use, but is said to
serve the purpose of either. 1t
is claimed to take as high polish
as any granite or marble on the
market.
"Mr. Bell has for several years
quarried rock for the Atlantic
Coast line, his plant producing
500 tons of lime rock and 200 tons
of screenings per day, and it was
only recently chat the marble de-
posit which seems to be of consid-
cradle extent, has been located.
The development of the quarry, it
is stated, will mean big saving
for Florida, as all granite and
marble now used in the state for
buildings, monuments and road
purposes has to be shipped a long
distance.
"Mr. Bell intends to install e.
capable of turning out
700 tons of the marble per day, he
states.'
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03
(By another correspondent

Wy dIOlHeT cOTTeSpOHuellJ
The 21st and 22nd of March
marked the closing of our school,
and two splendid entertainments
were given on Friday and Satur-
day nights by the teachers and
pupils.
The exercises consisted of vocal
and instrumental music, recita-
tions and laughable play by 9th
grade pupils.
We had nine graduates from
the 8th grade, and Prof. Shaver
was present and presented the
Prof. Shaver also made
a much appreciated talk to the
pupils and their parents.
Space does not permit us saying
all that could be said of the sue
cessful school term just closed,
and of our principal, Mr.. j. l.,
Chandler, and his two assistants,
Mrs. Sam Knight and Miss Rob-
erts. But we do know they have
hard, and we are proud OF
our school, our school building
and of the bright boys and girls
,f the community.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03
A Beautiful Land


pressed with the prosperity of
Florida. 1t says:
"The Florida newspapers and
the Florida farmers are already
rejoicing at their good fortune be-
fore the farmers of the North have
begun to plant, for these people in
Florida have already harvested a
fine winter crop. In the West
the long suffering and sunbaked
farmer raises corn and wheat
which are shipped East, at con-
siderable expense, to the consum-
er. The Florida people find things
so arranged that they can not only
sell their products, but their eli
mate as we'll and also persuade
the consumers to come to their
doors at their own expense and
pay their board while consuming
the products and enjoying the eli
mate"
A recent issue of the Tampa
Tribune mentioned the shipment
of 404 carloads of Florida fruit
and vegetables in one day. This
was equal to solid train Of these
products three miles long, and it
was the shipment of a day that, so
far as we know, was not above the
average of the season. In addi-
ton to this, the growers furnished
these products to million Flori-
dians and nearly million winter
visitors. And yet there care some
who say that in the production of
food Florida is not self-sustaining.
We think it probable that the
most profitable asset of the state
is found in it's waters. 1t is safe
to say that the shipment of fish
and oysters from the state
amour to more than fifteen mil
lion dollars worth a year. This
is also in addition to furnishing a
supply for the people and the WIS.,
itors to the state.
The fish shipped sell for only a
few cents per pound, but those
eaten in the state in the winter
time are worth a dollar a pound to
Florida. Nearly a million visitors
come to the state in the winter,
and it is probable that they spend
one hundred million dollars while
here. A large number of them
come just for the fishing and vast
ly more consider fishing as one of
the attractions that draws them.
1t is probable that as many as one
hundred thousand men who come
to this state would not come if it
were not the fisherman s paradise,
and these spend ten million dol
lars while here. 1t is safe to say
That the fish of Florida waters are
worth twenty-five million dollars
d year to the people Of the state
Is much as any other product
and in the near future will be
worth much more.
@ Visitors sing the praises of the
state, and the number who come
Is increasing every year, and this
is also true of the number who
come here to enjoy life in Florida
all the year and all the years.
Times Union.
M4
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03
Weather Forecast

Washington, March 20 Fore
cast for the period March 81, to
April inclusive:
South Atlantic and East Gulf
States: Fair first of week, showers
latter half; temperatures normal
by Tuesday and near or above
normal thereafter.-BOWIE4
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03

Mrs. Herman Stewart and her
sister. Mrs. Seth Tooke, went to
Arcadia, Monday morning, to WIS.,
AZ their mother, Mrs. Martha s..
Morgan, who is in a sanitarium
here convalescing from an at
tack of serious illness.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03
WITHHELD HIS HAND
REAPED HIS RE WARD
His One Acre of Cukes Worth
Over $400
TRUCKERS ARE DOING WELL
Punta Gorda Sand Producing an
Extra Quality of Beans Which
Are Bringing $1.00 Over the
Market.

