The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-02-13
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.
Lakeland's city hall is almost com
pleted.


ida points and 1t is needed.
The truckers of Umatilla have
planted $50 acres in garden sass.
j. G. Showers has been appointed
postmaster at West Palm Beach.
The orange shipping season at
Thonotosassa has come to an end.
The Windsor hotel, Jacksonville,
was opened to the public yesterday.
Gainesville people think their
chances are good for a public build
ing.
The Florida long staple cotton
growers association is in session at
Alachua.
Nine miles of the Air Line road
between Citra and Ocala has been
completed.
Bonfires were built in orange
groves at OrmOnd last week to keep
out Jack Frost,
DR.. o. Clute, formerly president
of the state Agricultural College, is
dead in California.
A paper company with $4,000 cap
ital has been Incorporated at Pensa-
cola, to make paper.
Thousands of quarts of strawber-
ries are leaving Lakeland daily for
the northern market.
The infant son of Mr.. J. L. Hol-
lingsworth of Barlow is dead from
burns received three weeks ago.
The gin of H. F. Dutton & Co.,
Gainesville, has ginned 2,14O bales
of long staple cotton since last Sep
tember.
M. Jules Cambon, ambassador to
the United States from France is
basking in the sunshine of Palm
Beach.
Eustis has a new ice factory and
the people regard it as a great bless
ing for which they will pay 60 cents
a hundred
The county commissioners of Volu-
sia county have ordered open road
to run from Smith creek to the At
lantic ocean.
M. J. Dooner's store at San Anto-
MO has been entered by burglars, and
a considerable quantity of goods tax
en- therefrom.
Howard G. Jones, pioneer fruit
grower of Lake Weir, but since the
big freeze commercial traveller, is
lead at Ocala,
A flowing well has been struck at
at distance of Is feet, and
jhe people don't know what to do
with so much water.
A packing house association has
)een formed at Boynton. The main
business of the place is pineapple
md vegetable growing.
Farmers in the vicinity of Archer
lave sOwn large amount of oats,
'ut it is dry, awfully dry, and many
II them are praying for rain.
Mrs. ]. E. Ingraham of st. Angus |
inc was elected state secretary of the
Kings Daughters at the state con- |
yentiOn at Melbourne last week. 5
Thirteen recruits for the United Z
states navy have been accepted by
he recruiting station at Jackson
lille, and forwarded to New York.
Micanopy farmers are selling corn l
It 81 per bushel, and shipping let I
uce. They sing as they work, for 1
here is prosperity in the prices of
10Th. I
The Florida Chautauqua at De Fu- I
lax Springs opened on Wednesday. {
he program is good one and the 7
utlook for the assembly is brighter S
han ever. I
Base ball at Winter Park on Satur- \
ay between Rollins College and \
cam of South Florida Military In 7
titute was won by the former by :
core 20 to Z.
Irish potatoes and water melons
ill be the principal crop at Sum- :
lerfield this year. More of them I
ill be planted than in any two pre- Z
ious seasons. L
Two bald eagles were killed near
lew Smyrna last week by Rev. A.
7. Elrod and Robert White. They
leasured seven feet and five teet \
W. lhSiCS lSSPOSttNSAy'
The Columbia Brick Company, Il
axe City, whose plant was recently 4
estroyed by fire has ordered new n
and will have the plant !.
INNING again in thirty days. " v
T. S. Johnson who lives four miles t.
asst of Leesburg has 80 acres of C
range grove under cultivation. The 0
'ees are large and healthy, and it is &
ne of the sights of that section of d
le country. 4
Fire at Kissimmee on Saturday W
light destroyed seven business h
ouses on Broadway and entailed a il
,ss of $4,000 only partly insured. t.
he town has no organized means of p
ghting fire. d
State Chemist r. E. Rose has dis Il
1vered fraudulent fertilizers being /
I'D in west Florida, and the Com II
lissioner of Agriculture has direct
| the sheriff to proceed against the n
lilty parties.
Ex-senator Samuel Pasco, of Mon
cello, a member of the Isthmian
NAL commission, told the Senate 3
lmmittee on Tuesday that he favor n
| the Panama route, and gave his n
,asons therefor. . .
There is great scarcity of farm d
Dor in Leon and other middle north s
lorida counties, The pay is 40 d
,nts per day and rations and men @
lght to tumble over themselves to
ather in this wealth. d
Some time ago ]. t. Carson of Ock-
,waha shipped car of velvet beans d
} his dairy farm in Nashville, Tenn. IL
lis manager now says: 81 am feed c,
g fifty-six cows on them. / first Il
Dill, then sprinkle a little cottonseed Il
eal and BRAN over them, and the
)w of milk has increased almost Il