The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-06-03
BOARD OF TRADE CHAT


Plant a palml There are twenty
hardy kinds that will grow in this
section of the state.
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4 survey of the Dixie Highway
through Marion county has been made
by IN engineer of the state highway
department and the expectations
have been that work on this stretch of
highway will be started as soon as
the legislature makes provision for
meeting the federal road funds
While the country is waiting for
lower prices and cheaper labor, build
ings, machinery, paving and the like
are suffering because of a lack of
paint and repairs. This deterioration,
which becomes increasingly worse,
may cost more than the saving effect
ed by waiting. Beware of false econ
onay!
President L. W. Duval of the Board
&C Trade, has named the members of
the committee of three who are to ap-
pear before the state highway COM
mission, with representatives from
the Sumter County Good Roads As
sociation and the Pasco County Good
Roads Association, in the interest of
the proposed state highway from
Ocala to Tampa along the Seaboard
Air Line The members of the COM
mittee are: T. T. Munroe, chairman,
Nathan Mayo and A. C.. Cobb.
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The following members of the
Board of Trade have been appointed
to cooperate with the Woman's Vic
tory Loan committee and the board of
county commissioners for the purpose
Of compiling complete list Of Mar
ion county men who served in the
world war: N. P. Davis, chairman, W.
l. Armour and T. D. Lancaster Jr.
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Ocala has a cold storage capacity
Of 100000 pounds season.
The daily capacity of the canning
of "a cans each.
The population within a radius OF
sixty miles of Ocala is 125,000.
The National Rivers and Harbors
Congress proposes to introduce in
the Congress in Washington a bill to
promote the development and use of
waterways, and the coordination of
The bill will be drafted with a view
to preventing cut-throat competition
on the part of railroads.
A farmer in the southern part or
the county has new theory about
okra. He says that if he stoops low
when he plants the seed, the okra will
bear when the bush is only foot or
two high. But if he stands erect
when he drops the seed, he has to
reach for the pods when they mature.
The Market Day committee of the
Board of Trade has decided that it
will be best not to have another auc-
ton until the crops are laid by. This
will give the farmers better oppor-
tunity to take advantage of the sales
day.
The sound of the carpenters ham,
mer is heard in the city.
Chicago is planning a SIC, O,OO0, 900
building as a memorial to the men
who fought in the world war. In
cluded in the plans is provision for a
stadium for sports with accommoda-
tions for $4,000 to $4,000 people; two
convention halls with a seating ca
pacity of $4,000 each; a woman's
room; a Boy Scouts hall; a hall of
agriculture; a hall of education; a
Grand Army hall; an art gallery, and
war library. Houston, Texas, is
planning a History memorial build
| ing.
Ocala is getting s'bo-coo" conven-
tions. as the returned doughboy would
say. They just can not resist the cal
lof a good town!
Editors, prose writer's. poets, ar
fists and architects everywhere are
writing and lecturing and singing
about trees. They would delight II
OcaIa-"C City of Beautiful Trees"
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M. S. Virgins of the u. S. bureau
of markets, has desk in the Boarc
iof Trade room, and during the water
lmeIon season, which is now opening
will furnish daily telegraphic report:
lon the watermelon markets. crop anc
weather conditions.