The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-07-17
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

county have given 5000 t" the state
fair.
DR.. VIM. Griffith, late of Green
Cove Springs, has located at Dun
mellon.
Tomorrow, Friday, is GainesvilIe's s
gala day. They are expecting a
large crowd.
Rev. l.. A. Austin, pastor of the
First Congregational church, Orange
City, is dead.
In Orlando grocery firm has been
exhibiting a watermelon that weigh
ed 74la pounds.
Gainesville is to have swimming
pool in about two weeks. 1t should
have been completed before the pri-
mary election.
Calhoun county is to build a new
$4,000 brick court house at Blounts-
town, work to start within 30 days
after signing contract.
A company has been organized at
Fernandina for the purpose of build
ing and operating a street railway
line from that city to Amelia Beach.
DR.. Thomas f. b. Herman, prOpri-
etOr of the Plaza Drugstore, St. Au-
gustine, died at his home in that
city about two o'clock Sunday morn
ing.
Rapael F. Ximanies, for the past
20 years tax collector of St. Johns
county and prominont citizen of
st. Augustine, died at noon last
Thursday.
The Seaboard Air Line is making
Il survey north and south through
Manitee, ard that town will proba-
bly, have two railroads next year.
1t had last.
The Oak Halls of Gainesville,
came near meeting their match last
Friday when they went up against
the G. w. Hydes. The score was 5
to B in favor of Oak Halls.
The peach crop at DeLand has
nearly all been shipped and the grow
ers express themselves as well pleas
ed with the prices. The crop amOun-
ted to about $1,000 baskets.
The police of Tampa captured an
unusual chicken thief Saturday.
The negro had stolen rooster pho
| tOgraphed instead of cooked. The
photographs led to his arrest.
The contractors of the new build
ing for the Sanford High school say
that they will be able to turn the
completed building over to the city
authorities the 18th of August.
The friendly" suit brought by the
county commissioners of Dade
county in the supreme court to de-
issue of bonds, has resulted in favor
of the bonds.
st. Luke's Hospital, Jacksonville,
is in need of funds. So far there
| have been no responses to the urgent
appeal. Unless relief comes in a
short time, the doors of the hospital
will be closed.
The body of Frank Larsen, the
young Norwegian sailor from the
steamer George Farwell, who was
drowned while in swimming Friday
afternoon off the foot of Liberty
street Jacksonville, was found Tues
day morning.
At special term of court at Quin-
cy Eddy Turner, Horace Murray
and Wallace Lanier We're convicted
of murder in the first degree. Last
Friday Gov. Jennings issued death
warrants for the three parties con-
victed, designating Friday, August
|, for their execution at Quincy.
Some miscreant has been turning
on the fire alarms at Key West, and
caused the fire department to be
called out. AS the new regulations
were on, districting the city, only
one engine came out at each alarm.
Two of the fire alarm boxes We're
broken in sending in the alarm
showing that it must have been the
work of a novice.
The Peabody summer schools
opened Monday at Starke and Orlan-
do. The normal at Starke will con-
tinue for a term of six weeks, with
Prof. Arthur Williams, principal,
assisted by Miss Glen Hampton.
The one at Orlando will also continue
six weeks in charge of Tom f. Nc
Beath as principal, assisted by Miss
Elizabeth Bangs.
Seven hundred head of cattle were
shipped from Punta Gorda to Cuba
by Capt. James Mckay of Tampa,
last week. The cattle are sold to
him by cattlemen of that section.
This shipment alone will distribute
over $4,000 in the county. In ten
days there will be another shipment.
The cattle are sold by the pound as
they stand on their feet.
Lyle & Co. of Barlow are harvest
ing | 900 bales of hay, averaging 80
pounds each, from 20-acre field,
and in forty days the ground will be
ready for a second cutting, when
they expect yield for 100 more
bales. This hay is from land on
which crops of cabbage, Irish pota-
| toes and beans have already been
raised in less than twelve months.
The Lake Helen Cassava Factory,
has been running on coontie
root since April, and has worked up
over 100 car loads. The starch was
all sold before being made and at very
satisfactory prices. The roots come
from Oius on the East Coast Railroad
near Miami and make a very superior
grade of starch. tits sold to the New
England cotton mills and is used for
sizing the finer grades of cotton goods.