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" HOMICIDE NEAR FORT MILL.
C. B. Klmbrell Fires Fatal Shot Iuto
Body of Joha Skldmore.
Considerable interest was aroused
in Fort Mill Monday afteroou when a
telephone message was received here
stating that Charles B. Klmbrell had
shot and killed at'his country store,
JUD* Bviuon mc oiaic iiutj iu
leu burg county, N. C-, from Fort Mill
township, John Skid more, . who was
employed as a road foreman by the
Mecklenburg county highway commission
in building the road to the
York-Mecklenburg bridge over the
Catawba river 12 miles northwest of
Pert Mill. Charles S. Kimbrell is a
son of W. E. Kimbrell of Fort MU11
and a brother of S. W. Kimbrell, who
lives in the township about /five miles
north of town. Both are well known
and substantial citizens. Only one
shot seems .to have been fired at
Skldmore. This went through his
heart, however, killing him instantly.
There seems to have been no eyewitnesses
to the homicide, but when
neighbors of Kimbrell arrived at the
store a few minutes after the shooting
he was attempting, so they said, to
place the body of Skidmore in the
(.alter |s automobile, and remarked
that Skldmore was badly hurt and
should be takeb to a hospital at ouce.
Skldmore was dead at the time. The
men are said to have been good
friends and thus far no explanation
of the shooting has been tnade, us
Kiiuoreil has refused to make a statement
since he was taken into custody
charged with the crime. Tuesday
h) was committed without bond to
the Mecklenburg county jail in Charlotte
to await trial at the next term
of the superior court for that county.
At the preliminary hearing in Charlotte
Tuesday morning four men, one
of whom was a neero. were nut on
the stand to tell what they knew of
the homicide, but their testimony
threw little light on it, aa none of
them was 'close at hand when the
shot which ended Skidmore's life was
fired and none seemed to know much
of the circumstances leading up to
the shooting. Kimbrell wus thought
to have been drinking at the time,
bet the offleers who arrested him
said he talked coherently.
Skidmore's home was at Mount
Holly, N. C., where his widow und 11
children live. Kimbrell also has a
family and besides running the store
. at which the homicide occurred is
also a farmer. The store is located
on his farm a short distance from
9 his home.
Ran Down Near Uastonla.
R. S. Torrence, well known citizen
of the upper section of Fort Mill
township, was run down Saturday afternoon
on the public highway near
Qastonia, N. <T, by a party ot negroes
driving a Ford car and was seriously
hurt about the face. -Mr. Torrence's
condition was such that he was immediately
taken to a hospital in Gastoula,
where he still is a patient. He
was unconscious for several hours,
but yesterday his condition was reported
considerably improved. Mr.
Torrence Is the father of Mrs. E. S.
Parks of Fort Mill and Is a Confederate
veteran.
The negroes in the car that struck
Ht. Torrence did not stop to see how
seriously he was hurt and up to yesterday
no arrests had been made in
connection with the case, out Gaston
county officers have the number ot
the car and expect to round up the
aegroes within the next day or twoWorld's
Biggest Cotton Plantation,
The biggest cotton plantation in the
world Is at Scott, Miss. It comprises
6,000 acres and represents an investment
of 20 million dollars, with
300 whites and 10,000 negroes making
up Its population. The mules and
saddle horses alone on the place are
valued at more than a quarter of a
",CV million dollars. Cotton Is the principal
crop, but other crops also are
Talsed. This year there are 600 acres
in alfalfa, 900 acres In oats, 2,000
acres in pasture, 6,000 acres in corn.
. X sawmill on the. place has a capacity
of IS million feet a yqar. Educational
^belittles are provided for the children,
both white and negro.
Death of Young Boy.
Cnrtis Bryant, 11 year old son of
Mr. and Mrs- Robert Bryant of the
n, ' lower mill village, fort Mill, died Saturday
evening, October 7V following
.jl a illness of -about two walks. The
' funeral was conducted at the home of
*the parents, Sunday afternoon, October
X hy the Rev. J. W. H. Dychea,
|i .pastor of the Fort Mill Baptist church
add interment followed In the city
wegp^oeeaetery. Mr. and Mrs. Bryant have
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THE RIO GRANDE.
