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The State of Florida Our Bay Country the IPanama City PilotF Against the World Best Part of Floridau

Vol 2 Panama City Washington County Florida July 23rd 1908 No 9ut u

ti Beach Combings j

A J Gay was in town several daysF this weekt Work on Hogebooms new hotelF is progressing finely

i Again the aianteo is oil its run ow-

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f to some breakage-O E Williams of Dothan was an

1 arrival on Monday evenings train-

J D Smith of aiarianna was apleasant caller at the PILOT office thisweek Wednesday

The trains are making good time

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on their new schedule and are bring-ing

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Y in many visitorsair Black a contractor of Dothan

r arrived last evening with carpenters-to build air Fortners store

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Judge J ai Carmichael and wifeof Ozark Ala have been PanamaCity visitors for some days

Ellias Ayar with a crew of men areengaged this week in building thefence around the new cemetary

Contractor Hall has one of R Ls aicKonies cottages enclosed and

will soon have it ready to be occupiedr The brick piers for DIr Fortnerst-

wor story building are built and theI erection of the building will now go

ialicad rapidly

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Mrs Mary B Jenks returned fromAnn ill on the Tarpon yesterdayand is stopping with her son and wifeat their pretty home on Secondstreet

r The Novelty Works are this weekputting in the store front of G II-

i aicKenzies building which is to beoIoccupied on August 1st by air

t lingoI H Nass has given up the hotel

at Millville and removed here It is

Isaid he will open a short lunch res-taurantI t in the Hogeboom building onthe dock

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F C Turner of the Decatnr Car-t Wheel Company of Birminghamt Ala is visiting here with his friend

General Manager Ben Steele for aday or so-

Launchi parties to the Gulf are thatf

1 numerous now that we cannot notethem individually There are from tento thirty launches in the excursionbusiness all the time about the bay

air Taylor of Wewahitchka was avisitor here this week DIr Taylorhad not visited Panama City since thepicnic two years ago this month andwas surprised and pleased at the

h changes made here since then

The government boat with CaptTurtle in command is still at thework of surveying the harbor en-

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Capt Iurtle did not reachhero as early as was stated in ourlast but is now with the boat

lhe firm of Goodson Jenks havedissolved partnership as will be seenby notice in another column DIr

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Jenks will continue the business airGoodson is now acting as agent forthe Tarpon but may take up otherduties

It is stated that the German Ameri-

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Lumber Company will at onceopen a lumber yard on their property-at the old mill location It is their

i intention to carry a full stock of all

f kinds of building lumber includingshingles etc

It There is some talk of parties plac¬

ing a dock at Hurricane Island andfixing up a resort there air aicReynolds claims to have a lease of theproperty from the government for

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five years It could be made a very

t pleasant resortf1 The Kehoeaiays contest has beenk adjourned by the committee for an-

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ei week the committee standingseven to seven and unable to agree

r f upon anything The only satisfactoryr i settlement of the case that could bel made would be to decide that there

was no election

Ernest H Griffin editor of theBainbridge Post made the PILOToffice a pleasant call on Thursday-last while on his way to Mobile onthe aianteo and again on his returnyesterday by the Tarpon air Griffinwas taking a well earned vacation-and incidentally enjoying a trip onthe Gulf He promises to return toSt Andrews Bay a little later

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With the lumber coming in here b-

rail from Dothan and that manufac-tured

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here and being brought bybarge from Millville building is beingcarried on more successfully than ithas been heretofore I

Mr Hughes wife and daughter ofDothan are guests at the Inn this i

week Mr Hughes is a cotton buyer I

and states that 90000 bales of cottonwere bought in Dothan last seasonlIe says that if the cotton could beshipped direct from here double thatamount would be bought there-

J L Jackson of Vernon candidate-for sheriff on the Peoples Ticket andA W Weeks candidate for Clerk onthe same ticket were Panama City I

visitors this morning These gentle-men are touring the southern part ofthe country in the interest of theirticket

