Osprey News Update From Our Special Correspondent
Local notes report two rains boosting crops in the area. Visits include Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn and Mrs. Roberts in Laurel, the Robetss trip to Laurel, and trips by Webb, Shumard, and Ragan. An auto mishap near Tampa involved a hog and a capsize but no injuries. Mrs. Ada Ragan is improving at the hospital and expected home soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Roberts
Elihue
Laurel
W. A. Saunders
Mack Hamlin
Tampa
Ford
Jesse B. Shumard
Guy Ragan
Ada Ragan
Bee Ridge community notes and local updates
Bee Ridge items report travel by Lloyd Zeigler and others, land and home projects, new Bee Ridge Hotel host W J English, school meetings on teacher appointments, groves planted for cover crops, church and fellowship news, and a Pentecostal minister expected to preach. Also mentions soldiers going to war, local illnesses, and Denmark potato and carrot harvest figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
Bee Ridge
Revivalwork in Laurel and beach outing whispers
Dr. Wilson has been called to Laurel for revival meetings. Reports from Osprey revival are positive. The piece notes concern over militant attitudes and mentions C. E. Ragan leaving for an action after a beach outing on Monday.
Citrus Crops Outlook After February Freeze
Florida citrus shipments for 1916-17 totaled 6,963,000 boxes as 4,961 cars of grapefruit and 16,139 cars of oranges arrived, with an estimated 40 percent of normal crop due to the freeze. The season closed with 21,100 cars moving citrus statewide and a table tracing shipments since 1884.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
The
Tampa Times
Iroquois? No. Glenwood tale of Wedlock Plans
Aunt Mary engineers a ruse to speed Ruth Hempstead toward marriage by inviting New York journalist Dick Stover to Ruth and by keeping Oliver Crowley at bay. Ruth discovers Oliver has publicly rejected commitment after Ruth’s suitor’s arrival. The story follows romantic pressures in Glenwood society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Crowley
Miss Mary Robinson
Ruth Hempstead
Miss Mary
Mary
Oliver
Ruth
Dick Stover
New York
Glenwood
Glenwood Record
Hempstead
Mrs. Hempstead
Maple Avenue
Aunt Mary
The Girl Knew and the Two Little Lies
Two girls Lucy and Ellen argue over what a lit tle fib is with Ellen claiming a lie and story are same since her father a college professor knows everything Lucy retorts her father, a real estate agent, knows more about lying. The Palm Beach Post notes the exchange as a plain indication of knowledge in a bright little girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy
Ellen
Palm Beach Post
Armories Busy Stacking Arms From Munitions Plants
Every United States armory is busy stacking up arms and supplies produced at munitions plants where work is speeding up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Kansas City to spend 100000 for garbage incinerator
Kansas City Missouri budgets one hundred thousand dollars for a new garbage incinerator project. The plan aims to reduce solid waste and improve city sanitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Liver AID: New Vegetable Remedy Without Griping
An ad touts Liver AID as a gentler liver medicine that avoids griping like calomel. It claims quick relief for biliousness headaches constipation indigestion dyspepsia and other liver stomach and bowel disorders and promises satisfaction or money back. Sold by Badger Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonardi
Badger Pharmacy
Meeting of Board of Stewards Friday Parish Service
The Junior League notes a Friday afternoon meeting of the Board of Stewards held on the last Friday of each month. Strangers and visitors will be welcomed at all services. I W Longacre is the pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Kennedy
Board of Stewards
I. W. Longacre
Sunday church services invitation by Pastor C W Latham
The notice invites parishioners and newcomers to Sunday school at 10 a m preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m and a Wednesday prayer meeting at 7 30 p m The pastor extends a cordial welcome to all without a church home or visitors in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Endeavor
J. R. Henry
Church Services and Scientist Meeting Announced
The Baptist church invites all to worship at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. with B Y P U at 6 p.m. Pastor J R Henry signs the notice. Christian Scientists meet weekly at the High School Auditorium at 11 a.m. and welcome all attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Scientists
Masonic Hall Blackburn hosts meetings twice a month
The Blackburn Masonic Lodge meets on the 1st and 8th Tuesday nights at 7 30 PM in the Masonic Hall. Visitors are welcome. W M Z B Hayslip and E J Bright, Secretary, sign the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonic Hall
Blackburn
Z. B. Hayslip
W. M. E. J. Bright
Sec’y
Masonic and Odd Fellows Meetings in Sarasota
Sarasota groups list schedule details for Chapter No. 35 RAM, Trinity Commandery No. 16, Sarasota Chapter No. 66 O E 8, Lodge No. 73 IOOF, and Rebekah Lodge No. 37. Meetings occur on various Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Masonic Hall or Odd Fellows Hall with named officers and secretaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarasota
O. E
Masonic Hall
Blackburn
Sarasota Rebekah Lodge
Methodist Church Sunday Schedule and Activities
Sunday school meets at 9 45 a m with worship at 11 a m and 7 30 p m Epworth League gathers at 6 30 p m Prayer meeting is Wednesday at 7 p m Woman's Missionary Society meets on the first Tuesday at 1 30 p m Mission Study Class holds sessions on the first and third Tuesday evenings
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
Woman‘s Missionary Society
Woodmen Lodge Meets Each Thursday in Blackburn Building
W O W Gillespie Lodge No 119 meets every Thursday at 7 30 p m in Woodmen Hall Blackburn building Visitors welcomed K M Hebb C C M Biorseth Clerk.
