The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-10-22
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sidewalks.
Rollins College at Winter Park mas
opened for its twenty-ffth year with a
large attendance.
Wildcats are playing havoc with p Out
try yards at CanaveraI. twenty-five
chickens were taken from one YARD III
one week.
Lakeland's city council has passed an
ordinance calling AN election for bond
issue for school, light and waterworks
improvements.
Polk county's commissioners have de-
cided to abolish the old custom Of ieaS-
ing out the county's conyicts and VIII
work them upon the roads instead.
Florida Health Notes issued by the
State Board Of Health deyotea much OF
its space this month to school sanitation
Some timely articles appear IN the
issue.
Dade county's board Of public in
struction has decided to erect a modern
school building at Miami. The board is
now looking for site for the new
structure.
Making good its threat, the Post
office Department at Washington has
let the axe fall on the free delivery ser
vice at Tampa. Because Of the lack of
good sidewalks III blocks will lose the
service.
There is two hundred and twenty
tons of steel in the framework of Gain
esville's new Federal building. The
erection of the steel structural work is
completed and the laying of the stone
begins next week.
Beginning with November 18th the
Illinois Central is going to operate its
first direct special passenger service be-
tween Chicago and st. Louis and Jack
The train is to be known as
the Seminole Limited"
Alfred H. Marsh, of Jacksonville,
has been appointed special agent for
naval stores research by the Bureau of
the Census at Washington. This is
practically the same position held by
the late John LaFOntsee.
A company capitalized at $500, 900 is |
being organized in Tampa and Havana
for the establishing of new steamship
inc connecting those ports and Key
West. The new line propose to start
before the first of the new year.
In order that the West Florida vote
nay go solid in the regular primaries
or the United States Senate, Judge
4ucian J. Reeves, of Pensacola, has
that the West Florida coun-
les hold preliminary to decide whether
lie or W. A. Blount shall run from
hat section.
The latest reports are that Volusia
ounty will produce halfa million boxes
f oranges, grapefruit and tangerines
his year, and that the fruit will be the
nest crop ever grown. The bulk of it
in the west side of the county, in
luding Lake Helen, Orange City,
eresford, DeLand, Glenwood, Spring
arden, DeLeon Springs, Enterprise.
arberville, Eldredge, Emporia, Volu-
a Landing and Piersoa. These places
ill produce about 400, 900 boxes. The
.tlantic Coast Line has placed orders
or cars to handle 100000 boxes from
hese stations. The crop will easily
ring $500, 900 to the growers. Owing
o abundant rains the fruit is maturing
EARLIER than usual and the shipping sea-
on should be several weeks in advance
If other years. Very little green fruit
will be shipped this year, as experiments
If other years proved so costly to the
growers.
"You, Henry T. Hopkins, having been
heretofore convicted of manslaughter
in the case of T. d. Walker and the
jury who convicted you having by a
written memorial unanimously prayed
the court to inflict on your the very
minimum punishment that the law will
allow, and the court being of the opinion
that under the evidence you shall either
have been convicted of murder or found
not guilty as having acted in self.de-
Tense, therefore it is the sentence of
the law and the judgment of the court
that you be confined 10 the county Jail
for period of one day." Such was
the sentence imposed by Judge Minor
S. Jones last Friday on H. T. Hopkins.
who was convicted of manslaughter
at the special term of court this sum.