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PLUCKY FLORIDA PHOSPHATE TOWN IS HAPPY OVER THE FACT OF DRIVING OUT BAR-ROOMS—NEW SCHOOL BUILD
ING. PAVED STREETS AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS CELEBRATE THE BANISHMENT OF SALOONS.
LL readers of The Golden Age remem
ber Dunnellon! Certainly! It is that
plucky little phosphate metropolis of
Florida, which used to be noted for two
"a
things only—no, three if you please—Phos
phate, Bar-Rooms and Devilment!
But the bar-rooms did what they always do
when they are given plenty of rope—they
hung themselves.
Our readers remember our front page story
some thi ee years ago telling how the Wom
an's Christian Temperance Union worked and
a bright little girl sang Dunnellon into a dry
majority of three into the state election—and
this, too. in a town that voted only
three “dry” votes in the first prohibi-
tion election.
The editor of The Golden Age prom
ised when he spoke the night before
the election that a “dry” majority
next day would put Dunnellon on the
front page, with a new reputation for
the town. That promise was redeem
ed.
And, bless you, in the recent coun
ty election, although Marion county
voted “wet,” Dunnellon, herself rolled
up a glorious majority against saloons
—and she stays “dry.”
The enthusiasm of all the good peo
ple there can be understood by the fol
lowing letter of Hon. George Neville,
banker and general civic leader in the
town. Mr. Neville, who was one time
on the “wet” side, is now “as dry as a
powder-horn,” and rejoices as follows
over the New Dunnellon:
‘‘Well, we have at last succeeded in doing
the thing necessary for the making of us all
—Dunnellon is the banner precinct of Marion
county, having gone “dry.” And we are go
ing to keep it dry, let me tell you. *We are
going to hunt “blind tigers” like folks hunt
quail in Florida, and we are going to find him
if he is doing business in our section. We
are going to show the people of the whole
country that the best people in the world re
side in Dunnellon —that from September 16th
“A BRAND NEW DRY DUNNELLON”
PROHIBITION VETERAN MAKES CLARION CALL—PAGE 4.
ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY 5, 1914
we became a town of good schools and church
es, and our motto in the future will be “The
driest town in the United States and not the
wettest town in Florida.”
Just look at the picture of our new school
building, which you helped to start. We ex
pect to finish it before you come again and we
will show you one of the neatest school build
ings in Florida. And Dunnellon will soon fill
it up, for we are going to devote more atten
tion to raising children, building good homes
and making Dunnellon the garden spot of
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Dunnellon, Florida, celebrates the banishment
of bar-rooms by erecting this beautiful new
school building.
Florida, than to devoting so much of our time
to selling and drinking “booze,” as we have
been justly charged within the past.
Come back to Dunnellon some time soon, and
we will take pleasure in driving you over our
main streets, which are paved and beautiful,
and let you feast your eyes on our town of
complete sewer system, brilliant electric lights,
with plenty of the best drinking water in the
entire state.
Our mutual friend, Knight, who was so long
By WILLIAM D. UPSHAW, Editor.
the original and only prohibitionist in Dunnel
lon, is on the job night and day, and is the
happiest man in Marion county, he having seen
the little band of “dries” grow from three
at one election up to 68, sufficient to throw
Dunnellon in the dry column, and I think he
has a right to be proud and thankful.
We have organized a live board of trade in
Dunnellon, and we mean to work hard to make
Dunnellon what it should be—the best town in
Florida; and with the loyalty of our citizens
and your help in The Golden Age, we will do
it. I believe that the same effort put forward
to dry the town, will build it up. It can’t
help building, as we have everything
here to build it out of—land, phos
phate, timber, tn’pentine, water and a
plucky citizenz ensh i p. ”
NEVILLE.
P. S. —That great revival meeting
you conducted here helped win our
victory—for religion and bar-rooms
will not mix.
THE LESSON OF DUNNELLON.
The transformation of this progress
ive Florida town carries an inspiring
lesson for evei v saloon-cursed town on
earth.
Time was when it seemed there was
.io hope —no us * to try to shake off the
yoke of defiant debauchery under
which Dunnellon staggered. But Hie
women worked, the children added
their beautiful enthusiasm, and one by
one the men who were brave and true
—the men who really loved their
homes better than the bar-room vam
pires around them, took their stand
beside the women and children —and Dunnel
lon was redeemed!
And now this brave up-looking Florida
community is feeling the thrill and the thrall
of a new and conquering life. Hats off to the
brand new “dry” Dunnellon!
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