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1 "The Rio Qrande river, between
Texas and Mexico, is normally so
shallow' and Blugglsh that iminigra
tion agents and customs ottleers are
kept busy 'shooing' back Mexicans
who enter the \Jnited States by the
simple and informal procedure of
wading in," says a bulletin of the
National Geographic society.
"It is hard," continues the bulletin,
"for the Mexico-bound trnveler to realize
under normal contUtijons Biat
the ribbon of water j meandering
through a broad bed of sand is the
stream that in Spuuish means 'The
Great K'iver,' but once a year at
least and sometimes oftener, the Rio
Grande fully lives up to its name.
"The loam banks of the Rio Grande
and its broad, fertile vqlley, covered
with a heavy growth of the thorny
mesquite?half shrub and half tree?
was long considered a wilderness
and given over to deer, wild hogs, armadillos
and jack rabbits. Then
came ranchmen to graze great herds
of beef cattle among the feathery
sea of green. Large areas somewhat
removed from the river are still given
over to cattle raising.
"But near the stream, pumping stations
and irrigation canals have come
into existence in recent years, and
euch spring and summer thousands
of carloads of watermelons, canteloupes,
onions, cabbage und other
vegetables steam north from the region
to help feed the more northern
portions of the country. For this region
near the warm Gulf of Mexico
and barely outside the tropics, competes
vdRh Floridu and the Imperial
valley in California in producing
early crops.
"Still more recently another development
has taken plq^e which promises
to make the Rio Grnade a second
San Joaquin valley, between u
miollion and a half and two million
citrus fruit trees have been planted
and in the winter of 1921-22 the first
carloads of oranges and grapefruit
were shipped out.
"Historically the Rio Grande has
held a prominent place. It was on>of
the chief landmarks iu-Uie fuiuou*
expedition of the Spunish explorers
who pushed into Texas and cn tu
(New Mexico and Juiuoruia tour centuries
ago. letter it became u tort of
Southern Concord, for if the shot,
.tired in Massachusetts in April. 177Sv.
was 'heard round the world,' ,u shot
fired ou the banks of the lower Uio
Grande on another April morutug 71
years later by Gen. /.uchury Taylor'.'
soldiers might be suid to nave been
heard over area of halt a uuliiOi.
square miies.j^ That area was added
to the Uniteu States as a resu.t oi
the shot, for it brought on the Mexi
lean war which resulted in the uunexation
of what is now Califcma.
Nevada, Utah, Arizona and parts o>
New Mexico, Colorado and W yoniingJdi
addition, this skirmish near the
mouth of the Rio Grande led to ih>
confirmation of the annexation <>.'
Texas, which had brought au additional
quarter of a million squat",
miles under the American flug.1'
The Value of Advertising.
There is nothing in the world like
advertising, says the Augusta Ctarvm
Icle. Of course, a newspeper believes
in advertising, some cynics
will sneer, but we are prepared to
prove it. Take the merchants of any
city, for example, and you will limi
that those who are making the greatest
success are. those who combine
quality of merchandise with intelligent,
liberal advertising. There are
lots of ways t6 advertise. The l^est
way is by the medium of newspapers,
then letters, billboard!*, show windows
and an artistic display of goods
inside the store. It is generaly conceded
that the merchant who,doesn't
advertise will not ?last long in business.
Dry rot sets in and the end is
only a question of time. A live merchant
advertises in the newspapers
first of all, then he uses some or all
the other methods, and one method
which is highly important la the
trenlmAnt nf ?'?
?- vuowiiici D| oiim iuv :
newspaper or other advertisement
brines them into the store. A kind
word spoken regarding thq courtesy
shown by the employees of a store is
a great asset in bringing others into
that store.
Utile forest Timber Left;
While there is very little original
i forest timber left in this aecikn,
not quite all of it has disappeared.
| On the plantation of J. C. Seville in
the mpper section of Fort Mill township,
near the North Caroltnu Hue,
there la still standing several thou*
and feet of first class pine timber
in a ten acre tract, considerable
number of the finest trees have died
during the last year or two, bur the
lumber in most of these has been salvaged.
