The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-12-01

greed to keep their places OF business
CLOSED ON Sunday.
Hon. j. NJ. Bryan has sold his Kissim-
NEE orange grove Of l,7j0 trees to his
three sons for $50, 600.
Oranges are said to be rpcning very
slowly in the section about Gambler and
very few have been shipped.
The Levy county teachers will hold an
institute at Bronson on Friday, Dccem-
Der list. in the high school building.
A railroad from Mobile to Pensacola
and the Atlantic coast is now assured
Much of the right Of way has been se'
cured.
Miami, which has already nearly all
the good things on earth is expecting to
have street railway in operation With
in year.
The crop of ostrich plumes recently
harvested at the Jacksonville farm
shows that industry to be thriving in
this climate.
All the cigar makers of Key West are
ON a strike and there is a chance of all
the labor unions of the city joining in
sympathetic strike
The captain of one sponge vessel at
Tarpon Springs sold cargo Of 40
sponges for s. per bunch, This was the
result of 20 days work.
Edwin c. Kiley, of Miami, was ar
rested on Wednesday for obtaining let
tiers belonging to another man. lie
got the letters at one of the city hotels
The Welaka Moss Factory is now in
staling new and up-to-date machinery
and expects to do rushing business
There is good demand for their pro-
duct
The Jacksonville life insurance COM
mittee advises policy holders throughout
the state to get together in a state con-
vention, suggesting one vote for each
$1,000 of insurance.
Live Oak is to have four new rural
free mail delivery routes established at
that point. With good roads the rural
routes will be established all over the
State.
The contract for building the Boca
Grande extension of the SeabOard Air
Line has been let to Captain {. II.
Davis of Manatee, and the actual work
will be commenced on or about the
first Of December.
The citizens of Cocoa, Rockledge and
City Point are endeayoring to organize
company with sufficient capital to put
in an electric light and power plant,
covering radius of nine miles. New
York capital is interested.
When Mayor Metcalf Of West Palm
Beach saw how blue his blue laws re-
Parding Sunday closing of business
places made the people look, he decided
to have them modified SO that the citi-
zcns could go out and get the milk for
their coffee when the dairyman came
along.
Governor Broward has appointed II.
II. Palmer as superintendent of public
instruction for Duval county. to succeed
Prof Elzey, resigned. There were two
petitions before the executive praying
for the appointment of a woman to the
position. Mr.. Palmer is mail clerk
between Jacksonville and Miami, anG
is a close friend of Governor Broward.
The people of st. Augustine waiteC
at the opera house two hours one even.
ing last week to hear the performance
of Faust by Lewis Morason, but vii
not wait to hear the minister preach q
"Mephisto" sermon two minutes. OF
course the minister don't have the me,
chanical effects nor buy the advertising
space that Mr.. Morrison does.
If the approval of Lieutenant Colone
John b. Quinn, and Major F. R. Skunk
u. 5. A. engineers, supervising the dig
ging Of the new ship canal connecting
Miami with the sea, carry weight along
with the efforts of others, this important
facility to the commerce of the port vii
not only be completed as originally in.
tended, but otherimprovements of great
er magnitude will ultimately be made in
the channel which will make the port
and harbor of Miami one of the best on
the south Atlantic coast