Title:
The Flaming Sword
Accession#:
1991.10.03
Pubication Date:
1941/09/00
Call#:
FS 55:9
Object ID:
PA—0202
Collection:
Flaming Sword
Additional Notes & Full Text:
COMMNUNITY CURRENT EVENTS
September 1941
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WORK ON THE Estero tourist park is progressing. The eight-acre tract has been mowed. Ditches have been dug and two water pipe lines are being laid. A sixteenfoot road is being shelled from the Tamiami Trail west to the river. In the tract is a grove of native Oak Trees and Cabbage Palmettos and giant Bamboo fronting on the river, where bees have been kept for more than forty years. The bees are being removed and this natural beauty spot will be preserved as a park for the use of camping tourists. The natural beauty will be enhanced by the planting of Azaleas', Tree Ferns and flowering shrubs and vines. The tourist park site is irregularly triangular, fronting 600 feet on the Trail, 1000 feet on north side and having a meandering diagonal river frontage of approximately half a mile. Just inside the front fence White and Purple Bauhinia Trees will be planted. These will be a mass of bloom during the tourist season and will not be injured by any cold weather that is experienced here.
Mrs.Marie McConnell and son, Duane, came from Tampa to visit relatives and friends, remaining over one night.
Mr. John W. Chafer and helpers, from Perrine, Florida, were in Estero the evening of August 6. Mr. Chafer, who owns. a large grove and ornamental nursery at Perrine, bought a large crop of mangoes on a grove near Bradenton, and has been hauling them to the Miami market, where a scarcity exists.
Brother Alien Andrews left on the bus, August 7, for Bradenton, where he joined Mr. Chafer in visiting some of the local plant nurseries, returning Friday evening.
Mrs. Lovelle Ahrano and sons, Hensie and Mark, of Tampa, visited Sister Abbie McCready and Brother William McCready on Sunday, August 10.
Mrs. Cora Newcomb, of LaBelle, with her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Burchard and baby son, of Stuart, Florida, visited with us on August 12. Mrs. Newcomb returned shortly before this from a fewweeks visit with her sister and other relatives in Iowa.
We grieve to note the death in Lakeland, Florida, on August 16, of our friend and subscriber, Mrs. Alex. McKay.
Sister Ida Fisher had a pleasant ride to the county seat with her son, Irwin, and family, on August 16.
Mrs. Cora Stephens came in on the bus from Miami on August 12, to visit with friends at the Unity. She has just returned from a trip to Cuba. She left for home in Loris, South Carolina, on August 19.
We are enjoying an abundance of fine honey at present. The bees are soon to be moved to a new location on south side of river, near the old saw mill,where a room for storage and honey extraction is being constructed.
Sister Florence Graham went to Miami on August 23, to spend a few weeks with her mother at the home of her brother, Robert Graham.
D. W. Pelton came from the Evergreen Nursery in Miami with a truck and helper, carrying away a load of plants from our nursery.
Visitors from Fort Myers last month included Miss Meta Monsees, Mrs. Genevieve Arendt and Miss Bertie Boomer.
Sister Charlotte Leonard and Brothers Arthur Moore, Charlie and George Hunt were in Lakeland the week end, August 24.
The following is a continuation of Brother Alien's brief history of The Koreshan Unity:
At the end of four miles the surveyed line ran into the water. Optical experiments were also conducted, such as bringing into view with a telescope ships' hulls, right down on the water line, that had passed beyond the horizon, also observation of a target three miles distant with lens of the telescope right down on the water's surface. An account of these experiments has been published by the the Guiding Star Publishing House, Estero, Florida.
New comers, kept straggling into Estero by twos and threes. Late in 1901 another large delegation arrived from Chicago and on November 17, 1903, the last of the community members left for Estero, followed by thirteen carloads of furniture, machinery and equipment.
A community sawmill had been set up several years prior to this on the lower end of Estero Island, sawing lumber, both for sale and for home consumption. A number of the community buildings today are constructed from lumber sawed in this mill.
Members of the Unity took an active interest in local politics, and with many qualified electors voting as a unit in the county that was sparsely populated at the time, they were a factor to be reckoned with by the local county seat politicians who plotted together to outwit the Estero combination.
In the democratic primary of 1906 the Estero voters were confronted with an oath to which they were requested to subscribe to the effect that they had voted the democratic ticket,—national, state and county,—in the preceding election. Those who had been there two years previously had voted the entire ticket excepting that they had voted for Theodore Roosevelt for President. Those who had arrived later naturally had not been on hand to. vote the local ticket, so the intended blockout was complete. Nevertheless the community electors voted under protest, but the Estero precinct was ruled out in the official count.
