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SAIA ELIZABETH SABBIS Local Editor

HAPPENINGS ABOUT TOWNftti

Twenty pounds of sugar for 100q at the Fair x

Mr Benjamin Condon has returned I

home from a several days visit to MrClifford Ayre at McIntosh

31 r Robert S Adams of Jackson-ville

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is in the city for a few days theguest of his mother I

Mrs Kennedy nee Miss Emma I

Smith of Sarasota is in Ocala the I

guest of TS G a i Hubbard andMrs Neil Allred

The Montezuma hotel is still openwith Col V J Shipman in controlBreakfast early by order at 6 a mRegular breakfast after 630 a m

y Dinner at 12 m Supper 6 p m Al ¬

ways on time for all trains portermeets all train x I

Miss Lucile Asley one of Thomasvilles most charming young ladieswho has often been the popular guest-of

° Miss Violet Harrs arrived in the I

city yesterday and will be the guest-

of Mrs W H Powers at the Savoyy for a week I

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Messrs Lang Swartz Co are theauthorized agents of the Sanders I

1 Fertilizer Co of Jacksonville Ifyou are needing fertilizers or any-thing

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r in the ferilizer line you will dowell to figure with them before buymg Z

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1 Mr and Mrs James H Badger returned from the Fair Saturday andspeak very highly in praise of it I

Mr Badger says that prices are ex-

ceedingly

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reasonable and that the I

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people of Tampa have not taken ad¬

l r vantage of the big crowds to put up I

prices He says the proprietor of theii Palmetto hotel put himself out of his

t way to show him favors i

1 IE The enterprising firm of Lang I

Swartz Co have placed on our4 I

desk a half doyen of the famousDixon cabinet pencils with their ad-

vertisement

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t printed on same whichreads as follows Lang Swartz I

i Cot Wholesale Grocers Ocala Fla1This firm is using printers ink in ev-

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4 form to bring its business intono ¬

tice and as a result is doing a fine I

trade-r I

Z We had a very pleasant visit yes-terday

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j from Mr Archie Heyburn of I

the Jacksonville Diamond LumberI

Co He was here on business connec ¬

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ted with his company Mr He burnE

r f >sa very fluent and graceful writerandIs the author of the articles un ¬

der the pen name of the Corconianlls appearing in the Jacksonville I

Sun i

rt Phosphate Land For Sale1k i I Offer at a decided bargain 15 acres

V°prospected phosphate land having

fa sUght overlay Same is located in j

f t20 20 and if operated us adjoiningjax aewrked will yield a bi revenuetlio° OS MRS H tit Gii > tounr 118 llth St Oakland Cal

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Lucinda Richardson an aired colbred woman was run over by the

Dunnellon short at the crossing-and killed Tuesday afternoon-

Mr C M Turner who formerlyresided in this city died of consump ¬

tion at Viola Tenn Nov IS age 45

He was an estimiable upright citizenand an exemplary Christian

FOR SALE My house and lot knowr-

as the Reardon place situated onOcklawaha avenue For particulars I

address Mrs K Orr 1100 2nd streetLouisville Ky 11 17 3t

Mr and Mrs H C Jones anddaughter Helen Misses Mattie andCarrie Williams Mrs B W BlountJudge Joseph Bell and Mr RobertMathews have returned from Tampawhere they have been taking in the I

fair

Sarasota Time W E Holmesmet his family at Ocala on their re ¬

turn from the north where they spentthe summer Mrs Holmes statesthat the Wabash river froze over onthe night of the 3rd inst They wereglad to return to the Sunny South

