The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-14
INrERLACHEN.

Newcomers, New Business, New
Baildings, Select Schools to be In
corporated Forthwith.
The dwellers ct Interlachen feel very
complacent. Every week adds to it per
manent residents. Every week the foun
dation Of q now building is laid. New
enterprises are springing up. New
purchases are made by permanent resi-
dents, and while the sound Of the saw
and the hammer are familiar from day
light till dark in the village. the falling
trees and dense smoke are indicative OF
the extensive clearing in the suburbs for
homes and orange groves for the new
settlers. So rapidly has been the growth
Of Interlachen that at a recent meeting
Of the citizens, 1t was decided that the
time had fully come to clothe the town
with corporate powers. and but Few
days will intervene before a municipal
government will be established.
The Congregational church received
The building has received a new coat of
paint, and the new pews are being made.
The ladies have some $50 in their treas
ury for a new carpet.
Miss Bradley, of Maine, has opened a
select school on Boylston street.
Hugo Friedlander has erected a tenn
perary building to receive his stock of
goods; hardware, oils, paints, ETC.,
which arrived before his fine two-story
business house on Prospect street. 2sx36
feet was completed, the frame of which
is now up. Mr.. Friedlander has also
purchased of Mr.. Young All eligable lot
on the west side as experimental grounds
in testing fertilizers. where he will erect
one Of the Holiday windmills. for
which he has the agency for Florida.
He has also purchased with Mr.. Hast
ings, 80 acres OF r. L. Wall, adjoining
the new corporate limits of the town,
where will also be tested the virtues of
various fertilizers in the propagation of
Rees, vines and vegetables.
Mr.. Fitzgibbon, of Montreal has pur-
chased the 40 acres of Mr. Zumwalt,
where he will enjoy the raising of poul-
try, and Mr.. Smart, late Of Boston, has
purchased 50 acres on Slipper Lake, to
engage in the same business. Both these
gentlemen have had many years expert
ence in the business, and have so
thorough knowledge of it, that they
will remedy many of the ills chicken
flesh has heretofore been heir to in
Florida. With eggs at 80 to so cents per
dozen, wide field of profit is open to
them.
Mr.. Reuben Brewer has up the wood
house, and the lumber on the ground for
ono Of the finest houses in Interlachen;
fronting on Prospect street, with a fine
lookout on Lake Lagonda.
Mr.. Schans has the frame up of neat
Eve roomed cottage, corner of fremont
street and Tropic Avenue, and looks for
ward to many winters of enjoyment in
Florida.
The Prospect House is completed and |
ready for the last coat of paint. and will !
make no mean appearance from the de-
pot.
Mr.. Bement, from Kansas, has cleared |
a palmetto hammock on one of the |
tributaries Of the Ockalawaha river and |
q fine strawberry patch gives promise of |
silver alf-dollars in the return for quart |
buckets OF the fruit soon to go forward |
to New York, when that city is still |
locked in the embrace of Jack Frost.
1t took the Messrs Balston but two
days, after making tour of Florida, to |
decide on a location at Interlachen;
ordered their lumber and commenced
clearing the site. The frame of large
house in the west end is already rising.
Mr.. Delmer Peacock, after catching
ground is cleared and the lumber is on
the ground in Young's addition, for a
fine improvement.
The lumber is on the ground for the
extensive block Of S!r. Bickford, corner
Of Prospect and Boylston streets. The
building is to be 26x4O feet: two stories.
and modern style.
Capt. Henry Anderson, Qike the Captain
himselD is to have something handsome
in front Of the Florida Southern depot.
in the shape of business offices. "J-j-j-
est wait" says the Captain, "and y-y-y-
QUILL sce." The Captain still stammers
little but will put none of it into his
business
Rumor has it that a very elegant villa
will soon adorn block la. We shall
see.
Mr.. Cook. after supplying the town
very acceptabiy with beef from the cart.
has located his meat store on Boylston
street, and moved his family here. j.
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