The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-04-02
FLORIDA NEWS NOTES.

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.ssubstantial prosperity II the report
made by every live town in Flona.
The state has just begun TO grow,
ssGadsden county now boasts OF har.
ing a seven million dollar tobacco
company.
tsWhat was thought to be worthless
soil" around Orlando is now proving
rich and profitable.
tsThe launching OF the big dread
nought Florida from the New YORK
navy yard has been set for May n.
Governor Gilchrist has designated
Miss Elizabeth Fleming Of Jackson
vile as sponsor to christen the great
battleship.
'sTampa is about to reach out for
the higher atmosphere, to extend
herself upward. Plans have been per
fected for a ten-story office building
to be located opposite the postofice,
to be one hundred by one hundred
and five feet in dimensions, and to
cost 100000. IL is expected to be
Grady for occupancy by January ],
1911.
Sowing TO the fact that senators and
congressman interested in the devel-
opment of the Chipola, Flint, Chatts-
hoochee and Apalachicola rivers can
not attend the proposed meeting OF
the Chipola-Flint-Chatta hoochee-Apa-
alachicOla Waterway association
which was to have been neld in Al
bany, Ca, during April, 1t has been
decided to postpone the meeting until
later date.
ga number of soldiers of the Eight
ieth company, Coast Artillery corps,
at Key West, have volunteered TO
submit to being inoculated with anti
typhoid serum. AS typhoid fever is
a disease which makes sad inroads on
armies in camp, it would add greatly
to the efficiency of the military arm
of the government in future wars IA
the serum were proved to be really
effective.
|%In California the experiment has
been tried of running oranges
through a bath of dematured .alcohot
as a means of separating the light
from the heavy fruit with more celer-
ity. The practice has proved to be not
only more unerring than the separa-
ton by human eyes and hands, but
the fruit SO treated is much improved
In appearance and resists decay long
er, 1t Is said.
**Governor Gilchrist has appointed
General r. NJ Law of Barlow as rep.
resentative from the state Of Florida
to confer with the Battle of Gettys-
burg commission relative to the cele-
bration OF the fiftieth anniversary OF
the Battle of Gettysburg, to be held
July 1, and 3, 1913 General Law Ia
the ranking officer on the confeder-
ate side, now living, who was engaged
in that battle.
$"If the, eating of porpoise flesh,
which is declared to be equal to be,
becomes common, enough SO to de-
plete the numbers Of these fish some
what, the result would be a marked
increase In the supply of food fish in
Florida waters. The amount of FISH
porpoise can consume is said TO
be something enormous, and the por-
poise Is increasing In numbers.
"'The business men of Jennings have
paid for and nad distributed among
the farmers around there a large
quantity OF good corn and cotton seed
for the United States government
demonstration work
'sExcept wnen the northers sweep
down upon Florida over it's northern
border. Florida enjoys the equable
temperature OF an island. The great.
est width OF the peninsular at any
point Is but about one hundred and
forty miles, so that no place on 1t is
more than seventy miles from either
seashore. The greatest width OF
West Florida, from the gulf TO the
northern boundary of the state, is
about eighty miles, the least about
forty. This is why every part OF
Florida is under the influence. more
or less, OF sea breeZes all summer
long. A sea breeze means health
and GOODNESS.