The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-05-07

Fort Myers had yard cleaning day
Wednesday. The Woman's Civic I'm
provement Club were the leaders in the
movement.
Sanford will have a Fourth of July
celebration which it is claimed will
eclipse any effort Of the kind ever at
tempted before.
The Sanford Novelty Works have
started operations at Sanford. The
plant is well supplied with some of the
finest woodworking machinery in the
south.
A petition is being signed by many
people in st. Petersburg, which will be
presented to the Legislature, asking
that measures be taken to prohibit the
killing of aligators and limpkins.
George w. Dean, of Waycross, Ga,
and a party of Chicago capitalists,
have bought $4,000 acres of land near
Jacksonville, for $500, 900 and will colo
nize it with thrifty western farmers.
A prominent young lady of Live Oak,
afflicted with mental alteration spent
Saturday night and Sunday in Tampa
without knowing the name of the city
and entirely without protection. The
cause of her disturbed mental condition
is not known.
The delegation from the Florida
Fruit Growers association, which has
gone to California for the purpose Of
studying the methods of vogue there in
connection with the shipment and sale
of the California orange crop, arrived
last Wednesday at Los Angeles.
A murderous attack was made on
Arthur Schleman, who has a monopoly
on dog catching and cow impounding
in Tampa, by an Italian for trying to
impound COW belonging to the Italian.
The arrival of other policemen was all
that saved Policeman Schleman from
having to kill his assailant
Deputy U. S. Marshal A. P. Gore,
of Miami left Thursday for Atlanta,
carrying as a prisoner VIM. Everhart,
alias George Grey, the young white
man sentenced Tuesday to fifteen
months Imprisonment by Judge Locke
in the United States court for entering
and robbing the post Office at Fulford.
Everhart is to be confined in the fed
eral prison at Atlanta.
The county Of Dade is just 1925. Ia
richer than it was day or two ago,
by the payment Of bonds for various
law violators who failed to appear for
trial at various terms of court during
the past year or two. The largest
bond paid was 1854 by prominent
business man in town who was under
the impression that going on the mans
bond was all that he would ever hear
of the case.
So successful have been the farmers
at Hastings and other potato growing
sections in St. Johns county this year
that the returns have surpassed all
past records and in some instances are
almost incredible. w. c. Middleton
cleared from two acres at Colee $3.50
net. To plant and harvest the crop he
spent $3.50 and he received for the
same 500, leaving him a clear profit of
1915 per acre. The corn crop to come
will still further swell the profits from
this two acres. The potatoes raised
in this field were of the first quality
and brought the highest market price. -
st. Augustine Record
Governor Gichrist has received the
following letter from Florida lady, |
which he is ready to pass up to the
Governor Gilchrist:
Please, your Honor while you are
making new laws, please make this one
that all white ladies having more
than seven children will get pension,
so they will be able to raise them and
educate them, and make useful men
and women of them, where they could
not do it otherwise; and the more they
nave the greater the pension Not
being able to educate their children
and give them the opportunities they
'eally ought to have, grieves many a
mother.
The old st. Cloud property near
with $4,000 acres of land,
mas passed into the hands of the Semi.
lole Land and Investment Company,
who will divide it into small lots and
proceed to settle thousands of colonists.
The company will within the next
:welve months have erected fully 300
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