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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
3
The report notes a new packing house in Okeelanta. Clearwater plans a community Christmas tree. Umatilla reports daily citrus shipments northward. Three carloads of citrus left Lake Fern this week. Clarcona notes rapid citrus movement in that area.
St Petersburg High School opens a new modern gymnasium as part of its athletic facilities upgrade. The project expands indoor sports capacity and fitness spaces for students and teams. Local officials praised the upgrade for student opportunities and community use.
H. O. Hobbs has been awarded the contract to construct the new waterworks facility in Plant City, marking a major infrastructure development for the area. The project covers design and build of the waterplant system, with expected completion within the stated schedule.
The Safety Harbor road has been completed and will be opened to traffic this week, allowing motorists to use the new surface. Local officials expect smoother travel and reduced congestion once the road is in operation.
The Laks Worth area reports higher than ever plantings of Irish potatoes, with acreage exceeding previous years and signaling strong potato production potential for the season. Local farmers note favorable weather and soil conditions aiding the crop expansion.
Plant City begins shipping strawberries northward with prices fob shipping point at eighty cents. Eustis announces a new hotel opening, the New Ocklawaha, scheduled for January 1st.
Bright Bros dairy farm in Ft Lauderdale section raises an average four tons of hay per acre.
Jacksonville has been named a grain grading station under the federal standard act, which became effective last Friday.
A new sawmill is to commence operations in Odessa on January 1 unless the incorporator’s plans change.
Seven hundred head of cattle were dipped at the dipping vat in Jacksonville after arriving recently from Texas.
All packing houses in Orlan Maitland and Apopka are operating steadily as fruits depart by the carloads.
Contracts for two bridges across the Anclote river in Pinellas County have been awarded. One bridge will cost $26,538 and the other $10,018.
Nine hundred baskets of beans have been shipped from Center Hill in the Webster Belt this season, and additional shipments are moving daily.
The mill of the New Dixie Milling Company in Jacksonville will start its run on the first of January. Salerno's Board of Trade has started a weekly four page bulletin to promote the growing town.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy Arcadia chapter will ship a large Christmas gift box to the Arcadia company now stationed at Laredo Texas.
The Curtis aeroplane company will establish a major aviation school in Miami, aiming to become one of the largest such enterprises in the nation.
Black bear and deer are said to be plentiful in Hernando county making the area lively with hunters. So far there have been no serious accidents reported.
Hundreds of tourists and auto parties are reported from towns along the Dixie Highway with heavy activity noted on the West Coast including Brooksville New Port Richey and Tarpon Springs.
The Sarasota Board of Trade plans to mobilize its membership drive after Tampa added 160 new members in a week. The message urges action: if you can't boost, don't knock.
The Trapnell section four miles south of Plant City has cut 57 acres of strawberries. The plants are described as prolific and picking will begin this week.
A brief column notes broad offerings in a grocery line with emphasis on quality. It highlights a range of staples and premium items available to shoppers seeking value and variety. No specific events or figures are mentioned.
Work progresses on a new bridge across the St. Lucie river six miles north of Salerno on the Dixie Highway. The structure costs about $70,000 and will replace the existing ferry service with a needed improvement for local traffic.
A New York company purchased five hundred acres of Fruit land Park to develop a state of the art hog farm. Contracts for improvements amount to $10,000. The farm will be stocked with thoroughbred Hampshire hogs.
Citrus Park and Fern Lake jointly seek a bond election to fund good roads in their district. Settlers show strong support and now await county commissioners action to authorize the election.
Contractors holding the contract for the hard surfaced road in St. Lucie County are laying penetration rock and will begin applying asphaltic oil within a week. The sixty mile county road will be fully treated as work proceeds through the entire route.
The J. R. Davis corporation with $150 000 capital has been formed. Organizers include J Walker Pope of Winter Haven as president and J R Davis as vice president and general manager. E L Wirt of Bartow bank treasurer, directors H W Snell H J Crane M E Gillett and Dr J H Ross. Davis will retain a substantial interest in the truck farm and serve as manager for three years.
A quiescent tribute to Sarasota praises its vast bay, navigable passes, lush vegetation, and fertile lands. The piece extols palmettos pines and citrus groves, with durable highways linking nature and development, presenting the area as a desirable, rapidly growing paradise attributed to both nature and human effort, by M. H. Ford.
Jack Pickford and Louise Huff appear in a Famous Players film of Booth Tarkington’s Seventeen at The Virginian tonight. The cast includes Madge Evans Winifred Allen and Dick Lee with a solid supporting lineup. Admission remains five and ten cents on Thursday evenings.
The Spot Cash Grocery has assumed control of the Continental Public Roads Company commissary and will operate it going forward.
Saturday marks Sarasota's inaugural market day with residents urged to bring baskets and attend. Local organizers promote community stalls and vendor participation to celebrate the historic launch.
The Southern Express Company relocated its quarters last week to a cement block building at the corner of Main street and Lemon avenue owned by Owen Burns. The site features side and front entrances and a rear-loading area to keep goods dry. Local agent Homer Welch says continued growth may require occupying the whole building. office staff include Welch, clerk John Edwards, and deliveryman Broadus Cooper.
John A. Ingram of Bee Ridge shipped thirty boxes of peppers and eggplants from his ten acre tract last week. He sent thirty more crates on Monday. He could send more weekly if crates were available from the manufacturer, a common problem for Bee Ridge growers.
New Port Richey board of trade has gathered data on the Carmen grape variety and will begin large scale land preparation for experimental plantings. Florida’s Carmen grape industry is developmentally promising, with California as its distant rival.
The flag embodies the history and life of a great people not idle rhetoric but lived experience. Duty, not self interest, guided those who shaped the flag and those who serve under it.
Edgar Sisson of Cosmopolitan says London would have sided with England if drafted and supported a soldier’s mother. The piece links London’s character to his war era fiction with mention of Jerry appearing in the January Cosmopolitan now on newsstands.
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