The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-09-16
crescent City News

| 'Nsh iioll rioIlua 10 lSleSboro, Maine,
IN an automobile, are not going TO return
III me same manner, but will come back
ike ordinary Christian people, in par
ior car, or on a firstclaSS passenger
steamer They expect to reach home
carly in October. They have left Isles
Doro and Maine, and are now doing
Boston and other points of interest in
the effete east.
Mr. and Mrs. o. Pierre Ravens of
Jacksonville have announced the mar
rage OF their niece, Miss Florence Ethel
Lee 10 DIR. Sidney Atkinson, on Tues
day, Sept. 9th, at Jacksonville. The
bride will be pleasantly remembered as
the grand, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. R.
{. Ivory who spent several winters with
them in Crescent City, and who was
prominent socially. DR.. Atkinson is TO
be congratulated on winning such a
lovely bride.
NJ II. Reads real estate agency has
sold TO F. S. Cone all of block 90.
This is the block next south of the De-
Veau residence 1t is understood that it
is MIR. Cones purpose to cut this block
up into small lots, as he has the two
other blocks purchased within the year,
and sell TO home builders. The lots
in block 90 are most desirable for resi-
dcnce purposes, as they are on high
ground, commanding a magnificent view
of Lake Crescent, only a few hundred
yards away.
J. c. Chase, Of Chase & Co., has just
returned 10 Florida from a combined
business and pleasure trip in the north.
He reports that his company is lined up
in fine shape throughout the U. S. and
Canada TO take care of its output of
Florida citrus fruits at top market values.
Chase & Co.'S brands are now establish
ed in all markets and they have the pat
ronage OF very many OF the best purchas-
ing jobberS everywhere. In fact many
OF the largest jobberS in the country
purchase all their Florida fruit from this
firm.
The pretty little brick Catholic church
OF ST. John The Baptist was appropriate
ly dedicated TO the worship of Almighty
God at O'Clock last Monday morning,
Mass being celebrated by Rev. DR.. M.
P. Foley, rector OF the Cathedral at St.
Augustine, assisted by Rev. Father Bar
ry of Palatka The attendance was large,
nonC Catholics vicing with the Catholics
in feeling of pleasure that worShipperS
of that faith in Crescent City and vicinity
will henceforth have such a cosy place
of worship. The church is in the south
crn part of the place, on lot donated
for the purpose by Hon. James R. Howe
of Brooklyn, and is surrounded by pretty
pines, while just back is the pretty lake
Stella. The cdifice is of brick and of
pleasing architecture, to build which the
good people of the Catholic faith have
made noble sacrifice. The finishing
stroke of work was done last Saturday,
when Mr.. D. Dawes made the steps and
inserted the corner tablet.
Mrs. Edwin Gilbert of Georgetown,
Conn, has sent her personal check TO
Mrs. C. H. Cash for 500 with instruc-
tons to turn the same over to the Music,
ian Club to apply to the purchase price
of the piano recently purchased by the
club for the use of the school, the bible
conference and other public gatherings
in the Auditorium. This check, togeth-
or with a smaller one advanced by Mrs.
Dwight Bcnham, was sent forward on
Monday, and except for the little amount
due Mrs. Bcnham for her advance and
which the club has in sight, the piano is
now paid for. To say that the generoSi-
ty of Mrs. Gilbert is appreciated by the
people of Crescent City, would be put,
ting il too mildly. The benefactions OF
this good lady and her late husband,
Hon. Edwin Gilbert, have been very
numerous TO Crescent City, and as long
as the present and Immediately succeed
ing generation is on earth their names
will be revercd. 1t is the purpose of the
Musician Club to now donate the piano
to the city with the understanding thai
il is TO be kept for the use of the public
school, the bible conference and fol
other public gatherings thought suitable
for the Auditorium.