The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-10-06
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$50 bushels of fine sweet potatoes to
the acre on his farm.
The Florida division of the United
Confederate Veterans will meet in Or
lando on October Goth and 9th.
Rear Admiral Lucian Young, who for
years has been in charge of the Pensa-
cola navy yard, is soon to be trans
tered TO another station.
ghe Kissimmee Gazette says that a
large guava grower in that vicinity
states that guavas when made into jel-
lies net about three dollars bushel,
and an acre planted to guavas will
yield about 500 bushels
Unless Claude L'Engle and Charlie
Jones, editors of Dixie, are the most
monumental liars unhung, the people of
Jacksonville and Duva county have for
years been cursed with a lot of rascas
IN public Office. From the documentary
evidence submitted by Dixie it would
appear that the latter is true.
In the course of few months more
New Smyrna will have another bank
under the name of the Fidelity Bank of
New Smyrna The incorporators are
c. b. Lamar, of st. Augustine; DR.. l..
B. Bouchelle, of New Smyrna; Bert
Fish and j. w. Perkins, of DeLand,
and A. f. Anderson, of Kingston, N. Y.
Florida Produce News, published in
New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas
u acksonvillein fact, any old place
- doesn't like the Florida Citrus Ex-
change. There's reason, and the
reason in this case is that the Exchange
has come into competition with some
of the friends of The News, to the
benefit of the Florida citrus growers.
Ninety-fve thousand pounds of to-
bacco were brought over from Cuba
Sunday by the p. & o. steamer Mas
colt. This is the largest cargo of weed
brought to this city for some time.
The total movement consisted of ], 250
packs, and this, together with the
forty eight packages loaded at Key
West, just about filled up the hold of
the ship. Tampa Free Press.
Two heads of families, four woman
and seventeen children, survivors of
a party Of % which left Polk county,
Fla, and Triton, Ga, some time ago to
try their fortunes at Celba, Honduras,
were rescued from fever, pestilence,
and starvation last week and carried to
New York on fruiter without cost.
They were found penniless at Celba.
where they lived on charity. Five of
their number had died Of fever in Hon.
duras.
Claude Gates and William Hoover, of
Manatee, have invented new motor
cultivator and have made arrange.
ments to have it manufactured in
Cincinnati. The Manatee Record des-
cribes the cultiyator as being labor
saving implement which will lay off the
ground, plant seed either in hills or
dSil Is and spray and cultivate the crop.
1t is fitted with a powferul motor
which can be used as a stationary en-
CINE when the machine is not in active
operation.
A lively contest over the removal of
the county site from Arcadia to Zolfo
is on in DeSOto county, the question to
he settled at an election to be held in
November. 1t all grew out Of move
op the part Of the county commission
crs TO build new court house. This
step met with some opposition, and in
order to prevent commissioners from 60
ing toward with the work the oppo-
nents circulated petitions over the
county and secured enough names to
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commissioners had already accepted the
architects plans for modern court
house costing approximately $4,000,
and the beginning Of active building
operations were held up until this mat
tex Of the county site is settled.
The legislature of 1911 adopted
concurrent resolution providing as
follows: That the governor be andi is |
hereby authorized to select and appoint |
three lawyers of ability and discre-
ton to constitute commission for the
purpose of examining into the law and
system of pleading and practice en-
eracing both common law and equity
in this and other States,
and to prepare such bills which in their
opinion may simplify the administration
IF law and DrOmOte the ends of iustice. |