The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-12-20
The Palatka News
Gity Happenings and
Personal Illenticn.


| Ht Olu IAdHsao A1OuSO VI NSeNN.~N
Lemon street is being torn down.
Miss Mamie Stewart of DeLand is
the guest this week of Miss Bell
WEIGH.
Mr.. and Mrs. /. r. George are hap
py over the birth of a daughter, on
the 18th inst.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cortland G Middle
ton of Pomona were shopping in the
city yesterday.
Sun Bros. circus will appear in this
city January Sd. 1t is IA big show
and good one.
Smith the jeweler has all excep-
tionally artistic stock Of iewelry and
rare brick brack.
Hamp. Moody has been down in
the Oklawaha scrub killing venson.
for his Christmas dinner.
r. B. Mcleod, one of Welaka's
most popular citizens, was a visitor
in the city Wednesday.
Rowton's display of toys and other
Christmas goods surpasses anything
he has ever yet attempted-and that
is saying heap.
Mrs. Jos. Legeur and interesting
little daughter of Brunswick, Ga,
are here on visit to the family of
DR.. III. 9. Brannen.
Judge Vertrees has been confined
to the house since Tuesday with q
hard cold, such as in fashionable
circles is called la grippe, but at last
reports he was mending rapidly.
Miss Julia Evans arrived in the
city yesterday from Richmond, Va,
on her way to spend Christmas with
her relatives, Mr.. and Mrs. Dorr, at
Federal Point
H. A, Ford, late general superin-
tendent of the A. G. L. R'y in Flori-
da, has been spending the greater
part of the week in Palatka. Mr.
Ford is firm believer in the future
of this city.
w. S. Fry's jewelry store is at
tracing considerable attention this
week and many favorable comments
are heard concerning the beauty and
endless variety of articles he has on
sale for the holidays.
L. A. Smith, the confectioner and
who, by the way, is an expert sign
painter, has presented the Palatka
public library with neat sign
which he has placed on the building
at library entrance.
The Earnest company's big dry
goods store is doing big Christmas
| business. 1t deserves to. In the
| first place it has the goods, and, sec
ondly, it isn't afraid to tell the peo-
| pie so through newspaper advertis-
ing that bears the stamp of genuin-
ness.
Assistant State Auditor w. B.
Sadler, is in the city this week for
the purpose of auditing the books of
the county officials. Mr.. Sadler is
not only one of the most popular, but
most efficient Of our state officials,
and his is the name most frequently
heard mentioned with favor for the
office of state comptroller in the
coming primary.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. Borsen of Cres-
cent City brought a large party of
ladies and gentlemen from that
place to the city on Wednesday to
do Christmas shopping. Mr.. Borsen
is the owner of large and very
beautiful launch, with powerful en-
gines and commodious cabin accom-
modations and the long trip is al
ways one of rare pleasure in this
beautiful boat.
The Selden Cypress Door Co. is
keeping up its practice of giving its |
customers a souvenir in the shape of |
an artistic calendar. This year it is |
a beautiful reproduction of Charles |
Warren Eaton's painting twilight |
on the Canal-Near Bruges." To ap- |
preciate the full beauty of this repro |
ductiOn one should stand back some |
eight or ten feet from it. 1t is the
absence of detail that makes it re-
quire distance.
Mr.. Edmund Russell Burt. son of
Mrs. James Burt of this city, and
Miss Jean Wood, an accomplished
and highly esteemed young lady of
savannah, were married in Christ's
Church, Savannah, Ga, on the 18th
inst Mr.. Burt has been living in
savannah for a number of years,
where he is engaged in a successful
electrical business.
Miss Kate L. Lucas has been MANY
times complimented on her Christ
mas window display, but none have
pleased her more than that of a
stranger who stepped into her store
the other day and said: II am a
window dresser by profession in a
northern city, and l know a TASTY
display when | see it. Your Christ
mas window is art site in conception
and beautiful in txecution." The
man was right.
jules Murry has made many an
attraction more attractive by his
lavish expenditures upon cast.
scenery and general accessories. In
his new College .irl rloy, "Cunid at
Nassar,h it would Seem as i! ne had
outdistanced all former attempts at
all points. His cast is perfect, the
college girls are very pretty and all
are good singers, his scenery is bean
tiful and the mechanical effects are
among the finest taken on tour.
Florence Gear is starred in the play.
which will be seen here at the How
ell Theatre Dec. 3lst.
S. j. Hilburn, the noted attornav
of PaIatka, is among the prominent
men who are now in the city attend
ing the Methodist conference. Mr.,
Hilburn is one of the foremost attor-
neys and was for long time the law
partner OF Colonel Robert w. Davis
during the time that Colonel Davis
was practicing in Palatka. There is
no more popular man in the state
than this able attorney and he has
many friends in Tampa who are al
ways eager to welcome him. Tampa
Tribune. Z"