The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-03-05
STATE NEWS.

Tho Mount Do'" "'
, he 10th of this month
'u' sum of s2,863.5o has been ex-
-l1s far drawing the plans for Pensa-
sSsr public building
1asper Times says there has been
~la luz demand for early seed corn this
ess% than was ever known in that Sec
4, r. B. Tatum, formerly editor of
N, 1'.,ow Courer-lnformant, was mar
bsl'IR Rome Ga, Saturday, to Miss
,oam shooting match between the
~ a1ahs of Monticello and Boston, Ca,
cl 'sr the Monticello club won by a
.a' # twenty-five birds
p,ssident J. Z. 1ngraham, of the
:. :. Florida Railway Company, has do
ui1 ! mo hundred dollars to Pasco
s 'sa Graded School
y T Henry, of Columbia county,
..Sss54.55 this year from five acres of
s,,o, and George Z, an Mat'ox' OF Inc
~ " county, netted 1913 from two
S,.lover an Indian prisoner, escaped
-'' rort Barancas last week. He is a
u ,,ste character, and, it is feared, will
s s~ncb mischief before being recap
Inn J. X. Foster, of Mascotte, sent
~ boxes of oranges to Paris last
i IN response to an order. The con-
wrote that the citrus fruit there
J. T.rv inferior, and he yearneo for a
- genuine Florida oranges-the best
The world.
Jacksonville Times Union Hon. w.
farmer, of Harris Road, Representa-
!, inf the Florida Legislature from Mas
|" o0uutv, is stopping with his bride at
|. fremont Hotel, en- route to Cuba.
+ Farmer was formerly Miss Nellie E.
Porpn charming young lady of Cles-
e. Fla.
-Chiplev Times: A gentleman is
,r from Detroit, Michigan, looking over
!, country with the view of purchasing
eaO or 5000 acres Of land for colony
n wish to engage in the raising of
bssO for the northern market; they
n expect to raise tobacco quite extern
1ely.
DR. John J. Anderson, who arrived
Jacksonville from New York by the
|umer Iroquois, on Monday morning, is
author of the well-known series of
blerson's School Histories. He will
Hde in Florida till the end of next
hanth, making his home at the Clarendon
HOTEL Green Cove Springs.
-Crawfordville Times: Captain John
I Cook, chief engineer of the surveying
mps of the A., T. & G. r. r., passed
trough town on Monday last en- route
br Carrabelle. On interrogating our
god friend as to the cause Of his looking
blithe and jolly, he answered with a
perry wink: Business, plenty business
headm
Jacksonville Times Union: A train
f cars, loaded with fruit, runs through
rom Sacramento to New York in six
lays; it takes as long to get fruit from
lorlda. Freight on the box Of oranges
om Sicily to New York averages 25 cents
e box; should it be more than 35 cents
um Florida? This is a question in
Dlcn our iralt-growers are vitality inter
Lake City Citizen: Two acres in
eo,acco, 1918; thirty in cotton, 1912.
ooacco per acre, $3.50; cotton per acre,
z4O. Difference per acre in favor of
pOacco, sl76.6O. Give us the differ
aoe and keep the cotton. 1t is none
w a'e 10 prepare for a tobacco crop.
sse soVn IN March and given proper at
snI I9 will quickly produce strong,
sa!ay plants, that may be early trans
P ssnIed and kept growing right along.
liant now and try it.
The following prizes were awarded
:i 'as oeala Semi-Tropical Exposition
n nasy ). Lake county, display of citrus
Si's' up IOma and $3.50; o. P. Rocks.
n 1a"l r!l citrus display, diploma and
Nv; ;s' ol'rus county, agricultural display,
n 'p0Is and 5000; Colonel John Brad.
;su' leon county, individual agricultural
%!' ulPloma and 500; Colonel John
ssul0fd' Leon county, hay, Weihe's gold
y u John A. Frese, Pasco, strawber.
!, alpl0ma and S25 Florida Produce
nI"ma Company, canned goods
:, lakeland Cracker: The Methodists
u ~ 10, oommenced work on their church.
A. oSlialDg will be erected on the east
v =; 'ue OLD one, and the present build
nv W., De used as parsonage. Mr.
1eI l Di,1 has completed the laying of the
k... a l.