The Ocala banner., 1922-08-25

death The brother obtained 2 war
rant for the arrest OF Singleton. Nc
motive for the alleged killing has been
developed.
A phenomenal crop of early grape
fruit is reported by John Frohock.
former sheriff of Dade county, who
will on Monday begin packing and
shipping fruit from his grove near Mi
a.c The trees bloomed in November
an the fruit is now thoroughly ma
ture, six weeks earlier than is usual
ly the case.
The Tavares Herald some little
while ago announced the coming to
that place of the Essential Oil Com
pany. which proposes to manufacture
oils from flowers and plants. Now
it tells that the manager of the COM
pany is preparing to build five houses,
presumably for occupancy by people
concerned in the industry 1t can be
seen at once how even a small in
dustry will benefit a place.
Preliminaries are being cleared
away now for the opening of the big
crate mills here-the Mutual Crate
Company and the Avon Manufactur-
ing Company-within the next twenty
days. according to J. A. Caldwell, gen.
eral manager for both. They prob
ably will open Monday week. The
two mills are being turned up to pro-
duce two and a half million crates,
which will bring into Avon Park more
than a half million dollars within the
next ten months Eighty per cent of
this will be left here for labor, ma
terials, stock dividends and interest
on bonds.
Taking strychnine for quinine caus-
ed the death of Mrs. Mary Lou Hare,
of Bristol, few days ago, according
to an investigation which followed
the demise of this lady who was held
in high esteem by all who knew her.
Mrs. Hare had been suffering with a
slight fever and sought the medicine
chest, intending 10 find the Quinine.
Her husbands mother was with her
at the time. Procuring what she
thought was Quinine. she showed il to
her mother-in-law, and they both
agreed that it was the durg sought.
Mrs. Hare swallowed it and in few
moments began to feel peculiar. tell
ing some of her relatives she felt
queer, and began to get dizzy. There
upon she wen. to her bed and threw
herself across the same In thirty
minutes she was dead. Her husband
and two little children survive.
BY holding The wool clip for few
weeks ANA turning down the first
offer for the same, sheep growers of
Walton county are reaping a benefit
therefrom. W. L. Cawthon of De-
Funiak has been handling wool sales
for quarter Of a century for Walton
county people and upon the occasion
several weeks ago Of the exceedingly
low prices offered, he urged the grow
ers to wait. The wisdom Of that ad-
vice is seen in the fact that the entire
clip was sold few days ago at 35
cents the pound, an advance of sew
eral pennies over the original offer.
It is believed that Accent wool is
coming shortly, and that such price
would have obtained this season had
the clip have been held a couple of
weeks longer. The buying was ac-
tive and the demand good.
That avocados thrive on the Ridge
soil as we'll as citrus fruit seems
amply proven by the huge Seeding on
the Donaldson grove on Trout lake
which now has 1000 advocados ripen-
ing and weighing fully a pound each.
They will be picked during September
and October. A half a ton of fruit
from one tree for one crop is record
that it is believed locally will com
pare fayorably with any tree of any
species anywhere. The young bud
ded avocado trees on the Donaldson
groves, according to Thomas E.
Moore. superintendent of the property,
also have a considerable crop for such
young trees. Mr.. Moore reports an
other avocado prodegy-a Taft avoca-
do tree on Mrs NJ B. Marsh's prop
erty on Lake Brentwood, which has
eleven fruit weighing more than two
pounds each besides a heavy crop of
lighter weight fruit
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