The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-02-26
cREsCENT CITY TEMPERATURE FOR THE
WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY ~, l9J4-E. D.
WILLIAMS, OBSERVER.
Personal and Social.


been making record as a fisherman
q. II. Preston spent Monday ano
Tuesday in Jacksonville and Palatka
The odor of the orange bloom will
begin to burden the air in another
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Goodwin, OF
Richmond, Vt, arrived at Grove
Hall last week.
Silas d. Ritch, of Port Chester, N.
II, is here on visit to his father,
Capt. VIM. M. Ritch.
Miss Hester Gilbert, of London,
Ont, arrived last week and is guest
at the Southfield hotel.
VIM. r. Oxer, of Port Chester, N.
y. arrived last week for short visit
with his uncle, Capt. VIM. M. Ritch.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Mcconnell, OF
Philadelphia, are among the later ar
rivals of pleasant people at Grove
Hall.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Presbyterian church met with Mrs,
w. j. Norton on Wednesday after
noon.
From the evidences at hand in the
shape of a heavy bloom it is safe to
predict an immense orange crop in
and about Crescent City the coming
season.
The Misses Bessie and Edith Will
son, of TT. George, Fla, arrived on
Saturday evening for a few days
visit with Capt and Mrs. A, w.
Brown. The Misses Wilson are
nieces of Captain Brown.
Coe ID. Smiths electric launch is
doing its full share in the way of en-
Pertaining visitors again this winter.
Every pleasant day Mr. Smith takes
party or two of ladies and gentle
men for ride on Lake Stella
Mrs. H. ID. Sweet, with her mother,
sister and brother, returned Saturday
from a trip to st. Augustine. They
had contemplated a trip down the
east coast but were persuaded to re-
turn ON account of the inclement
weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. Icenhour will move
TO South Jacksonville the coming
week. 1t was not their purpose to
move until June, but the sale of their
home and the requirements of the
new owner made an earlier removal
necessary.
Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Gautier, of
Pnnta Gorda, were here day or two
last week guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J..
r. Appleby. They were on their way
home from Miami, where they had
been to attend the funeral of Mr.
aantier's mother
Capt. and Mrs. Andrew Ferris, who
have been boarding for some time
with J. P. Hawkins, have made a
change and are now pleasantly To-
Gated with Mrs. Frank Gautier. Cap
tain Ferris and his estimable wife
are greatly pleased with Crescent
City and the climate of Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. X. Sweet, of
Quincy, ILL.,, who have been spending
the past several weeks with their
son, Mr.. Harry d. Sweet, left for
their northern home on Monday,
much to their regret. Mr.. Sweet was
called home on business matters and
says he may return later in the sea-
son.
Capt, G. U. Beach of Savannah
spent Sunday and Monday with his
old partner, Capt. J. w. Miller.
Capt Beach was enthusiastic in
praise of the noble work being done
Tor Crescent City by Hon. Edwin
Gilbert, and was delighted to find
that every man woman and child
with whom he talked felt the same
way.
Frank Brown has returned to the
state. Mr.. Brown left for his Balti-
more home the day before the big
ARE. reaching there in the midst of
the confiagration. The excitement
incident to the time and his efforts
III behalf of his business so wrought
upon him as to make it necessary
that he should return and take
another rest.
Mr.. J. M. Deaton, whose home was
barely kept from burning to the
ground during his absence, returned
LIST week. In card to the News
IT. Deaton requests space to express
10 the people of the place, as we'll as
the crew OF the steamer Crescent, his
heartfelt thanks for their prompt aid
md efforts which resulted in saving
his home from destruction, as well as
thomany kindnesses shown his fam
IT. during his absence.
Allen b. Maull, of Baltimore, il
here ON two weeks visit to his
mather, Mrs. ]. NJ. Maull. Allen is
Ihe second son of the late j. Nj
#aHIl. and some eighteen or nineteen
+. ekfz ago, when mere boy, pub.
yhe1 ne first newspaper attempted