The weekly true Democrat., 1909-09-17
sTATE NEWs.


an the schools throughout the State
report bright prospects.
Many Japs from the West are joining
the colony at Yamato on the east coast.
Hastings 10 now shipping away thou.
sends Of bushels Of surplus corn.
Columbia College, at Lake City, viii
open September 18th, under most favor
able conditions.
The;gin house Of Mrs. r. A. Turner,
at LaCTosse, with 100 bales Of cotton,
was destroyed BY FIRE last week.
A site costirR 81, 500 has been pur-
chased In Live Oak by the United States
government for new post Office.
Two New Workers last week pur-
chased lots ard will erect nifty new
cottages for rent In Sanford.
Apalaehicola has OF last adopted an
ordinance prohibiting cows from graz
ing about the streets.
Editor w. b. Hare, Of the DeS0to
County News, 10 being doomed BY. sev..
eTal State papers for the State Railroad
Commission.
The l.. &N. has let q contract 10
deepen the water a. itB WhaTveB az PEN
sacola 10 Is feet. The work will cost
500, 900.
Tie premium list Tor the Marion eoun-
ty fair, 10 be held at Ocala, November
2f26, are out, and a copy will be mailed
10 any address on application.
The annual convention Of the Florida
Retail Hardware Merchants Association
will be held IN the Board Of Trade rooms
at jacksonville on October l2th.
Work on the new railroad from Mari
anna 20 BlOuntstOwn Is being pushed ra-
pidly. The grading crew have finished
their work three miles south Of Altha.
Sheriff Raney, Of Alaehua county. Is
now the pOssesrOr Of a pair Of blood
hounds, presented by a friend who has
long realized the county's need OF such
dogs
The Clyde Line Steamship Company
will spend over q half million dollars In
the erection Of terminal docks and new
buildings ON the 81. Johns river at Jack
BOnvlle.
The latest rumOr IN railroad circles IL
that the Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lantie Ia preparing 10 start a cOnstTuc-
tion gang Ut work on its Tampa North
ern extension, from Tampa 70 Thomas
vile,
The papers published In the orange
belt report great activity among the
growers building packing houses. re-
pairing old ones and ordering the ma
terial for the handling and marketing
Of the coming orange crop.
7. q. Williams, who IL well known m
Tampa, writes from Chandler, Okla
THAT Florida is q better State than OH
the West and In the Paradise Of the
world, and also remarks that Florida
ought 10 be better advertised In the
West.
In the criminal court of record at De-
Land last week among those pleading
guilty 10 the charge Of selling whiskey
was Rich Brhswell, blind negro from
Lake Helen, and the court suspended
sentence upon condition that he leave
the State.
Tho Florida State Mid Winter Fair
Association has been reorganlzed and
will be under new management the
coming winter. A contract has been
approved for q big racing plant for one
hundred days meet which h 90 begin
December /. twill cost about Sl00. 900
When completed, the Florida East
Coast railway extension will traverse
more than d score OF islands Consider
Ing tho beauty Of their scenery, climate
and vegetation, the comparison would
not be lnapt II some future poet were
10 compare them 20 a chaplet Of pearls
that Mf. FlaRler had strung end present
cd them 20 Florida. Times Union.