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New-York tribune., 1922-01-25
Harvard Student Body
Gives Boxing Approval

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Jan. 24.-The
Harvard student council this afternoon
set its seal OF approval on boxing as q
minor sport and the athletic committee
which had referred the question to
tins student body FOR sentiment, will
undoubtedly ratify to-day's vote next
wccl.
Harvard viii probably meet Yale this
winter and viii not broaden It's
schedule until next season.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-25
Crescent Squash Results

Four matches in the round robin
sam series Of squash tennis contests
we're played at the Crescent A. G. yes
Sy:suay afternoon. The results follow:
=. 5. McVaugh defeated n. s. Torrance,
-, l5-9; II. i. burroughs de-
,ssa'ed ,s /. =. Cyriot, 1o-12, lib,
n1S,-lo; J. {. I1csdwcll defeated
CCsarles y. Fyfe, 15-6, 11-~15, 15-8;
lander Burrows defeated Don Bel
lows, 15-7, 15-9.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-25
McCuigan Wins Shoot

READING, Pa, Jan 2A.--B. Franl;
McGuigan, Of Garrett Hill. Pa, to-day
won the eastern Pennsylvania handi
cap, considered ono OF the most i'm
portant live bird shooting contests in
the East, with score OF "a out of n
possible 70. There was largo nun,
Der Of competitors, many sections of
the country being represented.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-25
Jersey City Ball Club
Reported for Sale

1t is reported that tho Jersey City
baseball Club of the International
League is OIL the market and that
Charles ]. Moran is ready to dispose
OF the franchise and all the club, in
Guiding players and uniforms Tor s95,-
600
The Skcetcrs have been perpetual sec
ond divisoners since the re-cntry of
the club in the league, ard Moran is
reported 10 have been a heavy lohnr.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-25
Richards Meets Anderson

The match between Vincent richards
and Frank T. Anderson will take place
tonight ss scheduled. under the aus
pices Of the Marquette Club This ie
the third time thai theso tvo cham
piong h&vc boon or the indoor tennis
courts IN the roof garden Of the Ritz
Caltou Hotel On the frat occasi on
Anderson defeated Rcl,nrds. and tbs
oecond time Richards was the victor.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-25
Postpone Baseball Practice

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. 24.-The
illness OF Bernie Tommcrs. Yale base
ball and basketball coach, has caused
postponcmcnt Of the first attempt at
baseball practice at Nalc. Tommcrs is
confined to his home herc with very
severe cold, but stated he hoped to be
able to start the Blue at work in the
cage ON Thursday OF this week.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-25
Horace Mann Hockey Victor

Horace Mann defeated Pcly Prep at
hockey at the lSIst Street leo Palace
yesterday afternoon by a acose Of 3
goals to j. The game was featured by
the great playing Of Captain Reese and
Ellinger, of the Horace Mann sextet.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-25
Bouts Hereabouts
THURSDAY

THURSDAY
1924 Medical Rcgiment-SoIdier Jcn.s
W. Jim Green, Is rounds.
FRIDAY
10th Reximent Armory-Jse Boyki~
". Joc DE Costa. Is rounds.
SATURDAY
R'nE s. Chilly MIsks W. Jaeh
Nenault, Is rounds.
RID R.dsewootl Grove S. C.-Freddy
hfese vs.: willie Thomson. lc rounds.
Nommonwcsifh =. C.-Abo GoIdstoiu
vs.. frankie Curry. II rounds.
4'th Regiment ArmorN--Joo FOX u
Jimmy hchOlsic. I. rounds
New-York tribune., 1922-01-25
NJ. A. C.. Sextet Beats An,hcrs,

AMHERST. Mass. Jan. 24.-Nassa
cnusetts Agricultural College defeated
Amherst at hockey TO-DAY, to o. Cor
don scored the lone goal.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-25
Equal Court Rights for Women
Advocated by Tennis Expert
Ladies of West Side Club Which Would Curtail Fem.
'ninc Privileges, Rank Higher Than Male Mem
bers; Also Have National Champion Mrs. Mallory
By Fred Hawthorne

Whatever the ultimate decision Club Of Forest
M as to the right of tho placed on an eoua
oasis Win inc men, thcre
excellent grounds for their that allowed have coa
use of the courts with the
New-York tribune., 1922-01-25

Bout Bet'Ueen Willie Jackson
And Charley White POSTPONED
boxing Commissions Ruling That Club Nav
HOLD Only One Show Week Causes Rickard
10 De'er battle Scheduled for Next Tuesday

