The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-03-20
For Sale by Alderman & Stewart.

Mrs, Brigham and daughter of
New York are here for brief stop.
Mrs. Brigham will be remembered
by many old citizens as a visitor
here in the winter of 1892.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Hobbs and
Miss Barbara Damp of Albany, n.
Y, We're at Grove Hall for q time.
They are old friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. III. Sample.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Libby of Port
land, Maine, arrived last week and
are stopping with Mrs. F. S. Crotty.
Mr.. Libby is the city treasurer of
Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Pratt and Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. w. Pratt and sou left for
their home in Illinois last Tuesday.
They have all made many friends in
Crescent City who regret their de-
parture.
From the amount of orange bloom
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the generally favorable blooming
season, it is safe to predict that Cres-
cent City will be able to ship from
$4,000 to 10000 boxes of citrus fruit
the coming winter.
Mac Davis, whose farm is situated
opposite Crescent City on Crescent
lake, has six acres in fine Irish po-
tatOes which will soon be ready for
digging. Mr.. Davis says the tops
are large and there is promise of a
very large yield.
Rev, j. w. b. Jackson is the newly
appointed pastor of the African M.
e. church at this place. He arrived
here Immediately after the close of
the conference session in Palatka
last week Rev. B w. Wiley,
former pastor, has been appointed to
II church in Arcadia.
Capt. Geo. Crotty has large and
well equipped sailboat with cabin
accommodations which he leases to
parties who wish to take sail on
Lake Crescent. The boat is well
equipped, safe and just the thing for
fishing parties. Captain Crotty has
given several complimentary rides
to friends.
| Hon. J. r. Howe of Brooklyn, n.
Y, gave a launch party to some six
teen guests of Grove Hall on the
launch Wizard to Palatka last Sat
urday. The party left for the 20
mile ride to the county capital at 8
IN the morning and returned at 5:30
in the evening, all enjoying pleas
ant days outing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton George of
Chicago are spending the week at
Grove Hall Mr.. George was at one
time and for many years, probably
the best known agricultural editor in
the country, when he was the owner
and editor of the Western Rural.
Mr.. George is now the financial
agent of large mining properties in
the west.
Robert B. Smith of Commack, L.
l., terminated his seasons visit in
Crescent City last Friday, on which
day he started for his northern
home. Mr.. Smith made many sim
cere friends in this place and all
are hoping he may return another
season. When he departed he was
escorted to the boat by q large con-
tingent of Grove Hall guests who
waved him farewells as the steamer
pulled out into the lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith Cobb of AL
bany terminated their seasons visit
here last Friday morning when they
left on the steamer Crescent for
Jacksonville, in which city they will
make brief stop before continuing
their journey home. They were
among the first arrivals as they are
among the first to depart. Both will
be greatly missed. Mrs. Cobb has
been valued worker in the Sunday
school, and it is in this organization
that her absence will be felt. Her
class bade her goodbye at the boat,
and presented her with beautiful
boquets of flowers.
Frank Brown left on Friday last
for his home in Baltimore greatly
benefited in health by his three
months sojourn in Crescent City.
Mr.. Brown has labored very hard
during the past three years in per-
fecting his typemaking machines
and in the organization of the com
pany which is now engaged in their
manufacture, and of which company
he is one of the three directing oth-
GERS. Mr.. Brown is also going to
continue working hard-he can't
help It, it's his weakness-but he is
going to get rich, and he ought to,
for the reason that his invention Is
one of the great ones Of this decade,