Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1921-12-09
Touring Florida With
National Editors.

game being INDUCED in. When the
writer hrst came to Leakesville it
was occasionally played, but Florida
seems to be the one state ia the
South which now keeps it up, and
we presume that is prompted for
the novelty furnished the vast mum
Der of Northern tourists who seem to
engage in the game with zest and
how skilled some become at hurting
the long beat pieces Of flat iron.
There was a speech made that
morning by Mr.. Richard II. Edmonds,
the editor Of the great southern peri
odical, the Manufacturer Record .
published at Baltimore, Md. Mr..
Edmohds has winter home across
the river from Daytona on the ocean
beach, which village is called Sea-
Breeze. He told those Northern ed
ltors some startling things to them
about the industrial conditions in
the South prior to the Civil War
presenting facts and figures of the
factories that then existed, which
were burned while the country was
in the great fratricidal strife or else
went down afterwards through lack
of capital to operate them. His
speech was IN the inter est of bet
ter day and "a better understanding
| between fhe'two sections and he was
roundly applauded and copies of his
speech asked To be printed in our
Journal. Those of our readers
among the sawmill operators have
f, likely read this line OF writing from
Mr.. Edmonds pen in following the
editorials in his great publication.
We had, but enjoyed seeing it de-
livered off of live lips and from an
authoritive source like him, which
could not be gainsayed.
This building in which we were
being entertained this morning is
called the Casino Burgoyne, the Ca
sino coming from lbs location. over
looking the water and its pretty
view. Another noteworthy address
was delivered that morning by "a
minister whose name slips us who is
also winter time sojourner in Day
tona and whose speech marked him
as man Of outstanding ability.
1t was while at Daytona that Jack
Senter, of the Columbus, Miss. Com
mercial. won for himself the position
of hero in saving Mr.. DoIliver and
son OF our party who were bathing
on the beach and got caught in the
under tow. Jack went out to their
aid and came very near getting
drowned himself before rescuer
from overhead on the pier contribut
ed toall their salvation Mr. Deliver
was hanging to piling and was be
ing badly cut by barnacles when Jack
went to their rescue. He andsO.the
father could not manage getting the
son to shore without the other help
which they finally attracted despite
the deafening boom of the surf. All
of them were cut up and wore ban
dages for several days. A member
of the party Mr.. C. e. Nevin of Lau-
rel, Nebraska. lost his wife ia this
town. She took sick while we were
there, presumably with piomaue
poisoning She insisted after they
carried her to a hospital and she got
better. that her husband and daugh-
ter, Hazel, go on with our party aud
they did as far as Key West where
they were turned back by a tele-
gram sumlnoning them to her bed
side as she took worse turn, and
after we had been in Cuba day the
sad news came that she had passed
away.
The autos gave US fine ride round
Dayton that afternoon, including a
trip across the river. crossing on
one toll-bridge about three or four
miles, above the city at Ormond and
comin& back crossing another about
the city, The toli-keeper passed the
entire party with simple wave of
the hard. We looked over the little
cities OF Ormond, Seabreeze and one
or two other tourist villages nestled
on this lean streak of land between
the river beyond Daytosa and the
ocean itself. It has growth of