The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-04-13
GREAT PROGRESS ON STARS
BIG INDUSTRIAL EDITION

GAEAf fHOGAESS On STAhS
BIG INDUSTRIAL EDITION
Progress OF the most encouraging
sort has marked every step that has
thus far been taken upon the Stars
special illustrated edition devoted to
the interests and attractions of Ocala
and Marion county.
Representative men in all walks of
life have made known their hearty in
terest in the success of the enterprise.
Not day has passed since our mi
tial announcement that the proprie
tors Of the Star have not received sim
cere and practical encoura cement
from the best known Industrial inter-
ests in this part of the state.
1t seems TO be the general desire OF
all the people who have expressed
themselves on the subject that this
issue of the Star should be a publica-
ton which will cover every phase of
the magnificent development that has
gone on here in recent years. That 1t
should be an edition in which every
public spirited citizen of Ocala and
Marion county will feel real personal
pride.
As matter of fact, this is exactly
the kind of publication that the Star
has had in mind from the time the
idea of compiling a readable record of
the attractions and opportunities Of
F1orida's greatest inland section first
made it's appeal
While the publishers Of the Star
knew that the work had never before
been done on anything like an ade-
quate scale, commensurate with the
leading position that Oeala and Mar
ION county occupy among the towns
and counties of the state, they were
10th to attempt the work until they
felt fully equipped to make it a COM
| plete success in every particular.
That time has now arrived.
The special writers now busy
gathering the data and preparing the
articles for the edition are credited
| by the press of Florida with the best
work of the kind that has ever been
done in the state In fact, through
out the entire country their work is
we'll known and their STUFF has been
featured in the leading magazines.
In addition, the mechanical work on
the paper will be strictly high class In
every respect, and from the point OF
view of artistic Typography, beauty
of illustration and charm of layout,
we venture to say that the issue will
exceed anything heretofore attempted.
Over 10000 copies, printed on good
book stock. will be circulated broad
cast among prospective homeseekers
and winter visitors throughout the
United States and Canada.
We have found through careful in
quiry and not a little costly expert
ment that late spring Is about the
very best time conceivable to circu-
late such an edition as this.
1t comes to the people of the North
at the fag end of the drearlest and
most uncertain months Of the year
when mud and slush are just bidding
goodbye to the highways and by
ways, when the last of the winters
coal bills is presenting a sort of night
mare retrospection Of the billiards.
sleet storms, and gripladen blasts
that have helped make up a good old
fashioned winter, and when the last
day Of grace on the ninety day notes
that men made to secure sealskin
clOaks for their wives and sweet
hearts earlier in the season shows un-
mistakable signs of falling due!
And it is hardly necessary to add
that this combination of events is very
likely to make civilized being-whc
doesn't possess Carnegie's check book
long for a more genial cline.
| In fact, an occasional surreptitious
glance at a map of the South Atlantic
states at just this season of the year
is very common practice among
Northern farmers and city-dwellers
1t is. briefly, the psychological season
when definite decisions regarding
changes and removals are made.
And to put into the hands of dis
contented cave-dweller of the North
at just this time a we'll written, hand
lsomely illustrated and thoroughly
representative edition of a newspaper
tShowing just what the Invest, most at
tractive, and most hea1thfu1 section
offer to an ambitious and intelligent
man in the way of opportunities and
examples Of successful accomplish
ment, is to add another name to the
list of winter visitors or permanent
inhabitants of Marion county
That is the sole purpose that the
proprietors of the Star have in issuing
this special illustrated edition, and in
soliciting generous practical coopera
ton in the project they are only ask
ing for assistance in making the best
OF all Florida communities better
known to the outside world
| Prosperity and progress for all
that's what the edition aims to secure