The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-08-20
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all Sections
of the State

The catch of red snappers AT feilS"-
cola is reported smaller than ever be-
fore.
The orange growers of the Manatee
section are busy sinking arteslan wells
thus insuring full crop every season
The Atlantic National Bank building
in Jacksonville when completed VIII De
ten stories high and absolutely IRE"
proof.
Mangrove trees around New Symrh"
are again producing fine crop OF honey
and several fine apiaries have been
located near here.
A petition has been circulated turnout
Putnam county by the liquor interests
asking the county commissioners to call
another wet and dry election.
Sheriff Galloway of Marion county
arrested John Faircloth. white man.
last week, who is wanted in Georgia
for muder. Faircloth was working ina
sawmill at Levon, and had been there
/ for several months.
The new brick dormitory being con-
structed st Stetson University for
young men, and which will cost S25, 600
it is we'll under way towards completion.
When finished it will be quite an adj
diton to this well known institution.
From the Punta Gorda Herald it is
learned that when the fishing season
began on August 18th, more that four
hundred men have found employment
at that port and not less than three
hundred boats are in use. The capital
invested amounts to about $3.50, 600.
A mortgage was filed for record in the
clerk Office on Monday by COL P. A.
Vans Agnew, attorney for the Consoi-
dated Land Co., of Jacksonville, in
which that company mortgages all of
it's timber lands lying in Osceola, ST.
Lucie, DeSoto and Lee counties to the
First Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago
for 81, 900, 900. -Kissimmee Gazette.
1t is claimed by those who are famil-
lar with the work on the Florida East
Coast Canal between ST. Augustine and
Jacksonville that the work will be COM
pleted by the first of the year, and that
next winter boats can travel by the in
side route from Jacksonville to Miami.
Not only can boats 60 from Jacksonville
to Miami but it will put the entire st.
Johns River and rivers tributary there
to in couch with the great east coast of
Florida.
President Taft signed the commissions
of some sixty odd supervisors in differ
ent sections of the country and the names
of these appointees were made public
by Mr.. Durand. The list included
Florida: First district, Henry W Bishop
Republican,; Second district, l.. Les
uer Gaulden Republican,; Third district
Thomas David White (DemocraU. l..
L. Gaulden, appointed from this dis
trict, in the only son of Col. d. l..
Gaulden, of Titusville and DeLand.
Petitions have been sent to every
precinct in the county of Dade to be
presented after signature to the county
commissioners to call a wet and dry
election. Under the law it will be
necessary for the commissioners to
call the election in not less than thirty
nor more than sixty days from the time
the petition is presented with a Sufficient
number of signatures to make the action
of the commissioners legal in ordering
an election. In that county it will be
necessary to get the signatures of CAB
names to the petitions.
Fire which was discovered before
daybreak Thursday in d. T. Williams
& Co.'S. dry goods and grocery store at
Milton caused loss of over $50, 200 be-
fore the flames were checked. The
Williams Company alone suffered heav-
lily. The flames spread rapidly to adjoin-
ing buildings, which by hard work of
the fire department, were saved. Fol-
lowing is a list of the buildings damaged
John Stewart, grocery; First National
Bank; l. M. Josephs' son, dry goods;
H. S. Bates, dry goods; Hilson Bros,
druggists; Miss Bessie McDougall,
shoes. 1t is estimated that insurance
of $25, 200 was carried on the property
damaged.
A bill was introduced in congress be.
fore adjournment providing for ma
tional public highway from Washington
to Miami, The highway is to be known
as the Lee National Highway, to begin