Continuing with excerpts from Mrs. Tinney's 1914 letter about Pompano:

The first days of Pompano were considerably marred by a class of rough people, who like to drink and fight, thus making it very undesirable for those who were used to better things. But, as time rolls on, there have come into the country people who tried to overcome these undesirable things, and to upbuild and help towards the betterment of the place. So today we have a start that makes us proud to own Pompano as our town.

The men who once tried to dry the state by drinking all the whiskey in it up, have reformed, and are today the leading men in the town, and are doing all in their power to catch up with the lost time and double their efforts in making the town second to none along the line.

We have a nice little church, dedicated to the M.E. Conference, but used by all the different denominations, which are Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterians, Lutheran and Episcopalian. We have a fine Sunday School, with an enthusiastic crowd of little folks. We have one of the best day schools in the state with two teachers. We have a wooden building now, but have the money for a fine stone building, with a donation of four acres to build on as soon as we can get to it, but the work is crowded on the people faster than they have the time to fill.

Of course Mrs. Tinney was describing only Pompano's white community -- racial segregation was the law of the land. Pompano's black residents did not have a formal school yet, but its churches had been well established by this date.