The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-06-26
THE CRESCENT Cry News.


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Smith and Mrs. G. j. McGrady, WHO
has been living at the home of the
latter the past year or more, expects
to leave next week for Beaumont,
Texas, when she will make her home
with her son, Elmer E. Smith, who
was formerly popular resident of
this place.
The heavy rain of Sunday after
noon put an end to the drouth, and
Crescent City can no longer be class
ed as among the ''dry towns" All
nature has been freshened, and this
is nowhere better shown than in the
faces of the people. Plant life was
not the only form that needed Il
good soaking.
Capt. John Pigue has purchased
the lot next south of Mr.. A. V. Driv-
er's residence and will soon build
thereon a neat cottage. Capt. Pigue
states that both himself and family
have never felt ut home since they
moved away from Crescent City, and
that they are anxious to get back
here as quick as possible. He thinks
he may move back before he builds,
and within the next week or two.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. DeVeau will
leave for their summer home in
Bridgeport, Conn, tomorrow. Mr..
DeVeau would much prefer to spend
the whole year in Crescent City, but
he says that so long as he continues
to do business in Bridgeport, he feels
that he ought to give it two or three
months attention out of the twelve.
They will return early in October.
f. j. Harper and his daughter,
Mrs. James Coward, expect to arrive
from NeOga on Sunday and will
spend the summer here. Mrs. Cow
ards little one has been quite seri-
ously i'll 70 + the past two months
and she comes here in the hope that
the change will do the little one and
herself good. They will occupy
their old home in the Thurber block
A swell event in local cOlored So
ciety will be the marriage, next
Monday afternoon. of Elizabeth Sc
rena Ross 10 John Vincent. The
ceremony Will take place at the
home of the brides parents in Ross
vile, at 3 o'clock, and over 30 invita-
tions have been issued. John Vim
cent is the well-known barber, and
the bride is the daughter of Jesse
Ross, an old and highly esteemed
,colorcd citizen.
The Sunday school of the Presby-
terrain church INDUCED in picnic in
the south park last Friday afternoon
and evening, IA long table being set
on the high ground overlooking the
lake. There was large attendance
of children and grown people, and
plenty of ice cream and other good
things to eat. The children INDUCED
in IL romp and play and the grown
people sat on the high ridge, caught
the cool breazeS from the lake and
watched the moon come up. 1t was
Il delightful affair all round.
The ladies in charge of the new
school building fund report some
progress, several hundred dollars in
pledges having already been secured.
The work of securing these subscrip-
tions is anything but agreeable as
considerable opposition to the plan
of procedure, or the ladies who in
augurated it, are encountered. The
ladies are treated with exceeding
courtesy even where they get cold
comfort instead of pledges. But one
case of direct insult has been en-
countered, and this the News man
accidentally had brought to his at
tention last week. Very many
blame the lady who made the APP
peal; say she ought to have gone to
the party with her ears battoned
down and in storm coat; that she
might have known what an unman-
nerly, even brutal reception, to eX-
pect. But she evidently trusted too
much in the rule that ''every man at
least makes an effort to be gentle
man in the presence of lady, and
forgot that the natural born and sub
sequently cultivated boOr is but the
exception which proves the rule.
She is better posted now, and has
had an experience which falls to the
lot of few ladies.