Fine black and sugar figs are ripen ¬i

ing fast now and owing to a limited i

demand the fruit is rotting on the I

ground in large quantities Pears-are also an abundant crop this sum-mer

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and are exceptionally good Theorange crop is also looking well andpromises a fine and heavy yield

Mr William Gainer and wife ofI

Econfina were arrivals on last even ¬

ings train stopping at the home oftheir daughter Mrs Davis This i

worthy couple are probably the old ¬

est residents of Washington countyand Mr Gainer stated that he came i

down jnst to ride on a train acrossthe county to the shores of the bayLike all the rest of us fir Gainer hasbeen patiently awaiting this eventmany years

The building of a temporary stationnear the switch at the terminus herewill be begun this week and will soonbe completed The railway will alsoerect a tank here this week The i

abutment of the dock is about finish-ed

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and ready to fill and a track willbe placee on it this week Little bylittle the finishing touches are being

tput on the road and it will soon be inshape to do a heavy freight and pas ¬

senger businessThe PILOT is in receipt at the hands-

of Davis Cawthon of a basket of j

tomatoes and peppers raised by his I

father W L Cawthon of DeFuniak I

Springs that are illustrative in amost magnificent way of the possi-bilities

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of our soil in the matter ofvegetable raising Finer vegetables-were never gathered anywhere and-

it is said that DIr Cawthon has hadan abundance of just such vegetablesright along Of course it takes at-

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and some knowledge of thework but we have the soil and theclimate and with proper culture anyone can duplicate this fine showing

Notifying Candidates-The Dothan Eagle has an article on

the tinge taken and the expenses in ¬

curred in notifying the candidates oftheir nomination c In connection-with this subject it says I

This thing is getting so big till weare going to try to induce the properauthorities whoever they may be tosend a committee down to Panamnskity and notify Buck Baker that hewas nominated mayor of Dothan sometwo or three months ago A heart I

stimulent might be given just beforethe news is suddenly broken to him I

that he might be prepared for theshock In fact we think that a com-mittee

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should be sent down to notifyhim for it is rumored up here thathe has his application in for chief ofpolice before the board of aldermentobeelected down there

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Now this is a slander on Buckj

Anyone noticing his daily dutiessitting on top of a wabbly launch apossible life saver of the pretty girlbeside him would at once realize thathe is not a candidate for anything

i but matrimony and most assuredlyI is not in need of any heart stimulantI

other than that right at hand Andfor the position named he seems tohave an unlimited number of charm-ing

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merry supporters too

Railroad WharflOwing to the storms of the pastweek progress has been slow on this

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dock The timbers of the abutmentI are now all in place and filling of thei same will probably begin today aI work train having been placed hereI for that purpose Pile driving beganlast evening on the dock proper andwill now be pushed along as fast asthe men can do it When completed

I this will be an imposing and exten ¬

sive dock

Ice PlantThe ice plant is still after a plenti-

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supply of water They expect toget it within a day or so and thenwill begin the manufacture of iceThey have two pipes down and areputting the large eight inch pipe stilldeeper but as yet do not get sufficientwater to run the ice plant They alsofurnish the locomotives here withwater The scarcity of ice at other I

points makes the shortage felt hereseverely and all that can be got fromDothan by rail and from Pensacola-and Apalachicola by boat does notbegin to supply the demand Every-thing

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is in readiness here to makethe ice but a larger supply of water

Baptist Church Organized-

A meeting was held yesterday atthe school house for the purpose oforganizing the First Baptist Church-of Panama City and an organization-was perfected The congregation wascalled to order by Rev J W Boydafter which the election of temporaryofficers took place resulting in thefollowing officers being elected Rev-

J W Boyd aioderator pro tern John-J Ward Clerk pro tern BrotherPerry of Oglethorpe Ga was thenappointed to read the Articles ofFaith and the Covenant of the ChurchAfter the reading explanations weremade of the several points therein

