The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-12-23
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: The next annual conference Of tn
Methodist Church will be held at Gaines
, vile.
Mcintosh won more prizes at tn
, recent Marion County Fair than an
other village in the entire county
Joshua Gist, now a student at the I'm
versty of Florida, took prizes amount
ing to $50 for his exhibits of corn.
During a recent session Of the LIE
r County Commissioners, an order wa
passed allowing the District Supervs
ors of Registration % cents for eac
voter that they registered, and war
rants were accordingly drawn in pay
ment for their services.
It is understood that within the nea
future the public highways of Dad'
county will be lined from one end t
rhe other with Australian pines. The
commissioners have ordered that bids bt
advertised for the furnishing Of these
pines by the thousand.
On January q, the Hamilton Invest.
mrnt Company of Jacksonville. will APP.
ply to Governor Gilchrist for a charter
to DO business in Florida. The COM
pany will have $25O,000 capital stock.
This stock will be divided into $500
shares of par value of 500 each.
Sixty thousand boxes of oranges have
been shipped from Wauchula this sea
son. There will probably be eighty or
ninety thousand boxes shipped from
here this season. The new railroad
west of town will cut our shipments
down from what they formerly were. -
Wauchula Advocate.
The $4,000 a year fund for three
years is now an accured fact. Sub
scriptions to the amount Of $40, 1923 had
been received by the special committee
appointed by Mayor Reilly when the
members ceased work last week The
amount subscribed is for the sole pur-
pose of advertising the city of Pensa-
cola.
Sanford truckers are preparing to
plant large acreage in Irish potatoes
this season. The Clyde Line boats
carried in eight hundred bags of seed
potatoes last week for the truckers at
that place. This is only small portion
of what will be used, as it is estimated
that about i've hundred acres will be
planted.
The bar formed at the head of Lake
Worth at the opening of the canal,
which has prevented all boats of any
size from passing to or from the lake,
has been removed by the suction dredge
Nimkee, and boats are able to go
through. There is better water in the
canal than before the storm which
formed this big sand bar. Many yachts
reported tied up in the Indian river can
now pass.
Seventy-tive men, comprising ar ex-
curslon party of homeseekers visited
West Palm Beach recently. and express
ed themselves as more than satisfied
with that country and everyone of them
bought land and will make permanent
homes on the East Coast. Tn, land
purchased are tracts from 10 to leo
acres each from lands belonging to the
Palm Beach Farms company west OF
Boynton and Delray and are some of
the best and richest lands in the state.
While pleading with the conductor of
an Atlantic Coast Line train at Gaines
vile for permission to proceed as a
passenger to Tampa where he intended
going for the purpose of entering a
hospital. Charlie Smith a middle. aged
negro, fell dead in front of the depot
at Archer last Friday. When the after.
noon passenger train arrived, Smith
was supported to the passenger coach
By two of his color. The ex.
IRENE weakness of the negro attracte !
the attention of the conductor, who ap.
preached and informed the sick mans
friends that he could not accept Smith
as a passenger, as Smith was too feeble
to travel alone. The words had scarce.
y fallen from the lips of the conductor
when Smith gasped and fell to the
ground dead man.
Candidate Blount does not deny that
he is corporation lawver-it's nothing
to be ashamed of, says Mr.. Blount. |
Surely not; half the lawyers are cor.
ooration lawyers. Mr.. Stockton's argu. |
nent against the election of Mr.. Blount
% the Senate is that there are already