Wauchula News Of November & December 1921
Edited by Spessard Stone from The Tampa Morning Tribune of Nov. 20, 27, Dec. 4, 11, 24,
1921 and Jan. 1, 1922
Social News
Wauchula, Nov. 19 - Tuesday afternoon the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Carlton, on East Bay
Street, was the scene of a pretty party, when Mrs. C. J. Carlton, Mrs. C. S. Carlton, Mrs. W. A.
Southerland and Mrs. B. A. Prescott entertained about thirty-five guests in compliment to Miss
Artie Crews, whose marriage to Mr. W. E. Pierce occurred yesterday.
Music was a pleasant feature of the afternoon, the most important feature, however, arriving
when little Miss Frieda Carlton, drawing a large press wagon which had been gaily decorated
with pink and white crepe paper and which was laden with many lovely gifts, entered the room
and presented the gifts to the honoree.
After the gifts had been opened and admired, refreshments of chocolate and wafers were served
by Misses Nellie and Mildred Smith, Ray Swann and Cherry Crews, and, upon leaving each
guest registered good wishes to the bride in a book prepared for the occasion.
Thursday night Mrs. A. Yancy Teachy entertained the Rounders Club at her home on West
Orange Street.
The Civic League met Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. L. W. Bostick on West
Palmetto Street.
The Tuesday Musical Club met at the home of Mrs. John McEwen on Nov. 15.
L. L. Roberts, postmaster of Limestone was a visitor on Wednesday.
Mrs. W. W. Whitehurst and little daughter, Eloise, left Wednesday morning for Gainesville to
visit her brother, Hoyt Carlton.
Nov. 26 - Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Baggett and children of Newman, Ga. arrived here last Saturday
and are stopping at the Arlington. Mr. Baggett contemplates going into business here.
Mrs. John W. Burton of St. Petersburg was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Grady Burton on
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Carlton and son, Leffie Carlton, went to Tampa Tuesday morning to attend
the Carlton-Brown wedding, which occurred Wednesday night.
Thanksgiving yesterday was much like Sunday in Wauchula. The stores were closed and most
people were hunting or visiting. There was a union Thanksgiving service at the Christian
church Sunday morning, Rev. W. T. Dart of the Baptist church officiating.
An eleven-pound boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Murdock last Thursday.
Mrs. W. B. Beeson left Wednesday morning for DeLand to spend Thanksgiving with her friend,
Mrs. I. C. Smith.
Dec. 4-H. M. Herr, of Lancaster, Pa., arrived here last week to spend the winter with his son, R.
H. Herr, the well-known jeweler.
Bond Issue
Dec. 10-The city council has voted to call an election for voting of an $80,000 bond issue,
$70,000 to be used for streets and $10,000 for waterworks extension and park improvements.
The proposed streets to be paved are Bay Street from the brick road near the river to Dixie
Highway, Orange Street from Dixie Highway to Fourth Avenue, Palmetto Street from Third
Avenue to Ninth Avenue, Oak Street from Fourth Avenue to the intersection of Louisiana
Avenue and Dixie Highway. Ninth, Eighth, Seventh, Sixth and Fourth avenues are to be paved from Oak to Bay Street,
except Seventh Avenue, which will extend to Summit Street. Third Avenue is to be paved from
Palmetto and Main streets.
Shriners
A meeting of a number of Wauchula Shriners was held in the office of the Wauchula
Development Company Monday evening and a Shrine club was organized by electing Douglas
Bailey president and S. W. Kay secretary and treasurer.
The charter members were: R. O. Evans, H. H. Petteway, H. B. Rainey, F. H. Simmons, W. H.
Smith, C. L. Richardson, jr., I. Silverman, Douglas Bailey and S. W. Kay.
Methodist Minister
Rev. James M. Mitchell left Tuesday morning for the annual Methodist Conference at Orlando.
There are few preachers in the conference who will be able to make a better report than Rev.
Mitchell. Every claim of the church has been paid in full, nearly a hundred new members have been
added to the church during the past year, and Rev. Mitchell has served the church eight years
and his official board has unanimously asked for his return.
Wauchula Growers Are Prospering
Dec. 24-Beans five dollars a hamper and strawberries one dollar a quart! Such is the record of
the market in Wauchula the past week-not city quotes, but the real coin of the real which the
growers receive at the shipping platform.
Wauchula has been shipping about a solid carload of mixed vegetables daily the past week and
will do better than that next week, should the weather continue favorable.
Messrs. Walker & McEwen, W. E. McEwen and W. S. Shelton are among the early strawberry
shippers and have contracted their berries to C. A. Gordon at one dollar per quart up until
Christmas. Up to and yesterday they had shipped ten refrigerators.
Messrs. Poucher & Murphy have gathered about three hundred and seventy-five crates of beans
from their fifteen acres east of town and today or tomorrow expect to commence to gather
eggplants from a field just coming in. Up to yesterday their beans sold for $5 a hamper at the
shipping station. With favorable weather they will be shipping in solid carloads next week.
A few hampers of potatoes have gone out for $3 per hamper, and cabbage is beginning to move
in a small way and sold for $1 per crate. Eggplants are bringing $1.75.
The orange packing houses are closing down until after the holidays. The exchange house has
about three more cars to pack and the Alexander & Baird Co. was packing a carload of
tangerines yesterday.
The packers of Wauchula are to be congratulated upon getting as great a per cent of their fruit on
a good market this season.
Eastern Star
The installation of officers for the ensuing year occurred at the regular meeting of the Order of
Eastern Star Monday night, and the Star will be under the guidance of the following officers:
Mrs. C. L. Richardson, jr., W. M.; Mrs. R. B. Downing, W. P.; Miss Mamie Peters, A. M.;
Mrs. A. S. Johnson, conductress; Mrs. T. F. Williams, assistant conductress; Miss Jessie Hadsell,
secretary; Mrs. George M. Goolsby, treasurer; Miss Ruth Downing, Adah; Mrs. D. H. Folsom,
Ruth; Mrs. Leslie Hord, Esther; Miss Josephine Spivey, Martha; Mrs. W. E. Folsom, Electa; Mrs.
Elizabeth Meyer, chaplain; Mrs. J. W. Earnest, marshal; Mrs. W. A. Southerland, warder; A. S.
Johnson, sentinel; Mrs. W. D. McInnis, organist.
County Site Election
Dec. 31-A county site election was held in Hardee County yesterday, Wauchula and Zolfo
being the contestants. It proved an overwhelming victory for Wauchula, which received 1,030
votes and Zolfo 69.
The election was called by the commissioners after being presented with a petition by the friends
of Zolfo, and after being called some of the same people attempted to enjoin the commissioners
from holding it, but Judge Whitehurst refused to issue an injunction.
Social Notes
Solon Southerland, in the advertising department of The Tampa Tribune, returned to Tampa
Tuesday morning after spending Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Southerland.
Dr. and Mrs. Leland Carlton of Tampa spent Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Carlton.
Col. Doyle E. Carlton returned to his home in Tampa after a few days visit to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Carlton.
This article was published in
The Herald-Advocate (Wauchula, Fla.) of December 6, 2001.
December 6, 2001