During the World war Mr,
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1 Items of General Interest Found hi
the YorkvMe Enquirer. _
Sneak thieves in the vicinity of
Ciover are no sespecters u. persons,
but would just as soon steal ?.roni an
Oiitcer ot me law as anybody else
Loist Saturday .Constable H. L- Johnsou
leil h.a raincoai in Ins automobile
winle ne went into a store. Wheu
lu came back it was gone.
The governor has declined to order
the closing of the schools of the :
State on October 24 tor the benefit of
the State fair, lie says there is no
such power vested in him. it is to
be presumed, however, that that Columbia
bunch will hafe this little :
oversight corrected as soon as possible.
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Dr. iv. L. Wylie, for some time past
chairman of the board of trustees of
the Clover schools, has resigned his
trusteeship. His successor has not
yet been appointed. Dr. Wylie is a
member of the board of public works
and it was u case of being unable to i
hold two public otnce3, which is contrary
to the law of the StateWith
a large number of ministers
and elders in attendance and a goodly
congregation or Sharon townspeople
attending the opening meeting,
me fall session of iicthcl presbytery
of the Presbyterian church was opened
in Woodlawn church ut Sharon
Tuesday morning. The presbyterial
ccurt was opened with a sermon by
Rev. Hournoy Sbepperson, D. D.,
pastor of Puritv Proshvleriiin / hnrnh
of Chester. R. B. Caldwell of C heater
i3 the retiring moderator.
Hugh G. Brown, county supervisor,
said Monday that while he was unable
to say Just when construction
work on the two bridges to be built
over Bullock's creek, one ou the V.est
road uud the other 011 me Sharon
Hickory Grove road, would begin. (
that the material for the bridges is
now being gathered. Timber to bo
used in each bridge 1b being treated ,
with a creosote preparation by u :
harlotte lumber concern which has '
the contract to furnish the timber,
according to Mr. brownjUrs.
\V. P. ypuugblood of Sharon lias'
fliVdistinction of being tho first
woman in York county and possibly
the first in the Slate to curry the !
mail on a rural delivery route- Despite
the fact that last Friday was the
13th as well as Friday, Mrs. YoungL-lood
started out on her temporaryjob
aft a carrier of Uncle Sam's mail
and she got along Just fine, giving
the patrons, of Sharon No. 2 the same
courteous, service that her husband
bus beeq giving for 20 years or
mor%-.
The congregation- oX the First Baptist
uLurch of Clover has decided to
build a new churclt to, cost in. tho
neighborhood of |l.r>,000. At a recent,
meeting of the congregation the pSun.'
for the building of the new churchwas
explained and the congregation^
went on record as favoring s/tcfii a*
project. Members of the chuj?h? aic*
cording to the pastor, Itan KL 'A'.
Hemrick, have been vgry," Uberai id
their subscriptions tq the chnre.b
hulldinjr fund nnd
?^ VAIV UUiilOl o^a |IU1U|
is that practktuly the. effl^re. sun ?
needed is in, sight. The efcorcii will
be of brick veneer construction arid,
will be equipped with a Sunday achat >I
department to ha^re not less than li~>
class rooms. - ^
York county's ' educational system'.
I is an institution that Is costing near'
ly a half millioni dollars to finance;
according to figures gleaned from
the annual report* of County Superintendent
of Edueatton John E. Carroll
tor the .school yesir ending July 1,
1922,. which report', has just been forwarded
to John E. Swearingen, State
superintendent of education. The report
shows that salaries of teachers
and' other school expenses in the
schools of the county Tor the period
n-imed totaled $4SY,ld3.J9. The value*
,of white school buildings and grounds.
Ji York county is given at $546,075
und the equipment is valued at $48,- {
675.! Figures relative to school en-,
roMment as given in .'the report are
ircCt'csting. The total number of pu
pils who were in school the past year
wna 16.5LI. There were just 21 more
colored pupils than. there were white,
the colored pupils totaling 7.766 and
the whites 7,74u. 1 This is a distinct,
gain In the number of white dudIIs in
the schools and shows that the ~ne-j
grots are decreasing' in school at-,
ter uance,-aiuce it has been only lliroo
ye irs ago that the number of negroes
e. rolled was l.oOO moio than the
wlfites. Joat what e^fec*. - the coinp
lsory school attendance law a have,
had in bringing about this increase t
In enrollment of white pupils cannot 1
br ascertained, but the county super-' '
li endeat believes that the work of
the coutpnlsdry attendance officers fi 1
U :gc!y responsible tor the Increase 1
In whites. Wvp new- school buildings 1
wen* erected during 'the year, accord- 1
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5PAY, OCTOBER 19, 1922. AXCIEXT
CITY OF SMYRNA. I
Scene of Turks' Latest Wholesale
Slaughter of Christians. I
The city of Smyrna, in which the i
latest wholesale massacre of Christians
by the Turks has taken place,
has a history running back into th<?
