The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-12-09
OCKLAWAHA


II had not been requested to omit
the snake stories, I'd tell about one
that crawled from Mike Meffert's
log pile. fronting John Lewis store
and met the latter in the road !:
might have stung him, had not a
colored gentleman hailed him with
Look Out! Mr.. Lewis, where you
gwine."
A tin pan tourist, returning from
Tampa after the storm, reported so
many live sea shells blown ashore
and decaying he had to leave in order
to get to a pure atmosphere. (don't
mention it,
We were made more than happy
recently to learn that the property
fronting on the lake to the east of
"Vagbond Lodge" had changed hands
and there would be no more 50x150
lots for sale on it and we would be
safe to count on" elbow room in
the future.
A Mr.. Stanton purchased of Mr.. Nc
liver the land lying between our lodge
and the Reagan place, now owned by
Mr. Harison3 Will build himself
home on it next spring.
Mr.. McIver's home on the lake is
becoming more and more popular as
the summers. roll by. Last summer
there were from one to three appli-
cants wanting it. Mr.. McIver is"dif-
ferently disposed from some of the
other property owners on the lake.
He does not chase around and fish
from other docks and then stick
notice ON his Please Keep off This
Dock This Means You" McIver says
Come along all my my friends
and enjoy yourself
We have more than one funny char
acter on thea lake. Find them among
the Christian people: They will take
offense at a trivial matter, compose
the most horrible tales about their
neighbors in the form of a letter, then
send for the neighbors come and
read it before it is mailed out. 1t is
mystery to some of us why their
presence on the lake shore docs H.,
make the fishes die, like they did in
extreme Northwest Michigan this
summer from heat This information
was given me by visitor from Boyne
City, Mich. who was here two win
.crs ard stopped here one time-they
can't stay away.
A Mr.. Kingston with home in a
Dodge Truck" stopped over night,
staid ten days. Told us goodbye and
left Went by Leesburg, Eustis, Mt.
Dora and to our surprise came back
Said he could find no suitable place
to stop and his wife said ''let us go
back home Lake Weir) said they
had travelled over all the country,
been down east and west coast of
Florida, this time decided to try the
interior route and liked it much bet
ter. In all their travels had not found
spot they like SO well as the north
shore of Lake Weir. He noticed his
heolth improved on short notice.
A Mr.. Brown from Ohio is occupy
ing the Common home on the lake.
Employed at the Muck farm by Mr..
Young who is working night and day
with dredges to convert the Ockla-
--aha river valleys into farms.
Three families from Kentucky oc-
cupied one of the Common cottages and
Miss Annie Davis's for month.
Found work in Ocala after failing fur
Their south and moved up notch.
Our sand pump at Sandy Hook con-
tinues to run all day. Almost daily
daylight till dark quite lot of build
! ing must be going on somewhere
l had an opportunity recently to
make couple of hundred thousand
dollars, but when got wind of it, that
the government would swipe 70 per
cent of it for war tax, | decided it
was not worth the while and / in
vested my money, in non taxable
government bonds, bought myself a
house on wheels and told the mot
so fortunate" class they might try
loafing awhile. Goodbye.
w. H. C.