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HOME FROM DIX’S LAND
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 28 January 1921]
St. Augustine Post Office, Florida
Elmer Misener, who went south a couple of weeks ago, to escape the blizzards and chilling winds of the Welland Canal zone, returned on Friday last, and reports a pleasant sojourn in the land of continuous sunshine and occasional earthquake to change the monotony of the sluggish days. He spent a week at the beautiful summer resort, St. Augustine, Florida. While there he had the pleasure of meeting H.W. Hobson, of Niagara Falls, Ont., and Capt. Gordon, formerly of Fenwick, who now has an orange grove at that place. The thermometer registered 85 in the shade on his arrival-but registered a little higher before his departure owing to the much “hot air” that had been dispensed during his sojourn, and which was a great surprise to the natives as they thought the visitor came from a land of ice and snow, and where no hot vapors existed. He reports the orange crop in a high state of cultivation, and that he had a plentiful supply of the delicious fruit picked freshly from the trees. He was shown the alligator and crocodile farm which maintained thousands of these reptiles of all sizes and which is a great commercial industry in the state-the alligator and crocodile hide being used for the manufacture of many articles. He saw many of these reptiles about 14 feet long. Mr. Misener says it is all right in the sunny south, for a short stay, but for him the land of the “Maple Leaf.”
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