The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-10-31
This i the lass day Of. October.

0uvsu0G OOW map ana stiil no I1u.
Are you fattenine your Thanksgiving |
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DR.. W. L. Moor has eight acres planted
n pecan&
In this day of souvenir spoons Ben But
Ter ought to be In the swim.
Judge r. G. Long and family have re.
turned from pleasant visit to Pensacola.
Miss Pepper of Thomasville, who has
been visiting Mrs. w. W. McGrif, has re-
turned home.
The latest is not "girl of the period" but |
girl of the dot. And why? Well, is not
period dot?
Hog killings and cane grndings will
soon engage the attention of the Leon
county farmers.
Leon county peanuts are finding
ready sale at four dollars bushel. The
crop has been extra large this year.
The LaPerree phosphate company have
fitted up neat and attractive Office in the
Clark building two doors north Of the
postoffice.
The Burden Waterltt company of
Jacksonville, capital stock $4,000, has
filed articles of incorporation with the
secretary OF state.
The machinery. at the LaPierre phos-
plate mines will probably be started to
work next week. The mining operations
will begin in earnest.
The artesian we'll has already been
sunk over 500 feet, the original contract
depth, and sufficient supply of water
has not yet been obtained.
Hon. R. II. NJ. Davidson of Quincy,
Frank w. Pope of Jacksonville and T.
L Clarke of Monticello were among the
guests of the st. James Thursday.
One of the novel sights to be seen on
Monroe street in Tallahassee at 100 p. m.
Wednesday was an associate justice of the
supreme court walking along peeling a
stalk of sugar cane and chewing the juicy
with gusto.
Shade Fitzpatrick, colored, tenant on
the Ross plantation near Tallahassee,
was shot and killed Saturday night while
attempting to prevent two beligerant
negroes from fighting.
The Leon county farmer who plants
just half the acreage next year that he did
| this, and puts just as much cultivation and
fertilization on his ten acres next year as
he did this year on twenty acres, will make
more money at a less cost of labor.
Beauty is said to be only skin deep, but
to possess and preserve beautiful skin,
pure, vigorous blood, is essential. This
is best secured by taking Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla in small but frequent doses. It il
the most reliable of blood purifiers.
| The story entitled 1.-THE Wilder John
sing" in the November number Of Harper!
magazine. by Ruth McEmery Stuart, Il
one Of the very best pen pictures Of negro
social life in the South that the editor o.
the FLoRIDIAN ever read. 1t is worth th,
price of the magazine to read it.
| Charlotte Landers, colored woman
who lives on the Shepard plantation neal
Tallahassee, widow of Isaac Landers, F.
Union soldier. has been granted a pension
SO month for herself and 50 month
for each of her two children. duting from
October, 1890.
Mr.. T. J. Roberts and Mr.. w. G. FULLY
left Saturday for Kansas City, Mo-, to pur
chase horses and mules for the sale ane
livery stables Of T. J. Roberts s. Son. Mr.
Miles johnson accompanied them TO pur
chase brood mares, he having decided te
engage 10 stock raising on an extensive
scale Stock raising is becoming quite III
industry in Leon county.