HERE’S THE DeFUNIAK NEWS OF INTEREST TO OLD TIMERS
(Thirty-four years ago–from the Breeze of October 31, 1901.)
Freeport correspondence: “Those who did not go to court last week took to the woods.”
Eucheeanna correspondence: “Several of the boys were out hunting and fishing, Saturday, and to hear them tell it, you would think they shot gophers just to hear them fall, and gigged catfish to hear them gobble.”
(Thirty-one years ago–from the Breeze of October 26, 1904.)
“W. L. Cawthon has taken out the required license as a private banker.”
“Married–J. D. King of this place, and Miss Joanna Ealum of Louanna.”
“Hope Cawthon has returned from St. Louis, full of the wonders of the big fair.”
“J. J. Robinson of Bridgeport, W. Va., is among the arrivals of last week, and expects to make his home here.”
“Dr. C. E. Thompson, who left here nine years ago to make his home in Michigan, has returned, with his family, to DeFuniak Springs.”
Why? “No meeting of the county [commissioners] was held Monday, on account of the fact that there was more business than could be transacted in one day.”
(Thirty years ago–from the Breeze of October 16, 1905)
Mrs. W. W. Flournoy went over to Jacksonville, Saturday, to see the president.”
“The DeFuniak & Northern railroad got in another car of steel rails last week, and will push the road on above the present terminus.”
“With how much truthfulness we do not know, but it is said that a wedding between two of our young people scheduled for the near future, has been called off, and all because the bride-to-be used the word ‘trousseau’ frequently, and it sounded so much like ‘trousers,’ that the young man got alarmed and decamped.”
(Twenty-five years ago–from the Breeze of October 27, 1910.)
“D. E. Wooten has sold his broom factory to Mr. Please, who will move it to Chipley.”
An auto belonging to Kenneth Bruce, one of the few in town at that time, was destroyed by fire.
“Miss Jennie Parish, who has been spending several weeks in Panama City, has returned to her home here.”
Palmer College defeated Walton high by 5 to 3 in a game of baseball, called at the close of the 6th inning, on account of darkness.
Knox Hill correspondence: “There was a torchlight procession through the business section of our town on Saturday night. Wonder if Eugene Ward could tell us anything about it.”
H. Thornber sold his stock of merchandise to W. K. Jennings. “The business, we understand, will be conducted in the usual new business way by the new proprietor, and whom we wish the best of success as one of our few business men.”
(Twenty years ago–from the Breeze of October 28, 1915.)
The Mays store on the Circle was burglarized, the thieves gaining an entrance through the Campbell meat market adjoining.
“When a girl, hardly out of her teens (the reference was to Mamie Bracken) can make a profit of $93.90 on one-tenth acre of Walton county and, it provides the answer to the question, ‘Does farming pay?'”
“Notice was served on Mayor W. W. Flournoy last week to prevent the city from opening a railway crossing at 7th street, or requiring the railroad to repair the crossing at Crescent street.”
County Judge W. E. Parish published the list of business licenses for the year ending October 1, the number totalling 299–eighteen of which were assessed to Char. Murray, Jr., as an insurance agent, and eleven of which were issued to practicing physicians, who were C. E. Thompson, E. Porter Webb, G. P. Morris, C. B. McKinnon, J. F. King, E. L. Huggins, D. H. Simmons, S. E. Stephens, J. D. Rayborn, W. A. Hooten, and D. H. Adams. (Compare this with the county’s present staff of physicians.)
(Fifteen years ago–from the Breeze of October 28, 1920.)
G. B. Stanley sold his “Cash and Carry” to G. B. Bass and C. W. Powell.
On account of the slump in lumber prices, the Harbeson mills’ working hours were cut to six daily.
The DeFuniak Gun Club offered a reward of $500 for evidence leading to the conviction of any person poisoning dogs in Walton county.
Harrison Davis, 28 years old, of Camp Walton, was attacked by an alligator in East river, and escaped with a lacerated foot, when the ‘gator was beaten to death by Davis’ companions.
A heated special session of the town council was held upon the question of the legality of the title which the Presbyterian church had to the land in the lake yard upon which it purposed to build a church.