The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-07-09
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Jacksonville bank clearing for the
month of June, just ended, amounted
to 81, 234, 55l ,29, an increase of 81, 4O9,-
| 845, 81 over June, 1908.
The total value of exports, including
lumber, cotton, phosphate and naval
stores, from the port of Jacksonville
for the month Of June, was $lSS, 1856. So,
A Paatka man has devised pillow for
clearing land of scrub palmetto. 1t is
drawn by four mules and clears two
acres Il day, reducing the cost of clear
in g such land from $50 to SIS an acre.
The Rev. Edward Stanley, pastor of
the First Baptist church in Palatka, re-
ceived by express a box labeled books"
but it arrived in "leaky' condition
and smeled strong of distilled corn.
He was at once requested to resign his
pastorate, which he did, and left town
on the first train.
Judge Perkins has struck the right
plan to break up blind tigers in this
county, says the New Smyrna Breeze.
Instead of imposing fine on them, he
sentences them to the county chain
gang. All criminals look alike to Judge
Perkins, and the white man who will so
degrade himself as to sell blind tiger
booze, is none too good to build hard
surface roads for the county. Judge
Perkins will gain still greater popular
ity with the people of the county for
his endeavor to enforce this, and all
other laws.
Senator Taliaferro, of Florida, has
succeeded in getting the tariff on pine
apples raised. He did it against the
opposition of Senator Aldrich, at least
Aldrich appeared to oppose it. This is
how Taliaferro did it. Not long before
the pineapple schedule came up he sent
from Florida lot of the finest pine
apples he could find He sent two to
each senator, and he put an exhibit OF
pneapples in the cloakrooms He de-
monstrated that the Florida fruit was
so good the country didn't need Cuban
pneapples. "The moral of this, - said
a senator, "is that it pays to adver-
tise. Philadelphia Times.
The old relic at the corner of Char
lotte street and Baya lane, st. Angus
tine, has been RACED to make room for IA
modern building. This old coquina house
was one of the characteristic land marks
of st. Augustine and always attracted
the immediate attention Of visitors.
1t was one of the Oldest structures in
the city and was relic worth preserv'
ing. The timbers used in the building
were all hewn by hand and many OF
them are still sound. This old land.
mark will be missed by visitors who
winter here.
"Averaging twenty-five miles an
hour F. B. Scobie, of Titusvlls, and
John f.. Gilbert, of Jacksonville in a
3O.horsepower touring car, successfully
completed 1866 mile run between Jack
sonville and Titusville under the most
unfavorable weather condition, in nine
hours and seventeen minutes. Mr..
Scobie, who purchased the car from the
Fred E. Gilbert garage, Jacksonville,
in company with John E. Gilbert, as
chauffeur, left Jacksonville at 7:lO a. m
and arrived in st. Augustine at 9,O5
a. m. twenty-five minutes were spent
in the Ancient City, and leaving in a
pouring rain at 80 o'clock, the run to
Daytona was completed at 1910 p. m.
They remained in Daytona until :35 p.
m and then commenced the last leg Of
the run to Titusville, which was reach
ed at exactly Alt o'clock in the after
noon.
At the first meeting of the new
Board of Control of State Educational
Institutions held in Jacksonville Mon
dav, P. X. Yonge, of Pensacola, was
elected chairman, to succeed N. p.
Bryan, whose time had expired. A
proposition was considered for erecting
an addition to the University of Flor
da, at Gainesville, to be known as
Science Hall and Experiment Station.
1t was estimated that this addition
would cost $50, 900 and the plans of the
new structure will be drawn on scale
which will conform with the beauty
and lines of the other buildings. The
contracts for these improvements will
be let at the first meeting in August.