The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-12-22
The Palatka News
and Advertiser
City Happenings and
Personal T11enticn.

II IN Jacksonville this week.
E. T. Redding, merchant of'Inter-
lachen, was in the city yesterday.
Ben Florrid has opened box ball
4 alley just west of the Red Store on
Lemon street.
j. II. Harrison of Denver was
among the peninsula visitors in Pa
z latka yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Green and Mrs. Hen
4 messy have gone on a launch trip to
Silver Springs.
Mrs. Lake Jones entertained the
4 Monday afternoon Whist club at her
\ home this week.
Hollister had big delegation of
4 men in Palatka yesterday and all
looked prosperous.
Mrs. NJ. r. Boyd will spend the
a holidays with her daughter, Mrs.
4 l.. N, Wilkie, in Jacksonville.
Maurice Lamon has installed a
i ten-pin alley at his place of amuse-
& ment on Central Lemon street.
Mr., and Mrs. Henry S. Wilson and
y son, Edwin, returned from visit OF
several days in Orlando last Mon
day.
Miss Cornelia Kirby, daughter of
Postmaster and Mrs. d. M. Kirby, is
home from an extended stay in the
north.
The big sale of clothing at the ].
\ M. Meyer Co. store will close with
g rush tomorrow. The sale has proved
4 a great success.
n ]. II. Wylie of Interlachen, the
i well-knOwn citrus fruit nurseryman,
has been a visitor in Palatka IL part
4 of the present week.
A M. Rust, treasurer of the Will
Il son Cypress company, has gone to
his old home in Saginaw, Mich, for
4 the holiday season.
Rev. E. ]. Gates, for the past year
pastor of st. James M. E. church,
81 left for his new appointment at
4 Braidentown on Tuesday.
Mrs. Packer of Philadelphia and
daughter, Miss Nellie, now II student
n at Sutherland, are here for the holt
s days, the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
4 T. Bond.
q FThe Palatka News is getting out
the specifications from which prOpo-
4 sitions for the construction of Palat-
ka's new municipal water system are
x to be made.
\ "A. w. Strange who recently retired
q from the dry goods business in Pa
N latka is now in the life insurance
n business w 18th headquarters at
4 Tampa.
Il The street committee of the coun-
ell had planks put down at the down
/ town street crossings on Lemon
d street yesterday. The rain of the
4 day before had caused the mud to be
Z ankle deep.
! Among the Palatka Confederate
Z veterans to visit the reunion in
4 Jacksonville last week were N. o.
\ Davis, Judge NJ. L. Coke, Capt. j. ID.
Points, Judge J. G. Vertrees and
Capt. II. Y. Snow.
James Padgett, ST., the pioneer
4 settler of what is now known as pre-
cInct No. |, this county, was in the
7 city on Wednesday. Though 81
years of age Mr.. Padgett looks as
young as many man 10 years his
junior.
\ oRev. Father Barry hopes to wipe
\ out the last vestige of the debt on st.
Monica's church by the first of the
\ year. When he took charge of the
parish little over two years ago
the debt was $4,000.
r. w. Thompson, general n anager
" nj thn nok q MN n n limo Nf ct,
4 has arrived from Boston and is get
K ting the steamers HiawHtha and
0keehumpkee in readiness for the
opening of the Ocklawaha river sea
son of tourist travel on the 18th of
January.
DR.. w. w. 9. Wall has been max
ing good Improvement since he was
! last operated on by the physicians,
and since which time he has been
free from pain. All his friends in
city and county will rejoice at his
improvement.
Mr.. Eugene Wells of this city and
Miss Jewell Powers of Lakeland,
were married in Barlow last We'd
nesday, week, Dec. 18th. Mr.. Wells
is quite well known here, and is a
son of Mrs. r. IL. Wells. He is
now connected with the A. 9. L. R'y
at Lakeland.
q. p. DevereuX a former business
man of this city died in Kansas
City hospital last week. News to
this effect was received by his fami-
ly in this city on Friday last. He
had been ill but short time. Mr..
DevereuX left Palatka some eight or
ten years ago.
The high and grammer school will
close today for two weeks holiday
vacation. At the morning session to
day there will be closing exercises,
including the singing of IA number of
Christmas carols by large class of
pupils un Ter The pr6centorship of
Mr.. Stuart Hyatt, who has been |
training these pupils for some time. |
DR.. Warren of Berlin and Mr.. jeff. |
Station of Salisbury, Md, were in the
city several days during the past |
week, guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John |
Q, Tilghman. Both gentlemen are
interested in the Tilghman Cypress
Lumber company at Cedar Key, of
which company DR.. Warren is to be
the resident manager.
Rev. Joseph F. Bell the newly APP
pointed pastor of st. James NJ. e.
church will officiate for the first
time next Sunday, morning and eve
ming. Mr.. Bell comes from Font
Meyers. He will be royalty well
coined to Palatka, not only by the
members of his church, but by all
Christian people.
Yelverton's big furniture store on