The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-11-24
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house. There are other cities in Meet oi
one.
1t has been several days since acasc
of yellow fever has been reported at
Pensacola.
The West Palm Beach Daughters Of
the Confcderacy will give Thanks
giving dinner.
1t is given out that the contract for
the construction of the Miami trolley
line has been let
Lee county figures ON having an orange
crop of 100000 boxes, about - per cent
less than last year
More than twenty thousand people
attended the Ringling circus in Jackson
vile ON Wednesday,
The annual distribution Of vegetable
and flower seeds by the [, : Depart
ment of Agriculture will begin on Dec, /,
Professor El2ey, superintendent of pub
lie instruction of Duval county has re-
signed his position because Of i'll health.
Jacksonville will have a test case Of
the Jim Crow street ordinance in that
city. Andrew Patterson will he the
candidate
Black dengue disease among the
deer Of Lafayette county, is said to be
killing the animals in that section at an
alarming rate.
NJ. W. Goode, road superintendent of
Dade county. was assaulted and seriously
injured Monday by negro convict in the
stockade at Ojus.
Orange growers at Orlando are OPP
posed to shipping fruit before it is ripe,
but the buyers are demanding it, while
some are afraid of a freeze.
A party of Orlando hunters went to
Apopka marsh, and while they were
away from camp after game some one
stole the tent and tie whole outfit.
With the orange crops. the peach
crops. the truck crops the fields crops
and cattle industry the people Of Volusia
airs complaining of no hard times. Re
cord.
Some of the Jacksonville hotels are
advertising summer rates and cool. airy
rooms. Many people prefera moder-
ately warm room in winter, but don I
kick on summer rates.
The Milwaukee orange grove crop of
oranges at Belleville is estimated at 80,
900 boxes. The grove contains 200 acres
in orange trees. This is the largest
grove on this peninsula.
Twelve boys were sent to the Reform
school at Mariana from Jacksonville
last Monday morning, to serve until q
years old unless legally discharged.
Four were white and eight We're colored.
The business men of kissimmee who
were burned out on Thursday night of
last week, involving loss Of some ST,
900, have commenced to rebuild, although
the loss was not half covered by insur-
ance.
Perry, the county-seat of Taylor
county, will not rest until they have
four railroads centering there. They
will be the Florida road, already there,
Seaboard Air Line, Live Oak, Perry &
Gulf and Atlantic Coast Line.
Our next door neighbor +. B. Doug
lass has on his front lawn an alligator
pear tree that is loaded down with fine
pears. One trouble about it, however.
is that an electric light pole stands near
by the pear tree. miami News.
The Bradford County Teachers AS
ISOLATION will meet in Lake Butler Fri
day, December LIST. The teachers are
preparing an elaborate program for this
occasion and it is hoped that a large dele
cation will be on hand. Lake Butler
Star.
Col. w. c. Fowler of the Kentucky
Military Institute will bring $50 cadets
with him to Eau Gallie, January 7th to
attend school. The Sarno hotel and
cottages have been leased for the use
of the college during the winter months.
The present outlook for Bradford
county's strawberry crop is most en-
couraging. The growers about Starke
give good reports and Lawtry CORES
pondent says of the outlook there:
1.-THE rainy season has been an ideal one
for strawberry culture Tho folds o,.o