HERE’S THE DeFUNIAK NEWS OF INTEREST TO OLD TIMERS
(Thirty-four years ago–from the Breeze of November 21, 1901.)
“The first white frost of the season was here Saturday morning.”
We ponder the same question now: “Wonder why a thoroughly good commercial college would not pay in DeFuniak Springs?”
Postmaster John Astleford (now of Biloxi, Miss.) was referred to by the Breeze as one of West Florida’s outstanding farmers, pointing to his farm on the Eucheeanna road, as a proof of the assertion.
W. L. Cawthon “served a very enjoyable game supper to a number of friends, at which G. P. Henry represented the medical profession; C. L. Hayes and W. S. Cawthon the schools; Dan’l Cawthon the bar; W. T. May and T. S. Latz the mercantile interests, and R. W. Storrs the press.”
(Thirty years ago–from the Breeze of November 16, [1905].)
The county commissioners voted to buy a pair of bloodhounds from Perry Clark for $90.”
Walton county’s assessed valuation was increased $312,415 over the previous year, and DeFuniak’s part of this increase was $53,000.
(Twenty years ago–from the Breeze of November 18, 1915.)
J. A. McDonald was recommended for DeFuniak’s postmaster to succeed B. P. Morris, resigned.
“Mr. and Mrs. Ide Stinson returned from their honeymoon Saturday, and are at the home of the groom’s aunt, Mrs. Stewart, on Eleventh street.”
The Breeze insisted that there was “nothing so good for a cold” as a mixture of equal parts of lemon juice and glycerine.'”
“The ‘Old Spanish Trail’ scout car left Mobile yesterday to run over the proposed ‘Old Spanish Trail” as far east as Jacksonville.”
(Fifteen years ago–from the Breeze of November 18, 1920.)
The Synod of Florida had just closed a three-day session here.
Charley Bell was [killed] in an auto accident on the DeFuniak-Ponce de Leon road.
Robbers took somewhere between $300 and $500 from the W. E. [Parish] store, when that institution was burglarized.
“Build for permanency and beauty: Permanent as the pyramids and as beautiful as Venus,” announced the Southern Petronite Company, a local building block manufacturing concern, in a full-page Breeze ad.
(Ten years ago–from the Breeze of November 19, 1925.)
By a vote of approximately 4 to 1, voters of DeFuniak Springs authorized a $78,000 bond issue for [street] and other improvements.
The Methodists in annual conference at Mobile, returned Rev. J. F. McLeod to this church, and selected DeFuniak Springs as the meeting place for the 1926 conference.
Wm. H. Brown & Son of Santa Rosa, announced the sale to Neely Bowen of 8,800 acres of land lying on the bay front between Freeport and Portland, known as the old Bayview tract, for $450,000.