The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-02-05
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City happenings and
Personal Mention.

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the city Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Wilson have
returned from OrmOnd.
Mrs. A. l.. Woodward is visiting at
uer old home in Tallahassee.
Miss Ida Leib returned from a pro-
longed visit in Pennsylvania last
Friday.
Hon. Geo. 2. Fowler, of Hastings,
vas in the city for brief time on
Tuesday.
Mrs. Lawrence X. Tucker is enter
tanning her sister Mrs. Darby, of
Jacksonville.
Horace Prior, we'll known orange
grower of Como, was visitor in the
city last Tuesday.
Remember the meeting of the
board of trade at council chamber
next Tuesday evening.
George j. Zehnbauer, claim agent
of the Florida East Coast railway,
was in the city Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Lopez Bailey have
returned from a stay of several
weeks at Seabreeze and Daytona.
The steamer George Farwell has
been loading with cypress lumber
from the Wilson Cypress Company's
mill this week.
w. S. Middleton, the big naval
stores operator of the Fruitland pc
ninsula, was in the city on business
last Monday
w. O. Holmes writes from Colo
RADIO Springs that his health is i'm
proving and that he has gained seven
! pounds in weight.
, The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Selden Cypress Door
Company will be held at the office Of
the company today.
Col. A. j. Hilbourn, president of
the Raymond Syndicate of Boston,
is in Palatka for time the guest Of
j Hon. s. j. Hilburn.
Miss Carrie Warner Carter, of
Binghampton, n. Y, was in the city
last week on her way to her winter
home at Lake Como.
Miss Anna Leddy left on Monday
for New York to make the annual
spring purchases for Miss Kate LII
cas- millinery parlors.
The Ladies' Aid Society of St.
James NJ. f. church will give sup
per on Tuesday evening, February
18th. The place will be announced
; later.
Rev. Father Barry of st. Monica's
church, is spending II few days in
! st. Augustine this week attending
the Catholic fair. Next week he will
| pay similar visit to Jacksonville.
/ f. p. jackson, formerly of Barlow,
has been appointed ticket agent of
the Atlantic Coast Line at the Union
| depot in place of III. f. Dickens, who
! has gone to st. Petersburg. Mr..
Jackson assumed charge on Friday
last.
The congregation of the Baptist
! church held II social at the church
, house last Tuesday evening. Reports
{ of various departments of church
work were made, after which refresh
mrnts were served and social time
! enjoyed.
Rev. A. n. Elrod, of New Smyrna;
Rev. r. b. TeMpleton, of Seabrepze,
and Rev. Addyman Smith, of De-
Land, Methodist Episcopal pastors at
the places named, were in the city
for short time Monday, guests at
the Saratoga hotel.
DR.. w. G. Merrill, of Albert Lea,
! Mimi, is in the city. DR.. Merrill was
here last fall and purchased section
, of land west of the city on the line of
. the Georgia, Southern and Florida
railway, part of which he is having
prepared for cultivation.
Services will be resumed at the
! Presbyterian church next Sunday at
the regular morning and evening
hours. During the past two weeks
the interior of the church has been
thoroughly cleaned and decorated
and new carpets have been LAID.
Herbert Crook, manager of the |.
NJ. Meyer clothing store, is expected
back from New York today or to-
morrow. Mr.. Crook has been in the
eastern market for the past three
weeks looking up modes in mems
wear and making purchases of
spring stock of goods.
Hon. w. d. Allen, county commits
sioner of Fruitland, has gone to Mi
ami to visit his daughter and to re-
cuperate his health. Mr.. Allen has
| been quite ill for some time back
with stomach trouble, and is much
reduced. 1t is hoped that his trip to
the east coast will greatly benefit
him.
Rev. Douglas Mathews, formerly |
rector of st. Marks church, is now
pastor of leading Episcopal church |
in Rome. n. Y, and member of
that church now in the county brings
information that the entire church |
and congregation over which Mr..
Mathews ministers are highly |
pleased with their young rector.
d. w. Rust, of Detroit, Mich.
George \. Chandler, of Cleveland,
O.; James G. Mcpherson and Peter
COrcoran, of Saginaw, Mich, direc-
tors and stockholders of the Wilson
Cypress Company, are in the city
this week and are registered at the
Saratoga hotel. They came to attend
the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the company which was
held on Wednesday.
Company ID of the Second regi-
ment, Palatka's military organiza-
ton, held its usual drill at the armory
on Tuesday evening. Owing to sick
ness and absence from the city of
several members the attendance was
light The drill, however, is re-
ported to have been one of the best
ever held in the armory. Immedi-