The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-08-30
Personal and Social. ,

ana her condition has shown little
If any, Improvement during the pas
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar McGrady ar
spending a week or two at Dayton
Beach enjoying the surf bathing an,
the fishing.
Master John Icenhour, who ha
been on visit to his aunt, Mrs. M
H. Read, returned to his home il
Jacksonville Monday.
The people of Crescent City are t,
be congratulated. According to
recent eminent authority there ar,
but nine forked tailed devils in town
while most of us had supposed tina
there were many more.
Mr.. Hodges and family, who hav,
been living at Denver, have movec
into j. L. Burton's house, where
they will live during the absence Of
the family in Palmetto, Manitee
county.
Fine pineapples are being sold
about town that were raised by A
B. Torrey at his place on the lake
south of town. There is always a
big home demand for home grown
fruit of this kind. The pines we saw
were large and luscious.
Paul c. Smith has greatly i'm
proved the appearance of his always
neat store by the addition of some
large show cases for the display of
cutlery and other fine goods. The
show cases were put in last week.
If you want a really pleasant out
ing of two days at small cost, with
the assurance of cooling breezes all
the time, take the trip to Jackson
Vile and return on the steamer
Crescent
j. w. Long, who recently pur-
chased the lot next east of his store
of Mrs. S. B. Shaw, has about de-
cided to build a dwelling house
thereon for renting purposes. This
will give Mr.. Long nice property
in one of the most desirable sections
of the place, property for which he
will find ready tenants all the year
round.
j. w Tucker of Pomona was here
last week. Mr.. Tucker will be an
applicant for the office of county
game warden, and a petition asking
the county commissioners to appoint
MIN to the office has been cheerfully
and generally signed by our people.
Mr.. Tucker would make careful
and conscientious official and it is'to
be hoped the commissioners will
give him the office.
S. A. Kinard expects to open his
new store at the foot Of Central ave,
in about two weeks with full line
of fresh groceries, and as bakery.
Mr.. Mccormick will have charge of
the bakery and will reside upstairs.
The Gilbert cottage, now occupied
by Mr.. Mccormick will then be for
rent or for sale. The new store eX-
poets to do a large business.
H. E. Waid of Welaka has just
erected a fish house on the Lake
Crescent front between the Ores
cents landing and the packing
house, where early next month he
expects to engage in the fish shipping
business. Mr.. Waid will also supply
the local market with fish. He has
rented one of the dwellings in the
fiat and will bring his fam
lily here to reside probably within
the next week or two. Mr.. and Mrs.
Waid, their daughter and son, have
been among the leaders in the social
life of Welaka, and their coming to
Crescent City will be a pleasure to
the people of this place.
Most people in this section who
read the daily papers are familiar
with the nice piece of detective
work which last month resulted in
the arrest at Boston, of Warren Hast
ings, 68 years of age and an old and
trusted employee of the United States
sub-treasury in that city, but they
do not know that the clever detec-
tive who comprised his arrest is a.
former Crescent City boy. He is
United States Secret Service Agent
Frank Burke, who with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Burke, LIVED here
in the SOS. They went from here to
Tampa where Frank Burke was en-
ployed by the late H. h. Plant at the
Tampa Bay Hotel. He afterwards
became the chief-of-pOlice at Tampa.
Then he drifted to New York and
later became an agent in the govern"
ment secret service. Burke has had
to do with many important cases for
the government. He engineered the
"big opium raid" at Seattle, uucov-
cred the naturalization frauds" at
Boston, and the bribery cases" in
New York, and he it was who kid
mapped Green and Gaynor from Que
bee to Montreal from which latter
place it was thought they could the
more easily be eXtradited. These
men are now doing time in federal
prison in Georgia. Frank Burke is a
nephew of Mrs. j. l.. Burton OF this
Mace.