The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-01-13
TOWN TOPTCSOF WEEK
The Important Happenings of Punta Gorda and
Vicinity Briefly Told

Mrs. M. p. Lane of Lexington
Kentucky, arrived last Friday, t
spend the season as the guest of he
sister, Mrs. Celia Keen, who, with he
friend, Miss Alice Doriot, has room
at the Connolly mansion ON the col
ner of Taylor street and Olympi
avenue.
Joe: The hand that rocks the era
die also dries the baby's tears. Re
member that and don't ever marry
I-Myra. Plaza, Saturday, Januar
21st. 81
Colonel and Mrs. Holderby o
Carmi, Illinois. accompanied by thei
daughter, Miss Nellie Holderby, ar
rived Sunday night, to spend the res
of the season as guests of thei
daughter, Mrs. d. N. Mcqueen. Man!
local friends are giving them a cord
ial greeting.
The boys who are members of Miss
Hester Douglass's Sunday schoo
class, engaged the Boy Scouts in a
game of basket ball, last Friday eve
ming, and were defeated by score
of nineteen to seven. The Scouts
expect to inflict a similar defeat upoI
a high school team tonight (Friday)
j. T. Swinney, cashier of the First
National Bank, has bought of the
Jesse r. Sandlin estate the group OF
three lots on the corner of Sullivan
street and Olympia avenue and, in the
near future, will build thereon a
handsome residence, for which pur.
pose they are the most desirable lots
in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Helsel, their
son and the latter's grandmother
Mrs. Helsel, of Conemaugh, Pennsyl-
vania, arrived last Saturday, to spend
the winter. They were accompanied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Davis of the same
place, who have secured rooms for
the season at the home of Mrs. F. D.
Robinson.
1t is sad fact that two people who
go into matrimony with a noble idea
of sharing one another's joys and
so often end by sharing
one another's towels and tooth
brushes. Hear Priscilla Prunes de-
clare this in "The Microbe of Love"
at the high school auditorium Janu-
airy cath. adv.
c. e. Lanier and G. A. Skipper,
able bankers of Avon Park, were here
Tuesday night, attending the annual
of the stockholders of the
First National Bank. They were &C
by Cyril Baldwin, tax as
SCISSOR of Highlands county. All
three gentlemen have many warm
friends here.
The opening scene of the Spins
Lers' Club is a scream, and it will
bring the house down from the time
he curtain goes up. Much original
ty will be displayed IA the matter of
costumes, and the atmosphere created
will carry the audience back to days
Of long ago. High school auditorium
January 24th. adv.
The people of the Baptist church,
with characteristic progressiveness,
are going to build nice parsonage
IN the rear of their church. The
necessary lumber has been placed on
the ground and the work of construc-
lion is to begin at once. The par
sonage will contain six large rooms
and will be modern in all It's APP
Love Bug to make appearance be-
ore large audience. Home-talent
will present best show of many sea-
ons; lifts presentation above medic
rity usual to amateurs; local bach
,lors target for spinisters shafts;
title cupids to add interest. Mi
robes of Love-" January Gath, at
igh school auditorium. adv
The famous moving picture, the
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,
very likely to be exhibited in the
'laza Theatre on a date in March.
Iessrs. Chidester and Johnson, pro-
rietors of the theatre, have applied
Or the picture and have been inform
hat it has been engaged by other
leatres up to the first of March,
hen they may have it. Meantime,
very body should read the last book
the New Testament, which will
,ad to an understanding of the
,enes that will be displayed.