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olurae XXXI—Number 23.THE PUNTA GORDA HERALD, PUNTA GORDA, FLORIDATHE EDITOR DISAPPEARED j ishnesa which Germany has beengiving her antagonistsHe Was Carried Away by Two Airplanes “The local end of this story, how-■ever, is herewith related to prove |:hat all habits are bad: For manyPUNTA GORDA'S PATRIOTISMShown byNumber of Men the ServiceShe Hu InWe print below a rcvlred list of Punta Gorda'a young men, white and blank, , who are nerving In army, navy and train-j lug camps, and we hope It Is correct andA long story with a moral or years, The Herald editor has been two might be written about u lit- in the habit of going and being’ . , , . o 'clock the matter of helping our country win th«tie adventure which rhe Herald at home exactly at 1. o cu**.*, w pUnu Gorda is doing her run duty.ma« had Tuesday, but he will meridian. Captured by the Hew- Pr.ctica.jymak.' it as short as possible. It itts and the airplanes, Tuesday, war about 9:30 a. m., while he was le did not get hbme until lo nun-wa” ing near the Red Cross head- utes before 1 p. in- ou 'hat Intal ♦mart«ts in the old bank block, day. As he approached the door,. . . 1 * i i I lt;« n ivnnot nuthat the Hewitt Brothers in their his daughter, pale as a ghost, as aristocratic auto and M*#or Tra- the saying is, met him and ex-bue came along and invited him claimed, “l’apa, where have you to ride, saying they were going been?'’ The poor '*1° 'thingout west of town to see an air-. was afraid that her old dad hadplane land in the sand-flats. Of been drowned. .- - j Moral: Don’t have any habitsat all. There are none good.course lie went, and of course and of course and so on.Norman Hewitt was driving at1 -his usual rate of 87 1-2 miles an Recruiting Semce for the Unitedhour, and we got there in thirteen States Shipping Boardseconds. Immediatedly, there was J ---the familiar buzzing in the skies |„ ^ window of the Rexallabove and an airplane was seen j)rUf, store, Seminole Pharmacy, circling overhead. Pretty soon, |thm. js displayed a double-page another plane put in an appear-1 advertisement from a current is-ance. !guc 0f u great national weeklyThe aquatic birds toyk to flight that brings the war on the sea diin terror and those that had nests jicctly home to this section, and to ou the “flats” resorted to nil sorts the store where the advertisement of pitiful subterfuges to conceal |appears. The proprietor of the them—just as quail and bull-batsjstore has a personal interest in the do. advertisement also, for it relatesBut wo gave little attention to to war work that he is doing tor the poor birds; we were absorbed the Government. Furthermore, he in contemplating Uncle Sam’s helped pay for it and the cost ofeagles. The two planes landed very gracefully and the Hewitts, Mayor Trabuc and this scribe went up to them and extended to them a cordial welcome to the deserts, fiddlers and delights of Charlotte Harbor, all of which was accepted in the most cultivated manner by the lieutenants in charge of the planes.By the way, the names of those urbane officers are as follows: Plane 3085, Limits. D. Ellis and J. I). O’Brian;—-Plane 3273, Liouts.the “ad” for the single issue was $10,000.The advertisement asks for 50,-000 moil, between 21 and 30, for service in the new Merchant Ma line. In the language of its headline, it offers 50,000 jobs at sea’ to clean-cut young Americans. It states that the U. S. Shipping Board will -give them special training before putting them into actual sea service, carrying supplies to our armies and Allies in the fighting fields of Europe. SoW T. G. Smith and A. M King— much importance is attached to on from C.rUtrom Firld, A,o„. ihis work that men .oceptod for dta. They left Carlstroin Field it are ixempied from a . all to nui-at 