The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-10-06

Sheriff Howell, under whose diree-
tion the state census for Palatka is
being taken, hopes TO complete the
work next week. While Mr.. Howell
will not be permitted to give the re-
suit for publication he assures the
News that the census will show a
big increase i'm the population OF Pa
latka over the government census OF
1900.
Luther Curtis former efficient
clerk of the Ackerman-Steward
Drug Co. who has been living III
Montgomery the past year or more,
spent several days IN the city this
week visiting friends. Mr.. Curtis
has accepted u position with the
well-known drug house of }. Nj
McElroy at Orlando, for which place
he left yesterday.
The city council got little hot un-
der the municipal collar last Tues
day night over the neglect of the
contractor to put the roof of the new
city building in such shape as TO
prevent leakage. The city attorney
was instructed to take legal steps,
if necessary, to compel proper COM
pletion of the contract. The fire bell
matter was also turned over to the
city attorney.
All the Jewish places OF business
in this city will be closed until 6
p. m. next Monday. This includes
the stores of NJ. Kauner, NJ S.
Brown, Leo Jacobson and the /. NJ.
Meyer Co. The day in the Jewish
calander is known as Yom Kippur,
the Day of A tenement. Faithful Jews
observe the day by fasting, and do
not allow any sort of food or drink,
not even water, to pass their lips
Monday. All these stores will open
promptly at Monday afternoon.
The board of county commission
ers was in session all day Wednes-
day and Thursday, the time of the
latter day being taken up with an
examination and comparison OF the
new books of the county tax assessor,
and which had been executed in the
perfect style which has come to be
expected of Mr.. Bullard. Ga We'd
nesday the time of the board was Oc-
cupied with routine business, a large
part of which consisted OF auditing
the bills incurred in the conduct of
the late wet or dry election.
Mrs. NJ. jacobson has
been making further extensive i'm
provements at the Saratoga Hotel.
The kitchen, laundry and store
rooms have beeh rebuilt and enlarg-
| ed, the annex has been Joined to the
| hotel proper, giving many additional
sleeping apartments, and new bath
rooms AID closets have been added
Mrs. jacobson has added greatly to
the value of this property since it
came into her possession, and the
/ Saratoga is gaining enviable fame AS
a comfortable and altogether pleasant
abode for travellers every day of its
existence
How'n thunder self-cOnfessed
damphool like "Looney and Fool
ish could hold the News blamable
for shifting the negro aroma from his
late literary illusions is too many for
this paper and all who know him.
One who started life in Florida as a
carpet Dagger and who is spending
the scar and yellow years of his de-
creptitude rs negro organizer and
champion; who has, from long con-
tact, accumulated so literally of no
gro ideals, habits of thought, modes
of expression, ct cetera, could hardly,
with any show of reason, expect the
average man to distinguish, without
the aid of an OlfactOmeter, such an
excellent counterfeit from the real
thing The apologies of the News
are due the negro