The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-06-04
FLORIDA TOPICS
Pensacola is to spend $500, 900 on her

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York capitalists.
With no further debate the Senate
Thursday afternoon passed, bv vote
of Is to Z, the Sloan bill prohibiting
race track gambling in Florida.
The Florida Division Of the Farmer S
Educational and Cooperative Union of
America will hold their next annual
State Convention at Live Oak, begin
ming July 18th and continue three days.
Almost the entire crop of Irish pota-
toes of Hastings, has been shipped and
the consignments thus far have reached
the total of l42, 900 barrels with few
small lots yet to be shipped, which will
bring the total up to 100, 200.
Hon. W. NJ. Holloway, State Super
intendent of Public Instruction, has
made the regular semi-annual appor-
tonment of the one mill school tax,
the amount for the apportionment
being SOS, 236. Al; rate per pupil II cents.
Jacksonville has been chosen as the
next convention city of the Order OF
Railroad Conductors in session in Bos-
ton last week. The convention will be
held in the spring of 1911 and will
possibly bring between eight and nine
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Bishop James Atkins, of Waynesville,
N. c., has been elected to preside ov-
er the Florida conference in place of
Bishop Charles B. Galloway, recently
deceased. Bishop Atkins is one of the
abest bishops in the Methodist church
and December l6, he will preside over
the state conference, which is to con-
vene at Lakeland.
The Sanford Herald tells of the sale
of the Stenstrom place, west of that
city, comprising about seventy acres
of land, much of it suitable for celery
growing. The purchasers, who are
New York parties, paid $4,000 and it
is their intention to bring down several
families in the early fall and put all
the land in cultivation.
The opening of the new steamship
line between Baltimore, Md, and Jack
sonville, Fla, is another step forward
in the progress of the latter city. The
Merchants and Miners Transportation
Company, of Baltimore, officially an
nounce the first sailing of ship from
Baltimore to Jacksonville will occur on
June 10TH The Merrimac will be the
first boat. Four days will be taken
for the trip, with stop of ten hours in
Savannah. There will be three sailings
week from each port.
Amidst much excitement the House
Committee of the Whole, has accepted
amendments to the liquor license bill
closing all the saloons in the State at
9 O'Clock on Saturday nights and II
O. clock on other nights, allowing them
to open at O'Clock in the morning and
prohibit the sale of wines, liquors or
beers on trains or boats. An amend |
ment to permit grocery stores to sell
liquors was rejected, as was an amend
ment to prohibit the sale of less than
one fourth of pint, and requiring all
liquors to be sold in sealed receptacles.
In spite of the fact that between the
years 1850 and 1900 three million ALI
gators were killed in Florida, the
gator still turks in considerable num-
0ers in the sluggish streams which
wander beneath the archng live oaks,
heavy with Spanish moss. He is still
the great object of curiosity for the
lorthern visitor, and to have visited
lorida and not seen an alligator is to
have visited in vain. He is an attrac-
ion, Turing force, a positive asset of
The State, and without him Florida
would be like Egypt without the Pyra-
nds, Hamlet with the Prince of Den
mark left out or Brooklyn without Pat
st. Augustine Record.
A Gainesville dispatch says that the
Kraft Paper Company will be the title
II the immense paper plant to be
rected in that city, the organizers
icing compelled to change the name,
wing to a wholesale concern in another
florida city having already adopted the
anne of the Florida Paper Company.
he promoters of the plant, with B. F.
williamson as manager, are now ad-
ertsing for letters patent, and as
DON as it has been advertised suffic- /
ent length of time, they will get busy 9
n the complete organization. The t