The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-27

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O'Clock, benefit Palatka-Peniel shell
cycle roadway. Everybody invited,
and all who can should go out. A
splendid time is anticipated.
Horace Prior and son of Como
were in the city Monday. Mr.. Prior
says there is better feeling among
the people of his section than he has
seen since the freeze. Says they all
have little money on their inside
pocket.
Hon. Rob't w. Davis accompa-
MED by his charming daughter, Miss
Nellie, left for Washington early in
the week where Mr.. Davis has work
preparatory to the opening of the
final session of the present congress
next month.
County Clerk Price was knocked
out by his arduous duties at the
court house during the two weeks of
court and is at home this week try
ing to recuperate. His work was
sufficient to knock out a much
stranger man.
Leo jacobson has just put in some
of the big silent salesman" show
cases for the display of fine goods.
Mr.. jacobson says that his windows
are poorly constructed for displaying
goods, but that the goods are on the
inside all the same.
The Florida Agricultural College
foot ball team arrived in the city
yesterday morning en- route to De-
Land, where they play the Stetson
University team to-day. These teams
have had one match this season, at
Lake City, with the score tie.
Miss Elizabeth n. Barr of Flora
home is the author of a published
song entitled 1.-The New Woman"
Miss Barr has verse thought enti-
tied Sunrise" in this paper, She is
IA young lady of high literary attain
ments and without doubt has in store
a promising future.
This is Thanksgiving Day. The
banks are closed. The postoffice OBJ
serves Sunday hours. SO do the
barrooms (no joke. There will be
religious services at the churches.
There will be feasting. Don't forget
the deserving pOor-the other kind
wont let you, B-n, 'frinstance.
Shad fishing will begin on the st,
Johns December LIST, and this city
is full of Sweed men who come down
from the north to work for the diff
erent fishermen who line every mile
of the river from Sanford to the
rivers mouth. These Swedes are
named either Ole Olson or Nels Mel
son.
The United States lighthouse ten
der Wistaria in command of Capt. }.
p. Johnson, having on board Inspec-
tor Brown, steamed into port Satur-
day and tied up Mt the Merryday
dock. The boat was here for the
purpose of inspecting beacons, which
took up the greater part of Monday
and Tuesday.
James w. Smith, Palatka's hust-
ling insurance agent expects to spend
part of next week in the peninsula
part of the county. Parties wanting
life insurance should consult him
The News knows that the reliable
old Germania Life Insurance compa-
ny, which he represents, deals justly
and honorabiy with its patrons.
Rev. Frank Dixon who lectures at
Fry's opera house tomorrow night is
a brother of Rev. Thomas Dixon,
author of 1.-The Leopard's Spots, and
Rev. A. G. Dixon the celebrated
evangelist of Boston. The lecturer
is pastor of the South Baptist Church
of Hartford, Conn, and is said to be
one of the greatest pulpit ora tors in
the country.
The Knockers Athletic club gave
an informal dance at the club room
last Monday evening which was
quite largely attended by the young
society people of the city. There
were some twenty couples present
and the event is SAID to have been
one of the most enjoyable affairs of
the kind given this season. Dancing
continued until midnight.
The Little Jewels sale of home
made articles, held on Tuesday af-
ternoon and evening in the store
room on Lemon street next west of
Alderman u Stewards, was a most
successful affair. Crowds of people
packed the place during the hours of
business and the stock of good things
to eat collected and offered for sale
by these energetic little church
workers We're disposed of speedily
and at handsome prices.
lobe Warn of Fluitland is no MUIR
derer-this much the court awards
and the law allows. lobe Warn is
good boy, and his case is the only
one on record where the state prose-
cutor has arose and addressed the
jury in behalf of the accused. But
its dollars to doughnuts that lobe
would rather go to the pen for two
lives than undergo such another or
deal as he was mt tO IN the witnaCc