The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-13
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.
Umatilla is shipping green peas.

tion.
The residence of o. B. Childs 0
DeLand was destroyed by fire las
week.
DR.. James Mobiles prominent den
tist and Matchmaker at Hawthorne
is dead.
Gainesville has a municipal league
which is going to ''figger" in city
politics.
Miss Alice Roosevelt passed
| through Tampa on her way to Cuba
last Tuesday.
The first crate of Strawberries fOl
the season was shipped from Lawtey
last Saturday.
The State Horticultural society
will hold its annual convention in
Tampa in May.
The Grand Lodge knights of Pyth-
las, over 300 strong, is holding ALI
nual session in Tampa.
Lakeland people are shipping
great quantities of Strawberries and
are making big money.
The store of Arnold & Sullivan at
White City has been totally de-
stroyed by fire, with no insurance.
Col. J. d. Calhoun formerly editor
of the Tampa Herald is now secre-
tary of the Tampa board of trade.
Mrs. NJ. E. Mullen has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Melrose to
succeed her husband who died last
month.
An electric trolley line is being
projected to run between Smford
and Kissimmee, a distance of over
40 miles.
The streets of Key West are to be
sprinkled regularly from the street
railway tracks, and the people are
pleased. =
Senator r. G. Platt of New York
spent Monday at the Tampa Bay ho-
tel. Het is en- route to Cuba for a
brief rest.
Edmund G. Weeks has been con-
tirmed by the U. S. Senate as Sur
veyOr-General of Florida, vice Cen
eral Sclrlett.
The state convention of Sunday
school workers (undenominationaD
will be held in Gainesville April 8th
and 10th next.
Seven ''moonshine" stills have
been destroyed in the flatwoods near
Lamont, Jefferson county, by United
States detectives.
The Russian bark Lutto from Bar
celona, Spain, is in port at Jackson
vile loading with deal planks for
Valencia, Spain.
N. P. Bishotf former city tax col
lector of Tampa has been acquitted
in the criminal court of alleged irreg-
ularities while in offie.
A six story building is to be erect
ed at the corner of Bay and Main
street, Jacksonville, and local PIT
per calls it ''sky scraper."
Joe Filmon of Tampa has been ar
rested for perjury. In procuring a
license he swore that the
young lady, who is only l3, was
older.
The work of boring for oil has COM
at Carrabelle. A company
has an so foot derrick on the ground
and is rugged to bore to a depth of
1900 feet.
President Forbes of StetsOn Uni |
versity has presented a complete set
of Chambers's encyclopedia to the
public library recently established |
at Lake Helen.
The cooking main at SpOrtsmans'
Park, Tampa, has been destroyed by !
fire. 1t has been a famous place for |
fighting chickens for the edification |
of Tampa sports.
A road 80 feet wide reaching from
Punta GOrda to Fort Ogden and |
thence to Nocatee, is being built |
with a road machine. The road will |
lie a good one when completed.
w. H. Thornton an aged and re.
spected citizen of Miami while set
ting fire to some rubbish fell in the |
fire and was so trightfully burned |
that he died in short time.
March 28th has been named as
''Florida Day" at the Charleston eX-
position. The round trip rate from
Florida points on the Plant System |
will be 80 per cent of the one way
fare.
]. B. Foley the wealthy Chicago !
medicine man has Just
bought of the Southern States Lum-
Der company, Pensacola, 25,000 acres !
of farm land in Baldwin Co., Ala
bama.
A white baby was left on the door
step of ]. w. Faulkner, a well-known
citizen of Jacksonville last Monday
night. Mr.. Faulkner didn't want the
kid so he sent it to Mary AIMS Or
phanage.
The Phoenix club, a social organi-
zation of Hebrew gentlemen in Jack
will soon be settled in its
new club room. The club was burn
ed out at the time of the big Jack
fire.
The east and west walls of the
state capitol wing are out of plumb,
having been wrenched by the storm
of last week, when the south wall
collapsed. A portion of these walls
will nave to be taken down and re-
built.
C. T. Freeker pleaded guilty in
Tampa, to charge of altering and
the records of the city of
Tampa has been fined $500. He will
be given three months to pay up,
and the case will end with this pay
ment.
The boiler in the saw mill of o. S.
Oaks, Just outside of Fernandina,
exploded with terrific force last Fri
day morning. Three colored men