The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-22
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six hundred artificial stone blocks
day is soon to be installed in Miami.
There are 1900 children of school
age in Hillsboro county according to
the school census just completed in that
county.
Governor Gilchrst says that the
newspapers of this State are doing
great work in keeping the people we'll
| Informed.
The Florida Funeral Directors and
Embalmers' Association will meet in
Jacksonville on May 10, II, II in the
convention hall at the Seminole Hotel.
/ An egg story from City Point; LOG
hens laid 2,256 eggs during the 81 days
of March. This is a good showing and
proves that the poultry business is a
good one. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES News.
Bitch and Burr both should be nomi-
mated by the biggest majority ever
given candidates in Florida. As mem
bers of the Railroad Commission they
have been true to the interests Of the
people, and are candidates of the peo-
pie. Vote for them and you vote in
your own interests
The large automobile owned by the
real estate firm of j. II. Tatum & Co.,
had the distinction of being the first
automobile to visit the dredge Miami
now dredging a canal near Miami. The
dredge is about two miles out in the
'Glades. and it was a very strange
sight to see an automobile out there.
An association of Marion county
truck growers was organized in Ocala
Saturday with z. G. Chambliss as tenn
porary chairman and John Talton, secre-
tary. The object of this organization
is for the lettering of crop conditions
and for expediting the marketing of
the crops. There will be another meet
ing held at Ocala on April 23rd, and
central Office may he established there
to keep the shippers thoroughly posted
on the market conditions.
The last Florida legislature passed a
wide open race track gambling bill. but
Uncle Sam calls a limit on the gamblers
using the mails. Saturday Judge Shep-
pard, of the Federal Court in Jackson
vile, fined one of these gamblers one
thousand dollars and cost for using the
mails. As both Jacksonville papers
carried advertisements for these gam.
blers we do not see why they should
not be fined as well as the gamblers,
who made no pretentions of decency or.
responsibility. 81.
( When Miss Elizabeth Leere Fleming,
daughter of the late ex-Gov. F. p.
Fleming of Florida, breaks bottle Of
champagne, and with her good wishes
says 81 Christen thee Florida, huge
mass of steel of $4,000. tons will glide
down the ways of the New York Navy
Yard to become the largest, and fast.
est and most powerful battleship IN the
American navy and in the world. The.
launching of the Florida is scheduled
for May IL. The Florida is the latest
word in battleships, although England
and Germany have prepared plans for
super Floridas. A single broadsde
from the newest American battleship
will be almost twice as heavy as that
of the entire fleet Dewey commanded
at Manila Bay. 1t is expected that be-
fore the end of the year, or about six
months from launching, the Florida will
be in commission. Until that date her
sister ship, the North Dakota, the
American answer to the famous Elg-
fish Dreadnought, which is a 20, 900 ton
SUPER readnought, will remain the
most powerful battleship in the United
States Navy. u
Information was received Monday
from st. Augustine, announcing that
Joseph j. O'Brien, roadmaster of the
Florida East Coast railway, was run
down in the ST. Augustine yards of the
railroad company Saturday night, and
as result, his right foot was severed
from his leg, just above the ankle. Mr..
O'Brien is perhaps one of the best
known and highly regarded railroad
men on the East Coast, his friends are
numbered by the hundreds. From the
information received Mr.. O'Brien was
crossing the tracks, and his right foot
became wedged in the track. A blind
baggage car was bearing down upon
him, and seeing the impending danger,
Mr.. O'Brien acted quickly. Knowing |
that he could not djslOdge his foot. MIR. |