The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-12-29
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which will soon open in Miami. Theo.
Hoffstater Is president.
Senator Fletcher has introduced bills
in the senate providing for federal
buildings at Barlow and Orlando.
These were referred to the committee
on public buildings and grounds.
Extensive improvements are being
made ON the interior Of the union sta
ton in Jack sonvile. The work will be
finished in about thirty days and will
involve an expenditure of approximate
~ $4,000.
Frank Clark is out in an interview
saying that Florida is for Harmon for
president That ought to be reason
enough for the rank and file of Florida
democracy to be for almost anybody
except Harmon. --DeFuniak Breeze
President Taft has declined the invi-
tation from the city council OF Key
West requesting him to attend the
great Oversee Celebration on January
%. in commemoraton of the opening
of the Florida East Coast railroad into
Kew West. He states that numerous
previous engagements will prevent his
attendance.
For the information of the people Of
Florida, the vote of the Florida dcIega-
ton in the house of representatives. on
the Sherwood Pension Bill is given:
Frank Clark and Stephen NJ. Sparkman
voted for the bill. Dannite H. Mays
voted against it. This shows in the
roll call printed on page PAS of the Con-
gressional Record of the present SEES
sions OF Congress, under date of De-
cember r.
Twenty-six out of thirty-two mem
bers of the Republican State Central
committee met in Jacksonville last
Thursday and issued call for con-
yention to be held in Palatka, Febru-
ary 16. 1t is understood that the COM
mittee from the three congressional
districts will meet Immediately after
the convention for the purpose of max
ing nominations for members of the |
national congress. Times Union.
General Frederick Dent Grant, u.
S., with his aide, Lieutenant Marion
w. Houze, spent few hours in Miami .
FRIDAY the guest of Hotel Halcyon.
General Grant is making his annual :,
inspection of the sea-coast defenses .
south to Galveston, Texas, visiting .
Key W est, Tampa Mobile and Calves .
ton. On the return trip, he viii visit .
Atlanta and Chattanooga, Forts Me- F.
Pherson and Oglethrope, thence to
Columb Barracks, Ohio, and back to T.
his headquarters at Governors Island, .
New York.
w. L. Whitefeld, one of Live Oaks
Oldest citizens died at his home in that
city few days ago, from acute indl-
gestion. Mr.. Whitefeld was promi,
nently known throughout the State.
He was for several years editor and
propriet tor of The Live Oak Banner,
and later editor of The Jasper Banner
Of Liberty. Retiring several years ago
from newspaper work Mr.. Whteieid
became connected with the city gov
eminent and until few weeks ago
was street commissioner Of Live Oak.
The urst-Clarke Co., contractors,
who will dig the drainage canal west
from Deerfield into Lake Okeechobee,
recently purchased two more of the
State dredgeS, paying for them the
SUN of $l65,00O These dredges are
now at Deerfeld ready to begin work
on the canal as soon as let through the
railroad and county bridges, and the
company is under bond to complete
the canal by the first of June, 1913.
The dredges now working into the
GEades from New RIVER are reported
to be only seven miles from each other
and they are expected to meet by the
last of February.
Recently there appeared in the New
York papers statement made by
Secretary of the Navy Meyer, that
during the past two years the navy,
twenty per cent larger than it was the
previous two years, has been maintain
ed at a saving of 100000. This saw
ing was made by the bureau of steam
engineering, created just before the
termination of the cruise around the
world which the navy made during the
latter part of Roosevelt's administra-