Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-06-24
EDITORIAL TRAVEL LETTERS.
Auto-Ride Etc. IN Memphis.

leaving the News-S cimitar building |
and steere1 us to their handsome ed
ifice several blocks away, where a
banquet with considerable talkfest
Herewith was given us, The flow
ing bowl was also absent and rightly
so at this banquet. After the ban
quet we repaired to the beautiful and
classical stone city library building,
which stands on the immediate bank
of the majestic Mississippi where we
posed in group the second time for
the staff photographers of the news
papers of that city to click us with
their instruments.
Next came the segmentug us into
auto parties. The lot of this writer
and wife fell to car where we had
our oldlime friend J. K Kelly of the
Vicksburg Newspaper Union, and
his bride of less than a year ago, as
fellow autoists. 1t TOOK quite a string
of these horseless carriages to seat
our entire party. Our Chauffeur soon
had his machine squirting it down
the main street of the Bluff City,
warning other vehicles to clear the
route with his honll- honk whistle.
Our route took us over the best part
of the business section of the town,
then we rolled away through beautiful
residential portions until we struck
the drveways which quickly brought
US up at the Tri-Statc Fair grounds,
where everybody alighted aud vent
in as the guests of that association.
Here refreshments again were served
US, but this editor was rather chary
about taking any at all Us he noticed
the tapering necked bottle With foam
at the mouth, and golden liquid in
glasses where cherries tloated sport
lively round and green mint hung
fsstively from their lips. Finally how
ever, we discovered that the glasses
contained only simple lemonade, and
we yielded to the third persuatiOu Of
the urbane walters, to be helpe2 as
they seemed to feel that their hOspi-
tality went ami>s unless something
wa, taken. Every body to their own
! liking aud with otfenSe meant to
none, but we take 10 stock in ardent
spirits in personal life, as believe a
nan should live what he breaches
and We preach temperance, so live
alb we at ana touch lot or taste not
as oloLOn instructed against, the
liquid red.
Before going farther let Us mention
the nice souVenirs distributed to each
of us by the Commercial-Appch and
the News Scim;taP. The CONNER
cial-Appeal presented Us through
their Mr.. C. p. J. Mooney. Manag
ing editor, handy little pothet p IN
ell with metallic case holding 1h,.
lead which can be male to prolrudc
or retire out of danger of being broke
off, within itself The very thing d
country editor needs to poke down
in his pocket when out nosing round
for news The News Scimitar gave
US through their Mr.. Clements. Ba,i
ness Manager, very neat leather
watch fob with sterling silver charm
Each of the souvenirs had the date
of our en- tertainment in Memphis,
| the name of the donor and "Mlsaiss-
ippi Editors engraved thereon.
After seeing all there va, to be
seen at the tri-srate fair grounds
when the fair was not in convention,
which makes it a very tam pI lcr,
we were Whirled away to the wind
ing speedways in overland park nea.-
| by. THERE'S some beautiful woodland
in this park. And zoo well worth the
while TO go through. Twas IA fine
collection. An elephant, Ions ii
gers, camels, deer, buffalo, all kinds
of fowls, and even a den of plain old
rattlesnakes. We enjoyed being
thrown with Kelly and his wife So
much that we stuck together after
the auto-ride was over, doing the
other sights Of the city in our little
quartette The White City, which
is a beautiful rark lit up gorgeou5ly
at night with a bedazziing array of
electric lights, and abo lnds with Il
musements of bewildering kinds, all
of which were thrown open to us gra
It's, thanks to the hospitable frame of
mind Memphis was in for our enter
tainment. We stopped at the same
totel that night, but babe Kelly and
his good lady goodbye ere we slept,
do bllC9 NClO SOlhS OdSh w N1loSLoo-
ippi on the morrow and we were to
journey towards the East.
The train schedule in the morning
was accommodating giving US plenty
of time to sleep after the night
pleasures and then board it before
the day had grown too old. We
chose the Southern as could use our
2-t, mileage omit. Chattanooga was
our destination, bat to go there over
this line we had to touch Mississippi
on the way over, for at least several
miles. La fact we stopped at Corlnth
for dinner. Going by luka, we
thought OF our Old friends, Mr.. and
Mrs. J, J. Chambers, who live few
miles out from that place.