The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-11-25
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week that tipped the scale at 39O pouios
How is that for "a cracker pig thai
never ate any corn.
Last Saturday was great day IN the
history of Holmes county and one OF
the biggest days in the history Of Bonn
fay. the occasion being the first agrl
cultural fair ever held in the country
1t was certainly a day of awakening
among the farmers and each one re-
turned home not only delighted WIFI
the pleasures of the day, but filled witt
fresh inspiration and fully determined
TO accomplish greater and better things
in the future. Gee Bombay Advertiser.
Mark Arrowsmth, alias E. b. viii,
alias +. y, Witt, alleged embezzlhg
cashier of the Commercial Bank and
Trust Company, Of Pulaski, Tenn. was
arrested Saturday afternoon while fish
ing from st. Petersburg dock. Arrow
smith says he is short from fifty TO
sixty thousand dollars. but the bank S
statement is that they are $50, GOO A
friend Of Arrowsmith, WAS in the city
and recognized the man. They com
punicated the information to the
police,
Leaving SoIomon's, Nd, about
Christmas dav. John W. Marsh and
brother will sail to Tampa in house
boat. The Marshes are shipbulders
and have conceived the idea Of reach
ing south Florida without recourse to
modern transportation lines. If the
weather is favorable they expect to
make the trip in three weeks. They
will stop at many ports enroute and
at each place will distribute literature
descriptive of Tampa. The houseboat
will carry muslin sign which reads:
From Solomon's, to the l54 per cent
city-Tampa, Fla
G. A. Montague and j, A. Bronzonie
of Port Tampa City have patented an
airship, which they claim will revolu-
tionze the business of air navigation.
Their machine is of the dirigible type
with pedal propellors instead of pro-
pellors operated by an engine. An
other Improvement is the weights that
are worked by the operator to make
the ship ascend or descent, doing away
with the necessity of the operator
walking back and forth to raise or
lower the bow of the ship. The ship
is forty feet long by eight feet in diam
eter and has lifting capacity of $50
pounds.
w. R. Moses addressed the city
council of West Palm Reach last week
on behalf Of Mr. Ingraham in the mat
ter of opening up about 40 acres of
land, near the County High School, and
laying out streets of 50 feet wide for
the purpose of erecting homes. which
were desired By many families whose
children attended the schools. Mr.. In
grahams proposition was that he would
pipe and carry water to such proposed
addition of the city. would sewer the
same and connect said sewers with
those entering the lake at any point.
After much discussion the matter was
finally referred to the street and sani.
taton committee.
As every liquor dealer in the state
has placed himself on record as favor.
ing local option there can certainly be
no objections TO the coming legislature
passing law prohibiting the shipping
of liquor from wet counties into dry
counties. Again. the Model Saloon
League has many followers among
Florida liquor dealers, and the legisla
ture should help the movement by rails
ing the license to something like So, 00t
for retail dealers and $50, 900 for whole
sale dealers To help the liquor dealer.
make their business respectable, tn,
law should also be amended to make i
Jail sentence, not fine, to illegally
sell liquor. Give the men chance u
make their business respectable. -Wau
chula Advocate. /,
For ten days now the local fish houses
have been working night and day tax
ing care of the largest catch of Spanish
mackerel that has ever been made. I
is estimated that 200, pounds O
mackerel have been shipped out o
West Palm Beach during this run. The
local fishermen say they have never
seen so large a run before as this has
been. Each of the wholesale fist
houses has an increased force of mer
packing the mackerel in barrels or il