Following this a clerk was elected-in the person of John J Ward andthe election of thepastor and deaconspostpaned until the next meetingCommittees were appointed as fol ¬

lows a committee to draft the lawsrules and regulations of the church-a finance committee which consisted-of R L McKenzie chairman andJohn J Ward and Mesdames G H-

and 0 P aicKenzieThe meeting then adjourned until

the first Monday after the third Sun ¬

day of the month at8 oclock p m-

at which time all jvmbers of this4

church are especially invited to attend-as there is business that will come upat that meeting of great importance-to be attended to

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J Oliver was on our streets Mondayairs Oliver was visiting at S Dyers

Thursday and Friday-S Dyer made business trips to

Farmdale Thursday and Fridayaiessrs Dyer Kronmiller shipped

two boat loads of brick down the Baylast week-

J B Taylor was up Wetappo Creeklooking after their turpentine inter-ests

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on Fridayv

DIr Shaw from Georgia passsedthrough here Friday enroute to andfront Farmdale where he captured acolored prisoner

A party of young folks from Farmdale and Allanton spent a few hourspleasantly at S Dyers with music andsinging on Sunday

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air Ellerbee of Bennett was shop ¬

ping here MondayDavid Singleton and wife of Nixon

were shopping here MondayArch Gainer and wife of South

port were shopping here MondayC E Ware made a trip to Panama

City on Tuesday returning thatnight

W ai Adams and son JohnAdams-of Tompkins were shopping here onMonday

E ai Newman and wife of Econ ¬

tina passed through here Mondayen route to Tompkins

i R L Purcell has returned fromEconfina and took charge of the marlboat Favorita on Monday morning

Mrs ai Sconiers and little sonDewey and aiiss Jessye Douglas ofGloomy Valley were shopping hereMonday

Mrs aialinda Kyser and two daugh ¬

ters Misses Bethenia and SylvaniaKyser of Tompkins were shopping

I here Mondayi On Monday the Leonore in chargeI of Capt Lyman Dykes brought thet Misses Alderman Miss West andMiss Calhoun accompanied by aiessrsCasler Moss and Jones

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Parker

A L Pratt is working at PanamaCity these days-

W 11 Parker visited Panama City-

on business Tuesday-

Tom Dekle gave a launch party tothe Gulf late Thursday afternoon

Mrs llinson and daughter Blanchevisited Mrs W H Parker on Tues-day

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Mrs Audley Spicer and little sonOtway visited friends and relativeshere Wednesday-

Mrs J N Wilson and Mrs E NDekle were callers at Mrs W II Par¬

kers on Monday eveningMr Daniels of Marianna is having-

a house built on his lot just west ofthe old Peter Parker place

We had quite a severe thunder-storm here on Monday evening just-at dark but no damage was done

Miss Annie Stephens who has beenvisiting her sister for some time re ¬

turned to St Andrew on Wednesday-

E N Dekle took the train Mondayfor his home in Chipley where hewill attend to business matters andreturn to Parker

The Misses Jerdons of Chipleyarrived on Mondays train and willboard for a few weeks with Mrs Tay ¬

lor on West Park streetThe Lewis Bear Cos popular tra ¬

veling man Mr Woodard was busi ¬

ness visitor here on Wednesday Hefound several old Chipley friends ofhis here-

E Z Taylor took a trip to St An ¬

drew on Monday evening visitingfriends returning Wednesday withDr Mitchells horse and buggy which-he will care for during the Doctorsabsence

The Carey Horne Qamping partyleft for their home in Chipley onTuesdays train after a week or tendays stay Mr Home says he willhave a house built on his place atParker by next year