10:15 a. m. and landed here on- i'h'T duty, ly fifteen minutes later. Tl.ey; The advertisementmade a beautiful landing.After a short confab with the self-appointed committee, the llewitt Brothers. Mayor Tralrne and the scribe, the aviators re-be-tooh tlimnselves to the skies: and, after Hying clear Lot of sight, came hack and landed again. By this time, a dozen more people bad come there in ears to wcl-relatesfurther, that “the REXALL STORES throughout ihe United States, nearly 7000 of them, havebeen designated by the Oovern-ncut as unrolling stations for the IT. S, Shipping Board. At these stores, right in their own home towns, young men may now ■‘sign on’ for training and subsequent sea duty in the U. S. Merchant Marine.some have been rejected because of physical defects.Hoy K. VanCamp. 2nd lieu I., const artillery company. U. S. Reserves, Battery K. 61st HowlUer Keg.. Am. Ex. Force. France.Orville J. Sandlin. U. S. Battleship tUilt;dlt;* Island, Atlantic Fleet.Thos. H. Turner, seaman, U. S. hospital ship Solace.”Jack E. Waltntlre. Co. 1. 2Sth Regiment )f Infantry. Am. Ex. Force. France.Robert Nevltf Waltmtre. brother of Jack, same company and branch of service.Cluu*. A. Walunlre, Jr.. 2nd lleut., Co. M. 28lh Regiment of Infantry, France.Sgt. Geo. O. Dewey, U. S AvInUon Service. Dayton, Ohio.Albert F Dewey. Jr.. brother of George, same service and location.Karl A Fries. U. S. Aviation Service, Champaign. lilt*.B. Hugh Mobley, Camp Jackson. Col-umhln. S. O.Wm. McK. Mlzell, Western Battle Line. Northern France.llenry Morgan, Camp Wheeler, Mncon. Ga.Josephus Keen. Camp Wheeler. Macon. Go.Wm. B. Vecqueray.— Regiment U. S. Engineers, buttle line. Vlney, France.Coe Allen, same command and location. Fleming Rhode, Camp Wheeler, Mncon. Ga.Furgerson Jones, on route to France from Camp Sheridan. Montgomery, Ala.John Hoyt Haach. Co. K from Arcadia, en route to France from Camp Wheeler. Macon, Ga.Morgan Goodwin, Co. K from Arcadia. Camp Wheeler. Macon, Ga.Tom Steele. Co. 1. Key West, Camp Wheeler.Garrett Taylor. Camp Wheeler. Macon, Ga.J. S. Wilson, Acllne. Co. I. 124th Infantry. Camp Wheeler. Mncon. Ga.Onpt. A B. Tucker. U. 8. Sanitary Service, Anniston. Ala.James K. Sikes. Co. F. 6th Regiment U. S. Engineers, battle line In France.Moody Stephens and Fred Lanier. Charlotte Harbor, buttle, line In France.Grover Cleveland and Ell Corbett. Cleveland. Camp Morrison, Newport News, Va.Milton Bryant, Camp Jackson. Columbia. S. C.Wm. Mayes. 1*)6 Battery D, 135th Field Artllery, Camp Sheridan. Montgomery, Ala.Fern Leroy McCuUey, Private Co. G. Hf. Inf. Camp Sheridan. Montgomery, Ala.John A Boyle, Aviation Service. Cadet School, Princeton. N. J.Privates Willie Mldgett and Cicero MidK-lt. Co. K. 124 Infantry. Camp Wheeler.Morris Cochran, chief water tender, 17. S. Cutter Tallapooaa.Dr. Archer Smith, medical corps, battle front In France.Harvey M. Wiggins. U. S. Recruiting Service.Elmer T. Oswald. Head Quarters Co.. Sl»t Brigade, American Expeditionary Forces.Stephen II. Stone, boatswain mote, battleship Pennsylvania.Thos. G. Fu Iconic r, U. S. Transport Service.Horace Cox. V. S, Navy.Private Theodore Mldgett, 366 Bakery Co.. Camp \yheeler.Private Clarence Mldgett. Co., 118 M. G. Ball.. Camp Wheeler.Willie Reeves, Cc B. Military Police. Camp Sheridan. 37th Division. M.mtgom-CrChna. R. Swartx. receiving fhlp, Ay1*’ tion Corps, Coco Solo. Canal Zone, Pan-Harry V. Barrow. U. S Navy. S. A. 2 C. Newport, H- I.James H. Sandlin, cadet aviation service. Taliaferro Field. Hicks. Ttuta*.Alvin Stephens. Q. Troop. «h U- » Cavalry. Scofield Barracks. Honolulu. Hawaii. .Jesse Morgan, in training. Camp Jackson, 8. C.Paul Ha.vman. 17. S. Hospital Service— address not furnished.Wm. F Demere, rejected for field service. V. S. Merchant Marine.Wilbur R. Cox. 1st. Cl. Pvt.. 305 F. A at. D.. France.Lloyd McWilliams. Camp Cody. New Mexico.Duke Woodson—address not given, Charlie Griggs. Camp Wheeler. Mncon.Ga.Wallace Gasklll, 2nd Lieut, of Infantry. 