Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1926-12-23
Morgan County Ohio Thursday December 23 1926

ing fairly good, it is a mighty poor
place to live. Living is high, even
the oranges are high, and we have
bought several times and have not
found good sweet orange this
trip. Meats are very high, and gar
den truck is high, and being mostly
composed of sand, water and sun
shine, it is tasteless.
At Palm Beach we fished at the
Rainbow pier, 10c to go out on pier
and 60c for pound of shrimp (3Oc
fish caught in three hours while we
We spent rest of day driving around
viewing the beautiful big hotels
and residence properties.
Sunday. Dec. s, from Fort Lauder
dale we paid So for sight seeing
boat trip to the Everglades. Leav-
ing Ft. Lauderdale via New river
and canals, passed many boats that
had been wrecked by the storm. We
were told there were 165 yachts and
other power boats in this river at
time of storm, and few of them es-
taped injury. One house boat now
high and dry on the right bank, a
wreck, was once a floating palace
owned by Thomas Jefferson the ac-
tor who played Rip Van Winkle
and who entertained Grover Cleve-
land on some of his fishing trips.
We also saw the wrecked house
boat belonging to Franklin Roose-
welt. On further in the Everglades
we saw alligators in their native
haunts, and many cranes and 9TH
er water fowl, but song birds, not
one. One man stated that the song
birds have not been in this section
since the storm. The New river is
said to be the deepest river for it's
size in width and length, of any
river in world; the depth several
miles inland was said to be 80 feet.
This river is also said to have ap-
peared in one night, having been
an underground river flowing from
Lake OkeechObee, and upper crust
being worn through, and where
there was desert one day was a
floating river the next. After re-
turning to TT. Lauderdale, we were
taken ont through the inlet and
felt the 1wells of the Atlantic Be
tween Ft. Lauderdale and the in
let. at the intersection of the Tar
pom river and New river, the depth
is said to be over 800 feet
Fort Lauderdale has hundreds of
acres Of beach lands under devel-
opment for town lots, with many
canals and bridges, and if these lots
are ever sold and homes built it will
be the Venice of America
Upon our return here to Stuart.
we@djd not receive some mail ex-
pected and decided to stop over the
week end; we ran up to the Jen-
sen bridge, crossed the bridge and
went into camp on Ocean beach:
did some surffshing, also fished
from the wreck of big boat partly
submerged; caught three sharks,
one over three feet in length;
caught sheepshead and whiting To
supply our needs, but the sand
f1eas were so bad we staid only one
night. Our car is screened for
flies and mosquitoes, but it takes a
tight wall to keep out these little
pests. This St. Lucie auto camp is
located just in the edge OF Stuart,
nice camp, nice cottages, hot and
cold shower baths and many con-
yeniences for the camper
If you wish to escape the cold
weather of the north, come to Flor
ida for visit, but hold on to your
northern home, as you win miss the
green grass and the varied scenery.
This is a land Of sand scrub pines.
mosquitoes, sand feas and sun
shine. II YOU do not fish don't
cCme; If YOU are q real lover Of the
rod and reel. You can stand lot of
haTdships for the sport to be found
in these waters. but for q perma-
nent home | would not take the
east coast as a gift and live here
permanently.
Tomorrow we start for the in
terror and fresh water fishing. and
will stop for our next mail GO
daysl at st. Cloud, then will con
tinue over to the west coast
Tampa, st. Petersburg, and down
the coast as the weather gets cooler.
We hope to he able to give a better
report on the interior and west
coast sections Of Florida, but when
all is said and done. we have pass
ed through no section to compare
with the Muskingum valley, for nat
ural beauty or for year round
home sights.
\ later note from Mr. and Mrs
Ewing. written at Orlando, Fla, to
the Democrat and Morgan county
friends, said:
We send "Yuletide greetings. "
Miami and east coast are past his
tory. We are now exploring CEN
trail Florida. Yesterday we visited
Lake Apopka and sections near
lake, Winter Garden, Apopka,
Ocoee, Orlo Vista, etc. We find
fine gardens and groves in this sec
tion. While fishing at Johnson's
camp, Lake Apopka, we met Nor !
gan county circumstances Mellor /
and his sister Mrs. Doudna of Nal
ia. They have an apartment with
Mr.. and Mrs. Wright in suburb of
Orlando, and We found they too
were from Ohio and that we had
met them often at Buckeye Lake. .
We therefore spent an enjoyable
evening at the Wright residence
last evening. Rain and cooler to-
day. Expect to start our pilgrim
age again tomorrow. Will spend !
Christmas at st. Petersburg, Fla,
with Buckeye Lake friends.