The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-21

'N IiS'iS vi tut IDdUlIld last sun
day to number of his employees and
some friends from Crescent City.
The party spent good portion of the
day on the lake and an elaborate
lunch was served.
Hamp Williams, former well.
known colored character. better
known as "old Sneed,n who left
here II years ago, and of whom little
has been known since that time, has
returned to the place and is greeting
his old acquaintances. Sneed is a
combination preacher and conf
dence man, and during the old days
was regarded as a pretty smooth
article
Bertha Daniels, a young colored
girl. died at the home of her mother,
Fannie Daniels, last Thursday, un-
der suspicious circumstances, and
the statement is freely made that
her death was due to criminal
operation, or abortion, performed by
a colored woman in Babylon suburb
1t is also stated that the man respon-
sible for the girls condition is no less
a person than former pastor of the
A. NJ. f. church here. Bertha DAN
iels was scarce IA years of age.
Mrs. Il. P. Funk, station agent and
postmistress at Huntington, was to
leave on Wednesday of this week
for a somewhat extended visit with
her sister, Mrs. Finley, at Macon, Ga.
During her absence J. w. Harrison
will manage the business of the sta
ton and postoffice. The friends of
Mrs. Funk in this section are con-
graduating her on the windfall of
C sh and securities which will come
to her through the death Of her I'M
Gle, the late Judge John &. Long,
Counsel-General of the United
States at Cairo, Egypt.
w. w. Dewhurst of st. Augustine,
attorney for james and Stephen
Long, brothers, and Mrs. Quigle,
and Mrs. Geo, Long, widow of a
deceased brother, says he has seen
the will of the late Judge Long,
which gives the income of certain
property in st. Augustine to Robert
Stickney for life, and of other prop
erty in same place to Percy Stick
ney. All his Washington property
goes to Miss-Alice Stickney. To his
sister, Mrs. Quigley, he gives certain
property in st. Augustine for life,
and then to her daughter. Mrs.
Quigley gets an annuity, in addition.
TO his brothers, James and Stephen
he gives $500 in cash and certain
stocks. The balance of his property
is to be sold and the proceeds divided
among Mrs. Quigley, James and
stephen Long and the widow of his
deceased brother, George Long
The will will be prObated at st. Au,
gustine.
Coe d. Smith, whom everybody in
this section knows, is doing the New
England states with his automobile
and from all accounts is having 4
pleasant season of it. When last
heard from he was on his way t.
Cape Cod, taking in Bridgeport
Hartford, Springfield and Boston ell
route. AT Cape Cod he expected to
meet Mr. Tom Carpenter of Attic
bOro. another of our winter residents
Mr.. Carpenter also has an auto and
launch, and between them there is
sure to be good time. Mr.. NJ. H
Read has recently received letter
from Mr.. Smith, in which the writer
amusingly tells of the number "47
and how it forces itself to the front
in this trip. For three successive
morning the indicator on his auto
mobile registered Il miles, his room
ut the Hartford Hotel was II, the
number of his house at Smithtown
L. l., is AZ, and this fall he will
make his 47th trip between New
York and Florida, counting bis
comings and goings. Smlthtown is
exactly Al miles from New York
City. Mr.. Reed drinks that Mr.
Smith is not superstitious, for the
reason that he can scarcely be a
| wears old.