The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-28

He has it out in oranges. radishes, Irish potatoes, melons, and other stuff which brings early and big money.
 Next we ran into Little Ohio. made up of a colony of Ohio settlers. This place was started by crowd of students from the agricultural college of Ohio and the place is beautiful and being worked on scientific lines.
 A number of East Lake people have re- gently bought orange and truck farms here. They are E. s. Armel, Dr. w. s. Cobb and Prof. T. D. Moor. They are sit- uated on Bayou Bernard, noted for its famous fishing grounds. Development will be started soon on these farms.
 BACK TO THE COAST
 Leaving the trucking sections, Mr. Cox drove his machine toward the gulf coast and we enjoyed the scenery along the beach. Going toward Bilox we passed the historic spot under two live oak trees where John l., Sullivan beat Paddy Ryan with naked fists for the worlds cham pionship- It was certainly lovely place to do the trick. Next we came to Beau .voir. the home of Jefferson Davis, now owned by the state of Mississippi and rebuilt with many buildings as an old soldiers home. The old warriors were las lively as crickets fin the balmy sun shine and were eager to hear about the war over there.
 We then came to the naval training sta ton being built by the government. It is on the exposition site facing the gulf. One hundred and forty new can tonment buildings have been built and many others in course of construction. The government has also built ? hospital buildings here, and have taken over the exposition buildings for war purposes. Mississippi has put off her centennial un- til the close of the war. But as the build ings are made of concrete and steel they are here to stay. A new pier has been built out into the Gulf of Mexico to be used for the sailors to get on and of the training ships.
 Another nice sight I must not forget several young ladies tor girls) enjoying a dip in the ocean. The water was warm and they seemed to enjoy themselves. They looked good, anyhow.
 A BLIND TIGER TIP
 It would be a bad ending if I failed to tell little blind tiger story told me Tn Biloxi. Mississippi is dry, you know. New Orleans is only 63 miles away, and the slipping in of liquids is rather haro now that military police are on the job But that someone is always little bit wiser than the other fellow holds gooo II this business. A Biloxi fellow went Q New Orleans, bought a caslSet and shipping box and was supposed to have carefully tucked away the remains ol some loved one. But such was not the ease. The coffin was done away with and it's place many quarts of joy water Eas placed. Purchasing a ticket for the corpse" it was shipped to Biloxi. At the station the corpse was met by q hearse. a preacher and an automobile f,r11 pF oIn fbo streets of the old town, the loved one was careful unloaded, and the funeral procession ended The officers never ;umbled to the trick but it was too good to keep, and was told by one of the nstigators, but no names ever given. ts to what became of the many quarts can't say.
 AT GULFPORT
 Dropping back into Gulfport I found four dredges at work on government and private work. Out at the pier were a number of large ocean vessels loading war material, but we had no chance to go out, as husky guard with loaded rifle was on hand. A large number of ships in the crude could be seen along she gulf. All hands were busy helping Uncle Sam.
 Many oyster, fish and shrimp schoon- CTS were tied up unloading good things Hundreds of men were opening oysters for the foreign trade. Many new indus tries are being held back on account of material shortage and freight congestion. but when things get back to normal the population will be increased by 40O0 or 5G00
 Arriving back at the Great Southern, left Cox. He will be in Mississippi few days vet, having his new subdivisions laid off and recorded. When get back to Birmingham said he, tits up to The Age-Herald Realtor Page to sell off these two new trucking plots It's pull has placed all these Birmingham people down here on little farms, and they will be glad to see new neighbors along side them. My big sale will start in a week