The National tribune., 1910-04-28
ST. CLOUD.
Local Gossip From That Lively Young
Community.

Local Gossip From That Lively YOun,
Community.
tFrom the st. Cloud FIa.) Tribune
The pie social given by the Christian
Endeavor Society Friday last netted
I$27
Plans for the new passenger depot
have been made and work on the build.
| ing, which will stand on New Yorl
avenue south, will soon begin.
VIM. A. Donmoyer, who has charge
OF the work of putting up the wires fol
the electric lighting plant, Is busy dis.
tributing the poles along the avenue.
and streets. He is arranging to wire
houses.
The new public school building will
be located on the block bounded by IlIi-
nols, Indiana, 11th and 18th. 1t will
be two-story brick and ready for the
Fall and Winter term.
A. q. Daniels reports 76 young chicks
Matched this week by incubator and all
doing we'll Mrs. Daniels is visiting al
her old home at Reading, Mich, and
writes that she wishes she was back
at st. Cloud.
II. ]. Sylvester comes to town occa-
sionaily from his farm near Alligator
Lake, and tells big stories about chick
ems and garden stuff.
T. S. Oliver is establishing dairy of
high-grade Jersey and Holstein cows on
Virginia avenue. Everything will be of
the best, and customers are invited to
inspect his place. Milk and cream will
be delivered in bottles.
Samuel II. Gull says he has not en-
joyed as good health in the last 10
years as he has since coming to st.
Cloud last Fall. The harsh Winter winds
from Lake Erie, at Cleveland, o., nearly
put him out of the running before he
headed south
The only real alligator so far cap
tured and brought to town is a six-foot-
er taken by one of the survey crews
one day last week from a lake in the
south part of the colony. 1t is now the
recipient of much attraction at the COM
pany office on Ohio avenue.
Richard Zimmerman has business
hen. In December she hatched brood
of IL chicks. In a month she turned
them adrift, laid another Matching of
eggs, and is now proudly clucking over
her second brood. while the first lot is
nearly large enough to fry.
c. c. Cottrell and wife, of Auburn
Neb., who came on the excursion from
Cincinnati. o., last September, are COM
fortably located on Connecticut avenue
south, and they intend to stay year
before going back North on a visit.
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cavalryman.
Prof. ]. r. Sage, for many years Iowa
State Weather Observer and long prom
inent as newspaper man in the Hawkeye
State, made st. Cloud another visit last
week. He was here in January, and
stayed couple OF weeks. He likes
Florida, and thinks ST. Cloud Is going to
be big town.
The two-story brick block belonging
to n. F. Bass. on the corner of Penn
sylvania avenue and 11th, is a hand
some building and a decided addition
to the business structures Of our town.
The first floor will be occupied by the
st. Cloud Drug Co. and the second story
by the Woodmen of the World.
Veterans and visitors without excep-
ton express surprise at how easy it is
to walk and exercise without getting
"winded." Down here some of the old
boys are getting to be sprinters, five to
1O-mila walks being a common thing
with those who thought 1t quite a job
to go to the post Office up North.
q Col. and Mrs. Cadman, of Narcoossee,
our neighbor to the east, leave soon on
a trip to England. We wish them a
safe voyage and return. Their home.
which they have occupied for % years,
Is one of the attractive places of this
section of Florida. The Tribune Is in
receipt of a box of pecans from trees
planted by them.
The railroads entering Florida from
the North, in connection with associated
lines, will have tickets at largely re-
duced rates on sale at prominent points
on the following dates: April 19, May
3 and II, June and 81. July and 10.
Aug. 2 and Is, Sept. and 20, Oct 4
and IS, Nov. / and 15. These tickets
are good for 25 days. used on all regu-
lar trains, and stop-Cvers allowed at all
points in Florida, going and coming,
with the exception of Jacksonville, You
can buy tickets right thru to st. Cloud
The Woman's Club of st. Cloud is ar
ranging course of study covering a
trip around the world Our club is now
Il member of the Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs of Florida, and will be in
cluded in the route of the travelling Ii
braries sent out by the Federation. The
first library of 80 volumes is expected
next week at the home of Mrs. DR.
Hyre, who will act as librarian. The
President of the club is Mrs. ]. b. West
colt; Vice President. Mrs. Anna Squires;
Second Vice President, Mrs. Elizabeth
Miller; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Helen
Chapman; Corresponding Secretary.
Mrs. Maud Adds; Treasurer. Mrs. L.
Bartlett
Sites for churches have been donated
by the Seminole Land & Investment
three lots in each case, as
follows: Baptist, Massachusetts avenue
and 11th; Christian, Kentucky avenue
and 18th; Methodist Episcopal Ohio
avenue and 10th; Methodist Episcopal
south, Ohio avenue and 18th; Presby-
-erian, Indiana avenue and 1lth; Ro-
nan Catholic, Illinois avenue and 10th. |
Bishop w. c. Gray, of the Episcopal
Diocese of South Florida, will preach |
lere on May 10, and 1t is expected lots |
VIII be selected for Protestant Epis- |
,opal Church during his stay 1t is |
planned that three lots will be ample |
or a church structure and parsonage. !