The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-02
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

The Florida Conference of the M.
E. church, south, will meet in
quincy next week.
! The Tampa Bay Hotel will reopen
IN Il few days and the people of
Tampa are not feeling bit sorry.
There will be a large increase in
the acreage of vegetables planted in
the Biscayne bay country this year.
S. J. Dickens, for two years we'll
known citizen of Fernandina has
sulcided with morphine and whisky.
The populists of Chipley are going
to contest the late election on the
offices of county treasurer, tax col
lectOr and one member of the school
bo"rd.
Rev. Samuel A. Wragg, rector of
st. Peters Episcopal church, Fer
nandina, has been called to the
Church of the Good Shepherd, Au-
gusta, Ga.
j. M. Clyatt of Ellzey in Levy
county has been shot by an unknown
negro, who is at large. Clyatt's
wounds are serious but not necessa-
rily fatal.
Governor and Mrs. Jennings spent
their Christmas at Brooksville. The
governor also visited Tampa. He is
now back in Tallahassee with the
reins of government in his hands.
Mrs. James Blair an aged widow
residing at Gambler was burned to a
crisp last Saturday. She tried to
start the kitchen fire by pouring coal
oil on the wood, under which was
some live Goals.
The training ship Buffalo with
several hundred naval apprentices
on board will reach Pensacola today
from Kingston, Jamaica, with a
number of cases of diphtheria on
board. The vessel will care for its
sick at the government hospital nine
miles from the city.
Little 7-year old Estelle Meeker of
Pensacola was burned to death last
Friday. The child was standing on
Il chair attempting to move kettle
from the stove when the flames
caught her dress. The child suffered
great agony for two DAYS before
A white tramp who criminally as
saulted Mrs. Richard Butler of De-
catur county, Ga. was traced to
by men intent on string
ing him up. Sheriff Pierce told the
men where the tramp could be
found, and it is probable that his
name is mud ere this.
H. J. Lykes, cattle importer of
Havana, told Gainesville reporter
the other day that there will be a
steady demand for Florida beef in
Cuba for the next several years.
The same demand will exist right
here at home unless trust beef de-
it will not.
Frank Clark has got all he needs
)f the wild and woody" west in his
business, and has returned to Flori-
la. Mr.. Clark has settled in Lake
Jity and will practice law until he
S called upon to assist in saving his
state in the Legislature or some other
position where wind-jaming is a
eadlng feature.
Wallace S. Jones, a former citizen
If Monticello, Fla, died in Rome,
italy, Christmas eve. Mr.. Jones was
J. S consul at Messina during the
irst Cleveland administration, and
Turing the second administration of
President Cleveland was appointed
J. S. Consul in Rome He died at
he home of his sister, in Rome.
Those Florida teachers who are
content to pass their Christmas va
ation talking "shop" are gathered
It Orlando this week under the BAN
Ter of the State Teachers Associa-
ion. The pretty girls Of tho ''pro-
esh," who have an ambition to
raduate into the matrimonial state
re putting in the time at home.
here isn't one young lady teacher
n 80 who cares rap about associa-
ions and lOng-winded dissertations
rom professional pedagogues on
uch topics as the psychological
lead Structure of a Sixth Grade
nfant, and the Minute Capillary
in it's Relations to the
Ion.absOrptiOn of Elementary Alge-
ra as Distinguished from the In
orn Soul LongIngs for Longer
tecess and Less Rigid Rules against
'hewiug Gum During Sch hool
iOurs." The majority of teachers
re like the majority of other hui
lans, they'll work if there is ''any-
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