The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-11-06

gers last night.
Mr.. l.. o. and DIR. S. NJ. Gold, are in
the city to-day.
Mrs Ii. E. Higley, of Lake George,
Inother Of MI f. F Higley. is i'll the
-.-e. e." guest - har son.
Capt. A. N. Edwards came up from
Leesburg, and will circulate among his
friends here for few days.
Mr. r. L. Wall, of Interlachen, was in
town yesterday and spent the day at the
court house looking after legal affairs.
Rev. j. III. Moore, of Keuka, was in to
see us yesterday. He reports that new
settlers continue to arrive in that desir-
able locality.
Easter next year falls on st. Marks
Day, April %, it's latest possible date
The last time this occurred was 1876 (Old
style.) and it will not SO fall again until
1913
The paint work on Mr.. p. Cunneely's
building on Water street is about COM
pleted and the house presents much
heater and handsomer appearance than
heretofore.
Capt r. r. Reid has a notice this
morning of his grocery store. He is re-
ceiving new goods constantly end is adj
ding to his always excellent stock. Read
his notice.
We call attention to the notice of Miss
Hancock IN our special column this
morning. She is a thoroughly compe-
tant teacher, and will give satisfaction
in all art work intrusted to her.
The daughter of Canon Farrar is to be
married to Mr.. Gum. So the daugh-
ter of a Canon is to marry the son of
| Gum? Proper enough.-Palatka Her
| aid. Aud the upshot of this will be a
little Gunner two.
Mr. B. l.. Lilienthal shipped large
order of furniture yesterday, and in fact
he ships off from one suit up to enough
to furnish house entire every few days.
He has magnificent stock, which he
| replenishes as fast as sales are made.
The free library and reading rooms of
the w. c. T. U. are kept open day and
night now, and a number of people avail
themselves of the privilege of visiting
| the rooms and reading the papers and
many excellent books to be found on the
elves.
The plasterers and whitewashers will
soon have all the rooms on the third floor
of Graham's Hotel ready for guests, and
they will be elegant rooms when COM
pleted, too. The Graham continues to
hold its popularity with the public, and
is crowded at all tines with guests.
Mr.. VIM. Ivers is having the old build
ing on his lot next to the court house
torn down, preparatory to erecting a
large market house. The building is to
two stories high and the stalls will be
rented for fruit, vegetable and meat
stands, which will no doubt prove quite
a convenience to parties who have to
''go to market for table supplies.
Messrs. J. D. Alderman and Eugene
Jackson are the champion hunters so far
this season. They usually go out about
rs, d5ts in each week, and bag good
lot of birds on every trip. Wednesday
they eclipsed all former efforts by bag
ging fifty-five fine birds, which Mr.. Ack-
erman says is good enough to reat awhile
on as it was his last hunt of the season.
The rapidity with which the Putnam
House is being built excites the wonder
| as we'll as the admiration of all our WISH
tors. The Floridians may appear to take
hnt demands
they pitch in and can do more and bet
| ter work than almost any people. Which
is equal to saying that the Putnam will
be the handsomest hotel in the state, and
| that it will be completed in time for the
heavy winter and spring travel.
The Sanford Journal says the machine
shops and round house of the Jackson
vile, Tampa and Key West railroad will
be located at Sanford and will employ,
| altogether, two hundred and fifty men.
Will the Palatka papers explain how this
can be, when it has been stated that these
shops We're to be located at Palatka.-
| Tavares Herald. The Palatka papers
| have no explanation to make, as the
committee appointed by the citizens have
| had the positive assurance of the rail-
way authorities that the shops would be
| located at Palatka. The grounds were
| bought and paid for, and the deeds pre-
sented to the railway company. The
Sanford Journal should give the grounds
| for its assertion. as the statement is
news to the Palatka people.
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