The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-08-27
NEWSPAPERS OF FLORIDA

ful correspondents to furnish news
for its numerous readers. The Ocala
correspondent, be he a star man OF
a pick up, made a grievously wrone
statement in regard to Ocala in your
last issue. Partly what he said was
true, especially his remarks in regard
to the Ocala Banner and the Star
There are few cities in the south, OF
the population of Ocala, that support
two as good newspapers as these
which is evidence beyond a question
that the citizens of Ocala and Ma
rion county are a pushing, energetic
people. Ocala is probably one OF the
best inland cities in the state.
There is no city anywhere of It's
size in the south of 1000 inhabitants
that can support two daily papers
combined with the weekly editions
yet Ocala does so, and they are first
class-the Ocala Banner and the
Ocala Star.
| Now, our venerable friend Harris
editor of the Banner, would make no
claim like this, as he knows that Mi.
ami has two daily ana two weekly pa
pers equal to any published In the
state or out of the state The Even
ing Metropolis and Morning News
Record, published in this city, are &C
knowledged by the newspaper frater-
nifty as being two of the best papers
published in the state. A statement
in a paper so widely read as the
Packer, that there is no other city In
the south that can, and does not. sup
port two dailies and two weeklies, ex-
cept the city of Ocala, is misleading
and an injustice to the papers of Mi
ami and it's citizens.
While Ocaia and Marion county
Zone of the best cities and best cOun-
ties in the state) are among the old
est settled portions of the south. Mi
ami and Dade county are but thir-
teen years old in point of settlement,
yet without question Miami is the
finest city in the state and Dade Coun-
ty stands first in point of vegetsb BILE
shipments, and is rapidly coming TO
the front as one of the chief citrus
fruit growing counties in the state
and the only one that is making
specially of growing and marketing
purely tropical fruits.
Just send your Ocala correspond
ent down here, let him take a good
strong glimpse of our glowing city.
which, by the way, is growing more
rapidly than at any time in its history,
let him take a trip through the coun-
try districts and see the mammoth
citrus groves and the tropical fruit
orchards and the thousands Of acres
of land that are cultivated in vegeta-
bles and the magnificent country
homes, and he will not wonder that
Miami has two splendid daily and
weekly papers and a magazine, and
that they are all receiving a splendid
support, not only by the residents Of
the city, the citizens of the county.
but non-resiGents scattered over the
state and every other state in the
union, then he will make amende hon
orable and say there are only two
cities in the south with 1000 inhabi-
tants who have and support two
splendid daily and weekly papers.
Come over, captain, and We will con
vince you of the error of your state
ment.-E. V Blackman, editor Home
Seeker, in Miami News-Record.
All that Mr.. Blackman says about
Miami and Dade county the OcaIa
Banner subscribes to and heartily en-.
dorses. One can hardly exaggerate
the beauties, the splendors. the actu.
alities and the possibilities of Miami
and Dade county. The growth oil
both have been wonderful, and as
wonderful as they have been their
growth and development are destined
to become more wonderful still be-
cause of their peculiar and favorable
situation.
The greetings of this paper go out
to that section and indeed TO every I
section Of Florida with every good
wish and prediction; yet, this being
true, the Banner stands by the Pack. |
er man in his statement that there |
IS no city anywhere of its size in the
south that supports two daily papers
combined with the weekly editions.
yet Ocala does So"
The Packer man, through the oour.
tesy of his nature, gives ocaia a
population of 1000, while in reality
she has but 5000, half of which are
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