Fort Pierce news., 1911-05-12
STATE NEWS

E. w. Gray Of the United States
Weather Bureau has installed the new
Office provided for Miami
Miami's new au;o FIRE truck has been
nut in commission and the boys are
itching to give it a test
Two otthe largest ocean-going oargeS
that ever visited Miami landed last
Friday with cargoes Of 5000 barrels OF
crude oil from Galveston.
Mr.. J.. f. I1graham, third vice pres
ident of the Florida East Coast Rail-
road, is iii at The home of Mr.. Kirk
Munroe at Cocoanut Grove,
n. Harold Hume was again chosen
president of the State Horticultural
Society, which held its annual meeting
IN Jacksonville last week.
The Florida Citrus Exchange asks
every member and every grower Of Cit
rus fruits in Florida % write TO heir
representatives to vote for the green
fruit bill
Plans are now on foot 10 raise the
membership OF the STATE Good Roads
Association to ten Thousand within the
next eigh, months one dollar will en-
title you 10 MEMBERSHIP
The News anoounces the completion
OF the Atlantic Coast Line depot at
:, Clearwater. 1t is fine. large, brick
structure and one Of the best 10 the
state outside the larger cities.
The Tampa Tribune endorses a plan
suggested to that paper to regulate the
liquor traffic by requiring those who
buy to-show license. and recommends
It's consideration by the Legislature.
The proposed issue Of bonds to the
amount of 100000 for city improve
ments failed to get the requisite Two
thirds majority in an election at West
Palm Beach on Tuesday of last week
Seven men we're indicted for murder
in the first degree by the Duval county
grand jury last week, one Of which was
a white man named Leonard Watsen,
charged with killing Policeman Luther
Henderson last December.
Miss Geneyieve Parkhill, OF Month
cello, has been chosen as sponsor from
Florida to the Confederate Veteran re
union at Little Rock, Ark. Her niece,
Miss Elizabeth Parkhill, Of Jackson.
vile, will be maid of honor.
c. G. Schley, a nephew of Admiral
Schley of Spanish. American war fame,
was prisoner in The Miami jail last
week after a series OF eccentric per-
formances caused from drinking, He
is a tomato grower at Gould's.
Give the State Railroad Commission
the credit for bringing the impudenl
L. & N. Railroad to terms in the mat.
ter of "a three cent passenger rate in
stead Of fonr cents, ,ays the DeLand
Record. Somebody wake 'em up again
At the April session Of the volusis
county criminal court there we're 2.
convictions, including pleas Of guilty
ST. ,3s5 imposed as fines, costs S97S.79
making total OF S2,35S79, most o
which came from gamblers and blinC
Tigers.
A woods fire near Lake Butler Sun
day OF last week reached aquantity o
dynamite and caps that had been bic
by the stump diggers for the Rector
company aud caused an explosion tha
shook up thiogs for miles around ant
made many think an earthquake haC
occurred. Everybody scared but nc
one hurt
"Mothers' Day" fatsIthis year on the
second Sunday 10 May (next Sunday
when white cnrnatiou, or badge, viii
be worn all over the land Fathers
Day. will be observed on Sunday, june
18th, when those who desire TO SHOW
their respec, for dad will wear a
rose. colored for the living and whlts
for The dead.