~ ~ VI cheAns which blew into their annual cxh,h,
% 'nls Weekend have than wa, =,
$50 "s''o Ahcfc VIII be boxing Richards ,r.n. 49,
- % moreover the Boxing Commission halt to tn
for next Tuesday. ~ ' ""' VI 's's''Y scheducd
New-York tribune., 1922-01-25

~ appears that the Garden promoter
overlooked the commissions rulinr
which permits club to stage only onn
show a week. As Rickard had nre-
vlousiy cardcd the much discussed Joe
bcnJamin-Johnny Dundee affair for
friday, February 8, he was left with
TWO shows for the same week. After
the notice from the commission Tox
decided to hold his regular Friday u; oht
show and postponed the jackson bout
White and Jackson will probably meet
on February "a.
Goldstein to Meet Curry
The Commonwealth Sporting Club
in Harlan will be the main works on
Saturday night and Matchmaker Tom
stuart has planned to make the best
OF The opportunity. He is going to
put OF show that Will rock Harlem
70 its Central Park foundations. In
the first place he has landed Abe
Goldstein. Did you ever heard that
particular lady in the audience when
ever Goldstein fights, shouting: "Abev,
Go got him Abey."
Abe is ono OF them there proteres
OF the famous kearns- Mex ettric],
Lewis com bnation. and he is about the
l"eShcsC piece or machinery we have
looked at IN recent weeks. Abe will
mi% matters with youth named
rankic Curry. We have a distinct
ieeilne OF sympathy for Frankie. Curry
comes from Harlem. Tho Con,mon-
wealth Club is in Harlem and Frsnk;c
won't nave far TO go.
Ia tho semi-iinal Tommy McAlcer
tie West Side weltcrwcigh will take
on Jimmy Gray, scrappe, who has
been making name for himself in e- 20.
cent months. They will 60 twelve
roCnds or less. One twelve round bout
Will prcccde this affair.
Jimmy Johnston's Fistic Follics will
b. shown TO the public for the first
time at the Fourth Regiment Arn,orv
IN Jersey City on Monday cvcn;nr.
January so. Don't overlook. this show'
~ Is the best thing Of its kind in the
llnmedlate ofiing. Young Rockcfcller
VINO looks like 4 million dollars; Fred
blei, the furious fireman. and ali the
rest OF the the Johnston show viii be
put on for forty rounds Of boxing. All
the contestants are boys who Iarbor
the thought thst they can win the
World = heavyweight championship from
Jack Dempsey. 1t is possible that one
OF them may. 1t viii pay any ore to
see this skyiarl1.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-25

'Apprcntics allowance five pounds
claimed
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27
River Being Polluted

Several m n t h ago, Burdett
Loomis, Jr., of the American Agricul-
tural Chemical Co., was petitioned by
the people of Wauchula and other up
river towns to discontinue the prac-
tice of dumping phosphate washings
into Peace river, this practice being
Objectionable on account of its effect
on fish and the fact that the water
made unfit for bathing, and Mr..
Loomis promised to have the nusi-
ance abated. Lately, it seems, the
practice has been resumed and larger
quantities than ever are being dump
ed and fishermen claim that the tar
pom fishing this spring will be very
poor on account of it. Protests have
been filed with Mr.. Loomis by the
Punta Gorda Commercial Club and
the County Board of Trade.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27
Last Day of Hunting Season

January 81 is the last day on
which wild ducks and geese, coots,
gallinules and Wilson snipe or jack
snipe may be hunted anywhere in the
United States under the federal law
which prescribes seasons on migra-
tory game birds. This law, which is
administered by the bureau of biolo-
gical survey of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture provides,
however, that the carcasses of birds
killed during the open season may be
for an additional period of
ten days following the end of the sea-
son if state or local laws do not pro-
hibit it. The possession of carcasses
of wild ducks, geese, and other migra-
tory game birds in cold storage plants
after February 10 renders the own
ers subject to prosecution in the fed
eral courts.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27
HOME TALENT PLAY TUESDAY
WAS SUCCESS IN EVERY WAY
"MicrObe of Love" by Local Talent
Delighted Large Audience;
House Full

