The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-07-15

Champion Bridge Company, Whining
ton, Ohio. for $40, 800.
The Everglades Bank and Trust Co
was organized last week to do a genera
banking business at Fort Lauderdale
a charter has been applied for, and il
is to have a capital Of S25, 600.
The Mexican training ship, Yucatan
is anchored in the bay at Pensacola
On board are about fifty Mexican nava
cadets. The boat will remain in Pen
SacoIa for a week and will then sail fol
/ Progresso.
The State Railroad Commission has
received blue prints of the plans for the
new depot which is to be built in Tampa
Work will commence at once on this
structure and six months is the time al.
lowed in which to complete the station.
The A. c. l.. railroad has inaugurated
a scheme Of improving and identifying
Is stations and grounds at a number of
stations between Sanford and Tampa.
which will not on Y attract attention to
the towns where these improvements
are to be made. but will also act as OBJ
iect lessons to tourists and settlers.
Building operations in Daytona, Sea-
breeze and Daytona Beach since Janu-
AIRY first amount to total of 1925, 900.
This includes buildings completed and
under conStruc ton and few for which
plans have been drawn and work will
commence within the next month.
Other buildings aggregating IN value
$40, 1000 to $50, 600 are in contemplation
Daytona Gazette-News.
Don Farnsworth, of Chicago, has
purchased the Wall property and will
at once erect a first class hotel in Fort
Lauderdale The hotel will be three
stories and will have fifty rooms, eight
teen of which will have private baths.
The first floor will be used for offices,
lobby, dining room and four stores.
Three sides of the first floor will be of
glass as the building will face on two
streets with an alley between.
Reaching a valuation Of S22. 7O2, 572,
an increase of over So, 000, 600. when
compared to last year, the fiscal year
ending Friday established a new re-
cord for the valuation of exports for
one year from the port of Pensacola,
and these figures do not include ship
ments of foreign products, which had
been brought to this port and then re-
shipped to another foreign country, nor
do they include che valuations of goods
sent to Porto Rico or possessions of the
United States. Pensacola Journal.
The Sumter county court house case
was up before Judge Bullock in Ocala
again Monday. The judge granted the
writ compelling the county commission.
,rs of Sumter county to build court |
house at Sumtervile the former county
seat. The commissioners will report to
he court the progress they are making
IN the first Tuesday of each month I'M
ii next March, at which time it is hoped .
.he building will be completed. Unless
unforeseen turns up the Sum-
er county court house business is now
settled once and for all.
The sum Of S29, 0l3.O3 represents what
Senator James P. Taliaferro spent in
lis campaign in the two primaries, and
{ he feels blue" over the result no
me could blame him. Some men would
commit suicide if they should lose that
mount. Broward invested in the two
primaries Sl4, llS. 80, not quite half as
nucn as his opponent, which goes to
how that it doesn't depend so much on
he amount spent but how you spend it
in primaries, especially. Broward
as the reputation Of making big deals
owever, and he is doubtless proud of
he one he has just pulled out of.
spent S6, 557 IA in the first pr-
nary and Taliaferro spent SlS,264.l4. ,
'hese figures come through the Secre- ,
airy Of State and are absolutely reliable
AT the regular meeting of the City
ounci of Lakeland Wednesday night,
F. D. Clough as Collector, rendered a
-atement showing that the City Elec-
&c Light & Water Plant had made a
ash net profit averaging SAILS. rs per !
onth for the past six months. In ad-
ton to this there is furnished lights
I'd water to the city amounting to STAT
er month, making the actual net earn I
gs of this properly $6l2 26 per month, [
q tot al of 50 lQ1 81 for tha civ month, 7