Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1910-05-13

amounted TO sos, OOO.
The vegetable growers Of the Sanford
section have formed an organization.
The cigar makers Of Tampa shipped
S,OO0,O 900 cigars in one week lately aud
continue to roll on.
There are to be 238 more miles of ca
nails dug in the Everglades and bids for
this work are to be opened on June To-
Mack Wilson, white, charged with
criminal assault on Mrs. Futch, near
Lawtey, a few weeks ago, has been
given life term in the penitentiary.
While switching cars in the Lake.
land yard last Friday Russell WEIGH,
formerly of Orlando, got his foot hung
in a. frog and was run over and killed.
The city council of Kissimmee has
sold its S43, 900 issue o: water and sewer
bonds TO the Citizens Bank of Kisslm-
NEE and G. L. Bagwell & Co., of Jack
sonyille who bid jointly.
| The editor of the Suw aimee Democrat
has tested some home grown tea and
declares it superior to the imported ar.
ticle. Any thing that grows can be
raised in Florida.
The fifteenth annual convention of
the Florida Division United Daughters
OF the Confederacy, which convened in
Ocala last Thursday, was one of the
largest attended gatherings 10 the his
tory of the organization.
Delirious from an attact of malarial
feryer, Miss Bertha j, Clark, % years
old, stenographer wandered out of her
room In a cottage at Pablo Beach early
Monday morning clad only in her night
! clothes, and was drowned in the Atlantic
Ocean.
According to an estimate said to have
been compiled by the U. S. census bu.
reau for 1910 the new census will give
Florida total population Of 696,5ll, an
increase of 1877 800 since the census Of
. 1900. These figures are conservative
and when the returns are all in Florida
may be given greater population.
In an encouter between F. B. Stone
man, editor of the Miami News-Recoru
and j. II. Reese, editor of the MAN
Metropolis, last Friday morning, thu
man with the ossifed name was found
TO be softer than his name indicated
d and Reese proved not to be the coward
he had been published.
Mrs. r. NJ. Adkins has been chose,
= by the joint committee of the Ministe
rial Alliance, Woman's Club. w. G. T
U. and Associated Charities of Jackson
e vile as matron at the Union station u
"a show girls who 90 there as stranger
l. where TO get proper places to board an
IS TO give other desired Information, car
% for penniless women, etc.
= The Gainesville Sun is we'll please,
- TO announce that the appor tionmer
D. ofschool funds for Alachua county base
~ on an attendance of 330s.4 is s., IL;
ic This is the semi-annual apportionme I
81 of the one mill state school tax an
0, indicates that Alachua county stanc
Or fourth in the attendance column. TIL
k. is asplendid showing for one of Florida
Il best and mostN progressive conntie
Y Bury the croaker out 10 the wooC
in beautiful hole 10 the ground, whei
" the woodpecker pecks and bumbleb,
III buns and the straddle-bug straddl
" around. He is no good to the city
VI push, too Impractical stingy and dea
" but he wants the whole earth, and /,
r. its crust and the stars that shine owe
Is head. Then hustle him off to Il
J. bumblebees roost and bury him de-
g in the ground; he's Of no use here, g
TO him out Of the. way and make room I
the man that is sound.-Ex.