The largest audience that ever at
tended a pay" performance in the
high school auditorium was present
Tuesday night, when local talent pre-
sented The Microbe of Love- de-
Iightful comedy. The entertainment
was given under the auspices and for
the benefit of the Women's Civic I'M
proVement Association; and to say it
was a success, is the mildest compli-
ment that it deserves.
Thirty-one ladies and gentlemen
constituted the cast, while there was
a chorus of fifteen pretty girls.
Every character of the thirty present
ed was depicted with such excellence
as one would expect from only veter-
ans of the stage. Indeed, the acting
was an "eye-opener" to all those win
ter visitors who attended and, for the
first time, witnessed a demonstration
of the ability of home talent. They
and many others were heard to re-
mark, after, the performance, that
Punta Gorda did not need to send
away from town for first-class amuse-
ments, for there is plenty of material
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27
CONSOLIDATED TITLE co.
wins S19,2OO.OO IN The
DeSOT0 CIRCUIT COURT
Gets $1S,OOO.OO for Books and ST.
10000 Damages; Local People
Were Interested

According to the DeSoto County
News of January goth, valuation of
SIS, 900 on the books of the Consoli-
dated Title Co. was set in the circuit
court of DeSoto county recently in
the replevin case against the Florida
Trust and Banking Co. and the jury
assessed damages of $1,000 in favor
of the title company for being de-
prived of the use of these records
while the case was in litigation.
Litigation in the affairs of the Con-
solidated Co. started about two years
ago, when the secretary of the COM
pany, which had three offices-one at
Arcadia, one at Kissimmee and one
at Fort Myers-authorized the sale
of the company to the Hughes Bank
ing and Trust Co., which later be-
came the Florida Banking and Trust
Co.
The stockholders of the company,
some of whom are local people, re-
fused to ratify the sale of the Arcadia
office, but the bank had possession of
the books and the stockholders
brought suit to regain possession of
the property, with the final result as
stated above.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27

thing necessary to insure the success
|of the good roads movement" said
one man a few days ago, ''is to pre-
sent a definite proposition, with every
element of uncertainty removed so
far as possible by surrounding the
money with all proper safeguards. +"
During the past two weeks large
number of people have been inter
viewed and asked for an expression
of their opinion on the subject of
bonding and good roads. A few ex-
pressed themselves against bonding.
but the larger part of those inter
viewed seem to be nearly of the same
mind, and their opinions might be
summed up in these words
I'VE need better roads and must
have them, and ! am willing to pay
my share of their cost; but / want
to know where the roads are to go,
what they are to cost and how the
money is to be spent"
All of the great amount of discus
sion during the past week or more
seems to have resulted in clearing up
points at issue, a crystalization OF
sentiment and a getting together of
disagreeing elements.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27
PASTOR BAPTIST CHURCH
USING PAID ADVERTISING
Convinced of its Value from Results
of Distributing Bulletins
Around Town

w. N. Swain, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Punta Gorda, be-
lieves in advertising, and as he be-
lieves that faith without works is
dead, has started series of paid
advertisements, the first of which ap-
pears in this issue of the Herald. II
made a test of the power of advertis-
ing to bring people to church a few
days ago." said Rev. Swain. II dis
tributed our church bulletin about
the hotels, restaurants and business
houses of the town and the Sunday
following we hardly had room to
accommodate the people who came.
The next Saturday did not distribute
the bulletins and our Sunday congre-
cation was far smaller than on the
Sunday" The preacher is
evidently proceeding upon the pre-
that is a little advertising
is good, more advertising is better.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27
MANY FREE ACTS WILL Be
Big FEATURE OF SOUTH
FLA. FAIR and CARNIVAL
Auto Polo, Daring Flying Acts, Horse
Races and Other Amusements
Will be Free.

The amusement features provided
for the patrons of the South Florida
Fair and Gasparilla Carnival this
year-February 2-11-will keep pace
with the general expansion of the big
exposition and amusement providing
affair. Sensational free acts which
will be shown in front of the grand
stand each day, auto polo games, dar-
ing flying acts, running races for fast
horses; these are the principal
amusements open to all without cost.
Then Johnny Jones' Great Exposition
Shows will be on the Pike, as usual,
only Johnny has a greater lot of fun
makers and curiosity-p ov o Xxi g
shows than ever before. Jones
shows have just completed a great
season in the North, and are always
at their best at Tampa.
The Gasparilla Carnival, staged an
nually by Ye Mystic Krewe of Gas
parilla, is, of course In a class by
itself, which accounts for the tens of
thousands who visit Tampa to witness
the annual return of Ye Mystic Krewe
of Gasparilla. This year the pirate
horde will invade the city the after
noon of February 6. That night the
annual feast of the Krewe will take
place, and the following night the
ball, with accession OF
Gasparilla XIV and his royal consort
to the throne, will occur at the
Bay Casino.
Take a week off and spend it at
Tampa. Or at least, spend a few
days here looking over the great fair
and enjoying the sights.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27
FORT OGDEN WAS A GULF
PORT AND HAD WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER IS YEARS AGO
Old Newspaper Furnishes Interesting
Bits of Local History of the
Pioneer Days

