The Ocala banner., 1922-01-20

melon seed for planting.
The formal opening of Pollyanna
Inn, was the great event at Nakomi's
on the West Coast last Saturday
The building is the most handsome
in that section and is the pretty and
appropriate Spanish-Italian type
Some of the homes in Miami are
.e1ting for as much as one thousand
per month.
Mr.. Chas. IngersoH, of Tngersoll
watch fame, is to become perman-
ent citizen of Eustis
The attorney general, representing
the board Of commissioners of state
institutions, has advised the counsel
for the complainants in the suit in
stituted to enjoin the building of the
extension to the state capitol, that
Friday, January 20, will be an agree
able date upon which to present to
Judge Love the complainants appli-
cation for a temporary restraining
order
Attorney General Buford is assist
ed in the case by Hon Fred 7. Myers
and Hon. w. j. Oven of the Tallahas-
see bar, who will represent the citi-
zens of Tallahassee in the cause.
At the Worldwide pecan growers
convention held at Bend in Texas the
SchIey pecan grown by the Monticello
nursery at Monticello, Florida. won
the $25 prize for size and quality.
To honor the memory of Harry
Hiegel memorial tablet has been
placed at the Siesta Bridge which his
efforts made possible.
Pensacola is to have a Madri-Gras
it is keeping step with the Crescent
City, the mother of this delightful
feature.
Talk is made of harnessing the
Apalachicola and Suwannee rivers
and make them furnish power for
electric and other industrial plants.
Celery is now being shipped in car
load lots from Sanford.
GENERAL NEWS
One of the first acts of King George
after the establishment Of the Irish
Free State was to grant general
amnesty to all Irish political prison
ers.
Advisability of surgically separat-
ing Josefa and Rost Black. "Siamese
twins" from Czecho-Slovakia, will
soon be determined by Chicago sur
geons. DR.. Max Thorek, who will be
IN charge of the examination, explain
ed that the sisters fear the death of
the other. The examination will be
by the x-ray The women are "a
years old. They recently came to
Chicago to live in the foreign colony
after firing of exhibition work. Rosa
is the mother of an 11-year-oId boy.
Josefa is unmarried
q
Postmaster General Hays is ready
TO give up his postoffice job for
bigger salary from the movies"
Mr.. Henry Ford says that Wall
street is fighting his Muscle Shoals
proposition
Wyatt r. Taylor. one of the best
known naval stores men in West |
Florida, was shot and killed at mid |
night Saturday in the negro quarters
at Mayo by negro known only as |
Shorty. Reports say the negro had
beaten his wife and threatened to kill
her. Taylor went to the scene in an
attempt TO settle the trouble, when /
the negro fired shotgun loaded with
buckshot, striking Taylor in the
stomach The negro secaped and
posse is searching for him. Taylor
leaves bride of three months.
At Charleston, ILL.,, on Sunday. B. T.
Monroney, 81, with an AK slew his
entire family while they were asleep.
The farmer then walked calmly into
Sheriff Ayes office and confessed to
killing his wife. Kate, 46: his daugh-
ter, Ruth. Is and his SON, Harry, IA
On Last Saturday at Red Bank, N. |
j., a runaway airplane, starting from
the ice crashed into crowd of several |
hundred skaters on the Shrewsbury
river killing Mrs. Anna c. E. Houm-
han. severed the right arm of her
brother. Lewrence Conley, of Middle /
town, and slightly injured many 9th. |
ers. Thousands of persons gatheredI
along the river bank to witness ice
boat and skating races saw the acci- |