The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-01-16
GOINGs ON IN FLORIDA.

GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.
Henry w. Bishop,has been elected
mayor of Eustis.
There is IL acre ramie farm in
Dade county near Miami.
Baltimore parties will erect an
another cigar factory at Tampa.
Velvet beans are being shipped
from Ocklawaha to Nashville, Tenn.
The widow of the late Bishop H.
B. Whipple has arrived at her win
ter home in Lake Maitland.
Admiral and Mrs. Geo. Dewey are
at Palm Beach, and of course are the
biggest toads in the puddle.
The postmaster at Pensacola hand
led total of $324,677.95 of govern
ment money during the year 1901.
The Presbyterians of Auburndale
will have a new cupalo on the church.
They think it will look so much bet
ter than a mortgage.
The electric lighting plant at Mon
ticello has been destroyed by fire.
The loss falls OH Jno. M. Henry; is
$1,000 and there is no insurance
1t is now Thursday morning Jan.
18th, and there hasn't been labor
strike reported from Tampa. Is it
possible the city is going to seed?
Barlow has had it's first store burg
larry in 10 years. Thieve broke into
Holbrook Il Cos. store one night last
week and took 500 and a revolver.
The Eustis Lake Region has new
dress and is now an eight page paper.
One page each month will be devot-
ed to Christian Endeavor propagan-
da.
Bids were opened for the new Du-
val county court house last week, but
as they We're all too high they were re-
jectcd. The county does not want to
pay more than $4,000 for building.
The Ocala Daily Banner, with
Frank Harris as editor, was sched-
uled to make its appearance yester-
day. AS its home is to be in a push
ing city the new paper will doubtless
be lula.
The Seminole, Jacksonville's swell
social club, has purchased the old
McGinnis property at Duval and
Hogan streets and will erect new
club house. The price paid for the
property was $4,000. '~
Because a property owner objected
tl,n nn e., 4
to deny the right of certain streets
to the local military company which
wanted them for the purpose of a
street fair and carnival.
The Stark branch of the Seaboard
Air Line R'y. has been extended to
the Suwannee river. The new road
opens up a new country in western
Alachua and Lafayette counties.
Trains commenced running on Sat
urday.
Senator Mallory's friends are doing
all they can to secure his reelection
to the United States Senate. The
Frank Adams boom has not yet been
sprung. 1t is thought that this bril-
liant young man can afford to wait.
There is excitement at Mulbelry.
J. w. Levor of that place has been
arrested charged with setting fire to
the store of l.. NJ. Ballard, mayor of
the town, and the livery stable of
Henry Payne. Levor has been re-
leased on his own recognizance.
The Holmes county court house at
Westville was burned to the ground
last Friday, together with all the
county records not. in the vault. The
fire is supposed to have been of in
cendiary origin. 1t is the third fire
in the place within three months.
Sanford is tickled. And it should
be for one of its citizens has decided
to become reckless with his money
and build three brick stores on First
street. The town is also to have a
new $4,000 school house built out of
money obtained through bonds.
. r. L. Summerlin, young man
of Tampa connected with the recruit
ing station in Savannah, has been
arrested for burlary in that city. He
is also wanted for the same crime at
Arcadia, De Soto county, this State.
and he will be turned over to Florida
officials.
Morton F. Plant is expected in
Tampa this week to seek rest and
recreation. AS he will stop at the
Tampa Bay Hotel and will not be
obliged to worry about where his
next meal is to come from it is
thought Morton will find what he
came for.
Mrs. MairSOn has been awarded
81 800 against the city of Tampa for
injuries sustained by falling when
on defective sidewalk. She want
ed $4,000, but the jury thought about
81 800 would heal her wounded pride.
This is the second suit of the kind
the city has lost recently, and it is
thought there will now be some
repair work done on the walks.
A young man who claims to be the
nephew of General Christian Dewet,
the BOer commander, and who has
just landed from the kopjes of South
Africa, has been telling the Jackson
vile Times Union the pretty fairy
tale. The paper says he has a real
frank face and speaks English fluent
ly. The young man says he is going
to lecture in st. Augustine. There
is really more need of him just now
in South Africa. Patriotic Beers are
needed for shooting guns at home
instead of shooting off their mouths
in a strange land.