The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-10-15

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Sarasota will soon spend s25, 900 Sc.
cured by recent bond issue on street
improvement and other public work.
The Manatee section will produce
over five hundred carloads of celery
this season according to the Manatee
Record.
The American Railway Bridge and
Building Association will meet in an
nual convention at Jacksonville on the
18th. Goth and 2lst,
Pensacolas exports for September
are valued at Sl.270. 1872, The heaviest
shipments were to Germany, England
the Netherlands and the Argentine Re-
public.
In accordance petition received
by the board Of the county commission
ers of Lafayette county, they have
called wet and dry election for No
vember 9th.
A ten year old boy purchased cigar
cites in ST. Petersburg last week in
order 10 get the baseball pictures and
his father will prosecute the dealer for
selling to a minor.
One of the largest fires that has oc-
Cured in Lake City in many years des-
troyed the Perry block in that city at
an early hour Tuesday morning with
loss of over $40 600.
The new county of Palm Beach starts
out with tax rate Of % mills for
county purposes, exclusive of the State
tax of :. mills, making a total tax
rate in the new county Of 29s mills.
Declaring that he clearly remembers
seeing Washington, Calhoun and CLAY,
an aged negro giving his age as l36
years lives in Tampa. His appearance
is said to indicate that he is Of great
age.
Eighty-fve old pioneers and settlers
of the Pinellas peninsula held happy
gathering at St Petersburg at which
good dinner and many stories Of the
early days Of that sections were en-
joyed.
The Florida East Coast Hotel Com
pany is making great preparations for
the coming Of the tourists, and there is
every evidence that the East Coast
will have a much larger number of
guests than in previous years.
Crazcd by bad booze, Robert Gibson,
n negro barber, ran amuck at Hastings
Thursday night and assaulted Town
Clerk +. }. Seymour, breaking his right
arm and nearly crushing his skull, be-
fore help arrived and took the negro in
to custody.
Capt. Frank Cosman. post surgeon,
stationed at Fort Barrancas near Pen
sacola, has discovered a new disease
called creeping eruption, two cases
having developed there recently, and
the fourth to be reported in the United
States. The disease is caused by the
egg of horse fly.
The steel work over Knights Key
channel is now more than half way
across. Now that the steel workers
have accustomed themselves to the pc
culiar conditions of tides and climate,
they are going along at good rate and
will probably be through long before
the time allotted for this piece of work. /.
Key West Citizen.
Willis 3. Powell, the founder of the
st. Petersburg Independent, and now
secretary Of Tampa S reorganized Board
Of Trade is hot on the trail of homeseek- /
ers and is inducing them Floridaward
with the following concise dope: "Aver.
age value farm products is 1898 per
acre. Average value farm products in
Iowa is $l2. % per acre. Average value
farm products in Illinois is SPAS per
acre. Average value farm products IN
Ohio is Sl3, Sc per acre. Average farm
products in Florida is slO9 76 per acre. "
Judge Locke has made an important
change in legal phases of bankruptcy
through recent order which was re-
ceived and filed Saturday morning.
His ruling is to the effect that in cases
where application is made for adjudi-
cation Of bankruptcy of an unmarried
man and between the time of filing the
application and the adjudication the de-
PENDANT marries he will be entitled to
the same exemptions as if he was mar
ried previous to the application. This
construction of the law will be a new
feature in bankruptcy proceedings, but
will give to the defendant a greater
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