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The Punta Gorda herald., 1919-05-15
w. B. Sealey Opens Hotel at
Punta Gorda.

The Seminole Hotel in Punta
Gorda has been leased by w. B.
Sealey of this city and was opened
for business under the new man
agement yesterday. Mr.. and
Mrs. Sealey have taken charge Of
this popular hostelry and will
both personality supervise the
work. 1t will be remembered by
many in Arcadia that Mr.. Sealty
survived a most severe attack of
Influenza and pneumonia which
confined him to his bed for nearly
two months, and by the direction
Of the physician was advised to
live near the salt water. In con-
versation with Mr.. Sealey yester-
day, he asked that Arcadia fri.
ends when visiting his city make
him a call, that he would give the
best service possible.-Arcadia
Enterprise, May 9th.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1919-05-15
BIG Day BIG CROWD
BIG DISAPPOINTMENT

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they have not been brought
back" We differ from him.
We had a right to expect just
what those in charge of the cam
paign promised. P. T. Barnum
said that the American public
love to be humbugged and it is
evident that the dear public has
not changed since Barnum Is day.
They are getting what they SO
much love, too.
The people gathered in numbers
Monday and, as there was nothing
else to attract their attention,
they all attended the ball game.
People came here from all over
the surrounding county, and from
Arcadia and Wauchula, to see the
hydroplanes and they were also
disappointed.
A. P. Jordan, editor Of The Her
aid. telegraphcd Chairman Griffin
and received message that the
planes were crippled and were
being repaired and that he hoped
to get them here by Tuesday
moon.
Chairman Griffin and the Tam
pa newspapers have stated that
the quota of the Punta Gorda dis
trict is $4,000. This is errone.
GUS. Our quota is $36, 100, and
then it is twice what it should
have been. Punta Gorda is
debtor station and the town and
most of its people are in debt.
There are no men of great wealth
here and the money in the banks
is mostly deposited to pay debts
and is not fair data from which
to figure our quota.
Miss Carey made an address at
the Baptist church Sunday night
for the Victory Loan. 1t was a
fine address and well received by
those present. Miss Carey is "a
native of England and has travel
ed extensively. She came Sun
day and remained over Monday
to help out in the work and re-
turned toA her home at Ft. Laud-
erdale Tuesday morning. She
was to have made an address
Monday.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1919-05-15
WE ARE over THE TOP
NO Discount on the Patriotism OF
Punta Gorda.

For ten days past, the daily
papers OF the state have kept
standing a statement that Punta
dorda's allotment of Victory
Loan Bonds is. $51 100000, and,
based on this, some unkind and
ullJustlhable reflections have been
maze upon the patriotism of this
to"9. ~ n The allotment given Pun
Ia, Ia Gorda was $36, 10000, which
was twlce too much; nevertheless,
o9p S9e cit cltlzens have subscribed for
S?O,1oo'oO OF this last loan. The
pirectors of the First National
tS, Hank, meeting Tuesday night, au-
onorlzed oll the bank to subscribe for
on 00nV1gh 9tg TO put Punta Gorda $1OO.-
W over the top"
BESIDES this, Mrs. A. P. Jordan,
TWGuhIy W;y chairman of the Wcman's s
tbet Tbictofy Loan Committee, reports
INA that the womeil's allotment for
.ne county has been over-sub-
ba bc'l9ed Our women can always
Ie 9', depended on to dc" their full
uu'y' God bless them.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1919-05-15
A Personal Card
To Whom it May Concern:

To Whom it May Concern:
There have been several rumors
going around town about why
Miss Alderman discontinued her
position as clerk at Kinsel & Go. s.
Let it hereby be understood that
Miss Alderman quit of her own
accord, and was not "fired," as
tattlers put it, nor was my wife
to blame for Miss Alderman s
leaving. Scandal mongers, take
warning and do not tell things
you cannot prove in court.-A. j.
KINSEL. 1t.
Despite these rumors, ] am
still selling goods cheaper than
anybody else in DeSoto county
A. j. K.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1919-05-15
The Base Ball Game

