The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09
Crescent City News

c. W. Pike for the past year OIL
more accountant of the Deem Lum.
Der company, now the A. r. Squire
company, of Omega, has resigned his
position and on Thursday last left
for Ambrose, Ga, where he will en-.
gage In business on his own account
Daring the past winter Mr.. Pike
spent his Sundays at Grove Halt,
where Mrs. Pike was staying, and
made many warm friends, all OF
whom will regret his departure.
Mrs. w. H. Brusie has leased the
back rooms and one half the store
now occupied by Mr.. Austin's shoe
store and will engage in the baking
bushes. In addition to bread she
will make a line of cakes and dough-
nuts usually found in bakeries, and
will also bake cakes to order. Mrs.
Brusie has been making bread for
private families for sometime and all
who have sampled her bread feel
that she Is at least entitled to success
in her new undertaking.
The saw mills at Omega are turning
out an immense quantity of lumber
daily and the product of the mills is
shipped on lighters to Jacksonville.
Since Mr.. Squire got possession of
the property many improvements
have been made and the capacity of
the mills greatly increased. The
mills now give employment to nearly
a hundred hands, and the place has
the appearance of Il thriving settle
ment. Mr., Squire's new residence
at Omega is now nearly ready for
occupancy.
Catherine Slater, colored, wife of
Morris Slater, died at an early hour
OH Monday morning of consumption.
She had been i'll for over a year.
Deceased was most worthy woman
and enjoyed the confidence and re-
spect of the community in large de-
gree. She was a member of the A.
NJ. f. church, and for long time
had been the efficient secretary of
the Household of Ruth, a wOman's
auxiliary of the colored Odd Fellows
Her funeral occurred from the A. M.
f. church on Tuesday and was large
~ attended.
Capt. ]. w. Miller and G. II. Pres
ton have purchased the buildings on
Lake Crescent formerly occupied by
the Pierpont Manufacturing Com
pany. This information was given
the News by Mr.. Preston, who was
not quite ready to make public his
plans beyond the statement that the
Preston Cypress tank factory would
be moved thereto and other lines of
manufacture inaugurated which
would employ more labor than any
concern ever employed in Crescent
City. AS soon as the plans are COM
pleted Mr.. Preston remarked that he
would give out statement.
There is going to be some building
in Crescent City this winter, and if
the News mistakes not the signs of
the times, it will be the best and
most prosperous winter the town has
ever enjoyed. Mr.. Geo. H. Libby of
Portland, Maine, who bought the
Read block on Lake Crescent, it is
reported will build a handsome resi-
dence to cost from $1,000 to $4,000. 1t
is also thought that there will be
considerable building going on in
connection with the preparations for
the forthcoming Moody Bible Insti-
tute. The place will certainly be
filled with visitors.
Capt. Thomas P. Haddock of Sa-
vannah spent Sunday and a part of
Monday here, but only a few of his
old friends were privileged to see
him. Capt. Haddock is jointly inter-
ested with his brother-in-law, j. g.
Grimsley, in large orange grove
property on the east side of Lake
Crescent, and spend Monday fore
noon viewing the property, which is
among the more advanced producing
groves in this section. The grove
will have fully 1000 boxes this win
ter, and Capt. Haddock is well
pleased. At present the captain is
conductor on the Southern Railway
and runs between Jacksonville and
Savannah. He had not been hele
In over u ear.
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