The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-09-09
The Palatka News
and Advertiser.
City happenings and
Personal Mention.
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Orpheum habit lately.
Mrs. VIM. Turnage left on WedneS-
day for an extended visit in Chicago
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Rowton leave to-
day for an extended visit in New York
Mrs. Daisy Pickren and children are
visiting Mrs. Ida Rocker in Jacksonville.
Mrs. E. E. Dodge has returned from
an extended visit with relatives in Bos-
ton, Mass
Mr., and Mrs. H. F. Lecks have re-
turned from a visit TO their old home in
saginaw, Mich
F. E. Reeder the well-known Welaka
druggist was business visitor in the
city yesterday.
Mr., and Mrs. R. ]. Hancock returned
on Sunday from stay of several weeks
at Pablo Beach.
Mrs. J. II. Haughton and Miss Dorothy
| Haughton returned Tuesday from an ex-
tended visit in Fredonia. N. Y.
| Miss Mabel Holcomb returned home
on Monday from two weeks visit with
| Miss Lcda Houston at Mikcsville.
Judge f. E. Haskell and Mr.. H. H.
Kent left last Friday for their annual
outing at Center Conway, N. H.
Elmer Collins has gone to Charleston,
5. c., 10 take charge of an engine
for Guild & Co., the contractors.
Mrs. Ed Crutchfield and children of
st. Augustine, are visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Phillips.
Carlos Canova, who has been serious.
ly ill with typhoid fever, is now said to
be making steady recovery.
Miss Annie Reed, who has been visit
| ing in Canada for the past several
! months, returned home last Saturday.
]. A. Robertson and son, Jerry, among
the prominent people of the MelroSe
section, were visitors in the city yeSter-
day.
Edward North has gone into the mer-
camille business at Rice Creek, and is
very much encouraged with his new
| venture.
|. D. Sims, one OF the new settlers at
the growing ST. Johns Park colony on
Lake Crescent, was business visitor in
Palatka Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. ]. Fearnside and Mr..
Frank Fcarnside left last Saturday for
New York and the White Mountains for
an absence OF over month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Burt and children
of Savannah, are visiting their old home
on the Heights. Mr.. Burt's many friends
are all pleased to see him.
B. f. Tillinghast and Chas. CurtiSs of
Crescent City were among the promi-
ncnt visitors from the little orange grow
ing city in Palatka on Wednesday.
C. C. Slade an old and we'll known
resident of the peninsula end of the
county now residing at Crescent City,
was visitor in Palatka on Wednesday.
Hastings needed another saloon to
emphasize its prosperity, and the St.
| Johns county commissioners at meet
ing on Tuesday authorized its establish
ment.
The long warehouse of the A., C. L.
on the river front and which collapsed
last Friday, will be rebuilt. The stored
merchandise has been taken out with
little loss.
+. ]. FearnSde, who is now in New
Yoall, sends word to the store that he is
buying the largest and finest stock of
fall goods ever shipped to this section OF
the state.
|. L. Ellwood of DeKalb, ILL.,, who for
many years has maintained fine winter
home in Palatka, is said TO be very low
with paralysis. Mrs. Ellwood died only
few weeks ago.
Mrs. H. A. Ford and the children
were in the city over Tuesday and We'd
neSday, guests of Mrs. H. A. Gray. Mrs.
Ford was on her way home from an ex-
tended visit in Boston.
DR.. and Mrs. H. r. Estes and Miss
Clyde Estes left on Wednesday evening
for Scarey, Arkansas. They will also
visit some at points in Tennessee and
expect to be absent some five or six
weeks.
The one thing that stands in the way
of PaatkaS becoming great cigar
manufacturing center, is the lack of
buildings in which to house the facto-
rieS-and house them NOW. The OPP
portunity will have passed next week.
Attorney Henry Strunz who spent last
week in attendance upon the meetings
of the American Bar Association in
Chattanooga, went from there TO Cincin-
natl, thence TO his old home in Connec-
ticut where he will take vacation be-
fore returning 10 Palatka.
Hon. and Mrs. Mcqueen Charles OF
Old Town, Lafayette Co. arrived in the |
city this week, and are guests of Mr.. |
and Mrs. X. +. Ensey. Mr.. Charles,
who is a member of the Legislature |
from Lafayette county, has returned
home.
The Havana cigar factory of Corral,
WodiSka & Co., which but recently
moved here from Tampa, is now work
ing over 90 hands and getting daily ad-
ditionS to its force. The men all seem
pleased with Palatka as a place of resi-
dence.
w. D. Judy who has been quite ill at
his home on Dodge street for the past
two weeks, has improved very much
anu W 40 AMY W OF UP Oll w CunIo-
day. His many friends will be pleased
TO hear OF this and trust that his com
plete recovery may be speedy.
The Palatka high and graded school
will open for the fall term on Monday,
the 10th inst, under Principal Stephens.
And in the interests of the kids" and
teachers alike, the News trusts that there
may be change for the better in the
weather before that much dreaded day.
There was a brilliant wedding cere-
mony at the residence OF Mrs. f. NJ.
Dorr at Federal Point, Wednesday after
noon, the contracting parties being Miss
Julia Anne Hart, daughter of Mrs. Mary
Z. Evans, and Mr.. Randolph Emerson
Athcy. There was a number of rela-
ives and friends present, and many val
liable presents were received by the hap