The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-02-12

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Tampa. catering especially 70 stout
ladies. was in the city from Saturday
to Monday. combining business with
pleasure. having come for brief
visit to friends and to interview pros
pective customers
Caldweu's market is making
special price on stewing meat for
Saturday only See his ad in this
issue.-adv.
After spending a week very pleas
antly with his mother IT Lisbon. Jas.
X. McCAalland returned home Monday
night. While in Lake county he
visited Eustis and ether points on
business. and was accompanied home
BY mis- cousin. Miss E, q, NcCIelland.
Of Savannah. Ga. who is I trained
nurse. Miss NcClelIand will spend
several weeks here the guest OF Nr,
and Mrs McClelland.
I Geo. n. Rhode has finished making
I his cane crop up into syrup and he
! has some one hundred gallons OF
very fine article for use in his home.
Long sweetening and hot biscuits is
a diet that is hard to beat; and, II
there's any more sugar shortage, the
same Ions sweetening goes fine in
coffee. So Mr.. Rhode. amongst
others. has provided himself with a
supply OF sweetening for any emer-
-ency.
Miss Myrtle WASHINGTON is again
home here. after a prolonged absence
/ in Ohio and Texas. II Ohio she was
pvoftabiy employed in a responsible
position with q large rubber company
and she went out to Texas only re
Gently TO visit her father before re-
turning home. Her father, B. c.
Washington. is temporarily engaged
with Il big oil company, intending TO
later return here and giye attention
/ to his grove and home place on Shell
creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. f. VecQueray,
in whom Punta GorGans all feel a
/ friendly interest. are now relocated
1 in Arcadia at eos W Hickory street,
| in a house to themselves, where
their friends will always receive a
cordial welcome. Mr. VecQueray is
getting along fine in the finance Of
flee at Carlstrom Field and likes his
work mighty well but both he and
( his wife maintain an attachment for
/ Puata Gorda and they say that they
cannot get along without The Herald.
r. w. wilkins and family left
Tuesday for Harrisonville, Miss,
where they will make their future
home. Mr.. Wilkins having been call
ed there 10 take charge OF his father
Iin-law's valuable farm interests.
They stopped in Arcadia TO see Mr..
! wilkins sister, who was in serious
condition the first of the week.
Eventually. Mr.. Wilkins says, they
will return to Punta Gorda TO make
their home and expect to visit here
during the winters.
r. Z. A. Lee. after three months
spent In Texas with big naval
stores company. arrived here Friday
on visit to his family. Next week
he leaves for some point in Florida,
to which he will be assigned by the
same company, which has a number
of plants in this state. While hi
liked il in Texas. Mr.. Lee prefers 10
be located in Florida to be in closer
d, touch with his family, who will con
tinue to make their home in Punta
Gorda on account of the healthtut
ness of this locality,
A recent social affair that was
. greatly enjoyed by all who partici
pated therein was chicken pillat
' given on the banks of the Allapat
Be chee. near the steel bridge on the
= Tamiam Trail. Amongst those en-
a loving the occasion were: Misses
h Hazel Baldwin, Thelma Johnson
y Permelia Sraughan, Mary Smith
a Bette Rawls and Edith Ferndon
and Messrs. Dick Straughan, Coo
Allen, Ed Liberty. Raymond Reed
, Ed Smith and, John Young. Mrs
! Pearl A. Baldwin chaperoned the
party, which went out in cars anc
' afterwards enjoyed ride to various
points of interests on the highways
leading out from the city.
Col. Wallace Chadman, of Punta
Gorda. was in attendance at the
court house Monday - Attorney j
II. Hancock, of Punta Gorda, was
e here Thursday attending to legal
business A. B. Tucker, son and
daughter, Of Punta Gorda, were in
the city in their car Saturday en-
route to Tampa, where Mrs. Tucker
is in the hospital recovering from a
serious operation. Mr.. Tucker says
- that the tractor business Is good.-W
, NJ. Sturdy, of Punta Gorda. was at
/ tending to business here Saturday.
: Miss Faustine Shaver, teacher at
= Punta Gorda, was i'll at the home OF
r her parents, Prof and Mrs. p. G.
/ Shaver, here a few days last week
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