Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-08-25
news FROM ALL
PARTS OF FLORIDA
Brief Happenings From Various
Sections Of State.
THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS

TraaspiFIng In 1.-THE Land Of Flowers
Things "BolIsd Down" TO Suit the
BUsy Readsr--Items of Interest 10
AL Classes.
Tafpon are reported very plentiful
81 MslbOurn.
Miami baseball team was defeated
by Daytona Monday.
Orange trees around Mt. Dora are
looking better than for several years.
New buildings, cement walks and q
general awakening 10 the report from
EnoaiU.
The mosquitoes are 80 numerous at
Cutler that there ia a general suspen.
sion Of work
Jacksonville 10 TO have q young la
dles acsdemy, and brilliant faculty
is Alreauy secured.
Rev. Frederick Jones Of the Baptist
church, Pensacola, has resigned and
viii return Co North Carolina,
Mrs. Geo, J. Sullivan OF Perrin was
stTuck by lightning while cooking din
neF and her feet were badly burned.
The new firm, the ThompSon-Hall
Company, has opened up general
merchandise business In the pOstoffice
building at Oxford.
The election 10 Pensacola to bond for
$4,000 for waterworks, sewerage, paw.
Ing, city hall and police station. was
carried by large majoTities.
The mayor Of St. Augustine has de-
claFed war on the worthless dogs. He
eould do power a. good over here,
when he gets the ancient dogs out Of
che way,
1t 10 stated that the Merchants and
Ainep' transportation Company has
purchased valuable real estate In Jack
SonvIlle, and may establish q line TO
that city.
The treasurer OF the Tampa OH GAR
Mahers' Union has skipped out and
the 1890 in the treasury probably ac-
eompanied him. Wine, women and
bOllla are che cAuSe Of his downfall.
HAlcyon Hall, Miami's new hotel, Ia
rapidly nearing completion, and It
will be one OF the finest on the East
Coast. IL will have tile roof Of much
beauty, and the entire structure 10
very imposing.
A rumor 10 going the rounds Gt Tam
pa that the Atlantic Coast Line 10 TO
supply rolling stock for, and several
naval stores men thereAbout, are to
construct q railroad To connect with
the Atlantic Coast Line spur at West
Tampa and traverse the West Coast
via Green Springs to Clearwater
Rev 4. W, Walker, president If the
Sutherland Seminary At Sutherland on
the West Coast, was married Thursday
10 Mics Grace Parker Of Arcadia At the
brides home They will spend their
honeymoon in California. The fair
bride 10 = graduate Of Sutherland and
member OF one Of the weAlthicst
families in DeSoto county,
The George +, Wood Lumber Com.
pNny Is StIll making extensive i'm.
provsmenlV on the south side OF Gary
vile. seVelal new cottages for the
mill hands have been huilt within the
past few weeks. This locality 10 used
by the colored hands, The old houses
will soon be removed aud new aud
convenient cottages will take their
place, which will give that section q
much more city.like appearance.
The tar values in Washington coun.
~ for 1904 were t?.092, 900, and for
1903 they are a. .240 ,UOO, thus giving an
increase oi t?ls,oUo for the yeAr, The
fact. too, must br remembered, that
there Was no hoom in property In The
county, nor has there been any unusual
inhaH OF property ~ money from o1lt.
side the county The increase simpiy
shows the healthy growth ~ good old
washington county --Ihtpley Hammer