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

arrived In Florida from the west.
The Lake Worth Okeechobe canal /
expected to be finished about the frs
Of the coming year.
The Bank of Orlando. new finan
cial institution, has opened for bust
ness.
Plans for the new bridge over tn,
st. Johns river at Jacksonville have
been submitted.
A carload Of twenty-three pure-bret
Aberdeen Angus cattle was recently
received by II large stock farm in Ma
rion county.
A cleanup campaign has been in
augurated at West Palm Beach. DR.
A. II. King is the newly appointed
health officer.
The Florida State College for WON.
en- opened its regular session for the
fall term 1916-17 with record.
breaking attendance.
Governor Trammell offered a re.
ward of 5000 for the capture and con.
viction Of the four Homestead bank
robbers, or $3.50 for each.
The appointment of,a supervising
board to administer the drainage of
the Everglades from the ground upor
which the work will be conducted is
being agitated.
Prospects are bright for the grow.
Ing of comparatively large acreage
of Strawberries ut Crystal Springs this
fall and winter and considerable
acreage of cabbages.
The LeCSburg Howey special road
district voted S65,0O0 in bonds To-,
sand asphalt highway connecting
Leesburg with Howey on the west
and with Travers on the northeast.
The South Jacksonville public
schools, under the leadership of Mrs
McNamar, will open on the 2nd of Dc
tober, and it is expected that large
enrolment will be had this year.
The contract for the construction
Of the new bridge across the Indian
river, from Cocoa to Merritt Island
was awarded to Jacksonville firm
whose bid Of S,002.6O was the low
est among eleven competitive bids.
Tarpon fishing in the st. Johns
river this season no doubt has sur.
passed that OF any previous season
and the sport has really put the St
Johns on the map as a field for the
big game fish.
Plans are now on foot in Miami for
the erection Of Masonic temple, en-.
failing a cost of $4,000, according tc
a report from joint committee OF
the Masonic lodges Of Miami and Bis.
cayne Bay.
A committee has been appointed by
w. f. Miller, of Valrico, president OF
the South Florida Chamber of Com
merce, to take under advisement the
formation of a traffic bureau for that
section, which he declares much
needed.
County convicts are now doing ef.
fective work in road construction or
Anastasia Island. They recently com.
pleted road to Assembly Beach
through dense jungle and now they
are at work constructing a road from
Assembly Beach to South Beach.
The body of Della Wright. 1.
negress, was discovered by friends in
her shack on the Mandarin road, mean
Plummer. A bottle of poison was
found in the room. and is thought tc
have been the cause of her death b1
suicide.
The keel of the 1000 ton stee
rreighter for the Gulf and Southern
Steamship company will be laid in the
shipyards Of the Merrill Stevens com.
pany, marking the beginning of tho
largest vessel ever constructed ali
Jacksonville. The ship will cost an.
proximately $250,OOO.
Hundreds of Arcadians witnessed
the dipping of 1000 head of cattle or
the ranch of Parker Brothers, a mile
east of Arcadia. The monetary vain,
OF the cattle driven through the watts
TO remove ticks was in the neighbor
hood of 100000, and this was th,
largest number ever dipped in that
'ourty.