Title:
The Flaming Sword
Accession#:
1991.10.03
Pubication Date:
1935/07/00
Object ID:
PA—0128
Collection:
Flaming Sword
Additional Notes & Full Text:
Community Current Events -- July 1935
By Claude J. Rahn
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WE WERE PLEASED to learn from our apiary department, under the management of Brother Frank Wilson with Brothers Peter Blem and George W. Hunt as able assistants, that they have just completed an extraction of honey, which amounted to more than. was at first expected. There was a good bloom this year on the mangroves that grow so luxuriantly along the salt water marshes, about the mouth of the river, and along the shores of the bay and the many islands. Other than this bloom there has been little for bees to work on. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Raymond and Miss Cecil Hamilton of Fort Myers. visited the Unity on Sunday afternoon the second. Miss, Hamilton, niece of Brother Lou H. Staton, is principal of Gwynne Institute of Fort Myers. Brothers Henry D. Silverfriend, Will Fischer and George Dore made a motor boat trip to the bay on the ninth, visiting various points of interest. Brother Daniel McNamara left on the tenth for a short visit to friends in St. Petersburg, Florida. This is Mac's dull season, a time when there is little that can be grown in the garden because of the frequent rains and the nearly vertical rays of the sun. Dr. and Mrs. David Fairchild of Coconut Grove, Florida, visited here on the ninth. He was for many years chief of the Bureau of Plant Introduction at Washington, D. C., and has traveled to all parts of the world searching and exploring for plants that might prove of value for introduction and development in this country. Mrs. Fairchild is, a daughter of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. Brother Franklin F. Jacke, manager of our local store, is arranging for the installation of a small electric generating plant which is to furnish light and refrigeration for the store independently of our general lighting plant which is not continuously in operation. Mrs. A. L. Camphausen and Miss Elin Lindberg who have operated the Rustic Tea Garden here for several years, and where many prominent people from all parts of the world have enjoyed their very superior service, have discontinued their operations, and removed to Fort Myers, Florida. Brother Alien H. Andrews and the writer visited Boca Grande on Gasparilla Island in our county of Lee on the tenth. This town is one of the best known sport fishing centers in the country. Here come fishermen to capture that great game fish, the tarpon, weighing up to 175 pounds. The town itself is somewhat difficult to reach, made so by wealthy winter residents who desire exclusiveness, and who have not encouraged its development as a point of attraction for winter tourists. Residents in these parts were treated to an unusual sight on the morning of the twelfth when at Naples beach on the Gulf of Mexico, a short distance south from here, there were stranded on an ebb tide nearly sixty great blackfish frequently termed whales (genus Globicephala). They measured from ten to twenty feet in length and some must have weighed up to four tons. They had small teeth and eyes and very smooth, black skins. Many were cut up and used for fertilizer and the rest were towed .out to sea for the sharks to feast on. It is said they follow, sheep-like, a leader who if not alert to his surroundings is sometimes caught in the shallow flats as the tide goes out as in this instance, and it is "just too bad" for those that stupidly follow. Beneath the brilliant light of a moon nearly full we marveled at the beauty of the night-blooming cereus; large, white, wax-like blossoms that thrust themselves forward timidly on slender arms from interlaced, serpentine masses of cactus that grow here and there in our park. To the passersby this variety of cactus (C. grandifl-orus) excites little interest, few knowing that from these seemingly inert and lifeless plants, clinging tenaciously to a palm tree or sprawled heavily and thickly over a low pine stump there lies concealed a spirit that arouses itself periodically to display only at night fragrant flowers that are lovely to behold, flowers that glorify their nocturnal surroundings for a few hours only then fade, ere the night is gone, never to open again, but which in withering give place to others that bloom on successive nights. In many ways Florida's attractions during the summer months are superior to those of the winter, when tourists flock by the thousands to our state to enjoy the warm sunny days. At present most of our flowering trees and shrubs are at their best. There is a great variety, many of course being unknown to those living in northern latitudes, unless they are to be found growing under cover, protected from the cold of winter. The crape myrtle, oleander, hibiscus and ixora, sometimes called "Flame 0' the Woods," are especially attractive just now. We have three colors of the crape myrtle, pink, red and white, while the oleanders are of the pink and white varieties. There are many kinds of hibiscus both with single and double flowers, but perhaps most beautiful of all is the ixora with its clear red flowers in clusters which appear to lay close against the dark shiny green leaves. There are numerous other flowers native to this semi-tropical climate that are at their best now, besides the crape jasamine and the night-blooming jasmine fill the air with their penetrating fragrance.
