The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-05-14
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of spOnges were sold.
The bodies of soldiers buried at Egg
mont Key are to be removed to the
national cemetery at st, Augustine.
A concurrent resolution has passed
both houses asking congress to make
New Smyrna and Palatka ports Of
entry.
The plans for the proposed new Clar-
endon hotel to be built probably at Sea-
breeze or Daytona Beach, have been
prepared and are on exhibition in Day
tona.
The city council of Sanford has au-
thorized the putting down Of a consid-
cradle amount of new brick paving.
When this is complete Sanford will
have more than fifty blocks of brick
pavement.
Representative Butler Of Dade county
has introduced in the State legislature
a bill providing for the division Of the
county of Hillsborough and the estab-
lishment of Pinellas county. The bill
will be fought with vigor.
The largest gang of Gypsies that
ever visited Orlando was there last
week. There were five men, six women
and about fifteen children of all sizes.
They spent their time begging for food
and money and were finally ordered
to leave by Sheriff Kirkwood
Quincy ratepayers gave an over
whelming majority for bonds in the
election held last Wednesday. The
bonds are TO be sold for the following
purposes: S35, 900 for waterworks and
improving electric light plant, and SlO,-
600 to be given to the school board to
be used in erecting a school building.
In the wet and dry election held May
3rd, Columbia county voted to remain
dry by majority Of about 1876. The
vote in Lake City gave the drys 293,
vets l54; Fort White, drys "a, vets s;
Columbia City. drys 3S, vets ii. Only
two voting places in the county gave
wet majorities and they were small
ones. The contest was hard fought and
aroused much feeling. Tuesday night
headed by brass band, 500 men, wo-
men and children paraded the streets
and celebrated the victory.
Many of the farmers of Alachua
county are greatly interested in an ex-
pertinent of tobacco growing which is
being conducted by E. j. Williams, a
former resident and tobacco planter of
Wayne county, North Carolina Mr.
Williams came to Florida some time
ago, and after visiting other parts of
the state located there with deter
minaton of raising crop of tobacco.
He is confident that his venture will
prove successful, as the soil is especially
suitable for that plant.
A white velvet bean is being prop
aga ted by Tom Brewer of Homestead
which he produced by seed selection
carefully pursued for three years
The velvet bean is a handsome plant
and will be even more so if white beans
may be grown as well as purple. Mr.
Brewer says the new bean is edible
and he believes it will be equal to the
navy or the lima bean. He has added
something TO the many resources of
Florida, if this is true. AS a forage
plant and green manure, the velvet
bean has no superior.
A Chicago syndicate headed by
Messrs. E. C. Howe, advertising
manager of the Appeal to Reason, and
George l., Currier, owner of the
Woman's World, a Chicago monthly
magazine, has purchased tract of
$4,000 acres of land from the Bond
Lumber Company at DeLand, which
lies wholly in Volusia county. The
company has already commenced to
advertise and about 5000 acres of the
land has been sold The tract has been
subdivided into ten and twenty-acre
tracts and about May Is the first body
of homeseekers will arri,e on the
grounds to claim their purchases.
On the ground that Miss Julia Men
diz, aged Is years, and little Miss
Johnnie Edwards, aged three years,
are dependent aliens, they were held
up at Port Tampa last week when the
steamer Olivette arrived from Havana
and denied admission to the port by
local emigration officers. Miss Jennie
Edwards, head of the Baptist orphan
age for girls in Mariel, Cuba, accom-
panies the two girls and did her best
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