The game with Wauchula Mon
day was the first in which the new
team has participated and they
went into it with little or no
practice as a team. The game
resulted in score of,10 to in
favor of Wauchula. Nine in
nings were played.
p The Punta Gorda lineup was
as follows: Danielson, catcher;
Cooper, pitcher; Blazer, / b;
Lancaster, 2 b; Blount, 3 b;
Rasch, s; McLane, f; Pond, c
f; Washington, f.
Cooper's pitching was Of super
ior quality, but he lacked support.
Rasch, short-stop, made several
phenomenal catches.
The team is now reorganized
and is going out after the scalps
CT every other team in sight.
They hope to have the support of
the people of the town and are
endeavoring to get 7. G. Crosland
to become their captain and r. c..
Blount, the manager.
Every one wants to attend the
next game and watch Cooper s
Fourth of July wind up"
The Punta Gorda herald., 1919-05-15
MANY LIKE THIS
IN PUNTA GORDA
Similar Cases Being Published in
Each Issue

The following case is but one
of many occurring daily in Punta
Gorda. IL is an easy matter to
verify it. You cannot ask better
proof.
=. Keen, prop. blacksmith shop,
Sullivan St., says: 81 have used
Doan's Kidney Pills and found
them to be just as represented.
At times my back would be. lame
and weak and my Kidneys didn't
act just right. A few doses of
Doan's Kidney Pills have never
failed to give me relief. ! am
glad to recommend this remedy
and advise others who suffer with
kidney trouble to give it a trial. +"
Statement given March 4, 1911. J
On April 4, 1918 Mr.. Keen said !:
81 have had no occasion to change
my high opinion of Doan's Kid
|ney Pills since / gave my last en-.
dorsement. / know Doan's are
just as represented /"
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don t
simply ask for kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the
same that Mr. Keen had. Foster
Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N.
".
The Punta Gorda herald., 1919-05-15
SCHOOL BOARD MEM
Der HITS BACK
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|
moter of the modern promiscuous
dance, would not give it Sec
ond thought; but coming as it
does from the editor of the Tam
pa Tribune, man of intelligence
and education, of observation and
experience, and one who ought to
know that the power of example
is greater than that of precept,
and that the modern promiscous
dance is an evil fully as far reach
ing and dangerous as The open
saloon, j must say that I fail to
understand the Tribune's position
in the matter, either fro ma moral
or Christian standpoint.
The DeSoto County school
board is now, and has been for
many years, emphatically oppos-
ed to our teachers or our larger
pupils attending dances or play
ing cards during the school term
and ninety per cent. of the par
ents and all of the best element of
the people are opposed to these
frivolous and dangerous diver
sions. This "do-as-you-please |"
proposition, the motto of the Hon.
Tribune Editor, does not appeal
to the DeSoto county school board
as being in accordance with
Christian civilization, which is the
only safe foundation for any gov
ernment. Indeed, if these Christ
ian principles are not taught, en-
dorsed and sustained by any Soc
ial group, the fabric Of the social
world, will become cankered by
selfishiness and licentiousness,
with strong tendency toward
the hellish platform of bolshev-
ism.
This Florida dictator says we
have no right to impose these
restrictions upon the teachers.
The law gives us the right, not
only of supervision, but of con-
troll, and under this law we have
the right to eliminate anything
that is detrimental and to encour-
age and promote everything that
is beneficial to the best interest of |
the children while they are being
taught in our schools. In other
words, it is our duty, under this
law, to establish and use our best |
efforts to maintain high stand
ard of moral and religious educa-
tiOn.
Personal contact is the greatest |
danger point in the modern dance,
the waltz, for instance (which is
"hugging" set to music), is doing
more to ruin the character Of
young and innocent girls than
any one factor in the catalogue of
pernicious influences. At any Of
these public balls you will find
the selfish libertine (vultures in
human garb) who attend these
public dances for the sole purpose
of destroying the virture of young
womanhood, and / say that any
man or set of men who would not
put in protest, at least, against
such a gigantic evil are not what
they ought to be.
The writing Of the editor of the
Tampa Tribune reminds me of
the writing Of Lord Byron; the
only difference is that Byron
wrote with the quill Of goose,
Dut the Tribune man writes with
The brains.-H. A. WARE in Ar
,adia News.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1919-05-15

When the baby taxes too much food
the stomach turns; the result is indiges-
ton. sourness ana vomiting Frequently
the bowels are involved and there Is
collie pains and diarrhoea. McGee's Baby
Elixir is 4 grand corrective remedy for
the stomach ana bowel disorders OF ba-
bies. II is pure. wholesome and pleasant
to teke. Sold by all druggists. adv.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1919-05-15

Mrs. Alice ,Edmunds, formerly
cf' Bermont, has returned from
spending the winter in st. Peters.
burg and is at the Blazer Cottage
preparatory to returning to the
farm.
The Punta Gorda herald., 1919-05-15

Potatoes are going out of Hast
ings in train loads and prices are
splendid. Everyone who grows
things in Florida should have
made money this year.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
MAY CHANGE 5TH AV.
ZONING REGULATIONS
Board of Estimate to Get
Opinions at Hearing.

