The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-10-09
HOME INDUSTRIES
NEED ENCOURAGEMENT
Local Enterprises that are
Bound to GrOW-Push
Palatka.
Concluded from last week.


Down on the river front just nortI
or Main street c. 7. Shinn has estap
lished new plant for the manufacture
of concrete blocks. Concrete is now
being used for many purposes, espe
cially for building. But Mr.. Shlnn
does all kinds of concrete work, IN
Guiding sidewalk building and ne
should have encouragement from
home people. He has also but re-
Gently installed a machine for turn
ing out brick to the tune of from
5000 to 5000 per day.
Another recent enterprise in this
city is the Gem City Feed Company,
now turning out crushed feed made of
oats, corn, cotton seed hulls, molasses
and salt, a properly balanced ration
for animals, and all of it, except the
salt, produced in Florida. Train
loads of stock feeds are brought
into Florida every year from north
OF the Ohio river, none of it any bet
ter, and maybe not as good. A
sample of this feed is in the Board
of Trade rooms.
We have three cigar factories. Two
are new comers, one operated by
lame man, and a good man, too, and
he makes good cigars. Mr.. Smoker,
are you smoking Palatka cigars? Mr..
Dealer, are you pushing the sale of
Palatka cigars? Are you pushing
the sale of other things made here?
The greater the consumption of home
made goods, the more labor will be
required, and accordingly more names
on payroll. Mr.. Consumer, are YOU
buying goods from home dealers, IN
stead of mail order houses in distant
cities? There are few things which
our people need in their daily lives
that cannot be had from Palatka
stores. Our home merchants pay
taxes, make Improvements, increase
valuations, and extend credit to pur-
chasers, while the money sent to mail
order concerns helps to enrich other
cities. This would not be much of
town if everybody sent away for
goods. Farm values increase or de-
crease with the growth or decline of
the market towns.
We have number of industries here,
several of them taking leadership in
the state, and others with right sup
port might attain high places in the
business circles of the South. Loval
support should be given tG every in
terest, large and small, and Palatka
will then move forward to its proper
position among the cities of Florida. |
Every visitor is impressed with our
There is not a better county seat
town in florida than Palatka. Its
mills and factories make it an all
the year round town. Travelling
men all agree as to our standing.
With the development of our agricl!l- |
tural resources our city will become
more important, and this will be large
ly helped by the success of the East
Florida Fair Association, and there
should be united effort to make it a
success. No more ideal and practical
location for exhibition purposes can
be found in the State-than the site
picked out by the far foresighted
officers of the Association. 1t can
be reached by rail, hard road and wa
ter, and has huge forest trees to sup
ply shade and beauty. 1t can be |
made resort second to none other
in Florida.
And now another thing. The big
war in Europe will close down the |
tremendous commerce in American |.
tourists for long time to come.
Real armies have sent our army Of I
home and with them
he American colOnists who have
'ound life over there very unrestful
md uncertain. A trip now along i.
he Rhine is not inviting, but it Is !,
llong the st. Johns. Now if Amer |.
can globe trotters are forced to stay \
ong enough at home to get acquaint-
I'd they will find delightful haunts
II their own land, and surely there's
plenty of most charming places IN
Florida. 1t will be several seasons
before European resorts are open
again for our wanderers, and if they
,an be induced to come and see Flori-
la, the foreigner may conclude there
S something worth seeing here and
not confine his sight seeing and
spending to New York. The for
eigner is not to blame for not ex-
oloring America, because the average
wander lust American knows so lit
lie about it himself. 1t certainly
would be a good thing for the next
lew years to have couple OF hun
lred million dollars of foreign money
coming this way for the
pleasure of seeing US instead of
spending that vast sum in
Europe as they have been doing.
There are no more fine sea beaches
and seaside hotels in the world than
in Florida, and we could have spas
at Welaka, at Green Cove Springs,
1T White Springs and at Silver
Springs, and their waters would be
Just as curative, if the psychological
sentiment is created, and it is GER
tain their waters are not as nasty
and distasteful as that of many of
the European Springs, though the
stuff might be initiated here
if necessary. However, there is no
more wonderful spring than the one
nouring its waters into the Ocklawa-
ha, and instead of three or four boats
operating from Palatka to Silver
Springs, there ought to be dozens, and |
there would be if the world knew cf
;+s dn1irhtS and there wOu1d he no