The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-03-20
STATE NEWS.

vegetable are being shipped from
Miami by car loads daily
Gainesville is trying to secure ru-
raj free delivery, with the prospects
favorable
The E. w. Bond company is put
ting up a large vaneer mill at Lake
Helen.
Rev. CawthOn, pastor of the Bap-
tist church at st. Augustine, has re-
signed.
Herman Winter of Savannah
threatens to build brewery in Jack
sonville.
Rev. L. s. Chafer and wife of
Northfield, Mass, have begun n Sc
ries of revival meetings in Tampa.
S. p. Jones of Louisville, KY,
caught and landed a seven foot tar
pom at Fort Myers last week, the
biggest since 1897.
The Florida Medical Association
will hold its annual convention in
st. Augustine on the 9Th, 9th and
10th of next month.
The Mace & Blake orange grove of
66 acres and 4 400 trees, situated six
miles from Arcadia has been sold.
The price paid was $4,000.
Tallahassee is going to ask the leg
islature for permission to bond the
city for 100000 to pave streets. The
city is also preparing to extend its
limits.
I. f. Cooper charged with the
murder of Marshal Bowman has
been convicted and sentenced to
hang at Punta GOrda. He is a white
skinned man.
Tampa police have been aroused to
fit of jealousy by what they term
flake" detectives. The average po-
lice will scarcely acknowledge that
when it comes to detective work he
| is also a 'fake," but then most of
/ the people know it, so what's the
differ.
At Key West last week Chas. L.
| Knowles, member elect of the state
legislature, was given blessing at a
public meeting in the Congregational
church. A member going to Talla-
hassee thus fortified ought to be ena-
bled to keep out of the hands of the
lobbyists.
Price Bros of Melrose have shipped
81 bales of cotton and HI. A. Blake, of
the same place, 80 bales, all the past
season. The Price Bros. are extern
Sively engaged i'll canning fruit for
shipment and will put out big sup
| ply this season-running into thous-
ands of cans
Rev. S. L. McCarty, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Tallahassee
has been given vote of confidence,
and better still $500 increase to his
salary. He had received a call to
| Thomasville, Ga, and the vote and
wad was given to ease the conSci-
ence of the congregation as much as
to hold their pastor.
An attempt was made to assassi-
nate William Felkel at his home in
Moccasin Gap, near Tallahassee, re-
Gently. Felkel was undressing for
the night when some one fired bird
shot into him. He is not badly in
| iured. 1t is not stated what William
Felkel had been doing. He is a
brother of the county taX-assessor.
A middle Florida base ball league,
embracing clubs from Lake City,
Madison, Monticello, Tallahassee
and Quincy will probably be organ
ized. Gainesville will probably re-
organize the famous "Oak Halls"
and that town is moving for the or
ganization of state league.
Walter G. Robinson of Gainesville,
one of the best posted cotton men in
the state says that there was planted
in Alachua and Levy counties last
season an aggregate of $4,000 acres,
producing 5000 bales, which sold at
an average of $40 a bale. OF this
acreage Alachua county claims 1900
bales, with an increase of $4,000,
making an average of 3,9l acres to
the bale; and Levy county farmers
planted 5000 acres, producing 800
bales, an average of $50 acres to the
bale. The marketed crop of last
season amounted to $5S8,OO0.
The cause of good roads for the
east coast of Florida received a boom
last week at st. Augustine, when the
East Florida Good Roads League
was formed. 1t is proposed to build
hard surface road from Jackson
Vile to Miami. Much of this work
has already been done by the Flag
ler interests. 1t is estimated that
the road will cost $4,000 mile.
Some favor bonding, others favor a
direct tax for the purpose. Senator
A. S. Mann, head of the good roads
movement in the state, favors the
use of the Indian War Claims Fund
for good roads in the state. The
roads should be built.
Several hundred of the leading
citizens of DeLand, headed by May
or Fish, called on John B. Stetson at
the College Arms last Thursday and
presented him with an address which
expresses confidence in the purity
of his motives in seeking to secure a
change in the presidency of the
university. The address says there
is imperative need for immediate
change. The pastors of the city
have also had meeting and eX'
pressed the opinion that DR.. Jno. F.
Forbes should resign the presidency
Even the Baptists of the state are
getting little ashamed of the actor
of their State Association in painting
an additional coat of whitewash or
DR.. Forbes, without so much as in
vestigating the charges. In a few
days, ii this sentiment keeps grow
ing at it's present pace, there won
be any one to side with DR.. Forbes
except Gov. Jennings, Bro. Porter
Sister Mathis and the doctors paiC
attorney.
The First National Bank of FlorI
da at Jacksonville was closed by or
der of the comptroller of the curren
CIV last Monday and is in charge of ,
receiver. 1t is is the oldest nation
al bank in the state, and was estab
lished in 1874 by General Francis f
Spinner and his sOn-in-law, j. NJ
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