The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-18
ROUND ABOUT FLORIDA.

Eor sand-asphalt road % miles long.
An invitation has been extended
President Wilson to visit the big live
stock show at Palatka in November
0. G. Pope was elected mayor Of
Fort Myers by large majority as
the result of the general city election.
A compa1y is clearing 1870 acres
of recently acquired land in St. Johns
county and will engage in farming
and stock raising.
Jacksonville is making extensive
preparations for the big preparedness
parade at that place on August rs,
26 and 27.
A bond issue of $4,000 for the
erection of a modern school in Bron-
son was carried by an almost unani-
nous vote, only two dissenting votes
being polled.
Marcus Fagg of Jacksonville re-
celved an appointment from Governor
Trammell, naming him as delegate
from Florida to the American Prison
Congress, which is in session in Buff
falo, New York, October 7 to IL.
Chairman George P. Raney, of the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee, has called meeting of the com
mittee, to be held in Jacksonville on
August "a. The meeting will be for
the purpose of reorganizing.
During the month of September
forty-nine State prisoners located at
different points in Florida, including
the State prison farm at Raiford, will
be given their liberty, their terms of
various lengths having expired.
For the purpose of naming a county
seat the commissioners of Okaloosa
county have called special election
for March 6, 1917. Milligan is the
temporary seat, the county Of Okla
loosa having been created by the re-
cent legislature.
Oil burning engines which elimi-
nate the smoke and cinders, will be
in operation on the Florida East Coat
Railway this coming winter, and will
be inaugurated on the entire system
when the tourist season is in full
swing.
The appointment of the following
Florida postmasters is announces:
Dover, Hilsborough county, Thomas
R. Williams in place of P. I. Copeland,
resigned; Gasparilla, DeSoto county,
Oren Vickers to succeed w. A. Nc
Elya, resigned.
In round figures the assessed valua-
ton of Miami property is twenty-one
million dollars, according to tax rolls
submitted to the city council by Tax
Assessor T. A. Price. These figures
indicate an increase over last year of
approximately one and a half million
dollars.
The tobacco crop in Gadsden county
this year will probably reach 1925
900, as the largest and best crop that
has ever been raised in that section.
Prices per pound for both sun and
shade tobacco are good and growers
are finding a ready market for their
crops.
Concerted efforts are being made
here by local interests to secure the
establishment of a naval base at
Tampa. An active campaign for rec
ognition will be made here as soon
as the committee is appointed by
President Wilson to select the site on
the Gulf Coast now proposed.
Representing an attendance of at
least five hundred delegates and hun
dreds of visitors. the National Farm
ers' Union will hold it's eleventh an
nual convention in Palatka, Novem-
Der %, and already a call to prepare
for the occasion has been issued by
President Charles Barrett. The con-
vention will be in session three days.
L. II. Demitt, vice president and
general manager of the Apalachicola
Northern Railway for the past sew
eral years, has resigned that position
to accept an increased salary and a
more responsible position with the Sa-
vannah River Lumber Company, a
twelve million dollar corporation OPP
Grating eight large mills in the South.
Work has started on the improve
ment of the 3,000-acre tract of ham
mock land recently leased by the Fed
eral Sugar Company, which plans to
operate extensively in that section.
The construction of so houses for en-
ployes has started and clearing of the
land begun. The tract has been
leased for 80 years. The company
plans to grow vegetables as well as
sugar cane.
New Bank for Tampa.