BOUTON, FLETCHER PARK. The many advantages of the Sunshine City awaken the enthusiasm and urge to the utmost those handling its realty, for there is no question but that an investment made here will yield, within a short time, a handsome return for the confidences thus displayed. For this, and other cogent reasons, some of the most alert men, many of them from more northern climes, have become permanent residents of St. Petersburg, and are devoting themselves to the real estate business with satisfactory results both to themselves and to the community which is being admirably developed through their resourcefulness and convincing actions. One of these progressive realtors, whose operations are conducted upon an extensive scale, is FLETCHER PARK BOUTON, of the firm of Bouton & Cermah, 519 Central Avenue.

Mr. BOUTON was born in New Hampshire, June 13, 1888, a son of T. C. H. and ANNIE S. (WHITEHOUSE) BOUTON, natives of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, respectively. Both survive and are now living at St. Petersburg. They have but the one child. Mr. BOUTON attended the public schools of his native state, and Cushing Academy of Ashburham, Massachusetts, and left the latter in 1908. Subsequently he went to New York City, and still later to Boston, in both cities having considerable experience in the real estate business. It was while he was working in the latter city that his interest was aroused in St. Petersburg, and in 1915 he located here permanently, entering at once into his present undertaking. His previous training and natural qualifications have been of great value to him, and his business has been a successful one from the start, while his value to his community is ever on the increase. He is one of the progressives in his line, and never considers any effort too great which has for its object the further development of the city or county.

In 1910 Mr. BOUTON was married to ELIZABETH McKEON, of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, and they have one daughter, ANNIE J. Mr. BOUTON belongs to the Country, Yacht and Sportsmen clubs of his locality, and takes a prominent part in all of them. It is such men as Mr. BOUTON who have interested not only outsiders in the present and future of St. Petersburg, but the residents themselves, arousing in them the helpful local pride so necessary for a proper expansion, and judged alone by what he has accomplished in this way, Mr. BOUTON's work here has been of great value.