The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-02-04
The Palatka News
and Advertiser.
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City Happenings and
Personal mention.

Aid. USina and P. ]. BeckS were bust
ness visitors to Hastings this week.
E. M. Anger of Georgetown was a
business visitor to the city on Tuesday.
A. G. North of Pontiac, Mich, is in
the city the guest of his sister, Mrs. F.
G. Cochrane.
Miss Nellie Pierce of Bellevue, Ohio,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. w. S. Brown
ing of Francis
w. M. Williams of Welaka was
shaking hands with his numerous friends
in the city Tuesday.
Miss Minnie Bulky has been confined
TO her home during the past week with
an attack of pleurisy.
The Ladies OF the Methodist church
will have cake and pie sale at Miss
Lucas store on Saturday.
Mcintosh Morrow one of the bright
young men of Crescent City, was a
visitor in the city Wednesday.
Capt Geo. U. Beach of Savannah,
Ga, writes the News that he expects to
attend the bridge opening celebration
on the I'D inst.
Jos. J., and Edgar McGrady, promi-
nent orange growers and farmers of the
Crescent City section were visitors in
the city yesterday.
Mrs. Henry Hutchinson, who has
been spending some two months in
Birmingham, Ala, on a visit to her
daughter, is expected home to-day.
Rev. r. D. Garland, the evangelist,
will arrive to morrow with Mrs. Gar
land, and will be the guest for two
weeks of Rev. and Mrs. w. c. Foster.
]. H. Green of Fruitland and Laban
Price of Melrose, faithful members of
the county school board, were in at
tendance on the meeting of the board
on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Finn jr. desire to
express through the News their deep
gratitude to all who assisted them dur
ing the sickness and after the death of
their little son.
A meeting of all persons interested in
the welfare of Palatka's new Hospital
will be held at the rooms of the board
of trade at o'clock, next Thursday af-
ternoon, the 10th inst.
Frank Fearnside. jr., is home from
his school duties at Gainesville, Ga,
owing TO illness and natural longing to
take a trip in his fathers big touring
car. He has had the trip and is feeling
better.
The season OF Lent begins with Ash
Wednesday, February 9th. On that day
there will be the following services at
ST. Marks church: Holy Communion
at a. m. Litany 3 a. M, and Evensong
at 1880 p. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Philip Cooper re-
turned from brief wedding trip last
Friday evening and are now in their new
home, "Edgewood," in Palatka Heights.
Mr.. Cooper can now be found daily in
his law office in the Snow building on
Front street.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Home Mission Society of the Methodist
church, will be held at the home of
Mrs. Ira Crutchfield, Monday afternoon,
Feb. 9TH, at three o'clock. This Is the
annual meeting and officers will be
elected for the year. All members are
earnestly requested to be present.
Policeman Livingston last week ar
rested negro named Vergie Fry,
wanted for robbing the five and ten
cent store, and for other small thefts
The negro pleaded guilty before Justice
Marshall and was sentenced TO six
months in the chain-gang. He is a pro-
feSSional thief and when his time Is out
he will be tried for other offenses.
There was great crowd at the I'm
yelling of the clock at M. S. Browns
clothing store at 7 o'clock Wednesday
evening, and as usual the interest in the
comparison of cards was intense. The
clock had stopped at 6-21-9. The result
of comparison of tickets showed Albert
Gross, young man OF this city held the
winning ticket at 6-21-8-but one Sec
ond from the actual stop-and he was
given the So award.
The North End Basket Ball team has
challenged the West End team for a
match game of basket ball TO be played
at the Palatka Athletic Association
rooms Friday, Feb. 18th. The challenge
has been accepted and the names of the
players of the two teams will be pub
liShed in next weeks paper. The adj
mission will be 25c and will be for the
benefit of the Athletic club who allow
the use of their rooms for all the town
teams for practice, without charge.
P. ]. Becks is still selling real estate.
His latest deals were the E. H. Padgett
place in Palatka Heights, the property OF
Samuel Corwiu of Newberg, N. Y, and
which was sold to John H. Smyth, an
employee at Selden's factory. Also the
two-Story Raabe house on Fourth, a lit
tie north of Madison street, to Mrs.
Martha Jeffords of this city-and lot
on upper Lemon street, owned by John
Dallow OF Welaka, TO ]. B. Finn.