The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-19
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specIaI 60 Ine journal.

ternoon they went to East Pass in
a launch to take George Ward. OF
FTeepOTt, to transact important bust
ness with Mr. William MaTleT of Des
tin
J. n. Stanford and family, of Gar
nieTs, are preparing to make an eX-
tended visit to their old home, Cuth-
bert, Ga, which they left three years
ago and where Mr. Stanford edited
the Acknowledgements, the county
paper
Mrs. Belle Wright, o. Harris, is
visiting Mrs. George Wright, of
Cracker Neck.
J. II. Brown. OF Camp Walton. wdS
visiting his mother, Mrs HOllinEPr,
of Don Bayou, Saturday and Sunday
He is expecting to move TO his own
place at Carriers soon. He sold 200
watermelOns last Friday at ID cents
apiece.
Mrs. D. Faircloth and children, of
Holly, have been guests of Mrs. H.
B. Banks of Gulfview-
Frank Hopper, of Mill Bayou, l.
helping 10 build Mir WinkIey's house
at the head of Don Bayou Mr. Wink
ley Is a Pensacola man and has Ell
tered a homestead claim to forty
acres near Don Bayou
Mr. Mckinney is having fine
wharf built in front of his ressdeLce
at Camp Walton.
There are a great MANI launches nn
these waters of all kinds and sizes,
but Uncle Gus" of The Camp.
sticks to his sail boat, the Mollie
Patra He SAYS Il sure don't like
launch. She stops and stops, waen
she ought to he going and 1t makes
a man swear too bad
-
the Chicago branch house or the Ca
bot Single Stain Co, sp9nJS part
of every winter on these waters. MI
and Mrs. Bell live aboard their launch,
The Bells" in which they have
every convenience for light house
keeping E'hey 90 aId come as II
suits their pleasure, anchCTIng az
some friends wharf all spending the
evening with the friend. either aboard
the boat or in the house, then moving
on to another wharf 1t IS an ideal
way to spend a vacation. Mr.. Bel,
while here last winter, was SO pleased
with the place and the people that
ne invested in two pieces % pepper
", one of which is new land, I'M
cleared This he wants cleared and
planted with fruit trees and has en-
gagged James Duncan - superfnteni
the work Mr.. Duncan is so thor
oughly acquainted with the soil and
climate and has made such success
of fruit raising, that Nh. Bei felt
quite elated when he secured Mr..
Duncan's services. Mr.. Bell expects
to be on the Choctawhatchee shortly
before Christmas.
Miss Peterson, of Five Mile, is suf-
fering with a sprained shoulder
While stepping from the launch TO
IL lrIF cd nd in, no
effort to catch the wharf and escape
the water, she sprained her arm and
shoulder. She suffered intensely for
several hours, but is getting better,
though she still has her arm in
sling
Miss Vera SouIe. of Meridian, Miss.
who has been visiting her uncle. q.
w Soule. of Camp Walton, was mar
ried to Mr.. Ernest Williams, of New
Orleans. Saturday, the fourth of July,
at Pensacola They left Sunday Cor
Mobile.
Gulfview House. of Camp Walton, %
full of guests. They come and enjoy
the surf bathing. the boating and fish
ing. then leave for their homes to
wait impatiently for their next vaca-
ton. 1t is strange that this region
has not fallen into the hands of the
boomer" but its merits did not be-
come known until the best o. the
land was taken by homesteaders who
wanted ii. not for speculation, but
for homes. These hOmeSteadeTs
wrote in such glowing terms of the
perfect climate, lovely scenery and
the adaptability of the soil for fruit
growing, that those friends came,
saw. and were conquered, and so tie
growth has been slow. but steady al
sure In all the United States ther3
is no section of more gratifying land
scape beauty than are these bayOIs
and coyes all around Choctawhatch'n
They who have seen the nOTthsrI
lakes and rivers from the ST. Law
renee to Puget Sound and sensef the
beautiful islands, and water. and
wooded and mountain scenery, of all
that section of the northern CONT
nent. find in these southern waters
and woods a continue ion of AmeTi-
cas- wonderland, that in the near fU-
ture will be the homes of all nature
lovers.
The water scenery of the lakes
and rivers and sounds have their
own peculiar. respective types of
landscape beauties. all particularly
gratifying TO residents and sight seers
but none of these have the rest<ul,
soul satisfying quietude OF waters
winding narrowing and widening,
glinting with midday sheening, tint
ing with morning and evening refiec-
tons of skies and sun, bounded by
clean. indented wooded shore lines.
We believe that all around Choctaw-
hatchee takes the premium for land
scape beauties.
The people We find mere are much
in keeping with their envirOnS; glad