Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-09-16

night While handcuted, and escaped
from Sheriff Lewis of Mariana.
The Miami officers of the Merchants
& Planters transportation Company
have been advised by former Governor
n. B. Browsrd, that he will accept the
presidency of the company. Those who
are interested in this new venture are
highly elated over the governors decis-
ion
An instance of the remarkable nerve
Of woman, was brought to the city this
morning from Gattis, in Santa Rosa
county. Mrs. S. A. Gsttis, wife of q
prominent turpentine operator of the
place which bears his name, was in the
woods with her husband when she STEP
ped upon the neck of an immense rattle
snake. She grssped in a moment, and
before she raised her foot, the danger,
and instead of jumping as would most
people, she pressed all Of her weight up
on the foot which held the snake pinion-
ed to the ground. She called to her hus-
band who was some distance away, and
while he was running to the scene she
held the snake firmly down, although it
beat the earth with its tail and body in
its fairy. Mr.. Gattis killed the snake,
which measured feet inches in length
and had fourteen rattIes and d button.
Mrs. Gsttis did not faint as most women
do upon emerging from such an expert
ence.-Pensscols Journal.
The Bowling mill, Bowling Park, now
owned by the Standard Lumber Compa-
ny, caught fire Wednesday night. The
mill was is a complete loss but will be
rebuilt at once. The employees were
told not to scatter IS they would be Civ
en- employment at the Alton mill, which
will be worked on double time until the
mill at Bowling Park is completed.
Owing TO the breaking down of some
Of the machinery at the ice plant, there
was great scarcity of ice several days
last week, and Saturday evening not q
pound could be obtained for love or
money. The managers of the plant
realizing that an ice famine was upon
the city, ordered $500 pounds from Lake
City, which arrived on the IL O'Clock
train Sunday morning. The ice wagons
were driven to point near the Demo
crat Office on Conner street, and several
men accustomed to the work began cut
ting and delivering the ice. The wagons
were surrounded by men on foot and on
horseback, in automobiles and buggies,
clsmoring to be served first. Blacks and
whites crowded around the wagons, and
in almost less time than it takes to tell
! it, all the ice was sold. Be it said to
the credit Of the company, extortion was
not allowed, and customary prices pre-
vailed, although some Of the purchasers
would not wait for change, and hurried
home with what seemed to be more pre-
cious than gold. The same scene was
repeated Monday and Tuesday.-Live
Oak Democrat.
Monday was the day on which the tax
collector sold all the property in Osceola
county upon which taxes for the year
/ 1909 had not been paid, and the amount
received ($21.05) was so Insignificant
that the trouble was not worth the tax
ing.
Attracted by dlsagreeable odor, q
boatman went to the home Of Major Nc
Call, on AnastasiA Island, about seven
miles down the canal from st. Angus
tine, and found the old man dead. Buzz
yards had also been attracted to the
lonely home and made inroads upon the
decaying body.
The manufacture Of guava jelly is get
ting to be 8 great industry in the lower
part Of the state. The factory turning
out the largest amount Of jelly is the
Laesch's, near Larkins.
Interest is great among the pupils Of
the public schools OF Alachua county in
the corn contest, which the superintend-
ent has inaugurated. In addition to the
forty prizes offered to those submitting
the best corn raised in Alachua county
this year by students Of the public
schools, five prizes aggregating over 6
hundred dollars are offered for the best
judges Of seed corn
The Warreu mills ut Plant City open
cd September LIST with full force o.
workmen after Q partial shutdown fol
repair. This mill gives employment Il
more than three hundred men and thu
opening means much to Plant City.
: Four phosphate plants are erecteC
near Fort Meade, giving employment Il
I. hundreds Of laborers, both white anC
a black.
A dispatch from Washington says
. The postmAsters at st. Petersburg ant
a Fort Pierce have requested the postmas
ter general 10 establish saving depart
. ments at their offices under the new pos
> tai saving act. st. Petersburg is th
a town which, az far IS the 1910 censu
records have been reported, shows tn
; I-cas, ;ocroaaa in DoDuIation Of an