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Newspaper
Sarasota Times
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
2
Sunday school at 9 45 a m worship at 11 a m and 7 30 p m Epworth League at 6 30 p m Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 p m Woman s Missionary Society 1st Tuesday 8 30 p m Mission Study Class 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Junior League Friday afternoon Board of Stewards last Friday each month Visitors welcome Pastor I W Longacre.
Sunday school at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Christian Endeavor 6:30 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. You are welcome to all services. If you have no church home or are strangers in the city you are welcomed to attend.
Sarasota Lodge No.47 F and A M meets the 1st and 8th Tuesday of each month at 7 30 p m in the Masonic Hall Blackburn building Visitors welcome Frank Redd W M Iron Ross Sec y Sarasota Chapter No 35 RA M meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the Masonic Hall John F Burker HP Claude M Bundy Sec y
Woodman Circle holds meetings in Woodman Hall on the first and third Tuesdays each month at 7 30 p m. Mrs Emma Jefferson is Guardian and Mrs Neily Pelot serves as Clerk.
United States Land Office Register Robi W Davis Receiver Perry M Colson Governor S J Catts Secretary of State H Clay Crawford Attorney General Van C Swearingen Commissioner of Agriculture W A McRae Treasurer J C Luning Superintendent of Public Instruction William N Sheats Comptroller Ernest Ames Supreme Court Jefferson B Browne Chief Justice M H Mabry Clerk Railroad Commission R Hudson Burr Chairman R C Dunn Clerk Judge Sixth Judicial Circuit O K Reaves State Solicitor Sixth Judicial Circuit M A McMullen
List of county officials for Manatee and surrounding areas including positions from Senator 27th District A M Wilson to School Board chairman Dr T M McDuffee and other district members plus registration and health representatives. Names include Cary B Fish Wm M Taylor J O Gates H S Clark T R Easterling W T Harrison B D Guilett M G Rushton D M Courtney W I Kirkhoff W P Frier J W Ponder Sarasota Geo T Dickie F H Tucker Dr T M McDuffee Henry R Curry and Dr Joseph Halton.
City officers listed include Mayor G W Franklin and councilmen J E Moore E M Hebb and G B Prime. Officials cover clerk tax assessor collector Paul Thompson police chief L D Hodges fire chief Henry Behrens city attorney J T Burker and public works commissioner Trigg Tuttle. City council meets first and third Mondays at 7 30 p m in the council chambers.
Preaching at 11 a m and 7 p m with B Y P U at 6 p m. You are invited to attend these services. Strangers especially welcome. J R Henry pastor.
St Cloud debates commission form of government. Clearwater plans adding commercial course to high school. Two Tampa area missing after train departure from Plant City. Tallahassee grocery hour ruling challenged. Hillsborough asphalt progress toward Osceola line. Seaplane pilot Jack McGee drowns testing new craft at Providence. St Cloud pleads ice price relief by mayoral commandeering. R A Gray earns Columbia Law honor with evenings study. Titusville businessmen buy Palmetto Products machinery to move plant for rugs and bags industry.
A wreck near Galloway last week destroyed ten freight cars with several oil tanks among them. A hog carcass was found in the stomach of an eleven-foot alligator killed near Eustis. Three hundred fifty teachers attend summer session at Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee. McAdoo grants one cent a mile for Confederate Re-Union in Tulsa during the week of Sept 24.
Experimental navy bean crops at Moore Haven perform satisfactorily with plans for large acreage next season.
The Farmers' Gin and Mill Company of Plant City has doubled its capacity to manage the higher cotton acreage planted in the area this year.
Lakeland ministers protest to the city commission over street dancing and the police are instructed to prohibit street dancing during the current city administration. Representatives who interviewed Regional Director Winehall about the west coast route for Florida in Atlanta were encouraged by the reception given their suggestion.
A corporation is perfected to build ships for the Emergency Fleet Corporation at Millville Florida using the German American Lumber Company plant, now under Enemy Property Custodian control.
Mrs Marian Horwitz O'Brien mayor of Moore Haven resigns citing her husband J J O'Brien former Philadelphia newspaper man has answered his country's call and is en route to Berlin.
Miakka column notes Miss Pinholster returns as teacher next year and reports on local events. Fifth Sunday services at Methodist church fund orphanage. Miss Nellie Logan returns from Tarpon Springs visit. Rev Eads moves to Apopka. visits from Wilsons and Knight family. local swimming party at Shannon home ends with cake and watermelon. Postmaster William Dudley Wyatt set to take office. new building planned near riverfront. community awaits a Miakka store and continued growth.
The President endorses Children's Year to cut infant mortality, citing England's lower infant death rate. Over two million children nationwide are invited to participate in a spring weighing and measuring test begun April 6 to aid the campaign. The effort parallels wartime civic work, inviting all to support local committees and child welfare. In one Army camp there are 55 battalion baseball teams plus headquarters and units.
Chester Randolph a tenement owner repents his hard stance after a confrontation with Eleanor Malette. He enlists in the Marines and pledges a one million dollar Liberty Loan subscription, asking Eleanor to oversee his tenants’ welfare while away. The two confess love as he prepares to depart.
A collage of poetry on work by Angela Morgan and a short civic note about Sarasota Poultry Company filed under Articles of Incorporation dated May 28 1918 with signatures C W Chapman Fannie Chapman John F Burker, reflecting period tone and local business filing.
An Octogenarian official admonishes a youth for a $1700 shortage in funds. The exchange emphasizes repayment and a warning that any future theft will be met with immediate restitution. No charges are noted, and the scene centers on the authority figure enforcing repayment.
Interest in rice farming rises in Manatee County as buyers order three rice thrashers one cleaner and several harvesters to expand yields and efficiency for the upcoming season.
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