The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-03-05

Jacksonville is to have an eifnt.story
hotel, located on the no-chea-- corner
Of Bay and Newman streets.
The board Of trustees Of John T..
Stetson University have re-e,e::e'
John B. Stetson, Jr, president Of their
BODY.
Hon. E.R. Ganty, Of Tampa was
elected presii-n, II the Florida State
Bar Association f9c 1903 At the meet.
ing held in St. Augustine.
Florida tobacco growers have suf-
fered a di:couraginy season, according
to Mr.. ?. c, Sutherland, q Quincy,
who is one o: the large growers Of
that section.
Cameron City Is the name Of new
town recently founded in the celery
delta near Sanford. Quite 4 number
Of buildings have already been erected
on the town site.
Bids for the construction Of the new
$40. 900 jefferson county court house at
Monticello are being advertised for and
il is expected that work will De COM
menced within the next sixty days.
The government troops will take an
active part in the Ponce de Leon ceIe-
bration to be held at ST. Augustine on
March 81 and April 2 and 8. Great
Preparations are being made for the
event.
An event Of Importance in financial
circles in Fernandna is the consoIida-
ton Of the Nassau Bank with the First
National Bank Of Fernandina. The
latter institution assumes all the busi-
ness Of the first-named bank.
Under a new ruling the express
companies in Florida will deliver ship
ments Of intoxicating liquors only to
consignees over twenty-one years OF
age. who must call personally for the
shipment, as no written orders TO de-
liver the goods to other parties will be
accepted.
The directors Of the Indian River
& Lake Worth Pineapple Growers
Ass ociation held a meeting in West
Palm Beach on last Saturday at which
time Crutchfeld & Voolfolk, of Pitts
burg, Pa, were reappointed sales
agents for the association for the en-
suing year.
The Florida State Railroad Commits
sion has issued an order to the receiv-
ers Of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad
to erect with the least possible delay a
new passenger station at Gainesville
at point not less than thirty feet east
Of the present station and apart from
the same. The depot is to have two
separate waiting rooms for white and
coored and is to be comfortably furn-
ished.
Seventy cars of celery will be shipped
from Gary this season. Each car con-
tains 800 crates Of this palatable vege-
table and each crate brings a price Of
81. 80, making the aggregate value Of
this one crop from the thriving little
sister city of Tampa $3l, 800. Princi-
pal shippers will be Dr.. j. ", Douglas
Scally Bros, Chastain & Beatty and
Robert Chastain, By March 10 local
transportation men expect to be rout-
ing two or three cars Of the crop from
Ybor City each day. This will be the
heaviest movement of the vegetable
since Gary came into prominence as a
celery center. Tampa Tribune.
Clearwater will be the county seat
Of Pine!Ias county. It was 50 decided
at the meeting OF the s.. Petersburg
board Of trade held Monday. A resolu-
ton was presented telling Of the bene-
fits to be derived from the location of
the court house at Clearwater, should
the county be deyided and Pinellas a
logical thing. It was argued the city
named is the central one OF the pro-
posed new county, also that st. Peters
burg, while she would like TO have the
court house in her city limits, had many
other good things which Clearwater
had mot nor could ever nave and thought
it best to concede that pretty little
place the right to the county building
and all that pertained to it.
As the result Of having fallen int a
mixing vat at Wilson & TONERS ferti-
lzer factory in Jacksonville Friday af-
ternoon, William Fayett, a young
white man, lies at the point Of death in
St. Luke's hospital. The young man
was terribly scalded and it is feared