The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-08-05
The Palatka News
and Advertiser.
City Happenings and
Personal mention.


The county officials will move into
the new court house next Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John yam Pearse of ST.
Johns Park were visitors in Palatka We'd
neSday.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ. H. Martin and little
son returned last Sunday from visit in
Georgia.
Mrs. Boyd and her daughter, Mrs.
Bass, are spending some time at White
Springs, Fla.
D. w. Ramsaur has returned from a
business trip to Memphis. Tenn, and
New Orleans.
Mrs Louis Kalbfield, who has been
visiting in Indiana for the past two
months, is expected home tomorrow.
Hon. Henry S. Chubb, register of the
United States land office at Gainesville,
was guest at the Saratoga Hotel yester-
day.
Mrs Devereux and her daughter, Miss
PanSy Devcreux, are spending the sum-
mer in the mountains OF North Georgia
and North Carolina.
Mrs w. D. Benham, Miss Tillinghast
and K. NJ. White of Crescent City were
visitors in the city on Wednesday and
guests at the Saratoga.
]. n. Walton and family will leave this
morning for their summer cottage at
Summer Haven beach to spend the bal
ance of the heated term.
Tom Russell of Crescent City has
gone into the automobile livery business
in this city and will appreciate the pa
tronage OF his friends.
The Saratoga swimming pool is attrac
ting the people on these warm days. II
is a great attraction to the commercial
men who make headquarters at that
popular hotel.
Mayor Davis attended the celebration
of the Jacksonville to Atlantic boule-
ward opening in Jacksonville last week,
driving through the country in his
Buick car
The Palatka correspondent of the
Jacksonville Metropolis refers repeatedly
10 the "DeSoto Hotel" and many are
wondering where that hoStelry is To-
Gated.
F. r. LeBarron is going to build a
commodious dwelling house on the
vacant lot at the corner OF Water and
Madison streets, facing the river and
next to the old Teasdale home.
Norman Rifles, long popular clerk at
| J. H. Haughton'S drug store, is arranging
10 go into business for himself at Lees
burg by the first OF the coming month.
He is built OF the stuff that succeeds.
lake Harrison the wcll-known moul-
der was the winner of the So prize at the
clock stopping contest at M. S. Browns
clothing store last Tuesday night, at
which there was large crowd of ticket
holders.
Chairman Stephens of the board of
county commissioners is getting better.
Instead of typhoid, he had bilious fever
and malaria. 1t is thought that he will
be out in few days.
Mrs. Ola A. Holmes and Miss Imogen
FearnSide left Wednesday morning for
Salisbury, Md, where they will join a
house party given by Miss Laura Elliott.
Miss Mable BaSSett expects TO join the
same party lew days later.
r. S. Thompson of the Oklawaha
river line was summoned TO Boston on
Sunday owing to the death in that city
of his aunt, Miss West, lady who has
formerly visited in Palatka. Mr.. Thomp-
son will probably be absent the balance
of this month.
Last Sunday evening Judge NJ. |.
in
CheSscr and Mr.. Andrew J. Wade at the
residence, corner of Third and Reid
streets. The parties to this ceremony
are estimable young people who have
resided in the city but short time.
Rowton's bicycle contest closed on
July 10th, but up to the present time no
one has presented the winning ticket,
No. 1881, and claimed the prize. If this
ticket is not presented by August 18th
there will be another drawing. Look
over your tickets.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Newton are re-
ioiced over the arrival of little boy in
their home last Tuesday night, and
there is a sweet little girl in the same
home who is also feeling pretty we'll
herself over the arrival of this little
brother.
County Treasurer ]. E. EdmonSon left
on Tuesday for Saluda, n. c., where he
will spend the balance of the month in
an effort TO do away with that lonesome
feeling which has been upon him ever
since Mrs. EdmonSon and the children
left for the same place several weeks
ago.
The St. Johns county commissioners
have removed all obstacles TO the con
struCtion of hard surface road from ST.
Augustine TO Hastings and the Putnam
county line, and have $50, 600 available
for the work which will be pushed i'm
mediately. With the road this county
is building from Palatka TO Hastings it is
now assured that Palatka and ST. Angus
tine will be connected by a good hard
road by the coming winter.
During the coming six weeks, begin
ming next Sunday, the pulpit of the Pres
byterian church will be occupied by
Rev. w. G. Foster, formerly pastor of
the Palatka Baptist tabernacle. During
this time the pulpit committee will place
a pastor before the congregation TO be
heard with a view TO call. The rcgu-
lar services will be at II a. m. and 1880
p. M, with Sunday school at 4 p m,
The city council, having in mind the
possibility of an exhibition of the pic
tured display of the late Johnson JeffrieS
fight, has passed an ordinance ito pro-
hibit prize fighting, or the illustration
OF same by stcreoptican or moving pic
lures" By this token it is safe TO say
that the recent moving picture display OF
a glove contest in one of our local the
aters, was the last of its kind the good
people of Palatka will see.
H. Finley Tucker & Bro, whose gen
eral insurance business has grown to
such proportions that more than three
monlhS ago they had TO tear the paper
Ilf the walls in order to secure room in
| =, hicb tn do business in their nffice On-