The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-01-29
LOCAL ITEMS


|; day in Arcadia with her mother.
!: DR.. H. F. Smith arrived Tuesday
!. and will spend the winter here.
!: Ansco cameras and films at Coch
: ran Drug Co.--adv.
!: Thomas E. Roberts was a visitor
!. to Arcadia Saturday afternoon.
!: J. NJ. Weeks was visitor to Wau-
cEula the first part of the week.
|: ]. w. Langford was a business VS.
!. itor to Punta Gorda Tuesday.
!: Born. to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gas
: kill, Thursday, January 22nd, a son.
/ Born, tc Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
!. Watterson, at Charlotte Harbor, Sun
! day, January 81 a daughter
. LOST - Masonic keyst me pin.
Return to c. L. Vandercook, Tourists
Club rooms, and receive reward. sit.
: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Steele, of
Fort Myers have been enjoying a
; visit to kindred here
. A portion of a small house near
the ice plant was destroyed by fire at
about 2 o'clock Saturday morning.
c. H. Allen, who has been a guest
OF 7. s. Grisgs, left for Key West.
Saturday.
Mr. ard Mrs. S. Mohr, of Savannah.
; Ca, spe2t a few days in Pu1ta Gorda
this week.
J. Mizell left Tuesday fer Palatka
to attend the convention of Repub-
leans being held there today.
Robert and ]. R. Rawls, of Lee
Branch, were in town on business,
Saturday.
Mrs. VIM. H. Schmidt, of the Hotel
Punta Gorda, was a visitor to Ar
cadia, Saturday.
FEEDS, FERTILIZERS AND
CRATES. - l.. VI. WRITTEN,
AGENT. 9t4h.
c. b. Grassland. who has beer here
visiting his brother. T. c. Grassland,
left Tuesday for mis- home in South
Carolina.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. X. McCIelland |
had very pleasant trip to Tampa |
the first of last week, returning Wed !
nesday. 4
Mrs. y. L. Williams, census enum-
crater Of Barlow, was in town the
2Sth on business with the supervisor,
Mr. Adrian P. Jordan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Gearhart, of
Dayton, Ohia, who have spent the
past three weeks in PuntC Gorda,
left Monday for home.
L. D. Clinkscles, of the Radcliff's
chautauqua bureau was in town last
week making arrangements for the :.
of the Chautauqua early in
February.
In reporting the recent entertain :
ment given for the Y. w. G. A. one =
number of the program was unin- n
.entionally omitted, viz: vocal solo :,
BY Miss Elsie Ridder, of Aracdia,
who responded when encored. :,
Furs! Furs One of the biggest I
md best fur houses in the United
States will pay cash for your furs.
See me about it.-JAS. X. Nc
drawer B, Punta Gorda, r
Fla. Aft
There will be an excursion to Cap
iva Saturday for the benefit of the
Episcopal church, the boat leaving -
he railroad dock at a. m. Tick y
ITS may be procured at Cochran's q
trug store or at the rectory. - y
Guy Cornelius, of Dayton, Ohio, -
Who has returned home after a few .
weeks spent here, writes to Mrs. ~
that everything in Dayton ~
S covered with ice and snow and -
avs that he wishes he was back in
'unta Gorda
John Hurton, jr., left Monday 81
lo~ning for Sarasota, where he went 70
D accept a lucrative position with or
he municipal lighting plant of that 70
lace. His family remains here, but at
ill join him in Sarasota in few
eeks. G,
Mrs. ]. Rutherford, daughter,
Iiss Rutherford, and son, ]. Ruther- W.
ord, jT., are recent arrivals from st. fir
outs, Mo, having joined Mr.. Ruther- we
,rd, who came down early in the N,
Ill, to spend the remainder of the re-
inter.
A. L. Morris and wife, of Atlanta,
a., were visitors to Punta Gorda orr u,i,
lie latter part of last week, being 1t
ere on short visit to his friend, cd
r. w. T. Ascher, of Atlanta. Mr.. gis
Id Mrs. Norris were delighted with
unta Gorda and he suggested to
lends that they form club to be act
imposed of Atlanta people, build a the
ubhouse here and make this their str
winter home. This is dol
r. Norris first visit to Florida and VIII
will please Punta Gordans to know dis
at after visiting some of the more ira
etentious resorts of the west coast pre-
Is the more favorably impressed spr
tn Punta Gorda as a site for a wo
inter- home. me