The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-10-21
The'Palatka News
and Advertiser.
City Happenings and
Personal Mention.

San Mateo growers made shipments
OF grapefruit last week.
Miss Sarah Mabrey has returned from
an extended visit with relatives in Ala
bama.
There was plenty of air percolating
through the air dome Monday and Tues
day nights.
Becks & Wells will move into splen-
did offices, being prepared for them in
the Canova building, by the first of the
month.
Mrs. NJ. E. Erwin and her mother,
Mrs. Waldron, are expected home to-
day from an extended stay in the Ashe-
vile, n. c. district.
State Superintendent Holloway and
Capt. Lynch OF Gainesville visited the
Palatka High School this week and re-.
port the school in A 1. condition.
| J. Y. Walton was over at St. Angus.
tine yesterday defending a man charged
by c. NJ. Brown of Federal Point, with
illegally marking and branding cattle.
AS a result of the circuit court last
/ WIN SOuutS has
prisoners to the state prison, 5 to the
county camps and to the reform school.
The steamer City of Jacksonville was
detained several hours at the Fla. f. c.
bridge Wednesday through inability 10
open the draw because of hyacinths.
Trains were also delayed.
Hastings once in while does some.
thing in cabbage line. On Friday OF last
week $4,000 plants, small part of the
surplus from the seed beds put out by
the J. H. Bahrenburg Bros. & Co. were
shipped from here.-Hastings News.
John Hall charged with rape and who
was being held by Sheriff Kennerly.
was granted a conditional pardon from a
term in the state prison for the same
offense in 1907. Gov. Gilchrist has
ordered Sheriff Kennerly to return Hall
to the penitentiary.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. S. Brown and daugh-
ter, who have been spending some
weeks in Baltimore and New York, are
expected home today. They started
| from New York by steamer and in am
pie time to catch the full force of the
storm.
S. C. Warner whose splendid orange
grove property is on the east side OF the
river has already began shipping some OF
his early variety oranges, such as the
Boons Early and Parson Brown, to-
gether with some grapefruit. Mr. War
ner will have a crop of nearly 10000
boxes this winter.
The steamer Crescent which has been
undergoing extensive repairs at the ship.
yard of the Merrill Stephens Co. in lack
Sonville, resumed its run last Saturday.
The steamer Cliveden OF Savannah, will
be the companion of the Crescent, max
ing trips on alternate days during the
heavy orange shipping season.
Look over the list OF qualified voters
published in this paper. II your name
is not there, and you think it should be
all you have 10 do is to show Mr.. Peter
mann that you are wrongfully excluded
and he'll make good. But you'll have
to have the documents to show.
William D. Upshaw of Atlanta, editor
of the Golden Age, and best known as
the Georgia Cyclone, will address the
people of Palatka in favor OF the state
wide prohibition amendment on Friday
night of next week, the 18th inst. 1t
has been said of Mr.. Upshaw's addresses
that no one ever goes TO sleep in his
audiences.
Miss Katie Weller OF ST. Petersburg
arrived in the city last Saturday and is
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Ella Y.
GroomS. Miss Weller has been north
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relatives Bishop and Mrs. R. H. Weller,
of the Wisconsin Diocese, Episcopal
church, at Fon du Lac, Wis. and also
spending some time at Grand Rapids,
Michigan.
The News was in error last week in
stating that Mr.. |. r. Stelts, who was
indicted two years ago for selling liquor
in county where such sale is prohibit
ed, skipped his bond. That was not
true; Mr.. Stelts never waited to give
bond, he skipped when he heard of the
Indictment. The News is sorry TO have
done Mr.. Stelts an injustice, and is glad
TO set him right.
Rev. P. Q. CaSon and family late of
Appalachicola arrived in the city the
latter part of last week and are occupy
ing the house belonging TO Mrs. Muir
ply on Dodge street. Rev. Mr. Cason
is the new pastor of the Baptist church,
and his initial sermons last Sunday were
heard by large and well pleased congre-
cations. Mr.. CaSon is a young man,
energetic, and will do his full part in
building up the church. He was the
chaplain of the Florida House of Repre-.
scntativeS in the legislature OF 1907.
DR.. and Mrs. H. r. Estes and Miss
Clyde Estes returned Tuesday from a
visit TO their old homes in Arkansas and
Tennessee, bringing with them niece,
Miss Mamie Sue Estes of Humboldt,
Tenn, who will remain with them for
an extended visit. DR.. Estes says he
had magnificent visit with old friends,
particularly at Humboldt, where he was
born and lived until young manhood
He says the old home where he was
born stands just as it did 81 years ago,
and is still in the family. being the