Title:
The Flaming Sword
Accession#:
1991.10.03
Pubication Date:
1936/01/00
Object ID:
PA—0134
Collection:
Flaming Sword
Additional Notes & Full Text:
Community Current Events -- January 1936
By Claude J. Rahn
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ENGINEERS of the State Highway Department have recently been making surveys in the vicinity of the one-way bridge over the Estero River, and we understand that definite plans are being made for the installation of a wider twoway bridge in the near future. The present structure has been entirely inadequate to care for the increasing frame, and there have been many narrow escapes from collisions of fast moving cars of late months. In fact, several serious and even fatal accidents have occurred, and we hope there will be no long delay in building this much needed improvement. Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Lewis of Everglades, Florida, were visitors on Sunday the first. Having an attractive home here they come as often as they conveniently can, visiting sister Rose Gilbert, Mrs. Lewis5 sister and their many friends here in the Unity. Brother Laurence W. Bubbett with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Campbell visited Miami on the ninth and tenth. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are recently from Jersey City, N. J., the former being a. nephew of Mrs. P. W. Campbell of Estero. On the tenth we were visited by Col. and Mrs. A. E. Powell with their son and daughter from Vancouver, B. C. They are touring the Southern states in a house car and he is gathering data for a book of his travels. Brother Wilhelm Appel passed away on Saturday, the fourteenth, following a long illness and was interred in our local cemetary. Brother Wilhelm was born in Prussia, Germany, March 21, 1852, and came to this country as a young man and located in eastern Pennsylvania. About forty years ago he joined the Koresh-an Unity in Chicago, 111., and came to Estero in 1903 when the Chicago branch was consolidated with the Estero division.. For many years he was in charge of our farm and especially of the horses. He was an earnest and faithful follower of Koresh and for years had never been off the premises. Brothers Henry D. Silverfriend and David J. Richards were the guests of Mr. D. R. Dora of Coop" erstown, N. Y., on an auto trip to Collier City and Caxambas, Florida, on the fifteenth. Mr. Dorn is an enthusiastic archeologist and was especially interested in gathering relics of the aboriginal inhabitants of Florida, many of which have been found at the two places visited. Brothers Alien Andrews and David J. Richards were among the delegation from this county that went to Tampa, Florida, on the eighteenth to attend an indignation meeting over the dilatory tactics now being pursued by the State Highway Department in maintaining in repair and improvement our principal local highway, the Tamiami Trail, and they reported an organization was effected and promises obtained from representatives of the State Highway Department that immediate consideration will be given for the improvement of this important highway. Sister Florence Graham our efficient machine typesetting operator spent the Christmas holidays visiting her brothers in Miami, and left with the writer the arduous duty of substituting for her while she was away. Really that typesetting machine is the dumbest speller I ever encountered. Hardly a word came out of it correctly spelled. It was a mess, and I was glad that Florence's visit was not prolonged. Mr. Marion W. Strickland who is operating our gasoline filling station spent a delightful Christmas day visiting with his daughters in. Wauchula, Florida. The weather is still making strenuous efforts to establish new records for this section of Florida. During the whole month of December it has been cool and on many days uncomfortably cold, the thermometer registering as low as 30 degrees above zero in Estero. As yet no serious damage has occurred to our tender vegetation, but our several gardeners are spending sleepless nights apprehensive of what may happen at any time to their garden plots should this sort of unfriendly and unusual weather continue. 30 degrees here is equivalent to about 15 degrees in the north so far as its damp penetration and effect on humans is concerned. Among us here in the Unity Christmas day passes without special observance, not that we are lacking in reverence toward the God of the universe that the nations of Christendom on this day pay homage to, but rather to the fact that the Christian dispensation has passed and we are now on the threshold of the most important of all eras, the Koreshan dispensation which was inaugurated at the birth of KORESH. He it is that we honor in this new age as the supreme Lord of Creation in whom are gathered all the wisdom and attributes of Deity. Since the death of Mrs. Bertha S. Boomer her daughter. Bertha M. Boomer has arranged to make her home in the Unity. Their home at Mirasol Grove will be closed except for occasional visits of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Boomer and children of New York City, who with several guests spent the Christmas holidays there this season. We have some very promising vegetable gardens under way nurtured by several intrepid knights of the hoe who if they manage to live through or weather the frequent and dreaded alarms of threatened freezes will undoubtedly serve us in the near future with much needed green vegetables.
