The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-12
ALL AROUND
CHOCTAWHATCHIE
Special to The Journal


Carriers, Fla. July III w. Gas
kline. who has keen boarding at Sunny |
Bank since early spring, has gone TO |
New York TO visit his daughter, Mrs. !
Judge Brown Mr.. Gaskine viii prob |
ably return soon, as this land OF /
bayous has proved very fascinating TO |
him: he says the scenery and eli |
mate are ali that can be desired and /
that the flavor of the fish is far SUI |
perior to that of the fish taken from |
the Pacific
Mrs. Wheeler and her little daugh-
ter. Edith. OF Town Point, are guests
OF James Duncan, who Is Mrs. Vince
er's uncle.
Calvin Bishop and family are occu-
pying their new cottage on the shore
of Mill Bayou
The Ocean City people are building
new landing in order to unIoai
freight of all kinds, especially lumber
The country around ChOctawnatchee
is a land OF hOmesteads with here
and there some capitalist who has
paid cash for his home and each
home maker mas given ais home a name
either for some beauty of situation or
from some peculiar sentiment.
To those who have been cramped
in the trying to make a home of the
city, this is a place of magnificent
distances" and there is plenty OF
'botn land and water. 1t reminds one
of the story of the poverty stricken
woman who had never had enough OF
ANYTHING. whose life had been one
long continued economy but had. by
the kindness Of friend, been given
vacation and the sight of the Al
Iantic ocean. The woman stood gaz-
friend waiting anxiOusly for the WORD
of admiration, perhaps of awe. The
poor woman finally turned to her
friend and said, her eyes blinded
with tears, Thank the Lord, at last
/ see something of which there is
enough
The home of I. J. Pryor of Mary
Esther, is named Point Comfort,
and it is well named as ali who have
been entertained by the two lovely
young daughters, Miss Ida and Miss
Jennie, testify 1t is there that the
southern hospitality" which one
reads about, becomes a reality instead
of a theory.
G. w. SOule bought q part of his
place entering enough of homestead
land TO make the 160 acres. Some
one upon seeing the Santa Rosa
Sound and the snow white sand dunes
sparkling in the moonlight, excIaim-
ed, this is dreamland," and so the
place was named "Dreamland," ana
his launch the Dream
Mr. Lathrop's home on Santa Rosa
Sound, bears the name Belleview, so
called because he decided the place
to his wife, Mrs. Belle LathrOp. and
because the view of the island and
| the gulf Is particularly fine from their
| front gallery.
Every one knows of BrOokdale, for
| Nh Thomas Brooks has lived there
for many years, and his sons nave
grown to manhood, married, and are
/ living near the old home. Here. are
where the noted Indian mounds are
situated. f
Miss Anna CarIen, who lives where
the waves of the ChOctawhatchee beat
almost continually on her beach and
who is a great admirer of the sun,
and who believes that the sun bears
| healing in ais wings" when she saw
! that the first rays of the morning
sun filed her place with glory called
| her home Sunny Bank.
| Then comes the Duncans, or as
! they were affectionateIy called by
| their friends, Uncle Tom ami Uncle
Jim" stanch, honest Scotchmen,
| whose ancestors fed from Scotland
[
can. When they first homesteaded
! they mad some pretty hard knocks,
and with the quaint humor that al
ways characterized Uncle Tom. he
named their place Nip and Tuck
| Point" but that was all passed when
we first knew them and peace and
plenty, and lovely surroundings. made
/ Nip and Tuck Point known Ear ami
! wide. Many a PensacoIian has en-
joyed the hospitality of the Duncans,
/ and their fruit was noted for its per
/ lection and abundance. Early this
| spring Uncle Tom was taken from US
| and we all felt d personal loss. Uncle
Jim still lives at the point, and is as
! kind and genial as ever, though he
says life Will never be the same to
me. now that my brother and ON
Tade Is gone"
"Evoluta" Is Mrs JeraUId's home
[ stead, aS the entering of the claim
all the planning and most of the work
/ done for the first two years was
done by Mrs. JeTaUld and her TWO
daughters. and as she saw the evolu-
ton OF the home site from a wilder
ness to a place of beauty, she named
it EvolUta. giving the idea of evoIu-
ton with the feminine termination.
The .-EvoIuta" study is a log build
ing with high, pointed roof over
hanging the caves four Feet, giving 1t
a quaint and picturesque effect The
| study Is built in among the trees
overlooking the water broad low
/ windows and a neavy door male OF
rough pine boards gives a harmonious