The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-03-16
PROSPEROUS GLENDALE

One Of the hustling little towns OF
or ss minutes by auto from DeFuniak
and located on a branch of the Ma
tional Highway. which insures the
finest kind OF roads down Glendale
way forever.
Before reaching the town, you pass
through one of the finest stretches Of
timber land IN Walton county, much
of which has been cleared and is now
under cultivation. making farming
country well worth the seeing.
Glendale depends for her resources
upon these farming lands, milling IN
terests, naval stores products. and even
has a brick yard all her own, to add
to the general sources CT her revenue.
So important. however, Is the farm
ing situation, that more and more at
tention is being annually paid to the
products OF the soil, and Glendale Is
rapidly forging ahead in this direction
Last January a most successful ses-
sion of the Farmers Institute was
conducted there by the Extensive Di-
vision of the University of Florida,
the attendance being q large and In
terested one.
The subjects discussed were corn
growing, fertilizing, crop rotation, soil
management, forage crops, live stock,
poultry, hogs, feed and general farm
crops.
]. L. Sullivan has a demonstration
Satsuma orange grove which is doing
as finely as the most optimistic could
expect.
The Golden Acre Farm spoken OF
elsewhere in this edition is an enter
prise of which Glendale, of course is
enormously proud, and beside all this,
the people are fine friendly lot more
than glad to welcome the energetic
and enterprising stranger.
c. W. Murphy's brick yard. working
only a part of the year, turns out ap-
proximately 500, 900 bricks to the year,
which are shipped to DeFuniak via the
DeFuniak and Northern. and thence
20 the outside world.
The Glendale Telephone Company,
under the efficient management Of w.
J. J. Heath has been brought to Esost
satisfactory stage of success in three
years time, and is an institution of
which Glendale is very proud.
Between eight and nine hundred
farmers are now connected by phone
through the medium of this rural sys-
tenn, which connects with F1orala.
Sampson and Geneva, Ala, DeF'uniak,
Westville, Messy Head, and Ponce de
Leon.
The largest store in Glendale is that
Of w. =. Howell & Co., whose stock
is valued at $4,000, and who does
$4,000 worth of business a year.
Mr.. Howell is also assistant post
master to D. e. Murphy, postmaster,
and Is an energetic young man, whom
everybody likes.
Dr. D. H. Adams is the only ply
stefan in Glendale, and at that, is the
best physician in Glendale as well!
There are three hundred people who
call the thriving little village "home,"
and there are three churches, the Mis-
sionary Baptists, the Methodists, and
Primitive Baptists.
The Masonic and Woodmen orders
are represented.
South of Glendale is the Henderson
Matthews Turpentine Co.. with hold
Tags of several thousands of acres of
fine timber lands. shipping by the way
of the DeFuniak and Northern rail-
road.
One and one-half miles east of Glen |
dale is located the Henderson Bros. |
Saw Mil and Cotton Gin, which does |
q splendid business, and the big mills |
Of the Britton Lumber Company are |
three miles north.
Being a logical trading point in a /
section so prosperous and SO produc- |
live III CbCEJ way IAGAQ11C Od11nOI
help but be prosperous herself. and |
the wonderful results obtained by /
some of her well-known farmers has I
caused her to receive most enviable |
reputation throughout the entire coun-
try.
The Murphy Brick Yard has fur
nlshed the bricks for the business GEN.
tiers of the town. and these same SPLEEN
did bricks are used to a great extent /
In DeF'uniak being found satisfactory I
in every respect.
Special attention should be paid to
Glendale and vicinity by prospective I
settlers, who are looking for an ideal
farming spot.
Corn and cotton. velvet beans. chufa, II
small fruit. peanuts and sweet pota-
toes are some OF the chief products
to be expected with proper cu1tiva-
tion, while those who go in for stock
raising and dairying will also find con-
ditions ideal in every way.
A graded school provides source Of
education for the younger generation,