The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-04-17
GOINGs ON FLORIDA.


Exit the east coast winter resorts,
enter the Continental, Atlantic
/ Beach.
They are getting as high as $4,000
for orange groves down on the Mani
teo river.
The peach and melon crops at Sor-
rento are said to promise better than
ever before.
A stock company has been organ
lied at White Springs for the pur-
pose of building base ball park,
The cornerstone of Sanford new
school building will be laid next Sat
urday with appropriate exercises.
d. M. Clay morphine fiend and
forger with several other names, has
been convicted of forgery at Orlando.
Cuban citizens of Key West are
preparing an immense iollificatiOn
on May 10th to celebrate the inde-
Tpendence of the island.
The Masonic fraternity laid the
corner stone of Jacksonville new
court house last Monday with NOR
tar and impressive ceremonies.
S. M. Kimball,, engineer of the
steamer lola, plying between Cara
belle and Apalachicola, lost his foot
ing, fell overheard and was drowned.
The body of a badly decomposed
white baby was found in the river at
Jacksonville last week, but no clue
has been discovered as to the par
ents.
A Times-Union reporter states that
II car loads of vegetables We're shipp-
ed from Miami by freight last Satur-
day besides an immense quantity by
express.
The consecretiou of Catholic bish-
op-elect VIM. j. Kenny, as bishop of
st. Augustine is announced to take
place in the cathedral, st. Angus
tine, Sunday, May 18th.
- Gen. E. NJ. Law, commander of the
Florida division of the United Con-
federate Veterans, has appointed
Maj. r.. w. Davis, and Maj. Joseph
Price, of this city, among the aids
de-camp upon his staff.
The circuit court at Macclenny has
an indictment for murder against a
father and his five sons-Jerry NJ.
Dorman and sons, Thad, Andrew,
Main, Dan and Jerry, for the killing
of Josh HOgans Dec. 2l, 1901.
The county commissioners of
Orange county have declined to make
an appropriation to continue the Or
lando schools another month on the
ground that it would be favofitism,
and it would. Orlando should raise
the money among its own people,
easily.
w. L. Jewell, mail carrier No at
the Tampa post office took vaca-
ton and put on colored substitute,
when II large per cent of those who
received mail at the hands of the
"sub," raised howl and declared
that they didn't want another de-
livery by carrier.
A whale 60 feet long is stranded
off the coast near Pensacola. 1t is
thought his whaleship went in on
high tide and by its struggles to- es-
a prisoner. OF course the whale
didn't know enough to lay quiet and
wait for the next tide.
Secretary of Agricultural Wilson
visited Jacksonville on Friday when
he was wincd and dined by the
board of trade, also given IL drive
over the city, taken to the ostrich
farm and probably, could he have
would have been invited to
the roof garden in the evening.
Rufus G. Hall a farmer one mile
out of DeLand has committed suicide
by hanging himself in his barn.
Rufus had been Respondent since the
80 freeze. He has recently been i'll
and was some disappointed because
he didn't die. His choice of the rope
route is evidence of II depraved taste.
Orlando merchants think the rail-
road known us the Plant System
charges them too much for their
freight, and a committee of the board
of trade has chartered teams and will
have freight billed to Sanford from
which point it will be hauled to Or.
lando Until such time as the railway
gives better rates. Quite u brilliant
idea.
The farmers institute at Hastings
on Thursday of last week was well
attended. Hastings farmers are not
exactly in clover, but they are in po-
tatoes. There are 1000 acres planted
in tubers there and the land will
yield from 40 to 30 barrels TO the
acre, which will net the farmer from
S3 90 to 81 per barrel, or net income
for the people of from $4,000 to
$500, 600.
Ocala companies will bore for OIL
They feel that if they cannot strike
oil there is a chance of duplicating
that Pensacola fountain of perpetu-
al youth" so that local cases of
heaves, jaundice, and sich like
things can be removed by simply
dipping in the waters. Others who
have read of the Standard Oil COM
pany and the coin its managers con-
troll, are prepared to go through to
the very bowels of the earth, if need
be, to get something with which to
lubricate the wheels of commerce in
0cala.
Rev. John N. Gonigle, for the past
nine wears pastor of the Memorial
Presbyterian church, st. Augustine,
has resigned owing to Ill health. He
was offered an assistant and u long
vacation If he would consent to re-
tain the pastorate, but he declined,
so the members gave him a beauti-
full boquet in the shape of set of
honest resolutions of regret at his
departure. Rev. r. r. Kendall,
dean of the faculty of Rollins Col
lege, has been selected for temporary
supply pending the selection OF a
new pastor.
EnR SAIEA ladies Nictn,.i.