The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-11-22

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South Florida.
These houses are owned and run by
Heard & Reynolds, Stephen j. Carlton
Childers & Rawls, the DeSoto Fruit Co.,
of which f. A. Thomas is part owner and
manager and Scott Brothers,
These firms work about four hundred
men, besides averaging some twelve or
fifteen teams to each house.
Livery Stables.
Arcadia is we'll supplied with livery
and sale stables, led by w. f. Robertson,
VIM. c. Hooker and J. w Craig.
Arcadia's Hotels.
The hotels are owned and managed by
Capt A. Roe, of the Arcadia House, the
Southern by ] H. Fulks, Florida House
by Mrs. J. +. Whidden and the Royal by
Mrs. Donaldson.
There are numerous private boarding
houses and still it is hard to obtain board
in our thriving city and to hire dwelling
is entirely out Of the question.
Our High School.
The Arcadia. High School has Professor
Maloy as principal assisted by Prof. A. A.
Price Of Wauchula, Miss Leitner, daughter
of the Rev. DIR. Leitner of Barlow; Miss
Laura Mitchell, of Arcadia; Miss Rainey
of N. c. and Misses Beard and Anderson.
Churches.
The Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and
Episcopal Churches are all supplied with
pastors who lead the religious sentiment of
the town. These men are active and devo-
ted to their calling, and are popular, able
and eloquent preachers
Our Good Roads.
Arcadia has over six miles of rocked road
within the corporate limits and leading out
in every direction the roads are graded and
are to be rocked in the near future.
Electric Lights.
Arcadia has as good electric lights as
any town in the State, if not better, an ice
plant and cold storage inferior to none, a
water works plant, in part completed,
telephone system that we can't brag on.
The system is all right, but oh my, the
phones. They must have been the origi-
nal ones and they do not improve with age
or using.
Location.
Al. :, A. oa,4Yot to,y,, of tla Houutx
of Desoto and the County site. Built on
high and rolling plat of ground with the
picturesque Peace River mile west Of the
Court House, flowing toward the Gulf of
Mixico, is adelightful location for homes
as we'll as business and manufactures.
Here will be found neat and handsome
dwellings, yards set in orange trees, which
afford perpetual shade, and also where
flowers, rich and rare perpetually bloom,
from the regal rose to the tiny daisy, and
where tropical plants, ferns and geran-
Gums grow and blossom in the open.
Birds from the most glorious hooking
bird to the tiny wren, birds of the richest
plumage, from the cardinal to the Florida
canary make their nests in the great orange
trees and rear their young unmolested by
the sling shot Of the cruel boy, and whose
songs make harmony sn the quiet hours of
the night and which fill the morning and
the twilight hours with the sweetest and
most thrilling Of bird music.
Arcadla's Pleasant Drives.
Arcadia furnishes elegant rides Her
people own fine horses and buggies and
her open, undulating roads furnish inspir-
ing scenes, when Aurora blushes at the
rising sun, or when the God Of day wraps
himself in the gorgeous tapestries Nf twi-
light and sinks to rest behind the payl'lions
Of the west.