The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-11
NEWS NOTES
Of TALLAHASSEE
Special to The journal,


Tallahassee, Nov. 10.-Mr. B. NJ
Gates, manager of the Myrtle Lumber
Co., has sold to a syndicate large
tract of land on the st. Marks road,
near Wakulla station, on which
will be located a colony of northern
settlers.
Engineers are now there plotting
the streets and lots for the prospect
i've town which will be in the center
of the colony. Two hundred lots will
be placed on the market at once, and
many of them have been spoken for
by families who will make permanent
residents General Mcknight and
Capt. Mcknight, of Indiana, are the
promoters of the enterprise, and l.. j..
Day, of Fitzgerald. Ga, is the local
agent.
The location of this colony is an
ideal one, being about six miles dis
land, between the Wakulia and St.
Marks rivers. 1t will have the finest
advantages of hunting and fishing,
with the advantage of a fine market
for their produce in the towns lying
along the line of road northward
The location is about sixteen miles
south of Tallahassee.
The public school children are pre-
pairing to have lots OF fun this com
ing week. On Monday evening at the
opera house they will present an
amusing farce entitled AT the Vii
Iage Post Office" under the direction
of Mr.. and Mrs. David V. Bush. who
are specialists in this line There
will also be a number of beautiful
drills and marches and several other
| features of interest.
On the following Friday the chill
1 4 haxr of io,
they are anticipating a specially hap
| by time.
/, The Woman's Home Mission So
ciety of the Methodist church will
hold a mite box opening and social
at the residence of Mrs. T. B. BYRD.
Friday afternoon, November 18th,
| from $3.50 to o'clock.
Some months ago some of the
members of Trinity Methodist Episco-
lpal church, South, in Tallahassee,
feeling the need of establishing a
branch of the church in the south
western portion of the city, the resi-
dents of which live at an ineonven-
| lent distance from Trinity, organized
a mission on Boulevard street, and
secured the services of Mr.. Woodland
as curate under Mr.. /. S. Paterson.
pastor of Trinity.
This work has so grown under the
ministrationS of this earnest young
preacher that the Mission is now ma
tured into a church, which will here
after be known as Boulevard Metho-
dist church, South.
All Halloween passed off very
quietly in Tallahassee. The most
noticeable entertainment given was
that of Mr.. and Mrs. II. L. Bethel, at
their beautiful residence on South
Adams street, where ghosts, hobgob-
Inns and witches held high reveI
The extensive grounds were deco
rated with the conventional lanterns
made of pumpkins grotesquely carved
and skeleton stood sentinel at the
entrance. Inside the house, SO per
ltectly arranged for the entertain
| ment of numerous guests, the decora-
tons were tasteful in the extreme and
strictly in keeping with the traditions
Of Halloween.
Quaint little ghosts silently receiv-
ed the arriving guests. who were
| then shown to their respective dress
ing rooms by two charming young
witches. These, later on, kept the
score at the card tables.
Delicious refreshments were serv-
ed and delightful evening passed,
until the nearness OF the midnight
hour warned the guests to dispense
Mr.. John Bennett. a young man who
had won many friends during his few
years residence in Tallahassee by his
genial and friendly manner, died yes
| terday evening of peritonitis. He was
nephew OF Mr.. d. r. Cox. well
known citizen of this city.
| MI BENEFITS remains were shipped
this morning to Gainesville, where
! his family resides, for interment.
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