The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-08
The SCRATCH PAD
BY THOMAS EWING DAsREY.
CRESTVIEW.

place where dismay almost gave me
a life assignment-and I hadn't been
IN town a day before I saw that
could be very happy living in the
capital of Okaloosa.
l like Crestview, not because I like
all small townsend Crestview is
certainly that-but for the cordiality
OF the people, the lay of the land,
the promise of development, and the
actual achievement.
To sashay into town which you
have been told the station agent has
to put torpedoes or the track to keep
the train from passing in the dark,
/ and find a hotel with electric light,
modern plumbing, and porcelain Law
atories with running water in each
room, Is something of a revelation
and meal at the said caravansery
| opens ones heart still further.
Chicken and ham and bacon and
| half a dozen kinds of fresh vege-
tables and pickle and cornbread and
| honey and biscuits are a few of the
things That honey especially! Fresh
! from the farm a few miles away,
where it is said the man has bees
trained to pick the flowers that yield
! the most exquisite distillation! They
| say-not the bees, but the people
! that this beeman makes several hun
| dred dollars a year off his sweet rob-
| berries He doesn't even use the
patent hives. l don't know what
| patent hives are and whether they
make bees lay any better or net, but
wish the Pensacola merchants would
get the unpat honey-it is a
good deal cheaper, Judging from the
prices here and in Crestview.
Then there is another man who
speCializes in hucklcberries. Name
of Sapp, | believl He has several
acres of them-gathercd the bushes
in the woods, transplanted them. and
| cultivates them regularly, if not re-
hgiously. Consequently he is raising
| huckleberries-well, | won't say how
| large they are, because a mans repu-
tatlon for veracity is something that
mustn't he put to unnecessary strain
and shock-like an egg in the hip
pocket; but | will say that they are
somewhat smaller than the free bal
loon that sometimes lazies over the
city, from the aeronautic station. But
l never cared particularly for huc6le-
berries since | found out that the
right way to spell them is whortIc-
berries, and I catch myself thinking
of more honey again,
About the first thing tie stranger
that is within the gates of Crestview
learns is that dancing and card play
ing are put on an eQuality-both being
conspicuously forbidden in the hotel.
You see the sign before the ledger.
The second thing you learn is how
to pronounce the name Of Bill Ma
poles. editor of the Okaloosa News.
thought all the time you said it
like the thing you dance around, but
you say it like the tree you ret syrup
out of it. It's like Milton-whcre
your first shock comes in learning
how to say McGeachy. Somn people
never learn.
Okaloosa is Bills county--he made
it; he aroused sentiment, and he cot
the bill through the legislature. Born
and raised in this territory, for
awhile he operated a paper at Laurel
Hill, but a couple of years ago moved
his outfit to the predistined capital
of this splendid tcrritory,-a leaven
which has caused the fortunes of the
town to rise steadily.
Bills half brother, J. w. MaPoles
was moving his paper. The Journal
from Milligan to Crestview while
was there. I didn't see J. w, and
don't know him-that's why
haven't said anything about him
Both papers are good, both believe
in their country and are developing
it. The two men are not on gooC
terms-what shame that editors
who work harder and get less thanks
who are daily being exploited BY the
. people whose fortunes they are build
ing, whose high ethics and lofty pur
pose the laymen can not understand
should be at outs! All newspap y
work is a martyrdom-by that l dom
mean it is a miscry-t-ue martyr;
are happy no matter what their suf
fering-their soul rises superior t
their flesh; but journalism is a sacri
flee for others; and of the countr!
editor, the cross is particular!
| heavy, even rs his influence is great
err! Only a newspaper man can ap
preciate a newspaper man, and boil
of these boys are losing a lot out O.
life. 1 would give dinner Ca Crest
view dinner-with honey to &c
them together again.
| CrestvleW has four brick stores ant
one now building-all went up with
in the past veal Forty DWELLING
too were built within the past lively,
months, and several are now il
course of construction. Plans for tn
new courthouse likewise brick. hav
been accepted. and work should com
mence in August.
Crestview has two drugstores, on
cafe, two hotels-whose accommoda
tons have already been outgrown-
six general stores. one hardware an
furniture store, two garages, a tele
phone exchange, barber shop wher
= a large sign advises you eff you can
Rase 15c. rase Whiskers"-one wo-l I'll
think that Charles Evans Hughes
Vic Carranza. Bethmann HollweP
and the Hon. jim Ham Lewis 90
their start in economy here-tw
churches, two land companies, tw
newspapers. one school, one girls