The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-06-17
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The big new steel bridge built across
the Manatee river near Manatee will
be opened for travel this week.
The Chamber of Commerce of West
Palm Beach is going to hold an old time
basket picnic in West Palm Beach on
June 23rd.
Port Tampa City is to vote on bonds
next Tuesday. The issue, which will
undoubtedly carry, is for S25, 900, to be
expended on a waterworks plant.
b. Il. Morgan, superintendent of the
Reform School at Mariana, died with
heart trouble on June 4th. No steps
have been taken to select his successor.
Mt. Dora has the distinction Of being
the highest, steepest, hilliest town
south of Tallahassee. Quite number
of the resi- dences are 100 feet above the
lake, and almost a stones throw from
, it.
Palm Beach county held it's first pri-
mares this year and, with exception
Of Sheriff, defeated the men who were
appointed by the Governor to fill the
Offices until their successors could be
elected.
The sanitary department of the city
of Ocala in putting up the cards recent
ly printed by the Woman's Club, have
found that there are |, 800 houses with
in the city limits of Ocala besides the
business houses of all kinds.
A petition is being circulated in Bre-
ward county requesting the county exc
cutive committee to call a primary at
which the people may vote on the
'fence" or mo fence" question. This
appears to be the paramount question
in Brevard. The members of the Leg
islature from that county will be ex-
pected to abide by the result of this
primary. How easy it is to work into
direct legislation when least we expect
it!
Fernandina shipped over 1900, 900
feet of lumber during the month of
May, 1910. This is splendid record
for that port, and the business men of
Fernandina are well pleased with con-
dtions and prospects. Fernandina is
oil Y,,noh int cd IL, tha ynrk fbof
is going forward for the Florida rail-
road. The war department has notified
the public that five bridges are to be
built on the line Of road between Fer
aandina and Jacksonville, and this GER
tainy looks like business.
The orange crop of Florida the past |
season was near 5000, 600 boxes the
largest, with one exception, the state
ever produced. On account of last !
winters freeze giving the trees such
shock, and the long drouth, we have
just passed through, the crop of next
season will not be more than third or
half as large as the preceding one.
Where the trees lost their foliage by
the freeze there was practically no
bloom, and those that did bloom lost
portion from the drouth. Volusia COun-
ty Record.
The Forty-Eight Annual Convention
of the National Education Association
of the United States will be held in
Boston, Mass, July Is 1910. Every
body who went to Boston in 1903 will
want to 60 again. No city has ever en-.
tertained the teachers as Boston did
that year, and her hospitable people
promise to do even more for those who
attend. The program is exceptionally
fine. Tickets will be sold June Goth to
July End, inclusive, with return limit
July 18th, but by payment of fee of |
81. 90 final limit of ticket may be ex-
tended to September 18th. Stop-overs
will be permitted within limit at New
York; also, for period of ten days at
each of the following points: Phila- {
delphia, Baltimore, Washington. The
Florida delegation, going by rail, will {
leave Jacksonville Thursday, June Both,
at 9:45 O'Clock a. m, via Southern rail-
way. 8
A Pensacola dispatch to the Times G
Union says: That the operation of the S
waterworks plant by the city is a pay r
Ing proposition is proven by statement S
by the superintendent of the ,
plant for the first years business. This I
shows that in addition to spending an t
immense sum in the extension of water
mains, installing new machinery and
making other improvements. the Dlant