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The State of Florida Bay Country theb Panama City lotSestAgainst the World Part of Florida

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E R Sprague of DeFuniakSprings has been a Panama Cityvisitor this week-

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The government survey boat SantaRosa put in to this place on Tuesdayto get a supply of ice

E D Neel agent of the L N R4 4

R at Cottondale was an arrival on

last evenings trainM A Helms of Florala Ala is a

j Panama City visitor having come inJ

on last evenings trainMr Henry Moore and wife of Cul

verton Ala are stopping at the Holi-

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home in Old Town

Ben H Thomas of Pensacola is aI

visitor in Panama City having arriv-ed

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on the Manteo today-

A A B Steele president of the At-

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St Andrews Bay R R was ran-

t arrival on the Manteo this morningt Uontractor Hall has the second

r cottage for Mr McKenzie well underway They are very attractive build-

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J N Hutchins an attorney fromCovington Ky who is stopping atSt Andrew made Panama City visit

ryesterday-

E R Cobb General Freight and3-

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Passenger Agent of the Mobile Gulf-

S S Co made the trip on the Man ¬

teo this week

Ice cream made by Panama Cityice has been one of the attractions atHogeboom Cos restaurant on thedockthis week-

W D Thompson General Counsel-

of the Atlanta St Andrews Bay R

R arrived on last evenings train and1 is a guest at the hotel here

Mr Gillis is getting the lumber onJr

the ground preparatory to erectingf

building on the lot just north of G L7 r-

fFenters Co 1 on Harrison avenue

Messrs Cawthon and Storrs wereout early Tuesday morning after fishat the fresh water pond Theybrought back a supply both of freshand salt water fish

Vest Florida well known and pop ¬

ular banker W L Cawthon of De ¬

Funiak Springs arrived on the trainMonday evening for a brief outingwith his family here

Editor Storrs of the Breeze DeFuniak Springs arrived on the trainMonday evening and has since beenputting in his time fishing amid en ¬

joying the gulf breezes-

F B Garter Jr of Pensacola ar ¬

rived on the Manteo today and willspend a few days in the bay countrybefore leaving for Marianna wherehe will spend his vacation

Presiding Elder Cousins of thisDistrict of the M E Church Southhas been stopping here for a few dayslooking after the interests of thechurch about the bay Rev Cousinspreached here last evening

The Tarpon yesterday brought in au goodly partion of the grocery stock-

of Mr lingo lie will open his store-in McKeiries new building just assoon as it is completed His stock-of dry goods tSc > will soon follow

The steamer Manteo which hasbeen laid up for the past ten days isagain in commission and will resumeher regular schedule from Mobile onSunday night She arrived todaywith a fair cargo and leaves tonight-for points east

Rapid progress is being made onthe Hogeboom hotel building The

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sides are up randah floors laidf and much studding in place on the j

interior The building is a large oneI and win when finished accommo-

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a great number of guestsI

T J Farmer of Shorterville Alaone of Panama Citys oldest and bestfriends was an arrival on last even-ings

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train Mr Farmer finds muchimprovement here since his last visit

i and prophecies that it will continueuntil we have a population of-

t thousands-

As1 one gentlemen expressed it to ¬

day one cannot hear himself thinkI

now days along the lower part ofHarrison avenue for the noise madeby hammers and saw There are ahost of carpenters working in thatlocality just now and they are hust ¬

ling things too

Cal t J Wills and Clem Gwaltney-of St Andrew were visitors in PanamaCity today The worthy captainsays he can see much improvement-here since his last visit

Charlie Stewart of the PensacolaJournal force is looking after the in-

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of that paper in this sectionduring the illness of Wallace CaswellThe PILOT office is indebted to himfor a pleasant call

