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into disuse. The town has a large public school under the management of Prof. D. D. Cowan, and several] private schools. Here is an excellent, location for an academy.	rv
There are four church edifices: Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist, also two colored churches, Methodist and Baptist.
There is the usual complement of dry goods and other mercantile houses, drug stores, etc., found in a place of its size. Population is 1,600.
A large saw-mill, planing mill, and dry-kiln are in operation here; and a large brick-vard where bricks are turned out by modern machinery, a short distance up Fort Bayou.
Two miles north of the city is the fruit farm of Parker Earle & Sons, covering about four hundred acres. Just across the bayou is a branch of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the A. & M. College at Starkville, •Mississippi. It is' under the supervision of F. S. Earle, Esq., an efficient and well-informed farmer and fruit-grower.
Ocean Springs is the eastern terminal point of the “Coast Train,’' which leaves for New Orleans at 5:45 A. m., arrives there at 9 A. M., leaving there at 3:45 p. m. it arrives at Ocean Springs at 7 p. m., giving over six hours in the city for transacting business. This is an accommodation on the part of the railroad of which a great many persons at the Coast towns as well as in the metropolis avail themselves. The gentlemen of Ocean Springs whose portraits are given as fair representatives of the business men of the city are Mr. F. M. Weed, the railroad and express agent whose sixteen years of continuous service and management there may be safely taken as au evidence of efficiency and faithfulness. Mr. \V. is a native of the Green Mountain State, and comes of sturdy Mayflower stock, g, lineal descendant of the AVinslows. He is a man of strong convictions and resolutions.
* .. Ex-Mavor R. A. Vaucleave is one of the best known merchants on the ^ Coast. “Native and to the manner born,” the writer has found in him an oracle on various subjects referred to in these pages. To vary slightly the vernacular of the trade the ex-Mayor answers the requirements of straight fabric^and full width.
-	W. S. Garrard, Esq., is among the most substantial and highly re-
•	spected men on the Coast. For many years he was a prominent business man’ll St. Louis and later in New Orleans. The healthfulness and other attractions of the Coast induced him to make his home at Ocean Springs, where, with his estimable wife and their son, he resides in a beautiful home
*	on the Fort Bayou front of the city.
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