The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-06-05
For Sale by Alderman & Stewart.


day and Sunday at Grove Hail. Mr.
Ballard came up from Richmond
Fla, where he is interested in kaolin
mining, to dispose of his peach crop.
Ladies travelling in the interest OF
Billiards. Obelisk Flour We're about
on Saturday inviting the house keep.
ers of the town to a cooking school
on Monday and Tuesday to be con.
Quoted at the store of j. w. Miller
and where demonstration with this
popular Flour would be made in
bread and roll baking. The Obelisk
brand of Flour is sold only at J. w
Miller's.
Mrs. Alice Harper has been grant,
ed decree of absolute divorce from
f. j. Harper on the ground of wilfuI
desertion and refusal to support fol
over one year. The decree also re-
stores her maiden name.
Tom Clark came from Gainesville
last week where he has been attend
ing the East Florida Seminary and
will spend the summer here. Tom is
popular with the home boys and
they all welcome his return.
Henry Hutchinson, jr., is now the
chief engineer on the launch Wizard
The launch is this week running the
mail route between Palatka and
Georgetown, the regular steamer
having gone on the ways for repairs
Wallace Harp has been quite i'll
with fever at the East Coast Railway
hospital. He will come home tc
spend the period of his GONZALES
cence. He is agent of the F. f. G
Ry., at Hastings, and for the past
two months, during the potato ship
ping season, the duties of the posi-
ton were arduous.
Mrs. G. ]. McGrady's friends il
Crescent City will be pleased tt
know that she can spend the sum
mer with her sister in Louisville
KY. Mrs. McGrady expects to leave
st. Augustine the first of the coming
week and will not return until the
first Of October. AS Louisville was
her former home it is expected that
she will have a most enjoyable sum.
mer's visit.
Mrs. Emma L. Johnson of Kala-
mazoo, Mich, who, with her charm
ing daughter, spent the winter here
writes to friend that they arrived
home safely and that relatives anC
friends were greatly impressed anC
pleased with the improvement il
Miss JohnsOns health. Crescent
City folks will always remember the
visit of these pleasant people anc
will hope for continued improve
ment in Miss Jchnson's health.
Next Tuesday evening there is
promised rare treat to all who viii
attend Mr.. Allen HoltOn's imper
sonation of the characters in the
three act-comedy "Pygmalion anC
Galatea." The entertainment vii
be in V. |. A. Hall and for the bene,
fit of the association. All who saw
Mr.. Holton in David Garrick" sew
eral weeks ago will be pleased at thu
prospect of hearing him again. Mex
Tuesday evening, June 9th. There
should be a full house.
f. Windisch, the commission mer
chant of Palatka, was here on Mon
day and purchased the entire peacl
crop of L. A. Ballard, on the tree
in bulk. What the price paid was il
not known nor does it concern any
one except Mr.. Ballad and Mr.
Windisch, both of whom expressed
themselves as perfectly satisfied
with the deal. The crop is estimated
at 500 crates. The fruit is being
picked and shipped this week undel
the supervision of Fred Anderson.
Albert Lounds returned last weel
from the South Florida Military In
stitute at Barlow, which he has beef
attending during the past year. Th'
friends of this young man will b.
pleased to know that during thu
wear he has maintained an exceed
ing high percentage in scholarship
and while nothing has been sale
regarding his department, it is pre-
sumed that was also excellent, for HI
has been cordially invited, nay
urged to come back. With tn
school military company ALDER
ranked rs corporal bugler.