The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-08-07

III the METHODIST church at
Charlotte Harbor. He will
preach morning and evening on
the coming Sunday in the Punta
Gorda Methodist church.
W. r. DeLoach and family NOV
! ed in from Arcadia, Tuesday, and
are occupying the John R. Jack
cottage on Marian avenue near
the Methodist church. They are
being given cordial and general
welcome.
Mrs. Z. n. Brown went to Jack
sonville, Monday night, to pay a
month s visit to her son, VIM. A.
Sheffield and family, He was
raised in Punta Gorda and has
many friends here who will re-
joice to know that he is prosper
ing in the metropolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank r. Blount
returned Sunday evening, from
delightful auto tour of month,
during which they visited many
places in South Florida, some on
the Gulf and some on the Atlantic
coast. They left their daughter,
Miss Elise, in Tampa, where she is
visiting friends.
Charley Cochran is preparing
to 90 more extensively than ever
into the truck growing business.
He has rented several lots of land,
one near j. j. Haslett and he is
putting up packing house on the
Trabue lot. In his trucking oper-
atoms, he will continue to have
the valuable expert help Of }, ID.
Frierson.
We will again state that notices
of religious services in any OF the
local churches are published IN
The Herald free of charge. They
should be handed in not later than
Tuesday of each week. The fail
ure of such notices to appear IN
the paper is chargcable not tc the
editor, but to the pastors and
clerks of the churches, whose duty
it is to hand them II.
Okeechobee News, Aug MIR.
E. V. Camp, an engineer OF high
standing in the south, and who
makes his home ct Atlanta, Ga,
was in the city a few days this
week. Mr.. Camp was here in the
interest of our contemplated city
improvements, and took occasion
to say that at every place he Wis
tied people were talking of Okee-
chobee and it's wonderful oppor-
tunities to become a great city.
DR.. z. S. Herman, representing
that excellent horto-agricultural
paper, the Florida Grower, spent
a day here last week collecting
material for a two-page write-uE
of Punta Gorda. The Grower
pursues the pleasant, patriotic
and profitable policy of taking VI
f the towns of South Florida in de
, tail and giving each one a very
valuable boost. 1t is doing
E great work for South Florida.
A valued friend took this scribe
t TO task for writing stayed" az
the past perfect tense of the in
transitive verb "stay." The 1891
edition of Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary gives the past tense al
either staid or stayed, with pref
! erence for the former, The lates,
edition of the New lnternationa
] Dictionary unabridged does no
recognize "staid," but gives only
! stayed" as the correct spelling
Godfrey Belor of the Willow
: Pens section, came to town las
! week, bought an auto truck ano
tried to run it home. He was mo-
very experienced in handling such
a machine; and so, when he was
a mile or two out on the rocE
road, he ran over and killed COW
and left his truck upside down IL
the ditch. He returned to town
and got the Dixie Highway Gar.
age folks TO send out and bring in
his truck.
A note written from Camp
Pike, Ark, on tie 31st ult., by
Capt. Allen B. Tucker states
that he and his family were leav-
ing that day in a Ford car bound
for .Punta Gorda. He has fifteen
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