The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-03-03

cnpyIng rooms at Mrs. Lester's. left
for their home in Palestine. Ohio.
Wednesday.
Mrs. Joe D. Woodward of Barlow.
after a pleasant visit here to her
mother, Mrs. P. o. Rickman, went
home Wednesday morning. She was
accompanied by her mother.
! Bruce Sandlin has bought an up
to-date Ford truck and gone into the
Wholesale egg and poultry business.
he VIII buy from local producers and
ship to Tampa and other cities.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Henry Kinnard
and son Henry. of Spring Hill. Tenn,
VINO have been spending the winter
at Barlow, are visiting their old fri
end, c. w. Wade for a few days.
Mrs J. n. Skies returned Tuesday.
from Fort Myers. where she spent
several days at the bedside of her
father, Granville w. Bryant, who had
an attack of illness, but has now fair
ly recovered
Mrs. Charles Swartz of Winter
Haven, accompanied by her two
children, having enjoyed a ten-days
visit here to her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. F. L. Laubach, went home yes
terday morning.
The Civic Association meets at the
public library at o'clock, tomorrow
afternoon. The Eastern Star meets
at 1880 p. m, tomorrow. All memb-
ers of both organizations are urged
to attend these meetings.
DR.. j. T. Fellows of DesMoines,
Iowa, who, a month ago, was here on
a very sad errand,- take home the
body of his brother, who died Janu-
airy 29th, returned Wednesday night,
on a visit of indefinite length
Judge J. C. Boone, his sisters
Misses Essie and Lizzie Waterworth,
and his ssterin-law, Mrs. Water
worth, after having enjoyed a
months visit here to their relatives
of the several Hewitt families, left
for their homes in Salem, Ohio, yes
terday morning.
The biggest hotel in Florida gets
its pompano and other fish from Pun
ta GOrda. The hotel is the Royal |
Poinciana of Palm Beach, and the |
local shippers are the Punta Gorda |
Fish Company. The price paid for
pompano is forty cents a pound +. o.
b., and the hotel consumes weekly |
eight to- twelve barrels of two hund-
red pounds each of this prince of the
inny tribe.
A surprise in business circles yes
terday morning, was the opening of
a dry goods stock and store in the
room on Marian avenue formerly oc-
2uped by the Southern Dry Goods
Company, of which Joe Washington
was manager. The new proprietor
S H. C. Sheffield, manager of the
seminole hotel, who has now added
he mercantile to his several hotel
enterprises. He was getting in big
OF of goods when this scribe passed
lis store yesterday. He brought his (
amily down from Fort Meade, We'd d
lesday night and is now fully iden- s
ified with the interests of the town.
Il
Rufus StinsOn, a leading merchant |
If Carmi, Illinois, accompanied by his {
hree daughters, Misses Marian and
Ialen Stinson of Carmi, and Mrs. Fay
Craighead of Pennsylvania; also, his
)rother, Robert Stinson, of Mount
Vernon, Indiana. and the latter's
wife and daughter, Miss Mary Stin
on, composing a party touring the {
tate, arrived mere IEOHl lHt east
oast by way of Fort Myers, Monday ,
.fternoon and, after visiting their
riends of Colonel Holderby's and Dr..
IcQueen's families, left Tuesday
fternoon, for Tampa and Saint
'etersburg, where they will round out ,
he season.
Amongst the many Punta Gorda
eople motoring to Carlstrom field,
'riday, to see the aerial circus there,
,ere the following: Mr.. and Mrs. c. e
V. Caine, who went in car with the r
Mesdames Henry and IL
red Quednau; the families of S. j., CT
7. C. and C. w. Hewitt; Mr.. and Mrs. "
:. N. Brown; Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. a
-atewoood and daughter, Miss Irene "
and Mesdames T. P. tc
Douglass. Jessie Towles, Mr.. and Mrs. N
owles Douglass and four children. q
lost of them witnessed the death of n
ergeant Robert C. Washburn, who, >.