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Gillespie Lodge
Woodmen Hall
Blackburn
Walcame
Woodman Circle Meets in Woodman Hall on Tuesdays
Woodman Circle gathers in Woodman Hall on the first and third Tuesdays each month at 7 30 p m. Ruth Brye is Guardian and Pelot serves as Clerk.
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Woodman Circle
Woodman Hall
Ruth Brye
Guardian
Pelot
Local Officials Listed for Manatee and Surrounding Counties
A dated roster enumerates district representatives and officials for Manatee and nearby areas. Names include A M Wilson as 27th District representative, Cary B Fish as judge, Robt H Roesch clerk, J O Gates sheriff, H S Clark tax assessor, T R Easterling tax collector, W T Harrison prosecuting attorney, B D Gullett school superintendent, M G Rushton chair of commissioners, and other district appointees in Bradenton Palmetto Parrish Sarasota and Fruitville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Wilson
Miaka
Fla
W. M. Taylor
Sarasota
Cary B. Fish
Bradentown
Robt
H. Roesch
J. O. Gates
H. S. Clark
T. R. Easterling
Editor Slams Poet For Leaky Meter
A judge recalls telling an amateur poet to “take it away” as his verse was criticized for faulty meter. The editor’s reaction underscores a sharp critique of the poem’s rhythm and structure.
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Osprey News
Claud Curry
Venice
Frank Blackburn
Guy M. Ragan
A. B. Hand
Col
Mrs. Phillips
Frank Tyler
Arcadia
Mandy Shumard
Wauchula
Osprey
Charles W. Webb
W. B. Webb
E. A. Johnson
Lloyd Zeigler
Indianapolis
Mr. C. Swift
Mr. Green
Latham
J. A. Blackford
Decatur
Ill
C. M. Higgins
Bliss Street
W. J. English
Bee Ridge Hotel
Country Girls’ Club
Mrs. Martin
Sam
Dewey Stephens
Mrs. McAuley
Woodbury
N. J
Oil City
Penn
Manitowoc
Wis
Jasper
Ala
Alabama
North
Georgia
Denmark
C. E. Ragan
State
the Meddler
Earl Reed Silvers
Adv
Presbyterian Church
C. W. Latham
Adelia Street
Sarasota Lodge
R.A.M
C. E. Hitchings
H. P. Frank Redd
Trinity Commandery
E. A. Kartack
BE. C
F. Wm. Schultz
Wassussige
Bertha Arnold
W. M
Alice Schultz
Odd Fellows Hall
Caples Building
Wralanma
Wuicwullit
John E. Baker
N. G
Lewis G. Evers
Oo Fellows
Caples A Cathern Moorhead
Augusta Whitaker
Seey
Caples
Ron Ross
Churches and Societies
K. M. Hebb, C. c. M. Biorseth
Woodrow Wilson
T. R. Marshall
D. A. Fletcher
Park Trammell
First
H. J. Crane
United States Land Office Register
Robi. W. Davis
Perry M. Colson
S. J. Catts
H. Clay Sepenes
T. F. Wes
W. A. McRae
J. C. Luning
William N. Sheats
Ernest Amosne
Jefferson B. Browne
A . H. Mabry
R. Hudson& Burr
R. C. Dunn
Sixth Judicial Circuit
O. K. Reaves
M. A. McMullen
Officers
H. L. Higel
Pats L. Roberts
K. M. Hebb
E. J. Bacon
Pas
Sollee Paul
L. D. Hodges
Henry Behrens
J. F. Burker
Ee Tuttle
Jack Halte
City Council
Mets
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