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

moon, anu always q welcome rest TO
the eye.
& Naturally sanitary, the situation has
been augmented by the water works
and sewerage system, a monument to
the energy and r-sightedness of Col
onel w. w. F1ournoy and his worthy
townsmen.
The watch word is Clean up and
Keep Clean" and the city certainly
shows its results.
The water comes from an artesian
well 500 feet deep. and is the finest
and purest water TO be found any
where in the country.
There are two banks, the First Ma
?ional, and the private bank of w. l..
Cawthon. both strongly financed. and
both rejecting the general prosperity
Of the city and its surrounding terri
tory. The merchants are all hustling,
live, energetic people, and one has to
be absorbed IN other interests indeed
not to be able to sense the actual
progress with which these people seem
to have bodily placed the town upon
fits fine commercial basis.
Besides what the town gets in good
substantial country trade, DeFuniak
and adjacent points ship saw mill
products. naval stores. wool and farm
products amounting to many hun
The DeFuniak sanitarium TO be per-
sonaIly conducted by DR.. C. p. Morris.
Is a new enterprise which lends dig
nifty to the spirit of progress which
pervades the city, and is a medium
through which DeFuniak health possi-
bilitfes may be duly advertised.
DeF'uniak, the 'sChautauqua City
Beautiful, the "City of Roses which
Is a later suggestion. and a pleasing
centre for the highest moral instinct
In the world. that of home keeping.
with its well kept homes, its high
bred and highly moral and intelligent
and progressive people. it's churches,
schools, colleges, Chautauqua. its cui-
ture and with all this it's progressive
spirit and it's fine opportunities which
are evident on every hand, is, to me,
the city OF Success"
1t fairly radiates success, the model
little West Florida city, the heart and
soul OF q rich and prosperous county
which is full Of pleasant surprises once
you penetrate the golden mystery and
the hidden points OF pulsating life
and important business centers deep
in the ''piney woods,-the "City of
Success" in the days that have gone
before, while the leading spirits OF the
community were busi1y building its
foundation, success now, when the
proposition is on beautifully secure
and prosperous working basis, and
success for the future which is on just
a bit ahead, with it's almost unlimited
possibilities.
The mayor, councilmen, business
men, and the sweet faced women, who
are SO important factor in the whole
splendid situation are all in most
earnest harmony for the betterment
of DeFuniak-the Dream DeFuniak,
which is TO be more beautiful as the
years go On, and the natural beauties
of the place more thoroughly de-
yeloped.
Strangers are in accord with the
general altitude of the town, at once
given a welcome which they do not
soon forget, and this always HELPS
The two live breezy. up-to- date
new spapers that are doing their splen-
did part in the work of systematically
boosting the town are the DeFuniak
Breeze, with r. w. Storrs. as editor
and owner. and the DeFuniak Herald,
with LarlSin Cleveland in command.
Both are well known newspaper men
of FIorida's best known newspaper cir
cles, and both are doing an inestin1a-
BILE work for the town.
Four fraternaI orders are represent
ed: the Masonic, Odd Fellows, x. of
p. and the w. o. w.
The country surrounding DeFuniak
Springs is again ideal for the tourist
season, affording splendid opportuni-
ties during the Chautauqua assemblies,
for instance. for old time picnics, ex-
cursions etc
Hunting and fishing there is apienty.
partridge. oeer and wild turkey and
ducks, are products of the days shoot
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the Springs.
There are many of these spots, not
ably among which are Lake Cassidy
the Stanleys, and the famous Morri- |
son Springs.
While the tropical type Of vegetation |
must not be expected, there is, on the
other hand, no attendant malaria and
debilitating atmosphere. the air being
crisp and fine, full of the life giving
ozone of the pine forests. and the salt
breezes waited from the distant Choc-
bay. which is an arm OF
the Gulf of Mexico.
For miles around DeFuniak Springs
stretch forests of the long-leaf pine.
The Choctawhatchee National For
est, a large preservation of the Unit |
ed States government, containing near
ly SOC, 600 acres, is only a few miles
distant.
Stately pines, live oak, water oaks, |
trees, palmettoes and mag
nolias. peach. pear. plum and fig trees
and some orange groves are to bel
found. while the yellow jessamine. the
ozalea, water-hi blossoms. /
magnolia flowers, and laurel delight
the eye Of the tourist.
A splendid electric light plant. to-
gether with the complete system OF
and sewerage combine the
p-to-date improvements of a large
city. with many unpleasant features of
a city completely and pleasantly elm
mated.
DeFuniak Springs figures it's exact
location as follows: on the L. and n.
railroad, midway between New Or
leans and Jacksonville. so miles East
of Pensacola and 10 miles west of