The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-02-24
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HAPPENINGS
Ne~sfrem Fair Florida Briefly Told

News nom Far Florida Briefly Told LIE
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The ninth annual conference on
child labor, under the auspices OF
the child labor committee, will be
held in Jacksonville. March 1916
A law and order league has been |
formed in West Palm Beach. The |
league has for its object the suppress
sion OF lawlessness wherever it may
exist in West Palm Beach and Palm
Beach county.
Several brick buildings are slated
to go up in Blountstown during the
present year; some to take the
place of old wooden structures, 9TH
ers to be placed on vacant lots.
Watch Blountstown grow Calhoun
County Record.
The postoffice at Chumukla was
robbed last week and $50 stolen.
Duncan Cook and Burrill Norwood.
both well known in Santa Rosa
county, hoBe been arrested for the
deed and placed in Jail at Milton.
They have confessed the crime. The
boys are Is and 10 years old.
| The movement for the creation of
new county, with Melrose as the
capital, has assumed sufficient pro-
portions as to arouse considerable
comment in Palatka and throughout
Putnam country. as the people there
do not take kindly to the thought Of
losing any part of old Putnam.
DeFuniak Springs has invited the
proposed convention to be held for
the purpose Of discussing the di-
vision Of Florida SO as to form a
new state of West Florida, to meet
there any time after April 6. and
has Offered to entertain the speak
ers, furnish an auditorium free and
do anything in its power to make
the convention success.
The Lakeland Evening Telegram
says that Lakeland is to have a
government building sure, $4,000 ap-
preparation being authorized for this
in the omnibus bill which was passed
in Washington few days ago. This
does not necessarily mean that the
building will be erected this year
or next, as the government moves
slowly and it may be several years
before the building is finally
completed.
! A hen egg weighing exactly a
quarter of a pound was exhibited
of this city, whose summer home is
at Meridien, Conn. The said egg
Is really immense and would dc
credit to goose. The hen is a full
; blooded mongrel. She has laid three
of kind, Mr.. Murdoch affirms, and
} if she continues there will be no egl
. famine in Eustis this season.-Eusti
Lake Region.
The building boom continues IN
abated at Fort Myers. The lates
building to be erected is a handsom,
two-story one, with front of presses
r brick. for w. J. Odom. The structur
:. viii cost $4,000. The entire build
3 ing will be occupied by Odom &
/ Gillian as hardware and furnitur
:. store and will be equipped with al
l modern eonvenfences, including a,
electric elevator. The front will b
e Of plate glass.
The 400th celebration Of the LAND
ing of Ponce de Leon on Florida
shores is to be a state wide annivel
sary this year. The citizens of 81
e Augustine have set apart the date
e OF March 81 and April 1. ?, and
!, for this most historic and spectacula
Y event. The Ancient city win be th
stage and the home people will &C
! the parts. The audience should b
,f made up largely of Floridians froI
y all parts of the state, who will com
not only to enjoy the many spectacle
N b4t - chou 4lai,. io+oroct o1d ,rs7
|! in the celebration of an anniversar
Of such magnitude.