centuries before- the coming of Christy
For moro tlmn 9C ?1 ? *' -
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capital of what is now the province
of Aidin in Asia Minor, has at intervals
been the cockpit of the world, asBelgium
has been that of Europe*
since Julius Caesar's legions first eucamped
not far from p-hat is now,
known as Liege.
. Smyrna is located on the west coast:'
of Asia Minor, at the head of the gulC
of the same name. It has always been.'
the most important shipping point in.
Asia Minor for the trade of the Mediterranean.
The Greeks have long.
coveted it and they seized it some
months ago. Now *he ^Turks have
inurched back, wreaking a bloody
vengeance as they came- Smyrna
was a flourishing Greek city as fur
back as 750 years before Christ. Prior
to that time the bay was used by the
Phoenicians und was a commercial
center- ^
It had a long und picburesque but |
troubled history in the centuries that i
came after the days of Alexander the 1
Great. One of the latuer's generals,
after Alexander's death, made it the
capital of the empire he tried to ere- ,
ate. The city flourished under different
rulers und wras considered one
of the chief ports of the world during
the greater part of the world rule of
the Roman empire. In 178 A. D. it
was destroyed by are earthquake, but
was soon rebuilt^ The Turks burned
it 700 years, or so ago, 'but it
u^ain rebuilt and soon recovered i??
trade.
| uust before the World war Smyrna,
Was a city of about 400,000 population.
Turks% Jews and 'Armenians made up
three-fourths of. its population in almost
equal numbers. In those days
there was co'mplete religious toier I
uticm and fhe different sects got
alcog together very well. From the
gull the qf.ty was unusu.illy attractive,.
but when the tourist got off his
siblp and explored the streets he was
struck b y the flltliiness of the streets
a*?d thv lack of sanitation. On the
hikls qver the city there were In those
dp,VK lnmnv } -uu nHfnl no 1 or?tJd hnlllPR
ot' thf j wealthier classes. Of Jhese
the hr.indsomest were owned by Jews,
and > som< of these Jewish merchants
of ^ myrna. In the good old daya l*1fary'
1914, carried on commerce on a
XW at scale and lived in houtes that
aid have excited the admiration rl
ig Solomon, But the Turks have
<?f ?troyed all these beautiful homes
? id their former owners, such as
? scaped the recent massacres, have
l^aeen scattered to the four winds of
the earth. *
To l'aint County River Bridge.
Tuesday in Rock Hill Hugh G.
Brown, county supervisor, awarded
to C. U Williams of Rock Hill the
jcontract for repainting .the county
jbridge over CatawSa river between
,Fprt Mill and Rock Hill at a coBt of
$1,300. The bridge is to be thoroughly
cleaned and two coats Ml paint are
to be given it, the contract calling
'for the completion of the work not
later than December 1. Thero were
several bidders for the job, but the
bid of Williams was considered the
i most advantageous for the county.
' He is to furnish the paint and the laV
or necessary to do' the work accordfa
g to specifications. At the last se<sii
n of the General; Assembly 12.000
Wok * set aside for use of the super?
visA r's office in having county bridges
reps nted and already a number of
tua y smaller bridges have been painted
it om the fund.
V 8?Bday School Program.
The* fallowing program will be observed
\ by the. Sunday school of the
Post nllll Baptist church Sunday
moruibfi. October 22: ^
1. last rumental music. .W .
2. Spe4 ial song by children.**^
3. SoogJ by school.
4. Storl, "Jesus ia ljolftfe Me/' by
Mfss\ Lalai Park^ % ? &
6. {Violin, an4" JPi*flo '<?bet, Kenyan
YcAir. g and* Mies Esther Ideacham.
