Title:
The Flaming Sword
Accession#:
1991.10.03
Pubication Date:
1940/07/00
Object ID:
PA—0188
Collection:
Flaming Sword
Additional Notes & Full Text:
Community Current Events - July 1940
By Rose Gilbert
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THE UNITY made a sale just recently of four lots in Bonita Beach subdivision to a northern man who intends to build thereon next fall. Our rainy season has begun and the refreshing showers are most welcome, tempering the heat of the sun and bringing cool breezes. Sister Ida Fischer spent a pleasant day visiting her son, Irwin and family at Spring Creek, June 2. Sister Florence Graham on June 7th went to Tice to visit her friends Mrs. Julia Home and family. Mrs. Home has an attractive home with grassy lawn and many flowers which nourish in the good soil there. On Sunday Sisters Vesta Newcomb and Bella, Armour went with Brother Jesse Putnam to bring Sister Florence back to Estero. A short time ago Brothers Theodore Naeselius, George Hunt and Arthur Moore took to Pine Island on the truck a load of six hundred cajeput trees which they planted on the property of Alton Bessemer. Alton purchased the land when he was here last summer visiting his mother and old Unity friends. Sister Lillian Rugg is our welcome guest at dinner occasionally. A short time ago while making some improvements around her home she dropped a big rock on her foot; a painful bruise, but it did not keep the dauntless lady quiet only a few days. We have finally discarded the two heavy cast iron ranges that have been in constant service in our kitchen for many years. They are replaced by a more modern and smaller range which we obtained in Miami. We notice less fuel is required and the labor is somewhat reduced in other ways. Wood is the fuel used; we hope the next time we may have electric stoves. Brother Henry Silverfriend has returned from, a two months stay in the hospital at Orlando. He feels much benefited by the treatments and kind care received while there. Sunday June 16, Brothers George Hunt and Arthur Moore went to Bonita Springs to have dinner with Mr. Harold Thomas who has recently returned from a sojourn in Nassau. Miss Bertie Boomer, Mrs. Carrie Briggs, Miss Virginia Aldenhoff of Fort Myers, with two elders, of the Mormon church, were visitors here Sunday June 16. Mr. and Mrs. Fred McConnell of Tampa came Tuesday the 18th, to visit parents, Sister Abbie and Brother William McCready and friends here. They left on Wednesday for Miami and will return to Tampa by the east coast route. Since the rains have come our grounds begin to assume the usual abundant verdure and there is but little trace of the disfiguring freeze of last winter. Brother George has been cutting grass and weeds with the power mower; also considerable trimming of dead wood has been accomplished. We do, however, miss greatly the beauty and shade of the fine old royal poinciana tree which the fire of August, 1939 destroyed. The recent showing in Fort Myers of the motion picture "Edison The Man" calls to mind some of his notable visits to Estero. It is observed by many that the picture makes no references to Mr. Edison's winter home in Fort Myers nor the laboratory where many of his inventions were perfected. We quote from Ameri can Eagle: "The final scene in the play where he attends a great banquet in some northern city (presumably New York) in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of discovery of the electric light is entirely misleading and contrary to the facts, for it so happened that Mr. and Mrs. Edison spent that memorable evening in Estero, Florida, and the incident is republished here from The American Eagle of June 6th, 1929, as follows: "On Saturday night, June 1st, while the nation at large was, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Edison's invention of the incandescent light, Mr. and Mrs. Edison and her brother, Mr. Miller, were eating their supper by candlelight in a little rustic tea, garden in Estero where they had found refuge during a, violent thunder storm. "It all happened in this way: The distinguished party were returning about 8 p. m. from some point of interest they had visited down the Tamiami Trail, and when nearing Estero were overtaken by a storm of violent intensity. Drenched to the skin, they sought refuge in the rustic palm thatched building of our local tea garden, and there found cordial hospitality, drv shelter, warm food and drink. While eating supper the electric lights went out. Candles were brought in, and there in simple and rustic surroundings, amid the booming of the thunder and the vivid flashing of lightning, the electrical wizard and his companions finished their evening meal in contentment and awaited abatement of the storm. "It was a strange contrast between the lights of Broadway, N. Y., and other metropolitan centers, the gay crowds, brilliantly illumined shop windows, theaters, and flashing signs, and the rustic little palm thatched building in Estero, Florida, where the great electrical wizard, who made possible the turning of night into day, sat contentedly taking his evening meal by candlelight while the elements roared without. No doubt he was more pleased with the novel surroundinga than would have, been the case if he had feasted at the swellest New York restaurant or hotel amid the gay crowd, the raucous noise of jazz orchestras and the glitter of myriads of incandescent lights, for simplicity of life and dislike of pomp and pretense is one of the outstanding traits of this truly great man"
By Rose Gilbert
