The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-04-23

place is home like and time there does
not hang heavily on your hands.
White Springs has a live board OF
trade They propose to do things. The
town needs electric lights and sew
er system. 1t is proposed to bond the
town for $1,000 to create these neces-
sites. Mr.. Mobley. young enterpris-
ing business man, is the mayor and Is
keenly alive to all the improvements
that go to make up an up-to-date
municipality His winsome wife is
his able and affable lieutenant.
Joe Smith, who Is the most enthus-
iastic and wide awake booster for
White Springs, presides over the des-
tiny of the White Springs Messenger,
a paper that is fully abreast OF the
support 1t receives, but Smith never
sleeps and is ever singing, even in his
dreams, that the curative properties
OF the waters Of White Springs have
never beeen half told. That the bus
mess world on the outside has about
half that optimistic opinion Of them Is
evidenced by the fact that $4,000
was the offer made for the springs
and the snug sum refused.
The great industrial interest of the
place in the Camps big sawmill. that
people in it's various departments. DR..
Camp, who is the head of the great
| industry. though interested with him
| is Col. ". n. Camp of Ocala, was up
against a tough proposition He could
not secure decent rates over the only
railroad through the town, the G. s. &
F., so he built a private line to We'll
| born, eight miles to the south. He
| now negotiates with the 8. A. l. on a
better basis. The G. S. & F. folks
LAUNCHED at DR.. Camp when he said he
| would build his own line; said it was
absurd to think OF him bridging the
Suwannee river, whose channel is deep
and banks high, but he went ahead
and did it and when the officers Of the
G. S. & F. heard he was going ahead
| with the construction work, they felt
sore and grieved and tried to persuade
him to desist, as they would come to
his terms, but he needed them not and
made his connection with the Sea-
board The White Springs people are
quite hopeful that Mr.. Drew will ex-
tend his road from Live Oak through
the springs to Fernandina and Jack
sonville and If so will give them a di-
rect and competing line to the me-
tropolis of the state and prove Of ines
Unable value to them in adding IA
cilities to reach their town.
White Springs has an excellent nor
NAL and public school precide ed over
by Prof. r. 3. Jackson, splendid
educator with five assistants and has
enrolled 22o pupils.
By special invitation the squad OF
editors visited the school and Messrs
Brown, HUMPHREYS and Bittinger made
short addresses to the school which
seemed to please the pupils and teach
ers greatly. Among the pupils of this
school is a Miss Warnock of Ocala
While at the springs we called or
? Mr.. Burton Bullock, q son of the late
Gen. Robert S. Bullock and brother tt
Judge w. 8. and Attorney r. B. Bull
. lock of this city. He is in the mer.
; camille business, partner in the firm
!. of Adams Bros, the leading merch
ants of the place and doing a pros
| porous business.
Who should we meet in our wander
ings but Mrs. Salle Cummings, a for
, mer newspaper woman at DeFunial
, and Milton and once a member of thu
. Florida Press. She owns 2S acres O.
very desirable land in the town O
White Springs and is negotiating will
Atlanta capitalists to erect on he
: property an up-to-date hotel and say
, she would present a lot to the Florid;
, Press Association if they will build OF
same a neat bungalow for the con
venience and pleasure of it's members
l where they can go to rest and recup
crate from their exacting labors.
q There are other matters of interes
we could touch on but space calls
f halt. We enjoyed our short stay a
: the springs and the hospitality shown
, US and shall ever remember the occa
9 sion with pleasure. May White Spring
( and it's people grow and prosper.