The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-18

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tertained the young people in tn
) evening of the same day.
Chas. S. Gowrn of Jacksonville
, passenger traffic manager of th
Beach d Miller Line, was in tow
over Sunday, when he made an ex
curslon to his island grove propert,
on Lake Crescent. Mr.. Gowen state
that he will have several hundred
boxes of oranges and grapefruit, al
OF which is now in most prOmisin.
condition.
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Close ant
Miss Elizabeth Close will leave fol
Jacksonville on the Crescent tomor
row morning, from which place Miss
lose will take the Clyde steamer
sailing for New York on Monday
and at which latter place she will re-
sumo her duties in the College Of
Music. Mr.. and Mrs. Close expect
to return home the early part of mex
week.
Mrs. j. L. Burton and Miss Jessie
left for Tampa last Monday, at which
place Mr.. Burton is reported quite il
with jaundice. Mrs. Burton expects
TO rent her home in the winter sea.
son, furnished, but expects to occu.
Ply it during the summer seasons
She states that Mr.. Burton had got
ten started in his new business at
Cortez, but becoming ill, came to
Tampa for treatment. Miss Jessie
expects to enter the Tampa High
School for the fall term.
Mrs. Jake Burk of Tampa, who has
been the guest of Mrs. J. l.. Burton
the past two months left for home on
Monday. Mrs. Burk formerly lived
here and the family is well-known
to all older citizens. Her son Frank
Burk of New York, in the govern
ment secret service, was the officer
who made the arrest of Green and
GaynOr at Montreal in connection
with the government frauds in the
Savannah harbor improvements.
Jane Soloman an aged and worthy
coiOred woman whose neat home is
situated in the extreme western end
of Babylon suburb, is dangerously
ill and at the time of this writing
(Monday) is not expected to live.
Jane SolOman was for many years
the trusted servant of the late Mrs.
X. b. Huntington, and up to short
time before her death that good
lady considered it next to impossible
to keep house without her Jane. She
was faithful servant throughout a
long and useful life, but her last days
have been filed with suffering,
through all of which she has not
passed comfOrtless.
Crescent City society is just now,
in the absence of more important
issue, pretty well torn up over the
troubles of "Unclen John and Aunt
Nancy Madison, the ancient colored
couple who are doing the Kilkenny
cat act in the courts. The social di-
|ision among the people does not APP
pear to be upon any previously con-
Structed fractional lines, and it is lust
possible that IA new order of things
political and social may be brought
about through the troubles of this
ancient colored couple. To be either
II Nancy" man or a John" man is
now the proper caper, and those who
have taken no interest in the battles
should Immediately proceed to cline
up" on one side or the other.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. Thompson of
Huntington arrived here via the
steamer Crescent on Tuesday of last
week and the following day went to
their home in Huntington. Mr.. and
Mrs Thompson have been in the
north for several months where Mr.
Thompson has had treatment for
failing eyesight, and which, the
News is distressed to learn, has prov
ed of little or no benefit. Mr.. and
Mrs. Thompson have hosts of friends
all through this section who will also
be grieved to learn that Mr.. Thomp-
son has not received the hoped for
benefit. An allwise province may
hide the sunlight from Mr.. Thomp-
sons vision, but that power will
never rob him, while life lasts, of
that stored up sunshine which fills
his heart and soul and which so radi-
ates that all who enter his presence
are made to feel that they are better
for the contact. May this Eight af-
Fiction which is but for a moment"
work out for him "far more exceed
ing and eternal weight of glory"
c. l.. Bunting, agent of the South
ern Railway at Jacksonville, spent
Sunday in this place as the guest of
Capt. j. w. Miller and Mr.. r. o.
Burton. Mr.. Bunting but recently
came to the state from Virginia, and
this is his first visit to the interior of
the state and his first view of bearing
orange trees. During his stay Capt.
Miller and Mr.. Burton took him all
about the place and through the va
rious grove properties, all that was
needed to make their guest an en-
thusiastic supporter of Crescent
City. To gain the friendship of
man Of Mr.. Bunting's prominence in