The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-13

Mr.. o. N. Taylor, of Brunswick,
Ga, spent day or two in the city
this week.
Harry Wards Minstrels will give
an entertainment at the opera house
tonight. The company has 40 Minis
trel artists and it is said gives a very
clever performance. The company
will also give noon street parade.
The steamer Metamora left for the
trip up the Ocklawaha river to Silver
Springs last Saturday noon with a
list of 81 passengers, a record break
er for this season. On Tuesday OF
this week the same boat carried II
passengers.
Mrs. Isabella Bulky and children,
Walter, Percy and Marguerite, after
very pleasant visit of five weeks in
this city to the family of Mrs. H. A.
Bulky on Kirby street, left this after
noon for their home in Louisville,
Ky.
Mrs. Burtz, of Columbia, Ala, who
has been the guest of Mrs. f. c..
jackson the past few weeks, left
Yesterday for Gainesville, at which
place she will visit her son, Jesse f.
Burtz for Il few days. She was ac-
companied by Miss Nellie Jackson.
The last lecture under the auspices
of the Womans Fortnightly Club
will be given in their club rooms to-
morrow night friday, when Prof.
Edmund X. Bloldus will speak on
"Phillips, Moody, and Tendencies in
Modern English Poetry"
DIR. Guy G. Estes and J. B. Don
nelly have gone to Tampa, Fla, as
| delegates from st. Johns Lodge No.
s, Knights of Pythias in this city, to
the annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge of that order, which convened
there this week. They expect to be
gone all week.
The street car is now run on regu-
! lar schedule, as per time cards which
| have been issued and distributed.
| The management states that II the
time is not satisfactory it will gladly
make any changes looking to the
improvement of the service that
does not interfere with trains.
Mrs. d. M. Coffman, Mrs. S. B.
Leeper, and two interesting children,
have terminated a seasons visit in
this city and left yesterday after
noon for their home in lockwood,
Tenn. While here these ladies won
host of friends, who regretted to
see them depart so early in the sea-
son, but trust that they will visit
Palatka again next winter.
Jim Mack, a coal black individual
who broke into the house of the
bridge tender at Rice Creek bridge
last Thursday afternoon and took
therefrOm several articles of value,
was arrested near the old J. II. u X.
w. shops in this city late Thursday
night by Policeman Sanford. He
was locked up. Friday morning
Mack was given preliminary hear
ing before Juetice Rowton and was
committed to Jail to await the action
of the next term of the circuit court.
A very pleasant gathering took
place at the hospitable home OF Mr..
and Mrs Edwin Derby on kirkland
street, last Friday night, the occas-
sion being the celebration OF the 10Th
birthday of their daughter, Miss
Agnes. There were about thirty
friends of the young lady present
and delightful evening was whlled
away. Many interesting and anus
ing games were INDUCED in and re-
freshments served, concluding with
photographic selections. After wish
Miss Agnes many happy returns OF
the day, and bidding all good night,
at late hour, the young people de-
departed for their respective homes.
The Guards met in their armory
Tuesday evening and good drill
was had under the able command of
Capt. J. ID. Points. After the drill
an impromptu business meeting was
held at which the resignation of Sec
ord Lieutenant d. B. Bardin was re-
ceived, read and accepted. The COM
mittee for the company's Easter hop
was also announced and is composed
of the following: Chas. M. Hilliard,
Eugene j. Gay, A. NJ. Mclver, r. E.
Neck, Chas. Burt and j. ID. Bulky.
A handsome table and vase was pre-
sented to Capt. and Mrs. Points at
this meeting as a token of the
company's respect upon the event of
! their recent marriage.
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