The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-08-20
LOCAL OVERFLOW

by the young people in the dining room
of the Fort Pierce hotel last Monday
evening.
Mrs. w. |. Bitch and baby left Tues
day evening for Knights Key to JON
Mr.. Bitch, who is now employed at the
railroad extension.
Mrs. John H. Wynn and two little
daughters left Tuesday for VISIT OF a
month or two at Farmvlle, n. G., the
old home of Mrs. Wynn.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Pope and three
children arrived Tuesday night from
Cordele. Ga, on visit to Mrs Pope :
relatives, the VanLandingham families.
Judge A. d. Penney left last Friday
for Atlanta. where his family is spend
ing few weeks. The Judge has been
quite unwell recently and will consult
specialist while in Atlanta.
r. c. Green, head clerk in the whole
sale fish house of 7. J. O'Brien, who
has spent month at his old home IN
England is expected to return 10
Fort Pierce the first of next month
The Fort Pierce baseball team will
cross bats on the Jensen diamond with
the Stuart team next Tuesday, August
oath. The local team will go down in
j. Mortimer Smiths houseboat, the
Rondo.
The game of baseball scheduled to
take place on the local diamond to-
morrow, between Fort Pierce and st.
Augustine has been called off by the st.
Augustine aggregation. They probably
had cold feet.
The Titlsville baseball team lacks the
nerve to 60 up against the Fort Pierce
aggregation, ditto st. Augustine, ditto
West Palm Beach, ditto Miami. All
four of the teams have failed to make
arrangements to play the locals either
on the Fort Pierce diamond or their
home fields. after repeated efforts on
the part of the locals.
The Epworth League of the Metho-
dist church will have social at the
Riverview hotel, August 23rd, 1880 pm.
The feature of the evening will be an
apron social. The ladies will please
bring needles, thread and thimbles, also
an apron to hem. The aprons may be
large or small. The gentlemen will
hem the aprons. Prizes will be given
for the best hemmed and poorest hem
med aprons. Free will offering will be
taken. Everyone invited.
The special term of the circuit court
called to try the Jensen Bank cases,
will convene in Fort Pierce, Tuesday,
September 7th An effort is being
made to also try the Lassetter case at
this term. This is the case in which
C. o. Lassetter is suing the Florida
East Coast railroad for the loss of
limb while in their employ. At the
hearing last year jury gave him ver-
dict for more than $4,000, but the SUI
preme court has ordered re-hearing
in account of errors.
The hottest wave that this country
has suffered in a number of years has
been experienced during the past week.
The thermometer has ranged above
ninety for the greater part of each day
and while it has not reached one hund.
red at any time, it has come near to
that mark on only one occasion. The
nearest approach to the present wealth
err was experienced during the summer
of l904-6-bOth summers being followed
by a tropical hurricane. which did con-
siderable damage further south.
Weather prOgnosticatOrs predict hur-
ricane during the coming September.
The election called to take place yes
terday to determine the will of the peo-
BILE of Fort Pierce in regard to grant
ing an exclusive thirty-year franchise
to the St. Lucie Ice Company for the
erecton:of an electric light plant, did
not take place, the reason therefore no
one seems to know. Ifinspectors were
appoined they did not present them
selves, and apparently no other arrange
ments made. 1t is probable that the
election will be called at later date.
LATER-W. E. VanLandingham, presi-
dent of the council, requests THE TRI-
BUNE to announce that the election will .
be held on Tuesday, August 3lst. The
names of the inspectors and sample .
ballot will appear in our next issue.
The council will not be governed by
this election unless majority of the .
qualified voters of the city express their
preference at the polls at that time.
Word from Sewalls Point is to the
effect that the Mdriver Country club
house, situated half way between
Sewall's Point and Jensen, is finished.
1t is fine wooden building, 75x50 feet,
and contains all modern improvements.
The club is also having the grounds
cleared and cleaned up and laid out in
ornamental style and in the fall will
have one of the finest club houses and
grounds on Indian River. Another i'm
portant item from that way is that the
st. Lucle Yacht Club, branch of the
Keystone Yacht Club, of Philadelphia,
has bought land from E. S. Harmer,
near Sewalls Point and have had one
story and a half club house 4Ox6O feet
completed and furnished throughout
with all comforts as we'll as necessities.
They have also had good wharf built
and large boat house 60x6O and are
getting everything fixed up for the