The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-08-25
STATE NEWS.

pot which is underway, several business
houses and residences are being built.
A $20, 900 elevator is being construct
ed on Seddon island at Tampa at the
end of the Seaboard coal docks for the
purpose of unloading ships that land
there.
Pensacola has a broom factory with
capacity of three dozen brooms per day.
AT the last meeting of the city council
of Miami an ordinance was introduced
taxing all slot machines in operation in
that city $500.
Tampa is preparing for a juvenile
court which will have authority of all
cases in which the defendants are under
seventeen years of age.
Gainesville tax millage has been set at
fourteen mills for the coming year.
The Tallahassee True Democrat is TO
issue "New Era Edition" and the
county commissioners have voted an
appropriation of $3.50 to help defray the
expenses.
Mayor Webb of ST. Augustine is one
mayor in the state that is doing some
thing. Monday morning there were
two cases of drunkS in court, and the
mayor in communication to the chief
of police told him three was leak in
the lid somewhere and it must be
stopped. In a second order 10 the chief
he instructed him TO notify all mer-
chants that they must have screens up
by the first of September, and that ordi-
nance prohibiting the sale or the giving
away of cigarettes or cigarette material
in the City of St Augustine must be
strictly enforced.
The new bank at Bonifray will be
opened to business about November lSt.
A young drug clerk at Worthington
Springs by the name of Simpson, was
horribly burned few days ago by the
explosion of bottle of gasoline. Last
Sunday his condition seemed TO be
much better and he started for his home
in Georgia, but died en- route.
"The busiest place about the Magic
City," says the Miami Herald, "is the
Highleyman property" DredgeS are
excavating and sea wall three hundred
feet in the bay is being built along the
entire length of the property, distance
of quarter of mile. 1t is the purpose
of the promoters to build modern
hotel, dock, club house, etc. The de
velopment will represent an eXpendi-
ture of more than million dollars.
Manatee is troubled with COWS roam
ing the streets at night, and the Record
| 10 In Qhatn
nuisance.
The citizens of Polk county will vote
on a bond issue of $500, 900 for road i'm
provements. The election will be held
October 10th.
Key West is rejoicing over the sup
port of the United States government,
since the resolution introduced by Con
grcssman Frank Clark giving govern
ment recognition to the Oversee Rail
road celebration has been signed by
President Taft, and is now law.
The big Sawmill for Bowling &
Shands at Green Cove Springs is nearing
completion and the proprietorS expect
10 be manufacturing lumber in the near
future.
At meeting of the OluStee monu-
mcnt commission held in Jacksonville
recently, plans were perfected for the
dedication, unvciling and turning over
the monument TO the state February Il,
1911, the anniversary of the battle.
Sheriff Perry of ST. Augustine is after
the violatorS of the game law in that
county. As in other counties OF the
State, there are hunters that persist in
shooting quail before the season opens
in November.
TituSville wants new court house
but il seems that the citizens of Brevard
are putting up a stiff fight against it
They say new court house is not need
ed at present.
Norman Wyeth of Cambridge, Mass.
an employee of the Florida Coast Line
Canal and Transportation company
while at work about two miles south o
Delray, was bitten by rattler last Fri
day afternoon and died from the effect
that night
ST. Augustine will celebrate Labo
day this year, and Col. Gibbons will b'
the orator of the day.