Wallace Caswell who has just under ¬

gone a severe attack of typhoid feverwas brought home on Friday eveningwhere he is slowly convalescing Hewas at Chipley and Charlie Stewart-of the Pensacola Journal force hadbeen there with hint during last weekand aided in getting him home Themany friends of Wallace are hoping-for his speedy recovery

Messrs Love Grant have opened-a meat market on the south westcorner of Harrison avenue and Fourthstreet Mr Grant furnishes the meat I

and Mr Love attends the marketThe meat brought in by Mr Grantfrom his farm has been long and

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favorably known and he promises toretain the good reputation which hehas always had in this directionTheir meats will be ice cooled andcustomers can depend upon gettingwhat they wish

H J Bruton of Bainbridge Ga I

was an arrival on the train Tuesdayevening and is a guest at the hotelhere Mr Bruton is accompanied by-

J SShingler of Ashburn Ga andT J Shingler of Donaldsonville j

Ga both large naval stores operaItors and Charles Evans of the ex ¬

tensive lumber firm of G S BettsCo of Ashburn Ga All the gentlemen have 6een putting in some time-at successful fishing since their ar-

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Col A 11 Perry wife and son Paulof Oglethorpe Ga D A Taylorwife and daughter Gladys of Vienna-Ga and CM McKenzie of CordeleGa who have been visiting theirrelatives at this point for the pastthree weeks and generally enjoying-the pleasures and the beauties of thebay left for their homes on Mondayevening train They all expressthemselves as delighted with thebright prospects of Panama CityCol Perry left orders to at once beginthe construction of a cottage on lotswhich he has purchased-

The PILOT received a very pleasant-call front Mr J Stump the oil welloperator of Orange Hill on TuesdayMr Stump states the well is now I

down 1352 feet with very good indi-

cations¬

of soon striking oil Severali

large deposits of gas have been struckand it is the opinion of oil men whohave visited the drilling that oil ispresent somewhere there in payingquantities If such should be thecase the oil will undoubtedly be piped-to this point thus adding anotherproduct to the vast number of pro ¬

babilities in a business w ay for thisport

There are two prominent WestFlorida newspaper risen in town thisweek and the PILOT has endeavored-to enlist them in getting out thispaper but Storrs of DeFuniak goesafter fish each morning at 4

oclock then eats so many ofthem he cannot work any moreduring the day while Thomas of i

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Pensacola is that busy shaking handswith old friends that he does not getmuch of any time for anything elseIf we could have induced both ofIthese shining lights to have helped-out there night have been some-thing

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doing in this weeks paperI

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All our new buildings are makinggood progress this week The roof is I

going on the new hotel r Fortners storewill soon be under cover G H Me 1

Kenzies store building has received-its

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finishing coat of plaster and paint j

Russ Brothers store is being com-pleted

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while the many new resi-dences are fast being put into habi-tableI condition The temporary de-

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I at the foot of Sixth street is thatfar along that it will be occupiedwithin a day or se by an agent of thecompany

ICE PLANT

COMPLETED-

First Ice Manufactured on

St Andrews Bay

Drawn SundayPL-

ANT NOW PREPARED TO FILL ALL

SIZED ORDER-

SIt is with pleasure that the PILOTannounces the completion of PanamaCitys first important industry the 30

ton plant of the Panma Ice CompanyThe ammonia was forced through the

pipes for the first time the latter part-of last week and by Sunday therewas a supply of clear pure ice in thecans and a little was given out tothose who just had to have some

The plant is equipped with a 30

ton absorption ice machine made bythe Columbus Iron Works of Co ¬

lumbus Ga whose machines can befound all through the United Stateswhere ice is manufactured fromTexas to New York and in Cuba-

It is claimed for the absorptionmachine that a purer quality of ice ismade than by other systems thesteam from which the water is pro-cured not passing at any time throughoiled valves or other places whereimpurities could bo taken up by thewater

Another valuable feature of thesemachines is the low cost of buildingrequired only the most inexpensivecovering being necessary All thedifferent parts of the machine standupon their own foundation onlycarrying their weight and if thebuilding be burned over them themachine remains but little injured

