The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-04-02

sarasota cltlZenS nave Foleu dIhio"'
unanimously for electric lights and
The St. Petersburg Board Of Trade
has changed its name to the st, Peters
burg Chamber Of Commerce.
The people Of Lake county have
permanently organized for the purpose .
Of improving the Ockawaha river.
c. W. Chase, of Gainesville, presi- /
dent Of the Dutton Phosphate Company,
died suddenly in New York last Friday .
Jorn y. Trammel has been elected
representative from Calhoun county to
FIJI the uneXpired term Of f. 5. Fort
ner.
Hon. Howell A. Davis, one of Palat-
kas foremost business men, has been
unanimously nominated for Mayor OF
Palatka for the ensuing year.
Palatka is soon to have free mail de-
livery. Postmaster Kirby having been
notified by the Postoffice Department
that this great convenience will be put
into operation on June l5
Strawberries are now bringing from
S. to $3.50 and some have sold as high
as $1,000 per bushel. Over 1000 BUSH
els have been shipped from Starke and
Lawtey already.
The city council of Jacksonville has
imposed $50 license tax on wood ped
dlers doing business in that city, and
strong protest is being made against
this assessment, both by the peddlers
and the citizens.
In the bond election held in st.
Petersburg last week, the proposition
to bond for a $780, 900 high school was
carried by vote of $50 to 81 and ! 0
voted for the $45 900 bonds to improve
the water front while but 20 opposedit it.
Pensacola on Sunday relaxed some
what in the enforcement of the blue
laws so rightly put into effect few
weeks ago by Sheriff Van Pelt. The
soft drink stands were open, and did a
rushing business, boats piled the bay,
and two games of baseball were played.
The old Port Tampa Inn, which was
so famous during the eighties as a
tourist resort, is to be removed from
it's present site at the port to the
Country Clubs property at Ballast
Point, where it will be used as an an
mex to the handsome club house that is
already erected there.
Shipments of cigars continue TO in
crease at a gratifying rate over the
figures of last year. The week end
ing last Saturday recorded shipments
of over 100000, and the total ship
ments for the year up to March Is were
43, 575 600. For the same period Of
last year the total shipments were 3d.
900, 000 an increase for the present
year of 10,5S5,OO0 CIGARS Tampa
Tribune.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer and
Admiral Dewey have notified the
Chamber of Commerce of Pensacola
that it will be impossible for them to
accept at this time the invitation eX-
! tended them to visit the Pensacola
navy yard. Secretary Meyer, how
ever, it was announced, would pay the
navy yard a visit within the next few
months.
Henry F. Hinson, a Southern Ex-
press Company messenger, is behind
the bars in Jacksonville, charged with
the theft of diamond bracelet valued
at $1,000. On January 25 Of the pres
ent year package consigned to Green
leaf & Crosby's branch store at Miami
was checked short between Jackson
Vile and 81. Augustine. The package
contained a bracelet made of diamonds
and emerads, and was shipped to the
Florida jewelry firm by H. Smith & Co..
Of New York. Patient work on the
part Of the detectives led to the arrest
Of Hnson on his arrival at Jackson
vile from his regular run. Three
diamonds were found in rings in Hin.
sons grip.
For the past several days great
many lead dimes and quarters have
been making their appearance in Gaines.
vile and several of the merchants have
been "stuck" on the spurious coin.
The limitations are very good and car
scarcely be detected, except in the
ring, and it would be advisable at this
time for all to notice money well, es