The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-19
LOVELY Los KISS
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| we aio auotn6 AnSAS ~ ~S
daily. Our latest Is an animal park.
The animals of the city have been
kept tn Santa singerlaHd, a mile
awaf h1tff last week, when they were
transferred to the park here. Now
this park will have to have a name,
an appropriate name. and later on we
will give a prize for the name most
suitable.
AS a winter girl Miss Marion is al
ways very sweet and girlish. Her win
ter robes of Spanish moss look very
! bewitching over her newly made
spring frock. Her bonnet of "Over-
land" blue and silver strands looks
stunning over the thousands of locks
of old-gold tresses; her face is a
wreath of smiles and plum and or
ange blossoms, and she entertains
often, and often, too, she is entertain
ed. And to make her "liveliest day
enchanting, gracious, sweet. orange
fed Lady Florida stands erect! o, no.
BILE ladyl You the southern steps of
Georgia and Alabama and, with her
troublesome aides, the big, blue At
lantic ocean on the east and the chop
py Gulf of Mexico on the west, wards
off the fearful billiards. Her old gold
tresses flash about us, her right arm
extends to Key West, where the tips
of her fingers rest. bejeweled tips of
loneliness, and her left arm extends
down the East Coast, the coast that
Flagler and Florida built, then dou-
bles back and her hand rests caress-
iingly over lovely Los Kiss in Marion.
And with her Uady Florida) magic
Influence over the elements she keeps
the mercury almost all winter in the
7O's and SOS. And the Florida moon
comes out nights. accompanied by the
stars, all except that new planet, and
nowhere else shines so bright. And
by day Old Sol is always happy and
sends his sparklets of sunshine every.
where through the tall pines and
palms and bushy orange bOughs and
over the ripping waters sglimmering
The Just Us Girls Club rules in the
courts of Los Kiss. and when a fine
is placed on a wrong-doer months
vacation from the state of Florida is
likened unto the fine.
There is no mayor in Los Kiss. The
Just Us Girls Club rules this place
and rules it we'll
Neither the Los Nissan nor the
Evening Gretchen have in their col
umns a lost" or found" notice. The
reason is that one can even see 4 pin
lying on our clean streets, and moth
ling ever gets lost here.
We are not idle down here in this
beauty spot. This city is built in the
hammocks, but these hammocks are
not quite as thick as those around
Ocala; however. in a few years the
many extra trees, oak, palm, orange
etc. that were planted several years
e ago, will change the highways ap
preaching considerably.
Many inquiries have been received
lately of the whereabouts of the new
ly married couple, Mr.. and Lady Aul
ly, who left here Immediately aftel
their marriage in November last.
: wireless to the Los Nissan some tim,
in January reported the couple il
: Key West, on board the yacht Lenore
the little yacht they left here in. Low
ers will quarrel, you know; and s.
will married people, too. Do you real
" think they have had their frs
quarrel? Well, we do not think so; w
; do not think that anyone would eve
quarrel over in Key West-sun-kiss
ed, ocean-laved, grabbed, Independent
Key West. Maybe they were browne
in the recent gale that swept over tn
Florida coast; but we sincerity trus
+ that such is not the case.
Y Every morning at seven o'cloc
: Big Hamp" is toIled, and every ever
: ing at nine the Curfew whistle give
p two extra little tOOts, and every ever
S ing at eleven the flags on the 10
: Nissan building and the Royal OPP
4 hotel are put at half mast.
u Strands of black ribbon are ever,
&c where displayed. All Los Kiss is
: mourning, and has been for the pas
II week. This afternoon the whol
Gown was closed for an hour to wo
- ship and pray. At four o'clock Pet
4 Button. the devil for the Los HI
san, ran into our office. The boy W.
dusty and almost exhausted, as /
had been riding fast for the past hou
Pete is a brother of Lady Aulley, f;
o she was Miss Teresa Button befol
Id her marriage. They have anotht
d brother living at Fort Gates. on Il
y ST JOhnS river and Pete became