By Claude J. Rahn
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ENGINEERS of the State Highway Department have recently been making surveys in the vicinity of the one-way bridge over the Estero River, and we understand that definite plans are being made for the installation of a wider twoway bridge in the near future. The present structure has been entirely inadequate to care for the increasing frame, and there have been many narrow escapes from collisions of fast moving cars of late months. In fact, several serious and even fatal accidents have occurred, and we hope there will be no long delay in building this much needed improvement. Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Lewis of Everglades, Florida, were visitors on Sunday the first. Having an attractive home here they come as often as they conveniently can, visiting sister Rose Gilbert, Mrs. Lewis5 sister and their many friends here in the Unity. Brother Laurence W. Bubbett with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Campbell visited Miami on the ninth and tenth. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are recently from Jersey City, N. J., the former being a. nephew of Mrs. P. W. Campbell of Estero. On the tenth we were visited by Col. and Mrs. A. E. Powell with their son and daughter from Vancouver, B. C. They are touring the Southern states in a house car and he is gathering data for a book of his travels. Brother Wilhelm Appel passed away on Saturday, the fourteenth, following a long illness and was interred in our local cemetary. Brother Wilhelm was born in Prussia, Germany, March 21, 1852, and came to this country as a young man and located in eastern Pennsylvania. About forty years ago he joined the Koresh-an Unity in Chicago, 111., and came to Estero in 1903 when the Chicago branch was consolidated with the Estero division.. For many years he was in charge of our farm and especially of the horses. He was an earnest and faithful follower of Koresh and for years had never been off the premises. Brothers Henry D. Silverfriend and David J. Richards were the guests of Mr. D. R. Dora of Coop" erstown, N. Y., on an auto trip to Collier City and Caxambas, Florida, on the fifteenth. Mr. Dorn is an enthusiastic archeologist and was especially interested in gathering relics of the aboriginal inhabitants of Florida, many of which have been found at the two places visited. Brothers Alien Andrews and David J. Richards were among the delegation from this county that went to Tampa, Florida, on the eighteenth to attend an indignation meeting over the dilatory tactics now being pursued by the State Highway Department in maintaining in repair and improvement our principal local highway, the Tamiami Trail, and they reported an organization was effected and promises obtained from representatives of the State Highway Department that immediate consideration will be given for the improvement of this important highway. Sister Florence Graham our efficient machine typesetting operator spent the Christmas holidays visiting her brothers in Miami, and left with the writer the arduous duty of substituting for her while she was away. Really that typesetting machine is the dumbest speller I ever encountered. Hardly a word came out of it correctly spelled. It was a mess, and I was glad that Florence's visit was not prolonged. Mr. Marion W. Strickland who is operating our gasoline filling station spent a delightful Christmas day visiting with his daughters in. Wauchula, Florida. The weather is still making strenuous efforts to establish new records for this section of Florida. During the whole month of December it has been cool and on many days uncomfortably cold, the thermometer registering as low as 30 degrees above zero in Estero. As yet no serious damage has occurred to our tender vegetation, but our several gardeners are spending sleepless nights apprehensive of what may happen at any time to their garden plots should this sort of unfriendly and unusual weather continue. 30 degrees here is equivalent to about 15 degrees in the north so far as its damp penetration and effect on humans is concerned. Among us here in the Unity Christmas day passes without special observance, not that we are lacking in reverence toward the God of the universe that the nations of Christendom on this day pay homage to, but rather to the fact that the Christian dispensation has passed and we are now on the threshold of the most important of all eras, the Koreshan dispensation which was inaugurated at the birth of KORESH. He it is that we honor in this new age as the supreme Lord of Creation in whom are gathered all the wisdom and attributes of Deity. Since the death of Mrs. Bertha S. Boomer her daughter. Bertha M. Boomer has arranged to make her home in the Unity. Their home at Mirasol Grove will be closed except for occasional visits of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Boomer and children of New York City, who with several guests spent the Christmas holidays there this season. We have some very promising vegetable gardens under way nurtured by several intrepid knights of the hoe who if they manage to live through or weather the frequent and dreaded alarms of threatened freezes will undoubtedly serve us in the near future with much needed green vegetables.
Notes:
See originals in Archives building. Most issues have been photocopied and are bound. These copies are located on the Public Shelf