An echo from the past came to the
office of the DeSoto County News last
week in the form of an issue of the
Fort Ogden News, which was publish
ed February 25th, 1887 by Lee Null
ford, who was referred to in the Fort
Ogden paper as former editor of the
Pine Level Times.
According to the DeSoto County
News, the old paper refers to men
who now are well known as citizens
of Arcadia, which is mentioned in an
advertisement of a realty firm of Fort
Ogden as a coming community.
The advertising rates as published
at the masthead of the News would
cause merchants in Arcadia today to
gasp and cry for help. The rates are
naively set as 81 an inch for transient
advertising. This price is scaled
down until it reaches the nominal
rate of rs cents on condition the ad-
vertiser contracts for space for year.
Punta Gorda at that time was
known as Trabue and references are
News to the rapid development of the
town. According to this account, the
railroad company was completing the
big tourist hotel on Charlotte Harbor
and several business houses and resi-
dences were being built.
County division was agitated even
in those days. A notice apears call
ing the voters to meet at the hall
over ]. o. Carr's store to elect dele
gates to a county meeting at Pine
Level, county seat of Manatee county,
in which county division was to be
discussed. Fort Ogden then was in
Manatee. Appended to this notice is
the name of C. ]. Carleton, who, by
the way, was representative from
Wauchula in the recent county divi-
sion movement which resulted in De-
Soto county being split up into five
parts.
An advertisement invites hunters
to sell bird plumes to Simons &
Carlton, who promised highest prices
for them.
Other advertisements reveal that
land was selling at $3.50 an acre for
unimproved property and up to $40
an acre for land planted to groves.
An item of interest is an account
of the wedding of j. L. Jones, now of
the DeSoto Abstract company, to Miss
Mourning Johnson. Both at the time
resided in Fort Ogden. The cere-
mony was performed on the evening
of February 23 at o'clock by the
Rev. Mr.. Hull in the home of the
brides father, w. A. Johnson, county
tax collector.
In 1887, thirty-five years ago, Fort
Ogden was seaport. Sailing of the
fast schooner New Venice" is adver-
tised from there to Tampa, with three
round trips a month.
Naples was being surveyed and
plated as townsite and many ref
erences to the surveying work being |
done are made.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27

SENTIMENT IN FAVOR OF PROPOSED BOND ISSUE FOR
ROADS SEEMS TO Be GROWING, But PEOPLE WANT
ASSURANCE OF PROPER HANDLING OF THE MONEY
Much
Days Results i'm Better Understanding
o

That sentiment favoring the pro-
posed issue of bonds for the purpose
of building Charlotte county's por-
ton of the Tamiami trail has grown
and is continuing to grow is indicated
by expressions of citizens in all walks
of life during the past week, during
which time there has been great
deal of quiet discussion of the matter.
Several leading citizens who few
weeks ago expressed themselves as
undecided, or opposed, after giving
the matter further consideration,
have reached a favorable conclusion
or have changed their position. This
change in sentiment on the part of
these people is perhaps the result of
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27
MANATEE and HARDEE ARE
PLANNING HARD ROAD TO
CONNECT THESE COUNTIES
Wauchula and Bradentown Have
Reached Agreement; Road May
be Started at Once

