Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1911-03-24
LOCAL

uay Ia the city.
The City Barber Shop will hone Your
razor Shop by Atlantic Hotel.
Rev. S. L. Loudermilk, of Narrows
was visitor here last Friday morning
Messrs' ], NJ, and S. B. Jones' Of
Vero, were visitors in the city Satur.
day,
ladies suits cleaned, pressed and de.
llVered promptly. H, H. Munich.
The Equitable Life Assurance Com
pany is represented in Fort Pierce by
nc. Eldred. Every form Of desirable
policy is issued.
Messrs. D. E. Austin and ], G. Stein.
hauser, of Jensen, we're business visit
ors here Monday.
For SALE-Good mule and wagon at
bargain. T. w. LETTERS, vero Fla.
Mrs. Robert @. Gresham and little
daughter returned home Friday night
from a tour Of the West Coast and a
visit with relatives at Arcadia
Mr.. L. f Geiger, who has been prin.
cipal of the Wabasso school during the
past term, spent Sunday 10 this city
with his sisters and left Monday for Co.
Goa, where he will remain during the
summer
The Jacksonville BOAT, 7. & S., owned
by w. S. Coachman, won the endur-
ance at Palm Beach and took the grand
prize worth $1,000 and the handsome
cup. The prize is now owned by Mr..
Coachman, who won leg last year
with the Dewey. The T. & S. made an
average speed Of 28.ll statute miles.
Ralph VanLandingham arrived here
Tuesday from Miami and will spend a
few days with his parents before pro-
ceeding 10 Lexington, KY, where be
has signed contract to play ball in the
Blue Grass League this summer, His
many friends here hope TO hear good
rerorts from him 10 the ranks o. pro-
fessional baseball. As a catcher he has
already outclassed all the amatuers on
the Gast Coast, and should have DO diff
ficulty in making good in the above
league.
The attention Of our readers is called
to the page ad. Of Auftin & Fee, real
estate dealers, in this issue. These
gentlemen have large amount and
wide variety of land near the city which
they are Offering cheap and on easy
terms. They have already sold TO one
hundred and fifty actual settlers and
are after more. II you are interested
in Fort Pierce and adjacent property
see or write them.
For the purpose of holding l5-min-
utes' conference at Thomasyille yester-
day afternoon Harry Payne Whitney,
who has been spending the winter at
Palm Beach, made a 478-mile trip by
special train over the Florida East and
Atlantic Coast Line railroads at over
mile.a-minute speed. The cost Of such
trip is estimated at 81 per mile. st.
Augustine Record. No such trainpass-
ed Fort Pierce. The trains passing
here have very irregular. inactive,
uncertain, slow speed.
Rev. Pitt NJ. Jones, State Evangelist
of the Florida Baptist Convention, will
hold a series of tent meetings at Sebas-
tian, Fla, including the fourth Sunday
in this month. The meetings are ex-
pected to run for ten days or two weeks
and the tent will accommodate about
four hundred peopls. Everybody is
cordially invited to come and hear this
great preacher and the people OF Sebas-
tian are requested to turn out in full.
Faber BROS. has just had built new
cistern Of 5000 gallons capacity in the
Hotel Atlantic yard and Contractor
Brewer has never done a more COM
plete Job, the concrete blocks forming
The bottom and sides fitting SO snugly
that they appear solid. This is the
c.stern Of that capacity that the
Atlantic now has for holding drinking
water and keeping it cool, clean and
sweet, while the water for other pur-
poses is pumped by an aermoter from
deep we'll. Enough sand was taken
from the excavation for the new cistern
% make all the cement walk needed to
fropt the Hotel Atlantic block,