The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-06-19
GOINGs ON IN FLORIDA.
The state is going to erect a pest
OCDitol ot Miami

The state is going to erect u pest
hospital at Miami.
Melrose will celebrate the Fourth
OF July in appropriate manner.
E. e. Boyce has been elected
Mayor of st. Augustine over w. S
M. Pinkham
Heavy rains have again flooded
the prairie lands in the neighbOr-
hood of Cutler.
st. Augustine is to have new
canning factory to can oysters, toma-
toes and pineapples.
John A. Weller, city auditor OF
Tampa, died on Sunday after an i'll
ness Of two months of typhoid fever
The Indian River and Lake Worth
Pineapple association is shipping Il
car loads of pines to the north each
day.
Thirteen hundred dollars worth OF
wool was sold at Plant City last
week. The price paid was Is cents
per pound.
Gainesville is entertaining over
100 delegates to a state convention
Of county commissioners and Good
Roads advocates.
The city council of Cedar Key has
pettioned the Governor to remove
Decatur Pittman, justice of the
peace, for incompetency.
The Gainesville authorities are en-
forcing the liquor law. One "blind
tiger" was caught last week and
'soked" for $500 and costs.
Gov. Jennings and family have
quit Tallahassee and gone to their
old home in BrOoksvilIe that the
governor may have needed rest.
A camp of Confederate Veterans
has been established at DeLand, and
is named Camp Loring in honor of
Maj. Gen. William Wing Loring.
A. J. Harris, chief of Tampa's fire
department is on the carpet before
| the city council on a charge of NAL
feasance in Office. Looks like spite
work.
Judge George NJ. Nolan was elect
ed Mayor OF Jacksonville on Tues
day. Judge Nolan will give Jack
sonville a good, clean administra-
ton.
}. S. Bennett, crosstie contrac-
tor of Lawtey and a young man,
was arraigned in the U. S. court at
Jacksonville on Tuesday charged
with breaking and entering the Law
tey pOstotlice.
The Seaboard Air Line will take
off passenger trains Nos. SO and SO,
leaving Jacksonville at 3:4O p. m.
daily, and arriving at II a. IN, The
reason given is that they are run at a
loss. Good reason.
w. p. Johnson a druggist of Mil
ton was fired upon from ambush last
Saturday night and it is thought he
will die. Several attempts have
been made upon the life of Johnson
within the past year.
John Bailey a well-to-do former of
Mosely Hall, Madison county, was
killed on Monday by Harry Baker
with an AK. The murder was the re-
suit of quarrel over some of Bakers
oo"s SeO''iiT i'iOo '''''ioS i''i"'
The southeastern base ball league
has been formed with its member
ship including jacksonville, Tampa,
Gainesville and Live Oak, Fla , and
NaldOsta and COrdele, Ga. A. j.
Macarthur of Gainesville is president.
The startling announcement is
made that the Florida cantaloupe
crop may be cornered. Better get at
1t quick for these cantaloupes have
II tendency to smell bad if kept too
lonS' me ProsenI price lS - PEI
cr"'e'
II M Kurtz q Jacksonville CAR
nentor has secured n verdict for ~
E0n IN Tho circrtit cnnrt ogsinst tLe
JoU, T"r,ksonviIIe m Straof RaiIwav Gamma
nv far dolno~cs sustained Inv heinu
k9ocked down nv n trolley car on
Wost Rov etreef March n 1e09
K Enrty sued for SI0 O00
rokn civ On Tmesdav the corner
.stnmo of fha EIogInr GW;nnosum wse
Ioid u,ith in,nraSsivn Moconic cove
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There was a big Sunday school
picnic at Homoeasea recently and II
local editor in writing about it says
il "was the best behaved, most or
T tinS We failed to see n dr"nE"n
NAN nor liz %romnds dnrinG tho antiro
dnt lIt','' va Wiz WI tLn n1otin ,vitb thnso
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The case of the United States
against Helen Wilmans-POst, the
mental science fakir, will not be