The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-03-26
ITS SCHOOL AND CHURCHES AND
THE FERTILE SECTION OF
WHICH 1T is THE cENTER-Lo.
GATED ~ MILES FROM PENsA.
COLA ON "sHELBYs ROAD"
Special Correspondence.

Beula, March 25.-NeVer having
seen any letter in your valuable paper
from here, l thought | would try and
send you a few items and let the rest
of the world know that BeUla still
lives, even if not on the map. This
is a veritable white mans country, as
there are no negroes here except those
in Warn Bros. state convict camp,
who are always under efficient guards
and in no way cause any trouble in
the settlement, ana it seems to be an
unwritten law that negroes shall not
acquire land or be allowed to live
here.
Beula has two churches, Baptist
anG Methodist.
Our school, under the able man.
agement of Mrs. Annie Bowman, has
just closed a very successful term
with an entertainment that was sur
prise to everybody for the people
thought that the little ones were so
bashful that they would fail, but the
way they spoke their pieces and the
confidence they had in themselves
just put (he croakers out of business.
Mrs. Bowman is surely the right
teacher in the right place and we hope
she will lave the school next term.
On "sheIby's Road"
We are situated on the new HARD
road, or "Shelby's road" as it is called,
about u miles northwest Of Pensaco-
la. This road will be an enduring mon
ument to the efficiency of Ex-Commis-
sioner Shelby as long as time goes on,
and if we never get another We can
say, with the other fellow, We'll done
thou good ana faithful public servant,
enter into the joys of hauling blocks
TO town without cussing."
Among other blessings we have
free rural delivery. and in the person
OF H. o. Wilder have one of the best
carriers that goes the road. He is
competent and obliging and always
on time without regard to weather,
for he has an up-tO-date mail wagon
which was a great help to him curing
the cold weather.
Every one is busy getting in their
crops just now. A good deal of sugar
cane is raised here and with two
mills, A ]. Buzbee and George Davis,
get out a lot of excellent syrup for a
small community This is in the Per-
dido country and right here can be
seen some of the best young peach
orchards in the country. Why men
win go to Baldwin county, Alabama,
and pay big prices for no better land
and then haul what they raise right
through here to Pensacola is some
thing | can not understand. One man
told me he lived 40 miles from Pensa-
cola and | have met him five times
this fall ana winter going in with pro-
duce.
Personal Notes.
Mrs. SAME Wright has gone to visit
friends at Westville, Fla.
Miss Mary c. Spore will go this
week to enter the state Normal school
at DeFuniak Springs.
Two of our bright young men, un-
derstand, are preparing themselves
to take a course in a business college.
Some cuss or cusses without the
fear of God or man before their eyes
stole most of Grandma Roy and Bug
bees chickens one night last week,
then came back last Sunday night to
get what was left, but the old LADIES
run them off. The ladies live near
the bridge at Bayou Moccasin about
4 or 5 miles west of the city. They
are old people nearing tne so year
mark Such petty thieves ought to
get what we in the army in the COS
called "a Scotch hobble." Ask some
old Johnnie" or "Yank" what that
is and he can tell you.