The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1916-10-05
Round About Florida

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Jacksonville may be erected.
Fletcher X. Trammell has been mp
pointed postmaster at Aiachua.
The Florida troops have been or.
dered to the border.
The Bank of Orange at Orlando
now occupies its new building, cost
ing $4,000.
Noah Hicks, who was injured in an
automobile accident, died at local
hospital in Jacksonville.
The postoffice department esti-
mates the population Of Tallahassee.
state capital, as served through city
delivery service, to be 1920.
The postoffice at Lake City was
moved from the building in the CEN
ter of the city to the new building
just finished on North street.
Two alleged violators of the Flor
Ida liquor law were fined $50 each
In the municipal court at Jackson.
! vile by Judge w. w. Anderson.
Col. Samuel w. Miller was detailed
by the war department as executive
officer Of the national rifle matches
to be held at Jacksonville.
The First Methodist Episcopal
church, which was destroyed by fire
at West Palm Beach last January,
will be replaced soon with a $4,000
structure.
Elaborate preparations are in prog
ress for the celebration of Farmers
day at st. Augustine. The chamber
Of commerce has decided to observe
the day on October 20.
Mrs. Mary Robertson died ut her
home on Saragossa street, at st. Au-
gustine, after an illness of several
weeks. She was over so years of
age.
Much attention is being given to
growing broom brush in the Lake
City section Columbia county will
grow two crops of broom corn. one
In june and one in September
Vast tracts of cut-over timber
lands are being converted into cattle
ranges in the western part of the
state. 1t is said that in Santa Rosa
county alone los, 900 acres is being
stocked
According to advices from Tampa,
the members of the Naval Base com
mission Will visit that city In the
near future to look over the pros
poets for the establishment of a naval
base aeroplane station there.
T. Fl. Kelly, for several years con-
nected with the Fernandina Record
as sporting editor and editorial
writer, has gone to New York, where
he will become identified with the
Morning Telegraph of that city.
Fifteeh Polk county banks now
hold on deposit $1,51G,01S.S3, being
the proceeds of the good roads bonds
recently issued. Work on the roads
throughout the county will start i'm
mediately, in order that the work can
be completed early next year.
The Escambia County Medical So
ciety has issued invitations to physi-
clans of Georgia, Florida and Ala !
bama to attend the convention of
which will be held at Pen |
sacoh October % and PC. In the
neighborhood of 200 doctors and their
families are expected to attend.
Pensacola is given honorable men |
ton in statement issued by the |
postmaster general as being one of |
ninety cities where the postal savings |
now on deposit exceed 100000. The !
exact amount now on deposit at Pen
sacola is $10S,523.
Major Elijah B. Martindale. Jr.. ar
tillery corps, is relieved from duty in
the coast defeHses of southern New
York, to take effect on or about No
1, 1916, and will then pro-
coed to Key West Barracks, Fla, and
assume command OF the coast de-
lenses of Key West.
News of a new boat. the yagabon-
lila, which will be seen in Florida wa
ters this winter, has been received
1t Miami. The Vagabondia has been
built in New York for w. L. Mellon.
If Pittsburg, who has been a visitor
1t Miami each winter for number
If years.