The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-08-26
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all Sections
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wide prohibition is winning the higheSt
praise in every town they visit.
On September ID, the people of Orange
county will vote on proposition to
bond the county for 81 900. 900 for the
construction of hard-surfaced roads.
Progressive Miami is at present cree
ting houses to the value of not less
than $500, 600 The demand for skilled
carpenters is so large that they are be-
ing advertised for in other cities.
The Board of Trade in Miami is work.
ing for the erection of a crate factory,
the weekly payroll of which will amount
to $500. A site has been selected and
the factory appears to be a certainty,
The railroad and steamboat companies
as well as real estate men, predict that
more people will come to Florida this
winter than ever before, and the citizens
of the State should get ready to receive
them.
Usually the man who never advertlses
is satisfied that he cannot afford it. lie
is right; he will find himself unable to
afford this expense until he tries it and
gets a share of the business his more
progressive competitors have captured.
Monday, September 9Th, will be labor
day and Jacksonville will celebrate 1t
at Ortega Park. A splendid program
is being arranged for the occasion by
the Central Trades and Labor Council.
Many prominent speakers from over the
State have been invited to make ad-
dresses.
Mariana, the capital of. Jackson
county. is preparing to spend large
sum advertising the advantages and re-
sources of the county. Throughout the
northwestern section of the State coun-
ties and towns generally gre awakening
to the Importance of attracting home
seekers from other States.
The Florida w. C. T. U. began the
year 1910 with 1900 members. 1t has
gained over sixty new unions, and has
nearly doubled its membership since the
prohibition campaign aroused the good
women of the state to their responsible
ity in helping to free this land of roses
from the drink fiend's fangs.
The foundations for the drawbridge
connecting Trumbo Island and the is.
land of Key West are completed, and
the work of unloading the steel draw
bridge is nearly finished. The work OF
placing the bridge in position will be
started at once and it is expected that
it will be ready to be run over in few
days. Key West Citizen.
In the reports to Bradstreet from
sixty EIGHT cities of the United States
showing the total expenditure in build,
ing for the month of July, Jacksonville,
looms up conspiciously among the cities
showing heavy increase, for tits fifth
from the head of the list. The expen-
diture for the month of July, 1910, ir
Jacksonville was $685. 900 as agains,
1929, 100 for June of the same year
making the percentage 433.l.
Ex-Governor Jennings and party
have returned from a $50 mile cruise
and report most delightful and inter
esting trip. They travelled through the
Caloosahatchee river, and Mrs. Jennings
pronounced it one of the most pictures
que rivers she ever saw. The cana
which extends from the river into the
water of Lake Okeechobee was pro
nounced by the Ex-Governor grand
success.
Civil engineers of the Florida East
Coast Railway are here this week max
ing the survey from Glencoe to May
town. Surveys have been made from
Maytown to Christmas, on the west
side of the st. John River. Just what
the surveying OF these lines mean an(
where they are headed for we are unable
to learn. But the railroad company
evidently has some objective point il
view to which they have intend bull ling
road which they are not ready to give
to the public yet. New Smyrna Breeze.
One day last week Governor Alher
w. Gilchrist received letter from {
woman in south Florida which Informed
him in very plain terms that the Pen
sacola woman who asked for pension
because she had thirteen children, among
whom were three sets of twins, was
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