The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-12-30
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City Happenings and
Personal mention.

oPSh' Shiiothiao Ni'i iSiauNCo uSiS.
Thos. Bingham of Waycross, Ga,
spent Xmas here with relatives.
w. NJ. Williams of Welaka was in the
city for short time on Wednesday.
Johnnie Deal of Oak Hill, was visi
tor in the city Xmas day.
Miss Bryant of Hawthorne is the guest
OF her sister, Mrs. ]. H. Harrison.
L. w. Fennel of Melrose was among
the popular visitors in the city last Sat
urday.
Mr.. Mcleod of Welaka has been
spending some days in the city this
week.
Mrs. NJ. S. Brown and daughter, Miss
Rena Brown, spent yesterday in Jack
Sonville.
Patton Anderson Chapter U. D. C.
will meet with Mrs. NJ. |. Coke Thurs
day Jan. 9Th.
Dewitt T. Gray, of Jacksonville is
spending few days with his mother,
Mrs. II. A. Gray.
Mrs. Geo. E. Gay spent Monday and
Tuesday at Pomona, the guest of Mrs.
c. H. Worcester.
Robert Harrison of Atlanta, Ga, is
spending a few days in the city, guest
of his brother, Jake Harrison.
Messrs. Julian DUPONT and Chas. Bur
riSS of ST. Augustine, were visitors in the
city several hours Xmas night
| 81 Eo-.o.I...a
Palatka resident, spent Xmas in the
city visiting relatives and friends.
Miss Bowman, principal of the Cres-
cent City high school, has been the
guest this week of Mrs. Ola A. Holmes.
The Alderman Stewart Co. is mailing
a very beautiful calendar to their lady
customers. Those who get it will keep
| il.
Miss Mervin Ray who is attending
young ladies college at Staunton, Va, is
the holiday guest of Miss Dorothy
Ilaughton.
J. H. Haughton OF the city drug store
has been guilty of sending TO the ladies
of Palatka one of the prettieSt calendars
ever issued.
Mabel Paige and her popular company
were greeted with large audiences at
the Howell Theater last Monday and
Tuesday nights.
Sheriff Kennerly went to MelroSe on
Tuesday TO arrest a negro named Jeff |
Allen, wanted for assault with intent to
murder. He got him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert f. Troy of
Montgomery, Ala, were the Christmas
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. TRAY on
north Third street.
County Superintendent Tucker is
spending the week in Pensacola in at |
tendance upon the sessions of the State |
Educational Association.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. P. Cooper OF lack
sonville and Mrs Markham of Tallahas-
see spent Christmas week with their |
parents, DR.. and Mrs. E. S. Grill.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. R. Brakeman are en-
tertaining Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Chaffee |
of Great Falls, Mont. They are old |
neighborS and had not met for rs years. |
]. F. Ganas, one of Putnam county's
turpentine magnates, was business
visitor in the city this week. Mr. |
Ganas now makes his headquarters at
Huntington.
The Selden Cypress Door Co. has is
sued very beautiful picture calendar,
the picture being a copy of w. Yer |
planck Birney'S painting entitled Look
ing for the WILL"
F. S. Williams was the lucky winner
of the So, prize money at the clock I'M
yelling in M. S. BIown'S clothing store
last Tuesday night. The usual large
crowd was present
The Woman's Home Missionary So.
Ciety of ST. James NJ f. church will
hold its regular monthly meeting at the
home of Mrs. ]. N. Walton on Monday
afternoon at $50 o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. E. NJ. Earnest went to
Jacksonville yesterday in their Rambler
touring car, having as guests Mrs l.. A.
Smith and Miss KupperbuSch. The party
expect 10 return this afternoon.
Mrs. M. Frank and daughter, Miss
tloSSic, spent a day here last week as
the guest OF her sister, Mrs. NJ. S.
Brown. They were on their way to
'iASii hoIhS III cdhlOId HUH all GNlCnuHu
visit in New York.
The Davis Cypress Tank factory has
been sending as a Christmas greeting to
its customers beautiful reproduction OF
a water color view of a cypress swamp.
The editor of the News is almost per
Suaded TO buy tank.
Mr.. Henry S. Bull one of the promi.
nent men of Florahome died last Tues.
day evening. He was aged IS years. l
one mon h and p days. His body was |
brought 10 this city on Thursday and
shipped by F. A. Gerber & Son TO Elk
horn, Wis. .
An amusing error crept into the Pa
latka News recently, for the sheriff of
Putnam county needed a dozen cots for
the Jail and the printer CHANGED TO gel
an =" substituted for the 90" The re-
suit was that tabbieS and Toms, Maltese
and tortoiSe-shellS and nondscripts were
offered 10 the bewildered official sinplv
and in groupe. The News made ample
explanation and apology last week, but
the story had already gotten around and /
many OF the state newspapers were
specializing upon the strange call.-IE
Times Union.
The Streets of Sopchoppy are Brill
lantly Lighted, says the Argus, and to
three Gasoline Sun Lights are given the
credit Tor this condition which causes
TO resemble ''the great white
way of New York city. Bully for
Sopchoppy.-Exchange. The local
man is John T. Bond. He is
placing these lights in all parts of the
county and they are giving immense
1t may do John good TO
know of their use in .Sopchoppy; and
hats the reason the News is telling
him.