Mr. Wiley Zachary had $5,000 worth of fun in Florida. This, he avers, is absolutely straight goods. This fun, according to Mr. Zachary, was of many varieties, though fun of the pineapple variety seemed to predominate. Mr. Zachary failed to make clear just what is meant by pineapple fun. Nevertheless, some of the denizens of Main Street are drawing their own conclusions.
Last Saturday, a Press representative saw the lion and lamb lying down in peace together, or was it the dog and the fox? To be sure, it was the dog and fox, or to be more exact, many dogs and many foxes. This free show was on Main Street in front of the Press office. Mr. Wiley Zachary, Harry Higgins and Mrs. Higgins had just arrived form Floridia where they had spent two months fox hunting. The truck was loaded to the gun’ales with dogs, live foxes, fox hides, pineapples, grapefruit, oranges, palmettos, sugar cane, Spanish moss and scent, but not of the magnolia variety. Mr. Zachary, party, and dogs had rid Florida of 24 foxes during the trip and had brought six of these foxes home alive. Great crowds surrounded the truck and blocked traffic on Main Street for some time.
Mr. Zachary was busy as a bee, talking, beaming and smiling. He was no doubt thinking of future rases when he turns his foxes loose on his immense holdings on Trimont Mountain. However, Mr. Zachary is puzzled as to how to train his swamp foxes for the mountains. Having a kindly feeling for these lonesome creatures, Mr. Zachary brought a large amount of Florida fruit which he intends to scatter about on Trimont so that his foxes may feel a little more at home. He also intends to turn them loose near the foot of the mountain so that in the event they tumble off, fatalities will be limited.
From page 5 of The Franklin Press, Friday, March 27, 1925
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