The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-09-15
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Taylor county in October. Two years
ago the vets won out by less than
twenty majority.
Palmer Rosemond, of Live Oak has
been appointed State bank examiner by
Governor Gilchrist, filling the vacancy
caused by the resignation of w. B.
Sadler.
West Palm Beach has ordered an
other carload of oil for use on the city's |
streets. The results obtained with that .
used three months ago have been very
pleasing.
Besides the four brick blocks now in
course Of construction in Plant City, .
building records show that twentysiX
fine residences have been completed in
the city limits duling the past year.
Pensacola will likely stand third in
lumber exports for the United States
when the accounts are made up by the
Government experts, In imports of ma
hogany that city will probably stand
first, with New York second.
The annual encampment of the Ma
tional Guard of Florida is to be held
on the Black Point military reserva
ton, on the st. Johns river eight miles
above Jacksonville, for period of
eight days, beginning Tuesday, Sep
TENDER 10.
President William Howard Taft will ;
visit the state university at Gainesville |
on his return from Key West in Janu- I
airy. The president is coming to FlOri 5
da to attend the opening of the sea-
going railroad of the Florida East
Coast railway.
After reading story in newspaper t
that Beulah Binford would probably be t
prosecuted in connection with the Beat {
tie murder in Virginia, Mrs. Laura Sui 9
livan, of Pensacola, became despon- Il
dent and swallowed laudanum with sui q
cdal intent. The poison not proving t
fatal, Mrs. Sullivan thereupon stabbed q,
herself in the side and head and tried W
to blow out her brains, the bullet only
making scalp wound. She will re-
cover.
The letters and literature, and the r.
Tampa papers sent out by the board of ~,
trade in the year ending August 81, the -,
first since its absorption by the Cham =.
Der of Commerce and the Publicity club -,
is estimated as having brought to that ~,
city and section 1000 families. In -,
brief report issued by Secetary Powell ~.
he is shown to have answered %, 052 let =,
tiers from something over T, 600 people H.,
who had become interested in this sec -
ton of Florida.
An ugly story comes from the Mon n,
tague section near Ocala. A farmer =
going TO his work some distance from
h is home had his wife put his dinner in ~
bucket. a noon he started to eat
his dinner, but the food tasted so queer !,
ly that after the first mouthful he left =,
it alone. Taking it home that evening y
he spoke to his wife about the strange
flavor Of the food, and told her to give
it to the dog. She declined to do so, -.
whereupOn he gave the contents of the
bucket to the dog himself In short
time the dog was dead, No legal pro- ID
ceedngs have been instituted. I'd
III
1t is said the Florida Citrus Ex- J..
change will bring suit against the Flor ~
ida East Coast railroad to collect claims. oy
During the season of l909-l0 the ex- br
change handled large quantities of RI
p!neappies on the East Coast and at an
The close of the season more than Sl,- I'm
300 in claims were filed against the Is
railroad. Last week the exchange re- ~,
ceyed a voucher for S7SS.33 for pay no
ment for one pineapple claim, also otI
letter suggesting that this payment dr.,
wipe out the entire pineapple claims Ia,
against the railroad. The exchange nv,
absolutely refuses to make any conces-
sion and will sue for the balance on =,
these claims. Wv
res
The st. Johns County Superntend- ha,
ent Of Public Instruction, w. S. NJ. or,
Pinkham, states that the new state I'M an,
formity of the textbooks law will not to
be placed in effect in st. Johns county Tn
this year. He has received the list of not
books selected by the slate uniformity for
commission from State Superintendent ant
Holloway but st. Johns county is un. tina
Ter contract for the books this year hin
md the new law does not affect such 9th
COUNTIES until the contract expires. nou
The new textbooks are nearly all diff ent