The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-06-01
Good Railroad Service,
Churches, Schools, Bust
ness Houses, Fine Gil
mate, Good Health, Very
Rich Agricultural Resour-
ces, and Other Advan-
tages all Combine to
Make Baker a Good Place
to Locate.
BY BONNIE BURNHAM.

One of the up and coming towns in
Santa Rosa county Is Baker, with from
three to four hundred inhabitants. a
little more than two years old, 46e feet
above the sea level, and situated In as
fine and fertile stretch of land as you
will want to find anywhere.
Baker people will tell you that their
chiefest expectations lay In the dire
ton of the soil. and they are right.
Their section runs between the yell
low and Blackwater rivers, and the
good stiff black loan. a foot or more
in depth. has a fine clay sub sol which
retains sufficient moisture to make the
finest crops imaginable possibility
with the proper amount OF 1ertliiza-
ton.
You can raise corn, so bushels to the
acre; cotton, IL to a bale to the acre:
potatoes. velvet beans for forage and
to turn under; all kinds of truck vege-
tables In this exceptionally promising
part OF Santa Rosa, and the Florida state
prize for raising the most corn to
the bushe1 went to Baker boy last
year, Richard Miller who, wa care
and cultivation, raised no less than
129 IL bushels of corn to his acre OF
land.
The main thing down around Baker
is how YOU have q mind to treat the
soil--all you have to do, you see. is ID
do your part and the land will be UP to-
expectations, all right.
development; If you are interested In
reducing the high cost of living, and
il you want TO settle down in one or
the most promising little cities any
where, with the richest kind of Farm
ing territory to back it, Baker is your
town.
Once there with plenty of live, en-
ergetic confident people to tell you
about it and show you practical PROOF
at the same time, you will see 1t.
About Baker
Baker. as l have said, has a popala-
ton of from three to four hundred
people, a fine class of citizenship, too.
which makes you feel at home from
the very outset.
Her two main thoroughfares upon
which are built well kept prosperous
business places, are named Georgia
avenue and Florida avenue, and they
intersect in the heart of the town.
Baker has fine little newspaper.
The Baker Banner, with the cleverest
kind OF an editor and proprietor,
young Mr.. Jas. NJ. Brown, who is
'boost artist" to do your heart good,
and who is doing more than even
Baker suspects in the important BUSH
ness of introducing the infant city to
the world outside.
Mr.. BrownNis native Santa Rosian,
believes in Baker and his part of The
county, has been doing business AZ
his present stand since May, 1912, and
in a years time has increased the
Banner from four to eight pages.
If you know Mr.. Brown you ike him
that's all.
nous site of the original Pilgrims
Rest Baptist church, the present con-
gregation, which worship in the n ever
building. being a most prosperous one
The Methodfsts worship in the
Baker Masonic hall, the Pilgrin1
Rest" being Bakers only church at the
present time.
Here Is also located the school
which the Baker youngsters attend,
and school matters. by the way, are
coming on swinlmingly In Baker.
Last year there were lag pupils en-
rolled, with three splendid teachers
and nine years ago when John ii.
Short, one of Bakers most enterprts-
ing merchants first moved to the sec
ton from Alabama, there were 20 pu-
pills at the old school building at the
pioneer Pilgrims Rest" with an in
different system in force, he will be
hound to tell you.
In 1e11. Mr. Short and his family
moved into the first residence finished
in Baker, and entered, from the pion-
eer stage of the section, int the busy
activities of keeping one of the princi-
pie stores in its leading city.
Now the Florida, Alabama and Gulf
railroad, from Falco to Galliver juno
ton, runs through Baker. In jump
Of two years the town has become or
suf1cient Importance to demand the
best educational facilities for the nu-
nervous families who were moving in
with numerous growing children.
A B. Morris. J. r. Miller and E. w.
Lester, are the trustees for the school
ut present, and, too, Shere is some
tax of a 5000 school building in
Baker a little way off in the future.
The Masonic, Woodmen and Wood
men Circle are orders well represented
In Baker
Signs of Progress.
Ten acres have already been set
aside in Baker, at the east end OF 18th
street, for public park purposes, and
work Is to be commenced at once IN
the way OF clearing and improving the
chosen site.
Five acres have been sct aside for
a public school building ana these fif-
teen acres have been secured SIS fcl-
lows: Five acres, doud17i hy Clio fin
q. Company, of Milton, Eve acres, do
mated by J. w. McSart, ST.. and five
acres by the people at .arse.
Bpker's attractive looking brick
business block is owned by Chafin &
Company, Maloy Drug Company. Les
The splendid concrete building oc-
cupied by J. H. Short, is owned by
Moore Lee and McCart.
The latter is one of Bakers original
settlers and most progressive type
or citizen.
He Is selling Baker real estate. and
what he does not know good about
Baker is not worth knowing at all.
Up-to-Date Merchants.
Miss Frances Hilton. who owns the
Baker millinery and notion store, is a
business woman OF the most progress
sive and up-to- date type.
She is native West Fioridian, and