The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-08-20
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jacksonville expended $l5O,OOO in
new buildings during the month OF
July.
st. Lucie county has almost doubled
in population during the four years OF
its existence
The assessed valuation of taxable
property in Duyal county over last year
shows an increase of more than 81, OOO..
600.
Lakeland and Plant City are moving
in the matter of completion of good
hard surface road between the two
places.
The Atwood orange grove at Mana
vista, Manatee county, comprises 26O
acres and will produce 100, 900 boxes of
fruit the coming season.
The county commissioners of Dade
county have voted an appropriation of
S75 per month for the maintenance OF
the sub.tropical laboratory at Miami,
until the State can render aid.
Senator James p. Talaferro and Sen
ator Duncan U. Fletcher, Florida's
representatives in the United States
senate, are both at home again, after
the long and strenuous extra session OF
congress.
The county commissioners of Herman
/
do county have called an election to be
held October 2, to give the people an
opportunity to say if they want to bond
the county for $25. 600 for new court
house and $50, 600 for hard roads.
The report that Thos. j. Laud Brown,
the well known organizer of the Tampa
fair and general promoter of Florida
enterprises, had located permanently
in New York, is denied Colonel Brown
and family expect to return to Tampa
in the early fall to reside permanently.
W ord comes from Boynton that some
sort of epidemic is carrying off the
horses there, several having died lately.
What it is no one seems to know. Some
say staggers, some spinal meningitis,
and some say that it is eating oleander
leaves. They are trying to find out
what it is and the remedy if possible.
The Collins Wireless Telephone Com
pany, of Newark, N. j., has through
its representative, Mr.. S. X. Brown,
secured an order from the enterprising
real estate firm of j. H. Tatum & Com
pany for the installation of complete
private system of wireless telephony
to connect Miami with CocOanut Grove,
Lemon City, and Little River.
Elizabeth Raulerson, white woman,
was arrested at Espanola and taken to
st. Augustine Friday by Deputy Guy
White to answer to the charge of big
amy. 1t is alleged that she married a
man by the name of Raulerson without
obtaining divorce from her first hus-
band, whose name is Pringle. She was
given hearing Friday before Judge
Cooper and the evidence justified hold
ing her for circuit court. She was held
III 5000 bond.
W. G. Morgan, well known saw
mill man Of LAX Gland, was run over and
horribly mangled by train No. IS of the
Atlantic Coast Line near Setfner, Sat-
urday night of last week. The unfor-
tunatc man, who had been drinking
heavily started home from Tampa on
train No. 50, but became so boisterous
that he was put off at Seffner, and, it
is supposed, went to sleep on the track
when No.. 50 came along and struck him.
His body was ground to pieces and
scattered for quite distance along the
rack.
j. c. Gates, a celery grower of Mana
tee county, Florida, was in Savannah
this week telling the people there of
his success in raising and marketing the
vegetable and how easily celery could
be grown on the lands around Savannah.
He worked the Savannah peoples Wis
ions up high when he told them that an
average crop an acre in Florida was
about 600 crates, for which is received
about 81. 80 a crate. Last year he rails
ed 800 crates on one acre of land, and
received an average price of $l.85.
This Melted him just 81 600. One farm
er raised an early crop this year for
which he received $4,000 profit on one
acre of land
Charles Pons, son of the late treasurer
of the State of Florida, shot and killed
his brother.in-law, Charles Virgins, at
GraveIy Hill, near Jacksonville, late
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