The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-05-27
PICNIC AT FELLOWSHIP

or the BIItchton road that We started /
from home Friday somewhat nervous, |
as our destination was Fellowship, |
some dozen miles out on the said |
Blitchton road. Now, what the road |
is like between that place and Bitch |
ton we have no way of knowing, but |
certainly the part that we travelled |
over was a credit to any county with |
no better facilities than we have for
building good roads; in fact, the
greater part of the road was better |
to drive over than the majority of our
city streets, and much easier on rub
Der tires.
Arriving at our destination we were
no way lonesome as there were hun
dreds of visitors on the ground and
every corner of the county was rep
resented. A very neat platform had
been erected for the use of the speak
ers, it being entirely covered with
palmetto leaves, giving it very pic
turesque appearance, and as its roof
was a giant oak the suns rays were
not allowed to disturb the speakers on
make them nervous. There was some
thirty or more young girls in full Red
Cross regalia. Some of these were
quite small and all were very pretty.
They were under the escort of a COM
pany of Boy Scouts, and were very
busy selling Red Cross buttons, etc.,
and between the orations of the
various candidates they were arrang-
ed in pretty tableaux in front of the
n%,~fn
Mr.. II. L. Shearer was master of
ceremonies and filled that position in
dignified and impartial manner. The
first speaker called on was Mr.. j. T.
Hutchins of Romeo, candidate for re-
election to the Office of commissioner
for the second district, and while he
claimed the office on the grounds of
two years experience in it and his
efforts to do the square thing by all
parts of the district, he took excep
tons to card gotten out by his op-
ponent, which intimated chat some
candidates or politicians were not big
enough to raise an issue, but only big
enough to raise row, and that the
said opponent could not get the job
of water boy if he asked it of the peo-
pie of Dunnellon.
Mr.. B. ]. Benson of Dunnellon, the
other candidate for the office of COM
missioner from the second district,
was the next speaker. He paid his
respects to Mr.. Hutchins, his oppon-
ent, saying there was not money
enough in the county funds to carry
out all the promises that gentleman
had made, so he would make no
promises, but told of the difference
between the Dunnellon of old times
and that of today, and that a large
share of the credit for the same was
due to the efforts of man by the
name of Benson, and the argument
between the two gentlemen seemed to
Eresolve itself into a matter of size.
Mr.. w. ]. Folks of Juliette, always
spoken of as "Uncle Billy" Folks,
candidate for seat in the legislature,
was the next speaker and with his
ready with livened things up consid-
cradle. He said he was sorry that
Light was not present as he wanted
some light on several topics He said
he liked to meet people but just now
he felt that he was in danger of hav-
ing a Raysor scratch his back, and
while in these days of electricity it
was very simple matter to push a
button to turn on a light and if you
didn't want that light you just pushed
another button and it was done and
out, but the only safe place for a
razor was on shelf He then told
of the kind words said of himself by
his opponent, Ben Raysor, at their
first meeting and how he advised all
present to give Uncle Billy the first
choice vote and himself the second
choice, but five days later at Romeo
he said that Uncle Billy was too old
and too good to go to the legislature,
and that the crowd there would con-
taminate him. This he called being
scratched on the back with a Raysor,
but he claimed that he wanted to go
there just to leaven up the lump.
When asked his stand on the no.
fence law. he said that as far as he
could see no-fence law meant a
double fence. Asked about prohibition,
he said he would consider it the great
est honor to vote to ratify the consti-
tutional prohibition amendment, and
If elected would try to have a bill
passed limiting the session to thirty
days, and that the salaries and ex-
penses of the other forty days be
used to buy Liberty Bonds.
Ben Raysor said he was up against
a hard proposition as he had to run
against two good men. He said that
the no-fence law was not an issue,
that someone had said there were only
two men in the county who wanted it,
and one of these men had died the
previous night and Galloway had
taken the other to Chattahoochee.
That law good in one community
might be disastrous in another, but
he told how it worked in Mcintosh
and how it had enhanced the value of
farm land and the amount of money
deposited in the Mcintosh bank, but
/ while the fence law would ultimately