The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-06-21
{ LATE STATE NEWS.

Eugene Masters has been elected
mayor of st. Augustine over DR.. De-
Witt Webb.
Ex-Governor Bloxham has gone to
Lynchburg, Va, and North Carolina
to spend the summer season.
Last year Williston shipped $4,000
baskets of cucumbers; this year the
output will go to 10000 baskets.
The state summer normal school
at Gainesville opened on Monday
with a large attendance-nearly 200.
The Atlantic Coast Line freight
depot and office at Tampa was bad
ly damaged by fire last Saturday
morning.
]. B. Conrad of DeLand has pur-
chased the entire recent issue of the
bonds of that place, amounting to
| $4,000.
Three negro murderers were hung
IN Florida last Friday, one at Jack
sonville, one at Milton and one in
south Florida.
Melrose has a new public well on
the principle street, 40 feet deep,
which farmers coming into the place
greatly appreciate
DeSoto county orange growers
have been selling their growing
crops on the trees for next winters
delivery at s1.50 the box.
The annual encampment of Florida
state troops will be held this year
at Fort Barrancas, near Pensacola,
and the date, August lst.
The state good road association
has been in session at Pensacola this
week. A. S. Mann of Jacksonville
was the chief speaker.
The orange growers of the state
are invited to meet in Tampa on the
9th inst, to form an orange growers
association for self protection.
The town council of DeFuniak has
decided to enact curfew ordinance
to keep the boys from loafing on the
streets at night. Good thing.
The state Epworth League of the
Methodist church south is being
held in Tallahassee this week with
large delegation of workers present
from all over the state.
Pensacola authorities are making
an effort to enforce the Sunday law,
but base ball clubs escape the pen
atty by going just outside the city
limits and playing on the military
reservation.
Thomas j. Laud Brown, the Tam
pa Fair promoter, has announced
that he will be candidate for u. s.
Senator in the event that Congress
man Sparkman does not become q
candidate.
e. H. Sellards of Lake City has
been appointed state geologist by
Gov. Broward, under the recently
enacted Grill law. The appointment
is for four years and carries salary
of $500 per annum.
st. Augustine's new trolley car sys-
tenn was inaugurated on Monday
when the first electric cars started
over the line. The track for the
present only runs from the depot to
the South Beach bridge, but it will
be extended.
Ewald G.. Abel the well-known
musical director of Jacksonville was
carried out in the under tow at Pab-
10 Beach last Friday afternoon and
drowned before help could reach
him. Prof. Abel was bathing with
a lot of visiting musicians who had
been guests of Jacksonville during
the saengerfest, which had just
closed.
The city council of Lake City has
unanimously accepted the PROPOSE
tion of the State Baptist association
to start a co-educational denomina-
tional college at that place. The
city will transfer in fee simple the
buildings formerly occupied by the
state university, and also $4,000 in
cash, to the Baptist association, the
property to revert to the city in the
event that the association fails to
maintain the college.