The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-11-11

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Colonel Hancock went to Arcadia
on brief visit, this morning.
The Commercial Club meets Friday
night-every Friday-at 8 o'clock.
J. E. VanCamp, lieutenant for a
big phosphate company at Mulberry,
spent Sunday here visiting his family.
l.. NJ. Carter of Attleboro, Mass
is expected to arrive at Cleveland,
where he will spend the winter, al
most any day.
The regular meeting of the local
chapter of the Eastern Star, Friday
night, was well attended and proved
very interesting.
Professor A. E. Riley, principal,
and Miss Alice Strickland, one of our
high school teachers, were visitors to
Tampa, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tell Christensen of
Boston, Massachusetts, arrived last
Friday to spend the winter as guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Cor&m
H. Clay Bowman, an eminent bust
ness man of Cleveland, Ohio, arrived
here, Friday, and will spend the win
ter as guest of the Blazer cottage.
e. c. Jackson has disposed of the
Punta Gorda Fish Market to R. 3.
Singletary, who will conduct the
business in the future. Mr.. Jackson
will conduct an oyster house on the
dock.
A two-story addition, which will
enclose the stairway, is being made
to the Masonic lodge building. This
improvement Will add two small
rooms to the building, one upstairs
and the other down.
| T. ]. Miller, known to his friends
as kid" Miller, formerly a popular
barber of this place, now prospecting
aC farmer and orange grower of
Bowling Green, spent yesterday shak-
ing hands with his Punta Gorda
! friends.
Mrs. L. G. Hoffman of Arcadia,
accompanied by her two children,
spent Sunday here visiting her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. w. Gatewood.
Her father, the able city editor of
the Arcadia News, accompanied Dor
hither and back
Mrs. Eta Schaeffer and her friend,
Miss Ruth Cate, arrived from Stevens
Point, Wisconsin, Monday night, and
are occupying rooms at the rectory.
Mrs. Schaeffer is pleasantly remem
| bered from having spent winter
here during the time the lamented
DR.. Albert was pastor of the Pres
byterian church.
Saturday afternoon, when Mrs. d.
H. Huckeby, of Cleveland, was emery
ing from an alley into Marian avenue,
/ little Louise Wade ran in front of
| the HuCkeby car and either slipped
down or was knocked down by the
car, but was not injured. 1t was
said on the street that Mrs. Huckeby
had run over the child, but this was
not the case.
Mrs. Dora Withrow and three little
children, one of whom is a girl and
the other two twin boys, arrived
from Charleston, West Virginia
Friday night, and are occupying
rooms in the Will Jack building or
Marian avenue near the council room
. Mrs Withrow is a sister CT George
w Cleek, a we'll known citizen. She
. will furnish the rooms in the Jacl
building and take boarders.
. The open season for wife-huntin.
: began on Monday morning, whel
!. Dave Warren, wearing his Sunda,
I clothes and most enticing smile
!. started out on a quest extending
: from here to Tampa. He went frs
!. to Arcadia, expecting to obtain Their
: a license signed in blank and fill i
!. out on finding the object of his hunt
!: He is a fine fellow, and we hope h
!. will get as many wives as he needs
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