The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-05-26

TIE opera house 10 night rev. d.
Blackman, president of Rollins col
lege, will deliver the address. The
graded school exercises are being
held in the school building today.
Palatka Red Men carried off an
unusual number of honOrs at the late
Grand council of that order in West
Palm Beach. j. l.. Rankin is the
Great Chief of Records. Judge c. !.
ROwtOn is the Great Prophet, and
Tom Holden is the "M."-whatever
that is.
Rev. Z. ]. Gates of st. James NJ.
f Church, is attending the district
conference of his church at West
Palm Beach this week, and will be
absent over Sunday. The annual
Children's Day service will occur at
the church in the morning, but there
will be no evening service.
A movement has been started in
this city to organize base ball
league to compose strictly amateur
teams in the cities of Palatka, Fer
nandina, Lake City, st. Augustine,
Gainesville, Ocala and Starke. The
idea is an excellent one and will no
doubt meet with much approval.
Dead flies cause the ointment of
the apOthecary to send forth stink
ing SAVIOR. saith the scriptures, but
those dead flies and their stink amt
marker to that sent forth by a
dead COW which was washed ashore
near the ferry dock on Wednesday.
rs people who live and do business in
that neighborhood can testify.
VIM. G.. Hutchins of st. Louis,
Mo-, and Miss Emma r. Stapley of
Montana were quietly married in
Judge COxe's office at the court
house last Monday The parties
met here by arrangement for the
ceremony. The groom is a CONNER
cial travellers Both are young and
refined people.
L. II. Merryday and Col. II. NJ. de
MOntmollin are simply waiting for a
qualities of their respective sail
gacts. Chas. GLADLY will sail Mr..
Merlyday's boat and Col. de Mont
mollin will handle his in person.
They are both sailors in whom there
is no guile.
One truck grower near Palatka has
sold 81 900 worth of truck from one
acre of land since last November
To get that amount of stuff to the
northern market he has paid over
800 to the express company. 1t is
this legalized robbery of our truck
farmers by the express company that
constitutes the hazard of truck farm
ing in Florida
The Fearnside Clothing company
has enjoyed a phenomenal trade this
spring and starts into the summer
months with not more than enough
goods to satisfy the legitimate de-
mands of its growing trade. There
is always something going on at this
big store, and there can be no other
attributable reason than that goods
and prices are right.
Here is an instance of Southern
| Express company nerve. A we'll
known and deserving cOlored man of
time ago announcing that relative
had sent him a pig by express.
When the negro went to the express
office to get the pig he was told that
it had broke out of the crate while
it lay in the back yard of the eX-
press office, and that it could not be
found: the crate was there, however,
and the charges were 60 cents, which
he must pay. The pig is still at
large.
Mr. Robert Henry Kennedy, pop
ular employee of the Jacksonville
Terminal company and Miss Flor
snce GrOoms, daughter of Mrs. Ellen
GroOms of this city, were married at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Pellet in
Jacksonville last Monday evening,
Rev. H. Dutil of the Riverside Meth
Odist church performing the cere-
mony. Immediately following the
ceremony an elaborate wedding sup
per was served. Mrs. Ellen GrOOms,
mother of the bride, was present at
the wedding and returned home on
Tuesday morning.
On Saturday night, last, Mrs. R.
Raymond Price and Miss Rosalie
Price gave a delightful launch ride
in honor of Mr.. r. Raymond Price
whose twenty-secOnd birthday fol-
lowed the next day. Among those
present were Mesdames Crook, Grit
fin and Price, Misses Price, Fearn-
side, Kennerly and Crook, Messrs.
Jos. and Raymond Price, Louis and
Arnold CanOva, Harry Merryday.
DR.. Guy G. Estes, Capt. f. n. CAL
noun and Master Julian Calhoun.
The trip was made to Federal Point
and return. Refreshments were
served, and all present enjoyed the
outing greatly.
Dr. H. E. Douglass the osteOpathic
physician in this city is building up
large practice here among an in
telligent class of people who oppose
the indiscriminate taking of drugs,
and to whom the reasOnableness of
osteopathic treatment appeals. Os-
teOpathy is a method of treating di-
seases of the human body by means
Of manipulations applied to various
nerve centers, chiefly those along
the spine, with a view to inducing
free circulation of the blood and
lymph and an equal distribution of
the nerve forces. Special attention
is given to the readjustment of any
bones, muscles, or ligaments not in
the normal position.
Mr. and Mrs. John Tracey Griffin
entertained Mr.. and Mrs Frank d.
Wattles and few friends at their
pretty orange grove in East Palatka
on Tuesday afternoon and evening.
The party went over on the ferry
boat and returned on Capt. Bryants
yacht. The afternoon was pleasant
~ spent in the grove, and later sup
per was served in prettily arranged
bower near the packing house. jap
anese lanterns illuminated the scene
and delicious spread was arranged
and enjoyed under the trees. Those
enjoying the hospitality of Mr.. and
Mrs. Griffin were Mesdames Wattles,
nrnnk md Mcnnnald Misses pricn