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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1897
Page
3
Fragmented timetable notes list arrivals and departures with times like 10:30 PM and 7 PM, mentioning routes toward Chalpuy and Pensacola. Coded garbled entries reference multiple trains and stations with incomplete data.
Local notes report two turpentine distilleries planned for Vernon with related business travel across nearby towns. Mentions visits by A D Campbell, T R Forrester, and others, plus community updates on church meetings, county band funding, and a forthcoming mathematics show at the academy.
The West Florida exhibit at Pensacola invites farmers fruit growers and others to send samples of rice cotton millet and fruits and any locally grown products. Notify by postal aid to arrange shipments to the nearest railroad depot with shipper name attached for delivery.
Messrs. Hawk and Horne attended Commissioners court with updates on local affairs. Visitors include W. B. Smith from Bug Hill North Carolina, Leo Neal and sister from Thomasville Georgia, and railroad men from Pensacola and Montgomery. Several officials and workers moved through, with reappointments and travel plans noted as summer trips begin.
The Chipley Academy announces a Twenty Nave Session in Practical Arithmetic for boys and girls across Primary to Hizh classes led by Chas l'rof Forestier. The program begins Monday the 12th at 8:00 A M with tuition set at $2.00. R B Bellamy and J R Farrior promote Chamberlains Colic cholera and diarrhea remedy as a dependable bowel remedy.
County Commissioners met Monday with several days of business. Tax books for 1897 were present. the old jail and lot sold for 100 dollars at public auction with W B Lassitter purchasing. School opened with large attendance under Prof L L Pratt. Sunday School and prayer meetings growing.
Mrs. E Gregory of Frederickstown Missouri reports a grandchild's severe bowel trouble improved rapidly after using Chamberlain's Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Doctors previously failed to help. Sold by R. B. Bellamy and J. Kt. Farrior.
A 1897 letter from J.K. Powell to the Banner in Elba Alabama praises Elba on Pea River near Geneva, notes a new railroad from Newton, and highlights water power and rich farming lands. He envisions Alabama prosperity spreading to West Florida and asks for the Banner to wish the paper a long, successful life.
Public notices announce Maizie M. Robinson filing for final proof on land in Chipley and Vernon circuit court actions. A sheriff sale is scheduled August 2 1897 for two and a half acres near Chipley, with witnesses named and defendants ordered to answer by August 2.
The Board of Trade met Thursday afternoon and discussed the sinking of an artesian well. Letters from parties concerned were read and field surveys will begin soon to start the work.
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