Miss Lilla L Brumby has opened-new stenographic and typewriting of¬

fices in the Union Block Rooms 7 andS over the store of HelvenstonPas-teur Co Miss Brumby is well equip¬

ped for all classes of stenographic and I

typewriting work and solicits thepatronage of the public generally-

Mrs Julia Palmer who formerlykept a boarding house in this city isnow at St Petersburg and has leasedthe Wayne hotel it is nicely situatedbeing only a block from the bay and-

is on the street car line the roomsare large and nicely furnished Ifyou should go to St Petersburg reg¬

ister at the Wayne It is a prettyand growing city Fishing is one of

its attractions

Mr Carter H Dame is back fromthe Tampa fair He was there on

Woodmens day and says there weremore than a thousand in parade Itwas an immense success The Tam ¬

pa papers and the TimesUnion speak-

of it as being a most remarkable dem-

onstration

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It was largely throughMr Dames influence that so manylodges attended He is an enthusi ¬

astic Woodmen-

Mrs M A E Robertson of one Ma ¬

rions distinguished business wo ¬

men was in Ocala Friday She hasrecently returned from middle and

east Georgia where she has spent a

most delightful summer and it will

be interesting to her friends to know

that her health greatly improvedMrs Robertson watched the moving-

of Georgias big peach crop with in ¬

terest and tells some charming stories-

of her observations She is now with

herson Mr Reed Russell Anthony

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MARION COUNTY STOCK

GETS FAIR AWARDS

Palmetto Park Stock Farms Short ¬

horns Win Prizes Over StI

Lcuis Fair WinnersSpecial to the Ocala Banner

Fair Grounds Tampa Nov 24ThePalmetto Park Shorthorn yearlingAngeline two years old won thegrand female championship over allages and breeds of Florida raised cat-

tle

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and was showed against StLouisWorlds Fair Winners

Messrs Gaitskill Edwards Broth-ers

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Guerrant and Whitworth alsowon prizes on their exhibits of Here ¬

ford cattle hogs and other live stockMarion will finish the killing on

Monday when her her horses areshown Z C C

Whitworth at the FairAs Marion county is one of the

foremoSt in all branches of live stock-

it is not surprising to find her with afine exhibit of hogs H H Whit ¬

worth of Ocala being represented-by several pens of DurocJerseys five

of which took part in the parade oflive stock weighing in the aggregate-over two tons A boar which Mr

Whitworth shows in the yearling-

class was a winner at St Louis lastyear in the six months old classwhile a number of his stock are directdescendants from Odom Paul whocompeted in twentythree sweep¬

stakes and was never beaten As afine specimen of a boar it would be

hard to beat TipTop Notcher jrwhose sire at the age of twentythreemonths weighed 1123 pounds andwas a grand champion at the StLouis exposition An interestingexhibit made by Mr Whitworth is

the difference between the pasture-

fed hogs and the finished animals-

two pens of six months old pigs fromeach class being shown the pigswhich have passed through the finish ¬

ing process of feeding averaging 300

pounds apieceWhen it comes to a question of

size Mr Whitworth can certainlyclaim to be well represented by histwoyearod hog Big Dick this enor ¬

mous animal which attracts the at¬

tention of every visitor to the hogpens weighing 1000 pounds Alto ¬

gether Mr Whitworth has at the fairabout fifty head of hogs several pens-

of pigs having been disposed of topeople who have visited the exhibit

Chambliss at the Fair-

Z C Chambliss the Ocala bankerwho has devoted much time and mon-

ey to the upbuilding of the cattle in-

dustry¬

in the state and who hasloyally supported every effort thathas been made to prove that the in¬

dustry could be conducted on a prof ¬

itable basis here as well as elsewhereis represented by an excellent show-

of shorthorns the breed which JohnBull depends on to produce the fam ¬

ous Roast Beef of Old England-

The bulls from this farm are Direc ¬

tor by King Adree now nineteenmonths old and weighing 1310 pounds-

and the yearling Lads Marsh all by

rue Lad for Me who can claim thedistinction of being descended fromthe best shorthorn strain in thecountry These animals are perfectspecimens of their type and proveconclusively what can be done in theway of making beef cattle in Floridawhere inteligence is used in feedingand caring for them Furthermore-for the benefit of those who are un-

able

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to purchase a herd of fine cattleat the outset Mr Chambliss has pro ¬

vided an object lesson by includingamong the specimens on show from

his farm two native cows with calvesby a short horn bull showing the im ¬

mense improvement which can be

made in the stock by merely onecross Tampa Times

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Bsst Cccsh Syrup Tastes GoodUse ia time Sold by druggists

