The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-03-19

chant. several walks ago.
Sheriff NJ. NJ. Whifehurst. Of PineiIas
county, has been summoned by Gov
ernor Cats to appear before him On
March Both to answer charges that
have been filed against him. If he
fails to appear and does appear and
does not give satisfactisfactory ex-
plantations he will be removed from
office.
Mr.. F. A. Beatty of Plant>City sold
in one day 7O4 quarts of Strawberries
for which he received 1897. rs.
Miami has doubled her population
in less than five years.
The University of the south has
made a radical change in policy. Keep
I ing in touch with the trend of the
times it has opened its doors to WON
en-.
/
Mr.. John L. Branch, for a number
of years tax collector for Hillsborough
county, died at Raiford Friday night
of apoplexy. He was serving a five
year sentence. He had been found
guilty of embezzlement He leaves a
widow, son and two daughters.
I
Bodies of about $4,000 Of the Amer
1ican dead in France will be returned
ito United States, while between 20
1000 and $4,000 will remain permanent
EIy inferred overseas, Secretary of War
Baker informed Chairman Wadsworth
of the senate military committee.
| Charging that the members of the
jury were breeders of lynch law"
Judge j. B. Ray in superior court at
Hendersonville, N. c.. dismissed the
jurymen who returned verdict Of not
guilty in the case of Cornell Talley,
aged seventeen, on trial for the MUIR
of Will Erwin, an Etowah merchant,
several weeks ago.
Three hundred and sixty-eight
checks for growers of castor scans
have been sent to Floridians and fifty
three today, with many more in sight
Immediately, was the record showed
Senator Park Trammell Saturday
asked that the remaining checks be
sent out as quickly as possible and
this he was assured would be done.
In Miami recently there were five
big sales one day and the total value
of the exchange was over quarter
of million and the properties We're
homes except one apartment house.
One residence sold for $4,000 and
another one brought $4,000, while the
apartment house changed hands for
$4,000. !.
! Down in Lakeland BURGERS cooley
go into store, pack up five or six
thousand dollars worth OF dress goods,
toss them on an auto and decamp.
The owner of the store can now adj
vertise remnant sale.
The Okeechobee News reports a
catch of $4,000. pounds of catfish
which sold for $4,000 spot cash. 1t was
the result of two hauls of seine in
Lake Okeechobee, and the News re-
marks "the fishermen earned more N
single day. than the governor does
in month"
t Sponges brought into Key West by
/ two boats recently sold to a local
buyer in that city for 1922, ayerag-
| ing nearly 81 bunch, which is said
to be an unusually high price. They
were of wool sponge variety, and Of
splendid commercial value. TIE
sponges were secured in the lakes
among the keys, forty and fifty miles
east of Key West.
The hotel proposed for erection on
Munyon Island. part of the Harry s.
Kelsey development, will be, in the
language of member of Mr.. Kelsey's
staff, "The finest of its class in the
south.
The pink paper, so long a feature
of the East Coast, has ended it's ca
reer. 1t has been consolidated with
the Indian River Star and Editor
Walton retires on account Of 81
health. For twenty-eight years the
pink paper has been issued under
the name Of the East Coast Advocate.