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Highland Park Press, 18 Jul 1929, p. 11

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8, 1929 _ Highâ€" underâ€" ndicitis mprovâ€" (155), (150) ; ssmoor Grange : (146), (157) ; o_ Golf gewood Beck, r, Midâ€" Walâ€" a, Friâ€" 1 spent every ing on ged to on Tel. e, who of the m as a qualiâ€" olf asâ€" hip at an Gus y and ofâ€"La impion, > whole h, the perfect for. the nâ€"who at 157. h« ty strong, d last light Green festey, organ, xmoor visitâ€" on of first Hill A few days after our return to Jacksonvilleâ€"we motored down to Daytona Beach about a hundred miles â€"sputh, stopping on the way at St. K_?’&gugtine to drink the waters at the * .Fountain of Youth and to revisit old Fort San Marco and the quaint streets of the ancient city, the oldest within the tcrritory of the ~United States. _â€" The drive from St. Augustine to Dayâ€" tona is along the Ocean Boulevard past the Anastasia lighthouse and the <ruins of old Fort Matanzas the first ~ fortification built by the Spaniards in America, much of the way the ocean is visible with its white capped breakâ€" . _ â€"etrs, but in places the water is hidden ‘ by the vgand dunes which,. line the ‘shote:." . , .. * L us y ce ~‘__ _ At Daytona.we moftored on the ~~ Tamous beach â€"which is almost identi= ~~â€"_cal with the. Jacksonville‘ beach, both . being â€"of hard sand to the top of the The views from the mountain are superb and we passed many interestâ€" ing places as we went by motor bus to Chattancoga. Many Friends There . We have many friends on "The Mountain" as it is always called, and enjoyed meeting them again both in the . university and in the related inâ€" stitutions which have been gathered about‘ it. w en â€" Nank, 3+ tion which puts one in mind of the English Cathedral towns about which Trollope wroteâ€"in his Barchester stories. DR. WOLCOTT TELELS QF SQOUTHERN TRIP Thursday, July 18, 1929 (Continued from page 2) Surplus and Reserve $12,500.00 Capital $50,000.00 Announcing On the island was fcought the batâ€" tle of Bloody Marsh in which in 1742 General Ogilthorpe defeated and drove away the Spaniards.. Near here. also was fought the mostâ€"scutherly battle of the American Revolution, in which the American General Howe was surâ€" prised and defeated by.a British force which came from New York by sea and: landed â€" on the dsland.â€"â€">â€"â€"â€" _ â€"__â€"_.~ . Interesting . Ruins _: ~ At the northerm end of the Island _Another Trip s * Another trip we took recently was to Brunswick and Savannah, driving up along the recently completedâ€"coasâ€" tal high%y a perfect road for motorâ€" ing. Brunswick is a sleepy Georgia town with @a@ fine harbor and memorâ€" ies of the slave trade and of blockade running during the civil war. Conâ€" nected with it by a long causeway and bridges is St. Simons‘ Island, the largest of the famous Seaâ€" Islands, the "Golden Islands" of the Spaniardsâ€" St. Simons‘ wus. the seene of many interesting historical events and beâ€" fore the war was covered with great plantations upon which the famous sea island cotton was grown by slave labor. The boH weavel has abolished all that. * a > " tide‘ level and perfect for motoring. We bathed in the surf and later reâ€" turned by the Dixie Highway which runs two or threeéâ€"miles inland from the shore. Sea bathing is a popular diversion here for the greater part of the year but during the three coldâ€" est months only the hardier bathers go in the water which is much colder here tham in Palm Beach and Miami where the Gu‘f Stream sweeps in close to the shore and moderates the temperature. ' & H EB P R E S S Chartered by the IHlinois Banking Department. Will be ready for business upon completion of new bank building about October 1st, 1929. Citizens State Bank scn and many others whose names are recorded in the annals of Georgia. Near the guté is â€"a handsome monuâ€" ment erected by the Congress of the United States as a tribute to the memory of Brigadier Generals James Creven and Daniel Stewart, both of them Revolutionary soldiers. Nearby also are the homes and the graves of two signers of the Declaration of Inâ€" dependence, Lyman Hall_andgButton GwinnettL. â€" ~.â€"~~ Pn . Savannah Charming City * Thirty miles north of Medway in ._.Here is‘ the old Medway church tbuilt in 1792 to replace an earlier building burned by the British in 1772. A bronze tablet on the wall of the church recites its history and states that the parish has given 86 ministers to the church and seven foreign missionaries. Across the road. from the church is an old cemetery in"which"are buried the maternal anâ€" cestors of Theodore Roosevelt, the mother of the first Mrs. Woodrow Wilâ€" Gcoing on from Brunswick we came to Medway, now corrupted to "Midâ€" way" once a settlement of importance but now only a tiny village, it was settled in 1732. 4 We bathed on the Sea Island beach and . had luncheon at the beautiful and luxurious Cloister hetel. We saw many ruins of the old. plantation houses and slaves quarters. The isâ€" land is now aâ€"resort for northerners in winter and for people from the inâ€" terior in summer. is the ruin of Fort Frederika built by Ogilthorpe in 1736 and here Charles Wesley, author of the hymn "Jesus Lover of my Soul" and many other hymns, and brother of John Wesley was Ogilthorpe‘s chaplain. of Deerfield John L. Walker, 1 President. 8

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