The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-07

mile of the village of Dundee. In the
early time of the fisherman president
festive bass weighing from two to
twelve pounds were caught in abun-
dance. and just south of Dundee is
Lake Annie, named by Byron Ashley
after Mrs. Clarence Markham, whose
, front name is spelt Anna, at the time
when Ashley grew tomatoes on its
eastern shore Here the velvet high
way runs for over half a mile along
the east line of 166 acres of fine fruit
land owned by E. d. Barber of Yer
montville, the western line of which
is the meandered lake.
Spinning along over the smoothest
roads, passing the Fuller grove of a
hundred acres, the grapefruit and or
anges of ripened color glistening in
the dark green faliage and forming a.
acknowledgement picture of Ma
lures handiwork, aided and directed
by human Intelligence, to the roman
tic scenery that environs Star lake.
before obtaining view of the i'm
provements at Mountain lake, the
highest point of land in South Flori-
da. A splendid golf course borders
the highway. and here wealthy North
erners find rest and recreation as
they escape the arctic blasts of win
ter in this choicest bit of Americas
sunland.
AS we approach Lake Wales from
the highland just north of it, five
lakes glisten in the light of the wes-
tering sun and to the enraptured Wis
ion, while skirting new citrus grove,
a broad area unfolds to the west and
southwest, in the center Of which
nestles the prosperous village, with
several residences, erected in three
or four years costing from ten to
thirty thousand dollars each. Already,
where only pine trees grew five years
ago, are several stores, wellman-
, aged bank in fine brick building,
two good-looking churches, two ho
tells, twenty-five thousand dollar
school building nearing completion
and two beautiful lakes. Near the
southwest curve of the lake lies forty
acres of excellent citrus land owned
, by Fred Fl. Helmer, cashier of the
Peoples National Bank of Jackson,
, worth now not far from 500 an acre,
, and might be made worth forty in.
stead of four thousand dollars, as a
Polk county grove of thirty acres re-
, Gently sold for fifty thousand dollars,
, and the residence of the owner was
, not included
South of Lake Wales to the north
end of Crooked Lake the improved
i, road is nearly completed and autos
, by the hundred will be whirling by
daily in short time, in view of one
of the very finest of the many beau
tiful lakes of South Florida. Border
ing this tract of land on the north
are three lakes-Blue, Easy and Mary
while it's southern boundary for
three miles to the railroad station lies
splendid Crooked Lake, forming by
nature one of the choice beauty spots
of this land of the orange and grape
fruit of unsurpassed excellence.
South of the eastern arm of the lake
Minneapolis parties have purchased
thousands of acres of fruit land, a
I fine clubhouse has been built, and the
residence and grounds of Irwin A.
Yarnell costing not less than $4,000
are nearing completion,
Beyond peradventure this entire
| ridge, the lifted up backbone of
South Florida, is bound to be one of
the choicest beauty spots of America,
on the route from our wintry North
land to the tropical seas and shores
of the West India islands and of Cen
trail and South America Here the
rolling upland, interspersed with num-
erous lakes, whose water is almost as
clear as the air itself, offers the
healthiest of locations for homes. AS
l write the sound of workmen's ham,
J mers is heard on the eight-room bun
: galow of Mr.. and Mrs Fred d. Well
/ ing" which has for view points long
) stretch of the lake to its southern
shore seven miles away, and to the
rear one of the finest citrus groves
OF this fortunate section of earth.
And as an appropriate closing para
graph to this letter, the words of FL
bert Hubbard master of expression.
come to mind
Can you, he wrote-how sad it is
to think that the murderous Hun tor.
| pedoed the Lusitania and with others
he and Alice Hubbard went down