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e barges are almost daily takinglumber to Panama city now days

air Gillis the father of Mrs Dr Lee-

is visiting the doctors family thisweek

air Nass having left the hotel anew man will be here very soon totake it-

The Baptist society here will give asupper in the school house at 630p m on Saturday July 25th for thebenefit of the church Everyonecordially invited

Our little community was saddened-on Sunday morning to learn of thedeath at 4 oclock of Martha wife ofair R-

muchHenderson a lady who wasrespected by all who knew her

Funeral services were held at theBaptist church on Sunday eveningRev Hastings officiating The church-was filled with the friends of the fam-

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nearly all following the remainsto the Millville cemetary where theinterment took place under charge-of undertaker Brake The floralofferings were many and very beauti-ful

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I completely covering the casketThe music was of the best all ourbest singers taking part therein

Mrs Henderson has been critically-illI for some time but kept up her

I courage and made a brave struggle I

for life She leaves a devotedi husband and four little children Shewas a home lover and keeper andthough but 23 years of age leaves alarge number of sorrowing friendswhom she had made by her Christianvirtues and sweet character air

I Henderson has the sympathy of all inI his great afliction

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wish to thank my friends of Mill ¬

ville who were so kind to me during-the illness and death of my wifeDuring my trouble they were untiring-in their efforts to help me in all wayswhich I appreciate more than words-can express and to them I extend myheartfelt thanks

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Mr and Mrs Malone and MissMalone of Dothan were arrivals onthe train this week

Capt Bert Varo had a party out tothe snapper banks yesterday Wowere not advised as to the result

ai Rynearson and wife were ar ¬

rivals on the Tarpon yesterday Thefriends of this couple will gladlywelcome them to St Andrews again-as permanent residents

Gay Locals

Dr and Mrs Wall are now the guests-of DIr and Mrs A J Gay

air Willis and John Peterson werePanama City visitors last Saturday

air and Mrs AV W Green left forPanama City last Saturday wherethey will occupy their new cottageWe wish for them much happiness intheir new home

During the severe wind and elec ¬

trical storm of Monday evening ourtelephone system was put out of ser¬

vice L C Gay spent Wednesday onthe line repairing damages

Ve are gratified to report that JewelBooth is convalescing from her re ¬

cent severe attack of fever She isnow up but not as yet her usualbright and active self-

A party of our people consisting ofL C Gay and wife Dr Wall and wifeA J Gay and the Misses Vesta andOvida Gay left hero Monday night-for the fresh water lakes for adays of fishing and bathing Therreport a plentiful supply of fish and-

a delightful time in general but ajlthere is in evidence is an abundanceof blisters

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Morris called here FridayMiss Mary Shippey visited Mrs E

C Spicer TuesdayDIr Jos Forbes was a passenger on

the mail boat Saturdayairs Pierce is improving finely much-

to the delight of her friendsDIr Allen of Allanton paused

through here a few days ago

How long before we will be enjoy ¬

ing the ice from our ice plantsThe Lavida with Capt Bates in

charge took a party to Millville on Jaionday j

Mrs Audley Spicer took passage onthe mail boat Wednesday to visithome folks at Parker

The Jolly Rover took a party of 15

out for a ride Sunday evening Allagree the Jolly Rover is the boat forpleasure-

The many friends of Willie Railsback will be glad to know that he isable to walk with out the aid of acrutch or cane J

air Fradosia towed the Cuba load-

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with brick from the Wetappo brick tyard down the bay with brick fordifferent parties

Tompkins

P N Ellis was visiting here on i

Sundayai D aiashburn of Bay Mead was

calling here on Sunday-

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urday night and SundayJ

Will Barret of Millville was UJ

Tompkins caller Sunday-

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last returning Monday

SE Caula and family and WalterEvans and family of Southport were

i all visiting at Tompkins on Sunday 4

ElI Newman and wife of Bennett jarrivved here Monday They will

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I spend a few days with relatives hereArchie Gainer and wife of South

port was visiting here on MondayI TheyEllis-

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