The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-02-14
DIR. w. w. Estes has a card III the
want column. Read il.

DR.. w. w. Estes has card in the
want column. Read it.
The corner stone of the new Methodist
church building will be laid on Wednes-
day afternoon at o'clock, with all due
ceremonies. Work on the new building
is proceeding satisfactorily, and it will
be ready for the congregation before a
great while.
Work on the warehouse of Gardner d
Eaton, on Water street, north of the
Florida Southern railway, is being push
ed to completion and viii be ready for
use within the next three or four weeks.
When completed it wsIl be large and
roomy, and that enterprisiDg firm will
have reasons to congratulate themselves
on their good quarters.
Judging from the following from the
Jacksonville Herald. that city is suffer
ing as we have in the past, and more or
less now: "A passenger arriving here
yesterday from Tampa said while walk
ing down Bay street with valise in hand,
that between hotel drummers and steam
boat solicitors he congratulated himself
upon escaping with whole skin and with
outleither running or fighting"
The skating mania hangs on in Pa
latka, and every night each Of the Kinks
are well patronized. The Putnam rink
has series of popular entertainments
running, and special features are offer
ed nearly every night. Friday night,
Saturday afternoon and night, the Elite
rink was well patronized, thesattraction
being the infant skaters, little Miss Flor.
ence and Eddie. Their skating is some
thing marvellous for such young children.
The observers of st. Valentines Day
We're busy selecting and mailing the
sometimes sweet, always sentimental,
and otherwise comical missives yester-
day. We received one of the latter yes
terday afternoon which related to re-
porters, the last lire of the dogerel read
ing to the effect that we d" could never
tell the honest truth" But suppose for
an instant that we did tell all the truth we
find out about people and things from
day to day, wouldn't our friend! But
pshaw, should we do such a thing the
state OF Florida would not be large
enough for us to hide in.
New papers, like theproverbial shilling,
are continually turning up, but perhaps
the strangest OF all the news-babies is
| the Prison Press just issued from the
grim portals of the Wisconsin Peniten-
tiary, edited and published by the pris-
! oners. Its mission is to encourage prison
! literary talent, assist, amuse, and in
struct the prisoners, and in their canker-
ed bosoms plant the golden seeds OF hope,
charity and love. Surely better work
was never contemplated. Self-hslp is
the beginning of improvement in the
! moral as well as the physical world.
We wish our little contemporary abund-
ant success along the rugged road which
| lice before it.
The finest album OF Florida views we
have ever seen is now offered for sale at
F. c. Cochrane's book and stationary store
in the post Office building. The drawings
| are true to life, exceptionally well
executed, tastefully and strongly bound
| audin number one hundred. Judging
by previous experience we were surprised
to find that the price was only one dol
| lar. We could wish that the Gem City
had more part in so fine a work, but we
have so much advertising that no doubt
Palatka's glories have become a twice
told tale and we willingly forgive the
L
Witteman.