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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1911
Page
6
Names of many visitors and residents appear with places shown such as Wausau Pensacola Pollard Enterprise and Montgomery. Mentions include J J Cox A D Campbell J H Porter Sue Mizell Dr Tiller Uncle Crate Tiller L E Miller and Sheriff Allen among others plus references to a railway mail clerk appointment and a murder claim in the Bay country with several social and official visits reported.
The Central Hotel in Pensacola area will be overhauled and reopened as a hotel. The Inter State Fair returns to Pensacola this fall with West Florida counties joining. A large timber land deal involving Alford Bros Co and Aycock Lumber Co totals about 11 000 acres at $10 per acre. A conference on rural education in the South begins April 19 in Jacksonville. Chipley may set a spring cleaning day urged by Mayor Welle to remove trash and improve health and appearance.
A collage of community notices and ads urging cotton rag donations for The Banner, May Day plans, Children’s Day report, business classifieds, Coca Cola controversy note, farming advice, and promotions from Campbell Dekle Co and Dana Coleman Co. The piece promotes sanitary home upkeep, job printing, and local buying with small business pitches and reader engagement.
A correspondent praises Bryne Simplified Shorthand after five weeks of study, claiming 150 words a minute in court reporting and ease in reading and writing. The note notes Miss McDonald married her employer, and mentions West Florida Business College in Marianna offering courses by college and correspondence.
An old classifieds fragment shows Dunn-Coleman Co advertising clean cotton rags and enamel ware from The Banner. Schell's offers unknown peas. Denn-Colesian Co. stocks coffins and caskets for funerals.
Ladies invited to view Vanity laces and embroidery lines offered by The Misses Richardson of Duon-Coleman Co with prices shown for Planters and Distribu tors.
Grinding days announced for Tuesday Thursday and Saturday each week at Chipley Grist Mill. M Moxxis proprietor.
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