The Panama lee Company was or-

ganized¬

but a few weeks sins e and isoflicered as follows O E WilliamsPresident II C Williams Vice Presi ¬

dent A L Williams Secretary andTreasurer and the following Boardof Directors O E Williams R C

Williams A L Williams and 1 A

HutchinsonAs soon as organized they closed a

contract with the Columbus Iron-

Works for the plant which wasshipped in by the Tarpon and thework on the putting in the founda ¬

tions at once beganThe building erected is a wooden

frame construction 31 feet by 150 feetwith the boiler set in brick some littledistance from the main building Thebrine vat is 21 feet by 67 feet andholds 602 two hundred pound cans

The machinery is first class inevery respect as good as can bemade by one of the best ice plantmanufactories in the world and isguaranteed to do the best of workThe boiler is of 150 h p

It took 18 drums of ammonia of 750

pounds each to charge the plantand 12 tons of salt went into thebrine yat-

Specimens of the ice turned out areas clear as crystal and as pure asscience can make ice Only dry steamis used and this passed throughcooling tubes which no impurity canenter and finally just before going

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into the cans filtered through char-coal

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The work of erecting>

this plant has I

been under the charge of P H LaffiIteau an expert ice machine engineer-a very thorough mechanic and a I

congenial gentleman He has beenwith the company many years and

the perfection of the work he hasdone on this plant shows that he can ¬

not be excelled in his line of workMr Laffiteau is married and has a

pleasant home in Columbus Ga

It is with satisfaction that the PILOT

chronicles such an important event-

to the entire bay country and thefishermen of this portion of the gulf-

as the opening of an ice plant of largecapacity at this point It means abetter price for the fish caugl t astable supply of ice for domestic pur ¬

poses and the bringing to St An ¬

drews bay of much business that hashitherto gone elsewhere for lack ofice for refrigeration

With the opening of the pass fruitboats will be run in here from Cen-

tral¬

American points as the railway-can now secure a plentiful and eco ¬

nomical supply of ice for their re ¬

frigerator cars In fact the makingof ice here marks the commencementof a new era in business for thisport

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Mrs Smith of Cromanton was shop ¬

ping here last ThursdayMr Crawford Fryer and party are

camping near the sanitarium-The schooner Cleo and launch

Nancy Lee arrived this morningMr Davis has been looking over

the hotel situation here this pastweek

The Misses Annie and Bottle Bryan-of Greenwood are stopping at MrsJohn Gwaltneys

Tom Dekle and Mr Royster ofChipley have been enjoying a briefouting on the bay

Mrs Robert Baker Jr left on thetrain Tuesday morning to visit herfather in Birmingham Ala

Mrs Finney and party of Bonifayare guests at the Forrester houseThey will remain a few weeks

Mr John Schlegel and wife ofBourneville Ohio are stopping withtheir daughter Mrs A 11 Brake

Mr Williams of Millville gave avery enjoyable dancing party to hisfriends last evening in Wares Hall

Mrs Lydia Ware went to Apalachi-cola last week on a visit She is ex ¬

pected home on Friday of this weekMrs Charlie Davis and children-

were arrivals last Friday and arcvisiting with Mrs Davis parents theBrooks

Mr Hugh G Smith and wife of Dothan who have been spending somedays visiting the bay have returned-to their home

Mrs C C Lidden of Marianna isstopping with Mrs BS Lidden in oneof the Doty cottages until she cansecure a cottage-

Dr W G Mitchell and wife left onthe train Monday evening for a twomonths visit with relatives in Tennesee and Kentucky

Mrs Julia Ellis accompanied by j

her sister Miss Mary Wilson and r

grand daughter Marie Ellis of QuincyFla are visiting Mrs H W John-son

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Mr Coleman of Blakely Ga cameI

in this week on the road to join hiswife and daughter who are stopping-with the Boyetts in one of the Dotycottages

