Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-01-25
THE COLONEL FINDS COT.
TON IS NOW A VALUABLE
Editor Of the Ledger Writes From TIE
South That Once Despised Crop
is Basis for Prosperity.
MEETS T. ]. HoxsEY ON TRAIN
Pleased With Painters Appointment
as Warden and Says Gardner
Promises to Make Splendid
Governor.

ON DIXIE LIMITED TRAIN, neal
Atlanta, Georgia. Jan. II, 1917. -
At 2 p. m. yesterday we left the snow
and sleet Of st. Louis and are now PISS
ing through the pines of Georgia, and
at noon tomorrow will be in the or
ange groves at Fl. Myers, Florida,
the southern terminal Of the railroad
on the west coast.
In the diner last night l met Mr..
T. ]. Hoxsey, who is going down the
east coast to Miami for a two weeks
visit, after a stop off at Jacksonville,
to visit George Kabrich and Matt
Nelson. Tom says he has been work.
ing hard, and wanted to play around
for two or three weeks, and he sure
has selected the winter playground Of
the world.
l don't think there is any more de-
lightful place in the winter than
Southern Florida, and / notice Won
derful prosperity in the South from
year to year. A couple of years ago,
cotton was kicked around the streets
and used as door mats. Now it is
kept in pocket books or safety de-
post vaults. Not only the cotton
farmers are enjoying prosperity, but
those who-engaged in diversified
farming and in other industries are
making rapid advances. The South is
arriving all along the line.
Think Mr.. and Mrs. R. R. Arnold
are making a visit at Jacksonville,
and I had expected to visit them to-
gether with Mr.. Kabrich and Mr..
Nelson; but find my connections are
such that l will have to forego this
pleasure.
Travel South in the winter grows
every year. And all trains are crowd
ed every day. We have ten coaches
on the Dixie Limited, and several
were unable to secure reservations.
"Going to Florida is as easy as a
trip down town, if you take the Dixie
Limited. This high-class luxurious
train began its fifth consecutive sea-
son January 8, 1917, and will con-
tinue throughout the winter season,
until including April 8th, 1917, when
it will make its northbound departure
from Jacksonville.
Its equipment is of the latest de-
sign, modern in every particular, and
consists Of Drawing Room Pullmans
between st. Louis and Jacksonville.
At Evansville it unites with the Chi
cago : Jacksonville Dixie Limited,
which carries Standard Pullmans with
Drawing Rooms, Observation Pull
man with Compartments, Library and
Writing Room, First Class Coach Ser
vice and A la Carte Dining Car Ser
vice for all meals. Its arrival at jack
sonville, Florida's Gateway, at 1880
p. m, the next day singularizes it as
the only One-Night Florida train, a
possibility due to the short and direct
Dixie Route. Fancy, if you will, a
luxurious home on wheels = you en-
ter at 2:15 o'clock in the afternoon,
st. Louis Union Station, spend one
delightful afternoon and a night in a
comfortable Pullman, and the next
night you may enjoy an enchanting
Flower Land = it's simply the Dixie
Limited to Florida, just a puff from
ice and snow to sunshine, flowers
and joy"
The writer of the above, referring
to a winter spent in Florida, Cuba or
Nassau, says:
Join the arava of winter travel
ers to Summer merriment in Flori-
da, where you will forget that winter
is winter amid the joys you will find
all down the Sunny flower state.
From Jacksonville south, Florida is
a continuous winter play ground with
means of enjoyment provided to suit
the requirements of every taste and
fancy. Every known form of out
door pleasureing is pursued in Flori-
da' without the necessity of consider
inng any adverse climatic conditions,
for the winter skies are always smil-
ing and January breezes are as bal
my as May-day zephyrs. Tennis and
golf claim attention everywhere, and
the courts and links are the best in
the country. You can fish in the
deep sea or in placid inland waters;
you can sail, or run your motor boat
on ideal bays and inlets. There is
wonderful shooting in tropical jun
giles, and riding and driving beyond
comparison On the long miles of hard
surface roads that reach to the inland
country Or to the coast.
Then there is the joy of merely
idling and watching winter ~colonists
in motion under the palm trees shade,
or out on the dress parades. You
will have perpetual entertainment in
sitting by and watching the endless
whirl. 1t is as gay as the dance of
the sunbeams and as full of action as
a moving picture. Who cannot find
the way to happiness in a land of such
enchantment?
The winter trip may be delightfully."-
heightened by crossing the gulf to
Cuba, a quick and convenient sail
from either Key West or Port Tampa;
or you will find off the coast of Flor
ida, a short distance from the har-
Dor of Miami, Nassau, the "Spotless
of the Bahamas, with it's
snow-white sands and cleaning
That certainly sounds good, and the
writer will testify that the expert
ence bears out the description.
l note that Col. Fred Governor
has appointed Ex-Lieutenant : Gov
ernor Painter, Warden of the Peni-
Tertiary. This is an important Of
flee, and we think the appointment
ia fine for the conyicts. the State. and