The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-09-29
La BELLE

Operations have ceased temporarily
at the tie camp but will resume the
last of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Youmans have gone
| to Immokalee to visit their two
daughters during the bad weather.
Throughout the flood Mr.. Magill
has maintained perfect phone service
with Fort Myers, Moore Haven and |
Arcadia.
Mrs. G. W. Aiken has been attend |
ing a case at Owanita the past week
and is expected to return within a
few days.
Mrs. Mary Dreyer is teaching the
Sunday School class that was taught
by Bruce Hall before he left for col
Ilege in Kentucky.
Ben Parker and Deputy Sheriff
Barnhill stopped for dinner Saturday
at the Royal Palm on their way
Through the water from Moore Haven
Ito Fort Myers.
Mr.. Bede Hobby came through
} from Fort Myers Saturday morning
and returned. He reported only
about 100 yards in very bad condi-
ton where pushing was required.
L. L. Jepson states that the recent
rains have not interfered with the
growth of his peppers The day the
, river was at its peak he cultivated his
field which is on the prairie north of
town.
: Uncle Bob Isaird of Devils Gar
den is reported as still suffering from
the snake bite he received couple
of weeks ago but ne has ben about
and using his injured hand continu-
ously.
About thirty per cent of the pu-
pills were in attendance at school
Monday morning. They were dis
missed and told that it had been de-
cided to give them all vacation for
the coming week.
pitching horseshoes is in full swing
again at school before school, during
recess and after classes are over. In
another week or so the school champ
lion will have been determined and
will be strutting about town with a
blue ribbin in his lapel.
Air Pilot Adams, whose plane turn
ed up and broke it's propeller in a
potato field southeast OF Palatka, is
now staying with Mr.. Delaney wait
ling for repairs to be made on the
machine in Fort Myers.
Word comes from Gainesville that
all three of the local boys who enter
led the state college as freshmen, Dan
IG. Mccormick, Wilfred Stewart and
IGlenn Magill, have been retained on
the varsity foot ball squad.
Harry Turner made a trip to Tam
Ina last week in the car of mystery
This machine was Ford sedan
found upside down in the ditch near
IDenaud by Bill Blount who brought
lit to the LaBelle Garage and put it
lin running order. How, when or why
lis the mystery, but it has been re-
turned to the fortunate owners.
MI. DbldHcy lOIIhtiJ
plane has been shipped to Fort My
ers and is being repaired there. 1t
was being driven for passenger hire
near Sanford when storm came up
and enyeloped the plane in mist. The
pilot managed to MAKE his way into
cultivated field nearby and gradual
Ily settled into the soft earth. Just
before coming to rest the wheels
stuck in the mud and the machine
nosed over. No serious damage was
done and no one was hurt.
Saturday afternoon long dugout
Ipiloted by lone traveller came silent
Ily up the ditch in front of Mrs Hub
bard's home and parked" to a tele-
phone pole. Several neighbors pur-
chased a good supply of bananas from
the newcomer and during their con-
iversation found out that he had just
LANDED in town from the Devils Gar
Iden having made a two day trip by
Icanoe through the woods to Goodno