The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-06
EXHIBIT To Be
MADE BY SANTA
ROSA COUNTY
Practically All of County
Fair Will be Brought
Here.
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS APPRo-
PRIATED FOR SPECIAL CORN
PRIZE-MILTON WILL HAVE A
FLOAT IN MARDI GRAS PA
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
IN HUsTLLNG TOWN.
By w. 3. Mack.

BY w. 3. Mack.
Milton, Aug. 5.-Visitors to the Pen
sacola Interstate Fair this fall will
have an opportunity of seeing what
may be done in Santa Rosa county in
an agricultural way. This much was
determined today when the board of
county commissioners appropriated
500 to paw premiums for the Santa
Rosa county fair which is to be held
the week prior to the Pensacola fair,
and appropriated $25 as prize to
Santa Rosa county farmers who ex-
hibit the best fifty ears of corn at
| the Interstate Fair. Boys as well as
men may enter this contest, and as
the best corn in the state was grown
in Santa Rosa county last year the
corn exhibit from this county will GER
tainly attract attention at the fair.
Practically all of the Santa Rosa
county fair exhibits will be moved to
Pensacola, and as the people around
Milton are very enthusiastic over the
subject the exhibit is certain to figure
in the prize winning.
General Manager Lillard, of the In
terstate Fair Association, put in a full
day in the interest of the fair making
talk to the county commissioners
and discussing the proposition with
| the business men and farmers. To his
| efforts and those of Charlie Simpson,
of the Magnolia Farms, depends large
| ly the success of the fair movement
| in this county, for the two have in
| terested scores who had become in
different as to the good the fair will
do this excellent agricultural county.
Mr.. Simpson, who has fine speci-
mems of live stock and agricultural
produce, will show his exhibits at the
county fair before carrying them to
Do Ho int s+
of the county may result and in order
that more farmers may enter the con-
tests, he has decided not to compete
for the prize.
Next Thursday Manager LiIlard will
meet with the business men and the
farmers of Baker and will discuss with
them both the county and interstate
fair. Some citizens of Baker were in
Milton today and declared their in
tentions of making exhibits at both
fairs.
MARDI eRAs FLOAT.
Mr.. Lillard, who is secretary Of the
Mardi Gras Carnival Association, af
ter succeeding in getting the Milton
people thoroughly aroused over the
| fair question sprang a new proposition
on the people by suggesting that Mil
| ton have a float in the Mardi Gras
parade next year. This they agreed to
do, though no definite action will be
taken until the two fairs are fin
| ished.
FOR ROAD BUILDING.
On August 18th the board of county
commissioners Of Santa Rosa county
will consider petitions for a sub-tax
district to be established for the pur-
pose Of obtaining funds with which to
/ build q system Of good roads in this
county and the county's half of the ex-
pense of the bridge across Escambia
river, connecting Santa Rosa and Es-
Gambia counties.
The present board of commissioners
| pledged the building of this bridge
and a hard road across the county,
and the concensus Of opinion is that
the voters will favor the project as
| the demand for more good roads is
coming from all sections of the coun-
| ty. Fourteen thousand dollars Is the
amount Santa Rosa is spending on
road building this year.
LOCAL OPTION FIGHT.
Voters of this county will have an
opportunity of expressing their views
| on the whiskey question on August
! 20. There is some little interest in
| the contest but indications point TO
an overwhelming vote in favor of
keeping the sale Of liquor out Of the
| county. Milton viii probably go dry
| as well as other parts Of the county.
Capt. Mrs and Miss Bouterse, Of the
| Salvation Army at Pensacola, have
/ brought to a successful close a series
! Of meetings. At none of the meetings
( did the attendance number less than
! three hundred, while at some of them
hundreds were compelled to stand up
| during the services.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS.
| improvements of a substantial ma
| ture are being made in Milton and vi
! cinitv. The railroad which has been
such a mystery to everyone in this
| section of the country is still being
built. Some four hundred men are
| employed in the construction gangs
and the class of road being built shows
! concIusively that it is to be used for a
main line Of some road, presumably
nection at Andalusia, TO which point
| the Central now operates
Trains are now being operated out
of Bag6ad for a distance Of twenty
| miles. hauling freights for the naval
| stores plants along the line. Rumor
has II that within another month the
pIans of the promoters of the road
will be disclosed and the public will
! know 10 what point Of the bay the
road will be extended
| After working on II for nearly two
wears. the L. & n. railroad has com
pIeted the new drawbridge across
| Rlackwater river near Milton. The
bridge is said to be one of a most
| substantial nature, though its con-
struction has given the railroad con-
! siderable trouble.
Milton will have a new business