Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1915-03-31
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""o"l much oI the time 10 snlri
sleeves and with the sleeves rolled
up aud some wear straw hats.
Children go bear foot like northern
children do In the summer. Last
Sunday. January II, the thermom
cter registered 80 degrees in the
shade. We sit out i'm the shade
here and read of the 70 weather
up home and we can hardly realize
it is so cold up there There are
some small, sickly looking peach
trees here which bloomed out about
the middle of December. One has
peaches on II as large as ordinary
plums. These peaches ripen in
April and May. One of these
trees dropped it's leaves last fall
as a sensible. well-bebaved peach
tree should do, but now il is in
full dress again of fresh green
leaves. The others | have noticed
did not undress last fall but still
wear their last years leaves still
green and fresh. Peaches don't
do well here.
After staying here a few weeks
Mr.. Hoard and myself became pos
sessed Of desire to zee more Of
the world and concluded to 90
farther south. So we packed our
doll rags and boarded an Atlantic
Coast Line train bound for st.
Petersburg. Here we embarked on
the steamer Pokanoket and started
down Tampa Bay. The Pokanoket
Is fine vessel on which to travel
1t is one of line of steamers which
ply the bay between Tampa and
Manatee. Three years ago these
vessels carried orchestras and an
"entertaiDer" who made funny
speeches to amuse the passengers,
but dull times have changed this as
well As some other things and the
orchestra and entertainer have been
dispensed With. 1t was getting
dark when we left ST. Petersburg
and the bay was pretty rough. AS
the steamer got under headw she
began to roll and we felt slightly
uncomfortable about the waist line.
But we had eaten good supper and
we did not feel like we wanted to
waste it, so we went out and hung
around In the open air most of the
way down TO the mouth of Manatee
river. The wind was blowing
pretty hard and toyed with our
whiskers rather playfully, but we
held on to our suppers with a grim
determination which brought us out
winners in the end and we succeeded
in disappointing a large number eff
"Wesry Willies" among the finny
tribe. AT the mouth of the bay we
could see the lights of Fort Dade
which guards the entrance to Tampa
bay. Soon after passing the
tort we entered the mouth of
the picturesque Manatee river.
We proceeded up the river To the
old town of Manatee, where
we landed at 1890 p. m. From
there we went to Bradentown, a
nice, prosperous little city OF some
$500 souls. Bradentown is the
comfy seat of Manstee county, said
to be the best county in the state.
Here all the citrus fruits, garden
vegetables, pine apples, strawberries,
ets., grow luxuriantly. The cocoa
nut, bamboo and rubber trees give
this section a decidedly tropical ap-
pearance. After basking in the sun
/ light here a few days we decided to
return to st. Petersburg The return
trip was made on the steamer Favor
ite. We met several large steamers
as we came up the bay. And as we
rounded into st. Petersburg at 5
o'clock p. m. the big passenger ves-
sci Mascott backed out from the
docks, swung gracefully around and
headed down the bay on her way to
Cuba. 1t was on this trip that we
learned that every harbor in Tampa
bay was thoroughly mined and ready