The De Soto County news., 1905-09-08

The Starke ice company has been
organized with 10000 capital stock by
Paul e. Canova and associates.
The winona Park Development COM
pany, incorporated, with 10000 capi-
tai stock, has completed organization
at Auburndale.
Punta Gorda growers are shipping a
carload per day Of Smooth Cayenne
pineapples, the finest in the world
Punta Gorda Herald.
Marion and Putnam counties are
lining up for and against local option
and the battle is becoming very ex-
citing.
The high water in the vicinity OF
Kissimmee is interfering with the cat
fish business and they are scattering
around In the marches.
st. Augustine will have a number Of
buses TO use on some Of the narrow
streets In the ancient city. There will
beroom for two to pass without crowd
ing and they will be novelty to many
visitors.
The State Normal School, which has
Just closed, has been one Of the most
successful ever held in the State, which
shows that the educational interest in
Florida is steadily advancing. The
teachers in attendance has been as en-
thusisstic as the faculty in charge.
Two convicts working in the Hick-
man turpentine farm on Shell Creek
attempted to escape last week, and
both we're shot, wounded and recap
tured by the guard. The Hickmans,
by the by, sold out to the Consolidated
company a month ago and moved way.
-Punta Gorda Herald.
The planning mill, dry kiln and sew
eral thousand feet Of lumber belong
ing to the Jasper Manufacturing COM
pany, we're destroyed by fire Wednes-
day night. The saw mill and office
were saved by hard work. The loss
will reach $4,000, with no insurance.
Jasper has no fire company or fire pro-
lection Gainesville Sun.
An enormous addition TO the rolling
stock equipment Of the Florida East
Coast Railway has been made. One
hundred Hart convertible cars have
just been delivered to the company
and seventy of these have arrived at
St. Augustine, the other thirty being
in Jacksonville. They each have a ca
pacity of SS 900 pounds.
Recently a wildcat broke into the
fowl house OF ]. B. Moody near Char
lotte Harbor and killed forty-seven Of
his chickens. He lays the blame for
this on Bruce Knight, whom he charges
with having run out all the good dogs
by introducing pointers and settlers,
and it was the want of good dogs that
enabled the wildcat to commit the
slaughter.-Punta Gorda Herald.
The railroads know pretty well what
business is coming their way, and all
those entering Florida are preparing |
for a very heavy winter travel Indeed,
the winter business will soon begin,
of the home people return
ing home from a summer outing, and |
thousands coming into the State from
the North to locate for the winter, and |
even for the purpose OF investing in a
winter home. .-VolusiaC County Record
The excellent record made by the
Florida rifle team at Sea Girt and the |
OF the dates for the en-
of the First infantry at Lake
City and the Second at Orlando, has
aroused renewed interest in the State
militia. Florida has just cause to feel
proud Of its soldier boys. Every busi-
ness man who has members Of the
Florida State troops in his employ
should at once announce to them his
granting OF leave OF absence
from business during the encampment.
To be efficient, the State troops must
have the instructions which they can
get only in the annual encampments-
and it should be the unanimous wish
to have them as efficient as are the
members OF the regular army Times
Union.
AS had been expected, the city is
being mallgned in the press, especially
In the State OF Florida. A Tampa
paper under big headlines and certain
" without the least sign Of authority
makes out that three deaths have
already occurred at Pensacola on ac-
count OF the fever" This is not under
! Pensacola date line. 1t appears to
have been written in the office Of the
Tampa sheet and there is nothing in
he entire article qualifying such
All messages which rave
ieen sent from here, both in the Asso-
'iated Press service and in the specials
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