The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-24
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James McComb, Jr., who is a well
known newspaper man OF the stare Is
now editor of the Fort Lauderdale
Breeze, paper that has been estap'
lished in that thriving town recently.
The Southern Educational Assocla-
ton will meet in Jacksonville during
the Spring Music Festival All roads
leading into the city will give reduced
rates and many thousand people are eX-
pected to attend.
The Florida State Retailers Associa-
ton, which met in Jacksonville last
week recommended many laws relative
TO the collection Of accounts, for pass
age by the Legislature, Tampa was
selected as the next place Of meeting
There is a state law in Florida which
prohibits any person under Is years OF
age from driving an automobile on the
streets or any highway, and Mayor
Titus has given orders to the Daytona
police officers to rigidly enforce TINS
law in Daytona in the future.
A meeting of most of the principal
citizens and property owners on the
east side was held at the residence of
Hon. E. n. Dimick Wednesday after
noon at which preliminary steps were
taken toward incorporating the prince
pal part of the East side as the town
of Palm Beach.
Apparently solving the problem Of
how best to care for the city's shell
paved streets. the oiling of San Marco
avenue, St. Augustine, from the end of
the brick pavement to the waterworks
station is proving most valuable ex-
pertinent, and has apparently solved
the question of public street and road
construction in that section, where
shell is obtainable.
The entire East Coast. from st. Au-
gustine to Knights Key. way below
Miami, is thronged with tourists. So
great are the crowds that it is with
much difficulty for the Florida East
Coast Railway to handle them. In ad-
dition to all this it seems impossible
for said road to take from the lower
east coast section the immense produc-
ton of vegetables this season.
1t is not public taxes that makes you
groan. 1t is the private taxes that the
great corporations and combines levy
on everything you eat, drink, wear or
use. The rich of this country draw ten
dollars out of you for every dollar you
pay in public taxes. You pay Stand
ard Oil $50, OOO,0 600 year and you pay
the national banks $50, 900, 900 year
and lot of lesser lice that are eating
you up rapidly.
The preliminary hearing of Bascom
Carlton, charged with the murder of
Deputy Sheriff Guy White and Abe
Schneider at Espanola on March 5, and
his brothers, Dan and Marion Carlton,
charged as being accessories to the
crime, was held before Judge Mackey
in st. Augustine Friday morning.
After hearing the evidence the court
held all three prisoners for the spring
term of circuit court.
A certain lady who resides near Kis-
simmee had fifteen eggs which she in
tended for Matching purposes. Three
of the eggs were broken, however, and
that left twelve. These she deposited
under hen with motherly inclinations
and in due time the hen came off the
nest with brood of seventeen chirping
chicks. Now, how did that hen manage
to get seventeen chicks from twelve
eggs?- Kissimmee Journal.
I Mrs. Joseph Hull, wife of the pres.
dent of the Merchants National Bank,
of Savannah. Ga, who is one of the
richest men in the South, and her
daughter Elizabeth, were victims Fri
day on their arrival in New York on
the Lustania from Europe, of one of
the most remarkable hunts for a dia-
mond necklace by treasury agents in
the history of the customs department.
They were forced to disrObe and their
shoes and even their hair were searched
for the gems. The search failed COM
pletely. Hull is also president of the
Prairie Pebble Phosphate Company, of
Mulberry, Fla. The women were made
almost hysterical by the search.
The good roads movement has struck
Suwannee, Hamilton, Columbia and
MoIioon oountiac with cn>d aTaot