The Board of Estimate and Appor
tonment will hold a public hearing on
the morning Of Friday, September 26, at
10 80 o'clock in room Is, City Hall,
to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of a modif-
cation of the existing provisions of
coming regulations in so far as they eff
feet the height of buildings which may
be erected in the Fifth avenue district
North of Sixtietb street, Borough of
Manhattan. 1t has been suggested that
the height of such buildings be restricted
to seventy-flvo feet and that this hmi-
tation should apply to the section
bounded by Fifth and Madison avenues
and the cross streets between north
of Sixtieth street.
Petitions have-been submitted to the
board urging that this change be made
primarily for the purpose of securing
uniformity in height of buildings along
Fifth avenue, the advocates of the plan
urging that such a course will tend to
the preservation of the attractive APP
pearance of this representative Man
haitian thoroughfore adjacent to Gen.
trail Park, which is practically the last
residential section left in the Borough
of Manhattan In which the erection of
high buildings has been scarcely begun,
and 1t will also undoubtedly tend to an
increase In the city's taxation revenue
by reason of the enhanced values which
will result IL this proposed limitation is
approved.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
TO SELL 5TH AVENUE
MANSION AT AUCTION
A. c. Sheridan viii Dispose
of Janison Property.

The magnificent private dwelling at
1905 Fifth avenue, between Eighty-first
and Eighty-second streets, is 10 be of
fered at voluntary auction on Tuesday,
September 80 at IL o'clock. on the
premises by Arthur c. Sheridan, auo-
tioneer.
The residence is the property OF John
Jamison of Philadelphia, who purchased
1t at private sale more than year ago
Il is probably the best appointed house
for it's size in "Millionaires' Row. and
contains over thirty rooms and about ten
baths. 1t is six stories on lot 25x10O.
and the building covers the entire lot,
has excellent light and air in the rear.
Adjoining is the Hall residence, and on
the corner OF Eighty-second street is
the James b. Duke property. On the
block to the north is 1915 Fifth ave-
nue., which George j. Gould sold at pri-
vate sale last week for $225.000 to
former Ambassado James w. Gerard.
a few blocks to the south, at Seventeen
street. Is the Cook mansion, which was
recently sold at private sale for s275,000.
Referring to the sale of the Jamison
property, Mr. Sheridan said yesterday:
at is unusual to offer a fine private
residence of this character at public
auction, but a sale is necessary because
Mr.. Jamison is occupying an apartment
near by and finds no further personal
use for the property. Several offers have
been made to purchase at private sale.
and in order TO allow all prospective
buyers of a Fifth avenue house to par
ticipate in the bidding for the new own
ership 1t was decided to let me offer II
at public auction on the above date,
with the provision that there shall be no
reserve and that 1t shall go for the high
bid"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
ro,;p FLATS CHANGE HANDS.

r. Mcdowell has sold the elk story
Elevator apartment house known as
~. creylene, at 610 West 1920 street.
sSioIning the southwest corner of Broad
az Tor the New York and New Jersey
pssi,v Company to clients Of Jacobs
4 Livingston.
The property measures 7bx1oo feet
and was held at s150.0oo.
IN. wesley, a nine story apartment
hou,e. 6e.sx102.2, at 15S and 100 West
TIghty-hrst street. adjoining the Cen
trai church of the Disciples of Christ.
has been sold by William c. Mott. The
huIlding was erected some ten years ago
nv the Wesley Construction Company
fiohn W. Knight president). 1t Is as
ssssed at 100000.
tina Stanton Improvement Company Is
reported to have bought the Delaware
anartnent house, at $40 and 622 West
Isad street, a six story elevator struc-
tura T5x9o, held at $4,000 and renting
FOR $4,000. The Alvin Realty Com
many John d. Mason president) Is the
owner T. q A. Pincus and Morris L. Gold
stone have sold to client Of the E.
sharum Company the Avoudale. a six
story elevator apartment house. 50x100,
at 2sS-290 West Ninety-second street,
arranged for twelve families and rent
Ing for s16.650. The property was held
at 100000. The purchasers were
represented by Morris Salpeter and the
sellers by Charles Meyers. M. Hor-
vitz was the broker.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
PASSAIC MARKET ACTIVE.
Some Buyers Planning to Build
Private Homes.

