The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-01-11
The Palatka News
City Happenings and
Personal Mention.

Mrs. Mabel X. Tavel of Clearwater
is in the city visiting relatives.
w. S. Fry is laid up at home by
illness, but it is thought he will be
out again in few days.
l.. S. Johnson, prominent citizen
of Grandin, was a visitor in the city
on Monday.
Mrs. d. G.. Vorus of Atlanta is
visiting her parents, DR.. and Mrs.
w. H. Rosenberg.
The Atlantic Coast Line has re-
Gently received seventeen new loco
motives for this division.
Willie-from-otf-the yacht is again
doing service on the streets under II
sentence from the municipal court.
The Palatka Athletic Association
has arranged to give a ball at the
Armory on Friday night, January Is.
John Q. Tilghman has been spend
ing a portion of the week at Cedar
Keys, where he has large milling
interests.
Mrs. D. l.. Hood of Chicago, a
daughter of Mr.. Geo. Merrill, is Wis
iting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. I.
B. Merrill.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church have decided to give bazaar
and supper on the evening of Feb
rua"y 22d.
Mrs. Ella V. GrOOms returned last
week from an extended visit with
her sister, Mrs. Geo. Weller, in St.
Petersburg.
Clifford Brown, a former we'll
known Palatka boy, now living in
Cuba, was greeting friends in the
city Monday.
The government light house ten
der, Wistaria, is here on its annual
visitation to the lights on the river
in this section.
j. w. Harrison, merchant and
postmaster at Denver and an old
citizen of the county, was visitor in
the city yesterday.
G. H. Preston, president and gen.
eral manager of the Preston Miller
Company of Crescent City, was a
visitor in the city this week.
Mrs. Mabel X. Tavel is selling her
household furniture at private sale
regardless of cost at the old John 7.
Dunn house in the west end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. f. Edga +, Mrs.
Freeman Edgar and Mrs. Hopper of
Edgar, this county, Were guests at
the Saratoga Hotel yesterday.
Mrs. [. A. Boughton has returned
from the north and is visiting friends
ut Hastings. Later she will open
her pretty winter home at Bridge
port.
The G. S. d F. Railway has put on
daily freight train between Palat-
ka and northern points. Heretofore
there has been but three trains a
week.
d. Williams of McMeekin reports
but little damage to the oranges in
the immediate vicinity of his home.
Mr.. Williams had shipped the bulk
of his crop.
Henry Thalgott, who several years
ago conducted the Palatla Variety
Bakery, now in the bakery business
at Dunnellon, was shaking hands
with friends in the city Thursday.
Moragne Husson is attending Prof.
Winners Preparatory school for the
Naval Academy. He is much pleas
ed with it and is making every effort
towards passing the examination in
June. We wish him success.
The street committee got some
what ashamed of the condition of
Lemon street, and this week a force
of men is at work scraping up the
worst of the Accommodations, job for
which there is universal approval.
Tax Assessor Billiard is enjoying
- camp hunt in the vicinity of Nor
walk. There is big game in that
section; not votes, but real deer and
bear and wild turkeys. Mr.. Billiard
long ago Dagged all the votes in the
precinct.
Mrs T. G. Van Buren, and daugh-
ter, Miss Letitia, of Omaha, Neb.,
arrived here on Saturday for the
winter and are guests of Mr.. and
Mrs j. H. Haughton. Mrs. Van
Buren, and Mrs. Haughton are sis
tiers
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Query have
moved their fruit and ice cream and
confectionery parl0r from the Dalton
TI IocN " W. o"no 80 VI tne PoHn
prettiIy arranged and it is thought
mat 1t VIII attract Il large volume OF
business
John Mallem, the well-known
fruit dealer next to tine n0stoffire
though Syrian, was born and raised
in the city of Jerusalem and is re-
,uarl:ahI,r familiar with tha hol,