The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-03-13
For Sale by Ackerman & Stewart.

just completed a large cypress tank
for Mr.. Y. H. Stryker of Rome, N.
y, for use on his place at Oakwood.
Experts who have seen the job pro-
nounce it mechanically perfect.
The Crescent City junior base ball
club is anxious to get a match game
with the junior club of Palatka, and
authorizes the News to ask the Pa
latka clubs consideration of the pro-
: ject. Harry Ritch, or Egbert Hutch
inson of Crescent City may be COM
municated with.
The air is heavy with the odor of
orange blooms, the mocking bird is
singing and dreaming now of Hal
lie" the white shirt waist is more
and more in evidence, while the un-
dershirt (pardon the reference) is
becoming burden. These are all
simple little reminders that spring
is not lingering in anyone's lap this
year.
A. V. Driver, who recently dispos-
ed of his naval stores business at
Shell Bluff, is prospecting for lands
in Polk and DeSoto counties and
making his headquarters at Fort
Meade. Mr.. Driver is well pleased
with that country and has already
received options on couple thousand
acres of fine timber, with good pros
poets of more.
Mrs. Josephine Bunker will give
an elocutionary recital at Pomona
Hall this (Friday) evening. The
people of Pomona will make no mis-
take in patronizing the entertain
as Mrs. Bunker is fully competent to
give them such all evening of whole
some pleasure rs rarely falls to the
lot of the people of the smaller Flor
ida towns. She will be assisted by
Miss Alice Hutchinson, pianist.
Rev. DR.. John F. Forbes, president
of John B. Stetson university, De-
Land, will deliyer the fourth and
final lecture in the series under the
auspices of the Young Peoples Socie-
ty of Christian Endeavor at the
Presbyterian church, this (Friday)
evening. The subject of DR.. Forbes
lecture will be Hawthorne. The
bare announcement that this distin-
guished educator is to lecture should
be sufficient to fill the church.
Ex-congressman VIM. Ryan o.
Port Chester, N. Y, with Hon Jno.
w. McCarty prominent capitalist
and mayor of the same city, were
among the more prominent arrivals
at Grove Hall last week. These
gentlemen remained here until Mon
day when they left for short trip to
Cuba via Miami and the east coast
They will spend few days on the
island, then return to Crescent City
for a rest of two or three weeks.
The people of Crescent City are al
ways pleased to see Mr.. Ryan and
when they get better acquainted
with Mr.. McCarty they are going to
dote on his visits just the same.
The ladies of the V. I. A. will give
an elocutionary and musical enter
tainment at the hall on Wednesday
evening of next week. Mrs. Joseph
inc Bunker, an impersOnator of rare
ability. and Mrs. Mitchell of Hunt
ington, as vocalist, will constitute
the leading attractions. While Mrs.
Mitchell is quite well-known to our
people is social way it is matter
of fact that this will be her first pub
lie appearance in Crescent City as a
vocalist. She has appeared in Pa
latka on several occasions and is al
ways greeted by large audience.
She is a graduate of the Boston Con-
servatory of Music and is said, by
those who have had the pleasure of
hearing her, to possess an unusually
sweet and highly cultivated voice.
Mrs. Bunker has always been a
prime favorite with a Crescent City
audience, and needs no introduction
to News readers.