The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-04-12
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E. Thos. Clarke spent Sunday al
home.
Miss Jessie Burton visited Palatks
last Monday.
Henry Hutchinson ST., is at home
again for few days.
Mrs. W. j. Norton is visiting hel
grandson in Jacksonville.
Mrs. E. V. Lundburg is quite i'll
with very severe attack of grip.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Wells of Little
Genesse, N. Y, left last Monday.
Mitchell Newbold and Sim Allen
were visitors to Palatka this week.
Jas. Malcolm and daughter, Miss
Sadie are off again for their Long Is
land home. =
Collins B. Hubbard arrived last
week for brief stay at his lovely
winter home, Lisnaro.
Miss Melissa Higganbotham has
bought the old Willis place and is
having it prepared for immediate oc-
cupancy.
Jno. Marshall and party left Mon
day afternoon. While this is their
first visit to Crescent City, we hope
it will not be the last.
Mrs. Southwick with her niece,
Miss NJ. L. Spencer, and her nephew
Joseph Baker of East Fishville, N.
Y. has returned to their home.
Those of our town who were brave
enough to get to st. Augustine dur
ing the Ponce de Leon celebration
report an enjoyable time, but num-
Der were detained on account of the
April Fool storm.
VIM. M. Miller has closeG out the
Miller grocery stock and is at pres
ent located in the lower part of the
Benham fiat. Mr.. Miller handles
grain, hay, fertilizer, orange box
material, etc, as well as acting agent
for the Beach & Miller Line.
William Saunders has purchased
two lots of the Howe estate. He
will erect a Palmetto Hut there
which will be an artistic addition to
the number of attractive residences
both in and around Crescent City.
The sudden rain and wind storm
last week gave the trees and gardens
good wetting and did little harm.
However the large umbrella tree in
Mrs. Phillips house grove was blown
down and limbs torn off several
other trees.
Mr.. and Mrs William Hutchinson
who have been visiting in Crescent
City left last Saturday for their
home in Edgewood, r.. |. These are
one time residents to whom it seems
like leaving home to leave Crescent
City.
Miss Maggie Bard has her eye on
one of the prettiest lots in Crescent
Hill, the Howe estate. Miss Bard is
we'll and favorably known in Ores
cent City where she has taught two
terms in the Public schools, and will
be gladly welcomed here.
II is rumored that the Grimsley
home grove has been sold and that
Mrs. Grimsley and children will
soon move to Georgia. We shall be
sorry to lose this family from among
US but hope they will prosper IN
their new home.
MANY of our northern friends have
returned to their homes just in time
for the cold snap. However Ores
cent City is not yet deserted as a
large number prefer spending the
spring in Florida to running the FISK
of belated winter billiards. or I'M
pleasant spring storms.
The Courtship of Mother Goose
given by the Junior Christian En-
deavor society last Friday evening
was very entertaining, social as
well as financial success. Something {
like forty dollars was cleared, part
of which goes for the christian edu-
cation of the Chinese.
Lounds drug store has received a
fine lot of Crescent City souvenir
postals, some six or seven thousand.
There are several new views among
the lot that are exceptionally good.
ANY one sending twenty-five cents s
to the Lounds drug store will receive
a dozen assorted views postpaid.
Chas. Hutchinson and wife are |
visiting their parents this week.
Charlie is u Crescent City boy who
has improved his opportunities ana
become an influential man in the
Cuban fruit business. He has hosts i
of friends in Crescent City who al
ways enjoy his brief visits home. d
Albert Lounds did not go to At ;
lanta this week as reported but Will
leave on the fifteenth. Albert has \
spent most of his life in Crescent :
CITY where every one knows and
Iikes him and his many friends wish
him success in the coming examina- C
ton and that he may become sue |
cessful chemist.
Tho ,snhoto artist who has been