The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-01-23
LYNN HAVEN.

81. Bell, cashier; r. w. Beach, assis-
tant cashier. Directors, w. H. Lynn,
r. L. Mckenzie, A. j. Gay, r. B. Bell.
Bay county does not take kindly to
the accusation Of lawlessness, as bar
ring the recent and temporary mis-
understandings regarding the oyster
laws, and the murder resulting there
from, the new county of Bay has a
white record.
The Boy Scouts form a very live
little organization here and are fitting
themselves ably for the useful career
laid out for them. BY giving picture
shows they have earned sufficient
funds to purchase the first aid"
equipment, and will later procure the
anatomical chart to further the first
air work. The, boys are taking great
interest in every line OF work pre-
scented to them.
The FREELY, one Of the best launches
on the bay, broke from her moorings
in the storm last Sunday and drifted
across the bay and ashore, where she
will remain until tide sufficiently
high will set her adrift again. The
Firefiy went wandering once before
and crossed the bay without a pilot,
landing some distance from her pres
emit berth.
Rumor has it that one of Lynn
Ravens business men is to marry
soon, his fiancee being one of our win
ter visitors who has wintered in the
Magic City in seasons PAST.
The Chautauqua assembly looms up
big on the local horizon for next week.
On Children's Day. the 30th, county
residents and school children at least
a thousand strong. will come in on
the special trains. The big flag pole
at the park is in position and the
Stars and Stripes waving. Even the
gray moss Is swinging banners OF
welcome to an event that will mark an
educational era in this new little live
town. While Lynn Haven doesn't as
pire to be on the whirling tape of
publicity, 1t is reasonably certain thar
the worth while" achievements al
ready listed. the city will before long
bio known throughout the state.
One of our sweet singers on the
Chautauqua is to sing Dixie" and IN
q few minds the question arose as to
the entire good form Of such a selec-
ton. Why? There will be southern
speakers on the platform and we are
on southern soil, and then, Dixie is
good old tune. BY all means let
'Dixie" echo through the park trees
and out over the waters with right
good will.
Pensacola can rave about her blue
eyed bellies as regularly and insistent-
ly as the Jacksonville Metropolis sings
about planting more hens, but for a
town the size of this one there are
more pretty girls than one can count
in an afternoons stroll. And ours
are the real girlish type, wholesome,
happy girls with none of the affected
mannerisms of her sometime city
prototype.
Governor Eberhart OF Minnesota,
owns some acres in this vicinity and
his grapefruit and cane syrup drew
some blue ribbons at the county fair
OF recent date. Mr.. Eberhart expects
to visit this section in the near flu
ture.
Chas. Dunn, a local drayman, met
with peculiar accident last Sunday
night in the dense darkness of that
stormy night. His horse, losing the
road. stumbled along for time on
the railroad track and plunged
through the trestle near the planning
mill. Mr.. Dunn's calls for help aroused
some neighbors, who succeeded IN
chopping away the timbers and re-
leasing the trapped horse, which was
badly bruised but otherwise unin-
jured. BY some oversight the rail-
road authorities were not informed If
the damaged condition Of the trestle
and q carload of freight arriving in
the early morning narrowly escaped
a serious catastrophe.
The Myerdale carried a party of
young people to ST. Andrews last Sat
urday night to a dance, and also the
Lynn Haven orchestra, but the return
trip somewhat blanketed the festiv-
tiles Of the evening and made the
dance a thing Of memory--and dry
land, and caused many a passenger
to think Of home and mother The
bay was something more than merely
rough. and the Myerdale rolled in a
most nauseating manner, as some can
testify.
City Marshal Hayward with the
eternal vigilance BETTING his official
position is ever on the alert to de-
tect such Bookkeeping as might exist
In this neck o. woods. Lynn Haven is
singularly free from any lawlessne~s
resultant from intemperance. The
Improvement League. of which no
other organization save the w. c. 7.
u. is more ambitious for civic purity
Is also on the Qui vive for chance i'm
portations OF spirits frumenti. and the
Atown holds an enviable record for
being dry" Our streets rarely wind
in sinuous curves before the eyes of
even an erstwhile intoxicated speci-
men. II intemperance exists the in
dividuals remain by their own fireside
and the general public is unaware Of
any side-stepping from the straight
and narrow way OF temperance. And
the unbeautiful outline of the city
Jail, ever untenanted assails the vision
with force and awfulness as one sails
up as pretty a bayou as exists in all
Florida.
Three thousand dollars month goes
out of Lynn Haven each month to the