The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-10-27

Dade City, has announced his candi-
dacy for Attorney General of Florida.
prospectors are said to be arriving
in Miami daily. They come from all
parts of the United States, and many
will locate as actual settlers.
The presentation Of the silver ser.
vice, to be bought by the people OF
Florida, to the batteship Florida, will
be made December Is, instead of a
date in January, at the Pensacola
navy yard.
AT a meeting of the county com.
missioners of Jackson county the bonds
of the county, amounting to 500, 900.
was sold to William W, Flournoy, of
DeFuniak Springs, the price paid was
SOB, 900, and accrued interest, and he
furnishing blank bond.
The Citrus Exchange has sold for
Bernard Kilgore, of Largo, 300 boxes
of grapefruit for 81 the boX,f. o. b.,
according to the st. Petersburg indie
pendent. The fruit was raised on
shell hammock land and was fine and
well-colored, says this same authority.
DR.. Wiley is preparing to enforce the
pure food law in the matter of citrus
fruit and has notified shippers that
unripe oranges or other fruit sent to
market in condition in which they
are unfit for food will be confiscated
Florida now has law prohibiting the
shi pment of unripe fruit.
Cromwell Gibbons is running a good
race for Governor Of Florida in New
York, Park Trammell, however, is
doing his running in the State Of which
he proposes to be the chief executive.
In other words he is willing to let
Cromwell have the New York publici.
ty, while he is mailing down cracker
votes.
James l.. STICKY, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. P. STICKY, of Marion county,
has recently received an appointment
to the naval academy at Annapolis,
Md, through the representative of his
district. The young man is at present
at Providence, R. l., where he is at
tending preparatory school for several
weeks before taking competitive ex-
animation.
Marcus c. Flagg, State Superin-
tendent of the Children's Home Socie.
ty of Florida, makes an appeal to all
10 d. es of Secret Orders in the state to
contribute five or ten dollars each to a
fund to furnish one or two rooms Gin
the new home building) to be known
as the rs. o. o. F. rooms (Secret
Orders of Florida. The request will be
quite generally complied with.
The New Smyrna Breeze says that
the fish dealers of St. Lucie county
have effected an organization "to fight
the local fish law, known as the Hardee
law, which was passed two years ago
to prohibit seining of all kinds within
twenty miles of the ocean," The fish
ermen claim that the law will be de-
c!ared void and they want to revert to
the general state law which regulates
the size Of mesh and length of nets to
be used.
The West Palm Beach bond election
last Friday carried for all items except
that Of sea-wal, $25. 600. The call
W as for sos, 00o divided among wall,
sewers, streets, fire department, city
dock. $40, coo of bond money was vot-
ed. Nlnety-twO ballots were cast, two
being spoiled, The bond required a
t"o-thirds vote to carry. This bond
it is said will be available for
the Improvements named, within four
or i've months.
The commissioners of Osceola coun-
ty have renewed their subscription for
eight hundred copies weekly of The
Kissimmee Valley Gazette. Some
three years ago that county began the
experiment of sending out copies of
The Gazette to the Western States,
and the venture proved of such real
advertising value in the way of Undue.
ing homeseekers to purchase property
and locate permanently in that section,
that at each expiration the subscrip-
tion has been renewed, unanimously
and unhesitatingly.
Within a short time the Atlantic |
Coast Line will soon be operating
trains over 235 more miles of tracks
by means Of the telephone. Already the
telephone is being used for the purpose
of dspatching trains over nearly |, 900