The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-06-28
OBSERVATIONS
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(Contributed)
Thrift is the watch-word Of Marion
county. How can anybody expect
money to get tight is d dry county?
Charity may begin at home, but We
notice that it seldom does.
Wondon how long it will take some
men who think the girls are smiling
or them to realize they are only laugh
Ing at them?
If Ocala is to have a white Way"
shining before next winter, it is time
the work of installing the lights be
pushed a little. Ocala has a bad habit
of putting things off-a decidedly
costly habit All proposed street
work should be finished before an
other tourist season.
We observe that the time is coming
when a man must be listed in Brau-
streets before he can talk on the
streets without a permit.
"Break in prices, twenty per cent
discount sales" read the advertise
ments. The only breaks we have
noticed come after paying the prices.
Every day Silver Springs is be
coming more and more popular. But
take it from US, don't risk any fool
hardy liberties with that beautiful
little body of water. One can get
just as wet and cold in the edge as he
can in the middle of the stream, and
has far better chance of living to
tell about the enjoyment of it.
| We don't mind seeing woman, or
man for that matter, get fat, but
when they go so far with it that every
time they shift positions their figures
change shape, they ought to get on
diet and take their daily dozen"
o. do something.
Butter, butter, where's the butter /?
In the early Christian era butter was
regarded as a medicine. Among the
Romans the use of butter distinguish
| ed the rich man from the poor, and
an exchange says eve have returned
| TO the Roman era and are rapidly APP
preaching the early Christian" We
approve of anything that will help the
ministers.
Yes, gentle reader, you can get
your name in the papers by break
fasting with your husband once a
week or by writing a testimonial fol
a pain-killer, but all that doesn't mean
that you've acquired a name worth
remembering after your grandchil.
dren are dead.
One of the fir2st things to be worI
by girls and boys is good manners
The girl or boy who stands unit
older people are seated, or who i:
alert to do gracious little services fol
every one, the ones who hold up theil
heads and be the gentleman or lady
when the occasion calls for consider
ate attention to the needs of those
about them, are the truly refined
JOcala has many such boys and girl
and they are the finest ever.
The man who boosts his home tow
IS a good citizen. He need not brag
simply tell the truth. Ocala men tel
the simplest facts about Ocala'
achievements, and then then some
times it sounds as if they were boast
ing something awful.
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When it's a hot time in our oil
: town, it is than that the seats abou
the courthouse grounds provide res
) for 1nany weary people. Placed d
: they are. in the shade of broa
) spreading oaks and palms, resting be
! GENES a real joy.
GIVE your farm a NAME" says a
! exchange, and the idea is a good on,
; unless the farmer happens to be in
: bad humor when he hears about i
: Then the name may not sound extr
!? fine to the super-sensitive.
3 ~
8 Everybody is singing the song {
8 the watermelon these days, that
q everybody in Marion county and som
Of those out of it who are forunat
q enough to receive some of the delit
3 ious melons she is shipping to all in
8 portant points.
3 Having a little pep in good {
9 bad thing, according to the way yo
!: look at it. Three charming wome
z recently motored from Atlanta
/: Ocala, their only weapon being Ii
!: tie box of pepper, which the stron.
Z est one of the party, so we are toll
!: held tightly clasped in her hands d
3 the way down.
8 A Boston scientist said the oth'
day that the silly, poisonous custo