The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-02-20
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from their work morning and night
In many of these smaller community
centers they are supplied with mod
ern conyeniences, like lights and wa
ter. They enjoy community life
that is not possible where they are
scattered over large areas as is the
case in Tennessee. M NJ
Between these. community .centers
even in the oldest and most popuious
counties, there are wide stretches OF
land that for. miles and miles has
never come, in contact with the pillow
and is an utter stranger to fence
On much of these so.called com
mons cattle Of the old fashioned, raw
boned, long horned variety, pass a
rather precarious existence judging
from the general absence of fat Oc-
casionally also one runs across a
bunch of the razor back hogs Of our
daddies. If ever Florida should be
settled as Maury county is, with all
of the land under fence, in pasture OF
cultivation, it will support a popua-
ton of millions. The groves are gen
orally clustered around or contigu-
Gus to some village and the latter us.
lally are to be found on a lake If
one is any way handy and it usually
is, because in Orange county alone it
is said that there are no less than a
thousand lakes. BECAUSE it has some
thing over 1900 of these bodies OF
,clear-as-crystal ,water within, its con
fines a county has been named Lake .
! The people down here. are good
roads boosters, miles upon miles Of
brick. paved roads, most of them nine
feet, wide, have been erected in the
state. They connect the various vii.
lagos with the county seat. and con
meet the various county seats, These
roads originally cost in the neighbor
hood of six to seven thousand dollars
a mile, but it is doubtful if they
could be duplicated now for $4,000
But road building continues all the
time. Without hard surface roads
navigation in Florida sands is worse
than through Maury county mud.
Besides its climate nature alone did
not do any great things for Florida.
This state is one unanswerable argu-
ment in favor of the negative side of
the question we used to discuss in the
little red school house in the earlier
and better days of the republic and
Which ran like this; ."Resolved, That
"a nature Ire. ppadorned is most adorned"
For, generally. speaking, after having
wide stretches Of the state,
one can truthfully say, that nature un
adorned by the work of man down.
lere is simply not adorned at all She
$ .aenlsugly old jade and ought not to be !
9elImitted to, run at large. But The
Innate has enabled man, with the aid
If an abundance, of. commercial fertil. |
ger, to make many parts of the, state |
of the Garden of Eden, al
f "a & 90.
hough the women here, appear TO. GOV:
II as much of their anatomy with F,
lress as they do in Tennessee, and |
hat is not saying so awful much eth
+. ]. l. FINNEY.
many friends took place Thursday aft ,
,rnoon at $50 o'clock when Miss |
trace Moore and Robert Bruce RaWls |
we're united in marriage at the study !
If the First Methodist church by the I
Rev. j. w. Cherry. Only few init |
nate friends and relatives of the coup /
e being presents The bride, who is a /
laughter of Mrs. Rose Moore. OF |
Spring Hill, was lovely in going /
away suit of blue tricotine with ac-
,essories to match and wore, a cor /
,age bouquet of white rose buds The
groom, who has been in service in the
marine corps for the past three years,
las just recently been discharged,'E
md is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. S.
7aWls. After the ceremony Mr.. and
Mrs. Rawls left on the evening train
or short bridal trip, and on their
'eturn they will be at the home Of
he groom's parents. Mr.. and Mrs. II.
5. Rawls, on the Mt. Pleasant pike.
Mission Study Glass.
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