Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-02-23
L0AF|N' AN FISH|N'.
Senator Hartman Reaches Flor
ida and Gives Some Advice to
His Tazewell Friends.

Half of my family left TaZewell
for Florida on January 10th, 1917.
while the other half remained in
FaZewell with the intention to fol-
low II the grounding saw his Sha-
dow. On Friday the End instant the
same being the day on which this
momentious decision was 70 be hand
ed down. l sat my window until old
Sol" showed his face, at whose APP
pcarance l said: "Girls pack the
trunks for the Sunny South" So on
the morning Of the 10th, we headed for
Florida via Roanoke and Winston
Salem. On reaching the station at
Iazewell our genial station agents,
Messrs Baker and Dickinson, who
are always interested in my welfare,
suggested that invest in a $500 ac-
cident policy for my trip. dcclin-
cd to purchase at first, but when |
recalled that my decision to come had
been made on Friday, and that this
was my thirteenth trip to Florida, took
the policy. do not believe in signs
and old sayings and am not super
stitious, but for the first time in my
life invested in an accident policy.
On reaching our destination we
find considerable damage done by the
late freeze. went immediately to
my grove Of 100 trees, which planted
two years ago, and found the leaves
scorched. Will not know how badly
the trees are damaged for q week or
| so.
1t is estimated that sixty per cent
of the fruit had been shipped and
that twenty-five per cent had been
frozen. If the situation proves to
be no worse, the damage will not be
great. Most people are hopeful and
but few are discouraged. The early
vegetables were destroyed, but the
people nre planting again.
Our little town Of Tavares has i'm
proved much since l left here two
years ago. We receive the old time
welcome from our friends here and
consequently feel very much ut home.
| The weather is delightful. l think
| l will rent motor boat and spend
most Of my time with the family on
the lakes. Yes, we will fish some, but
| Will be cautious us to fish reports. |
have not forgotten how my reputa-
ton for telling the truth suffered a
| lew years ago on account of my re-
| ports on personal achievements in the
favorite sport of John Bottimore.
\ Peery Britain, C. It. Peery, Tom
| Hawkins, ct nls etcetera.
| In the pine woods and on the beau
| tiful Florida lakes, / find time to
walk and row and fish and think. Ere
quently l omit to think and lust
walk and row and fish. 1t is great
relief to get away from the company
| OF such men rs Al Litz, Crockett
Bowen, Bob Crockett, II. e., w. F.,
and lot Of other such Harmans
who are racing after the dollars. and
get down here where l am free from
their influence in these worldly mat
ters. The above mentioned gentle
men are named only asrepresentatives
of host Of my Tazewell friends
who are also being carried rapidly on
| the wave OF Democratic war prospcri-
tty. Say boys, come down and join me
IN TINS effort at reformation. 1t will
do you good
Then there is another class of nv
| ioiks should like to see come down
| here. l refer to those who whecze and
hneeZe and ache and cough and limp
| and grunt, with various and sundrv
ailments from which they would like.
| ly be relieved here. But how foolish
in me to try to induce them to come
while they are making much money
! to lay up for their children. their
sons-in-law and their daughters in-law
to squander, when the old man drops
In to n premature grave. What n
| good time your wife's second husband
or your husbands second wife will
have spending your hard earned dol
lars down here, padding their light
canoes along these shaded shores, bath
ing their noble limbs in these beauti-
tul lakes, plucking and eating
these luscious fruits, gazing on these
tropical scenes and listening at the
hooking birds singing from the BOWS
OF the palms and Magnolias. But
must stop.
This ends the first lesson.
]. N. HARTMAN,