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Beach Combings-

Capt RaiSeld of Farmdale left witlhis boat on Monday for Carrabelle

Messrs Ayars and Sutton have beercompleting the park fence this week

it Several picnic parties are planningupon spending the 4th in Magnolk

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Park here i

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Mr G H McKenzie has within thepast week bought 40 acres of lane J

from Mr A J Gay near PananuI

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Mr Charles Adie has bought fG j-

lL McKenzie 20 acres of lurid neg

here and has begal1the erecftOn oi

a house thereon r

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The two dwellings being erected 01 l

lots in block 9 near tho Park for MJ-

M B Jenks are rapidly assumingiorm and will soon be ready to moveinto I

The steamer J P Williams Oapt I

Alexanderr will run an excursion to-

dayj

a from Millville Panama Cityand St Andrews to Bay Head and

P returnTwenty five of our people chartered-

the launch Leonore on Friday after ¬

m noon and went out to Hurricanet

island to witness the effect of thestorm on the gulf beach

o There will be a game of base ballhere to day between the Panama Cityyounger boys and a club of the samesized lads from Millville It promi-ses

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to be a game worth seeing

The road between Fourth street andthe mill by way of Harrison avenueand Fifth street has been grubbed-out for 20 feet in the centre and is

> being covered with a heavy coating-of saw dust-

Watermelons are becoming quite1

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h cabbage tornados summersquash1 Y If 1grHi r0w a I-

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yet there are people who nothingca-n can be raised here

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We are indebted to Commissioner-of Agriculture B E McLin for acopy of the Ninth Biennial Report ofthe Commissioner of Apriculture of

the state of Florida a very well com-

piled¬

and valuable report

There was a very high tide withhigh south wind on

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tFriday o last week It was accom-

panied¬

at times with heavy rainwhich was a great help to the farmers

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and gardeners hereabouts-

The schooner Lucy H entered yes ¬

terday from St Andrew with a cargo-

of 387 barrels of naval stores from theSalesDavis Co She is loading a

I cargo of machinery grain groceries-etc for the same firm PensacolaJournal June 29

The J P Williams made a trip upY North Bay on Sunday last so that she

might have until Wednesday to com-

plete¬

work on her wheel which isc being done at Millville The boat

t will be in readiness to go on her runagain on Thursday

Mr A I Hogeboom has erected astand on tho corner next north ofthe real estate office on Harrisonavenue where his sons will keep anassortment of papers magazinescandies lemonade cool drinks of allkinds lemons fruit c We be-

speak¬

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for them a generous patronage

We are informed that the A StA B RR Co have purchased 1001000 ties besides those already deliver¬

ed for track laying north of Foun-

tain¬

This will furnish enough to laythe track to Panama City The steel

x for that purpose is all on hand and-

with the completion of the gradinga

I and trestleing there will be short workin laying the track

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Either next Sunday or a week fromI that day the Board of Pilot Commis-

sioners¬

of St Andrews Bay consist-ing of Capt A Alexander J RThompson 0 L Joyner VB Spivaand VE Spiva will charter a launchand going to the buoyed pass takethe soundings thereof with the ad-

jacent¬

waters This information willbe forwarded to the officials atWash

r ington aspreliminary to their takingaction as to thee expenditure the-

e > money appropriated by the las Oon-

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View of the Bayoulrom Magnolia Parkr

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It is conceded by all that Magnolia Park PanamaQity is as pretty a natural small park as was eve carvedout of the semitropical forests With its wealth of agecMive oaks jthe numerous glossy leaved magnolias fromwhich the park takes its name the palms and other choice trees furnishing a perfect shade with the winds fromthe bay rushing in from the southwest j and the waterthe bayou at its side tIle park furnishes an ideal pleasureresort With about three acres of land upon which bulging can never encroach and within 200 feet of the pro ¬

posed dock at tine foot of Second street it will always mllthe one spot that can pleasantly care for either large orsmall picnic parties The above view is taken from pe outheast corner of the park looking out over the bayou

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Mr C J Raffield of Farmdale was-

a caller at the PILOT office on Monday-last

Mrs J L Massey of Cottondale isvisiting Mrs J B Hogeboom thisweek

sMr3 B JTogeboLom has beenr u tJl u e z

few days 1

Mrs L D Todd of Wewahitchkais visiting her sister Mrs Guderian-for a few days

Mr E R Cobb G FA of the Tar-pon

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Line passed through here onyesterdays boat

Mr R D Swaine of the HavilandLumber Co Mobile came in on theTarpon yesterday

Mr W E Grice of the JacksonLumber Co was also an arrival 4nyesterdays steamer-

Mr 0 R Moore the popular purser-of the Tarpon was accompanied onthis trip by his bride r

