The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-10-01
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OF the State

the extension of the Plant CITY mIN "u''
railroad to Arcadia,
Young Lakelanders under S'N'e'''
wears of age have to remain ih"ooTS
after s:l5 o'clock in the evenings now
the new Curfew ordinance having gone
into effect.
Key West citizens will vote on
s24O. 600 bond issue for public improve
ments on November 9th The issue j.
to provide funds for street paving al"
for better sewerage,
A device by the use OF when u -
claimed that hundred different n'S'
sages may be sent from one Nlf'irS'
station at the same time has been III
vented by Frank Raby Of Fort Myers
After sparring for an opening Tor
three days, the Dade and taIm hr''n
boards of county commissioners arrive"
at an agreement for the assumption ol
debts of old Dade county, leaving 'he
new county of Palm Beach OWING Daue
county 81, 49S. 81, exclusive Of the pro-
rata share of unpaid warrants outsiahu-
ing June 80.
A concrete bridge across the 81
Johns is public Improvement now De-
ing agitated by some members OF JACK
sonvile's city council, 1t is proposed
, to build the bridge across from the 1901
of one of the principal business streets
and to provide large draw that would
be of sufficient size to allow the passing
of all shipping.
The Holy Rollers" a fanaticaI re-
lpious set. which has been holding forth
at Tampa and other places in South
Florida, predicted the total destruction
of Tampa on last Saturday. There was
great uneasiness among residents of the
city. who were believers in the holy
Roller" doctrines; some of the chumpS
selling their property and leaving the
city.
| A big land deal has just been consum'
mated in Tampa. involving 35,ooo acres
/ in Pasco and Hillsborough counties and
for which $4,000 was paid by New
York capitalists to the Stebblns Realty
, Co. The tract has been bought for
colonization scheme and probably city
will be built within ten miles OF Dade
/ City and twenty miles of Tampa. The
land is said to be high, dry and rolling.
The growers who holds back and waits
for the Citrus Exchange to succeed be-
fore he lends his cooperation is not do
ing his duty, in fact, he is doing nearly
all he can to hinder its success. The
prompt and thorough cooperation OF
the growers is all that is needed to put
the market in their control. Nobody
can defeat the movement save the grow
ers themselves. st. Petersburg indie
pendent.
The people of Lee county are becom-
ing much interested in good roads and
meetings are being held in various sec
tons of the county for the purpose of
working up enthusiasm in this great
Improvement. At recent meeting
held at Immokalee resolution was un.
animously adopted asking the county
commissioners to call bonding election
to raise sufficient amount Of money to
build good roads in all parts of the
county.
An important business meeting of the
board of directors of the Citrus Grow
ers Exchange was held in Tampa Wed.
nesday morning and several matters
pertaining to the welfare of the asso-
citation were considered. r. r, Rose
was appointed press and publicity agent
whose duty it will be not only to send
out printed matter but also tour the
state and mirgle with the growers in
/ forming them Of the work of the eX-
change.
The DeLand Record tells of the I'M
usually fine varieties of citrus fruits
raised by Chinese, Lue Gin Gong,
who has grove two miles northwest
of that city, some of which keep firm
on the trees for two years after ripen-
ing and one for three years. He has
an improved variety of grapefruit, the
only one of its kind in the country, it
is asserted, the seed of which were
sent him from China. The fruit, when
fully mautured, weighs from four to
five pounds each, seventeen average
ones making box, He has also
small variety of grapefruit, sweet and
nra ctically free from saed and an aa,l,,