The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-07
CITY NOTES.
ODE TO OCTOBER.

VIII be repete
With people for
The Traveller who on the oceans been rocked,
The Buds for the next season who have TO be
frocked.
The Clerk whose vacation is suddenly docked.
hooked,
We do greet
On the street
Every Oct
Captain j. FL. Welsh, of Welshton, is
in the city.
Rev. Mr.. Stanton, of San Mateo, made
a pleasant call at THE News office yes
terday.
Capt. VIM. Betsworth, of Baltimore,
Is in the city again, after an absence of
several months.
DIR. Benz. Nice has moved his office
across the street to the Grill block, where
his patients will hereafter find him.
Mr.. III. l.. Taylor, of Knoxville, Tenn,
has arrived in Palatka, and taken a po-
sition az prescription clerk in the drug
store of Mr.. r. Kersting, where he will
be found hereafter.
Rev. H. II. Kennedy, of st. Paurs
Church, Jacksonville, will aid in the
conduct Of the revival services in prog
ress at the Methodist Church, for the re-
mainder of the week.
Parties from the North have leased the
Lakeview Hotel at Keuka. and will open
it up in first-class style in a short while.
The hotel has been very popular in the
past, and no doubt will flourish under
its new management.
The T. B. club met at the residence of
Mr.. Geo. j. Zehnbar, Jr.. Wednesday
evening, when progressive euchre was
the order of exercises, pastime most
thoroughly enjoyed by the members of
this popular social club.
Mr.. Chas. Watson, of the Florida
Southern railway, left yesterday for a
He was armed with a plenty of ammu-
milton and good gun, and had the ap-
pearance of man bent on having a
good time.
Miss Emma Weller, who has been in
the city on a several weeks visit, the
guest of Mrs. Z. T. Lane, returned to her
home. in Jacksonville, yesterday. Miss
Emma has many friends in Palatka,
who will always be delighted to have her
visit our city.
. The school at Keuka is represented as
being in . most flourishing condition,
with about thirty pupils in attendance.
The people out there are taking the live
liest interest in school matters, and are
determined 10 build up a school second
to none in the State.
Rev. DR.. Wilson, formerly pastor of
the Presbyt terrain Church in this city,
was in town yesterday, having just ar
rived from Chicago, where he spent his
summer vacation. He left on the Flor
ida Southern tram for Brooksville, where
he will visit his son.
The Ladies' Memorial Association held
its first meeting since last spring at the
residence of Mrs. S. j. Kennerly yester-
day afternoon. Next month new Off
GERS are to be elected, and the ladies in
tend making As many improvements in
the cemetery as possible this winter.
The white public school, which
opened on Monday last in the old barn
of school building, has, we learn,
srout twenty five pupils in attendance.
This school should be the largest and
most prosperous in the county, and with
a proper school building and liberal
salary for teachers, it could be made so.
T. l.. Mccoy and Eugene Anderson
were each fined s. and costs in the
Mayors court yesterday morning, they
being charged with disturbing the public
peace. Later in the day Mccoy was
carried before Judge Haughton on a
warrant sworn out by Anderson. charg-
ing him with assault and battery. Nc
Coy plead guilty to the charge, and was
fined $15 and costs.
A man by the name of Mr.. Cohen, W no
came here from New Orleans few weeks
ago for the purpose of opening a pawn
brokers' establishment in the Grill block,
died yesterday morning at 2 O'Clock in
his rooms in the Palatka National Bank
We learn he died of typhoid
fever. and that he has been sick but =
few days. His body was carried to
yesterday for intorment.
One of the negro men engaged yester-
day in barreling up the old bottles left
by the saloon in tie rear of the Price
got hold OF a bottle with a lit
tie chain lightning in it, and INDUCED
sufficiently to get up good deal of en-
thusiasm. The enthusiasm, however,
did not last very long, and pretty soon
he was stretched out on the step, about
as sick a negro as was ever seen in Pa