The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-05-13
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OF the State

formed an association for the market
ing of the crop.
All deserving employees of the Postal
Telegraph Company will receive in
crease in salary on the first of June
Milton has voted $4,000 bond issue for
the construction of an electric light
plant and SO, 600 for sewerage system
Bowling Green reports that over 1000
boxes of beans have been shipped from
/ that point already and with fairly fav-
orabIe weather many more boxes VIII
go out.
The commissioners of Duval county
! have authorized estimates for ten miles
of brick pavement. After much eX-
pericnce the people of Duval have de-
cdcd brick the best paving material,
price and wearing qualities considered.
The fifteenth annual convention of
/ the Florida division, United Daughters
of the Confederacy, which convened in
Ocala Thursday morning, will he re-
corded as one of the largest attended
gatherings in his history of the organi-
/ cation.
( According to an unofficial estimate
compiled by the United States census
bureau Monday for 1910 the new census
will give Florida a total population OF
500, 5il, an increase of l67, 800 since the
census of 1900. These figures are con-
servative and when the returns are all
in Florida may be given an even great
err population.
The city council of Kissimmee has
sold the entire issue (S42, OOO) city wa
ter and sewer bonds to the Citizens
Bank of Kissimmee and c. l.. Bagwell
4 Co., of Jacksonville. who bid on the
bonds jointly. This shows conclusively
that local banks have faith in the fu-
ture of Kissmmee, that she is already
quite financial center as live, up-to-
date city.
Hastings, Florida. " says the Home
seeker, "noted as the great Irish potato
section of the state, is now coming to
the front as a packing house center,
where the finest quality of cured pro-
duets are being produced and shipped
to all points on the coast. The hogs
furnishing the supply for this enter
prise are fattened on potatoes tina; are
too small for shipment, thus creating
profit out of waste product. This,
as the Homeseeker also remarks, is an
example of what may be done in many
places.
H. r. Hamilton, who in the past has
operated small store in the northern
part of Miami, was arrested in st. Au-
gustine the other day by Sheriff Perry
on a warrant sworn out by the father
of a sixteen-year-old girl whom Hamil-
ton took with him on the train from
Miami. Hamilton got on the train at
Miami, while the girl boarded the train
at Buena Vista. The girls father be-
came suspicious when she did not re-
turn home and suspected Hamilton.
When he learned that Hamilton had
left home with his daughter he had
warrant sworn out for him and he was
returned to Miami.
What will doubtless prove valuable
object lesson in hard road construction
in Putnam county with native materials
will be the mile stretch of improved
highway now being built under govern
ment supervision, beginning at point
near Rice Creek and coming toward
Palatka. The work is in charge of d.
H. Winslow, who is being assisted by
County Engineer Ensey and thus far
presents by far the finest and most
practical piece of road work ever at
tempted in that county After the
foundation is thoroughly prepared an
eight-inch layer of sand-clay, obtained
in inexhaustible quantities in the i'm
mediate vicinity, is applied. 1t is mix
ed with sand, plowed in and then har-
rowed several times with disc ma
chine and dragged. This produces
road that is claimed will last for years
with the most severe usage, the annual
cost of up.keep of which is estimated
at the paltry sum OF Sc per mile. The
specimen road now being built when
completed will be about twenty feet in
width, the material or "metal" as it is
technic. lily called varying in thickness
from eigh, inches at the crown to moth
ing at the edges. 1t is estimated that
the average cost per mile of road like
now being built would be in the neigh