The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-08-09
Crescent City temperature for the week end
ing August end, 1907:
g Personal and Social. .

G. L. Chamberlin and f. M. Paw
son visited Palatka on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall have move,
to the Long fiat on West Contra
avenue.
Mrs. J. L. Burton, now visiting a
Palmetto, has greatly improved il
health since going there.
Will Newman has recovered from
a serious attack of malarial fever anC
is again at his place of business.
Ed. NewsOm states that he is coins
to his grove on the east side of the
lake this week, and that he will
build up the place.
Mrs. j. F. Rhoads and the Burton
children left last week for the Sum
mer Havan beach where they will
enjoy an outing of several weeks.
Mrs. M. H. White and her com.
panion, Miss Dunn, have gone to Pa
latka, where they will remain some
time the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Luther B. Curtiss.
Mrs. G. L. Chamberlin and three
little daughters left on Monday for
Palatka and Sutherland, at which
latter place they will spend several
weeks on a visit to Mrs. Chamber
Inns brother, Mr.. f. B. Gautier.
Mrs. Chas Cook of Wisconsin ar
rived here on Saturday to be with
her daughter, Mrs. w. M. Miller,
who has been quite i'll with sciatc
rheumatism. Mrs. Miller is reported
as improving steadily,
Mr.. Kinards new building at the
corner of Central avenue and Market
street is nearly ready for occupancy.
1t is stated that he will engage in
the grocery and bakery business,
carrying q complete and first-class
line of goods.
The steamer Crescent returned to
its regular run on Monday, leaving
here at her regular hour that morn
ing and carrying out big load of
pals and tanks from the Preston
Miller Company. The Crescent has
been off her run two weeks, during
which time she was thoroughly
overhauled and put in shape for the
years business. The steamer has
also been newly painted. 1t was
pretty sight to Crescent City people
who gathered at the wharf Monday
morning. Nothing so disturbs the
town, or can be more generally miss
ed than the Crescent, and the people
feel better now that she is back.
l.. A. Hurlbut has cut some 30 or
more boxes Of grapefruit from his
trees in order that the fruit left on
may develop into larger sizes. Much
of his grapefruit is of the smaller
sizes, but experiments made by him
last season proved that by culling
the fruit when it bore heavily, that
left on the trees would develop into
sizes of 81 to the box or under, and
he would realize much more money
for his fruit Some who saw the
fruit laying under Mr.. Hurlbut's
trees told the News that Mr.. Hurl-
butts fruit was "dropping" badly.
The dropping is thus accounted for.
Oliver aud Harry Chamberlin have
purchased 10 acres of pine wood land
in the Grovesdale suburb and are en-
gagged in clearing the land. They
are cutting up the wood in stove
lengths and will sell the wood in
town. This fall they will set out 500
peach trees and raise peach orch
ard. The boys are going to make
some money on the deal. 1t is fine
peach land, and there is always de-
mand for the wood. They bought
the land of L. Eaton.
Crescent City has its joker, as will
be seen from the following letter to
the Times-Union, which appeared |
among the short talks" on the edi-
torial page of that paper last Sunday:
editor Times Union-Read with |
much interest about Cromwell Glib
bons' spaghetti farm. But we have
a man here who when shad are run
Mug crosses them with the jelly fish
and he serves his customers with
shad. Out of shad season he
has n piece of low lands on which he
raises milkweed, buds the straw
berry into it, and the result Is the
finest strawberries and cream you
ever tasted. The resources OF FIorl-
da are endless
A merchant once told the writer
that it was worth So to him every
time he saw his name in print. If
the above item does nothing but call
the attention of the outside world
to the place it will have great value
to the town. Crescent CITY needs
and needs it bad. We
have the best orange growing sec
ton of the state and one of the
cleanest, prettiest, heaIthie3t towns
in Florida. Advertising brings peo-
pie. People are looking for milk
weed farms, or anything else that
win pay. If we can't suit them in
perhaps we can fit 'em
with an orange grove, or potato Or
or squash farm. A newsy
letter to the Times Union from this
Mace once or twice II moath-a let
ter that would tell of the towns re-
"a. k,uty oF eitnotion wOuld /