The Ocala evening star., 1919-09-19
A FLORIDA JOURNEY

Wacahoota, Sept. 15.-Your scribe
at this place had trip recently. She
was invited to accompany Mr.. and
Mrs. j. o. Tyson and daughter, JAMIE
lie and son, Johnny. who was chauf-
feur for the party, to Sanford to visit
brother. And one who is house
keeper and school teacher combined
leads such busy life, such trips are
treat and this invitation was read
lily accepted.
We left August 9Th as the first
streaks of light were breaking thru
the gray of dawn. After a short wait
at the "cross roads," we were met by
Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Bradley and their
daughter, Lucille and Mr.. and Mrs. r.
p. Smith in Mr.. Bradley's Buick six.
They were going to Daytona and we
had a merry party. The roads, as is
usually the case, in this end of Mar
ion county. were pretty hard to travel
over, but we managed to get over
them and reached Ocala before the
stores were open. We spent at least
fcrty-five minutes there. renewing old
acquaintance and shopping a little
left over the National Highway and
soon found ourselves in the cool,
shady streets of Belleview, and ye
scribe looked longingly at the pretty
and comfortables residences and just
wondered which was the home of our
Belleview correspondent and would
have enjoyed shaking her hand, for
we always enjoy her items.
Now we found our road wound
around some beautiful orange groves
and we could see the clear, blue water
of Lake Weir and we must have trav-
eled miles near its shores. There are
many pretty residences and bath
houses on its shores and delightfully."-
cool breeze was waited to US through
the magnificent trees, all covered with
long, swaying moss.
The next place / remember was
Conant and then FruitlaHd Park. This
little town is rightly named as it re-
sembled a nice, cool park and has
some quite nice residences. All thru
her we found good, red clay roads and
they seemed to be kept in fine condi-
ton.
Leesburg was our next stop, as the
Ford was getting thirsty. There we
found every one busy and quite a nice
business center; handsome churches
ard public buildings, as well as resi-
dences. Many nice groves, bearing
and others not large enough to bear
fruit yet. Lake View nursery, the
largest citrus fruit nursery in Florida,
was fronting our road out. And the
beautiful shores of Lake Griffin were
seen in the distance. Sixteen miles on
to the shores of Lake Eustis at the
park we stopped for lunch. The park
has tables and seats for travellers to
enjoy their lunches. The long ride
gave US keen appetites and the way
fried chicken, sandwiches, pickles,
cake, ETC.. vanished from sight was
miraculous. Eustis is a place of more
Importance than | had pictured in my
mind and has some handsome resi-
dences.
Mount Dora il one of the prettiegt,
neatest places Of its size in the coun.
try. The streets and yards are all
clean and sanitary and beautiful flow
ers were blooming everywhere. Tan
gerine, we suppose, was named for
the orange, and we found large groves
of citrus fruit of all kinds here. Apop-
ka and Plymouth are both on the
shores of lovely lakes, one whose
shores were so near the driveway the
clear white sand bottom looked very
tempting and we would have enjoyed
forgetting we were grown-up and
pulled off our shoes and waded as we
used TO do when children. Now we