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Newspaper
Manatee Record
Location
Manatee, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1908
Page
4
Miss Bessie Turnbull of Mon ticello visits her sister Mrs. T. W. Yarbrough for several weeks. The Village Improvement Society will meet at Gates Hall Friday at 8 30 P M to organize and requests all ladies’ presence.
Manatee community updates urge voters to study candidates ahead of the city election. Mrs. H. Stebbins hosts the Elysian Club gathering in East Manatee with many ladies in attendance. Several residents plan travel north for the season. A new lot of Jap-a-Lac is in at Wiggins and a called meeting of the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Protective Association is set for Lakeland on April 21. Also ads for six room cottages and second-hand buggies from Manatee Livery Co.
Short notes list local merchants offering quick cash cuts at Wiggins and Adams with celery crates and celery shipments heavy at Adams. Mentions Manatee Market delivery before 8, school yard fence painting, and residents Miss Ella G. Curry and Mr Earnest Brown. Also notes Manatee Livery Co and winter visitors W.T. Barnett and wife returning home.
County Court opened Monday morning with Judge J. J. Stewart presiding. Robi H. Roesch clerk M. H. Wyatt sheriff and J. B. Singletary prosecuting attorney were present as jurors were sworn. The judge began promptly disposing cases and aimed to clear the docket.
Manatee Reavy Co offers 520 acres with 70 acres vegetable land 80 acres saw-grass balance virgin pine located one mile from depot and fronts 0.75 mile on railroad. Price for sixty days 1500 dollars. See Manatee Realty Co at once to list your property this season.
The ad promotes shoes for all customers at Wiggins. It also urges choosing Havana Straights for the best. It invites ladies to Glazier's to select hats before stock runs out and lists several chemical products from Adams including whale oil soap Bluestone surphur tobacco dust nitrate soda caustic soda and various fertilizer chemicals.
A Grimesland North Carolina man credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving his life after struggles with consumption. He reports improvement after one bottle and full recovery after twelve. The advertisement notes the remedy for coughs colds and lung ailments available at Manatee Drug Store with trial bottles free.
Notice of filing Articles of Incorporation for Palm asola Wharf Company in Manatee Florida. J A Felts A N Pillsbury H W Phelps J W Barney and Chas N Pettigrew named officers and directors. Capital stock five hundred dollars for ninety nine years with shares of ten dollars each. principal office Palmasola Florida. Notary date April 14 1908.
RAZORS hollow ground and honed Clippers shears lawn mowers surgical instruments sharpened and repaired. Mail orders promptly attended to. Bradenton Cutlery Co Bradenton Fla.
A brief note urges boys to take their girls driving and promotes Manatee Livery Co with new buggies and fine horses. It also mentions K. W. Wiggins as a headquarters for goods to eat wear and use.
T. G. Taliaferro Johnson Helm John F. Vanderipe R. A. Palmer E. P. Taliaferro John T. Campbell listed as directors in the local board roster.
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