Hendry-Lee County FlArchives News.....Visitors Have a Great Time at Clewiston September 6, 1921
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Ft. Myers Tropical News September 6, 1921

Visitors Have a Great Time at 
Clewiston
Labor Day Celebration Proves Great Success Report Fort 
Myers Visitors

A good delegation of representative 
citizens of Fort Myers attended the big celebration at Clewiston yesterday and 
report a fine time.  The party went in automobiles from this 
city to Moore Haven, and were then carried down to Clewiston by train over the 
new railroad just finished into this new settlement.  It required 
two trips of the train, made up of five flat cars and four box cars, to take 
the crowd from Moore Haven to Clewiston.  This new town just being 
opened by the railroad is located at Sand Point on the south banks of Lake 
Okeechobee and is in the extreme northeast of Moore Haven.  It was 
estimated that over 2,500 people took in the barbecue celebration, yet there 
was plenty to feed the big crowd and the Fort Myers folks praise the manner in 
which the celebration was conducted.  Among those attending from 
this city were the following:  W. P. Franklin, H. 
A. Hendry, A. L. White, C. P. Staley, J. D. and Durwood 
Lynn, L. A. Whitney, A. H. Gillingham, F. W. Hunt, J. L. Cutler, 
Henry Colquitt, City Manager Bennett, Atty. U. U. Beville, R. P. Ransom, 
Otto Neal, C. W. Carlton, C. C. Pursely, Frank Aldermon, John 
M. Boring, H. M. Cooper, Clint Bolick and family, Geo. Dunham and 
family.  


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