The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-09-06
The Palatka News
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City happenings and :
Personal Mention. :

was about Palatka on Monday.
Mrs. Henry Cowart of Tampa is in
the city visiting relatives.
Mrs. Maude Priddy Spring of Saw
annah, Ca is in the city visiting rel
atives.
Miss Minnie Bulky spent Sunday
in Pomona as the guest of Miss EN-
ma Olmstead.
Mrs. Walter NJ. Davis and children
of Jacksonville spent Sunday in the
city with relatives.
Mrs. Ola A. Holmes and Mrs. w.
| ii. Hoyt have gone for visit to
Hendersonville, N. G.
The county commissioner visited
! the scene of work on the new hard
surface road yesterday.
Mrs. J. D. Lane and her mother,
Mrs. Benet, have returned from their
cottage at Crescent Beach.
Squire E. B. Lane of Putnam Hall
spent Monday in the city and was a
! pleasant caller at this office.
p. c. and E. J. McLendon, promi-
nent citizens of the Hollister section,
were in the city Wednesday.
John Ragin, the we'll known old
| Confederate veteran of Pomona, was
a visitor in the city yesterday.
Mrs, Sam'l Tolbert of Hastings
was in the city Saturday visiting her
brother, j. H. Yelverton, ir.
Mrs. f. B. Wright of Norwalk
| passed through the city Tuesday en-
route for st. Augustine and Summer
Haven beach.
The Rodman Lumber company is
| advertising in the San Mateo Item
for tax deeds to a total of l,136 acres
of land in Putnam county.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ Kelly of Hollis
| ter are spending the month at the
North Carolina mountain resorts,
and the jamestown exposition.
L. A. Smith returned last Friday
| from an outing of several weeks at
Asheville and the Land of the Sky
! in the North Carolina mountains.
Warner Hamm and Noah Thigh
man left on Monday for the James
town Exposition. From thence
they will go to Maryland for several
weeks.
Henry Merwin and son, Charles.
| left this week for a trip to Rochester
ana other points in New York. They
will return via the jamestown expo
sition.
The regular services at st. James
M. e. church have been resumed,
and Rev j. F. Bell, the pastor will
preach next Sunday at both the
morning and evening services.
j. A. CHM, the popular confection-
er, returned this week from a visit to
his old South Carolina home. Mr..
CHM has been in poor health lately
and his trip helped him lots.
MIR. and Mrs. r. E. Neck returned
home last Saturday from an extend
ed visit with relatives in Virginia
Mr.. and Mrs. Neck also visited
Washington and the jamestown eX-
| position.
Miss Josephine Bard of Norwalk
has been in the city this week taking
the examination for Putnam county
school teachers, which has been in
progress at the school house. Miss
Bard was the guest of Miss Minnie
Bulky.
Rev. L. R. Lynn returned on Mon
| his old home in Tennessee, and SER
vices will be resumed at the Presbv-
terrain church next Sunday. Mrs.
Lynn and the children will remain
in Tennessee some time longer.
H. Finley Tucker has sold the f.
Z. Windsch property in Palatka
Heights to G. n. Vanlanninghain,
the consideration being in the neigh
borhood of $500. This sale was
made last Saturday. Mr.. Tucker
has several other realty deals pend
ing.
Mrs. Ella V. Grooms, who has
been spending some time at Ashe-
vile, n. g., is now at Saluda, n. c.,
where she joined her sister, Mrs.
George Weller of St. Petersburg, who
with her little daughter, Ella, is
spending the season at that popular
mountain resort.
Crescent City sent quite a big dele
cation of its citizens to Palatka on
Wednesday, among whom were
noted Hon. j. H. Harp, and Messrs, |
w. b. Campbell, G.. l.. Chamberlin, |
H. E. Waid, F. NJ. Payson, j. J.
McGrady, A. p. DeWolf, and r. G. |
Middleton. Most of these gentle
men attended the meeting of the
board of county commissioners.
j. H. Wylie, manager of the In
terlachen Gravel company, was in
the city couple days this week and
reports that his company is busy
getting out gravel not only for the
new Observation-Disclosures road, but
for the Atlantic Coast Line, as we'll.
The A. e. L. said Mr.. Wylie, lis
going to use this gravel on its CON
crete work at Tampa and other
places and is loading many cars with
it daily"
The September examination of
public school teachers is in progress
this week, superintendent Tucker
is conducting the examination of
white teachers--of whom there are
ftve-at the high school, and School ,,
supervisor j, H. Green of Fruitland +
has charge of the examination of ,
oolored teachers at the cOlOred :
school. There are six colored appli- +
,ants for teachers certificates.
G.. B. Pennock of Miami is pub- {
lshlng a series of post card views /
= in number-Which show the work il
If construction at different points on 5
he Key West extension of the Flori. A
la East Coast Railway. He was in t
oalatka yesterday and made ar C
for their sale in this CITY. t.
These views will interest everyone h
Who has given any thought to the Il
magnitude of this great railway I'M e
ertaking. V
The Baptist church of Palatka has C.
allied to the pastorate Rev. ]. c.
'ullum of Waldo, gentleman whom d
he members have every reason to I'll
elieNe will accent the call. Mr. b