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THE UNITY made a sale just recently of four lots in Bonita Beach subdivision to a northern man who intends to build thereon next fall. Our rainy season has begun and the refreshing showers are most welcome, tempering the heat of the sun and bringing cool breezes. Sister Ida Fischer spent a pleasant day visiting her son, Irwin and family at Spring Creek, June 2. Sister Florence Graham on June 7th went to Tice to visit her friends Mrs. Julia Home and family. Mrs. Home has an attractive home with grassy lawn and many flowers which nourish in the good soil there. On Sunday Sisters Vesta Newcomb and Bella, Armour went with Brother Jesse Putnam to bring Sister Florence back to Estero. A short time ago Brothers Theodore Naeselius, George Hunt and Arthur Moore took to Pine Island on the truck a load of six hundred cajeput trees which they planted on the property of Alton Bessemer. Alton purchased the land when he was here last summer visiting his mother and old Unity friends. Sister Lillian Rugg is our welcome guest at dinner occasionally. A short time ago while making some improvements around her home she dropped a big rock on her foot; a painful bruise, but it did not keep the dauntless lady quiet only a few days. We have finally discarded the two heavy cast iron ranges that have been in constant service in our kitchen for many years. They are replaced by a more modern and smaller range which we obtained in Miami. We notice less fuel is required and the labor is somewhat reduced in other ways. Wood is the fuel used; we hope the next time we may have electric stoves. Brother Henry Silverfriend has returned from, a two months stay in the hospital at Orlando. He feels much benefited by the treatments and kind care received while there. Sunday June 16, Brothers George Hunt and Arthur Moore went to Bonita Springs to have dinner with Mr. Harold Thomas who has recently returned from a sojourn in Nassau. Miss Bertie Boomer, Mrs. Carrie Briggs, Miss Virginia Aldenhoff of Fort Myers, with two elders, of the Mormon church, were visitors here Sunday June 16. Mr. and Mrs. Fred McConnell of Tampa came Tuesday the 18th, to visit parents, Sister Abbie and Brother William McCready and friends here. They left on Wednesday for Miami and will return to Tampa by the east coast route. Since the rains have come our grounds begin to assume the usual abundant verdure and there is but little trace of the disfiguring freeze of last winter. Brother George has been cutting grass and weeds with the power mower; also considerable trimming of dead wood has been accomplished. We do, however, miss greatly the beauty and shade of the fine old royal poinciana tree which the fire of August, 1939 destroyed. The recent showing in Fort Myers of the motion picture "Edison The Man" calls to mind some of his notable visits to Estero. It is observed by many that the picture makes no references to Mr. Edison's winter home in Fort Myers nor the laboratory where many of his inventions were perfected. We quote from Ameri can Eagle: "The final scene in the play where he attends a great banquet in some northern city (presumably New York) in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of discovery of the electric light is entirely misleading and contrary to the facts, for it so happened that Mr. and Mrs. Edison spent that memorable evening in Estero, Florida, and the incident is republished here from The American Eagle of June 6th, 1929, as follows: "On Saturday night, June 1st, while the nation at large was, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Edison's invention of the incandescent light, Mr. and Mrs. Edison and her brother, Mr. Miller, were eating their supper by candlelight in a little rustic tea, garden in Estero where they had found refuge during a, violent thunder storm. "It all happened in this way: The distinguished party were returning about 8 p. m. from some point of interest they had visited down the Tamiami Trail, and when nearing Estero were overtaken by a storm of violent intensity. Drenched to the skin, they sought refuge in the rustic palm thatched building of our local tea garden, and there found cordial hospitality, drv shelter, warm food and drink. While eating supper the electric lights went out. Candles were brought in, and there in simple and rustic surroundings, amid the booming of the thunder and the vivid flashing of lightning, the electrical wizard and his companions finished their evening meal in contentment and awaited abatement of the storm. "It was a strange contrast between the lights of Broadway, N. Y., and other metropolitan centers, the gay crowds, brilliantly illumined shop windows, theaters, and flashing signs, and the rustic little palm thatched building in Estero, Florida, where the great electrical wizard, who made possible the turning of night into day, sat contentedly taking his evening meal by candlelight while the elements roared without. No doubt he was more pleased with the novel surroundinga than would have, been the case if he had feasted at the swellest New York restaurant or hotel amid the gay crowd, the raucous noise of jazz orchestras and the glitter of myriads of incandescent lights, for simplicity of life and dislike of pomp and pretense is one of the outstanding traits of this truly great man"
Author:
[various]
Summary:
Standard reprints of earlier articles. Community Current Events written by Rose Gilbert. There is comment in the CCE about a new film which is about Thomas Edison. Allen Andrews complains it is not accurate becuase Edison spent the 50th anniversary of the light bulb in Estero, stuck in a thunderstorm (June 1, 1929).
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Notes:
See Public Shelf for photocopies.
Object Name:
Periodical
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
People:
Koresh
Butler, Garnet
Staton, Lou H.
Gilbert, Rose.
Edison, Thomas
Butler, Garnet
Staton, Lou H.
Gilbert, Rose.
Edison, Thomas
Phys Desc:
12 p. 31 cm.
Publisher:
Guiding Star Publishing House
Publication Place:
Estero, Fl.
Search Terms:
Flaming Sword
Subjects:
Theology——Periodicals
Edison, Thomas
Edison, Thomas