The following from the last issue
or the Manatee River Journal, pub
hshed at Bradentown, Will be of in
terest to local people, and bears out
statement made in last weeks Her.
aid to the effect that within a short
time road would be built from
Bradentown to Arcadia, which, unless
the Tamiami trail is put in good con-
dition, would have the effect of turn
ing coast-to-coast travel away from
Punta Gorda:
Last Thursday the Board of Trade
committee that was appointed to look
over the proposed road to Wauchula
went out over the road from Parrish,
and found road graded twelve
miles, and with a sixty-foot right of
way cut clear to the Hardee county
line. The road runs exactly east
from Parrish, and is a road that can
be built very economically. as there
are but very few places on the road
that will require much of a grade.
The most of the way slight grade
and the proper bitches to drain the
road will put it in shape for the sur
facing. This road is an important
proposition for Manatee county, it
will connect with Wauchula and give
us connection with the state road
that goes from Sebring to Fort
Pierce, and make a short cross-state
road, and will give the people of
Wauchula and Hardee county an out
let to Bradentown and to Anna Maria
Beach, which is about thirty miles
nearer than any other gulf beach to
the people of that section. Going
north from Fort Green Springs will
be a connecting road that will con-
meet Bradentown and Manatee coun-
ty with Barlow, and the good roads
of Polk county, and thus give us an
outlet to Orlando, Daytona and jack
sonville, twenty miles nearer than the
present road through Tampa
THE committee met a COMMITTEES
from the Wauchula Board of Trade
and the Hardee County Good Roads
Association in Wauchula, and found
these gentlemen ready to meet us at
the county line with a good hard
road. Hardee county is planning a
million dollar county bond issue, and
aIuong the roads TO be built are one
to connect with the Parrish extension,
and one to connect with the Polk
county road north of Fort Green
Springs, so that with the building of
ten miles of grade, and the hard sur
facing of % miles Manatee county
Hardee counties, and get a much
shorter route to the north as well as
to the east coast.
'"The plan of another road to Wau-
chula via Ona is also considered as
well as the building or road to Ar
cadia. This would be an extension
of one of the roads provided in the
District One road
in this going out to Rye, and this
road can be extended TO the Hardee
county line this side of Ona.
"The road to Arcadia would be an
of the road out from Oneco
to near Verna, that is provided in the
district.
"All three of these roads should be
built just as quickly as possible, for
they will all open up fine territory
that has rich agricultural possibili-
ties. We hope to see work on all of
them well under way this year"
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27

and capable artists right at hand.
Truly, the performance was a brill
liant success from beginning to end
and in all particulars. Each and
every one participating merits special
mention, but the large number engag-
led makes this impracticable and it
must suffice to say that it is the YER
dict of the more than three hundred
people present that they never have
enjoyed a more pleasing entertain
ment.
The financial proceeds were very
satisfactory, being over $4,000 net,
half of which went into the treasury
of the Civic Association.
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informal conferences on the subject
at which points in doubt were cleared
up and Misunderstanding smoothed
out, but while there has clearly been
an increase in the number favoring
the proposition there are still those
who are undecided.
If conclusion may be reached
from discussions heard on the streets
and in meetings, those who a few
weeks ago predicted that it would be
hard to carry a bond issue have lost
great deal of their assurance, while
the advocates of the proposed issue
are more confident than ever that il
would carry by large majority if
the election were called. "The only
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27

Cabbage from Moore Haven is be-
ginning to move for the northern
markets. Several carloads are being
shipped this week. Beans and pep
pers continue to go forward in car
lots. These crops have so far es-
capped the frost and are bringing good
returns to the farmers. There are
also quite lot of eggplants coming
in from the early fields which were
practically abandoned when the mar
ket went bad a month ago.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27

The showing of livestock of all
kinds at the South Florida Fair,
period of Feb 2-11, will be greater
by approximately 100 percent than at
any previous showing in Tampa.
Breeders of fine cattle and hogs, not
only in this state, but from other
states, have already engaged space,
and the fair association is adding
largely to the housing accommodations
for these valuable thorobred animals.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27

The big government dredge, Sara
sofa" is at work five miles above
Fort Myers at the jetties in the Caloo-
.sahatchee river, deepening the chan
mel to seven feet. The work has
been going on steadily for the past
two weeks since the dredge came up
on the work and it is reported that
very satisfactory progress is being
made.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27

Statistics show that Orlando's man
ufactured products were over So
100000 for the past year and were
only exceeded in volume by four
other cities in Florida.
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-. MY CITY AND | -.

is my S founded where is
where children
my dwell and where life is chiefly
the home spot for
city a right civic loyalty. supports me,
L support it,
city my citizenship-no partizanship
oshness co-operationnot dssension sympathy-not
cricism intelligent support-not Indifference.
supplies with law and order trade friends,
cation of a free-born American
believe n my city and work
And
II
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-27

Is the county seat of
Charlotte county. Popu-
lation Of town, 1920 CEN
sus. 1925. Increase for
10 years % percent.
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