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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1911
Page
6
Names of numerous individuals travel to and through Chipley Florida from Pensacola Marianna Vernon Caryville Campbellton and nearby towns. Attendees include attorneys merchants surveyors clergy and business visitors with trips to Graceville Vernon Marianna and Gainesville.
A reflective passage urges living in the present with humility courage and generosity to improve tomorrow. It notes visits by Mrs J Brown Farrior and daughter to Apalachicola, Rev Fred Schell and wife visiting relatives, Miss Harris staying with Mrs J W Williams, Buell Cook en route to Vernon in a new auto, and Mrs J B Farrior and son Jeff traveling to St Andrew to aid a sick sister-in-law.
Courtesy of local officials and editors, a group including E N Dekle C B Dunn S A Alford R C Horne and editors Wilson and Jones toured the Vernon Chipley good road project to witness a dynamite tree and stump blasting demonstration. The county board of commissioners met the party and observed the show. Work progresses as well as expected with limited labor.
Strong pressure from friends to nominate Hon. D J Jones of Chipley for the new circuit judgeship. The Banner endorses Jones as eminently qualified and believes he would receive unanimous county bar support across the forthcoming circuit.
The Misses Richardson invite the ladies of Chipley and vicinity to their store Friday and Saturday March 17 and 18 for a spring millinery opening. Their new line of hats and later millinery is described as the prettiest ever shown in Chipley.
The column notes topics from health and sanitation to local politics and infrastructure. Items include fly eradication urgency, primary campaign caution, Vernon Chipley road ad error, county debt on contracts, sheriff raid on illegal taverns, Chipley Hardware fence supplies, spring fashion for cake makers, and a call for boys corn clubs to boost local prosperity.
In base figures White and Lion Velvet Beans yield three times the speckled bean. Prices are $1 per peck, and $3.50 per bushel.
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