The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-29
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the old lines.
A cigar ia ctory is being erected IN
Sanford and that industry will soon add
to the payroll total of the Celery City.
Fort Myers will soon be supplied with
a day electric current by the local plant,
the demand for the improved service
appearing to justify its installation.
+. S. Hodges has sold II tract of 3d.
900 acres between Green Cove ana with
in six miles of Jacksonville. The con-
sderation is said to be upward of $780,
10000
K. Veillard. a well.kuoWn orange
grower. is preparing to establish Il
large fertilizer plant in that city for
the manufacture of commercial fert-
lizers for the local trade.
A call has been issued for a joint
meeting of the celery growers of San
ford and Manatee for the purpose of
organizing for better methods OF ship
ping and disposing of their crops.
The annual meeting of the Local As
sociations of the Florida Citrus En-
change will be held in Tampa on May
Ord. This is expected to he one OF the
greatest meetings of the orange grow
ers ever held in the State.
David B. Hargreaves assistant post
master at DeI.and, committed suicide
last Friday by shooting himself in the
head with an automatic revolver Har-
greaves is said to be short in his ac-
counts and the Office Inspector visited
DeLand Friday.
Charles Lewis. a negro, who was on
trial in Tampa last week for man
slaughter was defended by State Sen
ator Benjamin F.. Townsend, of South
Carolina. who came from his home to
look after the negro's interest because
the mother of Lewis was his old black
nanny.
In the omnibus lighthouse bill agreed
on by the interstate commerce commit
tee Wednesday, which practically as
sures its passage, an item of Sl3O,OOO is
included for a lightship at the entrance
of the st. Johns river. Items were al
so included for range lights on Dunns-
creek and Crescent Lake.
Rroward and Jennings have found
l. 'Engle viperouS individual, biting
the hand that helped and protected him.
A man who will sacrifice his friends
upon the altar Of his vaulting ambition
cannot be trusted by other friends N
by the people, whom he processes to
love as dearly as he processes to love
them. Claude's bitter attack on Brow
ard, his friend, destroys what conf
dence his friends once reposed in him.
Broward has been true to his friends.
According to his own words Claude has
not. -Brooksvile Argus.
f. A. Gilbert of kissimmee, has in
vented something new in the way of a
moving picture show. His machine is
built in the shape of an aeroplane and
has a number of automatic peephoes
through which it is impossible to see
the show without first depositing a
nickel in the peep hole slot. BY virtue
Of its construction. the machine can he
carried anywhere and as it was primari.
" intended for an open air show all
costs of the hall rent, etc., will be
eliminated, thereby creating great
saving over the old time methods. |,
is Just the thing to be used at street
fairs and carnivals. -Kissimmee Valley
, Gazette.
FloridianS can now grow their own
raspberries. not the good old fashioned
New England kind, but one that is full
~ its equal in flavor although Of diff.
ferent shape. says the West Palm Beach
Tropical Sun. Last summer Mr.. John
b. Beach received from the Department
at Washington tiny plant, not larger
than toothpick which was labelled
Himalayan Raspberry. The plant Mr..
Beach set out in his grounds and it
thrived and grew wonderfully so that
two months ago it had sent out shoots
over eight feet long and at that time
blossomed and began to bear fruit.
This shrub has been bearing fruit in
large quantities now for two months
and has been growing in healthy and
vigorous manner, thereby demonstra-
ting its adaptabiity to this climate.
The fruit is about three quarters of an
inch in diameter. one-half inch thick,
and shaped something like the turban
of Turk. 1t is of a bright red and