3rd Officers Training Camp. LeonSprings, Tex.Waller Chldester. Panama Canal Zone, Punta Gorda pro tern.Dr. Henry C, Carver, dental surgeon, IT, 8. A.. Mncon. Ga.Alee Whidden. steam engineer, U. S. Navy.Max and Carl Pittman, V. S. Navy.Dr. D. N. McQueen, medical corps. Camp Johnston. Jacksonville.David and Walter Mulholliind. brothers. 17, 8. Naval Service, former on special duty on the Great Lakes, latter In New York training for commission.Bailey and Dan Collins, brothers of Mrs. M. W. Sturdy, ‘•somewhere In France.Henry U Dotson. Jr., Engineer Corps, Fort Slocum. N. Y.Andrew Cleveland, Cleveland—samecamp with brother..1 P Perkins. Wadsworth. S.* C. Bertram McCann—address not furnished.lames Banks. Co, I, 134th Inf., Camp Wheeler, Mncon. Ga.Wm. Paul Hay man, Reg. 3. Co. 8. U. 8. N. T. S.. Newport. K. I.Colored Men In Camps Silas Fulton, Co. C.,520 Engineers Div.. Camp Devens.Bills Powell. 28th Co.. Camp Devon* James lt;i. Clemons. Camp Johnston. Willis Andrews., Co. 11, Detention, Camp Johnston.Richard Fleming. Camp Devens.Venus Green. Camp Devens.Wilson Caruthers, Camp Johnston.CHARLOTTE HARBOR ,Balloon Co. A..18thW. W. Knight,Omaha, Net*.T. O. Roberts. Jr..—Somewhere InFrance.Augustine Willis, Co. B, 166 Inf.,Somewhere in France.Victor Garner, Camp Jackson. Columbia. S. O.Fred Falkiicr,— “8 o tn e w here InFrance. ”N. B.—Every name on this list ought to be tlrrt. but we can't arrange the list In such a way as to put every one Hist.ootpb the aviators. Nobody. liow-1* . . , u-X ««pt the Hewitts Wtrw ! The ptnttnul lt;t«l of Mr. W.rvtr. except the jIoblev_ in wilh othc.th.1 they were p.tnit to hind here ; . -m m strtk-.ttherwise, n thoneand peep e ..votiltlItem, been on the Mnd-fat. ^ ^ words!o welcome thorn. |)h( I|dv(.r,|8(,lllont which aro:Wei), it was very interest intr o u8elt;0f the stores and ihe ex-sec ih? planes land and alter-1 Jgc ot- t]kis advertisement are a vards rise into the air, ami d was ;COHlri])Utioil j,y the REXALL■'Iso very pleasant to meet lb.- )o ,|u Canso „f Libor-lieuterants in charge and talk y.-*_SEMIXOLE PHARMACY, with ihem. They are all line fel- !punta Gorda, Special Enrolling lows and eager to meet the L\cenl _And this notice is a con-tlovils, and we hope it will n«V)C tribution hy The Herald to thelong before they will be giving !gamlt; eJvL 'Germany a taste of the same hell-l __FRESHABLE WOMAN CHOSEN HEAD OF CONSERVATIONFlorida has the distinction of having the only woman Chairman of Food Conservation.This lady is Mrs. J. T- Fuller, of Orlando, who was recently appointed by Federal Food Administrator biax-Ion Reacham. to take the place of Mrs. W. M. Hocker, of Ocala, whose lutles with the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense had multiplied to an extent that prevented her from continuing In the Food Admlnlstrntlon work.Mrs. Fuller is a charming lady, ana in addition to her winning personality has a deep underslandlng or business afTairs and especially the work of food conservation. She has been very prominent In matters of a progressive nature such as have been studied by leading women of Florida during the post Tew years, and has done great work tn her home section for numerous patriotic movements.Mrs Fuller will shortly begin a campaign of the State, and will make addresses at the most Important points of Florida, these meetings to Ihe followed by others wherever there Is need of caltlng attention of the people to food conservation. Rhe will also have charge or the county chairmen of conservation, and In this work will proceed along lines that will agree with Ihe original or fixed plans
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