The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-04
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City Happenings and
Personal Mention.

Mr.. and Mrs Jno. I. Griffin are ex-
Pected to arrive home from New
York tomorrow.
The Arlington hotel registered a
whole page of commercial travellers
on Wednesday.
/ Miss Maggie Anderson has return
ed home from a visit to the worlds
fair and Kentucky.
Tax Assessor Willard announces
that the state and county tax books
for 1904 are now open.
! Gus Muller of jacksonville, the
/ popular treasurer Of Duval county,
spent Thursday in the city on bust
ness.
Antonio Usina was the first man in
the county to pay his 1904 taXes-and
if we mistake not he is the only man
50 far who has paid.
Congressman Robert w. Davis and
Samuel J. Hilburn have reformed
the law partnership of Davis Il Hill
burn which had been in existence for
so many years.
Corporate communion will be cele-
brated at st. Marks church next
Sunday morning at II a m. The
rector requests the attendance of all
communicates.
Calhoun Gatlin of BOstwick has
been arrested and lodged in jail by
Deputy Sheriff Kennerly on the
charge of stealing hogs from j. c..
Lee of the same place.
An interesting program has been
arranged and will be given at Sun
day school rally to be held at St
James Methodist church next Sun
day evening. The public is cordially
invited. .
Mrs. |. Martin arrived here on
Tuesday from Brooklyn and will re-
main until January, the guest Of her
mother, Mrs. VIM. Jennings. Mr.
Martin spent a portion of Thursday
! here
Henry S. Chubb of Winter Park,
chairman of the republican state
committee and receiver of public
monies of the United States land of
flee at Gainesville, was Il guest at
the Hotel Saratoga on Wednesday
A. F. Wilson, general manager OF
! the Wilson Cypress Company and
: president of the Putnam National
, Bank, is at home after long absence
in the north. Mrs Wilson has not
! yet returned.
Joseph and Raymond Price, Noble
Calhoun, n H. Moragne and Hamp,
( Moody are spending the week on a
camp hunt up the the Ocklawaha
river The weather has not been
: conducive to the best kind of time
and the hunters will return today.
c. H. Hemenway of Roscola, who
has been spending the past three
I months in Massachusetts, returned
this week Mr.. Hemenway was ac-
/ companied by Amos Noyes, of Wal
than, Mass, who comes TO spend the
winter at Interlachen.
The GemCity Guards drilled Tues
. day night under command of Second
Z Lieut. Chas Burt, The attendance
, was not very large, owing to the ill
ness Of members but what was lack
ing in point Of numbers was amply
, made up in the excellent exhibition
Of squad drilling.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. NJ. Hilliard
. have returned from an extended stay
in Texas. where Mr.. Hilliard is in
/ terested in oil production. Mr., Hill
. lizard states that he will now give his
entire attention to the business of G.
; Lopez Bailey x Company, of which
firm he is the Junior member.
Rev. w f. II. Mabry, a former
pastor, preached at both the morning
, and evening services at st. James NJ.
f. church last Sunday, and was
greeted with large audiences. In the
evening the attendance was so great
that chairs had to be placed in the
. aisles to accommodate the people.
The Knights of Pythias lodge was
present and the sermon had special
I reference to the work of that order.
The annual bazaar of ST. Marks
church which is to be held on the
evenings of December It'll and Sth is
expected to surpass all previous eff
forts of the church to provide enter
taiument. Beside the supper to be
provided, there will be many articles
suitable for Christmas on sale, as
well as amusement features, includ-
ing wonderful chamber of mys-
teries." The bazaar is to be a public
affair, and it is the hope of the pro-
moters that every one will make a
note of the dates and be sure to come
L. A. Smith has just had set up in
his Lemon street confectionery store
a new and beautiful onyx soda foun-
tain which is without doubt the most
beautiful and costly fountain ever
brought to Palatka. The fountain is
the product of the Lippincott's of
Philadelphia, and is thoroughly SAN
itary IN construction. The setting is
lin keeping with the general beauty
of the fountain. In addition, Mr..