HERE’S THE DeFUNIAK NEWS OF INTEREST TO OLD TIMERS
(Thirty years ago–from the Breeze of November 30, 1905.)
“Married–Chas. Murray and Miss Lula E. Downs.”
“It is not improbable that the Flournoy block will be made a three-story building before long.”
“This is Thanksgiving, and if the stores close at nine o’clock, the telephone exchange will close from nine until two.”
“Chas. Beardsley has returned from Henry, Ill., bringing with him a bride, who was Mrs. Emma McDonough, of that city.”
“The Business League met today to consider the matter of the building of the proposed Pea Valley & Gulf railroad from Opelika to Freeport.”
“The Glendale Mercantile Company has been organized with W. L. Jones Cawthon president; D. E. Murphy, vice-president, and W. F. Jones, secretary.”
“Last Sunday saw the yellow fever quarantine finally lifted at Pensacola, and now the traveling public can come and go as it pleases, and without a pocketful of health [certificates].”
Deerland correspondence: “Our school has begun, and when the teacher gets full control, if he ever does, the boys (I mean the big boys) will want to get away into the Valley of Jehosaphat, where the young lion roareth, and the whangdoodle mourneth for her firstborn.”
(Twenty years ago–from the Breeze of November 24, 1910.)
“Mrs. M. A. Murphy has gone to St. Louis to visit with relatives.”
“Sixteen thousand acres of land known as the Yawkey tract, was sold this week to Fox Henderson and others.”
“The Harbeson Lumber Co. is considering the plan of extending their road to Florala, to connect there with the Central of Georgia.”
Bob Matthews, colored, who had been held in the Walton jail for safe keeping, was taken from the train on which he was being returned to Pensacola and lynched, by a part of masked men who boarded the train near that city.
(Fifteen years ago–from the Breeze of November 25, 1920.)
“Solon was a resident of heaven, until he got to knocking. Moral–boost your home town.”
“Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bludworth of Argyle, are the proud parents of a beautiful daughter, born Sunday.”
Tabulated returns from the national election gave Harding a vote of 690 in Walton county, as against 1322 for Cox, the Democratic nominee.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Langston and their sister, and Miss Florida Jeffries of Crestview, spent Sunday here as the guest of their mother, Mrs. C. M. Jeffries.”
(Ten years ago–from the Breeze of November 26, 1925.)
Ford touring cars were being advertised for $290.
Palmer and Tallahassee were all set for a Thanksgiving football game on the local field, while Walton high was scheduled to play Chipley over there.
The Walton county chamber of commerce had arranged to handle sweet potatoes for local growers, paying 90c per bushel for good quality product.
Ex-County Clerk Carl Crosby was given a thirty day reprieve by the governor, to allow him time to attend to private business matters, before he began serving a thirty months sentence for conversion of public funds.
A bill introduced in the senate (at the special session of the legislature then in session) by Senator D. Stuart Gillis, allowing Walton to vote on the question of issuing $750,000 of road bonds, was killed in the house by Representative J. S. McSween, Sr.