Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1903 — Down Where The Mocking Bird Is Singing. [ARTICLE]

Down Where The Mocking Bird Is Singing.

Col. Horace Marble’s strawberry company, located in Alabama, expect to begin the shipment of berries northward by April let, or perhaps the 20th of March. Their first hundred acres of vines set out are now prime. A switch has been built by the L, & N. railroad to' their plant, a box factory is being put up, and many other improvements are being made. They expect to ship enough berries this season to make a shortcake, two inches thick, that will cover three thousand acres of land. The Celonel is in the best of spirits and health, and is spending the autumn of his life below the zero line, “where the mocking bird is singing all the day,” His happy times in Dixie is renewing his boyhood days and reminds him of the time be hoofed it through to Pike’s Peak and drove three yoke of oxen; Crown Point Star. , 4) Flinch Decks, the new and popular home game, at Fendigs.