By Claude J. Rahn
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WE WERE PLEASED to learn from our apiary department, under the management of Brother Frank Wilson with Brothers Peter Blem and George W. Hunt as able assistants, that they have just completed an extraction of honey, which amounted to more than. was at first expected. There was a good bloom this year on the mangroves that grow so luxuriantly along the salt water marshes, about the mouth of the river, and along the shores of the bay and the many islands. Other than this bloom there has been little for bees to work on. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Raymond and Miss Cecil Hamilton of Fort Myers. visited the Unity on Sunday afternoon the second. Miss, Hamilton, niece of Brother Lou H. Staton, is principal of Gwynne Institute of Fort Myers. Brothers Henry D. Silverfriend, Will Fischer and George Dore made a motor boat trip to the bay on the ninth, visiting various points of interest. Brother Daniel McNamara left on the tenth for a short visit to friends in St. Petersburg, Florida. This is Mac's dull season, a time when there is little that can be grown in the garden because of the frequent rains and the nearly vertical rays of the sun. Dr. and Mrs. David Fairchild of Coconut Grove, Florida, visited here on the ninth. He was for many years chief of the Bureau of Plant Introduction at Washington, D. C., and has traveled to all parts of the world searching and exploring for plants that might prove of value for introduction and development in this country. Mrs. Fairchild is, a daughter of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. Brother Franklin F. Jacke, manager of our local store, is arranging for the installation of a small electric generating plant which is to furnish light and refrigeration for the store independently of our general lighting plant which is not continuously in operation. Mrs. A. L. Camphausen and Miss Elin Lindberg who have operated the Rustic Tea Garden here for several years, and where many prominent people from all parts of the world have enjoyed their very superior service, have discontinued their operations, and removed to Fort Myers, Florida. Brother Alien H. Andrews and the writer visited Boca Grande on Gasparilla Island in our county of Lee on the tenth. This town is one of the best known sport fishing centers in the country. Here come fishermen to capture that great game fish, the tarpon, weighing up to 175 pounds. The town itself is somewhat difficult to reach, made so by wealthy winter residents who desire exclusiveness, and who have not encouraged its development as a point of attraction for winter tourists. Residents in these parts were treated to an unusual sight on the morning of the twelfth when at Naples beach on the Gulf of Mexico, a short distance south from here, there were stranded on an ebb tide nearly sixty great blackfish frequently termed whales (genus Globicephala). They measured from ten to twenty feet in length and some must have weighed up to four tons. They had small teeth and eyes and very smooth, black skins. Many were cut up and used for fertilizer and the rest were towed .out to sea for the sharks to feast on. It is said they follow, sheep-like, a leader who if not alert to his surroundings is sometimes caught in the shallow flats as the tide goes out as in this instance, and it is "just too bad" for those that stupidly follow. Beneath the brilliant light of a moon nearly full we marveled at the beauty of the night-blooming cereus; large, white, wax-like blossoms that thrust themselves forward timidly on slender arms from interlaced, serpentine masses of cactus that grow here and there in our park. To the passersby this variety of cactus (C. grandifl-orus) excites little interest, few knowing that from these seemingly inert and lifeless plants, clinging tenaciously to a palm tree or sprawled heavily and thickly over a low pine stump there lies concealed a spirit that arouses itself periodically to display only at night fragrant flowers that are lovely to behold, flowers that glorify their nocturnal surroundings for a few hours only then fade, ere the night is gone, never to open again, but which in withering give place to others that bloom on successive nights. In many ways Florida's attractions during the summer months are superior to those of the winter, when tourists flock by the thousands to our state to enjoy the warm sunny days. At present most of our flowering trees and shrubs are at their best. There is a great variety, many of course being unknown to those living in northern latitudes, unless they are to be found growing under cover, protected from the cold of winter. The crape myrtle, oleander, hibiscus and ixora, sometimes called "Flame 0' the Woods," are especially attractive just now. We have three colors of the crape myrtle, pink, red and white, while the oleanders are of the pink and white varieties. There are many kinds of hibiscus both with single and double flowers, but perhaps most beautiful of all is the ixora with its clear red flowers in clusters which appear to lay close against the dark shiny green leaves. There are numerous other flowers native to this semi-tropical climate that are at their best now, besides the crape jasamine and the night-blooming jasmine fill the air with their penetrating fragrance.
Notes:
See originals in Archives building. Most issues have been photocopied and are bound. These copies are located on the Public Shelf
People:
Richards, David, Boomer, Bertie, Bisbing, Genevieve, Trebell, Edith, Monsees, Meta, Rugg, Lillian, Moreland, Floyd, Silverfriend, Henrietta (Etta), Silverfriend, Henry, Andrews, Allen, Peterson, Linnius Charles, Rahn, Claude, Jacke, Franklin, Cleaves, Wilmot M., Stephens, Cora