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TERRY WRITES FROM FLORIDA
   That S. M. Terry is not so ill as reported will be
   seen from the act that he writes the
Enterprise the following letter from DeFuniak under date
of January 27th.
   Your "rag," as the local editor there disignates his
   own paper, comes promptly to hand
every Sunday morning and is highly appreciated.  It
would be more gratifying if shorn of its sad features,
but without the sad the good would be neglected.
   Nine years ago the coming April, after having spent a
   rather pleasant winter in this burg,
we shook the sand off our feet and started for our
northern home, since which time many have been the
changes, not only in local but national affairs, and
1923 finds us in the midst of triumphs and adversities,
still struggling for existence.  During these years we
have known but little of the fortunes and misfortunes of
this people or their achievements in advanced
civilization, until of late we intruded upon their
hospitality.  We have now been here five weeks and have
had the opportunity to gather information and observe
results, from which conclusions may be arrived at fairly
just.
   In a material sense substantial improvements have
   kept pace with our own home town,
and in some respects exceeded.  Several substantial and
creditable structures and business institutions have
been built up, the streets and sanitary conditions much
improved, and local interests and conditions of the
community brought to a higher grade of perfection.  That
is, in a business out look, DeFuniak ranks well with
growing towns of the North, but whether the moral,
religious and educational development has advanced
proportionately may admit of doubt.
   The Chautauqua, built up by the Bruces, seems to have
   gone down, and a picture show
has taken its entertainment place.  The central
gathering attraction for northern Florida is not kept
up, and the effect is severely felt.  The college
located here is running sadly behind in support, and the
schools, more noticeably the black, are not on easy
street by any means, while the automobile blows its horn
under the mortgage load it carries.  The Ford and its
system of sales has the lockstitch on the farmers of the
country, and their dissipating influences seem to
interfere somewhat with industrial activities, but still
they come, are sold and used, and ability to indulge in
the luxury is not a matter of much consideration.  They
may be for the best, for the highways have been much
improved, the country people's opportunities enhanced
and marketing facilities bettered, but the great
question here is what to market for the poverty of the
soil does not promise much.


DOCTORS STILL SCRAPPING
   The squabble between the two fractions of the
   Sandusky County Medical Society is
getting to be rather stale news, but it may be of
interest to state that the majority fraction has filed a
motion for a new hearing of the controversy by the State
organization, and the war is still on.  The Enterprise
has no desire to lecture or criticize the medical
brethren, but in view of the present state of mind of
the doctors on both sides, one wonders if any of them
are in a condition to observe the recent admonition of
the Council of the State Medical Association, which was
as follows:
   Resolved, that solemn consideration be given
   individually and collectively by all 
members of the Sandusky County Medical Society to their
responsibilities toward the sick public in that
community, and that they comport themselves toward each
other in accordance with the best professional
traditions as contemplated in our principles of Ethics
which are and always must be, in the concluding words of
that code, "primarily for the good of the public, and
their enforcement should be conducted in such a manner
as shall deserve and receive the endorsement of the
community."


FORD TURNED TURTLE
   C. W. Weis, Cooper Bowersox and Howard Schell,
   driving to Bellevue in the Weis
car had a narrow escape from death one morning last
week.  The men all work in the Krebs-Collier factory
there.  A short distance east of Birdseye's corners
another auto running without lights drove onto McPherson
Highway from the south just ahead of them, and to avoid
a collision Mr. Weis set his brakes and hugged the
electric line closely, just escaping the car, but when
he tried to get back into the roadway his Ford became
unruly and turned turtle with the three men underneath
and the wheels in the air.  Mr Weis was considerably
bruised about the limbs but the other two were not hurt.
 The driver of the other car, Mr. Hull, and employee at
the electric power house between Clyde and Bellevue,
helped get the car right side up and the men out, and
Mr. Krebs came along soon after and took the men to
Bellevue.  It cost about $60 to repair the damaged Ford.



PLAYED A JOKE ON HIMSELF
   Mayor Blair played a good joke on himself Sunday
   evening when he captured a jug full
of what he thought to be rare Canadian whiskey.  He had
just started up town when he noticed a jug at the corner
of Amanda and Main street and tucked it under his arm
and carried it to the city hall for inspection.  He
gingerly removed the stopper from the jug when he found
that It was warm.  Upon closer examination he discovered
that it was filled with harmless water, which someone
had been using to fill a radiator, and thus a possible
scandal and arrest of a bootlegger was thwarted.

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