The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-05-20
q Personal and Social. a

Mrs. H. 9. Hubbard and children ex.
pect to leave In few days for theft
home in Detroit, Mich.
Thos. H. Stryker and his sister, Miss
Stryker, with Miss Washington, DIR.
Turner, and other members of the Stry.
ker household left on Saturday last for
their home in Rome, N. Y, stopping
over en- route for short stay in Wash.
ington, D. c.
Mrs. Shotwell, the aged mother of
Mr.. w. B. Shotwell, is very i'll, and ow-
ing to her advanced age great fears are
entertained for the outcome.
Mrs. Capt. John D. Pigue, who has
been very i'll with malarial fever for
some three weeks, is reported better.
Two of the children are also down with
fever.
Long & Norris have dissolved partner
ship, Mr.. Norris retiring. The business
will be conducted as formerly by James
w. Long. Frank Long has resumed
the meat business and has been making
regular trips with his wagon for the
past two weeks.
Mrs. Holly has moved into her new
home on South Main street.
V. J. Herlong is quite ill at his home
on Park street. Mr.. Herlong and family
only recently moved here from Atlanta
having purchased the Hawkins resi-
dence.
The young people of the place in.
dulged in an excursion last Friday night
on Lake Crescent. The excursion was
in charge of Capt. Will Miller and Tom
Russell. 1t was the regular weekly par
ty of the Young Peoples Club.
Miss Lula Mae Hunter who has been
spending the week with her aunt, Mrs.
Chas Babers at Leesburg, is expected
home to-day. Miss Hunter is one of the
social leaders among the young people
of the place and her absence was gener-
ally noted.
The shipment Of peaches from this
place will begin this week. Campbell
& Hunter who have an estimated crop of
something over, 1000 crates will proba-
bly, get many crates off this week as will
also w. S. Newbold and Thos. H. Stry-
ker, whose crops are not so large. The
dry weather has resulted in the fruit be-
ing small.
Rev. Father P. Barry rector of St.
Monicas Catholic church, Palatka, and
to whose parish the new Catholic church
and congregation Of this place will be
attached, was here on Monday with
Dan O'Driscoll the Palatka contractor,
when arrangements were made whereby
Mr.. O'Driscoll will Immediately pro-
coed to erect the new church edifice.
William Roberts, young son of Glenn.
Roberts and formerly residing at Hunt
ington, died last week in South Florida,
of consumption. He was young man
of great promise and his friends in this
section are greatly grieved to hear of his
untimely death.
Mrs. Mary Scott Miller shipped the
last of her Harris Late oranges on Mon
day. She made several shipments dur
ing the week before. The fruit was
slightly injured at the stem end by the
January cold, but was in the main good
and all heard from sold at fair prices.
The commencement exercises of the |
Crescent City high and graded school
will be held at the Auditorium on next |
Thursday evening, May Goth, at 7:3O.
These exercises, which will consist of |
farce comedy, readings, music, etc.,
should attract the general public. The
school year just closing has been most
successful, both in point OF attendance |
and general advancement, and all Ores |
cent City people are or should be proud
Of our most excellent school. Turn Out
10 these closing exercises and show
your interest.
Redmond B. Gautier, former Cres-
cent City boy and eldest son OF c. H.
Gautier. was one of four candidates for
in the legislature from
Dade county. Mr.. Gautier, who lives al
Miami, came out second in the first
primary and will enter alone in the
second primary, on June 9Th, with that
veteran politician John w. Watson, who
has served several terms in the lower
branch of the Legislature, having repre-
sented both OSceola and Dade counties,
AS he is looked upon as an out-and-ou'
man and Mr.. Gautier is the
the latter has good chance
of winning.
There is more building going on in
Crescent City at present than at any
other time in rs years and the steady
growth of the place during all that time
seems to have taken squirt that il con-
,inued will soon land 1t in a class 10
notice. AT present, beside
The fine bungalow home of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. A. Hurlbut now nearly COM
pleted, residences are being erected for
]. f. Lorick, R. o. Burton, Victor Smi-
ley, Mrs. Holly and S. E. Neal-theSe in
addition TO the already completed homes
of Capt. Geo. S. Crotty, F. S. Cone and
the more recently completed house
built by X. Borson for Mr.. c. T. King.
The Turner House is being enlarged by