Plow in hand he hesitated.
While the acre of cucumbers did
not look good to him, yet he hated
to plow them up. He called a
neighbor passing by and asked
his opinion. "Let them stand,
they are all right" the neighbor
said. Not satisfied, he called in
Harry Dreggors who also has a
field in cukes. "They are better
than mine and | am going to make
money from the vines / have"
said Mr.. Dreggors. Convinced,
he let them stand, and now has an
acre of the finest cucumbers in
this section and has refused an Of
fer of $400 cash for them. This
lucky man is HI. L. Blakely. He
has also some melons and other
vegetables.
Dotson and Hathcock have six
acres planted to tomatoes, one
acre in cukes and two acres in
beans. Their beans are said to be
the finest ever produced here and
the buyer has been giving them
an extra dollar per hamper on ac-
count of their fine quality. They
are shipping lot of beans now
and will begin to ship cukes next
week. They are preparing to
put out quite lot of sweet pota-
toes.
j. M. Weeks is raising and ship
ping sweet peppers and other veg
etables and his stuff is bringing
good prices. Why not, when he
took some premiums at the South
Florida fair?
Postmaster George d. Rhode
has eight acres in tomatoes, one in
cukes and half-acre in peppers,
and he expects to realize a good
thing from them. Mr.. Rhode is
an optimistic trucker. We re-
member seven years ago when we
first landed in Punta Gorda, Mr..
Rhode had just sunk 800 truck
ing. He is right-where you lose
the money is the place to find it.
j. j. Haslett has cukes, peppers
and other vegetables coming a.
long. He made his first shipment
last week. He has great faith in
Florida sand.
Mr.. ID. G. johnson, who is MAX
ing a success gardening on sever
al small plots on King street, says
that Mrs. Will Walters has the
prettiest home garden which he
has seen in town and that she
made it herself without any help.
Punta Gorda is now on the map
as a trucking center and ere long
the Golfers will be overfowing
and next year will see many farms
that are now idle under intense
cultivation. So mote it be.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03

Florida's citrus fruit shipments
through Thursday, March q, to-
tailed 1881 cars. That is more
than 495 trains each forty cars
long, and all filed solid with Flor.
ida oranges and grapefruit -
Tampa Tribune.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03

If interested, ask the Expert
nlent Station, Gainesville, to place
you on their mailing list to re-
ceive the bulletins that are being
published by the Station.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03

The Methodists postpone their
Centenary drive until May to
keep out Of the way Of Secretary
Galss and his Victory Loan drive.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03

Ocala Star A good many DEM
ocrats would hate to see the party
win next year if its victory meant
the retention of Burleson in Office.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03

step or made pause.
Programs for both evenings fol-
low
Friday Evening
l. Vacation song by the school;
p, recitation, Welcome, by Nellie
Roberts; 3, Inst solo, Silver
Chimes, Miss Freddie L. Roberts;
4, recitation by Lucille Tolson;
5, inst duet by Abbie Parkinson
and Margaret Mauck; 6, inst. solo,
Dolly's Dancing Lesson, Nellie
Roberts; 7, recitation, What They
Say, Joel Bennett; s, lullaby by
the Little Doll Mothers; 8, inst.
trio, Mrs. Knight, Miss Roberts
and Mrs. Chandler; 10, recitation,
A Little Girls Troubles, Leona
Lough; II, vocal duet, Misses
Roberts and Mauck; 12, chorus,
A Song of Spring; 13, march drill
by 16 little girls; IA, recitation,
That Flu Stuff, Eta Gaskel; Is,
inst solos, A and B., Margaret
Mauck; 16, chorus, Our Coun-
try's Flag, school; II, inst. duet,
Margaret Mauck and Eva Guth-
RE; Is, inst SOLO, Eva Louise
Wade; 19, recitation by little
Mary Roberts; 20, inst. duet,
Sarah Parkinson and Mrs. Chand-
Ter; 21, inst. trio, Abbie and Sarah
Parkinson and Nellie Roberts;
%, Good Night Song, quartette.
Saturday Evening !.
l, Chorus, Come to the Gay
Feast of Song; 2, inst duet, Misses
Roberts and Mauck; 8, female
quartette, Come Where the Lilies
bloom by Mrs. Chandler, Miss
Bertha Hagan, Miss Freddie Lee
Roberts and Miss Elsie Mauck.
4, pink drill, IL little girls; S, inst.
duet, Mesdames Knight and
Chandler; 6, inst. solos, A and B,
Miss Elsie Mauck; 7, inst trio,
Margaret Mauck, Nellie Roberts
and Louise Wade; s, inst. solo,
The Shepherds, Miss Freddie Il.
Roberts; 9, song, My Dolly Looks
Like Me, representing the differ
ent races. by six little girls.
10, inst duet. Mrs. Knight and
Miss Mamie Riggs; IL, A play. A
Perplexing Situation by the 9Th
grade; II, Good Night Beloved,
vocal ouartette. Mrs. John Il.
Scott of Arcadia favored the aud
ience with fine vocal solo.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03
Victory Loan Medals

