The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-12-15

18th, on the proposition 10 issue qooo,
600 of bonds for the purpose of con-
structing good roads in the county.
Gibson William Harris, well-known
citizen of Holly Hill near Daytona and
at one time law student in the office
of Abraham Lincoln, passed away Tues
day night at his home,
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany announces that, effective Deem
Der 6, it will inaugurate two new
forms of cable service to be known as
Gable Letters and Week End Letters.
At meeting of the Peninsular
Pebble Phosphate Company to be held
in Lakeland at an early date the ques-
ton of increasing the capital stock
from 100000 to Sl,00O,O 900 will be
considered.
A big factory is to be erected in
jacksonville by the Southern States
Bag Company, This plant will be
large enough to supply the demands OF
this State as well as Georgia, for bags,
burlap and Irvine, as we'll as other
similar material.
On last Friday the first hamper of
beans for shipment from the Ever
glades farm of John Brewster was
brought to Fort Lauderdale. Other
growers have been supplying the To-
cal market with their picking, but Mr..
Brewster sold the first for shipment at
two dollars per hamper.
1t is more than probable that the
presentation of the different silver
services to the Battleship Florida will
take place in the convention hall in
the San Carlos Hotel, Pensacola. the
18th of this month, instead of aboard
the vessel, as was first planned. This
will afford the visitors to the. city
better opportunity to be present and
witness the presentation.
Pinellas county is now fact. The
Supreme Court has affirmed the act OF
the Legislature creating the new coun-
ty and the officials who will manage
its affairs have been named. Hon.
John Taylor, who did so much to have
Pinelas county established, should be
its first member of the Legislature,
while Editor Straub and "Pinellas
Sam" Harris ought to have anything
else they may ask at the hands OF the
people.
The Florida Railroad Commission,
connection with the Interstate Com
merce Commission, has succeeded in
getting substantial freight rate reduc-
lions on all fruits and vegetables from
Florida to northern points, reduced rates
to 90 into effect January End. The In
ter-State Commerce Commission ruled
that present rates are unreasonable
and exorbitant, and through the petit
ton of growers and the State Com
missi on, the reduction was ordered by |
the National Commission.
The Postmaster General has signi-
fed his willingness to allow the Key
West postoffice special cancelling
d evice which will advertise the great !
Oversee Railway Celebration. The
concelling die will be sent as soon as
completed aud every piece of first
CT ass mail going out from Key West
will shortly have something printed !
upon it calling attention to the big !
event. The celebration committee are
now meeting every day and getting
plans perfected for the celebration.
Returning from buying Christmas
presents for his two little children,
now left fatherless, and in the pres
ence of his wife, who accompanied
him, j. j. Holt, of Manatee, was in,
stantly killed Thursday at dusk by an
A. c. l.. passenger train, near Plant
City. Holt was section foreman for
the Seaboard Air Lin railway at Mana
tee, and he and his wife had been visit
ing her mother, who lives at the brick
yard near Plant City. The pair had
been in town to buy some Christmas
gifts for the youngsters, and were on
their way to home with the parcels,
walking along the railroad track, when
the passenger train approached. The
train was equipped with the electric
headlight and Holt was probably dazzl-
ed by the glare so that he did not re.
alize that the engine was so near.
Much surprise was expressed at the
fact that he, an old railroad man,