Personal Notices and Local Weather Summary
December 1 to 9 includes varied daily highs and lows with noon readings. Precipitation and wind ranges noted as 05 to 10 mph, reflecting calm to light breeze conditions across the period.
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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1920
Page
4
December 1 to 9 includes varied daily highs and lows with noon readings. Precipitation and wind ranges noted as 05 to 10 mph, reflecting calm to light breeze conditions across the period.
Listings show ads for loans and insurance as Mr. Newell and other out of town visitors arrive in Indianola. Several seasonal residents, including Dr. and Mrs. Steele and Mr. Longmire, relocate to Sarasota for winter.
Adv Mrs. E. Kelly general delivery Mrs D E Braswell and her young son from Jacksonville are visiting Mrs I G Archibald in town Mr and Mrs C N Payne of Titusville Pa are in town for the winter at their Gulf Stream Avenue home
Mr and Mrs J W Keener traveled to Tampa Monday where Mr Keener consulted a physician due to deteriorating health.
St. Petersburg editor Rube Allyn spent the weekend with his family at Siesta Key and planned to return Monday.
Mrs. Owen Miller and her son Earl have come home by auto after spending the summer with Mr. Miller. They relate varied experiences on their southern trip. A. J. Gallup and friend Jas L Sassul arrived from Brockport New York last week by motor to spend the winter in Mr. Gallup's house. They report a delightful journey in easy stages to Sarasota.
The death of Mrs Walter Ford's mother in Brooklyn New York after a sudden illness was announced to Mrs Ford on November 27th. She had left her mother in good health two weeks earlier and the news came as a severe shock.
Mr and Mrs J E Lyons of Saulsbury Md have moved to occupy their Sarasota Key home bought last spring from Mr T McLaine Lyons a longtime Maine woods guide will reside in Sarasota permanently.
Mrs Ruth H Holmes and her mother Mrs Elizabeth Cushman arrive from Middleton Massachusetts for the winter and stay with Mrs Mary M Knight at her Seventh Street Pineapple Avenue residence joined by Mrs Hannah Auld and young George Edwards Jones Jr and a maid.
The Sarasota Theatre hosted slides on conditions in 17th century England that spurred Pilgrim settlement in America. Dr Newell Dwight Hillis’s Puritan Influence talk was read by Mrs F H Guenther to a large audience as part of a Woman's Club winter program. A second lecture and slide series on Puritan Influence in the New World is set for December 20 at the same venue.
The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer announces a lay service this Sunday at 11 a.m. Miss Louise Edwards will sing an offertory solo. Choir practice is moved from Friday to Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
The Presbyterian Ladies Auxiliary held a social at the Sara sota church manse after a prayer meeting to mark five years of service by Pastor C W Latham and his wife. Friends delivered gifts and expressions of goodwill while well wishes were offered for prosperity of the ministry. Charles Henry Dimmick is ill and confined at home.
Miss Esther Edmondson through C. O. Teate buys the Franklin cottage from Mr. Lovell. The dwelling had been occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Booth before they bought property on Bay Island. Edmondson and her mother return from Tampa and will occupy the home at once.
Dr and Mrs M D Ewell arrive from Memphis and take residence at their Sarasota Bay home The Three Muscateers in Osprey The physician notes decades of visits to Sarasota and recalls early motor boat fishing on the bay.
Among the arrivals are Mr. and Mrs Jas T Silvertooth of Fayetteville Tennessee with Clyde and Mrs Galloway P P Pitts and Mrs Rombo and baby plus Lynn and Bennet Rambo. Silvertooth praised Sarasota in a telegram poem prompting fourteen families to follow.
The regular program meeting of the Woman's Club will be held Monday afternoon at 2 30. Miss Lily Moore will present a sketch of The Pilgrims in England Holland and America. Dr Mary Walcott Green will speak on The Women Who Came Over in the Mayflower. Music led by Miss Laura Arnold. Hostesses named.
The board of governors and executive committee of the chamber of commerce are called by the president to meet at the Arcade at 10 a.m. Friday for special business.
Washington reports a new post office to be established at Chumuckla Springs in Santa Rosa county effective December 15. Geo S Miller is named postmaster at South Pam Beach.
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