The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-11-08
The Palatka News
City Happenings and
Personal Mention.

I tor in the city last Friday.
Morgan Bohannan of Bannerville
was visitor in the city this week.
f. J. O'Hara of Jacksonville was
a business visitor to the city yester'
day.
F. E. Reeder, the well-known drug
gist of Welaka, was in the city on
business last Tuesday.
Capt. and Mrs. ]. Z. Lucas are
happy over little daughter, born
on Wednesday morning.
On Friday night the 22d, there will
be a festival at Wyles school house
I dancing and refreshments.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Beale are re-
joicing over the arrival of a little
! son in their home last Monday.
w. NJ. Williams was in the city
Tuesday, coming down from his
home at Welaka on his private
I launch.
1t will give any person an appe-
tite to go by Gay Bros. downtown
store and see the good things to eat
there displayed
Laban Price of Melrose, member
of the county school board, was in
the city on Tuesday attending II
meeting of the board.
J. H. Green of Fruitland attended
meeting of the county school
board, of which he is a member,
at the court house on Tuesday.
Mrs. E. B. Olmstead of Pomona
was shopping in the city Tuesday
and Wednesday, and was the guest
of Mrs. H. A, Bulky and family.
There will be q big turkey shoot
in the city during Thanksgiving day.
I Clay pigeons will be used, there be-
I ing ten tournaments. More anon.
Harry Towson of Lynchburg, Va,
was in the city Tuesday. Mr.. Tow
son is "a well-known travelling sales
man, representing J. w. Guild Co.
II Gen. and Mrs. Robert w. Davis of
Tampa are expected here on Monday
next for a short stay and will be at
! the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Will
lard. u
The News has been told that stove
wood is a scarce commodity in Pal
, atka Just now. Seems to us that
some of our county friends might
find it profitable to cut and ship
wood to town.
Attorney Henry Strunz has re-
turned from two months visit to
his former home in Connecticut and
long stay in New York. For the
present Mr.. Strunz is boarding at the
Arlington Cafe.
The new granolithic sidewalk on
I River street has been completed to
the Wilson Cypress Company's mill
and the Selden factory. The work
of laying this walk on Kirby and one
or two other streets, where ordered,
will begin in a few days.
Mrs. w. NJ. Gallagher of Duluth,
Mimi, who has spent several winter
seasons hereand WHO'S pleasantly re-
membered by our society people, ar
rived yesterday and is at the Sara
toga Hotel. Mr.. Gallagher and two
sons arrived some weeks ago.
Roland l.. Heating of Ocala was in
the city over Sunday and Monday
Mr.. Heating says Ocala is preparing
for big gathering OF people next
, week on the occasion of the state
coming out" convention of candi-
dates.
Game Warden Tucker asks that
all citizens report violations of the
game laws to him and he will do his
best to see that the laws are enforc-
I ed. Up to the present time Mr..
Tucker says that while he has made
no arrests he has prevented many
violations.
Elmer Collins arrived in the city
last week from lower Dade county
where he has been at work on the
East Coast Railway extension. He
is brown and rugged from exposure
in the open air and in excellent
health. He says he is glad to get
back to Palatka.
Yes, there are few men in the
city who would have you believe
that Palatka has been ruined by cut
ting out the saloons. AS if the pros
perity of this city depended on whis-
ky! The proposition is ridiculous,
and the men who are urging it are
making themselves, ditto.
J. &. Osteen one of the best-known
farmers of the Hollister section was
in the city yesterday and with him
was his daughter, Mrs, Rosa Hoiley
of Deerfield, who was on her way
home after a pleasant visit with her
! parents, and other relatives and old
friends at HOLSTER.
On Friday evening of last week
Miss Mabel HolcOmb entertained a
number of young friends at Hal
loween party at the home of her par
ents on Kirby street. The evening
was pleasantly spent in games APP
propriate to the season. Refresh
ments were served.
Col. S. l. WALES, whose heavy claim
against the state for commissions in
collecting the Indian War Claims
from the United States has been be-
| fore several sessions of the legisla-
ture, was i'll the city yesterday. Col.
| WALES was here looking after some
alleged trespassers on lands he own
in this county.
The semi-annual apportionment of
the one mill tax for school purposes
has just been made by State Super
intendent Holloway and Putnam
county's share in the fund is 81 800, 10.
This pportionment is based on the
average attendance of pupils in the
public schools of the state, which,
Tor the scholastic year Of 1906 and
1907, was 90,599. The rate per pupil
is 80 cents Putnam county's aver
age attendance was Sl637.
The city council on Wednesday