September 1941
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WORK ON THE Estero tourist park is progressing. The eight-acre tract has been mowed. Ditches have been dug and two water pipe lines are being laid. A sixteenfoot road is being shelled from the Tamiami Trail west to the river. In the tract is a grove of native Oak Trees and Cabbage Palmettos and giant Bamboo fronting on the river, where bees have been kept for more than forty years. The bees are being removed and this natural beauty spot will be preserved as a park for the use of camping tourists. The natural beauty will be enhanced by the planting of Azaleas', Tree Ferns and flowering shrubs and vines. The tourist park site is irregularly triangular, fronting 600 feet on the Trail, 1000 feet on north side and having a meandering diagonal river frontage of approximately half a mile. Just inside the front fence White and Purple Bauhinia Trees will be planted. These will be a mass of bloom during the tourist season and will not be injured by any cold weather that is experienced here.
Mrs.Marie McConnell and son, Duane, came from Tampa to visit relatives and friends, remaining over one night.
Mr. John W. Chafer and helpers, from Perrine, Florida, were in Estero the evening of August 6. Mr. Chafer, who owns. a large grove and ornamental nursery at Perrine, bought a large crop of mangoes on a grove near Bradenton, and has been hauling them to the Miami market, where a scarcity exists.
Brother Alien Andrews left on the bus, August 7, for Bradenton, where he joined Mr. Chafer in visiting some of the local plant nurseries, returning Friday evening.
Mrs. Lovelle Ahrano and sons, Hensie and Mark, of Tampa, visited Sister Abbie McCready and Brother William McCready on Sunday, August 10.
Mrs. Cora Newcomb, of LaBelle, with her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Burchard and baby son, of Stuart, Florida, visited with us on August 12. Mrs. Newcomb returned shortly before this from a fewweeks visit with her sister and other relatives in Iowa.
We grieve to note the death in Lakeland, Florida, on August 16, of our friend and subscriber, Mrs. Alex. McKay.
Sister Ida Fisher had a pleasant ride to the county seat with her son, Irwin, and family, on August 16.
Mrs. Cora Stephens came in on the bus from Miami on August 12, to visit with friends at the Unity. She has just returned from a trip to Cuba. She left for home in Loris, South Carolina, on August 19.
We are enjoying an abundance of fine honey at present. The bees are soon to be moved to a new location on south side of river, near the old saw mill,where a room for storage and honey extraction is being constructed.
Sister Florence Graham went to Miami on August 23, to spend a few weeks with her mother at the home of her brother, Robert Graham.
D. W. Pelton came from the Evergreen Nursery in Miami with a truck and helper, carrying away a load of plants from our nursery.
Visitors from Fort Myers last month included Miss Meta Monsees, Mrs. Genevieve Arendt and Miss Bertie Boomer.
Sister Charlotte Leonard and Brothers Arthur Moore, Charlie and George Hunt were in Lakeland the week end, August 24.
The following is a continuation of Brother Alien's brief history of The Koreshan Unity:
At the end of four miles the surveyed line ran into the water. Optical experiments were also conducted, such as bringing into view with a telescope ships' hulls, right down on the water line, that had passed beyond the horizon, also observation of a target three miles distant with lens of the telescope right down on the water's surface. An account of these experiments has been published by the the Guiding Star Publishing House, Estero, Florida.
New comers, kept straggling into Estero by twos and threes. Late in 1901 another large delegation arrived from Chicago and on November 17, 1903, the last of the community members left for Estero, followed by thirteen carloads of furniture, machinery and equipment.
A community sawmill had been set up several years prior to this on the lower end of Estero Island, sawing lumber, both for sale and for home consumption. A number of the community buildings today are constructed from lumber sawed in this mill.
Members of the Unity took an active interest in local politics, and with many qualified electors voting as a unit in the county that was sparsely populated at the time, they were a factor to be reckoned with by the local county seat politicians who plotted together to outwit the Estero combination.
In the democratic primary of 1906 the Estero voters were confronted with an oath to which they were requested to subscribe to the effect that they had voted the democratic ticket,—national, state and county,—in the preceding election. Those who had been there two years previously had voted the entire ticket excepting that they had voted for Theodore Roosevelt for President. Those who had arrived later naturally had not been on hand to. vote the local ticket, so the intended blockout was complete. Nevertheless the community electors voted under protest, but the Estero precinct was ruled out in the official count.
Author:
[various]
Summary:
Standard reprints of earlier articles. Community Current Events written by Rose Gilbert. She also includes a continuation of Allen Andrews' "Brief History of the Koreshan Unity". The Centerfold story of Koreshan Aims and Objectives included again. Mention is made of the work on the so—called "Tourist Park" (trailer park) on the north side of the river.
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Notes:
See Public Shelf for photocopies.
Object Name:
Periodical
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
People:
Koresh
Staton, Lou H.
Gilbert, Rose.
Andrews, Allen
.
Staton, Lou H.
Gilbert, Rose.
Andrews, Allen
.
Phys Desc:
12 p. 31 cm.
Publisher:
Guiding Star Publishing House
Publication Place:
Estero, Fl.
Search Terms:
Flaming Sword
Subjects:
Theology——Periodicals