The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-02-20
Max Chas. Price visited Useppa
hY boat Monday and Tuesday.

the cheapest, but the best. FL. w.
Smith. 1tf.
Mrs. j. F. Gleason and her sis
ter, Miss Jane Donovan, visited
Fort Myers, yesterday.
Fruits, candies, CONNECTIONS and
fancy groceries are specialties at
r. NJ. Kings. (adv.)
Many Punta Gorda people are
in Tampa this week seeing the
sights of the great fair.
Chas. w. Shaw went to Wau-
chula last night to attend Ma
sonic school of instruction. will
return Saturday.
d. j. Hobbs returned Tuesday
to Lakeland, where he has opened
plumbing and sheet metal shop.
Mr.. DeSmidt, the polite govern
ment agent who has been here
looking after the shipment of fish
on government account, left Tues
day on MS return to Washington.
Corporal Frank Wood of
Bowling Green, who has lust re-
turned from two-years service on
the battle front in France, is
spending the week here as the
guest of his sister, Miss .Wood.
one OF our high school teachers.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Swarthout
who came here about two months
ago to spend the winter, were
summoned by wire Tuesday to re-
turn to their home in Williams
ton, Mich, because of the death
OF one of their grandchildren
They left the same evening.
1t doesn't occur to any one
these days to ask our merchants
to sell butter and bacon at Csc. a
pound for the purpose of boosting
the town, but it does occur to
some folks to demand that The
Herald sell its advertising space
at half price for that purpose.
In the army casualty lists pub
lished last week, we find amongst
the names of those slightly
wounded that of Corp. Edward
McCulley, son of Prof. Edward
McCulley, a former teacher in
our Punta Gorda high school.
Both father and son once lived
here and have many good friends
here.
Mrs. M. A. Hanson, who left
here several months ago to at
tend a sick relative in Nashville,
Tenn, had scarcely finished her
good work when she was sum-
moned to New York city to nurse
her son, who, with all his fasgily,
were down with influenza. While
nursing them, she herself was
taken down with the disease and
has only lately been able to be up.
She intends to come home as soon
as she is able to travel.
Punta Gorda is assessed $4,000
for the Blue Triangle investment
campaign for 1919. The Blue
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Triangle is the badge of the Y. w.
G. A., which is represented here
by Mrs. Laura Reed. Miss Hughes,
a captivating young lady of Ar
cadia, was here yesterday in the
interest of the campaign. Surely
it ought to be easy to raise $4,000
here for such good cause. We
spend more than that every week i
for cigars. u
Hon. John H. McQuaid OF !
Sparkman, sent The Herald, Tues !
day a half-peck Of medium size, I
but very fine sweet potatoes that !
were produced by volunteer /
plants on his place. The vines, he /
says, grew hap-hazzard among ,
the grass around an old stump c
and had no cultivation whatever r
and no fertilizing, save that de- \
rived from decomposed vegetable
matter. This leads him to say u
that millions of dollars worth OF 4
raw fertilizer material in FLORIDA +
goes to waste every year through h
forest and prairie fires. t
Miss Gladys Martins class IN a
home economics has opened cal Il
feteria today in the vacant store
Of the Sandlin & Newman DOCK +,
and every body is invited to can : :
- +os+ +hn culinary skill i