Italy Band Contributed by Virginia Crilley |
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Italy Band Boys - July 18, 1913 |
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Gaddis Taylor |
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BAND BOYS RETURN FROM JACKSONVILLE Gaddis Taylor, Forrest Still, Buford Gamble and Howard Douglass returned Tuesday night from the reunion of the old soldiers at Jacksonville. Gaddis tells us that they had a great time and was the second band in all the parades, following the Jacksonville band all the time, and were treated nicely at every turn. They played for a ball at a big colonel's home in Jacksonville and took a side trip on the St. John's river in a boat, visiting the beautiful country and seeing the orange groves and so forth. They stopped in beautiful Mobile and were given a six course dinner at a swell hotel by a crowd of Oklahoma boosters. They also spent a night and day in Crescent City where they took in the town of crooked streets and where the Mississippi river is higher than the town. Gaddis says that Florida is a beautiful country, but he thinks it is no place for anyone except the rich and that it is cold at night and hot during the day. No doubt these boys had a fine trip and got a good experience. All the boys started home with an alligator each, but Gaddis was the only one to get home with a live one. The reunion will be held at Richmond, VA in 1915. [This refers to the Confederate Reunion.] |
