The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-10-15
GAINESVILLE AND LIVE OAK
CONTINUED from Last Week.

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/ heard some good talks that night
and / met some good people.
Mr.. Cary A. Hardee, speaker of
the house in the last Legislature,
talked to US some and he sounded to
me like a real governor. Anyhow, if
he runs in the next primary, / am
going to boost for him; no use for
any other candidate to ask for my
support-I'm pledged.
Live Oak has public spirited
citizen like unto our Mr.. J. M. Mef-
fert; that is, they work along the
same lines, and those people out
there are proud of him. / refer to
Mr.. w. j. Hillman. He farms, he
does, and he does it on a scale that
makes the ordinary farmer dizzy.
He also makes turpentine, and he
does it on scale that brings in
plenty of golden shekels for him to
spend in bringing Suwannee county
out into the daylight of today. He
has other vast business interests. /
could not mention them all. Each
person that mentioned his name iden-
titled him with some other business
but his main business consists in
spending the money that ali his other
businesses bring him, in boosting
Live Oak and Suwannee county. The
most liberal spender for the good OF
the county that we have, is the way
one gentleman worded it.
Live Oak has real, genuine
booster. He went down to Jackson.
vile number of years ago and
learned the ropes. Then he came
back to Live Oak and began boosting
a la Jacksonville style, and he
boosts, sells insurance, makes a land
deal and then boosts some more, 8
kind of an endless chain, so to speak
each ling pulling the other link
behind it along, and I am told Mr.
Mickler is very successful in his
chosen profession of boosting.
| met another big man; big ply.
sically, big mentally and big finan.
cially, and when Mr.. Taylor and
talked on current topics and mixed &
little business, he wanted me to run
one of his stores for him, and / tole
him / was not competent to match
my brains against those smart people
out in West Florida. He looked very
nice to me, however. And all of these
things happened and more too, on the
banks of the Suwannee river, anC
these people were so hospitable thai
it seemed more like home.
At late hour the gathering broke
up, and we each and all wendell oul
way home or hotelward. I say home
ward, and it was home for me, fol
Mr.. Dorman, the postmaster at Live
Oak, would not permit me to go to &
hotel; no sir, | must go to his home
and for my entire stay in Live Oal
his home was my home, and Mrs
Dorman was just like mother to me
and Miss Anna Mae Dorman, who i.
just about the age of my sister Min
ME, was just. like a sister, so my
surroundings were more than pleas
ant.
Live Oak is just as proud of it.
ball team as is Ocala. They have {
fine aggregation of hall swatters thai
so far has knocked the sox off Of
each and every team that has hac
the nerve to come out and face it
The All Star nine from Jacksonville
real professionals, came out ane
played two days. They didn't play
the Live Oak boys just played will
them; they made them look like ranl
amateurs. Oh, these Live Oak PEG
pie get quite chesty when they begir
to talk about their baseball nine, ant
[ will admit that there are some rea
good-looking boys on it, and I wisl
that Mr.. Charlie Hunter would mus
ter up courage enough to make (
set of matches and go up there will
his bunch of base-runners and show
them some real ball playing.
By going to Live Oak I really go
my name and picture in the news
paper. A bunch of US postmaster.
stood ON the court house steps anC
let a photographer shoot US, and tn.
enterprising Live Oak journalist SEN
the picture to the great and gooc
T.-U. and they reproduced it, but
do not feel hurt, for none of m,
friends in different parts of the stat,