The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-06
Personal ard Social.

council will be held next "Wednesday
night.
DR. Merritt Corthell the oculist,
will be at Lounds' drug store today
and tomorrow.
Little Miss Elizabeth Christopher
If Jacksonville has been the guest of
Abbiean Miller.
lanes Padgett sr. shipped some
thing like 60 barrels of potatoes dur
ing the season just closed.
Capt F. NJ. Payson has new
canopy-topped family surry, which
arrived from the factory last week.
Tax Collector Westcott did land
office business in collecting taxes last
Saturday. 1t was the last day of
grace.
Mrs. J.J. Vandergrift of st. Aug
ustine spent week at Huntington
recently visiting her sister, Mrs. G.
A. Cheatham.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Emmett Deem have
rented the AumAck cottage on South
Main street and will reside here
through the summer.
Miss Malissa Higgenbotham has
purchased the Booth place opposite
Stephen Turner's and will fix the
place up for home.
Capt. Ivory expects to spend the
summer in Crescent City. Mrs.
Ivory, Mrs. Lynch and Mrs. Young
will return north next month.
NJ H. Whites peach orchard just
northwest of north park will have
good crop this spring. The peaches
are of the Waldo and Jewel variety.
DR.. Warner, an attache of the state
health board, was in town last week
looking over the field with a view to
coming here to live and engage in the
practice of his profession.
The May meeting of the " I. A.
will he held at the hall next Monday
afternoon All members will be eX-
ppcted to answer the roll call with
short quotation from TennysOn.
Miss Balm popular teacher in
the Presbyterian Sunday school will
entertain her class and a large num-
Der of other pupils with basket pic
mic at the canal bridge tomorrow.
II. w. Sullivan, who has been
spending the winter at Huntington,
left last week for his home in SOmer.
vile, Mass, stopping en- route for a
brief visit with friends IN st. Angus
tine.
Mac Davis potato crop did not
yield more than half what he en-
pected by reason of the long con-
tinued dry spell. Nevertheless Mr..
Davis shipped 219 barrels and is en-
pecting good prices.
w. G. Norton, Mr.. and Mrs. E. L..
Waterman and Master Oliver Cham
berlin are the Crescent City delegates
to the Christian EndeavOr cOnvcn-
tion in DeLand, where they went
last Friday and Saturday.
Capt. John Pigue has been engaged
the past two weeks in driving piling
for docks at various points on the
lake from Omega to Pomona. The
pile driver, which belonged to Capt.
Boyd OF Palatka, was towed to that
place last Monday.
Quite large acreage in this sec
ton was planted in squash early in
the season, but the drought will pre-
vent a large yield, Blaine Shiver
who had planted them on low place
is now slipping some fine specimens.
His first shipment went forward last
week.
David Dawes recently gave the
trees in his orange grove dry dust
spraying at night. 1t was moonlight
and he started in ut eleven O'Clock p
M and worked until past sun up
He put the dust on after the trees
We're wet with dew, which made the
dust hold.
Mrs. Collins g Hubbard has
about decided to spend the entire
summer at her pretty home, Elisha
ro,' on Lake Crescent. Mrs. Hub
bard says that both she and thu
children can be more comfortable
here than in New YOrk-and sht
ought to know for she has tried botl
places.
Mrs. f. A. Bell, mother of Mrs. d
A Latta, died yesterday morning a
Two o'clock from heart failure, age(
iSycars. Funeral services were helC
at Mr.. Latta's residence at 4:30 yes
terday afternoon, conducted by Rev
L. Z. Betterton, and at sos yester
DAY evening the body was put on tn
Train to be carried to her home il
Kalamazoo, Michigan, for interment
accompanied by her granddaughter
Mrs. Parker. Mrs. Bell came dow
To the marriage of Mrs. Parker i
December and has been here In fee
Die health ever since. She leave
three children, Mrs. Latta, Mrs. Ed
ward Anderson, of Kalamazoo, an
Edward L. Bell, of Rlchland, Mich
-Gritfin tGa.l News, May LIST.