The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-10-20
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be removed to Brouksvllle.
The Royal Palm hotel at Miami Will
build an addition in few weeks,
The South Florida horticultural So.
ciety has been organized at Punta Gorda'
A schooner loaded with coal made
the run from Baltimore to Key West
in six days.
Stetson University expects to have
the strongest football eleven IN the
State this year
Friday, November "a, has been de-
cidrd on as Confederate Veterans day
at the State fair
The Hotel Bonhomie at Pass-a-Grille
is open for the season and the tourists
will soon be on hand.
The St.Augustine Eagles contemplate
illuminating that city on the occasion OF
President Roosevelts visit.
Pensacola has number of volunteer
inspectors who are doing good service
in locating the yellow fever cases
The municipal government of the
town of Largo, Hilsborough county,
has been dissolved by mutual consent,
A reward of $500 is offered for the
return of |. j. Mccall of Jasper, former
clerk of the circuit court of Hamilton
county.
The people of Hastings and vicinity
have gone to work on their good roads
proposition, and as result there is
general awakening,
Cincinnati orange buyers are Skin
mishing around Hillsborough county,
trying to buy all the oranges they can
on the trees at 81 per box.
The B. c. & st. A. Railroad is now
all contracted from St. Andrews to
Columbus, Ga, and most of the con-
tractors are at work with large forces.
AS soon as the preliminaries can be
arranged with the U. S. war depart
ment the Lake Worth Yacht club will
let contract for the construction of
the finest dock in West Palm Beach
John Aiken, the negro who robbed 50
many houses in Tampa, has been SEN
fenced to 20 years by Judge Gordon.
The previous bad character Of Aiken
was the cause of his getting such
, bountful sentence.
The Manufacturers Record shows
that the national bank deposits in
Florida have increased nearly 50 per
cent in the past two years, the exact
figures being as follows: 1903, 1868
s2S; 1905, Sl4,0S5, 533; incease IS, 40l,
7O5 or 45,4 per cent
Probably in the history Of no Southern
State fair has there been such an un-
precedented demand for exhibit space
as at the Florida State Fair to be held
in Tampa November 10 to &c. which
gives every indication of proving the
most successful State fair ever held in
the South
The DeSoto County Advertiser is Of
the opinion that orange buyers have
formed combine this year to do" the
grower Maybe; and if they have,
they'll do him proper" Next year,
however, the story will be different,
and it will not be the grower that will
be held up, either.
While the denizens of Mill Dam, near
Jacksonville, were enjoying a social
hop the other night, some darkey who
was not on the list of invited guests
amused himself by shooting at the fes-
tive crowd through the open window.
II he hadn't run out of ammunition he
would have had the crowd crippled so
there would not have been enough for
one set in short time.
B. E. McI.in, commissioner of agr-
culture, has sent out circulars calling
attention to adulterated stock feed.
Among other things, he quotes from
another report: Rice bulls contain
40 per cent. of wood fiber and from Is
to 20 per cent. of silica or sand. Worse
than this, the edges of the hulls carry
sharp barbs which irritate the stomach
ard ntestines of the animals, and when
fed in quantity the hulls may kill the
animals to which they are fed. Rice
hulls are, therefore, not only worthless,
but even dangerous to live of horses and