The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-31

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her parents expects to leave next
week for brief season to the noun
tain resorts of North Carolina She
Will accompany Miss Lucy Gautier
from jacksonville. Miss Appleby
has been teaching in South Carolina
for some time past.
Home grown pineapples are again
III the market. Those ON sale last
week at j. w. MilIer's store were
grown at the pinery of l.. TORY
and F. NJ. Payson. Walter Cliff as
sures us that he has many now ripen-
ing and that in about 10 days he Will
be able to furnish them for the local
market. The home grown pines are
vastly superior to those shipped
here.
j. T. Long, eldest son of James w.
Long of Huntington, is the Putnam
county representative of the Singer
Sewing Machine with headquarters
in Palatka. Mr.. Long has been in
this business for several months and
is doing a good trade in all parts OF
the county. He thoroughly UNDER
stands the machine, and will gladly
correspond with any one in need of
one, explaining the details of his
easy payment plan.
Miss Lucy Gautier left on Monday
for Jacksonville after several weeks
stay at the home of her sister, Mrs.
g. l.. Chamberlin. Her stay was not
all rest for during three weeks of her
time she acted in her professional
capacity as nurse at the bedside of
Mr.. f. n. MaulI. Miss Gautier will
spend week i'll Jacksonville, after
which she will go tn the mountains
of North Carolina for two months
rest.
j. A. Austin expects soon to open II
general merchandise store at the
Fruitland landing. Mr.. Austin al.
ready has his store up and ready fol-
occupancy, but owing to an accident
causing iameness he has been unable
to get down to business quite as soon
as he expected. The opening of a
supply store at Fruitland will be a
great convenience to the people in
those parts, and the News predicts a
good business for Mr.. Austin, who is
well and favOrably known to all the
people in that neighborhood.
Although Mrs. NJ. r. Traile did not
get to Crescent City during the past
winter she still maintains an active
interest in our little town and a deep
concern for it's prosperity. In former
years she has been active in the
work of all social enterprises, and it
is the hope of her many friends here
that they may again have the bene-
fit of her efforts. Mrs. Traile is now
at Chautaugua Lake, n. Y, where
she has large house filled with
guests who come to attend the lee
lures at that famous place. Her
home is the Lake 'FRONT.' and Cres-
cent City people, and FlOridians gem
orally who contemplate attending
the Chautauqua assemblies during
the summer will find pleasant
home and welcome at the Lake
Front.
The little infant daughter of Capt.
and Mrs. John Pigue met with a.
strange accident one day last week,
and one which, but for the timely
aid of Dr. Sprague would have cost
the little one her life. Somehow the
baby got hold of the metal top of
cologne bottle, which she put in her
mouth and swallowed. Mrs. Pigue
saw the accident and tried to relieve
the little one, but seeing that she
could not, ran with the child to DR..
Sprague. When the doctor took the
child, life seemed extinct but by
holding the little one up by its feet
and patting its back the metal, which
was lodged in the throat, was thrown
out. Following it came much blood.
The metal had lodged in the baby's
throat. The little one was ill for
several days, but is now all right
again. 1t is stated that had the doe
tor been at his office (Which is less
than a block. further away instead
of at home, the baby would scarcely
have lived to be taken there, so near
ly dead was she when brought to the
hama