The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-05-08

was in the city early in the week.
Mr.. Cronin has purchased considera-
BILE property at Florahome.
Geo. Zehnbar, claim agent for the
East Coast Ry,, with headquarters
in st. Augustine, was in town on bus
mess Tuesday.
Beginning with next Monday the I
hours for opening the public library !
will be changed from 1880 TO and |
from to .. p. IN.
Mrs. Robt. Browning, of Francis,
passed through the city Tuesday en-
route to Daytona, where she will
spend few weeks visiting.
The horse attached to Evoll's milk
wagon ran away Oil Lemon street
Sunday morning, but was stopped
before going any great distance, or
doing much damage.
IA huge alligator measuring 10 feet
and s inches was shot and killed in
the bay near Wilson's mill Sunday
morning by VIM. Boone, chief engi-
neer of the tug Homer.
A dance, festival and general frol-
ic is scheduled for Friday night at
Peniel, for the benefit of the bicycle
path fund. Palatka will be well rep
resented, without a doubt.
The wharf at San Mateo has te+n
completed, and all steamers can land
there now. There is also a small
warehouse on the wharf; also Il place
on the side for the landing of small
launches.
David w. Ramsauer arrived home
Sunday from Philadelphia, where he
graduated from the Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy, and has re-
stunned his duties at Alderman d
Stewards drug store.
Mayor Welch sent a message to
the council on Tuesday evening
which contained some valuable sug-
gestions, and which, if followed,
would conduce to health and good
order. Want of space forbids its
publication at this time, much to our
: regret.
: Mr.. |. J. Mccall, clerk of Hamil-
: ton county was in the city Tuesday
= and will be here again today. Mr..
: Mccall is n candidate for the office
= of Comptroller of Florida and is after
4, votes. He is Il young man of great
| popularity in his home county where
, he was born and grew to manhood. s.
I Bishop f. 6. Weed preached at st
i Mathews Episcopal church, San Ma
teo, last Sunday morning to an audi
ence completely filling the church
Arrangements have been made fol
e holding regular weekly Thursday
t night serN ices at the San Mated
: church through the summer, the
V same to be conducted by Rev. Doug
e las Matthews of this city.
!. A telegraphic message was receiv
= ed in this city Tuesday announcing
: that Joseph Hagan, brother of j. w
and P. NJ. Hagan of this city, wa'
instantly killed by a train a
: Cocoa, Fla, that morning. Mr.. Ha'
4 gan is well-known here and the news
I of his death was received with man!
5 sincere expressions of regret. HI
. was an employee of the East Coas
n Railway in the capacity of fiagman
r Percy Elder one of the most popul
young men in the city will leav
Is this morning for a short visit to tn
# home of his parents at Flovilla, Ga
Mr.. Elder, who has for long tim
% been popular salesman in Acker
>, man q Stewards drug store, will no
return to Palatka, but on the com
pletion of his visit will go into tn
u wholesale drug house in Jacksonvill
y with which Mr.. NJ. w. Stewart
connected.
~ Engine No. 33 of the Plant Syster
III in charge of Engineer Weltch, pull
ing an extra south-bound freigh
as train, jumped the track at the cross
is ing at the union depot in this cit
Sunday afternoon at o'clock. Th
m ditching Is supposed to have bee
ne caused by a loose rail. The COW
catcher was completely demolished
nc and the walk along the shed torn II
ST considerably for distance of abor
70 yards.
:. Mrs. Jennie R. Towle, highly r.
~ spected lady, for a number of veal
y resident of this city, died at tn
y Saratoga hotel last Thursday nigl
of brights disease, in the 10th year I
NJ her age. Mrs. Towle was born
D." New York state, and owing to II
~ health moved to this city, where ST
lived with her sister, Mrs. Clara Ba
n ton, until that lady's death a fe
ny years since, when she took up HI
W home with Mrs. l, Jacobson. ST
Ss- leaves niece IN Connecticut. TT
funeral was held from Gerber's vi
no dertaking parlors on Front stree
NJ Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Re
lie Honiker of the Methodist churc
ly conducting the service. The remain
on were inferred IN West View CEN
terry,