The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-29

The Atlantic Coast Line will sell
round trip tickets at one fare plus 25
. cents from all stations in Florida fol-
the Tampa May festival May 2 to 7th
Tickets will be sold May I'd to 9Th,
with return limit May 9Th.
Hon. James NJ. Chesser of Hollis
ter, candidate for the legislature,
was in the city yesterday. Mr.
Chesser is attending the various
political appointments in the county
where he is looked upon as the lead
ing orator.
Newton Coleman, a young man
living with his mother on Oak
street, is down with mild attack of
small poX. The case has been iso-
lated and is in charge of the state
health officer. Coleman is an en-
ploye of f. c. Kelly, the tinsmith.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Willard enter
tanned Senator Taliaferro and Can
didates Mays and Davis at dinner
last Saturday, and it is stated that
little Miss Margaret Willard took off
her Davis button during the dinner
in Difference to the feelings of Can
didate Mays.
Mrs. /. Martin, formerly Mrs. Dena
Meyer of this city, is here for a few
weeks sOiOurn and Is the guest Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Crook. Mrs.
Martin 10 having the furniture in her
residence on Emmett street packed
for shipment to Brooklyn, N. Y,
where she will IN future reside.
Robert James has closed the Ocean
House at Seabreeze for the season
and returned to PalatkG Sunday.
Mr. James says he has had very
successful season. For the present
he will be connected with the famous
Kupperbusch restaurant of which he
was for three years proprietor and
the successful manager.
A. r. Chesser of Putnam Hall, a
nephew OF Hon. J. NJ. Chesser, died
last Monday. He had been ailing
for some time. The funeral was held
on Tuesday at the old burying ground
of the family. Mr.. Chesser was born
in this county some 90 years ago, and
within hundred yards of the spot
where he was buried. He leaves a
wife and six children.
Hon. S. j. Hilburn addressed the
citi2ans OF Clay County at Green
Cove Springs Wednesday night. His
theme was Bob Davis; Our next
Governor. And he couldn't have
selected a more popular theme in
that county unless it had been dob
Davis; Our next President" Clay
county is solid for Davis-Ee used
to live there.
Mrs. a. D. Mcleod of Jacksonville
is in the city this week and the guest
of Mrs. Mary Jennings. Mrs. Nc
Leod came especially to attend the
ceremonies incident to the 50th an
nivcrSay of st. Mark church. She
is an old citizen of Palatka, and was
present at the organization of the |
parish and at the laying of the cor
ner stone of the present church.
fNhb animal fn IN Of Iho Gnn, (N;E,,
Guards will be held at the Armory
next Thursday night. In order that
lhe affair may prove the grand social
success designed, the Guards will
nave the assistance of the leading
society ladies CT Palatka, both ma
rOns and maids. There will be
pretty booths presided over by young
aides. There will be supper tables
md an ample supply of good things
o eat, and after the supper there
will be dancing with music by
7inley. There will be no charge for
lancing privileges. Let every one
Ome out next Thursday night and
ssist in the success of the Guards
Eair
Gen. Allen Thomas of Tampa was
n the city Wednesday. Gen.
'homas is a candidate for the office
f Acknowledgement of Florida. 1t
las been the unwritten law, and GUS
ON, in most states, to award this
tfice to veterans of the civil war.
len. Thomas is veteran with
ecord, and a life long democrat.
lie joined the Confederate army in
louisiana as a private and rose by ,
apid promotion to the rank of briga- {
Ter general. After the war he was
IL six years coiner at the United {
tates mint, consul at La Guayra, T
'eneZuela, and under President
leveland, envoy extraordinary and |
linister plenipotentiary of the '
'nited States at Venezuela. Gen. A
homas moved to Florida on account q
his wife's health in 1899. He is a $
ne specimen of the chivalrous f
gentlemen of the old school. e
elected adiutant general, he would
Il the office with credit to himself |,
nd honor to the state. T
A New Physician. /
DR.. Holmes Roane of Covington, g
enn., has decided to locate in Pa L
tka for the practice of medicine 5
I'd surgery. He has been in CORE ST