The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-05-05
POUND ABOUT FLORIDA

rom M prth
Holmes county recently shlppeu
carload of hogs to New orleans
A biz meeting of golfers has oeei
held mt Jacksonville.
jacksonville is bidding for the neA'
convention of the Natlohal l'e''ii'i
and shoe Finders association.
Representative Clark introduced q
hill for public buildings at Ferry anu
Monticello, Fla.
The Progressive party Of Florida
will have a ticket in the teld III 'h'
general election.
Eugene Masters will represent 81"
Augustine as delegate at the an
anal convention of the State llorticuI-
tural society.
Thomas Owens. former local con-
tractor mt Jacksonville, died at Lima
O., where he went last summer loi
the benefit of his health.
The st. Augustine Democrat, a
new daily. has made its bow TO the
public. 1t is an eight-page' SiX-col-
umn paper. The Democrat was Tor
merly published in Palatka.
Will Brown. negro, has been SEN
fenced at Jacksonville to a half CEN
tury Imprisonment in six cases OF
highway robbery and one case OF at
tempt to murder.
Miss Helen sherman, a winter vls-
itor, has made quite a record as an
angler at st. Augustine, having landed
a 3O0-pound shark. huge clam
cracker and 45-pound drum fish.
Hon. Jefferson b. Browne, of key
West. candidate for associate justice
of the supreme court, Tallahassee, has
opened campaign headquarters in
Jacksonville.
Florida State Horticultural society
held its twenty-ninth annual meeting
at Arcadia. The meeting lasted -four
days and was well represented by
every section of the state.
Arthur Milan, an attorney of the
Jacksonville bar, has thrown his hat
in the ring as Il candidate for state
attorney for the Fourth judicial cir
cult.
Pensacola has organized Home
fnp nd y nninp thu
movement to secure the creation of ;
charter board under the FarriS home
rule act.
The chicken business is quite brisl
at Crystal Springs at the presen
time. Most of the breeders have hat
their incubators Matching for mum
Der of weeks and are turning ou
baby chicks by the hundreds.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. II. Mote made tn,
largest deal in improved real estat
that has ever been made in Leesburg
when Mr.. Schmitman. capitalist, iron
Austria, purchased Treasure islam
and all the other nurseries belongin
to them.
The Escambia County Medical as
sociation has decided to call a COZ
vention of medicos of West Florida t
be held in Pensacola at an early dat'
Joe Wheeler chapter, L. ID. c., yer
tittingly observed Memorial day wit
appropriate ceremonies at the auditC
rum Of the high school at Starke.
According to the report Of COllectC
of Customs J. f. c. Griggs coverin
exports and imports from and int
ports included in the district of Flol
ida, just issued from headquarters i
Tampa, the total business during th
month of March amounted to over on
and three-quarter million dollars.
John J. Busch, owner of line G
sightseeing cars in Jacksonville, Fla
and in Havana, Cuba, was killed an
his son, John j. Busch, Jr.. seriousl
injured at the formers home, q
Wakefield, Mass, when they were eH
Nilt iIlSlIpl VI Il lulHt she
which was alleged to have come fror
the old battleship Maine.
Confederate Memorial day at s.
Augustine was observed by the ladie
of the Memorial association. The Con
federate monument in the plaza wa
laviShly decorated with flowers
which were generously donated i
immense quantities. The graves q
the Confederate dead We're also dec
GRATED.
Applications Of the Florida Eas
Coast and the Atlantic Coast Lin
railroads to continue the operation o
the PeninSular and Occidental Steam
ship company, whose vessels ply be
tween Tampa, Key West and Miami
Fla, and Havana and Nassau, wer
granted by the interstate commerc
commission.