6. Vwinrt\'ng>the Game/' by John
McLav tehliml jVjg>
7. S (pecial by; Misses* Beatrice
Parke. > Marital- Parks and Beulah
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Big Sum for S. S- XcMnch.
According to word received in Fort
Hill a few days ago, S. S- McNincli.
former owner of the Charlotte brick
works, located at Grattan, "two miles
south of Fort Mill, has recently been
paid $20,400 by the American Trust
company of Charlotte in settlement
and shook him off, punctured and deflated,
dried up and dead. He put
about a dozen weevils in the bottle
Monday evening. Tuesday morning
they all lay "withered and strewn''
on the battlefield at the bottom of
I the bottle.
Kock Hill Overpowers Locals.
The Rock Hill high school football
team came over to Fort Mill last
Friday afternoon and smothered the
local high school boys so effectively
that when the game was over Rock
Hill had scored 52 points and had
not been generous enough to allow
the boys who a few days before had
forced Charlotte University school
and York high to take a dose from
the same spoon to score ever so litThe
story of the game from the
Fort Mill point of few can be told in
few words. The locals were up ugainst
a superior team?superior in weight,
superior in coaching and superior in
general knowledge of the game. But
at that .there wasn't anything humiliating,
in the defeat for the locals.
They had expected as much. Rock
HiR haff a greater number of students
from which to select its foot
ball material and funds with which
to employ a competent couch. The
locals took their backset in good humor,
hoping to do better next time,
and more than one of them expressed
the wish that Rock Hill may be able
this year to take the measure of the
Chester team, a thing the locals themselves
fear they will not he able to do.
dfti Around High Freight Kates,
There is at least one way of getting
around the high freight rates established
by the interstate commerce
commission for short interstate shipments,
as was demonstrated in Port
. Mill a few days ago. A contractor
who had been at work in the lower
f auction of South Carolina decided tc
; $ atrip his outfit, consisting principally
|ad livestock, to a point in North CarloUna.
Intend of consigning the sbipgnrnt
to the place of destinaton, he
| M?t the outfit to Fort Mill and here
i unloaded his mules and oxen and
>dro*ft them through the country tc
(FiOfiiUs* K C, u distance of seven
dalles. where they were reshlpped tc
the pitas he wished them to go. Ml
is aatd that the plan saved the cootpuptorseveral
dollars.
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FLORIDA DRIFTING APART.
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State X.tf Eventually Be Divided If Agitation
Continues.
There are two distinct Florldas,
North Florida and South Florida,
quite evenly divided as to territory,
and population, but widely divided
by interest, occupation, soil conditions.
industry and ideas of uroiies
still referred to by old time residents,
was a blessing, though heavily disguised.
.Men sought other sections
where frost and cold could not
come und they found it or thought
they found it in the extreme southern
end of the State. With the gradual .
recovery from the freeze there came
a most wonderful development of the
entire southern section of the State
und with it a new birth to the section
that had been so badly used by the
frost.
After the year lbUO the people of
the North discovered that there were
great possibilities in .the soil of
South Florida und from thut time to
this there has been a steadily increasing
streum of immigrants who
have settled on the rich lands of the
southern portion of the State. They 0
have built up magnificent towns and
cities, they have covered the section ?.'
with hard-surfaced roads, they have
ucquired /groves und gurdens and
ranches; in brief, they have created
an empire.
If general consent should ultl- m
i mutely be given to the division of the
State at ubout the line suggested, .
, North Florida would retain 35 couu
<...ilk .. nnnnUltnii ..kn.lt f. T. f > _
I nco wiiii a |iu|iuiaiiuu ui uuuui i/yu,i
000, while South Florida would have
> a State composed, as at present, ot
26 counties with a population approximating
400,000. Both States would
have about the same areu utter such ^
a division as is suggested.
The present assessed valuation of
North Florida is somewhat in excess
i of the valuation of the other part of
the State, but the difference is rap;
idly being made up by the growth of , .
