The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-10-27
Crescent City News

Capt. s. M. LaBree is going to
! build new covered dock and boat
house at the head of Lemon street.
The new boat is now ready for
launching and another week should
see the inauguration of the new fast
launch service between here and the
junction station. The new boat will
be enclosed to protect passengers
from the wind and rain and the trips
to and from the train will be pleas
ure rides.
Ora Thomas, the little son of Mr..
and Mrs. Ira Thomas of Green Cove
Springs, and grandson of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. J. Smith of Huntington, who
was so seriously injured by having
his skull crushed by the falling of
the clapper of the bell at the school
house in Green Cove, and who was
taken to a Jacksonville hospital for
treatment, is now almost we'll. For
time 1t was thought the little boy
could not recover. 1t Is expected he
will be discharged from the hospital
this week.
w. s. Pine, the well-known orange
grower living two miles west of
Huntington, was painfully injured
last Sunday morning, and will be
laid up for some time owing to bruis-
es received. Mr.. Pine fell while GO
ing up the steps of his porch with an
armful of wood. Fortunately no
bones were broken. His neighbor,
Mr.. Mitchell, came here for DR..
Sprague, who attended the injured
man. Mr.. Pine is an old Federal sol
dier who suffers from wounds and
cronic case of asthma, and he has
an army of friends all over the pc
ninsula who will regret the addition
al load of suffering he now has to
bear.
Word comes from Galesburg, Ill. p.
Of the death at her home in that city,
on Sunday the 9Th inst, of Mrs Eli
zabeth Brown, aged 81 years. Mrs.
Brown was the mother of Mrs. j. L.
Oyerstreet well-knowI and esteemed
here as one of our former winter Wis
itors and u grove owner. Mr.. and
oil Vic
City some years ago, spending the
winter at Crescent Inn, and on which
occasion she became greatly endear-
ed TO many of our people. The
Galesburg papers give much space
to the story of Mrs. Browns life and
her many Christian virtues. She was
a pioneer in Illinois and in the sec
ton where she resided exercised
wholesome influence upon the COM
munity. Her death was due to the
feebleness of age and she is mourned
by devoted husband and six chill
dren, as well as an uncommonly
large circle of friends.
The late Albert Josselyn was a
spiritualist in religion and like all of
that uncanny faith mad notion that
he had spirit guide or control who
acted as his guide though this world |
of dyspeptia and torpid livers. Mr..
Josselyn's spirit control was
said to have been an Indian who had
long inhabited the happy hunting
ground. The old man got a deal of
out of his religion and every
summer he passed his time at the
Spiritualists' rendezvous ut Onset,
Mass, holding frequent commnnica-
tion with his Indian spirit guide
a trance medium. The old
man was probably imposed upon,
bnt he enjoyed the imposition and
it made him happy. He was good
man and as his Indian control was a
dead Indian, he was probably good
also. There are some strange faiths
in this world, but the strangest of
them all is that of the spiritualist
who claims to hold communication
with spooks. Mr.. Josselyn had dis
posed of all his property here save