Mrs Robert Knickmeyer and-o

daughter Lillian were pleasantcallers at the PILOT office on Monday

T D Johnson representing BassCo of Pensacola was shaking handswith his many friends in the Barountry this week

Mr JR Thompson aiid Mr R LMcKenzie made a trip this week toWewahitchka and Blountstown start¬

ing on Tuesday morning-

Lee and Philip Moates who havebeen working with A 1 Hogeboomleft for Anderson Tuesday to spendthe Fourth of July with home folks

Mr Dave Brown Of Apalachicola isvisiting at Mrs Knickmeyers cornerMain and Broad street MillvilleMr Brown made Panama City a callon Monday-

Mr H H Mock returned Fridayevening from atrip to Cottondale andMarianna Mr Mock has now a new

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hack with which he intends to dosome of the hack work between hereand the railways

Mrs WelchA

itiid sister Miss Mug

grove passed through Thursday enrouts for their home in Panama Cityafter

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a visit to relatives near Marlanna Fountain correspondent Ver-

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MrW S Nobles Superintendentof Constructionon the A St A B-

RR came into the city Mondayevening Mr Nobles reports thegrading practical finisl1edfron1Round Lake to Spanns and that lay-

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of the iron will be pushed along-as fast as the track crewhire do thework Mr West the trestle con-

tractor¬

began ais 7 crr jw5stercayand promises toloep sed of the

l track layers Mr Noble will be onhis end of the york some cliiysr

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Mr AA of Marianna wasa pleasant calhpl Panama City onSunday un expects to havehis family with him on the bay forthe summer season in a very shorttime J

Mr Ernest Woods chief engineer ofthe A St A B1L R accompanied-by his wife werejluests of the Pana-ma

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City hotel oh Ionday night MrWood is makin imates of grading

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work and doifg some cross sec-

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work hereabouts

Mr James Baker who is employedas mail clerk in the post office atTallahassee is vise n5g his old homeat Old Town this week having ar-¬

rived on Friday last Jim is wel-comed

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by his many friends who areglad to see him among them oncemore

With the arrival on yesterdays Tar-¬

pon of Judge J 0 Richardson ofGreenville Ala accompanied by hisfishing trunk the Tarpon season onSt Andrew Bay maybe said to havebeen inaugurated With the kindliestof feelings for the Tarpon we wouldsuggest that just now is the time forthem to take to the woods there-is no safety for them in the waterWe understand that Judge TerryRichardson will arrive next week

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providing that the Judge Sr has thesegamy fish well under control bythattime-

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Arrangements are about completedto organize in this cty lodge of theKnights of Pythias ° This order isone of the strongest and best of thesecret societies in this country andwe prophesy a large and influentialmembership for the lodge hereWedding Bells

The PILOT takes pleasure in an-

nouncing¬

the forthcoming marriage-of Mr Oscar McKenzie of the firmof McKenzie St Co one of our mostenergetic and conscientious youngbusiness men toMiss Margie Adkins-of Vienna Ga Mr McKenzie willleave here on the Tarpon on Friday-of this week and the marriage cere-mony

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will be performed at the resi¬

dence of the brideJChurch StreetVienna Ga on the Mth There isLobe a quite home wedding afterwhich the happy ecuPivill start forthen future home at1< aiiania CityTITO oharmiug bride willbe most cor-dially

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received by the many friends-of the groom at tliis place all ofwhom join in wishing them a longand happy n1arriedIJre

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With the incoming of July thesummer visitors to fae bay begin toarrive in increasing umbers The-

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rquestion of shelter > glyes the most ofthem more or less trouble anticamp ¬

ing ou J 1rK soon i llfbe r only meansleft for cjover It sMfS were a hun ¬

dred new houses hererifoday all woul ije takeji 1Hnh i1ays

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Mr Skipper returned June 29th from-a trip to Hartford Ala

The Martha Lillian sailed from Mo ¬

bile for St Andrew on TuesdayMr Robert Baker had the misfortune

toilose a fine horse on Tuesday last

i V43 W man atufltl o th etTarpon Wednesday from his trip toFlorala Ala

Capt F H Ware is making overinto a residence the building on therear of his lot

Mrs Crigler was one of the partycoming to Old Town with Mr Miltonsfamily yesterday

Messrs J Bryan Ed Pennell andGus Lewis of Marianna are expectedat Old Town this week

The Misses Payne and Young havebeen secured to teach the St Andrewschool for the coming year

The Leonore is chartered for todayJuly 4th to take a picnic party fromMillville to Martins Bridge-

The Oleo Capt Walker Gwaltneyarrived Tuesday from Pensacola witha full cargo of merchandise

