The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-07-14

| identification prints tor any future
needs.
a good rain, the first in a week
fell here yesterday afternoon.
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Miss Bonnie Coston went to Fort
Meade, last evening, and will visit
kindred there for while, after which
she will so to Lakeland and pay a
visit to Mrs. d. j. Hobbs.
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r. B. Singletary is getting ready to
go to the Big Cypress, where he will
camp in big wild-orange grove and
collect a quantity of seed of the fruit
with which to plant a large nursery
in this vicinity.
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The Palace Cafe re-opened under
a new name-Manhatta eclat.
/ Wednesday night, when Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Smith took charge. The
Charlotte Military Band acted as an
orchestra and discoursed beautiful
music.
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George w. Gatewood has received
his commission as state enumerator
and is starting out today to take the
agricultural census of the county. He
| is very careful and thorough and may
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and completely.
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The county commissioners will
meet in special session tomorrow
| Saturday morning, to receive, open
and consider bids for furnishing shell
to be used in repairing the Arcadia
road and surfacing the approaches to
the harbor bridge.
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! J. H. Martin and +. Underwood,
who have been employed at the saw
mill at Acline, left in an automobile,
this morning, for Durant, whittier the
former was summoned by wire on ac-
count of the sudden death of his
father, which occurred there.
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Owing to the indistinct printing of
the correct figures in a newspaper
clipping sent to this office, the age Of
( Charles Connolly of Glade Valley, n.
c., was given as twelve, in a notice
made in these columns. His mother
writes to say that his correct age is
eleven.
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II would seem that the strike Of
the railway shOpmen may be costing
| Governor Gilchrist considerable
sum. He owns at Waycross a hun
drcd houses which are rented and oC-
cupied by Atlantic Coast Line shop
men, who are unlikely to pay rent
while the strike is going on. He
leaves today to look the situation
over.
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A host of friends here and else
where of Mrs. Virginia T. Trabue, the
er of Punta Gorda. will read with in
terest the following extract from
private letter received this week from
j. i. Taylor, a banker of Reform,
Alabama, at whose home she is So
iourning: Il am sure you, like the
rest of the good people of Punta Cor
da. will be glad to learn that Mrs
Trabue is getting along very nicely
Her mind is as clear as an Italian
sky, and she often plays and sings
with the children at the piano. She
has nothing to bother her now, and
is in the hands of those that love
her for hars"''
Ernest G. Holroyd, who lives o.
what is known as the Moger place
in the eastern part of town, has just
embarked upon what is new indus
try for this locality. 1t is the rails
ing of squads for market. TO thi
end. he bought, and this week Gin
stalled" a flock of two dozen of the !
best breed of pigeons. Inc DlTd'
are not permitted to fly at large, but
are kept in a large wire enclosure |
one end of which opens into nesting
house. There is no doubt that Mr..
Holroyd will succeed in raising |
SQUADS to the full capacity OF his |
flock. Pigeons are very prolific and
easy to raise, but they are voracious
consumers of food. Mr.. Holroyd |
was moved to go into this business
by learning that squads never sell
for less than dollar a pound and
that an average of fifteen thousand
pairs of them are consumed every |
season by the Flagler hotels on the
East Coast.
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