The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-08-18
Short Items from
all Sections
OF the State

ing at Lakeland.
Contractor w. B. Williams has COM
menced work on construction OF the sea
wall at st. etersburg
At recent meeting of the city coun-
Gil in Miami it was decided to raise the
saloon license from 81 900 to 81, 800.
West Palm Beach people gave rous-
ing welcome to auto party there IN IN
terest of Miami to jacksonville highway.
The Osceola county commissioners
have decided to make repairs to the
county jail in lieu Of building new
one.
There are Is, 775 acres of vacant sur
veycd United States land in Brevard
County which is open to entry for
homesteads.
The old town clock IN the court house
tower at Gainesville has ceased to run,
the man who has been its custodian Tor
q years having resigned.
Tampa will make a bid in Oklahoma
City, August II, for the securing OF
the next annual general encampment OF
SPANISH War Veterans.
Hon. Robt F. Rogers, of Lynne, has
been appointed delegate by Governor
Gilchrist to attend the international tax
congress, which meets at Richmond,
Va, September 81.
Hon. Worth Trammcll, of Tallahas-
see, has been appointed u. ). Assist
ant District Attorney for the Northern
District of Florida, He is a brother OF
ATTORNEY General Park Trammcll.
An effort is being made at kisslm-
NEE to organize what is to be known
as the Osceola County Fair Association,
and it is proposed to hold county fair
at Kssimmee some time next fall.
A. w. Lee, of South TitusVille, rals-
ed the Stars and Stripes and Union
Jack, on his flag staff, last week, IN
honor Of the signing Of the peace treaty
between England and the United
States.
The C. NJ. Williams Company. own
ers and operators of the ice factory IN
st. Petersburg, will order in the near
future a complete modern 25-ton ice
manufacturing machine, which will re-
place the smaller of the two machines
now in operation.
For speculation in loans on Florida
timber lands, and to advance money
for the negotiation of big real estate
deals, two-mllion-dollar trust COM
pany is projected by Charles II. Selg,
president of the New South Farm and
Home Company, and associates FOR
Jacksonville.
Some of the opponents of the good
roads bond issue in Jackson county
tried to tell the farmers that the rich
men only wanted them to build the
roads for their automobiles, but Hayes
Lewis, the indomitable campaigner,
went along behind them and said that
the farmers had better get the roads
while they could because the rich bull
lies would soon have air ships and
wouldn't want the roads. Pensacola.
Jacksonville stands a good chance of
bel Nc the northern terminus OF a new
line of passenger and freight steamers
to be established this fall by the Cuban
American Trust Company. Jackson
vile and Tampa are being considered,
and the decision will be largely matter
of choice on the part of the Seaboard
Air Line railway as to which port will be
most satisfactory for connections.
Hon. H. H. McCreary, editor of the
Gainesville Sun, has been forced to
take a vacation on account of failing
health, and is now in the east. Every
person who knows him will wish for
his permanent and speedy recovery.
Mr.. McCreary, when at home, pays
strict attention to every detail of his
newspaper work, and as a result he is
about broken down. All will hope that
he will soon be able to mount the tri-
pod again and make the Sun the paper
it was in its palmiest days, when he
could do two days work in one, in any
department.
Florida certainly has reason to feel
proud of the magnificent new BATH
ship which will soon be put on the high
seas bearing her name. As discussed
in naval circles. there is a possibility
L 4 Al