The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-04-17
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

boy NUN 10 IO,uuo CIHJeS lIOlIl EOO
acres.
Rev. King w. CawthOn, Baptist
pastor at st, Augustine, is going to
take q wife.
From two to three car loads of cab
bage have been shipped daily from
Evinston during the past week.
Ex-State Treasurer Collins who
has been seriously i'll at his home in
Dunedin is now reported as improY-
ing.
r. A. Burford, ir., of Ocala has
won the Annapolis naval academy
cadetship at a competitive eXamina-
tion in Tampa.
The University of Chicago has
withdrawn from its agreement of
affiliation with the Stetson Univer-
sity, owing to the Forbes scandal.
A summer theatre with daily at
fractions and a sacred concert on
Sunday afternoons will be conducted
at Phoenix Park Jacksonville this
summer.
Four rural free delivery routes
will go into effect from Tampa July
lst, and the farmers in the suburbs
of that city will have their mail
brought to their doors.
The state societies of Christian
Endeayor will meet in annual con-
ventiUn at Ocala on May 4, 8, and
9th. DR.. F. f. Clark, founder of the
society is expected to be present.
The Miami Publishing Company,
publishers of the Miami Metropolis,
is erecting new building, which,
when completed, will be one of the
most convenient printing offices in
the state.
The acreage devoted to canta-
loupes in Florida this year is about
double that of 1902. The acreage on
the Atlantic Coast Line is about
5000; that on the Seaboard Air Line
about 800.
The Volusla County Record insists
that nearly 100 students have left
Stetson university since the Forbes
scandal became talk, and gives their
llullltS anu duuItbbC6' hey are UOU
Chicago students, either.
The new and beautiful Christ
church, Episcopal, at Pensacola was
used for worship the first time on
Easter Sunday. The old church,
which the congregation abandOns for
the new was tuilt in 1927.
Editor Frank V. Baker of the San
ford Chronicle, one of the brightest
of Floridas s newspaper men, died on
Friday of last week. He had been
in ill health for several years. He
left a widow and two sons, aged 13
and l5
Henry Williams a negro in Duval
county jail for stealing a bicycle
tried to commit suicide by hanging
to his cell door. He was cut down
in the hick of time, and will have all
his trouble over again, unless he Sc
lects another route.
Rev. DR.. James H. Potter, for %
years popular pastor of the Presby-
terian church, Eustis, is dead after a
illness. DIR. Potter leaves
a widow, one daughter and two sons,
one of the latter being OH the su-
preme court bench of Pennsylvania.
Orlando is going to move to the
front. The citizens have subscribed
a purse of 1900 to advertise the
towns attractions. Half a dozen
new buildings are in process of erec-
tion. There are now two thoroughly
equipped ice plants in the town and
inA hou hInn TpIInn1 70 Dn fp
hundred.
Capt. VIM. r. Keener of Whining
ton, n. G., father of Mrs. Henry M.
Flagler, died at Johns Hopkins Hos
pital Baltimore on Tuesday, as the
result of surgical operation. Mr..
and Mrs. Flagler were at St. Angus
tine when the news came and they
left Immediately on a special train
for Baltimore.
Sidney I. WALES, by virtue of a
contract entered into by himself and
Gov Geo. F. Drew in 1879, claims
10 per cent of the money paid into
the state treasury and known as the
Indian War Claims Fund. Wales
contract is all right, but as he did
not collect the money it is not easy
to see how he is entitled to his cent
per cent.
The WOman's Foreign Missionary
society of the Methodist Episcopal
South, in Florida, closed it's
annual session at Citra
last Sunday. The report of Mrs. A.
J. Russell, treasurer, showed that
1926 had been collected since
March, 1902, of which $500 belonged
to the Orange Blossoms, or juvenile
societies. The amount collected is
an advance of 20 per cent over last
year.
Governor Jennings has instructed
the sheriff of Duval county to en-
force the Sunday law-this on ap-
peal of the ministerial association of
Jacksonville, who oppose horse IA
cling, open saloons and such like
things. The sheriff will make Il
clean thing of it and cigar stands,
soda water and ice cream counters,
fruit stands, etc, will row have to
close. Barber shops are also includ-
ed III the prohibited lis,. Tne en-
forcemrnt of the law will not be
popular in Jacksonville.
DIR. G. G. Green, of Woodbury.,
New Jersey, sole manufacturer of
August Flower and Boschee's
German Syrup, whose advertisement
appears in our paper regularly, will
send to any one mailing a two-cent
stamp to pay postage, one of his Lew
German Syrup ana August Flower
Puzzles, made of wood and glass.
II amuses and perpleXes young and
old. Although very difficult 1t can
be mastered Mention this papel.
Miss Maude Whitten is the guest
of Miss Helen Fearnside.
John LeCrone, a young lawyer
of Minnesota who has been spending
the winter in Palatka, left Wednes-
day for his home at Farebault.
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