The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-08-04

j. w. White has resigned MS posi-
ton as industrial agent for the Sea-
board and Florida has lost a good
friend in the change. Mr.. White has
done much in developing South Florida,
especially the Land of the Manatee,
Judging from the manner in which
the Florida Citrus Exchange is endeav-
olng TO hold up prices, it should re"
ceive the support of the growers all oV-
er the state. 1t is an organization that
is FRIEND to the fruit grower. Mana
tee Record.
The Kissimmee Valley-Gazette says:
cit may be source of information to
many of our readers to know that the
oldest Civil War general now Lying Is
Samuel Gibbs French the Confederate
veteran, who, during the past winter,
celebrated his ninety-second birthday
at Pensacola, Florida. y
A Florida newspaper gravely inform
automobile owners that there is no law
regulating the speed at which they may
run their machines outside the city linn
its. A glance at chapter 5437, of the
Revised Statutes of Florida, will show
Automobiles how much misnformatlon
may be crowded into one short para.
graph.
One of the largest sales of cattle ev-
err made in Florida was consummated
at Kissimmee last week through the
efforts of r. d. Waring, when Arthur
f. Donegan purchased from E. l.. Les
lev his herd of twelve thousand cattle
as well as his pasture lands of about
eight thousand acres. the amount OF
money involved in the deal being con-
siderabiy over one hundred thousand
dollars Lakeland News.
Florida summer climate is pleasant.
True, people do not need to sit by fires
in August, but if they were in search
of health they would keep away from
places where winter has habit of in
truding on summer. The Creator made
no mistake in giving weather appropri-
ate for the season. No one thinks that
an intensely cold day in August or an
intensely hot one in January is conduc-
i've to health If people wish to be
comfortable they can be as comfortable
in Florida all the year as in any other
State.
John Sherwin and VIM. Frippe ar
rived here yesterday from the Panama
canal, making the trip in thirty-foot
sloop boat. The men are machinists,
though both have had considerable ex-
perence at sea, hence their novel way
of journeying from the canal to their
homes in Philadelphia. The men have
spent four years on the isthmus and in
all that time they assert they have not
had a days sickness, and even declare
that it is fully as cool and pleasant
there as here. They are pronounced in
their praise of the manner in which the
government cares for the Workmen,
both in housing and feeding and gener-
al kind and considerable treatment. -
Miami Herald.
All Florida is watching with interest
the final work upon the great Key West
extension of the Florida East Coast
Railway. Link by link the great chain
is being welded which will bind Key
West to the shores Of her State. All
Florida is hoping that no hurricane will
come this year to hinder the work and
that in January Henry NJ. Flagler will
ride into Key West on the first train
from the mainland to the Island City.
President Taft has agreed to make
this first trip with Mr.. Flagler and
there will be other officials and digni-
tsries representing foreign nations. 1t
will be a great occasion. not for Key
West alone, but for all Florida. Key
West is preparing to fittingly celebrate
the event and the entire State should
render all aid possible and should heart
lily cooperate with her.
W. W. Prout a prominent citizen
Of Miami, is in Washington, and the
following interview in the Post will be
of interest: "While Florida is as much
a Democratic State as Texas ever has
been, and probably will remain so for
years to come, the Republicans of that
Commonwealth are going to make
themselves felt at the next convention
for nominating President" said w.
w. Prout, of Miami, Fla, at the New
Ebbitt. FLORIDA is almost certain to
throw its votes in the national conven.