The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22
What Various
Towns In Fla
Are Doing

club it to take up the study of diff
ferent lines of gasoline engines.
Ernest Greco. a Latin American of
Plant City, has started on a walking
tour from that place to San Fran
cisco. He expects to get there in
time to see the Exposition.
Prof S. l.. Woodward of the Plant
City High School is making ar
rangements to have moving picture
machine permanently installed in
the school building to be used for
educational purposes.
Jacksonville is making arrange
ments to install a modern cotton
compress to handle the coming sea-
son5s business.
The case of John Ashley. convict
ed murderer, of Dade county, has
been granted an appeal to the Su-
preme Court. The State will pay
costs of appeal. but attorneys will
fight for bandit without compensa-
ton.
A commission manager charter for
st. Augustine is being discussed by
the commercial body of that city.
The Bank of Monticello, a new in
stitution, started business last week
with capital of $4,000.
The Florida Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation will meet at Atlantic Beach
in June,
Palaika has a new commercial
body known as a Chamber of Com
merce.
$4,000 will be expended on the
Hotel Huntington at st. Petersburg
on Improvements and alterations for
the coming season.
According to the department of
commerce a total of 45,463 punches
of sponges, valued at $656,776.43
were sold through the Tarpon
Springs Exchange in 1914.
The Baracas and Philatheas
throughout Florida are making pre-
parations to attend the, third annual
State Convention, which will be held
in Arcadia May to 9.
The Clearwater Golf Club will
vote a $4,000 bond issue, part OF
which will be applied on the grounds
and part on a new club house.
Lake county commissioners plan
for road construction involving
about 200 miles of highway with ar
expenditure of about 100000.
The foundation for a new $4,000
gallon water tower has been com
pleted at Tarpon Springs and tn,
steel construction is we'll under way
Tampa has six iitney buss lines IL
operation.
Henry p. Davis. of Ormond, Fla.
died on the streets in Jersey City
]. N. j., last week. Davis drove
horse from Ormond to Jersey Cit,
on an election bet.
n A State Demonstration Farm ha
n been proposed and bill presehte
t. to the legislature asking that on
: be established.
j. Those at the head of the Stat
h Fair movement In Jacksonville hav
asked the railroads Of the south t
TO help them out to the tune Of $4,000
~ The Georgia Florida pecan grow
"A ers will hold their annual cbnver
"a ton on May 2 6and q.
,e The bean season is on in full blas
IL at Fort Meade. Large shipments Al
Up going north daily.
Id The State Peace Convention wi
r. be held in Orlando April 20 to Ma
ne 2. Orlando has a local organizatio
%. Of $50 members.
no Reports state that Dade count
M will have one of the heaviest avoc,
n. do pear crops ever sgrown in th'
" county. The mango crop will
a. small.
The T. A. Bass Fisheries Compar
have begun their shipments Of fis
from Okeechobee. Their large Ms
house is now in full operation. ar
this means that over a half millit
" dollars will pass through that pla
y during the next few mouths.
The Paltaka Military Band h
e been mustered into the state mil
p' tary service. The selection of &
nc Platka organization as regiment
band is a distinct compliment to
Vi efficiency and standing. There a
ey only two regimental bands in I
ST. state, the other being located
'ep Jacksonville.
ars The strawberry shipping season
an drawing to a close. At Plant CT
he there were $4,000 quarts shipp
lal last week. From the Plant City t
snt ritory there were shipped this 81
Is son 912,64O quarts, bringing I
Pc growers of that section $16S,224.!
md Three alleged wire tappers W.
arrested at West Palm Beach II
to week and bound over in the sum
of S., 900 each. The men were
ole Hayes, J. D. Chase and d. Duen
re- They were unable to furnish DC
m and were remanded to Jail.
,em The annual state convention
20 the Knights Of Columbus will
and held in Jacksonville on May
ore however the date has not been
lcyially announced
n. T. s. Akin, former postmaster