The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1917-05-10
Letter from Florida.

| Edrtor Vidette While | lef
Tishoningo county 10 years agt
last November tnot as matter o.
choice however) | still feel a deeT
| interest in the welfare of her peo.
Pile. She is blessed in many ways,
healthful location. congenial eli.
mate, responsive soil. suited tc
| garden, fruit or any staple crop
grown in southern states, rock,
/ gravel. claysfand minerals that il
utilized would make her among
the wealthiest counties of your
state, and last but not least she is
peopled by the best blood on
/, earth--the Anglo Saxon race. AS
a people they are sometimes slow
to take the iniative but when once
convinced of their mistake they
right about and are in the fight to
the last ditch. | have been trying
to keep in touch with your people
by reading each issue of the
Vidette even to the ads of my old
friends. My wife says, should
be ashamed of saying that | read
the ads. Every now and then |
notice she remarks that so and SO
is cheape. at home (Iuka is home
to us) than here. Now, how does
she know unless she reads them
herself I? / would not let her
know it, but sometimes / catch
her looking over such ads as con-
tain-white goods, wash fabrics,
silks, hosiery, corsets. &c Well,
women are women at least until
they get to vote / have watched
with much interest everything
written for and agains. hard roads.
A country goes and prospers just
in proportion as it furnishes good
schools, churches and good roads,
When l came to Florida, / landed
in county that had not one mile
of hard road. Two years later
we petitioned the board and were
permitted to vote on a land issue
to build hard roads. | settled la
the most remote hamlet in the
county and on the Gulf, 20 miles
from our county site Brooksville
and we had only ~ or ID votes at
oar Lox. accompanied the re
turning Cfii .er as | Was ANXIOUS ~
know the results Upon official
count it was found that the bond
issue failed by about 8 to | and
our little hamlet was the only box
in the county that had voted for
it and we voted for it to the man
and still feel proud of the fact.
While | was standing in the Sher-
ifs office which was crowded. one
of the big guns of the city sitting
in big chair with his feet mount
ed on a table remarked: What
in the b do you suppose those
Aripeka fools meant by voting for
the bonds, don't they know they
are the last people it would ever
reach Z" Not knowing me he did
not think there were any Aripeka
fools in the room SO when !
answered the question about all
you could see was his feet, | said:
NOW friend, possibly we are not
such fools: we realize that the
road would start from Brooksville
and we realized another thing that
if it never started it would never
reach us" and said further Il
contend county is like home
or farm. if you live on farm and
it is not worth SPENDING money on
or improving, would it not be
wise to sell out and move on one
that was" He hasn't answered
that question yet. In few years
public sentiment changed and the
first road that was built came
through Aripeka and today the
county has many miles of hare
road and we are on what is known
as the Paradise Loop of the Nat
ional Highway aud Connected with
the most important cities in Soutf
| Florida, 1t was tug. tug, at :