The weekly true Democrat., 1909-10-01
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Mra Lee Steele, Of Tampa, was kiln
Cd Saturday n an automobile accident
The corner stone OF new Masonic
bail Wus laid n Ocala yesterday.
c. NJ. Scarborough. q prominent citi-
zen Of Lake City, b dead.
The approaching tourist season will
be q record breaker, Il is believed,
Charles j Close, Sanford merchant,
haa failed for $5l. 900.
Plant City is 70 have another Ice fac
tory.
The people Of Tampa have q million
dollars invested n automobiles.
Khsimmee adds concrete plant 20
is rapidly Increasing lies OF active in
dugtriea
I An election ls soon to be called in
/ Lakeland b bond the town for f65, 600
for improvements.
Escambla county will, ia all pr0babi-
ity, soon have q new county Jail. II is
not % cost over $50, 600.
! A Dutch steamship, ZoeburR, with a
cargo Of fertilizers, went 20 pieces on
the rocks outside Jacksonville harbor
Saturday,
Hon. Fred Stringer, who represented
HernandO county IN the last legislature,
has been nominated Tor mayor of
Brooksville.
A 500. 600 hank Is 10 be located az
81. Cloud, the new colony but recently
opened up % investors IN OsceOla eoUn-
/ " There are already several thousand
people there
The city authorities Of So. Augustine
are taking steps % have q concrete
bridge erected % span the Maria San
chez creek at South street.
City Editor Denham, Of the Gaines
vile Sun, is being congratulated BY his
friends aud brethren Of the press on
the acquisltion Of charming wife
Lakeland strawberry growers are
busy preparing their land for q bumper
crop. There has been plenty OF rain
aud the truckers will plant larse acre
age.
Work on the So. Johns bridge ct Pa
lAtka has been commenced. A carload
OF cement and q quantity % structural
steel for the draws have already nP-
rived, and things are beginning % look
busy on the river front.
Capt. ]. w. WilmOtt, Of Orlando,
landed Big ahark the other day, which
was hve feet and four lnees long, IL
Whs = very dilierent kind from any ever
caught in those waters.
]. q, Gardner, who has patent Tor
obtaining turpentine from saw dust, has
formed q stock company with capital
Of so, 900 20 do business In JaeksOnville.
The sOapberFy trees at Deals have .
large crop this year and the agitation
regarding the trees ia kept up, The
growing Of them promises q large crop
Of very late fruit next sprlng, and viii
no doubt bring many en- unexpected
dollar 70 the pockets Of the growers.
Duvai county h building q splendid
road from Jacksonville 20 the border OF
Sc. Johns county and q continual good
highway win Be afforded between So.
Augustine and Jacksonville before the
Opening Of the busy season.
A big colonlEatiOn company has pur-
ChasCd S5, 900 acrea of lni.d N the south
etn pOFthn Of Pase0 county for eOlOni.
EatlOn purposes. The settlement will
bs known as Zsphyrhills, and Il has al.
ready been arranged % settle {, 900 fam
ilioa thereon
Charged with selling opium % q Chi
naman named Charley Tow, Oscar Val-
les, . young Cuban druggist who d en-
plOyed IN the franco drug store IN Tam
%, was recently fined 800 BY Judge
Peoples, presiding IN municipal court.
Last week the city council oi Lake
land passed q curfew ordinance which
goes Into effect October LIST. The hour
at which minors ere % be OF the streets
is $50 Ii the winter and 8 IN the sum-
mer.
Rev. Q. @. Gillett, OF SoabFeeas, has
h he orange grove on North Halifax
avenue q thFee-year-Old grapefruit tree
that is q wonder, even where large fruit
crops are the rule. The cluster Of fruit
20 the branch average more than q dOS
en-, and IN one cluster there ars twenty
grapefruit, and about ESQ fruit on the
tree. Winter GArden Cltizea.
Mrs. J. ]. Dickson, ths aged widow
Of Florida'a general and the defender
Of her coil during the lurid days OF 81
70 '65, left JacksOnville last week for
Houston, Texas, where her son in.law,
Liet. Bryan, and three Of her grand
children snd several great-grand emil.
dren reside. Mrs Dickson Il blind and
Cor more than year has been m very
feeble health.
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