The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-20
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

BraidentOwn now has a spur of
railroad track running into the town.
Joseph Jefferson the celebrated ac-
tor is again at his winter home in
Palm Beach.
Thomas A. Edison the great inven-
tor is coming to Florida for several
weeks of rest.
The Dade county fair building is
being erected at the personal expense
of H. M. Flagler.
Ten new brick stores are to be built
in Lakeland this spring, as well as
several residences.
The Rollins college ball team has
won Il game from the Barlow Mill
tary Institute nine.
1t is estimated that the celery
farms around Sanford will produce
100 carloads this year.
The church of the Immaculate e
Conception (Catholic) is to be rebuilt
in Jacksonville at cost of $50, 600.
Bishop Weed laid the corner stone
of the new st. Johns Episcopal
church in Jacksonville last Wednes-
day.
The wife of Dr. Henry f. Palmer,
Il leading and popular physician of
Tallahassee, died last Sunday eve
ming.
The old Magnolia hotel at Orlando
is being remodeled and refitted ard
will soon be opened up as the Hotel
La Casa.
Adams jewclry store, Tampa, was
robbed of $4,000 worth of diamonds
in broad daylight last Friday. The
robbers are in the tolls.
There are LOO acres planted in
potatoes at Hastings, 700 acres more
than last year. Some of the plants
are now Is inches high.
The East Florida Seminary at
Gainesville is said to be doing fine
work and there is great interest be-
ing taken by the students.
John G Chase of Haverhille, Mass,
addressed a big crowd in the court
house Monday night on the subject
of Socialism. This at Tampa.
The Cubans living in Tampa are
hot because the wicked police won't
let them indulge their favorite sport
of chicken fighting ON Sunday.
1t is stated that the wind blew II
miles an hour in Jacksonville last
Monday evening and that many
plate glass windows were broken
and other damage done.
Lake City Daughters of the Con-
week and raised $40 with which they
will build a fence around the veter-
ans graves in the cemetery.
Strawberries were plentiful in Or
lando on Monday at l5 cents per
quart. One man there sold over
1900 quarts before the price went
down, at 20 cents per quart.
Gov. Jennings ordered the flag on
the capital building at half-mast last
Saturday out of respect to the mem
ory of DR.. j. L. M Curry, trustee Of
the Peabody and other educational
funds.
Rev. 0. A. Meyers is dead at Talla-
hassee. MIR. Meyers was formerly
editor of the Gainesville Sun, and
was at one time L. S. district attor-
ney for the southern district of
Florida.
A government engineer is at Mi
ami engaged in surveying channels
and basins preliminary to deep wa
ter. AS soon as tie surveys are made
a channel will be mapped out and
dredges put at work.
The government hyacinth sprayers
are having more trouble at Enter
prise, where cattle have been killed
from eating the treated vegetation.
The work has been stopped pending
another investigation.
Several policeman have been sus-
pended from the Tampa force for
using language unbecOming to an
officer. If this thing was carried to
it's legitimate end there would be
few police officers sure of their job.
J. H. Perkins of Monticello has
sold his big plantation near Green
vile to wealthy man from West
Virginia who will engage in raising
grain and hay extensively, and who
will convert large part of the plan
tation into hunting preserve.
Assistant Postmaster COnOley of
Punta Gorda was taken to Tampa
Friday by Deputy United States
Marshal John Thigo. Conoley is
accused of opening a letter contain
ing $4,000 in checks and appropria-
ting the contents. The grand jury
has not yet returned an indictment
in the case.
l. f. Cooper has been arrested by
Sheriff Fielder, at Punta Gurda, suS-
pected of being the assassin of the
late Marshal Bowman of that place,
and has been placed in the county
Jail at Arcadia. Cooper has resided
at Punta Gorda several months, hav-
ing gone there from Fort Ogden.
He is about 81 years old.
The officers of the Florida state
troops in Jacksonville anticipate
meeting a great many of the officers
of the state troops here on March
IL. The meeting has been called by
Adiutant General Foster for tn q
day, and in addition to this meeting
the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pyth-
las, is to meet here on the same day.
As there are a great many of the
officers of the state troops who are
Knights, there is every assurance
that the military convention is to be
largely attended.-Times- Union.
Come now, money talks. In his
sermon at the Kavanaugh NJ. f.
church, South, in Gainesville, last
Sunday night Rev. w. J. CARPENTER
the pastor made the following decla-
ration: II will give away 800 to any
man who will show me where the
Bible states in a single instance that
any person was ever immersed or