The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-01
GOINGS ON IN. FLORIDA
The total cost of tile June primary
was $29l9.73.

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Rev c. f. Jones. pastor of the
! Presbyterian church at Sanford, has
resigned
d w, Monroe, one of the most
prominent naval stores operators in
the state, is dead at TitusViIlr.
Tn" trustees of St,tson University
will meet toInorr"w for the purpose
Of elrcting Il president of that insti-
tution.
Bishop Kenny of ST. Augustine,
presented his diocesan report to
Pope Plus y in Rome last week
Thursday.
Hon. w. Hillman will probably
be chosen chairman of the Florida
delegation to the national democrat
convention.
The house of representatives in
the next Legislature will contain but
seven lawyers. Most of the other
members are farmers.
The Florida East Coast Railway
will run Fourth of July excursions
to Atlantic Beach, where there will
be horse and automobile races, base
ball and dancing.
George Moore. who shot and killed
George Ade the Jacksonville fruit
dealer, and at whose trial the jury
| disagreed, has been let out on IL bond
of $500 pending ii new trial.
The state board of pardOns has re-
fused to interfere in the case of lsai-
ah r. Cooper. sentenced to be hang
ed for the murder of j. H. Bowman,
city marshal of Punta Gorda, and he
will hang in August.
EX. Senator Wilkinson Call has
recently returned from New York
whore he obtained money from j.
/ Pierpomt Morgan to boom his Ortega
/ suburb to Jacksonville, and to which
/ he will build All electric railway.
/ An Orange county trucker named
! b. Peters has been arrested by the
/ United States marshal for writing Il
| New York commission man who rob-
1 bed him Of car load of vegetables Il
postal card ON which he called the
rObber a d thief.
Walter p. Watson of Orlando, de-
featpd candidate for congress in the
| May primary, with his family, has
Just returned from II trip to Cali
iDrnia, where Mr.. Watson attended
the convention of international loco
motive engineers.
Commencing with next Saturday
the employees of the FIurldh Fast
Coast Railway offices and shops at
st Augustine will begin the Satur-
day halt-huIidUy, which will con
limue during the summer months.
The shops Will probably organize a
baseball team,
\ special train over the southern
Railway left Jacksonville for st.
Louis last evening carrying II large
number of state turpentine operators
and their families. The FlordHdel-
pgates and alternates to the national
democratic convention which opens
next Wednesday. went on the same
train.
The municipal court at Tampa,
which, by the way, is regarded as II
highly moral city, has fined II
woman for wearing skirt which
was iudiciaIly determined to be too
short. The court held that an adult
females skirt must at least reach to
the top of the shoes. The woman
was fined $40 and costs.
The Leon county local option as
sociation has been formed AT Tallah-
assoc for the purpose of bringing
about an election to drive the liquor
business out of Leon county. Mem
bers of the incoming Legislature,
however, need feel no umeasiness as
it is hardly possible to accomplish
the purposes of the association until
after the session Of the Legislature.
VIM. NJ. Pugh of Ohio, an eX-army
man drawing pension OF 81 per day,
and Mrs. c. +. Morrison of Melrose,
were married at Gainesville last
week. The parties to this marriage
mad never met until two hours before
the ceremony, and the groom was Il
bachelor who had said he would
never marry. The groom is 10 years
of age and the bride 80, yet they are
as happy and contented as cooling
doves.
As Dinkenspiel would say, all is
not "harmoniOusness alretty yet
among the Baptist preachers of Jack
sonville. Anyway, Rev. j. B. Hol-
lev, editor of the Florida Baptist
Witness of that city has just been
fined $3.50, and costs, in the criminal
court of Jacksonville for assaulting
Rev. w. A. HobsOn, Jacksonville
Baptist pastor. 1t is stated that this
ministerial sIugger paid his fine
promptly, though he had choice be-
tween the fine and IL thirty day va
cation in the convict camp.
Mrs. NJ. f.. Clark, mother of Hon.
Frank Clark, died at the home of
the latter in Lake City last Saturday
NIGHT, after serious illness of about
a week. Mrs Clark had been in
failing health for some time, having
had several very serious spells of ILL
ness in lhe last few months, the
cause being heart failure. This time
her physician had seen little chance
for her recovery, and her death oc-
CURED in the face 0f all that medical
skill and proper nursing could do for
her. Hon. Frank Clark and family
were at her bedside when the end
came. The body was taken to Eu-
faula, Ala, to rest beside her hus-
band, who Is buried at that place
Mr. Clark accompanied the body.