Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-08-12


BRADENTowN
! and we hrose and drifting into the
city were directed TO the hotel where
a breakfast was prepared at the ex
pense of those hospitable people. We
packed like sardines into the en-.
trance from the office to the dining
ball, standing in line hungry bunch
until the door swung open after q
hour or more's wait aud we were al
| lowed to file in lining up besides the
long improvised tables with long
seats onto which we sat and got a.
way with those big chunks of beef
steak, ham and eggs, potatoes,
grapefruit etc. After eating we
were lined up on the street corner
and assignments made to the autos
which we're TO haul us ON the ride
round the city and its environs and
out to the bay-shore clubbing place
where fish dinner was to be served.
1t fell the lot OF this editor and wife
to be given place in the car of
Mayor Stevens who by the way is
an old Mississippi man and proved
especially delightful as host by his
asking SO many questions about our
section as he bad served as turpen-
tine woods boss about Sumrall and
was we'll acquainted with Hatties-
burg and even knew of onr county
and town. His wife brought US out
an ice cold pitcher of delightful cool
ing orange fruit drinks as we rode
by their comfortable city home and
he dashed in for few minutes fresh
enlng up for the long ride of the day.
He has acquired nice bit of wealth
turpentining and land dealing down
there and is regarded as one of their
solid citizens and they elected him
mayor recently not because he can
make speeches but for his ability as
they told him in asking him to enter
the race they wanted successful
man for mayor and felt be answered
the bill.
1t did not take long to ride round
the outskirts OF their city and see
some OF the beautiful additions plan
ned to it, as we'll as some of the fine
lfruit-groves along such drives. Then
we took spin out farther and as we
rode along viewed the high priced
drainage land on which the profta-
BILE crops of celery, peppers, egg
plants, tomatoes, etc. are grown and
brought fine prices to the truckers
this season. This muck land is re-
claimed from the marshes by canals
AID feeder bitches and where cleared
up of brush and other underground
and stumped, ranges in price from
$500 up to $500 an acre and its worth
it when we consider the valuable
crops grown on it each season. Thu
land lies below us as we ride on a
we'll thrown-up highway along side
the railroad also up on a fill.
Travelling still further out we
come to the ROYAL Palm Botanical
Gardens and Nursery where many
interesting sights are shown us in
the way Of trees. shrubbery. vines.
flowers etc. that are grown in this
place with much glass houses to in
spect and walled-in enclosures where
they raise such a wonderful range of
plants and trees etc. One OF the
most interesting trees to us was
melon which grows on tree. It's
perched up there at the first limbs
like big cocoanut.
Remarkable clusters and rows of
palm-trees grow along on the sides
of this great garden and furnishes
cooling shade to it. which is exceed
ingly welcome on this blister ng
hot day in tropical Florida though
its still March. We find it cool at
once when we enter the shade but
we burn the minute we got out In
the sun. In the edge of such q
cluster OF shades. just as we emerge
from the garden we come on gener-
GUS treat of oranges brought there
and dumped for our pleasure, they
offering US all kinds of choice ones
and the cool juice to drink as the
ice floats round in it,
After Stacking our thirst and get
ting the party. out of the gardens