The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-22
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

town of Cutler was brought there
last week.
Rev. g. E. Jones, Presbyterian
pastor at Barlow, has resigned to &c
to Sanford.
st. Augustine is growing; a score
of new and modern residences are
being built.
The New Hyde Park M. f. church
at Tampa will build new parsonage
to cost $4,000.
Orange county farmers are going
to engage extensively in strawberry
growing this winter.
Alachua cOunty's school term is to-
be cut short two months this winter
owing to lack of funds.
An electric launch ferry has been
established between Charlotte Har-
Dor and Punta GOrda.
The Oak Halls, base ball club OF
Gainesville, has defeated the Ocala
team three times in succession.
The Palmetto News has changed
hands and is now edited by f. ID.
Barker, veteran newspaper man.
The drowth of several months du-
ration in Dade county was broken on
Sunday when there was heavy
rainfall.
st. Augustine has an ordinance
which prohibits hackmen and board
ing house keepers from soliciting
| business.
The Clyde Boston Line dock and
warehouse at Jacksonville, destroyed
by fire on the night of July 9th, will
be rebuilt.
Mr.. Day doesn't seem to have been
overly popular in Citrus county. He
only had six votes. Lake county
gave him but 40.
Dade county has two democratic
executive committees, and the state
committee will be called upon to de-
eide which is regular.
DeLaud ladies have organized "A
park association and will devote
their surplus energy to beautifying
the city park if it can be located.
A Miami man had his pocket pick
ed while kneeling at prayer in
church, and when the contribution
box came round was obliged to pass
it up.
The Volusia county prisoners have
been set to work opening shell pit
on the lands of the Bond Lumber
Co., which will be used in shelling
the streets of DeIand.
Buzzards are so thick and hungry
on the cattle plains of south Florida
that they are attacking living cattle
and killing and eating young calves.
The law protects the buzzard.
J. J. Heard, one of the largest
orange buyers in the state, after a
thorough inspection of the growing
crop in various parts of the state
estimates that the crop will not eX-
ceed 600O,0 900 boxes, a little more
than one-half that of last year.
Col. r.. b. Sullivan, SO years of age,
and an old settler, died at Green
Cove Springs last week. He was a
veteran of the Indian war 0S3S) the
seminole war (lS57) and the civil
war. He had been married four
times, and is survived by his last
wife.
There is no greater drain on the
farmer who must haul his produce
to market than poor roads. Many of
the south Florida counties are issu-
ing bonds to raise money to build
good roads, and are making good
investment when they dO.-DeFuni-
ak Breeze.
jacksonville will hold its regular
Gala week blow out this fall in com
petition with the state fair. Pump
kihs, corn and fat pigs at Lake City; !
roof gardens, abbreviated skirts,
street fakirs and frolic at Jackson
Vile; you pay your money and take
your choice.
The late campaign seems to have
killed the dispensary agitation.
John p. Wall, who introduced the
dispensary bill at the last session of
the Legislature, has abandoned the
movement.-Starke Telegraph. That
is fact, but he had to do it or it would
have killed him-politically.
The motorman of a Tampa electric
car got ratified while crossing the
Seaboard Air Line track in front of
an approaching train, put on the
brakes and left his car standing in
the centre of the track, where it was
demolished by the locomotive, kill
ing one passenger and injuring 9TH
ers The motorman took to the
woods.
A. NJ. James and Mrs. Sarah NJ.
James were married in Ocala last
week Wednesday The wedding was
romantic in that years ago the same
couple were married and reared
family. Then there was a divorce
and estrangement. A reconciliation
followed, and the couple were mar
ried again.
w. F. Bronson highly respected
and well-known phosphate man of
Newberry was shot from ambush by
a negro the other day. Bronson had
gone to the negro quarters to sup
press a disorderly gambling game,
and was returning home at the time
he was fired upon. He died in a
short time. The negro who did the
shooting was stranger in the camp
by name Nanny Austin, alias Man
NY Price.
There will be many thousands of
barrels of oranges shipped out of Vo-
lusia County this fan and winter.
They will be shipped from the vicini-
ty of DeLand, Orange City, from the
north end of the county and from the
coast. If normal conditions cOntin-
ne, VOlusia will show up another
year with fine crop. The groves
will he in condition IN viald n crota