The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-14
City Happenings and
Personal Mention.

here Monday.
A. A. King, of Dupont, was in town
one day this week.
Harry and Dewitt Gray spent
few days here this week.
Horace Weller was visitor to
Jacksonville Sunday.
DIR. ]. Leonard Burt was a visitor
to Daytona last Sunday.
+. Watson, Bardin, was business
visitor here on Monday.
A. f. Wilson and DIR. Cyrus spent
Sunday at Seabreeze.
Herbert Perry is spending short
vacation at his home in Pomona.
J. A. King, prominent citizen of
Edgar, was in the city Wednesday,.
w. NJ. Williams of San Mateo was
in the city yesterday doing some re-
joicing.
Miss Minnie Bulky is the guest this
week of Miss Josephine Bard, at
Norwalk.
Miss Ada Bulky is spending Il
months vacation at Coronado beach,
New Smyrna.
Hon. w. d. Allen of Fruitland was
in the city yesterday just to see how
the thing went.
Misses lila and Ona Bond and An
ma Partin are spending the week in
Jacksonville.
Miss Helen Fearnside and Miss
Alice Priddy are visiting at the
beach-Seabreeze.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. X. Parker and
child are spending some time at the
Riverside hotel, Green Cove Springs.
Misses Laura and Alice Whiteside
expect to leave to-day for trip to
Kansas City, Mo-, and other points
west.
Miss Emma Coke was in the city
this week, from Gainesville, on a
visit to her parents, Judge and Mrs.
NJ. 1. Coke.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. NJ. Meyer, and Mr..
Clarence Meyer returned from a
pleasant visit to the seaside on Tues
day evening.
A pair of spectacles found on the
street have been left at this office.
Owner can have same by calling and
proving property.
Misses Mary Taylor and Clyde Es-
ties left Thursday for New Smyrna,
where they will remain for several
weeks on the beach.
Capt. N. H. Thomas left Thursday
last for Hendersonville, N. c., where
he will spend some time rusticating
in the mountains.
John Hancock of Bostwick is final
ly convinced that the country is
saved, and prides himself on the
fact that he helped save it,
County Clerk Price has been con-
fined to his home the past two or
three days with fever. He expects
to be in his office again to day.
There were exactly IA life insurance
men at work in Palatka on Monday
and Tuesday and there are those who
say we are not long suffering peo-
pie.
Mai Geo. P. Fowler was over from
Hastings this week listening to the
election returns and commenting on
the time when he played a winning
hand in the game.
. Louis A. Smith is spending the
week at Goodall, Fla, on the beach,
listening to the melancholy murmur
of old oceans breakers, fishing, bath
ing and enjoying himself generally.
Ernest Owens of Satsuma Heights
was in the city Saturday. He ac-
companied his sister Miss Kate, thus
far, she being en- route to Daytona,
where she will spend a while as the
guest of Mrs. J. F. O'Hara.
Iolias Cone is home again after a
sojourn of some time at various wa
tering resorts in the Carolinas. Mr..
Cone took the trip to recuperate his
health, and his appearance would
indicate that the outing resulted in
much benefit to him.
Mr.. Nye, proprietor of the Graham
house, received telegram on Tues
day announcing the death of his in
FAINT daughter at Gilmer, Texas.
Mrs. Nye died last FEBRUARY, when
the baby was but week old, and
the little one was taken to Texas by
aneice who was caring for it.
A surprise party was given in hon
or of Misses Hessie and Constance
Cooper, of Jacksonville, at the hos
pitable home of DR.. and Mrs. E. s..
Grill, on Palatka Heights, last Fri
day evening. Many young people
were in attendance, and a thorough
ly enjoyable time was spent by all.
Samuel Malachi a fast black who
committed an assault with intent to
murder in June, 1901, was captured
by sheriff Howell, in Jacksonville,
last week, and has been held by JUS
tice RowtOn in the sum of $500 for
appearance before the next grand
jury.
Chas. Shepherd, big, burly black,