The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-04

just been granted two patents from
Washington on articles of his de-
signed. One of these it is said will
be illustrated and described in
this weeks Scientific American
Prof. w. Powell Hale, the imper-
senator, will give one of his high
class entertainments in the opera
house tomorrow night for the benefit
of the public library. Every lover of
high grade entertainment in Palatka
should attend. 1t will be never to
be forgotten evening of pleasure.
Applications for honorary member
ship in the Gem City Guards will bt
considered at the meeting of the
company on next Tuesday night.
Dec. 3. Being an honorary member
Of the state troops is great adYan-
tage to many business men, mas
much as it gives exemption from
jury duty.
Mrs. Ellen Sullivan, of Elmdale.
Kan, arrived in the city Sunday
evening and will spend a month
here with her cousin, Mrs. H. A.
Bulky. Mrs. Sullivan has been visit
in her old home in Jacksonville.
ind, the past summer and fall, and
decided to come to Florida before
returning to Kansas.
&. M. Davis a. Son, the cypress
tank manufacturers of this city, had
1 good advertisement for their bust
ness in Jacksonville during thei re-
cent gala week. The same consisted
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painted neat, catchy signs of the firm
name, etc, and inviting everybody
to ''tanIi up on ice water which was
furnished free.
w. L. Bowers the well-knOwn JUS
tice of the peace and life insurance
agent of Satsuma Heights, died on
Wednesday of last week and was
buried on Thanksgiving day. Mr..
Bowers was a familiar figure on the
streets of Palatka. His death was
caused by an internal hemOrrage.
He is survived by a wife and two
children.
w. A. Walton has purchased the
residence property of Capt. A. V.
Mount on Kirkland street adjoining
the Presbyterian parsonage. The
lot, which is 100 feet front by 2OO
feet deep is in the most desirable
residence section of the city. The
consideration is said to have been
$4,000. Capt. Mount expects to go to
Mantanzas, on the east coast.
&. Lopez Bailey picked the first
Of this years crop of pineapples un-
der cover of his big pineapple shed
yesterday. 1t was large and lus-
cIous sample. Mr.. Bailey has about
200 pines all now ripening and which
ne will dispose of to local dealers.
Another crop will come on in the
summer, and this he estimates will
Number fully 1000 pines. He has
about 400 plants. Palatka raised
pineapples will be a luxury.
Walter Thomas and Hamp Moody
are to start out today on an extended
overland trip to the lower Indian
river country, travelling by easy
stages in a covered wagon, stopping
where night overtakes them and
hunting as they go. Mr.. Thomas
hopes that an, out door life in the
woods will prove a benefit to his
health, and this is the moving cause
for moving across country in this
primitive fashion, though of course
he expects to have some fun Ell
route.
Readers of the News will, we
trust, enter into the spirit of the
times and readily excuse the absence
IF the customary amount of reading
matter in the pre-holiday issues Of
this paper. There can be no news 1T
this time equaiing in interest Christ
mas news, and the use of space by
by our live merchants is simply in
answer to this demand. The mer-
chants of Palatka have been prepar-
ing for the holidays with all the
energy of former and more prosper
Gus times, and careful buyers should
give heed to their announcements.
G. Joseph formerly a civil engi-
neer here and whilOm county sur
veyer, who resided in Palatka from
the early sos until 1895, has been in
he city this week meeting many old
friends. Mr.. Joseph is now living in
savannah, where he is filling the re-
sponsible position of tax adjustor for
the Atlantic Coast Line. His bust
ness here is in relation to that work,
and he appeared before the city
council Tuesday niget asking a re-
ductiOn of $3.50 tax on trackage and
rolling stock for his company. The
matter was referred to special COM
mittee, for report at the next meet
ing of the council.
William Hofford, the gentleman
who died recently at his home i'll
Windsor, Ontario, is reputed to
have left an estate valued at some
thing over $l25,0OO. Mr.. Hofford was
well known here, having spent the
winter for the past 20 years in Flor
ida, dividing his time between Pal
atka and Pomona, at which latter
place he owns valuable orange prop
erty. While in Palatka he made his
home with Mr.. Cottington, whose
place is in the western suburbs of
town. Mr.. HotfOrd was a retired
engineer. He was generally esteem
ed by large circle of friends here.
The Gem City Guards held a regu-
lar business meeting at the ArmOry
Tuesday night. At this meeting an
election was held to fill the vacancy
of the second lieutenancy. There
were two candidates for the place,
namely, Messrs. st. Johns Wigg and
Geo. w. Bassett, jr. The contest
resulted in the election of the former
by good majority. In the selection
of Mr.. Wigg for this highly impOr-
tant position the Guards acted with
splendid Judgment, for a better vers-
ed man on military matters than he
would be hard to find. Besides hav-
ing been a member of the company
for many years he has also held staff |
positions at the Florida Agricultural |
College and these he filled with hon
or to himself and credit to the college, |
and in his new position as a |
lieutenant in Company D., his |