Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-05-28
Some State Happenings
e,or;d. items Gathered from Our Exchanges


cost Sl2, 1000. Work has commenced
The up.to-date city of Ocala is now
ENJOYING the blessings afforded by d
street sweeper and the merchants are
rejoicing.
Quite a severe storm of wind, rain
and hail passed over Archer, Fla, on
the 10th doing considerable damage 70
growing crops.
To the equipment of the rolling STOCK
of the Florida East Coast railway mas
recently been added 100 fat cars built
in the shops at st. Augustine.
The establishment of a paper mill at
Gainesville is now spoken OF as an as
sured fact since it has been demonstra'
ted that okra and cotton stalks are the
material needed.
News from Key West is to the effect
that Mr.. H. NJ. Flagler has appropri'
ated means for the families of the men
who were in the dynamite explosion az
Cudjoes two weeks ago
Florida celery growers will reap an
extra profit from the fact that Michigan
celery fields have been greatly dam
aged by rain and hail, the early crop
being nearly total loss at some points,
The present legislature is going to
stop the practice Of one person paying
the poll tax of another in order to Sc
cure his vote. Means should also be
adopted to make every man pay his
own tax.
A man named Golf. meat dealer on
Ohio ave-, Live Oak, was arrested and
jailed early Sunday morning for setting
fire to his place OF business. The night
marshal and two other men watched
him pour kerosene about in the build
ing and strike match to it. He GER
taiuly must have been insured
At the Confederate Veterans re-
union, to be held in Memphis next
month the Florida division will have
as sponsor Miss Lallah Virginia Jor.
dan, daughter of MIR. and Mrs. VIM. S.
Jordan, of Jacksonville, and Miss Cas-
sldy, of the same city, will be maid of
honor.
The launch Trixie, owned by The
/
Manetto Company, was burned Tuesday
night OF last week seven miles off shore
between East Cape and Sand Key while
en- route from Cape Sable to Knights
Key. The engineer, pilot and three
other men had narrow escape, finally
reaching shore in the row boat.
Mrs. f. P. Hasty, the next oldest set.
tier at Ponce Park, died at her home at
that place last week. She had been
postmistress ever since the establish.
ment of postoffice at that place and
ran a small store in connection with
the postofice, Her husband died about
two years ago. There were no children.
A Tampa Judge has rendered deci-
sion that a married woman cannot
legally make contract. Mrs. Stertz-
b ,ch had made contract to teach in
Hillsborough county schools and later
was dismissed, with others, by order of
the county superintendent, for lack I
funds and brought suit for full pay
with the above result.
A shady transaction, in the eyes I
the Senate, whereby proposition was
made to ST. Louis brewery firm, I'M
bottled a sensation last Monday and
caused the discharge of L. Algee, one
of the two Senate stenographers, and
request for the resignation of B. X.
Bridges. assistant State chemist. How
quick to see the mote in another's eye,
During the past month remarkable
progress has been made on the railway
extension south of Knights Key. There
are now more than one thousand men
employed along the route of the road
between Pine Key and Knights Key
and splendid showing is being made.
At Knights Key about 46 of the con
crete piers have been completed and
the force is now able to finish one pier
a day. The deepest water has been
passed and from now on the progress
will be more rapid.
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