The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-17
GOINGs ON IN FLORIDA.
F. A Salomonson is the new mayo
of Tampa.

electric street railway system.
! The Jacksonville base ball club
rauks third IN the South Atlantic
League.
The State Press Association has
been in session this week in Jack
sOnvIIe.
The annual commencement of the
| University Of Florida is now on at
Lake City.
Saturday. July %, has been desig-
mated nc "Florda Day. at the
Worlds Fair,
West Palm Beach is discussing the
adviSabiiity Of bonding the city for
street improvements.
The Gainesville board of trade has
been reorganized with Hon. Walter
6. Robinson as president.
1t is reported that the acreage in
| potatoes at Hastings next season
will be increased by 500 acres.
J Mallory Scarritt of Pensacola, a
popular student in the University of
Florida, is dead of typhoid fever.
Tampa is making great prepara-
tions for south Florida fair to be
held in that city October y to % in
elusive.
S, II. Wood, mayor of DeLand, has
resigned and the city council has
call, d special election to name his
successor.
Joseph Lowe. n young man from
Key West, was drowned while swim
ming at the Brooklyn navy yard last
week, Wednesday.
The Florida Bankers Association
! held its eleventh annual session at
| the Continental Hotel, Atlantic
| Beach, Tuesday last
| Henry Robinson president of the
| Commercial Bank of Jacksonville is
the new president of the Florida
| Bankers Association.
Jesus Fernandez, Spaniard, is on
| trial in Tampa Tor the murder Of Eu
rique Nelasques, a Mexican, in Il
street duel some months ago.
Rev. d. h. Sweat, late editor of the
| Barlow Courier Informant, is now
the pastor of the NJ. f. Church,
South, at Green Cove Springs.
Hon. Robert McNamee, defeated
candidate for congress in the first
district, is reported critically i'll of
paralysis of the heart al his home in
st. Petersburg.
The Daily Tallahasseean has ceas-
ed to exist. Now if that other
chump daily could only die, we would
be in a position to congratulate the
good people of Tallahassee.
Miami will hold grand nreman's
tournament on July %, q and 2S, and
the Florida East Coast Railway will
rive rate of one cent II mile for
actual travel to all who attend.
w. J. Hillman is being groomed
for chairman of the Florida delega-
tion to the national democratic con-
yemtion. HilIman is the man who
made the fight for an uninstructed
delegation and won.
Norma Beacham. the lG-year-old
daughter Of BraXton Beacham of
Orlando, went to Dublin, Ga, to
spend Il week visiting friends. While
there she married Il young man
named VIM. =. Greiner.
Rev. w. J. Carpenter celebrated
the first anniversary Of prohibition
in Alachua county by preaching
sermon at the Kavanaugh NJ. T..
Church, Gainesville, last Sunday
night on "Prohibition and Prosper
ity.'
It is reported from Lake City that
one of-the first things Congressman
elect Frank Clark is going to try to
secure for his home town is a light
house so that the w&yfaring men
from Nassau county can find the
place.
Tom F. McBeath, teacher, is
president of the Florida Press Asso-
citation, and he made his annual adj
dress the occasion for reading the ed
itors II delightfully."- refreshing and
appropriate lecture in true school
teacher style.
Prof j. NJ. Guilliams, former su-
perintendent of the East Florida
Seminary, has left Gainesville with
his family. Prof. Guilliams has ac-
cepted "a position on the faculty of
the Southern Normal School at Bow
ling Green, Ky,
4. c. Clewis of the Exchange Ma
fional Bank, Tampa, has purchased
S2g4 600 of Hilsboro county good
roads bonds at 95 cents on the dollar,
or $l5, 900 less than their face value.
The bonds are payable in gold and
bear interest ut per cent.
The state prohibition convention
met in Ocala on Wednesday,. Some
of the brethren, notably Guy Met
calf and that other calf who wears
eorsets and edits a goo-goO paper ut
Gainesville, were remarkable for
their absence. These men are now
plugging for dispensary.
Rev. DR.. r.. V. Atkisson, pastor of
the NJ r. church, south, at Orlando,
preached Il strong and eloquent ser
mon last Sunday night in advocacy
of women preaching and teaching in
the churches. He said that the en-
larging sphere Of women was one of
the most hopeful signs of the age.
Rev. DR.. w. w. DeHart of Tampa,
delivered the commencement ser
mon to the graduates of the Florida
State College in the opera house, Tai
lahassee, last Sunday night. The
different denominations in the city
dispensed with their evening service
in order to allow everybody to hear
this eloquent and scholarly divine.
d. B. Sweat for some time past ed
itor Of the Barlow COurier-Inform-
ant, has resigned to enter the minis
try Of the Methodist Episcopal
church, south. He was an honor
to the profession of journalism. and
| n, ..,..,- .nnnns litlln lnnht hnt thnt he