The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-24
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

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mic tomorrow.
! Arcadia cattlemen have just shipp-
| ed 400 head of cattle from Punta
Gorda to Cuba.
Jacksonville will have two rural
free delivery postal routes inaugural
ed by the first of September
The jacksonville common council
has defeated an effort to have the
barber shops closed on Sundays.
The War Department will spend
in the neighborhood of 81 100000 on
| the improvement of Fort Barrancas,
Pensacola harbur.
Hon. d. A. Finlayson has just com
pIeted fine residence which has
been under construction at Month
cello for three Years.
James C. Van Pelt has been ap-
pointed sheriff of Escambia county
to fill out the uneXpired term of the
late sheriff George f. Smith.
Prof. J. w. Weideman, formerly,
principal of the Gainesville High and
! Graded school has accepted the
principalship Of the school at :5tarke'
1eFerSoii county ad P1oPioi rJ eisntio% li % t%e
first time the subject has been dis
cussed since Monticello was II town.
Rev. f. Latham, for three years
pastor of the Congregational church
az Hl"iiHe "lM, No. is tbo ~ fnthor ltb Of
tniei MioIl.i any aI1 lo" ~ "o 10
UilpleUs -7''ii "oS %
Howard E. West, young white
man, has been sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary from
Tampa for an attempt to pass
forged check for $50 on the Citizens
i'"iiN anu ii""O oo'i'l'''"''
A full labor ticket has been placed
in nomination for municipal offices
in Kew West, AS the Cubans be-
came discounted and left the hall,
II is likely the ticket will have hard
shedding at the polls.
CLAW county known as the Clinch
GRANT and Containing II 900 acres. has
Reen leased to /. r. Myers of Jack
sonviIIe. for turnentine nurnoses. for
S3O 900 the lease tO run fifteen wears.
Edward f. Ely, one OF the most
popular young men in Jacksonville
was drowned while bathing in the
nrday morninG and his hodv has not
Vet bean recovered,
The Confederate Veterans OF Florl-
da have been holding their annual
convention in Jacksonville this
week. Brig. Gen. w. ID. Ballentine
presided. The old soldiers had a
grand time and were, entertained
NV R r II Lee % Tamn % Of Jacksonyille
~
Richard Wallace, "A years old, and
suffering from i'll health, while In a
fit of despondency committed suicide
by hanging himself in his mothers
barn at Gainesville last Sunday
morning. He was the son OF Mrs.
Dora Wallace, an old and highly
respected resident of Gainesville.
Mr. A. X TAYLOR tbe cortoonist of
the Metropolis, whose pictutes have
been a valuable and leading feature
of that publication for the past sew
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tropolis has engaged M j. Fallon OF
Pittsburg as II cartoonist, and that
gentleman work Will soon come be-
fore the public.
Il O paintar hos rec,onad from
tho ho.rd of trnetasS ot STats0n mi
warSitw yar i nei.anI + al II ie understood
th.t M pointar bsG nrivateIv urved
DIR. j. F Forbes to resign the presi-
dency, although he voted with the
majority of the board. What Forbes
sentiment there was in and about
DeLand is rapidly diving out.
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