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THE HORSE SHOE FARM SOLDI

Monroe McDonald ft Company Pur ¬

chasers at 710000The Horse Shoe Farm and timber-

lands at Pine in the northeasternportion of the county t including 600

acres was sold yesterday to MonroeMcDonald Company naval storesoperators the price paid being 7100

This is the property of the CharlesThomas estate and is one of the bestfarms in the flat woods section of thecounty as well as one of the finestbodies of timber

The stock consisting of large herds-

of cattle sheep hogs and some horseswere not included in the deal I

Still Selling Phosphate Lands t

Col Albertis Vogt late the Duke-

of Dunnellon is now living at Bartow and is still booming Florida Hehas recently sold two pieces of phos¬

phate land and in a letterto the Man¬

ufacturers Record gives the followinginformation in regard to his sales

He says-

I have sold to Mr J WarringtonCottman of Tiger Bay PO Flawho is the superintendent of the Pal ¬

metto Phosphate Co and one of thelargest most successful and prosper-ous pebble phosphate miners in Flor ¬

ida 426 acres of phosphate land inPolk county that by Mr Cottmans-own prospecting and analysis of theShepard laboratory at Charleston SC is the best tract in the country-

for 42600 cash The Palmetto Phos ¬

phate Company is composed of Balti ¬

more people and maintains an office-

in that city-

I have also sold for Mr T G Ross-

of Calvert Station Baltimore 160

acres of land in Polk county for 8000

cash and I also have a deal on infullers earth lands with Mr Edgar-G Jones of 220 South Charles StreetBaltimore comprehending a cashtransaction of 124000 The princi ¬

pals of all these deals are Baltimorepeople and every dollar of the money-

is Baltimore capital-

Will Probably Settle at Anthony-

Dr D A Smith of Anthony wasin Ocala Friday and was accompa ¬

nied by Mr Orville Watson of WestVirginia Mr Watson is one of aparty of fifteen or twenty who arevisiting Anthony on a prospecting-

tour and if they are pleased expect-to become permanent settlers In aninterview with a representative ofthis paper yesterday Mr Watsonsaid that up to this time every mem-

ber

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of the party were highly delight-ed

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and especially so with our salubri-ous

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climate The people of Anthonyare taking great pains to show theseprospectors the fine lands tributaryto that town and it is believed thatall or some of the party at least willpurchase homes there

Marions Display of Fancy Work atthe Fair

Marion county has her fancy workdisplay embracing the usual fea-

tures¬

with some unusual ones thrown-in A pyrographjr cabinet and benchformed a center of attraction artis¬

tically done and rare in its designMiss Cora Griffin gave us courteous

I attention while showing the many ar-

ticles

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I in the booth embracing theI school exhibits which are among theI finest in the building Mrs B TPerdue is her assistantTampa cor

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Beautiful SpectacleMr Robert Ranson who has just re ¬

turned from a trip to City Point saysthat the orange groves down the coast I

are laden with golden fruit and pre-

sent¬

i a beautiful spectacle Being fa-

miliar¬

j with that section before thegreat freeze and immediately afterMr Ranson is in a position to judge-

of the remarkable recuperative powerdisplayedSt Augustine Record

Gilchrist and the Young LadiesGeneral Gilchrist nas a number of

young chrysanthemum plants which-

he wishes to present to ladies whowill set them out in their flower

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lay in your supply of Winter Wraps-We have just received and put on display-one of the prettiest most varied moststylish and uptodate assortments of t

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hat money can buy and we invite theladies to call and see them All sizesfrom little girls to the stout matron We 4can also fit out men and boys with woolsweaters You will find our prices rightCall and let us show this splenid li-

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he Pin acle of Human Skill

Has been reached in our carriagesa buggies and harness The only way

they can ever be better is to raise the-

innaoleelevate the standardandeven then our vehicles will be foundJ-

i it the top They are not so high int

prices though as to be out of reacht

of most vehicle users Let ns quoteI you figures aI

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