The Ocala banner., 1921-08-12
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Told in Paragraphs With Notes and Comments

The Florida State Fair and Expo
sition, which not only draws thou
sands of visitors to the metropolis of
Florida every year from all over Flor
ida, but from Southern Georgia and
Alabama, will be held one week earli-
er this year in Jacksonville. The dates
are November II to 19, inclusive.
Ground has been broken in Gary
for the plant of the Southern Bottle
Manufacturing company which, it is
stated, viii be in operation within so
days, and will be the first plant OF
its kind in the state, notwithstanding
the fact that raw material abounds
and that weather conditions are ideal
for the manufacture of this product.
A detachment of the guardsmen are
guarding Henry Hamilton, negro,
for fear Of lynchers Hamilton is ac-
cused of the murder of Mrs. ]. b.
Lee who was foully murdered on
Saturday night in her home supposed
" by burglar. A white man is under
suspect thought also guilty OF the
crime.
Miss Lena Clark, who shot w. III.
Miltmore in her rooms in an Orlando
hotel and who is now occupying the
front page of all the newspapers In
the United States. says that Joseph
Elwell, New York sportsman and
whist expert, mysteriously shot to
death in his apartments last year,
loaned her $4,000 in 1918 to cover
her postofiice shortages.
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Fort Myers will soon have large
doll factory. One of her citizens has
invented and patented a walking
DOLL" and has finished one hundred
of the dolls and the trade is so pleased
with them that the company he has
organized known as the Florida Doll
Manufacturing Company" has booked
already orders for 100000 of them, SO
steps have been taken to erect a big
factory to supply the demand which
seems to create itself. This doll can
when led walk forward or backwards,
up and down steps, bow and PERFORM
other stunts.
Mr.. J. F.. Rock, the gentleman who
discovered the cure for leprosy, was a
recent visitor to Tampa. He is visit
ing Florida for the purpose of study
ing the soil and climate conditions
for growing the chaulmoogra tree, the
oil of which cures this oldest and
most loathsome of disease Mr.. Rock
returned to America some months ago
from Burma, British India, and will
sail Aug. 20 from New York, via Lon
don, to Siam and northwest China, on.
a trip of three years, to look for thir-
ty-two different species of the same
genus of trees, to study their fruit
ing habits and make analysis. Young
trees are now growing
nicely in seed beds in Miami and
brought from Washing
ton, d. c., this spring, says Mr. Rock
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According to the census of 1920
there are 71,S11 illiterate persons ten
years of age and over in the state of
"illiterate" meaning, unable
% write. OF this number, 55,639 arc
negroes and 1896 are whites. In the
'otal population ten years ago and
,ver the percentage of illiteracy is 9.6,
which, it is gratifying to note, shows
! diminution since 1910, when it was
3.S. In the case of the negroes the
declined from 25.5 to 21.5.
md in the case of the native white
# native parentage from So to 81
There is more illiteracy in the rural
districts of the state than in the cities,
he percentage being 12.2 for the ru-
al population and 5.4 for the urban
Cor the native white population of
lative parentage the rural percentage
II illiteracy is 4.3, while the urban is
~. In the case of the negro popuia- |
ion the population is 27.4 in the rural
population as against 1913 in the ur-
ian.
By counties the percentage of illit-
'racy ranges all the way from 31.4
n Jefferson county to 2s in PineIlas
county.
GENERAL NEWS
Gaunt hunger it is said has reduced
he soviet government Of Russia to
'apid ruin.