Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-01-29
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Apalachicola, Fla,
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Dear Recorder:
In compliance with your request
and my promise, / will write you o
few lines which you can hand
around among our friends in Vir-
ginia. | would love to write to
each one personally, but that
would be an almost endless task,
as l see it.
We are most delightfully."- situat-
ed. Apalachicola is a small city OF
5000 inhabitants, an,! situated on
the point of the peninsula between
the Chattahoochee River and the
bays which skirt the Gulf of Mexico
on the northeast corner. So we
have fresh water on one side and
salt water on the other. The river
is navigable for three hundred
miles for small steamers. TO the
northwest and northeast is tract
of country containing four million
acres of virgin pine forest, vast
sources of wealth for the money
seeker and veritable paradise for
the sportsman; for in it are many
kinds of game--bear, deer, and
wild turkeys; also panthers, wild
cats and foxes. We have two weeks
of the hunting season yet, and
hunting parties 60 out from here
every week. Those of you who
know my fondness for hunting, can
readily imagine how hard it is for,
me to stay at home. | want to 60
one day next week and if am sue
cessful, will report.
The fish and oysters here are
as fine as the waters afford. You
gentlemen who are as fond of fish
ing as l am of hunting ought to
move down here. Let me tell you
little fish story. Mr.. T. T. Fish
burn of Roanoke, Va, has a Win
ter home down here and while In
his neighborhood some time ago,
| | visited him and took dinner with
him. He told me that about two
wears ago, DR.. Carson, of the Balti-
more Conference, came down and
spent some time with him. One
day the Doctor said that he would
like to 90 fishing and they went,
using hook and line. They fished
about two hours and the Doctor
almost exhauted himself, pulling
fish into the boat. At last the
Doctor called for help. He had
caught one he could not land. They
helped him and found it to be IS
FOUNDER. When they returned
home they put their catch on the
scales and it balanced up several
hundred pounds I forget the exact
figures.
Many things are new to us and
the temptation is to write about
them at length but I forbear. We
find many good things and we are
enjoying them. The fish, oysters,
fruits and fresh vegetables are just
fine. have made some garden,
and have radishes, peas, cabbage,
lettuce and beans coming on. How
is that for the middle of January?
The climate is certainly fine. We
have hardly gotten a breath OF the
cold waves you have been having
since we left Virginia. We see re-
ports of cold waves and the people
talk about their coming, but no
cold wave has reached us yet. Part
of the time we have a little fire in
an open CRATE.
We are all in good health. Ella
sue, our daughter from Korea, is
improving nicely. When she ar
rived in America she had not eaten
any solid food for months, and
could sleep but little, but now she
has good appetite, eats what she
wants and sleeps as we'll as any OF
the family.
We like our work and hope it
will like us. The preachers and the
people have given us warm well
come and have made us feel at
home among them, and / think we
will like it down here. But it is
said that every Virglnian who
leaves his native state, hopes to re-
turn some day and be buried in her
soil. Somehow | feel that the last
sleep to a Virginian would be just
a little sweeter, among Virginia's
green hills than elsewhere. In my
dreams, the other night, | was back
in Highland, taking ride behind
Daisy, and also taking a cry over
the thought of leaving you all.
Philosophers tell us that dreams
are reflection of something in the
past. In this case the definition
holds good.
A l.