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„ z-. eL STHI&T&-- so r ‘X w 191x15'iwv' ■ Wx IPI\ IL liftwSßteCll/SxEL >ll i<*JSIiW jO^'~~“”^ r '’s<rin3vf£* Vol. XHfT No. 50. 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 « ♦ IP T Jh, I iKi fe IS f K i f* 88 ■ jhmimcw rt i fl i fee Mi 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! ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CKWTW A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPY