The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-01-09
City Happenings aud
Personal Mention.

The X. of P's. will dance tonight.
Rev. DR.. Fulwood will hold his LIST
quarterly meeting next Sunday at st
James M. E. church.
Hon. John P. Wall was in town
Saturday. He still talks dispensary
but in muffied sort of way.
Mr.. w. s. Middleton, the big tur-
pentine operator of Pomona, was a
visitor in Palatka on Tuesday.
Mrs. H. S. Wilson entertained the
Whist Club at the Saratoga hotel last
evening.
1t is reported that Mr.. H. S. Will
son of the Wilson Cypress Co., has
purchased the residence of DR.. Ro-
senburg.
Mr.. A. K. Parker has been award
ed contract for the plumbing work
at q Green Cove Springs hotel and
he left on Wednesday morning for
that place.
w. B. Tilghman, wife and daugh-
ter of Salisbury, Md, are in the city
and are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. @. Tilghman. They will be here
for some time.
The association of turpentine oper-
ators who are adjacent to Palatka
held their monthly meeting at the
court house on Wednesday. Some
dozen or more operators were pres
ent.
Mrs. Harp, wife of Hon. J. H.
Harp, of Crescent City, passed away
on Wednesday. She had been an in
valid for the past two years. Mrs.
Harp was the mother of Mrs. r. F.
Adams of this city:
Mr.. L. X. Tucker, of Fruitland,
passed through the city on Tuesday,
stopping over to attend the meeting
of the school board of which he is a
member. He went to st. Augustine
on the afternoon train.
Avid turkey weighing IA - pounds
was brought in from the wilds of San
Mateo ON Wednesday. 1t was COB
bier and was gobbled up by Robert
James who is to serve the bird to-
day for dinner at his restaurant.
A gang of % convicts passed
through Palatka on Sunday en- route
to Titusville. They came in under
strong guard from Fl. White, and
were dumped aboard the steamer
City of Jacksonville on it's up trip.
Mr.. B. B. Wells, former citizen
of the county, but who has made his
home in south Florida the past three
years, has finally determined that
Putnam is good enough for him, and
has moved back. His home is at
Satsuma. He was in Palatka We'd
nesday.
Perry Keener the Lemon street
jeweler has moved into his new
quarters-the store formerly occu-
pied by Fearnside q Co. Mr.. Keen
er has put in new and elegant fix
lures, and the place as it now stands
is a decided ornament to the street
and town.
The city council met on Tuesday
evening but did not canvass the
Bond vote owing to the fact that the
opera house had an attraction that
would not keep, and they knew the
bond election canvass would. Sc
they called it a recess until Thurs
day evening.
The present week is being OBJ
served all over the country as the
week of prayer. Evangelical church
es in Palatka are holding union
meetings. The meeting for to night
will be at the Methodist church
Friday it will be at the Presbyterian
church and ON Saturday evening al
the Baptist.
DIR. Frank McRae, member of the
Legislature, was in town last week
for his regular monthly visit. The
doctor lives at MelFose, and his town
will have an election on the Dist
inst. for the purpose of ratifying an
act of incorporation. Town officers
will be voted for at the same cleo
ton, and should the vote decide, as
it probably will, on Incorporating
DR.. McRae will be it's first mayor
He has been nominated by the citi.
zens for the Office, and is the only
candidate.