The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-07-14
Personal and Social.

K. BOrson'S new launch Is to be "
feet in length.
The Preston Miller company is
now running full time with large
number of hands employed
Mrs. Borsen entertained the Ladies
AID society of the Presbyterian
church at her hospitable home last
Wednesday afternoon.
Show your interest in the effort
now being made for high grade
school for the town by attending the
school meeting at the Auditorium
to night.
Chas. S. Gowen has raised his
packing house out of the lake where
it was blown in the heavy gale of
last spring. The house will again be
placed on pilings at the end of his
pier.
Grosvenor Gautier is still very
lame and unable to even sit up long
at a time. He will carry his bruises
sometime, though it is now thought
that he has not suffered serious
injury.
Mrs. w. R. Saunders and her
daughter Miss Katheride Crawford
of DeLand, and Master Henry Saun-
ders, are spending week or ten
days at Mayport, at the mouth of the
st. Johns river.
The frame of Frank Gautier's new
house on Park street is up and the
house is being pushed to early COM
pletion. 1t will be imposing in APP
pearance and roomy. A broad CO.
louial porch will be built across the
entire front. The situation is one of
the best in the town.
Capt. and Mrs. John w. Miller and
the children will leave next week
for the mountains section of North
Carolina, and will be absent until
the last of October. Capt. Miller APP
pears much improved in health, and
it is thought that the change to the
mountain climate will quite restore
him to his old time vigor.
D. b. Paxton, former well. known
citizen of this, place has filed volun-
tary petition in bankruptcy in the
United States district court at Jack
sonville. Mr.. Paxton has been liv-
ing at DeLand for the past several
wears. The schedule filed by the
petition shows that his liabilities are
So, 260 Al, and his assets to be five
shares of stock in the DeLand Naval
Stores Co. valued at $500, and which
are exempt by law from being at
tached for debt. The matter was re-
ferred to Geo. NJ. Powell, referee in
bankruptcy.
Word from Mrs. NJ r. Traile is to
the effect that the Lake Front, !"
her summer hotel at Lake Chautau-
qua, N. Y, was opened last month
with over 40 regular boarders, which
have now reached to over sixty.
The Lake trout is most centrally To-
Gated at Lake Chautauqua and has
the reputation of being the finest
managed of all the great boarding
houses at that intellectual resort.
Mrs. Traile will give specially cor
dial welcome to all visitors from
Florida, in which state she has spent
her winters for many years.
ST.. Saunders was on the street
last Saturday for the first time in
many weeks. Six weeks ago while
SEEMING, he was struck by stingaree.
This was just above the ankle and
was not only very painful, but has
succeeded in keeping Mr.. Saunders
on the shelf all this time. And he is
long way from being well yet.
Talking TO some men of his exper-
fence Saturday afternoon Mr.. saun-
ders said: ''I've been bitten by cot
-mouthed moccasins, scratched
by catamounts, had hand-to-hand
fights with she-bears, and encount-
cred every sort of peril in the woods
and water, but the sting of this old
stingaree is the worst yet. A snake
is a mere mosquito in comparison
! to it,