The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-10-01
BELLEvIEW
Pleasant and Profitable Trip for the
Correspondent to FruitIand
Park

Park
BeIleyiew, Sept. 30.-Acting on an
invitation of some good people down
in Lake county. packed my English
kit, and with an assortment of femL
nine wearing apparel. started out to
see and be seen.
My first encounter was with Mr.
frank Ramsdell, one of Beileview's
old time honored citizens, and Star
reader from away back, who has
been visiting in south Florida. We
chatted pleasantly upon various in
teresting topics until Ocala was
reached. where / spent an hour or
so mingling with my friends, and
then sought new adventures on the
Coast Line train south. l found a
number of acquaintance on board,
and among them the inevitable Star
reader, in the person of Mr. W. o.
MASSEY, of Lake Weir, and so quick
ly did the time pass that almost DE.
fore knew it the train was pulling
out, leaving me standing in Fruit
land Park, the classiest little town
of dts size in central FLORIDA, where
good-nature and fellowship prevail.
where pleasant bunch of people,
mailing from all parts of these Unit
ed States, have built homes, and
and some of them resort there part
of the year. Among them prevails
that easy feeling of open-heartedness
better expressed in the words, Live
and let live" and among the living
opponents of that beautiful doctrine
/ found Rev. c. w. Lane, one of
Belleviews former, most beloved
pastors, diffusing his genial good
feelings to all who came within his
sphere of work. And be it also noted
that Rev. Ganehs constant reader
OF the Weekly Star, and he cheerful
ly atests to its god reading qualities,
especially the BeIleview items.
Wednesday might bunch of US
young people motored down to Okla
humpka, where Mrs. Lane was the.
chief mover in a big reception at the
hotel; it was a swell event, and I
met number of Lake county's best
people and they one and all bore
testimony to the good work that Mrs.
Lane is doing among them, and the
spirit of harmony and sympathy that
they are fostering in the community.
Mrs. Lane simply ratdiates a feeling
of divine love wherever she goes.
AS mark of appreciation the peo-I
pie of Fruitland Park are building a
beautiful parsonage which, when
completed, will be occupied by the
Lanes" and / am sure all their num-
erous friends in Belleview will re-
joice to know how well they are far
ing.
A Mr.. Lee gave me much ancient
history of Belleview, its settlement
and original settlers His father car
ried the mail in olden times from
Gainesville to Leesburg, and gained
good idea of the early history of
Marion and Lake counties.
Another accomplishment ac-
quired during my little trip was to
learn to guide a big Hudson Six
money-burner, and the gentle purr.
Of its powerful go horsepower mo-
tor as it pushed the car over the
road at a 40 to 90 mile gait, sent lit
tie thrills up and down me such as
can only be compared to the thrills
of a young girls first experience in
love.
When I sell my old high noise
wagon, will invest the proceeds in a
Hudson Six; believe me, they are
some joy.
Another person that it gave me
pleasure to meet was Mr.. Lucius, one
of our old time Belleview settlers,
and who was identified with the pro-
gress of Marion county for number
of years, and who now runs the finest
drugstore in Leesburg.
Belleview and the Ocala Star are
known all over the world, and Mar
ion counties. and wherever / go, they
go hand in hand in the estimation of
all good people.
Space forbids my mentioning the
names of all good people who enter
tanned me, but I cannot refrain from
stating that Mr.. and Mrs. Kenney
my host and hostess, know how to
make life worth the living to the
wanderer from home. Mr. Kenney
is the postmaster. express agent,
stprekeeper and general Pooh Ban
and oh you young peopIei