The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-01
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sian wells in the Sanford celery section
supplying water for the irrigation OF
the celery fields.
The cabbage growers Of Montclair
are all smiles, having sold their crop in
advance at 80 per crate. They are
getting off about ten cars week.
Moths paper is not supporting
Taliaferro for United States Senator,
and if anybody is in this neck of the
woods we haven't CHANGED to meet the
man. LAX leland News.
W. G. Merrill, Of Tallahassee, has
just completed the construction of To-
comotive at his shop IN Tallahassee.
1t is the first built in that city since the
War of the Confederacy.
The Kimball c. Atwood grapefruit
grove at Manivesta, on the Manatee
river, has just completed marketing its
crop of 70, 500 boxes. The returns were
the most satisfactory they have ever
experienced.
A tomato vine taken from the Ever
glade farm of w. X. Comfort, west of
the city is on display in the office of the
J. II. Tatum Co. The vine has l55
large, solid tomatoes attached and is a
good exhibit of what the Everglade
soil will produce. Miami Metropolis.
Amos w. Corbett has launched new
enterprise at st. Augustine and inau-
gurated freight boat ser. ice between
that city and Jacksonville Mr.. Cor
bett proposes to provide for three sail
ings a week for the present, and if the
venture proves successful, as he conf
IDENTIFY expects, he will later extend his
line to points south of st. Augustine.
j. d. Austin, while engaged in digging
lime rock near Sarasota. found geolOg-
ical and marine curiosity in the shape
of starfsh, embedded in the rock sew
eral feet beneath the surface, some half
a mile from the seashore. 1t was evil
dent that in some prehistoric time the
fish had been emeshed in the fast max
ing soil of the peninsula and had been
petrifed. Its every outline was per-
feet.
Governor Gilchrist has appointed
General E. NJ. Law, of Barlow, Florida,
as representative from the State of
Florida to confer with the Battle of
Gettysburg Commission relative to the
celebration of the fftieth anniversary
of the Battle of Gettysburg to be held
July LIST, 2nd and 3rd, 1913. General
Law is the ranking officer of the Con-
federate side, now living, who was en-
gagged in that battle.
Friday afternoon, Thomas a. Harp
and Sheppard Brooks, residents of Full
ford, were run down by freight train
at the Arch Creek crossing, The men
were crossing the railroad enroute to
their homes, after spending several
hours in Miami. The left leg of Harp
was severed just below the hip, and
Brooks received a number Of bruises
and Commissions about the body. Both
men were rendered unconscious by the
shock, and Brooks, knew nothing oe
the occurrence which resulted in his pre-
sence in the hospital
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward may
not get to the United States Senate,
says the Lakeland News, bur he is one
of life's winners just the same. His
attractive family of eight charming
daughters has long been the subject of
much complimentary comment but it is
not improbable that the strenuous n. B.
has at times felt there was something
lacking. Now this something has been
supplied in the person of n. B. Brow
ard, Jr.. who arrived at the Broward
home few days ago-a lusty little fell
low, howin success doubtless
has already undertaken dreenage,
and will soon be able to tackle any of
the other big things his illustrous faith
er has grappled with, Here's to you,
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, III!
Judge f. Noble Calhoun of this city
is the oldest great grandson of John
Caldwell Calhoun, congress man, sena-
tor, cabinet member and former vice.
president of the United States and ia.
ther of notification and States rights,
whose marble statue was on Saturday
formally accepted by Congress and
unveiled as the gift of South Carolina
to the National Hall of Fame. This
great statesman was born in March,
l772, and died in March, 1859. 1t was