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

ed from a pleasant sojourn or seVeral
week at Seabreeze beach.
Attorney Henry Strunz, who has
been passing the past 10 days at the
Continental Hotel, Atlantic Beach,
is expected home tomorrow evening.
Capt. j. w. Miller of Crescent
City, owner of the Beach q Miller
line steamer Crescent, was tranact-
ing business in the city Wednesday.
X. NJ. White of Crescent City
spent Monday and. Tuesday in the
city with lot of his old friends and
associates of the Spanish-American
war.
Miss Emma Ebert is entertaining
her friend Miss Winifred Hodgman
and cousin, Miss Josephine Meyer,
from jamaica, l.. l., at her home on
the Heights.
Improvements are being made in
the suburbs of Palatka. Streets are
being opened in the locality sur
rounding the cemetery and II large
acreage has been cleared of the heavy
underbrush.
j. Pursley has just returned from
three weeks visit to his old home in
Canada. He spent several days of
last week with his family at Goodall
beach before returning to his en-
ployment at Guilford, Fla.
Rev. John O'Brien, pastor of st.
Monlcas Catholic church in this city,
now has temporary charge of the
churches at Ocala and DaytOna, dur
ing the temporary absence of the
priests in charge of those parishes.
One of the dynamos of the Palatka
Gas Light & Fuel Co. was injured by
lightning during a recent thunder
storm, and as u result the city has
been shy on lights for several nights.
Superintendent Collins now has the
damage repaired
The river in front of the city Is
covered over with water hyacinths.
If the pests could get past the
East Coast Railway bridge they
would move OH down the river to
salt water and die. The railway
company would confer a favor to
PalaJka by making the bridge a
span affair.
The statement that the labor
unions of St. Augustine would cele-
brate labor day with an excursion to
PaIatka, is unauthorized. There
may be an excursion to this place
from st. Augustine that day, with
ball game as the drawing card, but it
will not be under the auspices of the
labor unions, as first reported.
NJ, NJ. Vickers of this paper has
gone to his old home in eastern
Maryland and in Delaware for
three weeks visit with relatives, and
where he has lots of them in the
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enough, he says, to make it impossi-
bic to more than say "howdy" to
each Of them before he will be
obliged to return and get down to
vulgar business again.
Miss Fannie r. Peck of Pomona is
spending n few days with her friend
Miss Ila Bond. Miss Peck is musi-
clan of marked ability, her favorite
instrument being the pipe organ, to
perfect herself in playing which she
recently spent a year in Savannah.
Miss Peck, who is most cha ming
young lady, is the daughter of DR..
5. +. Peck. a well-known physician
of Pomona and who is a frequent
visitor to Palatka.
T. A. Gerber q Sons have Just
added fine line OF crockery, table
and glassware to their stock, and
which will be prettily displayed in a
few days. The firm has also made
heavy purchases of fine mattings and
furniture which are now arriving for
the fall trade. The Gerber store is a
model of neatness, and it is always a
pleasure to go through it and see the
fine display. Visitors are cordially
welcomed.
The games of ball between the col
ored teams of Fernandina and Pa
latka on the local grounds Monday
and Tuesday were probably the best
ball games played in Palatka this
year. The teams were quite evenly
matched. The game of Monday was
victory for the visitors by a score
of to /. That of Tuesday was won
by the Palatka team in score of 3
to |. This was a,fast game, requir-
ing but one nour and five minutes to
play. The game on Wednesday
broke up in a row. There is no ques-
tion but Palatkak's colored team is
the champion club of its class in the
state.
The prize drill for the gold medal,
held every month by the Gem City
Guards, is working up lively in
terest among the members of the
company. The third contest for the
summer took place at the Armory
on Tuesday evening. About twenty
men entered for the prize, and after
splendid exhibition in the manual
of arms the line dwindled until only
two men, Privates Henry Mckenzie
and Ernest Neck. remained stand