The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-04-23
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April 90
Daytona is to have an electric car
line. A franchise has been asked for
by f. N. Davis, c. c. Tuxbury and
! Thos. d. Bradield.
The Hastings Banking Company,
with $50, 900 capital, began business
last week. The potato season being
Oh in Hastings will give it big boost
/ to start with.
! Jacksonville lost the National Can
ners' Association Convention because
of insufficient hotel room. Yet Jack
sonville has been building hotels for
several years.
/ A steel bridge, to cost almost Sl2,-
0OO is to be built across New river in
Bradford county, the award having
been made by the county commissioners
to the Roanoke Bridge Company of
Virginia.
The sudden death of J. o. LaFontl-
see in Washington, D, c., will cause
feeling of deep regret to thousands of
Floridians, and especially to the news
paper fraternity, large number of
whom were intimately acquainted with
him.
Richard Croker, former leader of
Tammany, is quoted as saying: my
life work has been accomplished and
what remains of my life will be devoted
to rest. | shall spend six months of
each year in Ireland and six months at
Palm Beach.
The annual meeting of the County
Commissioners and Good Roads AssO-
citation of Florida will meet in Palatka
on Tuesday morning, April 9th, These
meetings have usually been held in
June but owing to the meeting of the
legislature the convention is called for
April instead.
The body of John F. Avery of Green
vile, N. c., who had been missing
from his boarding house since early
Thursday morning, was recently found
in the woods near Ortega, just east of
Lakeside drive, Jacksonville. He had
ended his life by shooting himself in
the mouth, the revolver being found
near his body with one empty shell.
AS the Long brothers were coming in
from fishing Tuesday evening, about
half mile west of Lanark Inn, they
found the body of "a nude white man
drifted upon the shore. They came on
to Carribelle and notified Judge &. 7.
Workman, VINO summoned jury and
went to where the body lay 1t proved
to be white man, with his left arm
and shoulder broken, and with ahole in
his left breast, supposed to be a bull
let hole. He was of foreign birth.
The Tampa Board of Trade at
meeting held April IA, adopted resou-
tions relative to the state fairs held in
that city. The premiums awarded at
the last two Florida State Fairs, held
in 1908 and 1909, respectively, have not
been paid because of the failure of the
state to pay over to the Florida Mid
Winter State Fair Association all or
any portion of the $50, 900 appropriated
for that purpose by the Legislature of
1907. No less than four thousand five
hundred citizens of Florida are now en-
titled to and due to receive the prem
iums which they have justly won at
these State Fairs.
The second annual convention of
Florida Postmasters assembled in Jack
sonville April 10, President G, w. Bean,
of Tampa, presiding, and large dele.
cation of postmasters from all parts of
the state were present In addition to
the postmasters Of the state there were
a nrnber of officials of the department
from Washington, among their number
being Hon. Bayard Wyman, superin-
tendent division Of postmasters APP
pointments; Hon. Joseph Stewart, sec
ond assistant postmaster general; E. T.
Kimball, superintendent of division of
money orders, and George G. Tompson,
superintendent of postofiice supplies.
In a special message to the Legisla-
ture, Gov. Gilchrist recommends that
the constitution be so amended as to
make the State Treasurer a member of .
the Pardoning Board in place of the
Acknowledgement. In substance the
message says; GAS petitions for par
dons are now presented to the board of
pardons, the attorney for the petitioner
sets up various reasons why the par
don should be granted. There is no