The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-04-23

who have been infcsting the town.
F.. A. Lapp, Of Daytona, has a row
of orange trees one half mile in length.
He planted them last year and every
tree is alive and thriving,
The Master Masons Of Lawtey are
now sufficiently strong in numbers to
warrant the issuing of petition for
the Institution OF "a Masonic lodge in
that place,
BY majority Of 20, the bond cleo
tion for sewers and other municipal
improvements. was carried by the
ratepayers of South Jacksonville last
Saturday.
Nearly twelve million feet Of lumber
is the total reported as exported flom
the port of Fernandina for the month
of March, Other exports for the
month include naval stores, phosphate
and palmetto leaves, the total value
being S745,5
The business men of Miami are
thinking of establishing crate factory.
They calculate that if saving Of a
very small amount is made on each
crate that the shippers of that section
sill BE much better off and that fac
tory can be made profitable.
A big celebration was held at La
Belle Tuesday, the occasion being the
completion of the new steel bridge
across the Caloosahatchee at that point
and the arrival of the big dredge boat,
Caloosahatchee. Elk Gov. Broward
was the speaker of the day.
George Canova died at Flagler Hos
pital last week from lockjaw, the re-
suit of a nail penetrating his foot sew
eral days ago while he was at work on
the Deaf and Blind School building.
He was the son of Isadore Canova, a
resident of this county. He was %
years of age. st. Augustine Record.
A movement is on foot by represen-
tative men to induce J. N. Stripping,
formerly U. S. District Attorney, to
aspire for the position of collector of
internal revenue for Florida. This i'm
portant position has for years been
held by Joseph E. Lee, well known
colored man. who has figured conspic-
uously in the Republican politics of
Florida. The Reporter Star.
DR.. Edward Ccnradi has been elect
ed president of the State College for
Women at Tallahassee by the Board
of Control and State Board of Educa-
ton, vacancy having occurred when
DR.. Murphree was elected to the presi-
dency Of the State University in Gaines
vile. DR.. Conrad, who has accepted
the position, is highly regarded as an
educator. He has for several years
been principal of the st, Petersburg
high school.
Another new railroad is to connect
the phosphate mining interests of
western Alachua, 50 it is rumored, and
surveyors for the proposed extension
are now looking after the details of
this work. 1t is stated that the line
will run from point about four miles
- nd ,,,,n ictn
of about fifteen miles, being spur, or
branch of the Seaboard. The line will
run directly south from its beginning
and will be close to Newberry, running
to a point near Archer, and may event
ually connect with the Cedar Key d.
vision from the Wannee branch of the
ScabOard.
Within few months people in Miami
will he able TO ring central and get
telephone connection with almost any
part Of the country through means of
the Radio Wireless Telephone system
which is being installed generally
throughout the country, Not only will
the people in Miami be able to tele-
phone to Jacksonville, St Augustine,
but to Palm Beach, key West, pensa.
cola Tampa and other large cities in
the State, for this company will estab-
fish their wireless telephone stations
throughout the State, in the larger
cities. Fishing boats and other vessels
will also be able to communicate with
their home ports through the means of
this wonderful invention Of Lee De-
Forest, an American.
T. A. Snder, the Cincinnati million
air catsup manufacturer, purchased
last week a large tract of land in Day.
tona of Louis Adler, situated on South
street and extending from Ridgewood
to Palmetto avenue, with frontage