The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1903-03-13
SEEING THE CIRCUS.
Our Work Correspondent Visits the
Nickel Plate Show-What he
Saw and Didn't See-Oth-
eF Items.

knocking at the door for admitiance
tn your happy corps of correspondents
from the little town of York. This is
very small town and we Know there
is not much expected out of little.
SO if you don't find much in this
article you will not be badly disap-
pointed. But say, guess We had
better describe this small town.
Well, to begin with, it is situated
eleven miles west of Ocsla on the ;.
:. 0. and G. division of the A. c. l.
Ry., and sports three saw mills which
manufacture yellow pine lumber for
export and other wooden ware. so
| presume We might call this little
town the town OF saw mill fame.
Well, saw mills are really not all that
York is famous for. She has two
stores, postoffice, two blacksmith
shops, one hotel, two or three restau-
rants and barber shop, by gosh.
Ye scribe visited the Brick City
bright aud early last Friday to see the
grand performance of the world
| famous w. II. Harris Nickel Plate
show. 1t certainly was guided but
nary bit of plate was on that show.
Well, a. said, We came bright and
early to see this fine show, what do
you suppose was the first thing that
met our gaze when we arrived on the
ground was long line 90 canvas
stretched across "A town lot and reach
ing as high a. the telegraph poles and
on ,hiS vast amount OF canvas was
printed pictures of what could be seen
in their grand museum; wild animals
Of the forest and iungles of the world,
also some slight of hand performances,
/ mind reading and 80 on. Well, there
was a woman, no, a man, standing on
the grand stand hand full of tick
! cts for sale. He WAS balling out tick
cts here for the grand museum where
a., ,,,,l 4 -, ,,;r,oI From, FL. f,r.-t-
! of the world. Also curious people from
foreign lands and wound up 10y say
! ing we could see snake that was 80
and so many inches around and so
many feet long and weighed hum
! dred ami eighty pounds, 80 We wanted
/ to see all this, most especially the
wonderful snake, 50 purchased tick
cts accordingly and went in; but
| GUESS our surprise when We entered
the tent; at first We found the place
comparatively empty except a couple
of tables, two persons, a wagon con-
! tanning cage with all old liOness and
her cubs and camel which compris-
ed all the beasts of the forest and
jungles of the world. Now, here
is where our surprise came in, where
was that large snake? We looked in
every corner, in every box and behind
every curtain for that wonderful
snake but did not see him. Finally,
the ticket seller came in and Judging
from his size around and weight we
concluded that he ment sneak instead
of snake and that he was the sneak.
We were badly discouraged but as
We were out for the day We decided
to take in the large show, purchased
tickets and went in. Well, as it had
not started we decided it was no bet
ter. But as / said before We were out
for the day, and were in no hurry, We
took seats and waited not expecting
very much. So here was another
surprise, for as when the circus be-
gan We found it the best we had ever
seen before.
I. +. Mann, the superintendent for
Mann Lumber Co, Of this place, spent
last Sunday in Berlin visiting his
father-in-law, Mr.. G. w. Mills.
w. W. Mann, of Mann Lumber
Co, spent one day last week in Dunn
elton.
J. S. Mann, the head of Mann
Lumber Co., spent last Friday in the
Brick City soliciting orders for his
company.
The farmers of this section are busy
planting corn and working cucum-
and setting tomatoes. Oh, we are
hustlers in this little town. We rise
| at O'Clock i'm the nnOrpiDr ord H.