The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07

maica. The tanks are to range j,
size from 10000 to 10000 gallons each
Mr.. Preston has also received othe
orders to be shipped to parties il
Virginia.
w, }. Bethel and Jos. j. McGwdS
spent last week at the ocean beach
Goodall. They drove over on Mon.
day and returned Saturday morning
lhey report the road as excellent
going, but as considerable rain haC
fallen during the week the return
trip was not so pleasant.
F. S. Cone has been receiving late.
ly some large invoices of new goods
both in dry goods and shoes. Al
Gone the Shoe Man. he expects to
maintain the reputation in the quail.
ty and variety of shoes carried fol-
men, women and children's wear, at
popular prices. Mr.. Cones trade in
both the shoe and dry goods lines is
DH'ttiiS SlO"luS'
f. n. Maull is making steady re.
covery from his recent severe illness.
On Friday last he went to Palatka to
see DR.. w. II. Cyrus and have an
A-ray examination made of broken
rib where it was thought some dam
age was resulting. Mr.. Maui eX-
poets to leave soon for the high alti-
tudes of Alabama to pass the period
Of his convalescence.
A. r. Squires of Omega received a
telegram on Monday from Michigan
announcing the death of his daugh-
ter, the wife of w. L. Stone, who
was recently called to the north on
account of her illness. In response
to the telegram Mr.. Squires left i'm
mediately for Michigan. Friends OF
the family here will greatly sympa-
thize with Messrs, Stone and Squires
in this sad bereavement.
H. NJ. Neal of West Palm Beach
spent last week here on visit to his
brothers, Samuel and George Neal.
Mr.. Neal left Crescent City some Is
years ago and this was his first visit
in all those years. He is now pros
porous merchant of West Palm
Beach and an enthusiastic spouter
for that new and wonderful section
of the state. His numerous friends
as well us his brothers and their fam
lilies We're greatly pleased with his
visit.
Mr. and Mrs. w. j. Norton expect
to leave in Il few days for Hender-
sonville whore they will spend sew
eral weeks at the hotel resort con-
Quoted by their son w. G. Norton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norton have been
pretty faithful citizens of Crescent
City for the past several years, not
having been away since their trip to
the Worlds Fair in Chicago ten
years ago, and their friends are re-
ioicing that an opportunity has
come where they can enjoy Il change
and indulge in u well-earned rest.
The CoOk-Castle company of Po-
mona has 5000 acres bordering the
vest side of Crescent lake and Dunn's
creek under hog proof fence, and on
this land are roaming some 400 head
Of cattle and nearly rs many hogs.
The company will breed up the ma
tive cattle with the Hereford, and is
experimenting in many ways to in
crease the market value of Florida
stock, both cattle and hogs. The
company also has a large farm on
which it is cultivating cassava, vel
vet beans, cowpeas and corn.
Mayor Cowles is reported to have
said that he would enforce any town
ordinance where complaint was
made of It's violation. The News be-
Iieves he will do this, and therefore
it but voices the complaint others
have made concerning the coffee
weed which has been allowed to
grow on certain not frequently used
of the town and on some va
cant private property in the down
town districts. There used to be,
and should be now, an ordinance
against allowing noXious weeds to
grow on private premises. The town
could not afford, however, to enforce
this ordinance while letting the
weeds grow on the streets. Coffee
weeds come within the meaning OF
the term "noxious" most forcibly.
The announcement that Rev. H.
S. Miller of the Methodist church
would administer the sacrament of
baptism in the lake at Denver last
morning brought together a
large number of people from all the
country about. The people assem-
bled at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jos. ]. McGrady and the grove in
front of their house was well filled
with carriages, many coming from
Fruitland, Crescent City
and other points even beyond those
places. A short preliminary service
was held at the house, after which
the pastor and candidates followed
by the people repaired to the lake
shore, only a few yards away, where
all stood reverentlv during the cere-
mony. The candidates, urin num-
Der, were Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. J. Nc