Mr John Harper and family are re ¬

ported as having left Chipley on Mon-day

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for an outing on the bay

Mr Guy Gainer has had a relapse ofthe fever that he was recovering fromand has been confined to the housethe past week

Capt Otway Ware left on FridaysTarpon frfr British

IColumbia where

he will take up woods work with MrJH Drummond

Miss Jewel Booth came down fromGay on Saturday evening to takepart in the Childrens Day programreturning on Tuesday morning-

The Launch Louise Apalachicolaen route to that point front Pensacola-with a load of gasoline made a stop-at Wares wharf on Monday of thisweeks

Mr J W Russ and family and aparty of five young ladies are expect-ed

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here soon to stay during thesummer They will occupy the oldhotel building

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The Monarch Capt Lew Wrightwith Mr Wes Gfailt ey as pilot andMr Royy Wright and Mrs A A Wright tgot away at 6 Tuesday morning forSt Petersburg

Mrs Saunders and daughter MissAliie left on the East Bay mail boatlast Friday morning for their home-in Columbia Ga going by way ofWetappo and the river from Wewa¬

hitchka

The launch Leon ore Capt Withctrl L

brought the following party to StAndrew from Bay Head on Tuesday

evening They are stopping at theAnnex Mrs Bertha Danje Blajsie and

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two children her mother Mrs DanielMrs Williams and four children andthe Misses Malloy Strange Farriorand Langston-

Mr John Milton and family of Mari ¬

anna with Miss Rita Blackshear ofDublin Ga and the Misses Wilsonand Misses Merritt of Jackson CoFla ars expected at their summerhome in Old Town this week

Mr John Milton family and friendsarrived at Old Town yesterday

Childrens Day was observed at tho-M E church last Sunday according-to the very appropriate programmewhich was published last week Tliechurch was prettily decorated withvines and flowers and there was a <

good attendance In the absence ofdRev Wineman Mr J B Forrester

delivered tho address Rev Robertsalsq took part in the services Whereall dope so well it would bo difficultto individualize Every one in atten¬

dance pronounced the exercises verysatisfactory and pleasing and thechildren certainly done credit to theirown efforts and thoJe who trainedthem

Our community were greatly griev-ed

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when Friday evening June 28th-

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was learned that Mrs Fanny Krebswife of Mr Thomas Krebs had passedaway For many years Mrs Krebshas been prominent in social circlesand church work always having been-an active church member and onewho has done much in the way ofbuilding up and maintaining a choirand her death will be greatly lament-ed

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by many friends and acquaint-ances

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She leaves to mourn her loss-a husband a son and a baby girl but3 weeks old her mother Mrs Handtwo sisters Mrs T Dockstader ofNew York and Mrs Orippin of thisplace and a brother Mr Ed HandShe was buried in the St Andrewcemetery on

ISaturday afternoon last

Rev E W Roberts presiding and herremainTwere R followed to

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the gravey

by many sorrowing friends

Whiskey and Beer for StAndrew Stolen

We clip the following from the Pen¬

sacola Journal of the 29th< Five gallons of whiskey and two

kegs of beer shipped by a wholesaleliquor dealer to a customer at St An-

drew were stolen from the freightschooner Cleopatra lying at Baylonstreet wharf Thursday night Whenthe discovery was made yesterdaymorning by the captain of the vesselthe police made an investigation re¬

covered some of the whiskey and onokeg of beer and arrested four fisher ¬

men Others are being searched foras it is alleged they were the parties-to board tho schooner and get awaywith the whiskey and beer

The theft was committed some timeduring the night probably after 11

oclock The captain and members-of the crew were asleep on board

One keg of beer and some of thewhiskey was recovered aboard a fish-

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schooner and two men were thenarrested One of them is Joe McGinnis who while serving time on a for ¬

mer occasion in the county jail wasone of the trio to break jail Twoother fishermen were later arrested

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Mr Willie Railsback spent the day-

in Cromanton last Sunday-

It is nearly the Fourth of July andthe watermelons are getting to be veryplentiful the writer helped cut andeat a fifty pouner last Sunday after¬

noon-

A party consisting of Messrs McLellan Jenks McKenzie and Hilmanof Panama City spent Sunday even ¬

ing in this city

Mrs Henry Spicer is spending thisweek with Mrs J H DrummondSt Andrew

The PILOT is very desir-ing

ous of hav¬

every section of the Bay represen-ted

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each week It will give all thespace necessary 1 to do the work andlay before its many readers just whatis being done in thifj region if someone will but furnish us with the items-of news at points where we cjo notnow have are xesentatiye Who willattena to thfa ftt Melville ParkerCook Farmdale Alison WetappoBay li d AIl ersQlhand We tT By S

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