The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-11-22
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
By REV. DR.. JAS. P. DePASS.

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and sheet iron stores shops etc and business
resumed in week its normal con
ditons, which has increased every day and
week the past year
TO give some idea of the business push
and the progressive spirit Of our business
men. After the lapse of almost year
beginning OIL the west side of town, we see
in the place of common wooden structures
when the fire began, going east on the lef
side of Oak street Gore & SCOTS com
modous stone block, two stories, corner
occupied by Gore & Scott, a prosperous
mercantile firm, and the next by the South
Florida Loan & Trust Company Of which
u. J. Heard is president and M. T.
Goldsmith is general manager and A. M
Smith, cashier Espenlaubs Market is
the next stone building with all modern
improvements. Overhead is THE CHAM
PIoN Office. Adjoining him is j. j
Heards stone block of FIVE stores with
opera house above offices. Now in~coursC
of erection.
On the opposite corner is the FRS
National Bank of Arcadia, of which 7, B
King the popular and gifted fnancier, is
president, who is also member Of the
Board Of control of the State University
located at Gainesville, Florida and widely
known through the state as bust
ness man of unusual capacity
with c. c. Chollar, genial anc
pleasant gentlemen whose knowledge o.
men and banking at once ranks him witt
the first of the state A. f. Houstouh
the book keeper, courtly and elegant
gentleman Fathered, cultured anc
trained by that prince of the old tins
southern gentleman, Gen'l Pat Houstoun
of Tallahassee, and w. M. Platt, the teller
than whom no bank has better one, be
sides he is tie honored and popular mayoi
of the city.
In this large and elegant brick block il
the Arcadia Mercantile Company's thre'
wholesale and retail stores Of which Car
Holmer is manager and doing business o
$50, 600 a year, an increase of fifty pc
cent over last year sales, This establish
ment has also store houses, in which t
store its heavy stock.
w, E. Daniel, whose wooden stores wer
destroyed by the fire has rebuilt two larg
stone buildings both of which are occupiet
by prosperous firms One Of which i
leased by M. Hammer & Company, jews
who appear to be gentlemen and mel
of business sagacity.
The next is w. H. Seward, who lost one
of his warehouses and which he has rebuilt
with brick making Of it an elegant dry
goods emporium and whose prosperity !:
one of the evidences of business ability and
what makes a popular and all around good
fellow.
The next is D. T. Cartoons brick block
with three stores which withstood the FIRE
one of which is Dishong Brothers, an up
to-date grocery.
The corner store where drugs and books
are dispersed by popular young men,
new store, with Harry Cross and Lev
Mccullers as proprietors, and where on
postofice is.
On the opposite side of the street goini
west is a handsome stone block being bull
by Simmons. Langford & Company
Bankers. The bank will occupy th'
corner, Carlton & Pruitt the large dr.,
goods and millinery establishment who vii
occupy one Of the stores while overhead
will be an up-to-date hotel.
The next is brick block, built by Over
Ii. Parker and leased to Faulkner s
Stouebraker, aourishing hardware
furniture and buggy establishment 4