The Victory loan AVar Organi-
zation has had two million medals
cast from German cannon. All
workers for the victory loan are
entitled to wear these medals, but
every worker must be listed and
to headquarters at once
in order to get this medal.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-04-03

have drilled at least twenty min
utes and never once missed
step or made a pause.
Programs for both evenings fol-
low:
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-09-05
ALASKA SLAYER
GIVES SELF UP
Shot Marshal; Body of Girl
Found in Well

SEWARD. Alaska. Sept s.
William Dempsey. alias william
Stewart. wanted for the murder OF
u. s Marshal Isaac Evans. former
Tacoman, is in custody Friday hav.
Ing given himself up 10 posse on
the outskirts of Seward.
Dempsey shot Stewart after he
had been arrested by the marshal in
connection with the disappearance
OF Miss Margaret Valors at Anchor
age recently. Miss Valor's body
was found Thursday In well at
Anchorage.
For nearly a week the hunted
man remained within a mile OF
Seward In the dense woods, while
searching parties beat the brush
on all sides OF him without sue.
cess. He evidently gave himself up
because of hunger
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-09-05
Mexicans Say United States Has Only
"Squatters' Rights" to Island Chain

In the view of the Mexicans who are urging the claim
the right of the United States these islands is the right
of squaters only And most of these islands
settled.
federal lighthouse binks from of the Faralones,
marking for mariners the entrance to the Golden Gate
Santa Catalina the largest of its group has long been
Mecca for pleasure seekers 1t lately purchased by
William Wrigey, the chewnggum magnate who plans to
develop a large-sized pleasure resort.
Moore American San Miguel Island. off Santa
Barbara 1t is this island that the bones of Cabrio
the old explorer who discovered the northern Pacific Coast
lie buried.
Indication that Americans believe the islands
not strictly speaking under United States control evil
dent from report lately sent out from Santa Barbara
that group of hotelmen thinking of establishing
Coney Island resort of the Santa Barbara Islands,
where liquor could be sold despite the federal dry amend
ment. This would be the only wet" spot the Pacific
coast.
It is unthnkabe from Americas standpoint. that any
foreign nation should be permitted to control much less to
fory the Pacific coast islands The Faraones control
San Francisco Oakland, Berkeley, San JOSE and other
cities whose population aggregates 100000
The Catalina Islands control Los Angeles Pasadena,
Santa Ana and of other towns whose population
over 1000 000
The Barbara Islands would offer invading army
fine opportunity to separate these two population ceners
and cut the state in half
The whole question may never be raised But if it is
aised-some senators and congressman will rub their eyes,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-09-05

