The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-25
City Happenings and
Personal Mention.

vile was in the city Wednesday.
Mrs. Gildersleeve of Hudson, ILL.,,
is visiting her brother, H. o. Hamln.
Master Charley Anderson is filling
a clerkship at Cochrane's book store.
f. S. Green the genial merchant
of Welaka was a VISITOR in the city
on Wednesday.
j NJ. Maxwell, extensive turpen-
tine operator of Putnam Hall, was in
the city Tuesday,
Mrs. H. O. Hamm and her sister,
Mrs. Gildersleeve, visited the Good
all beach this week.
Mr. and Mrs. w. S. Dewese of
Brighton, Tenn, are the guests of
Rev. and Mrs. L. R. Lynn.
n. H. Moragne, private secretary
to Congressman Davis, has gone to
Washington for the winter.
A. Frenchs, representing the Flori-
da Sun, Jacksonville, is in the city
in the interest of his paper
Thanksgiving service at St. Mon
ica's Catholic church was held this
Thanksgiving morning at O'Clock.
Miss Maude Written has been the
guest of Miss Genie Fearnside.
Miss Mabel Bassett visited Tampa
the past week.
! Mrs. F. H. Hafer has received the
sad intelligence of the death of her
I mother, Mrs. Malvina Burske, at
! San Diego, Cal. Friday, Nov. 18th, of
pneumonia.
Palatka truckers have begun to
] move the lettuce crop. The next
:, two weeks will see lot of lettuce
: shipped from Palatka. G. Lopez
! Bailey and James H. Fry are among
the first shippers.
Mrs. J. n. Walton, secretary, gives
\ notice that Patton Anderson Chapter,
! U. d. c., will meet at o'clock
! Thursday. Dec. LIST, at the home of
: Mrs w. w. Ellis.
! Rev. L. R. Lynn will spend the
7 coming Sunday at Mcintosh. His
! pulpit at the Presbyterian church
! will be supplied in the morning by
! Rev. j. w. Gibson.
: Union Thanksgiving services will
{ be held at st. James NJ. E. church
|. this Thanksgiving evening at 1880
: The sermon will be by Rev. L. r.
9 Lynn of the Presbyter church.
3 The fall term of the Putnam Cir
Z cult Court will open next Tuesday,
{ the 29th. There are many cases on
: the calander and the term is expect
: ed to bring many people to the city.
Drs. R. & G. Goldstein, the cele-
! brated optical specialist of Louis
! vile, XIV, are in the city for short
{ visit and are at the Graham Hotel.
! Their announcement can be seen in
: another column.
: j. R. Mellon of Pittsburg is here
Z this week for brief stay and for a
Z fishing trip up the river on his pala-
: tial house boat "Vagabondia." He
will not open his winter residence in
Z Palatka until some weeks later.
Z A 3O-pound bronze turkey was
I ratified at Brewers Wednesday
night. For two days his turkeyship
Z was on exhibition on the street, eX-
: citing admiration for his size, and
i. sympathy for his inevitable fate.
! L. H. Merryday says that you
I never hear profane language on the
streets of Auckland, New Zealand :;
. when man gets warm under the
: collar toward neighbor he simply
: calls him a "bloomin' IDIOT and lets
. it go at that.
\ Thanksgiving day together with
Z an accident to our machinery has
Z made it next to impossible for the
y News to go to press this week with
Z usual amount of news. Many mat
ters had to be left out in order that
the office force might have partial
: holiday.
! Mrs Virginia d. Marvin, wife of
! Surgeon Marion F. Marvin, U. S. A,
and niece of w. B. Denham, general
: superintendent of the Atlantic Coast
Z Line R'y.. is dead at Manila, Philip
inc Islands. Mrs. Marvin and her
: husband formerly resided in Jack
{ sOnville.
, J. Frank Duggan, formerly clerk
in the local steamboat inspectors
/ office here, and who sometime ago
|. went to Norfolk as clerk to Super
] vising Inspector of the Third dis
trict, Col John w. CAST, has since
been promoted to a position in the
Treasury Department in Washing
on.-Jacksonville Sun. Mr.. Dug
gan's friends in Palatka, where he
was a frequent visitor, and who re-
member him for his magnificent solo
work at concerts last winter, will be
pleased to learn of his preferment.
Hon. b. P Calhoun has returned
from the Baker circuit court. He
reports that the Duncan's failed to
appear against the men charged with
murder in that county and that in
consequence the Altman's and their
friends will probably go free. Mr..
Calhoun is Disguised at the failure
of the Duncan's to put in an appear