Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1915 — John M. Kapnp Returns From Sunny Florida Clime. [ARTICLE]

John M. Kapnp Returns From Sunny Florida Clime.

John M. Knapp returned a lew days ago from a three weeks’ sojourn in Florida.’ He landed in Indiana where the temperature was hovering far •belo'w the zero mark, while in Florida the children were playing barefoot in the streets, the flowers were blooming in the yards and the girls were wearing transparent skirts. Of course, the southern girls are not so immodest, but the northern tourists, some of them, are so (bent on fashions that they wear just as little as fashion prescribes. This is, of course, considerably off the subject and hardly a proper discussion in connection with Mr. Knapp’s visit to Florida, but it goes to show how great is the difference between the climate here and the elimate there. At St._ Petersburg Mr. Knapp saw George" F. Meyers and wife and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. William Bennett, and at Ocalo, Fla., he saw Joe Halligan and wife and sisters. At St. Petersburg he went Ashing with Ralph Sprague’s 'brother, who visited here last year. Their'flshing trip, however, did not pan out as well as the Ashing barge was in i;he hands of inexperienced fishermen. John relieves George Meyers of any suspicion of having caught the big fish his picture was taken with. That fish was a shark and is rather a common thing to be caught there but only by the expert fishermen,