Completion of the s25o.OO0 improve
ment by the Lackawanna Railroad and
the city of Passaic. N. J., In the vicinity
OF Passaic avenue, over which the rail-
road has constructed a concrete bridge,
is causing a stir in the realty market
in that section of the city, according to
tho RowFand-Johnson Company The
firm has sold fifty foot plots In Van
Hcuten avenue for Michael f. Burns
to Robert f. Carey and Willis L. Scot
and has received inquiries from several
others. The purchasers will erect new
homes on the sites.
The Rowland-Johnson Company re-
ports a total of 100000 in recent sales
OF homes as follows: Garrett Baker
home, 255 Gregory avenue, to Joseph
Rose; for Louise Discard homestead at
PSI Monroe street to Harry Raurer ;
for William Gieseler house at 262 Howe
avenue to Mrs. Marie Grossman: for
Athena Land Company the house at
los Central avenue, Athena, to Philip
Larson, and at 100 Central avenue to
AXel Hagberg and the Frank e. Moore
house at 80 Spring street to Mrs. ]. z.
s. Berry
Tho company also sold a fifty foot
plot in Brook avenue to William New
kirk for the Passaic Realty and Con-
struction Company and eight city lots
owned by John T. Fenlon at Overlook.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
J. p. DAY WILL SELL
LOTS AT ST. ALBANS
Queens Home Sites viii Be
Offered Next Saturday.

An opportunity for home seekers 70
buy sites for their future homes before
the cold weather sets In and to build
ncxt spring is presented in the offering.
at public auction by Joseph p. Day.
Of 372 moderate priced lots at ST.
Alhans, Queens, near the ST. Adams
station of the Long Island Railroad and
the st. Adams Golf Club. The sale
will be held rain or shine, on Saturday.
September 20, at 2 I. NJ, on the
premises.
Farmers avenue. which Is tho loca-
ton of a number of the lots, is the
principal thoroughfare In the st. Adams
Jamaica district and is the centre Of
a large number OF attractive suburban
homes. The balance of the lots are
nearby on Kenmore. Mayville and
Fletcher avenues and adjacent streets
st. Adams is twenty-siX minutes from
the Pennsylvania Station. Manhattan.
and the Flatbush Avenue Terminal.
Brooklyn. II Immediately adjoins the
new and highly improved residential
colony KNOWN as -Addislsigh-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14

house on the property also announces
that he will contract to build houses SIM
liar to the one on lot 70 for $4,000.
This opens up an entirely new prop
osition at an auction sale. The person
who is new living in an apartment and
paying $3.50 ia 5000 year rent should
be able to buy lot, put up house and
live in 1t for about one-half the rent he
is now paying. Not alone will he be
living in his own home, which means
everything to man with a family, but
the knowledge that all improvements he
is making, all /the work he does, will
accrue to their benefit is a tremendous
satisfaction" the auctioneers say.
This Is what the early settlers in The
Bronx did, and as time passed on the
lots became more valuable, and as they
grew older they had nice little nesr
egg for their old age.
In looking back at least twenty or
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14

twenty-five years in The Bronx, at the
various auction sales that have been
held. the enormous increase in the value
Of Bronx property is clearly shown. For
instance, at the various auction sales
held. such as the Mas the Eaile and
the Vyse estates and others too numer-
Gus to mention, lots were sold from $500
to $4,000 each. and to-day these lots are
worth from $4,000 to $4,000 each, or
ten times the amount for which they
were sold at auction.
"Of course, the buyers have had to
pay taxes and assessments and for the
improvements of the property, but these
assessments were payable in ten annual
instruments so that there was no great
hardship In meeting them. Besides they
have come along so slowly that pay
ing them has been like depositing money
in a savings bank. Then it must not
be forgotten that every dollar paid
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
LOT BUYING IN BKLYN
is GROWING POPULAR
Sale Of Rugby Section by
Harmon Co. ShoUs Ac-
tiUity of Buyers.

