The Florida agriculturist., 1885-03-18
THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.

State FAR was grown with the Plow Brand
Fertilizer
Mrs. N; +. Crandan, niece of Mrs. J.
Mayne, who has been on visit to DeLand
during the winter. left with her. family, con-
sistlng of three children. for her home at
ked Oak, Iowa, on the 10th inst.
The. entertainment given at the NJ. L.
Church by Miss Edith Williams for the ben
eht OF that church was a success and the
church was well crowded considering the
many other attractions on that night to draw
the people away.
Last Sunday evenings lecture, at the Bap-
tist church, on the construction of the an
clentIabernacle, was appreciated by large
audience. The lecturer advanced a new and
striking theory to account for mooted points
OF the Biblical description.
The hotels are crowded with guests, and it
/ IS rumored that during the coming summer
the proprietOrs of the largest houses will en-
large their accommodations. We are glad
to know that pleasure seekers as well as in
vallds ind our town delightful.
Mr.. D. 7. Morgan, of Oak Hill, Ohio, has
Just completed successful course of instruc-
ton in penmanship. His class amounted in
all to about sixty pupils, drawn chiefly from
the Academy and Public School. Mr.. Nor
gan is an excellent teacher and his visit has
benefited DeLand.
The proprietor of the Excelsior Drug Store
has secured quite novelty for the people
OF Deland in the way of stationery. The
| letter and note heads have views of our
town printed on them. Every one writing
IRON here should use this paper as it will be
to Il cir direct interest.
We hear with pleasure that Rev, DR.. Grif-
nth i to visit the New Orleans Exposition
he leaves for the Crescent City, this week.
Several young men, students of the Academy
and residents, accompany him. The Doctor
IS tvonte among young people and will
be all excellent cicerone.
Mr.. S. W. Cole, proprietor of the well
known Warner House" atJacksonville, has
done us the honor to call Mr.. Cole also con-
ducts summer hotel in Colfax. Ia He is a
most excellent good Boniface, and, with such
hotel men as he, the winter tourist business
in Florida must prosper
And still, regardless of the commercial de-
preston at the North our citizens continue
building. 1t costs money to build here as
we'll as elsewhere especially as our builders
take contracts only on the cash installment
system. There must indeed be more money
circulating in the South than in the North,
Times are comparatively easy here.
Our insurance agent, Walter Critchell. no
titles us that the Home and Germaina Insur-
ance Companies of New York, have with
drawn their agency from our famous town
of DeLand, as our citizens do nothing toward
getting any water supply and fire depart
ment. We may soon be without any insur-
ance protection whatever if this thing con-
tinues Even hook and ladder company
would be of some service.
The new steamer, "Queen of the st.
Johns" made her trial trip last week,
and many of the eXcursionists improved the
opportunity given them, by the accommodate
ing Captain, of visiting u.s. They saw the
town in Sunday dress, and. we hope, were
pleased. The steamer is elegantly equipped
in tho fhOroT1Oh cfXla nj "a Of ~
BaryBaya Company, and cannot fail to be-
come favorite of the travelling public.
There are some artistic specimens of
Photographic art on exhibition at Coles Stu
dio; several fine views of the hammock about
Spring Garden are especially interesting.
One ought not to pass the studio without
glance at the pretty things in the show case.
Mr.. Cole also has something unique in card
photos. Heretofore no one has been able to
obtain with an excellent likeness choice bit
of Florida scenery gratis.
Rogers new wall map of Volusia Co., Fla,
accurate and finely executed. Price $4.0G.
Also maps of DeLand, Fla, showing princi-
pal streets, buildings and size of lots, price 15
cents each, or 81 per dozen. Also maps of
township II, S. range, 80 east, showing De-
Land and surrounding country, 6 miles
square with names ofowneTs of land. Price
Is cents each, or 81 per dozen. For sale by
J. Y. Parce, Notary Public and Real Estate
DeLand Fla.
How widely our town, with its institu-
tons and advantages, is known, may be in
ferred from the fact that during the past
year DIR. Griffith has received between three
and four hundred applications from those
desiring positions as teachers in the Acade-
my In these applications every State in
the Union is represented, except New Hamp-
shire, Arkansas and Texas. The Canadas
and New Brunswick are also among the ap-
plicants. A letter has just been received
from recent graduate of Oxford Univer-
sity in England with reference to his coming
to Florida to teach. Also friend of his
contemplates moving here with his family.
He says that he saw the notice of DeLand
Academy in the Florida Dispatch. Score
ten for the Dispatch
Mr.. Berlin H. Wright has sold property at
Lake Helen as follows; To Samuel Currier,
Bridgeport Conn, three lots, one fronting
on the Lake; to Albert Baker, lion, N. Y,
one lot, with lake 'front.' to VIM. Dumville,
North Adams, Mass, one lot; to U, G.
Schoonmaker, Scranton. Pa, 5 acres and one
lake front; to f. E. Nettleton, Scranton, Pa,
one lake front; to ]. p. Mace, Cincinnati,
O., and Others sixteen lots, one of which
fronts on the Lake; to III. Q. Sharpe, Oswego,
N, ", fine lot on Lake View Avenue. Mr..
Sharpe has also bought 90 acres elsewhere
in the vicinity of the Lake for a grove; to
Messrs. John Smith, Oswego, N. Y, w. f.
Caxton Lisle, N Y, and e. Stanton, Mich
olson. Pa, each acres for groves; to A. W.
Russell lion, N. Y, one lot on New York
Avenue and ~ acres on the east side of the
Lake for grove; to J. B. Craig, Allegheny
City, Pa, 81 acres at the north, end of the
Lake; to Myron W. Collins and Norval d.
Hart, Mexico n Y, each acres for groves
to Emma E. and Lottie P. Williams, Lydia
NJ. Pearce, Lizzie S. johnson and Will H.
Hatfield, all of Syracuse. N. Y. 5 acres each
for groves to Arthur Pelton, Lake Helen,
two lots on Lake View Avenue. Of the above
mentioned purchasers, Messrs. Craig, Cur
rier, Mace, Nettleton. Schoonmaker and
Sharpe, are to build during the ensuing year.
Mr. Baker has already erected handsome