The Punta Gorda herald., 1920-05-13

evening. where they met Mr.. Hurton,
who accompanied them home.
Miss Clyde Smith went to Avon
Park yesterday with Mr.. and Mrs. C.
E. Lanier in their car and will en-
joy visit there as their guest.
Miss Ethel Oliver, a teacher in the
Avon Park school, returned home
Friday to spend the summer with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. Oliver.
George w. Gatewood, formerly
with the Herald, but now connected
with the DeSoto County News, spent
Sunday at home with his family.
Dr.. H. ]. Mulholland, of Solana,
left Wednesday for a summer trip
that will take him to New York.
Chicago and a number of points on
the great lakes.
B. B. Cannon was among the Pun
ia Gordans who attended court at
Arcadia Tuesday. He went up in his
car and was accompanied by Mrs
Cannon and Mrs. Mizell.
Miss Alice Goulding has been at
home since the closing of her school
several days ago. From here she
will go to Jacksonville to visit hcr
sister, Mrs. Walter Morris.
Wanted - $4,000 little alligators.
viii pay 10c each and will take all
you can bring. Bring as many as
possible at the same time.-Kinsel &
Washington Fur Co. 19ady
Mrs. Henrietta James Gardner, of
Punta Gorda, was a guest at the
Renaker-Dixon wedding, which took
place at the Simmons Sanitarium
Arcadia, Saturday.
Miss Maude Morgan. assistant in
the local post office, contemplates a
vacation trip to the Yellowstone
Park in Wyoming, on which she will
start soon to be gone month or
longer.
Attorney J. H. Hancock, Col. Wal
lace Chadman, Marshal J. II. Lips
comb, s. F. ]. Trabue and John Oh
sen were visitors to Arcadia Monday,
attending to business at the court
house.
Punta Gorda friends of Henry L.
Dotson, jr., will be interested to
know that he is prospering in
Syracuse, N. Y, where he is employ
ed in an important capacity by the
Robt. A. Keasbey Co., of New YORK
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Kinsel left
Tuesday morning for Newton, Ills,
where the latter will remain indeit-
nitely in the hope of being benefited
in health. Mr.. Kinsel will return
here in a week or two. Joe Gate.
wood and Miss Carrie Lewis arc
looking after the dry goods business
during Mr.. Kinscl'8 absence, and Joe
Washington is looking after the ful
business.
Rev. II. G.. Kenney preached his
farewell sermon in the Baptist
church, Sunday night, and on Mon
day morning left for Nashville, Ga.
where he has accepted a call to the
pastorate of the Baptist church OF
that city, a larger field in which ht
feels that he can do a larger work
Mr.. Kenneys departure from Punt;
Gorda is generally regretted for ht
is a young and energetic man, fine
pulpit orator, and was doing gooC
work here. On the occasion of hi'
last service here, others of the loca
churches cancelled their appoint
ments or closed early and the attend
ance at the Baptist church was un
usually large.
: Mr.. and Mrs. II. L. Dotson anC
granddaughter, Miss Lillian Turner
; left Wednesday morning in their cal
for Benton Harbor, Mich, where Mr.
Dotson owns a fine peach orchard anC
. where they will spend most Of the
summer. Mr.. Dotson had made
. specal preparations for the trip b.
the addition of number of ingen
ious conveniences to his Ford sub
urban, which make ii as comfortable
and convenient as a Pullman
Roomy lockers were constructed OF
the side, where a great quantity Ct
things needed on the trip may b'
carried without being in the way anc
by an arrangement devised by Mr.
Dotson the three seats and theil
backs can in few moments be con
verted and used as a bed. The CA
lis electrically lighted throughout
and Mr.. Dotson claims he has the
most complete and comfortable tour
ist car that has ever been devised
On the return trip to Punta Gordt
next fall Mr.. and Mrs. Dotson vii
visit Henry Dotson and Mrs. P. l.
Eddy, in Syracuse, N. Y, their sol
and daughter.
The timber of Florida is valuable
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