The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-05-12
Crescent City News


not being able to come to Crescent
City last winter, and saying thai
they will surely be here the coming
one. They are well known to all old
residents of the place and all will
look forward with pleasure to then
return.
The weather for the past two OIL
three weeks has been ideal for the
growing crops of corn, potatoes
squash and other truck. The corn
in all this neighborhood is looking
exceptionally well advanced and
vigorous, and the prospects are fine
for large yield. The acreage OF
squashes is large and shipments will
soon be going forward rapidly.
Rev Dr.. G H. Ward is spending
the week at st. Augustine in atten-
dance upon the Annual Diocesan
Council of the Episcopal church,
DR.. Ward is member of the stand
ing committee of the diocese and
one of the most influential of the
clergy at these annual gatherings.
The lay delegate from this parish is
Mr.. Eugene d. Lounds.
James Padgett, ST. has shipped l52
barrels of No. l white potatoes from
his field up the lake. The potatoes
are the largest we have ever seen in
Florida and are perfect specimens.
Mr.. Padgett has reason to feel proud
of his achievement, and the News
trusts his crop may bring a good
price-though it is extremely doubt
full owing to present New York quo
| tations.
DR.. G. F. Sprague came home on
Sunday from weeks trip down the
east coast of Florida as far as Mi
ami, on which he was member of
the legislative committe to examine
the East Coast Canal. The doctor
returned to his legislative duties in
Tallahassee on Monday afternoon,
and was accompanied by his daugh-
ter, Miss Kathleen, who will spend
couple Of weeks at the state
capitol.
j. A. Austin, for a purely imaginary
grievance, made an attack with the
butt end of Il driving whip on the
editor of the Palatka News last Sat
urday afternoon. The attack did not
result, as is sometimes recorded IN
the yellow literature of the day, in a
wounded and bleeding editor. In
this instance it was the attacking
party who received the wounds and
who did all the bleeding.
Herman Terry, for long time fire.
man of the steamer Crescent, has ac-
cepted position as fireman on Cum
mer's railroad at Jacksonville.
Young Terry is already a competent
marine engineer but could not take
his proper place as engineer, being
debarred by a federal law which re-
quires engineers to be at least 81
years of age He hopes soon to be
placed in charge of locomotive by
the company where he is now en-
ploved
A friend of the editor has COW to
sell and has asked how to word an
advertisement. There are various
ways in which such an adver-
tisement might be worded, for in
stance, The late Bill Nye, humorist,
once had COW to sell and advertised
her as follows: lowing to my i'll
health, will sell at my residence,
in township 49,, range 10, according
to the governments survey, one
plush raspberry COW, age eight years
She is of undoubted courage and
gives milk frequently. To a man
who does not fear death in any form
she would be great boon. She is
one-fourth short-horn and three
fourths hyena. | will also throw in
double barrel shotgun, which goes
with her. In May she usually goes
away for week or two and returns
with tall, red calf with wabbly
legs. Her name is Rose, / would
rather sell her to a nonresident
Mrs. Mark Miller, the aged mother
of Capt John w. Miller, left for her
home in Des Moines, Iowa, last Mon.
day. Chas. A. Gowen accompanied
Mrs. Miller as far as St Louis, Mo-,
it being only days ride further on
to her home, where she has two 9th
er sons living. This grand little wo-
man, who has reached such advanced
age, but who retains her mental fac
ulties perfectly, is one of the most
sympathetic and delightful women
to talk with it has ever been our
good fortune to meet. Somehow it
does not seem at all strange that
men whose early training was under
direction of such loving, sympa-
thetic mother should turn out to be
leaders in whatever linesof activity
they may choose to enter, and be-
come, as we'll, noted for honorable
achievement. Mrs. Miller stated
that she did not expect to ever re-
turn to Crescent City, but that SO
long as it was the home of her son
and she was spared, her mind would
revert to the place and the kindly
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