Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-19
FLORIDA

for legislature.
Sebring. Clubhouse at Lake
Josephine burns to ground. Care
lessness of tramps is suspected.
Eustis.-News reaches here Of
death at Newton, n, J., of Walter
D. Wild, long winter resident here,
and prominently connected with
early history of town.
Arcadia.-Gus Hendry is still talk
ing about ffteen-pound trout he
caught in Lake Childs. Fish fought
harder and longer than any tarpon
he ever encountered and backbone
looked like spare ribs. he says.
0cOec.-City is preparing to pur-
chase electric light and power plant
owned by Mcguire & Hawthorne.
Moore HaVen.-Mrs. Mary Ann
Steer, native of England and pioneer
resident of this section, dies of
Miami. County Agent ]. S,
T}ainey announces organization of
farmers viii be started to protect
crops from larvae of millions of
white butterflies which have been
passing along coast for days, just
as soon as they begin laying eggs.
Autoists caught in the cloud of
migrants have to stop every half
mile or so to wipe windshield and
radiator clear of butterflies.
Miami. Forty-thousan pound
fish, scientifically known as Rhyn-
don Typhus, or whale shark, caught
June 9, by Claud Nolan, of Jack
sonville, and party from here, is
saved only after two-hour fight
with school of forty tiger sharks
while being towed by tug to Key
sharks, using blunted harpoons and
long poles with iron fastened at
end Sharks, in frenzy, slide over
back of big fish and into tug as
! they fight among themselves.
SarasOta.-John Ringing, famous
circus man and member of Sara
sofa County Fair association, sug-
gests that Florida products exhibit
! ton be given first in Madison
| Square Garden. New York, in Janu-
/ AIRY. then moved and continued here.
with the snow piled up along the
sidewalks and the streets covered
| with slush, an exhibition such as l
saw ut the South Florida fair at
TAMPA or at Jacksonville, of fruits
and flowers and vegetables, of fish
ana shells and the other wonderful
| things down here in winter, would
! attract hundreds of thousands of
VISITORS he says.
1t.nsu A al TAI1Y
| gro who shot and killed F. l.. Cross
| in February. is found guilty of muir
| der and sentenced to hang. Jury
is out only seventeen minutes. After
! sentence, negro says to bystanders,
! well, you were at my trial; you
want to come down and see me
hanged" He is the prisoner whom
! Sheriff IIagan, of Putnam county
successfully defended from mob.
Fort Myers.-New buildings rep
resenting Investment of $750,0OO,
are under way here.
Friendly Club gives
ovation to Judge j. c. 3. Koonce,
just appointed to preside over Six
tcenth judicial circuit.
Tallahassee. supreme court or
ders Paul Overstreet, held in Pasco
county for murder in connection
with killing of federal prohibition
agent and county official, be re-
leased in bail of $4,000. He already
has been cleared of killing of one.
Bartow.-John Coffee, sixty
seven, prominent in phosphate in
dustrN dies in hospital at Madi-
son.
Leesburg.-Lake county, which
now ranks\foufth in citrus produc-
I ton, expects to give DeSOto county
race for third place next year. Gain
this year is 20 per cent over 1922.
Leesburg Home of S. f. Nc
Cutcheon burns with $4,000 loss.
Tallahassee Florida s new search
/ and seizure law becomes operative
July !. 1t provides that warrants
for search shall be issued in dupli-
cate, and one. copy given to owner
Or occupant of premises; also that
no home shall be searched in night
| time except for stolen property. 1t
provides for severe punishment of
those who maliciously or ground
lessly cause issue of warrants. and
u O1AICGiS VIII exceed lneIf a IL
thOrity.
Tallahassee.-By the ruling of
| house judiciary committee, sending
| back to secretary of state to be en-
rolled as law a measure passed in
1921 and vetoed by Governor Har-
dee, an important change in legal
procedure in state is effected Meas
ure provided presiding judge must
charge jury in civil or criminal case
before argument of counsel, and that
court must direct acquittal if state
has not maintained its case. Com
mittee ruled that governor did not
veto act within ten-day limit, hold
ing that Sunday counted as day.
TaIIahassee.-Sta comptroller's
office, automobile department, is
getting ready to handle work begin
ming July l provided by motor title
act passed by legislature. All own.
erS OF cars must obtain certificates
of ownership which will be issued
on receipt of 81 fee and evidence that
applicant owns car. Any transfer
of ownership thereafter must be ac-
companied by transfer of title certifi-
cate, with approval of comptroller,
for which fee is another dollar. Ap-
plicatien blanks will be distributed
through auto dealers, motor clubs,
banks and public offices. Act is ex-
pected to bring in net revenue of
100000 a year, and to diminish
stealing of autos, as it provides for
a punishment as misdemeanor for
driving car without certificate.
hassee.-Supreme court re-
verses decree of divorce granted in
Alachua county to Libby Russell
from Robert B. Russell Court holds
divorce suits must be brought in
county where defendant resides or
where cause Of action arises.
Eustis.-News Of death at San
ford, of Charles J. Wagner, of Eus-