That the tide has definitely turned
toward the absorption of vacant land
py others than builders is indicated by
'ne success Of the present sale OF lots at
nyae Park in the Rugby section of
Sfooklyn. This property Is south of
Snureh avenue and extends along both
sues or Utica avenue. William e. Har-
mon q Co, Inc, put the property on
sd'e with the guarantee that improve
Hents would be completed as fast as
p0sslole, and to date they have sold
hundreds Of lots. This is but the be-
ehuhlhg OF sale which will no doubt
Ontinue all through the fall. The con-
s Sa1 Just concluded with the Mellen-
STUART Corporation for the erection of
se nrst 100 house unit of a 1000 house
guiding operation on Hyde Park will
SUI greatly to the attractiveness of this
''1 Uy to prospective home owners.
william E, Harmon & Co, Inc, also
ppeport the following sales on their
brooklyn properties;
On ther Marlboro property: Two
-" m West Sixth street, near Avenue
70 a. H. Romeo; two lots on West
.urd street, between Avenues o and p,
g A. +. Lanigan; two lots on West
e"lh street near Twenty ave-
Tue 70 4. Dweck; two lots on West
tn.h street, near Avenue p, to Miss
~ a. Hart, and one lot on West Fourth
near Kings Highway. to NJ Blom.
81 "av@rly one LOT on East Fifty
nnln street. near Church avenue, TO u.
io four lots on East Ninety-sixth
ssr near Avenue A, to r. A. Louis I;
one lot on Tilden avenue, near East
nty-eighth street, to NJ e. Matthews !;
'e lot on East Ninety-eighth street. TO
sherman; one lot on East Ninety
pshth street. near Avenue A. to Mrs.
ehhah Gollup; two lots on Avenue b.
Sar East Eighty-ninth street. to
EnoHlas Manning; two lots on East
"'y-nlnth street, near Church avenue,
~ A V. Gustavson. and the corner Of
s.saas avenue and East Nlnety-iirst
A'eet to Henry wuIn
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
Assistance to Be
Given Buyers of
Lots Who Need
Money to Build
House Erected on.
Prop er ty as a
Pattern

Apartment dweliers who bavs haen
converted to home owning by the ire
mendous Increase In rentals in the last
six months will naturally be inter
ested In the sale of the Stern estate by
]. Clarence Davies and Henry Brady
next Tuesday.
1t Is practically impossible to obtain n
hve or six room apartment in any fairly
good neighborhood for less than s12 n
rccm' or rental Of from $50 to $50 a
month. or $3.50 to 5000 a year. -
The wonderful improvements made by
builders Of ready made or model houses
as they are called. have made people
turn toward the idea of buying a lot and
putting on 1t one of these model dwell
lhgs which are easy to buy and very
quickly built and made for the purpose
OF permanent home.
with this idea in mind the auction of
tno zo4 lots on the Bronx and Pelham
PARKWAY, which comprise tho Stern
estate. is particularly interesting.
During the Pershing parade wednes-
day an aiplane flew over the specta-
tors, sc0 tering thousands of handbills
announcing sale. A woman who found
one or these on her hat called at Mr..
Davies's Office for a map. She said she
must buy some Of the lots, for she re-
sarded the circular as a message from
heaven directing her to do SO.
In speaking of the sale Mr.. Davies
said:
These lots will be sold absolutely
without any conditions or protection for
whatever they will bring No matter II
they bring $50 or $4,000 each they will
he sold. The buyers will have the oppor-
tunity Of picking up lot on which they
can put a model dwelling and live in
their own home for about one-half the
rent they now are paying in apartment
houses
"A model dwelling has been built on
lot 70. Which cost $4,000 and which will
also be sold at the auction. This was
built to show the buyers of lots what
they can do after purchasing"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
TRINITY PARISH HOUSE SOLD.

The Trinity Church parish house, at
IS and 90 Trinity place, southwest cor
ner of Thames street, opposite Trinity
churchyard and overlooking Broadway,
has been sold to William d. Fitzpatrick.
The land is about 75x75, and the build
Ing is four stories and basement, sur
mounted by a belfry. 1t was planned
by the famous church architect r. NJ.
Upjohn. Trinity is planning to erect a
modern parish building suited to the
present needs Of the work carried on in
this neighborhood. The parish building
was erected in 1871, and while ade-
quate at that time 1t has in recent years
been found i'll adapted to modern parish
work In conjunction with Trinity mis-
sion house at 211 Fulton street and the
St Paul's parish house on Church
street, the new building to be erected
will provide the facilities needed for
the work which Trinity has carried on
for so many years in the downtown
region.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14
ScHERMERhoRN BUILDING 80

street and north to Pine street The
property surrounds on two sides that OF
the First National Bank at the northeast
corner Of Broadway and Wall street.
and on account of its area and frontage
on three streets is regarded as one OF
the most valuable holdings per square
foot in the lower downtown section.
For many years the building has been
the home of conservative banking and
brokerage houses. Several OF the prom
inent law firms have offices there.
Former Gov. Charles T. Hughes and his
firm have their Offices In the building
The sale of the Schermerhorn Build
ing, which was reported exclusively in
THE Sun of September 10, Is regarded
by real estate men as one OF the most
important sales in the downtown section
|. this year.