The Ocala evening star., 1919-09-19

vile, and the residence sections are |
beautiful. The drive around Lake !
Lucerne Circle is lovely. White swans
are seen leisurely swimming in the |
deep, blue water. The shores are
grassed and beautiful roses and other |
flowers are growing all around. We
were told there are twenty lakes in
side the incorporate limits. After
driving thru several of the prettiest
streets, with Mrs. r. P. Smith as our
guide, she having visited there before,
We stopped at cool drink room and
refreshed ourselves. Then we were
ready for our 23-mile ride to San
ford. But the roads are all brick and
we passed thru so many pretty places
We did not realize it was more than
six or eight miles. Winter Park has
beautiful park, handsome school
house and educational hall. Maitland
has large grapefruit groves, all laden
with fruit. that looks like it would
soon taste good cut cross-wise with
plenty OF sugar, for breakfast.
We could see glimpse of Alta
monte Springs as we passed thru,
tt:u mere were ldfSe OfCndEOS Oh
banan trees.
At Sanford we parted from Mr.. and
| Mrs. Smith and Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley,
after promising them to drive over to
| D&ytona the next day. We found San
ford wide-awake and hustling. Large
| fields are being prepared for celery
and white canvas Tapping in the
breeze over the celery beds show it is
| UP and soon will be large enough for
transplanting. Sanford is on the
| shore of Lake Monroe. 1t is a good
farming section. The Seminole Coun-
| ty Bank and the State Bank would be
credit to any city, while the Peo-
pies Bank is as nice as many we
have seen. We had no trouble in find
ing our brothers residence, and con-
versed over old times and new, till the
wee small hours.
! Saturday we left at II o'clock and
crossed over the st. Johns river on
the ferry and found a good shell road
all the way to New Smyrna. Here
We went to the pier on the Indiah
river and other places of interest be-
fore starting on to Daytona. The
drive was indeed picturesque, many
beautiful oaks, magnolias and palms
on either side and the ripples on the
water of the river glittering through
| the sunlight and here and there a
bungalow and little clearing or per-
haps an orange grove. We came to
a series of bridges, nice, white
bridges-fve l think-and highly
thrown up embankments between
This is Port Orange and people were
on the bridges fishing in the river
Daytona is too widely famed for its
beauty and prosperity for me to try
and describe it. All / will say it's
well worth a trip over there to see it
We crossed the new cement bridge tc
Daytona Beach and drove the entire
length of the beach before we found
the Ohio house, where our friends
were staying. Quite number from
! Wacahoota, Williston, Flemingtor
and Gainesville were stopping there
and we received warm welcome. We
ate our lunch with Mrs. R. P. Smith
who gave us the most refreshing drink
Of ice tea. The Ohio house fronts or
the vast Atlantic and the bracine
breeze was cool and pleasant A
thunder shower and a downpour OF
rain lasting all the afternoon prevent.
ed the ladies in the party from hav.
: ing dip in the surf.
We left at six in the rain and reach.
ed Sanford at nine. Another pleas.
ant visit there until Sunday after.
noon, leaving then for Kissimmee tc
visit cousin. 1t was twenty-three
miles to Orlando and eighteen on tc
Kssimmee. This is quite a pretty
place and has handsome residences
churches and pretty flowers. Oul
cousin lives in front of the main en-.
trance to the court house, which is q
large, three-story. brick structure
with pretty trees around, but the
grass was high and no flowers OF
cement walks and horrors! there were
cows tied on the square to eat the
grass down. But this lot was not in
keeping with the other public build.
ing lots. We left there at thirty
Monday morning and stopped in Or.
lando a short time, ate our lunch at
the same table in Eustis, but missed
our jolly companions we had going
down. We refreshed the Ford and
ourselves at Leesburg. We reached
Ocala at 2:30, spent about an hou1
there and reached home at 5 o'clock
The road from Fairfield this way was
almost impossible and full of water
On no part of our trip did we find a
county so full of natural resources as
Marion. The corn farther south
would hardly yield enough to pay fol-
the seed. Of course, they have large
citrus groves, but we can and do have
them here; we have as fine cattle OF
better than any we saw. Then the
phosphate, turpentine, etc. And ex-
cept around Sanford the land looks
toe poor and low for truck growing OF
any kind of farming. Still we found
good roads in every county we pass
ed through except Marion. Seminole
and Orange have brick roads; Volusia
shell; Lake has asphalt and clay and
| Osceola brick. | do not see why we
cannot have as good roads as they do.
| for / feel we are as prosperous a
county. And the money that is spent
on roads here is wasted. | say we
need TO make brick or asphalt roads
| and II will he the trraatact Dood oF oil