The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-06-21
ocALA's PROGRESS


ed a two-story store building. 1t has
not yet been leased The one that
Mrs. Dan Morgan Smith erected some
months ago is only just occupied. NJ.
Richard S. Hall is erecting i've,
which will soon be ready for occu-
pancy. The Carmichael Son CAm-
pany is putting up five. Mr.. Charles
S. Cullen is making preparations 'or
FIVE more. Mr. Jerry Burnett has
just completed two. Ledwith Smith
(colored), two. Within a very shorL
period at least a dozen have beer
erected near and beyond the out
skirts of the city There is now Que
vacant store in the Ocala House
block, and the Bierman building is
still without a tenant. The Carn-
Thomas grocery store is a new build
ing; so is the J. L. Smith and Guy
Geiger stores.
When all these new buildings are
thrown upon the market it will lower
rents, and that does not always speak
the best for a city's welfare.
We have one hospital and santa.
rum, and work upon second hos
pital is going on rapidly.
We have just completed several
garages, one 100 feet in all directions.
We have but recently completed
the finest Jail building in the stare,
and surely humanity requires that
our prisoners, at least until they are
convicted of crime, should be cared
for comfortably and sanitarily.
We have just completed the fines;
bank building of any town the size of
Ocala in Florida, and Mr.. R. S. Hall
is spending sixty thousand dollars il
the improvement and enlargement Of
the Montezuma hotel.
We have all the churches that a
community no larger than ours can
reasonably be expected to support i'll
first class style.
We have recently erected a ten
thousand dollar primary school build
ing, and the high school building is
large and comfortable one. A.
least it appears so to us.
We have two daily newspapers. N }
other town its size in the state can
boast as many.
Six or eight new doctors have re
Gently located in our city, and our list
of lawyers also shows an increase.
Ave have recently issued bonds \
the sum of one hundred thousand dol
lars 1t is true we need more bonds.
and we should like to see the issue
increased two or three hundred chol-
sand dollars.
| Dwellings are being erected in ev-
cry ward in the city Mr.. Ley is liv-
ing in new parsonage, for the erea-
ton of which We are indebted to his
energy and spirit of activity and en-
terprise. Mr.. Ley has also thought
so well of the future of our city us 10
erect two or more buildings on 10 S
which he recently purchased a. an
auction sale. On the block on which
he is living is another new building
Within sight Mr. Clarkson is maxim?
preparations for the erection of q
very fine dwelling. In the near W
cinity the Episcopal rectory is beins
completed. On the same street IN
which Mr.. Ley is living Mrs. Mellow.
ell, Miss Fannie Clark and Mr. Tar.
yer have just completed new build
ings, and Mr. David S. Woodrow has
one in process of construction.
Dwellings, indeed, are going w
like magic in all the wards of the
city.
There has been nothing like it 10
Ocala's history.
On the outskirts of the city we
have the Ivy Poultry Farm, the Ocala
Heights Dairy-two most credi'abie
industries. Besides, Mr. Camp has
put up several creditable buildings
on his farm near the Lake Weir ave
nue. road, which are all occupied Nj
Joseph Shuford as built a petty
home between Ocala and Silve,
Springs. Mr.. Davis, father-in-law oi
Mr. Jack Rentz, is making prepag&
tions for the erection of quite a sub
stantial home, and near the southe Il
section of the city Mr., R. L. Anderson
is building a home beautiful enougl
to rank as a castle.
The Star has recently got ono an
Industrial Edition, and the Banner
got out one some time before.
Lake Weir, Summerfield, Burbanz
Fort Mccoy, Orange Springs. McIu
tosh, Dunnellon, and all suburban
places are reporting progress.
And Marion county claims to have
more good roads than any other