The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1908-07-24


are to have additions; Holly Hill Is to
have. on a new site farther north, a
twostory building. at a cost Of $1,000;
Sea Breeze will have a two-story ad-
dition to cost $1,000; New Smyrna.
also. a two-story addition to cast ST.
800. New Smyrna is to be made a
junior high school next fall. Still
fSrther down the coast West Palm
Beach is erecting what will probably
be the finest public school in Florida.
Miami is also building a large ward
school.
Jim Hall was crossing the railroad
track just this side of the Bearhead
tank Monday morning with a cart
load of logs behind four yoke team,
when the front end of the logs tipped
down and hung on the rail. Before
he could get it clear he heard the
mail train coming. Lacking anything
else to flag it with, he jerked on his
shirt and ran down the road, waving
1t like mad and yelling like a Com
anche. The engineer saw him in
time to stop the train within half a
dozen yards of the logs and cart, and
save both from a smash-up.-DeFuD
lax Breeze.
Business is pretty good in DeLand
and Volusia county these days. The
seasons crops have yielded good prof
its to both producer and merchant, and
the consumer shared in the benefits,
too. Owing to the extensive building
operations going on this summer, there
are many people in town at this time,
and almost everyone has a job, with
the prospect of steady work for a good
while to come. The bank is doing a
heavy business and the pOstofice can
show an increase in money circulated
the past few months over the CORES
ponding period last year-DeLand
Supplement.
Three crops of oranges on the same
trees iR one year is certainly unusual,
and yet this is what County Commits
sioner Farabee has done this year.
The first crop was from the regular
February bloom, the second from the
June bloom and the third crop from
an August bloom. He brought a
wagon load of the third crop of fruit
to town last Friday and presented
the Advocate with a liberal supply.
The fruit was of a yellowish-green
color but was heavy with juice and of
good flavor. In short, the oranges
were very fair samples of the Florida
product.-Wauchula Advocate.
Leaf tobacco from the various
farms about town is now being
brought to the packing house in large
quantities and force of men are bus
lily engaged in "bulking" the same in
the packing house, that being the first
step in the packing house process.
The leaf is in fine shape and is as
pretty tobacco as one needs to see.
In the meantime the harvesting of the
crop goes merrily on at the farms and
the immense barns on every farm
have been filled to their utmost capa-
city. and some of the planters are be-
moaning scarcity of barn room. The
crop is a bumper" one in every re-
specialization Enterprise Recorder.
Several months ago when the water
over the saw grass" Ia marsh form
Jed by the back water from the electric
light dam on the Hillsborc river was
quite deep. Roy Bean was wading
around over the marsh shooting ducks.
lie had about $40 in his pocketbook
.oStly paper money and as he did
ct care to set il wet put the pocket
COX in his hat. His hat was blown
az by the wind and before he could
IS u' rs pucke;JOOk lis money SUNK
out OF sight. He was about waist
deep in mud and water. Owing to the
recent drought the saw grass" is
about dry. A few days ago the pocket
hook was found. the money being very
title the worse for its long submerg
ns.-Sefner correspondent To Tam
% Tribune.
During the thunder storm of Sunday
afternoon a herd of COWS belonging IN
IL. A. Braddock were grazing in a
pasture at Allapattah when one OF
them was struck by lightning. The
bolt struck the COW on the back and