South Florida. In north Florida
' there are nine* daily newspapers with
> a combined circulation of 75,000. In
' South Florida there are 20 daily
newspapers, with a circulation of
nearly 100,000. In North Florida
t there are 80 publications of all kinds,
i while in South Florida there are 90.
i At -a meeting Monday evening of
i the town council of Fort Mill .J. L?
i Ktser was elected a police officer to
t work In conjunction with Oscar Ham- .
mead. The monthly salary of the .
of the verdict, which several months
ago was rendered by a Mecklenburg
county Jury in his favor following
the hearing of the suit he brought
against the trust company, alleging
that it had disposed of the brick
plant and certain form lands adjacent
thereto in violation of an agreement
he had with the company. The case
was hard fought in the superior court
and several weeks were consumed in
hearing it. An appeal was taken to
the North Carolina supreme court,
but the verdict of the lower court
vas upheld. ^
Numerous Fort Mill people were
called to Charlotte to testify in the
case, some for and others against
McNinch. The trust company had a
mortgage on the brick works and
farm land which it foreclosed several
years ago, McNlnch alleging
that the foreclosure violated the
terms of an understanding he had
with the company as to the sale of
the property and that as a result of
ts action he suffered heavy damages.
Follow ing the foreclosure prpceedings
the brick plant was dismantled and
the machinery sold. A considerable
Onrt of the land was bought by Dr.
J. L. Spratt of Fort Mill, who resold
it to Hamilton Carhartt. According
to stories which have come to Fort
Mill from time to time, McNlnch now
intends to enter suit for tlie recovery
of the land.
Bug Kills Boll Weevil.
A bug that kills the boll weevil has
been found- He has been found In
Marlboro county and caught in the
act, says the Bennettsville Advocate.
He was found by Mrs. Floyd Prevatt,
near Lester, last Saturday on a quilt
in her yard, with his bill thrust into
a boll weevil. He was holding the
impaled weevil up in the air, sucking
the life out of it.
Mrs. Prevatt put the bug in a bott'e
with several boll weevils and the
bug immediately attacked them by
sticking his bill into their backs and
sucking them to death. Several weevils
were killed in a few hoursMonday,
Mr. Prevatt carried the
bug to Theodore L. Burton, one of
the .county's most prominent and
successful farmers. Mr. Breeden was
skeptical about the bug killing weevils,
but watched for a few minutes
and saw the bug thrust his bill into
a weevil. He kept It there about ten
minntna anH than lialH fha vvaavll nn
siveness. says u writer in the Dearborn
Independent.
A line drawn across the State at
about latitude 29 degrees north,' at
the narrowest part of the peninsulu,
approximately divides the two sections.
To the north of this line lies
old Florida,* with all its ancient traditions.
To the south is that portion
of the State, the new Florida, bursting
with energy, enterprising und
progressive and with a great vision
of the splendid empire it is rapidly
creating.
Agitation for State division of
Floridu has been more or less sporadic
for u number of years, but it
has only been within the last two or
I three years that there lias been any
I serious consideration of the subject.
I The urge has occasionally come from
the State of Alabama itself, for that
State would very much like to have
a section that would give it a few
more towns and cities and gulf coast.
The legislature of Alubama is said
at one time to have made an appropriation
to purchase the coveted territory
from Florida, but nothing has
ever come of the movement.
South Florida was practically an
unknown land previous Jia the beginnings
of the development undertaken
by Henry LI. Plant ami Henry M.
Flagler, the one creating a railroad
system that reached down into the
Southern section of the State to
iampa and further on, and the other
building down the east coast of the
State to mi ami and finally to Key
West. When it Is said that Florida' r
was an unknown section of the country
before the great empire builders
began their work, it is not meant
thai State history had not been made,
but Florida began to be widely
known when railroads pushed tlioir
enterprising way Into South Florida.
Then it was that the tide of tourt3ts
set in, first in driblets ami then in
the mightly flood that now marks '
every Florida winter. Northern capital
was chary of entering Florida
I lie railroads showed iiie 'way,
und then Northern men with money,
attracted by the possibilities of profit
in citrous fruit culture, begun to
flock into that section.
Progress was slow; the fateful
years of 1894-115 seemed to end it
forever in disastrous freezes thut
wiped out the entire citrous fruit
industry und ruined thousands who
had put their ail of years, money and
life, into their ventures.
Hut the "great freeze.'" as it is