No less person than retired justice of the United
States supreme court told good authority has ad
mitted Mexican officials that have title to these
sands-that Mexcos claim to them. from the technical
standpoint, is cloudless
Whether Caanzas government will respond to the group
in question and join the league Of nations in order to
press her claim before the highest tribunal of all nations
is predetermined may be that the is designed
to the campaign of Senator Ashurst
and others for the purchase by this of Lower
California.
The American commissioners who signed the famous
Treaty Of Guadalupe Hdago. by which California
coded TO the United States neglected to provide for the in
cuson of the coast islands, in the territory for which
paid Sl5,000.000.
BY the Of this treaty the line between the United
States and Mexico started three leagues out in the Gulf of
Mexico, off the mouth of the Rio Grande. After many
twists and turns. the line ends the West at "a point
the Pacific coast"
Technically speaking by the terms of international
law the coast ends three miles out in the All the
islands question far than three miles from land
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-09-05

destruction OF life OF tho blondes in
the present war has been NO I'm.
msnHciy greater than that OF the
bruncttra. that great step has been
taken In wiplng out the blond. type.
The world war wiii leave Europe
much poorer In Noriic blood" he
says.
lie points out how tho blonde race
has been absorbed by the brunette
all over IN. world and cites the
Aryan conauerors Of Northern India.
who imposed their language and Gus.
toms on the natives. but were
swallowed up In the darker stream
Of blood.
lie thinks that the same thing
will happen In the United States. and
that the only hope OF relatively
pure type OF blonde community In
In Northwest Canada. which because
Of ita climate IL suitable for the
blonde types and unsuitable for tho
brunettca.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-09-05

study OF the effect OF the war. super.
imposed on centuries OF slow progress
Race" published by Scrlbncr'H.
sion on the part Of the brunettss. in
his book, The Passing % the Great
Looks Had for Blond~~
The world war. he says. has made
matters worse for the blonde because
II IL the blonde Sosdic element In
all peoples that invariably makes tho
greatest sacrifices In war. while the
less energetic brunctt. element
energies from each world struggle
stronger IN numbers than before.
Up to tn. middle OF the 18Th con.
fury the nativ. American. Mr..
Grant points out. was the almost
purely Sordic. The civil war destroy
ed a large part OF the breeding stock
OF the blonde races. and tho irnmi
grafton since then has been largely
from the Mediterranean and the
Balkans.
Mfr Grant believes that the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-09-05
Half of Ell Paso Is Also Claimed by
Legal Sharps of Carranza Government

A curousy parallel dispute territory between the
United States and Mexico is also brewing in regard to the
city of FL Paso Texas. Few Americans realize that in
the view of Mexcans, almost half of that city in Mexican
territory including both ends of the socaed international
bridge
The disputed district is known as the ChamizaI The
bullets which brought about the late invasion Juarez
by American troops landed say the MeXcans in Mexican
territory and not in American That is to say they landed
in the Chamzal zone.
The Chamiza controversy caused by the sudden
shifting of the Rio Grande which took place almost
night during flood years ago. The changed
threw the river than mile into Mexican ground
international law, in the of slow shifting of river
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-09-05
II JAPS TAKEN
IN BOOZE RAIDS
Gambling and BootIegging
Charges Filed

Twelve Japs are being held in the
city Jail Friday on gambling and
bootlegging charges as the result OF
raids on Japanese resorts Thursday
night by members OF the dry squad.
s. Ushjima, 524 King St, Is
charged with bookkeeping. Several
bottles of sake" were found in his
restaurant Eleven other Orientals
were arrested In GA Weller st. and
3l4 Fifth ave. where police charge
gambling was In progress. Those
arrested were I. Otto, charged with
running a game. and X Ogato. II.
Harrah. G. Koba, T. Hidaka. NJ.
Fiskunaga. X. Furukawa. X. Kogi
II. Saki. T. Tenaka and X. Hirata
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-09-05
NURSES SAFE IN
0MSK, REPORT
Seattle Red Cross Workers
in Red City

Red Cross nurses who stayed In
Omsk after the Bolsheviks captured
the city are safe. according to
telegram received by Northwest d.
vision OF the Red Cross Thursday.
RED Cross officials stlll holding
on In Omsk are constantly advising
with the military. diplomatic and
consular officials" the telegram
states Some OF the workers left
the city before 1t was captured.
Cora Leenhouts, Margaret Weer,
Kate Prothero and Bessie Bruton
we're among the Seattle women sta
toned at Omsk. II II not known
whether they escaped or not but
the telegram indicates that even II
they did not leave the city. they
are still safs