The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-02-25
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erection of new brick business block
at Fort Myers.
Pensacola merchants are having trou-
BILE over an unusually large number OF
bogus checks passed on them lately.
A fall from wheel caused cerebral
hemorrhage resulting in the death for
J. Warren Smith, a New Jersey citizen
spending the winter at Daytona.
J. c. Showers, who has been post
master of West Palm Beach for the
past sixteen years, has resigned and ask
ed that J. Pan Clark, his assistant, be
appointed to the position
Fish shipped on ice from this port dur
ing the two weeks ending Monday right,
the l4th inst, amounted to eleven solid
cars and 273 barrels, aggregating 3ls,-
600 pounds. --Punto Gorda Herald.
Hon. +. Davis, State Attorney for the
/ fifth Judicial Circuit gives notice that
he will apply to the various county COM
mittee of his circuit to have his name
placed upon the ticket as candidate
| for denomination in the Democratic
primary Of May 10th.
Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley
is distinguished visitor to st, Angus
tine. The admiral has many friends
among st. Augustine winter residents,
and is being delightfully."- ente' tanned at
number of pleasant social affairs al
at which he is the guest of honor.
What is probably the first camel ever
born in Florida can now be seen at Dixie
land Park, the little animal having open
ed its eyes to the world Thursday. The
infant is the pride of the owners of the
menagerie and the keepers, all of whom
are striving to make it the greatest pet
I of the lot.
The coffee plant which is being erect
ed in Jacksonville by the Check-Neal
Coffee Company is progressing nicely.
1 This roasting plant will be the best one
owned by that company. The building
is five stories high, and will be one hun
dred feet long with a width of fifty feet.
The building will be ready for operation
by May l.
Tampa is very likely to have its first
ten-story building in the very near fu-
ture. George A. Petteway and his as
sociates, who recently purchased a val
liable corner lot there, are contemplate
ing erecting thereon handsome ten
story brick and stone business structure
for a new bank, mercantile houses and
Office purpose.
J. M. Roach. Jr., who was in town
from Willston Monday, stated that the
bulk of the vegetable crop would be put
in between the Goth of February and
the first of March. There will be 1000
acres planted in cukes, 500 acres in
watermelons, $50 acres in cantaloupes,
/ l25 acres in tomatoes and twenty-five
acres in beans. This is 1000 acres and
means vast amount of capital. Twen-
ty-tive acres of cabbage are now ready
for shipment. Bronson Times-Demo-
crat.
The fire which destroyed the Claren.
don hotel at Seabreeze occurred on st.
Valentines Day, February IA, 1909.
The l4th of February last year fell upon
Sunday and it was shortly after day.
light of that Sunday morning that the
people of that city and vicinity were
aroused by the alarm of fire, only to
learn that the magnificent Clarendon
was in flames and doomed to destruction.
For year rumorS of the rebuilding of
the hotel and counter-rumors of the
abandonment of the project have kept
the people in a state of uncertainty as
to the ultimate result, but DR.. Potter
has maintained that he would rebuild
and Monday, February IA, just year
iro., the date of the fire, the work of
cleaning the grounds for the erection of
the new building, on the site of the
former hotel, was begun by large force
of workman.
The board of bond trustees for Put
man county bonds opened the bids for
the construction of the hard surface
road to run from the easternmost ter
minus of the St. Johns river highway
bridge last Saturday. The successful
bidder was H. D. Atkinson, a contrac.
tor of Townsville, Ca, whose bid of
81 ,026, 90 per mile was accepted. The
new hard surface road is to be Is feet
wide from the bridge terminus to the
San Mateo road. From this road to the