The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-06
OKLAWAHA RIVER ITEMS
June Feastings

month OF May, hsh, frog legs, ALL
gator steak, bulbs of the palmetto,
cabbage and honey from the apiary of
Gourd Neck, Lacota, Oklawaha river,
were the ''fiIlin' ms" for the folks of
the stream.
The June green crops out in the
gardens of the raging stream yielded
abundantly; sugar corn, okra, squash,
tomatoes, Irish potatoes, beans, wa
termelons and cantaloupes and a
score or so more of garden sass, in
GLIDING peaches of the orchards. So
now we've added the above stuffs Of
May, with this of June and wind up
with the best milk and peaches and a
little Lacota honey.
The Raging Stream
When the river is low, the Okla
waha, it runs the fastest. 1t is now
really raging stream. The river
now stands at its lowest marks. 1t is
stated by old timers that in 1866 this
river sunk to lower ebb and in the
same year overdowed the banks. So
look out, little fishes.
New Stations
Red Hot, Heartsease, Good Hope,
Avenue of Kisses, Los Kiss, Douglas
0n-Canal, Muclan, Tiger Den, Amen,
Shirt Tail, Trust Us o God, Dice,
Carmichael, Tobacco Patch and Jen-
kins' Cut are the newest stations
The station of Piny Point was de-
stroyed in 1914 by the dredge Flor
ida. The lone pine there was up
rooted and the station is no more
Brobery, near by, is the river point
for hailing in this, the Narrows, por-
ton of the river. Brobery is the
northern limb of the Florida national
park, telephone station down there
in the lonely reaches of the Businesses
of the Oklawaha.
Skeletons
Great ghost-like skeletons stand
guard all up and down the Oklawahs
river. These immense skeletons are
the dead cypress trees all over the
wierd wilderness where the Oklawahs
flows. Ages ago they were deadened
by logging men and the forest was
picked over, leaving these for guard.
ing ghosts for the river night.
These great trees look like skele-
tons, the trunks and limbs are Sc
white and ghostly. It is said thai
should you see on the limb of one Of
these trees limkin bird and heal
him te-oo, te-oo, in answer to steam
boats whistle Ca limkin will Away.
answer steam whistle) the giant
skeleton of an ancient Oklawahan viii
resurrect at the root of the tree. Ane
although he is only bones, you woule
see him eat a bushel of grapes, han
of a pork, four dozen doughnuts
twenty alligator eggs, two rabbits
six trout and two dozen oranges at
meal.
Mills Steamboat Line
The Mills Steamboat Line, ownee
and operated by Captain E. L. Mills
of Conner, now operates a sawmill
This mill is located at the Sand Bars
Grahamville. The logs for the mil
are towed in by the Sharpshooter
which in the early forenoons lists ,
log dredging apparatus and goes GU
into the river and reclaims the tim
bers from the river bed.
Oranges and Snakes
Oranges may be found on the tree
in the Randall orange grove here, an,
down on the Fry's snake farm a
Eureka is where you might enjoy
little while with the snakes; now
many snakes crawl over the woo'
roads.
Niaety-Nine Trips
The G. A. Carmichael has made t,
Jacksonville 80 trips. The steamer OF
Il
account of low water is laid up a
present.
Plans are now for some large
steamers to haul the Ocala freight
in joint with the G. A. Carmichael.
Remember, when the new steamer
| go on the run, give to them every TOT
of freight you can, for there is a saw
| ing in the river freight.
The Temple and the Grand
Steamboat men are always tickle,
when on the Ocala end of the lon,
run at night. Ho! the Temple theater
mate. Palatka, the Kalbfeld Gran,
lure the seamen. In Jacksonville
generally, "parouser's" overrules.
A. A. G..