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unimi U 1| E '^~^*4ubra IB jfe? IN THE VOLUME ONE. NO. THIRTY-THREE. Like Oak Tloiida —5% Like City Without Saloons ID it ever occur to you that about nine tenths of our old adages and old say ings are “petrified lies”? Well, such is the case whether you ever thought it out or not. Take, for instance, this one: “All things come to him who waits.” INo bigger “story” ever occupied space on a printed page. The man who waits instead of works, finds out that things I come—but they come to the other fellow. Right along with this old 11 prevarication” stands that other one, which you have all heard to this effect: “The greatest growth is not possible in a community where whiskey is not sold.” In other words, the sale of whiskey is essential to the commercial up building of a municipality. This is a lie which has been told a million times, and notwithstanding the great array of evidence to be had for the ask- t ¥ 1 k > Ml > '"V' ' 3j f jWMB whir- ;Bl>= sW jJ .s $ • *••3® * Edf' Ji 9Rf - Jv'A jr w ■ I 1i i & HiO —-- — THE LAW IN LIVE OAK. —Suwanee County Court House] ing which brands it as an old, musty political “o-ag” still there are those who call themselves men who will continue to pass it on as a fact. I come to offer one more illustration to be placed alongside the thousands now in hand, that the sale of intoxicants does not only not help to build up a-municipality, but that it is detrimental to every laudable enterprise of the community. Fifteen Years Without Saloons. For fifteen years the town of Live Oak, Florida, has not been cursed with the licensed saloon or dispensary. It has been a dry town in the common acceptance of this term. Os course, it has not been free from “blind tigers,” Peruna vendors and now and then other conscienceless cowards who would walk over grinning skeletons if they might only get their hands on a dollar. But no penny of blood money has gone into its coffers from the sale of ATLANTA, OCTOBER 4, 1906. strong drink. And yet the simple narration of its growth and development along all lines of lau dable enterprise and endeavor reads like the wild est fiction. Ten years ago there were less than twelve hun dred inhabitants, no first-class residences or public buildings to crown our beautiful knolls or adorn one of our shaded streets. Only two railroads en tered our gates and they had a monopoly on ren dering poor service. There was not a single man ufacturing plant of any importance, or other pub lic enterprise worthy the name. We were simply a country village with nothing to “brag on” at that. But, you know things have changed mar vellously these last ten years. Today Live Oak is a city of eight thousand people, and growing more rapidly than at any day in her past. She has five railroads, and handles more freight than any inland city of the state. She supports ten manufacturing establishments, and furnishes the cheapest power to be had in Florida. She has more than one hun dred licensed places of business, and not one of these is a saloon. Fabulous Increase in Valuation. A cut of her beautiful $50,000 court house ac companies this article, and during the last two years her citizens have spent about $250,000 in building residences and beautifying her streets. A $200,000 issue of bonds has been voted, and part of them sold looking to a first-class sewerage sys tem, new city hall and fire department, paved streets and other modern improvements. During the past twelve months the taxable valuation of her property increased $1,150,000. She has what is probably the best printing office in the state, which prints four weekly papers each week, and one of By C. A. RIDLEY. i ! tl’ I I Hlw ;iin 11 1 n 1 i « BEi' * ....• f ~ ..- ; 1 I —— THE GOSPEL IN LIVE OAK—New Baptist Church. the brightest dailies in “The Land of Flowers.” Twenty-one new business firms and corporations have been started this year with a capital stock of $5,000,000. And so the story goes on. Prosperous Churches. In the realm of religion the following facts are of interest: The Baptist church has built and equipped a new house of worship during the first two years, at a cost of about $15,000, during which time it iias had 231 additions to her membership. The Presbyterians are now building a house which is to cost SIO,OOO. The Methodists and Episcopa lians and Adventists have good church homes and fine congregations. And all without saloons. Certainly no city of saloons in Florida can show such an unbroken record of progress for so long a time! And yet, before this manuscript reaches the press room, Hon. Nehemiah Numskull will re lieve his inflated lungs with hot air, declaring that if you vote whiskey out your commercial interests will wither and die. The lie ought to blister his throat. A Beautiful Deed. The people of Live Oak, Fla., are generous, if anything. Their purse-strings are loose toward every benevolent enterprise, and the needy and sorrowing are never sent empty away. The picture of a “Widows’ Home” was made by a kodak i.i the hands of Miss Flossie Byrd, a bright little maiden whose noble mother has taught her by the power of example to love to “do good unto oth ers,” by scattering sunshine into shadowed lives. A worthy widow and her little children had been left in Live Oak without a home, and some active Christian women led a movement that culminated TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. FIVE CENTS A COPY.