Mr Boyd wife and children of i

Blakely Ga are occupying one ofthe Doty cottages Mr Fleming of theBlakely News is just now stopping-with them

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Mike Calhoun wife and childrenof Marianna arrived on Friday lastand are stopping at the Calhoun cot-tage They will probably remainuntil October 1st

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Mr Alderman has been repairing I

his cottage in Old Town and building I

a bath house and dock All the family-are

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now here and enjoying their verypleasant summer home I

Judge Richardson of Greenville j

Ala is a guest of Capt Turtle on theSanta Rosa The Judge is one of ourkindliest and best loved summer visi ¬

tors and we trust that many Tarponmay come to his hook

Dr C T Alexander and wife ofBlakely Ga who have been stopping-with Mr and Miss Black in the Gocldard cottage returned last week by-way of Apalachicola Mr and MissBlack returned home yesterday

Roderick Holliday of Cottondalearrived on the train Sunday eveningand win remain a week In the menutime his father and mother will carefor the Cottondale home having gonethere on Sundays train to return in aweek

Rumors are in circulation to thoeffect that parties with capital arcbargaining for the fine residenceproperty of J H Brown upon thobluff with the intention of adding toit and converting it into a hotel Inconnection with it there would bebath houses a dock tennis grounds

c rhers is no finer location uponSt Andrews Bay for a large hotel andwe trust that the negotiations towardsecuring this property for that pur ¬

pose may be successful

Post Office Robbed-

No little excitement was created itJftour quiet town on Tuesday morning A

by the report that the post office hadbeen robbed the night before jtseems that an entrance was effectedthrough a back door by boringthrough from the outside and unfasVtening a screen dour and then brealjbig open money drawer Postmaster

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Conely had been collecting for ijraWoodmen and also had quite a surJYof post office money in the draweramounting altogether to about 890

which was taken Nothing else wasdisturbed It is the impression thatthe work was done by sonic who wasfamiliar with the interior of theoflice

St Andrews Ice PlantThere has been something of a

rivalry as to which of the two iceplants being built upon tho bay wouldturn out the first ice The parties incharge of both have labored energet-ically

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to get their respective plants-in operation so as to fill the summerdemand for ice and both have suc ¬

ceeded in beginning its manufacturewithin a few days of each other thisplant having been able to turn out thefinished product last evening

Mrs Drummoml wife of one of theproprietors had the honor of turningon the ammonia at this plant the firstof this week and since then steadyprogress has been made in tuning upthe machinery and getting it downto work Al r MeSwcen has hadcharge of its erection and being anold ice machine man with much ex-

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has done his work in u moetcapable and efficient manner

The building is strongly framedcovered with corrugated galvanizediron and the foundations of the vatand the floor are of cement Thoboiler is placed to the south andsonic feet from the building-

The machine is of the ColumbusIron V orks absorption pattern of tentons capacity The description of thePanama Ice Companys machine sofar as its action and purity of pro ¬

duct is concerned applies to thismachine

The company have a first class dockextending out into 15 feet of waterand will be in readiness to supplytheir customers with ice in a veryshort time-

Railway Dock

But little progress has been madeupon this structure this past weekowing to the pile driver getting tooclose in shore on the high tide of lastweek since which time there has notbeen tide enough to float it This isunfortunate for Mr Daniel and theRailway company The abutment iscompleted and the dock work willbe rushed just as soon as a tide comesin sufficient to float the driver

A letter from Hans Nass Millvilletells us that he has given up the HotelGermania at that place and will open-a short order restaurant and a lunchroom at Panama City and that hewill be ready for business in a fewdays His restaurant will be builtout over the water where patrons canenjoy the cool gulf breeze at all timesMr Nass is a good caterer and should

Ido well in PanamaXDity When therecall and see himChipley Verdict