Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-11-18

which is perhaps one OF the most bon
ton towns In Florida The number
of prominent people who visit there
and some of whom have winter resi-
deuces there, makes for its place on
the map the country over.
After whirling US round over their
city and its environs and feastiug us
TO the full ON those lovely lake drives
which circle 10 and out and showing
us the great number of elegant res
licences, the party was carried to the
Country Club. On the wav out
there we rode through a lane where
there we're some old and tall oaks to
one of which the negro who gave
trouble at the presidsn tial election,
the November before our visit in
March, was hanged. The reader
likely recalls the incident from the
press dispatches in the daily papers
at the time. We were interested to
see and hear more of this as had read
of it before leaving home. The sto-
ry as told us was that the negro
owned a very good truit-grove. Was
negro of means. He appeared at
the polls and insisted on voting
when he was shown to be disquali-
fed. Some way he got gun and
returned to make trouble. Later be
was captured and jailed and during
the. night mob stormed the jail and
carried him away to this secluded
nook from the city and hung him
and filed his body with bullets. The
family escaped and went to Tampa.
His honss was burned but the grove
left unmolested, a white agent sell
ing it and turning the money over
to his absent people. We passed
other negro places while in Florida
which showed good fruit groves some
of which ran up into the thousands
of value and where they were be-
having themselves they were treated
kindly and their property rights pro-
tected. It's the breaking over and
becoming troublesome that makes
friction with the Whites anywhere
10 this Southland
The Country Club had nice large
lawn on which we were assent led to
wait sntl the meal was served. A
man with megaphone on the
screened porch, finally gave the word
which let US in where a banquet Of
number of fine courses including ma
tive fruits was staged, with music at
ONE end of the hall including special
talented singing. One who mace
talk there that night was Irving
Bachelor, who is resident of Win
ter Park, suburban town OF Orlan-
do. He is the author of popular
work of fiction entitled THE Prodi-
gal Village which we NAV run Sc
rally in the Herald some day as we
have read the proof and find it in the
class which many works of that char
acter miss these days. 1t really has
a teaching moral and shows how a
stuck-up family grown rich In a
short generation or so can send or
go away and adopt vicious styles and
practices which will have a democrat
IL ng effect on the villagers who at
tempt to ape them, This village f.
nally woke up to it's drift IN time to
cast off from the dangerous trend and
save itself.
Before the noon hour next day our
train had brought us to
DELAND
which is situated on a spur track a
mile or so away from the main line
OF the railroad. It was thought best
to land US out at the old station and
carry US over their beautiful road
way This was doue and we seemed
to have gotten off in the woods as
there were no houses and only a
small depot; but lots of fine cars
gaily decorated with flags and bun
ting and hospitable drivers who
showed us in and off we reii. The
road is concreted part of the way
and winds through some bee utiful
tree lanes. Deland is quite a city
and an old one running its history
back to before the Civil. War. They
showed US some trees of the venera-
BILE water-oak variety on the main
old residence street that were scar