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goods store on Cholokka Boulevard. Stark said she asked him about employment, saying she might stay in town.
    Town marshall Ezekiel Wilson said he thought he saw the woman, but did not speak to her. No one else who saw her has come forward, although Mr. Stark said he thought someone picked her up in a motorcar. Handyman Jacob Hall, who works at the dry goods store, confirmed the fact. He told the town marshall that she walked to the corner and stepped into a car, but he could not describe the vehicle.
    The minister of the Baptist Church on Smith Street, Pastor Wilmont Blunder, saw her pass the church on foot late that afternoon.
    Mrs. Haven notified Wilson when the woman did not return to the hotel by nightfall. He and volunteers searched for her that night without success.
    The only items authorities found was a doll the child had been playing with and a few articles of clothing, a letter fragment, and a prayer book in the woman’s luggage. A gold and black brooch pendant of a woman’s profile had been clutched in her hand when she drowned. Further inquiries are being made. In a few days Coroner Joseph Johnson will submit his report.
    At this time Abigail and Sylvester Haven have permission from county authorities to take care of the child, who says her name is “Hope.” Anyone who has information about mother or child is urged to contact the Sheriff’s Office.
    On October 11 the paper reported on a Confederate solders’ reunion in Chattanooga and on the Armistice Day parade planned in Micanopy on November 11 to commemorate the end of the Great War. A one-column photo showed a Micanopy soldier in uniform. He had enlisted in 1917 in Company D-4 of the Florida Home Guard. Brandy knew that in 1921 World War I would still be fresh in people’s minds.
    Crime news featured a special agent on the Atlanta Coastline Railroad who shot an unauthorized passenger. The Losterman story on page 3 was brief.
    Mystery Woman Still Unidentified Coroner to Report
    The Sheriff’s Office has learned nothing further to help identify the woman’s body found earlier this month in Micanopy in the pond off Smith Street. No missing persons have been reported who match her description. The child is too young to give coherent facts, but seems to say that her full name is “Hope Losterman.” Mrs. Haven quoted the child as repeating, ‘I’m Hope. I’m Hope.’ Then she added ‘Losterrnan.’ The Sheriff’s Office is making efforts to locate her family. The Coroner who examined the body has appointed a jury that will make a report on October 25, allowing time for additional facts to emerge.
    If anyone has further information, please notify Town mar-shall Zeke Wilson or the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office.
    Brandy turned to the final paper, October 26. The coroner’s report appeared on page 3.
    Mystery Woman Judged Suicide
    The case of the woman who drowned in Micanopy October 1 was settled yesterday by the Coroner’s Jury at 2 P.M. in the County Courthouse As no further evidence was brought forward, Coroner Joseph Johnson reported the jury found the twenty-two or twenty-three year old unknown female committed suicide by drowning in the pond near Smith Street and Division. Her effects will be kept for the foreseeable future by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office in the hope that information may later identify her. If not, her effects will be turned over to her daughter when she is of age.
    If the family fails to come forward, the Sylvester Havens have petitioned to adopt the child. Two years ago they lost their own two-year-old daughter tragically to diphtheria.
    The Micanopy Women’s Club will solicit funds to cover burial costs. The president of the newly formed Chamber of Commerce. Richard Carlson, volunteered that his organization would also contribute. If others wish to, they may contact Sybil Irons, President of the Women’s Club, at her home on Whiting Street or Attorney Carlson at his office on Cholokka