The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-05-26
ROUND ABOUT FLORIDA.


postmaster at Baldwin.
Flagler hospital, burned recently at
st. Augustine, will be rebuilt.
Grand Chapter Royal Arch Ma
sons of Florida held annual conclave
at Jacksonville.
A new building will be erected for
the Carnegie public library at Clear
water.
Three hundred and eighteen names
are inscribed on the honor roll Of the
Miami chamber of commerce.
The prolonged drouth is broken by
good rains in the state and the crop
prospects are much brighter.
The screen law is being vigorously
enforced at st. Augustine. Violators
are liable to arrest.
A tribe of Ben Hur, with fifty
five charter members, has been organ
lied at Jacksonville
Thirteen new Florida business cor
porations were granted charters at
Tallahassee the past week.
Work has begun on the new golf
links at st. Augustine, the finest in
the south. The links were erected
at a cost of 100000.
The white man found dead on the
beach at st. Augustine recently was
never identified and was buried in
nameless grave.
Bishop Morrison, of Leesburg, will
preach the baccalaureate sermon at
the Florida State College for Women
OH June 6.
A negro woman at Jacksonville Is
charged with whipping one of her
children to death with a wire whip.
She is held on a charge of murder
The war department sent volum-
inous report to congress opposing con-
struction of a canal to connect Sill
yer Springs and Ocala, Fla.
President Wilson appointed T. j.
| Hammond postmaster of Hawthorne.
Jacksonville wants navy yard To-
Gated at that port.
Commencement at Columbia col
| lege, Lake City, drew many visitors,
who enjoyed the interesting program
| Of exercises.
Thos. H. Wilson, aged Sd years,
| for many years on the police force
of st. Augustine, died in that city,
leaving a wife and seven children.
The farmers of Duval county have
nj hn bo
ing the bettering Of agricultural con.
ditions in the county.
Senator Fletcher is urging an in
creased appropriation to fight the
citrus canker in Florida and other
states. He wants the appropriation
of a quarter million dollars doubled.
With number of more or less
important cases on docket, including
several murder cases, the spring term
of the circuit court opened at Gaines
vile, Judge Wills presiding.
Howey is a new town Of Florida
that is now down on the map to stay.
Much building going on and a news
paper, the Howey Herald, has made
its appearance.
Florida's early tomato shipments
this season more than doubled the
shipments last year, according to
figures which have been compiled and
published in the New York Packer.
The city board of health of Miami
has offered prizes to the boys and
girls who bring in the largest num-
Der of dead flies by July 1. A "swat"
the fly campaign has been started.
Nearly 5000 votes will be cast in
Duval county in the coming primary
election if the electors of this county
vote their strength, for more than
that number are qualified.
The first load of the 1916 crop of
Florida grown hay was put on the
market at Live Oak and was grown
by George Blue & Son on their farm,
one and a half miles west of Live
Oak.
The first work of improving the
sewer system in Jacksonville under
the recent bond issue began in the
Riverside district, the sewer depart
ment putting two gangs Of workmen
on the reconstruction work.
Before the campaign is closed no
less than $4,000 will have been
spent by candidates seeking nOmina-
ton for state and national offices in
the approaching primary election, ac-
cording to estimates of expenses in
Cured.
The graduating class this year is
the largest in the history of the Su-
wannee High school and has the dis
ti3ction of being one of the largest
graduating classes in any high school
in the state, consisting of nine girls
and eight boys, which is unusual.
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