The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1922-02-17

lie Judge Whitehurst Accommodated |
=, cal lawyers and litigants by holdil
o chancery court here yesterday.
Hon. Joshua MizelI, local Repul
= lican leader, went to Lakeland. Tue
= day, as delegate to the Republica
;, congressional district convention, an
= came back at noon Wednesday. o
leaving, he said that his party woul
nominate for congress a man VIII
, would scare our Herbert ]. Dram
= "out of his boots" if he did not bea
Drane.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. c. Bottom, a yer,
amiable couple from Kansas City
Missouri, who have been occupyin.
rooms in the residence of Miss vii
lette Mayes for the past month, wen
to Tampa, Wednesday morning, anC
Will spend the rest of the season
there. They own a fine orange grove
located between Plant City and
! Tampa.
George d. Rhode, former postmas-
ter, went to Tampa, Monday, to APP
pear before the United States court
TO answer the charge of having been
found short in postal funds during
MS lncumbency of the local post
Office No officer came for him; he
went voluntarily. He was notified
TO return next Monday and came back
that night.
Kew. NJ. l.. Cherry, a former pastor
of Saint Marks Progressive Baptist
church for colored people, who is now
located at Clearwater, revisited his
former congregation here Sunday
when he preached to them morning
and evening. In the afternoon, he
preached in the colored Methodist
church. Large crowds attended all
the services.
George l.. Carleton of Sparr. Mar
ion county was here visiting his
brother, C. C. Carleton, from Monday
till Wednesday morning, when he
went home. Like his local brother. |
he is a large grower and shipper of |
oranges, his shipments up to the end |
Of last week having amounted to 90
300 boxes of the pineapple variety,
or which he received $3.50 per box.
Lloyd B. McWilliams, an estima-
de young man who spent his boy
rood here and whose parents as well
IS himself are pleasantly remember
d by many local people, was mar
led in Jacksonville, where he is now
wing, on the 18th inst, to Miss
lara Lorraine Keck, whom the papers
f that metropolis describe as a very
ttractive and accomplished young
ldy.
The excursion by boat to Boca .
rande, Saturday, was a gratifying ..
lccess in all respects, both from :
.andpoint Of pleasure and from that .
financial receipts. The boat was
'aded to its capacity with congenal t.
and a considerable number !.
ere turned away for want of room. d:
he excursion, as stated in advance, ::
as given for the benefit of the Eps- :;
opal church ::
Mrs. Mary Gautier and her daugh- ::
r, Miss Louise Gautier, left We'd ;:
asday morning, for Gainesville, ::
aOrgia, where the daughter will take :
course in the conservatory of music :.
Brenau college, while the mother ::
i'll be engaged in special duties for !:
e college. Many friends were at ::
e depot to bid them goodbye. Miss !:
Juise, who is in her teens, has de- !;
Hoped remarkable talent as a plan I
!, and her friends predict that she !.
II eventually win fame as a must :
IN. !.
About forty young people of both :;
yes assembled at the home of A. !:
Ckenbach in the eastern part of ::
wn, Monday evening, and joined in !.
ebrating the fourteenth birthday of !:
! daughter, Miss Marie RiCkenbach ::
Isle and dancing, followed by re- !:
of punch and cake, were :
Ltures of the occasion, which prov !.
very delightful to all present = I
ing lady received many beautiful i
eful and valuable presents from !.
: admiring friends, all of whom, Z
leaving, wished her many happy i
urns of the occasion. /
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)ne day last week, three boys, !:
h about ten or twelve years old, Z
cred r. NJ. Kings store in the old !.
TX block; and, while one of them :
aged the proprietor's attention, i
other two purloined some half a !.
en- watches ranging in value from :
to $25 each. Shortly after they :
the store, Mr. King discovered Z
loss and, by taking prompt meas /