The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
THE CRESCENT CRY News.

The public school will close II
another week, and some special ex
ercises are being arranged for the
closing day.
There was no service at the Episco.
pal church last Sunday, it being the
rector's regular monthly service day
at Welaka.
The yacht SPRAY a trim and
beautiful little pleasure boat the
property of Capt, Geo. G. Adams is
lying at the dock and is for charter
at reasonable terms for parties desir-
ing to make up a picnic party to
Haw Creek and other points of in
terest. The lite boat has neat cabin
accommodations for 20 passengers,
and ought to secure a good business
during the balance of the season.
There are many points of interest
out of Crescent City which can only
be reached by water, and the beauti-
full Haw Creek, which can only be
made by boats of light draft, is one
of the most beautiful river rides in
the whole country.
Rand Mrs. Chas. Barker of Pei
ham, N. Y. are in town for a short
stay and are guests at Crescent Inn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barker have always
liked Crescent City and have quite
extensive grove property interests
here which now begins to assume an
air of prospective profit. Mr.. Bar
ker also has a fine building lot on
Prospect street which is neatly en-
closed and tended, and on which it
is thought he will sometime build
winter cottage. He says now that
if others can be interested he will be
one of 10 to put up. a pretty winter
home. In another year, when Cres-
cent City begins to shove forward
one of its old time orange crops, it is
more than likely this number will
be easily found.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miles Menander Daw-
son, of New York, guests at Grove
Hall, take their departure this week
for Charlotte, N. c., at which place
Mrs. Dawson expects to spend a few
weeks in sanitarium. This little
lady who is popular favurite with |
all our people has had very serious
Illness this winter and the anxiety
Of the husband through it all has in
q manner been felt by our people, all
Of whom will watch for those favor
able reports which they feel sure
will come to them from time to time
from the sanitarium. During the
past two weeks Mrs. Dawson has
been making rapid strides toward
recovery, and. her removal at this
time is simply to hasten the day of
her complete restoration. Both Mr..
md Mrs. Dawson expect to return
next winter, when the News trusts
hey will be enabled to make up int
enjoyment for all that pain and sick
less and anxiety has cost them the
present season.
Whenever Tom Sherley goes after
ish he make business of getting
hem. He is better fisherman than
lie is a sportsman. A sportsman
wouldn't work so hard and would
AYE his real pleasure between
,ites, If he secured string of
light or ten fish the sportsman would
more than likely have his photo
rap taken with them that he might
Use it as sort of exhibit A" on his
riends when he sits down in the
vening to relate the story of his !
success. Fishing with ,
'herley means work for he has to ,
eep hauling in all the time. Last 6
friday he spent the. day on Lake j
'rescent and when he came home |
4 the evening he had boat load of |
of them. Not only did he
ave the fish but he had as result
f his days work the carcasses of two
lonster alligators, one of which :
leasured II feet and one inch, and
he other 10 feet long. 6