The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-06
Exhibit TO be Made by
Santa Rosa County
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block before the winter season. Plans
for the building have been accepted
and material will be placed on the
grounds within the next few days
This building is to be one Of the hand
soonest in West Florida, a part OF
which will be used for the postofice.
officials of the government have prom
ised that the equipment for the post
office shall be Of the latest design and
in thorough keeping with the growth
and prosperity Of Milton.
Before another week passes Milton
will be supplied with ice from a plant
operating in this city. The ice plant
has just been completed and has a ca
pacity of fifteen tons daily. S. G. Col
Inns is the proprietor of the new in
dustry.
WOOL SHIPMENTS.
Seventy-five thousand pounds Of
wool have been shipped from Milton
this season, the wool growers profting
handsomely from the sales. Twenty
nine cents a pound was the prevailing
price, though some few obtained bet
ter prices. This industry is becoming
a factor in the county business and it
is thought that the shipments next
season will be very much larger.
Senator elect r. A McGeachy, a
progressive young man, who received
such a fiattering vote in the recent
state in general needs agricultural fairs
wherever crowds may be gotten to-
gether to view the exhibits. Senator
McGeachy says he realizes that West
Florida in particular and all of the
state in general needs agricultural fairs
to stimulate interest among the farm
ers already here and to encourage
others to come. State aid, he says,
ought to be given to legitimate fair
premiums, and he will probably intro
duce a bill in the senate to make this
state aid possible.
Hon. T. J. Fem, one Of the mem
bers Of the legislature from Santa
Rosa county, is a believer in work
ing to develop those resources which
will enrich the state. and says he
will work for the right kind of a bill
to obtain state aid for county or
state fairs which are given to encour-
age the farmer to further efforts. Mr.
Fem, however. is planning to intro
duce bill which will abolish the sys-
tenn Of sub-leasing the state convicts.
He believes the convicts are worth $33
each and that the state should lease
them direct, preferably to the coun-
ties for building roads, but where the
counties desire to follow other meth
DDS of building roads, the convicts to
be leased to the turpentine or saw
mill men or whatever class of indus
try wanting them. The state farm, he
believes, should be developed and as
soon as practicable all of the convicts
should be sent there.
S. J. Harvey of the First National
Bank, is one Of the best boosters NIL
ton possesses. He has made of the
First National the best banking prop
erty in the state today and says IT is
just beginning to get out In the run
ming. If all of the good things which
Mr.. Harvey believes about Milton come
true, then this will be a city without
equal in the south.
Since he was successful IN being
nominated in the primaries for sheriff,
Capt ]. H. Harven has become one
of the most enthusiastic boosters in
the county. Not that he was otherwise
| before he entered politics, but because
he has laid aside everything else and
goes about preaching optimism and
prosperity. Capt. Harven made his
run on the law enforcement" ticket
and was given q handsome majority.