The Ocala banner., 1922-03-24

Over $50 men are at work at the
plantation of the Pennsylvania Sugar
Corporation. a few miles above Mi
ami on the Miami canal
The big mill of the. J. Ray Arnold
Lumber Company at Groveland, Lake
cogG.y will be operated day and night
clEmencing at once This mill holds
the worlds record for production for
a single band mill having cut 114,000
feet of pine lumber in a ten-hour run
The claim is made that strawber-
ries brought to the farmers near Plant
City this season $4,000.
On March the Zephyrhills vege-
table Growers Association shipped
eleven crates of cukes, grown on its
large farm north of Zephyrhills, to
the New York market This was fol-
lowed on March IL, with shipment
or Slxty-hve crates.
The citizens of Tallahassee are
planning an up-to-date 100-room hotel.
In the contest" conducted by the
Gainesville News Miss Katheryn
Chamberlin won the grand prize, a s.
passenger Hupmobile.
Hanford MacNider, national COM
mander of American Legion, after
leaving Palm Beach visited Orlando,
Tampa and other places, and made
speeches.
President Harding ended his Flor
ida trip Sunday, rested and invigorat-
ed by his short vacation.
Mrs. Alice E. Shields was remanded
for trial on a charge of murder in the
first degree following a preliminary
hearing at DeLand Friday before a
justice of the peace growing out of
the killing of her husband early last
month. A negro, Pete Smith, arrest
ed shortly after Shields had supposed
ly met his death from ambush while
returning with Mrs. Shields from De-
Land to st. Cloud. at night is charg-
ad trith fhn aafnoI
Murray Sans has been named coun-
ty Judge of Volusia county by Gov.
Hardee.
Julian Prewitte and J. Gibson. two
we'll known Miami young men, had
left the city following warnings from
unmasked men who waited on them
Wednesday night. Prewitte was given
coat of tar and feathers. Before
leaving they told their story to JUS
tice of the Peace Okell before whom
they swore out warrants for the ar
rest of four men whom they said
they recognized.
Schools of Largo had to call on
public for aid to keep them from clos
ing-that does not speak well for
Pinellas county
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison
reached their winter home at Ft.
Myers Wednesday.
The owen-Cotter Jewelry Company
at st. Petersburg was on Sunday rob-
bed of jewelry valued at 100000.
Otis Strickland, a farmer who re-
sides a few miles from Center Hill
came in with forty-six crates of fancy
green beans, the first of the season
to be shipped from the bean center"
These were sold before they could
be unloaded on the platform to Jerry
E. Beville. a local buyer, who paid
$4.37 per hamper
1t is estimated that two thousand
carloads of tomatoes will be shipped
from Moore Haven this spring and
more than six hundred cars of pota-
toes. Trainloads of corn, peanuts, hay
and other farm products go out. Hun
dreds of cars of fish are shipped from
the two wholesale fish houses.
The grand jury in session at Fort
Lauderdale returned indictm ants
against II wire tappers-
Loyic Brandon, merchant and post
master at Brandon. lost his store,
building and stock, by fire Friday
night. The postoffice was located in
the store. and the effects of that
agency also were burned.
A colored drayman in Gainesville
arrested one of his race whom he