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Newspaper
Fort Pierce News
Location
Fort Pierce, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
9
The article surveys Seminole people near Tampa, detailing appearance, dress, speech, manners, and morals. It notes honesty, cleanliness, religious practices, and family naming customs, and recounts legends of creation and manna, plus beliefs about Jesus Christ as a future guiding figure.
Ww Hogg and his son from Jensen visited Fort Pierce on Monday, staying for a short time and greeting local residents.
The piece condemns convict leasing in Florida and Georgia as brutal and inhumane. It cites brutal lashings, maiming, starvation, forced prostitution, graft, and widespread misery. It questions system reform and notes church notices and county commission minutes forthcoming next week.
The Fort Pierce Band shifts weekly concerts to Friday evenings from the band stand at Palmetto avenue. New cornetist W. E. Youngs strengthens the group, which recently received a framed group photo from H. E. Hill. Tonight’s program begins at 7 30 with marches and overtures, and weekly programs will be published in advance.
The American Bee-Keeper monthly published in Fort Pierce ceases with the August issue edited by Harry E. Hill. He thanks readers for eight years of growth from 600 to nearly 3000 subscriptions and reflects on eleven years of association with the bee-keeping community.
Miss Josephine Brady of Titusville was struck and dragged several yards by a car on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. The victim, visiting with Judge and Mrs. A. D. Penney, sustained head bruises an ankle sprain and shock but no serious injuries. The auto driven by W H Howell with his daughter as passenger, caused the incident near the Candler building.
The St Lucie County School Board met in regular session with R R Gladwin as chairman and actions include approving last minutes, considering a donated land for a Tantie school, raising the Quay teacher's salary to 50 a month, instructing on Fort Pierce colored school matters, approving insurance on school buildings, extending a note, repairing and painting school houses, appointing A O Helseth for Oslo school, accepting a deed for Gifford, transferring new books to P P Cobb, and authorizing various expenditures and warrants totaling 935.84 dollars. A lunch room is to open next week in the former bowling alley on High Street near the depot, run by John Ellis for travelers.
Claude Walker son of Mr and Mrs Kyle Walker drowned during a swimming outing at Ten Mile Creek last Saturday. A diving race among boys led to Walker staying underwater too long and he could not be revived despite immediate rescue efforts. The community mourns the loss of their son.
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