The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-12-08
LATE STATE NEWS.

Live Oak is to have a new opera
house.
I The Manitee hotel has been rebuilt
at considerable expense
Stetson University foot ball team
defeated Rollins College Thanksgiv-
ing by score of SO to O.
Marion county got first prize mon
ey at the Tampa State Fair. Marion
got into the first prize habit some
years ago.
The Ocala Star is authority for the
statement that Marion county went
wet in the election of last week be-
cause the negroes voted solidly for
the sale of liquor.
Gainesville has woman dentist,
and since the fact has been generally
known dental work is not considered
so painful in Gainesville as it had
been before.-Times- Union.
Sumner Langford, young white
man of Dutton, was run over by
train at that place last "Wednesday
and his body cut in two. He was at
tempting to board a freight train.
Sister Mary Ann of Jacksonville
provided Thanksgiving dinners TO 81
prisoners in Jacksonville jails and at
the conclusion of the meal visited
each one and presented fruits and
smoking material.
The annual reunion of Confederate
Veterans will be held in Jacksonville
next Wednesday and Thursday and
the people of Jacksonville are pre-
pairing to give the old soldiers a good
time.
The total license tax collected in
Duval county since October LIST is
1914, OO5.5O. OF this amount the state
treasurer has received $59, 1925 and
the county treasurer 1914, 2l0,25. Most
of it was paid for the privilege of
selling liquor i'll Jacksonville.
The annual conference of the Flori-
da M. +. church, south, is in session
at Ocala, with Bishop Gambler pre-
siding. There will be the usual
shake-up of preachers and none Of
them will know really where they
are att before Monday morning,
Miss Louise Bohannon of st. Au-
gustine has purchased of Gay Bros.
| of Pisgah, KY, the show mare, Anne
Randolph, for which she paid 81, 800.
| The show mare, American Girl, was
purchased the same day from the
same firm by Thos. w. Lawson of
Boston for $4,000.
The Supreme Court is expected to
pass on the onstitutionality of the
Buchanan law this week. Should
the decision go against the Buchanan
law the governor would probably
call an extra session of the legisla-
ture to straighten out the education
al ENHANCEMENT.
The Daytona Daily News has made
its appearance and will continue
through the tourist season. Il. E.
Fitzgerald is the editor and E. M
Canova the city editor. Both are
young men of ability in the newspa'
per profession. The first issue of the
paper was filled with news items and
live advertising.
John Geer convict guard at Ocala
shot and killed Marie Geer, a mem.
Der of the submerged demimonde
last Saturday night and made good
his escape. The woman was evil
IDENTIFY his wife from whom he had
been separated, as marriage certi'
ticate dated from Americas, Ga.
was found among. the woman's pa.
pers.
frankie Williams, a little cOlorec
girl of Jacksonville, bitten by mac
dog six weeks ago, died of hydropho
bia on Saturday night. The mar
shall of Jacksonville, on orders from
the health officer, is killing all dogs
caught running at large on the
streets and the marshal says The
slaughter will be kept up until The
city is free of them.
Mrs. May Pierce of this state hal
been awarded $40, 900 damages agains
the Seaboard Air Line R'y for the
death of her husband in an acciden
near Fernandina. The trial occurred
in Savannah last Saturday. Mrs
Pierce sued for $4,000, but did no
expect to get that much. The rail
way company of course has appealed
the case.
The matrimonial fever is playing
havoc with the Dade county schools
and the epidemic shows no sign o.
abatement. Delray is the lates
sufferer, the newly appointed princi
pal at that place, Miss Willie King
having rendered her resignation t.
County Superintendent Hall, givinS
as her reason the fact that she il
soon to be married.-Tropical Sun.
Practically the entire business por
tion of Arcadia was destroyed by fire
on Thanksgiving night. The losses
will aggregate $200,0OO with only par
tial Insurance The fire was started
from the rear of Gore & Scott's gen
eral merchandise and spread rapidly
with the wind. Dynamite was uset
to stop the flames, but without avail
The city will be rebuilt with brick.