The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-08-25
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The postal savings bank in st. Peters
burg will be opened Friday.
A pipe organ is being installed in the
First Pres byterian church at DeLand.
Jacksonville Owls are going to have
roost of their own, twelve stores
high.
On October 10th the citizens of Polk
county will vote on the question OF
bonding for $500,OOO.
A sweeping increase has been made
in the value of taxable property by the
city council Of Fort Myers.
Former Governor Jennings will be
the orator of the day at the Labor Day
celebration in st. Augustine.
The board of commissioners of Nolu-
STA county have taken steps to have the
Daytona. DeLand highway repaired
A new bank is to be opened in Bar
tow on October lst. 1t will be called
the Citizens Bank, and will be capt.
talized at $50,0O0.0O.
The business men of Hawthorne,
composed of merchants, mechanics and
professional men have organi zed
board of trade.
A county site election will be held in
Su inter county on Sep. l. Bushnell,
Sumterville, Coleman, Webster and
Wildwood are candidates.
Hon. Thos. c. Buddington is bearing
a petition to congress from the Board
of Trade of New Smyrna for deep
water port at that place.
Over five hundred tax payers of Bre-
ward county have signed a petition pro-
testing against the construction of
new court house at Titusville.
Shrimp are now said to be very plent-
iful in the river at Daytona and large
quantities are being caught daily.
They are said to be especially fine this
season.
Paul Sodugren, a Swede, and a paper
hanger by trade, committed suicide in
the Belevew Hotel at Tampa few
nights ago, by drinking mixture of
laudanum and morphine.
j. C. Titzell, of Savannah, Ga, has
been awarded the contract for excavat-
ing the estuary channel through Spark
man bay at Tampa. Work is to COM
mence within thirty days.
Palmetto recently bonded for $780,
600 for water works and street paving
and in September will vote another Sl5,-
600 bond issue to be spent on the water
works, street paving and sewerage.
Key West is anxious to secure por-
ton of the wreck of the Maine, and has
offered to pay the expenses of trans
portation for any section the govern
ment may allot to that city.
All former records for summer trav-
ell were broken by the mountain and
seashore excursionists leaving over
various routes out of Jacksonville last
week for resorts in the north and east.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Duval county have awarded the con-
tract for the construction of sand
clay highway, extending westward from
the Jacksonville city limits to the Baker
county line.
Work will soon begin on the ew
plant of the Standard OIL Company, to
be built on the river front at Hillsbor
orgh street and Lozano avenue, in
Tampa. The cost of the new plant
will be $l25,0OO
The postal savings department at
Daytona, which has been in operation
since June q, is prospecting beyond all
expectations. The deposits aggregate
about $500, which gives an average Of
$44 for each depositor.
Construction work on the Haines
City, Fla, branch of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railway is under way and
being rapidly pushed. Grading has
been completed as far as Avon Park,
and rails are being laid with unusual
dispatch. This line will be in opera
ton by January l.
Plans are well under way for the es-
tablshment of branch Young Mems
Christian Association at Miami. A
splendid building site and liberal cash
subscription will be the donation of H.
M. Flagler, while several citizens of
Miami are down for subscriptions rang