The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-04-21
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Miss Helen Tillinghast was visitor tc
Palatka on Monday.
J. II, Babers spent Thursday anc
Friday OF last week in PaIatka.
Mrs. G. F. Sprague and her daughter
Mrs. Rudolph Kinard, spent couple o
days in Palatka this week.
The ladies of the Baptist church hat
very successful ice cream and fame,
goods sale for the benefit of the churct
last week.
The Easter service at the Episcopa
church was we'll attended and the little
church was beautifully decorated will
flowers.
The children of the Presbyterian
Sunday school and their little friends
held an Easter egg hunt in the south
Park Monday.
l.. A. Hurlbut has just finished ship
ping some 500 boxes of oranges known
as June bloom" and which he sold a
most satisfactory t. o. b. price.
Rev. D. Spencer, who is now the set
| tied pastor of the Baptist church at Sur
rency, Ga. has been here on a visit Thu
week. Mr.. Spencer is well pleased with
his new home and work.
Mrs. G. F. Sprague arrived home or
Saturday from Port Huron, Mich
where she has been living for the pas
year with an invalid sister. Mrs. SpraguC
left here early in May of last year.
w. F. Glynn has been making somt
heavy shipments of late variety orange;
during the past two weeks and is still a
it. He is shipping some high grade
fruit for which the market quotations
are most promising.
The new town council was organized
last Friday night, when Mr.. c. +. King
cashier of the bank of Crescent City
was elected president. The new coun
Gil will get down to business at the first
regular meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eaton Cliff closed their
home on Monday, when they left for
Pautucket, r. l.. After a few weeks
in that city, Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff and their
little daughter will go to Nova Scotia
for the summer. They will return 10
Crescent City early in the ial.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. P. Rowe and their at
tractive young daughter, who have occu
| pied the Horton house on Central ave.
nue. this winter, left for their home in
AuIeboro, Mass, on Friday last. All
Crescent City hopes this good family
will return 10 US another season.
The Presbyterian church was beauti
fully decorated with flowers and potted
plants for the Easter services, and Rev
E. P. Butler preached intensely inter
| esting and instructive sermons appropri
ate to the day both morning and even
ing. The music was also a pleasing
feature of the days services.
Crescent City's new charter bill was
presented in the House of Representa-
tives last Friday by Mr. Middleton and
was passed by unanimous consent, being
a purely local measure. 1t will now &C
to Senator Hilburn and after passage in
the senate will receive the governor
signature, when it will be law. The
old town will now proceed TO grow as il
never grew before.
The V. |. A. public library has just re
Gently received some Is new bookS-al
standard works of fiction by noted au
thors like Frances Little, Richard Hard
ing Davis and David Graham Phillips
the last named of whom wrote just one
hook too many. The Crescent City Ii
brary is opened only on Saturday alter
moons, when Miss Johnson and Mrs. l.
| A. Hurlbut are in attendance. Any clti
zen may obtain books on payment OF
cents per week. The library has beer
we'll patronized the past winter
In a communication to the tloridi
Christian Advocate, Rev. {. +. Black
burn, presiding elder OF the Miami dis
trict M. E. church south, thus refers Il
the Crescent City church:
Crescent City we found in love witt
the pastor and his family and all things
moving well. This charge has sent GU
many noble laymen and preachers
throughout the state, who have enriched
Methodism wherever they have gone
The East Coast churches have beer
much blessed by such families as inc
Gautier's, Aliens, LaBree'S Parrish S
and many others who hail Crescent City
Fruiiland and GroyeSdale as their paren
churches.
i Mrs. Cornclia Lyon and daughter
Miss Eva, were called to their De'roil
Mich home on Tuesday OF last weei
BY telegram announcing the DEAN o
Mrs, Mary Lyon Newhall, which &C
o,rred At her home in that city on Mon
day following brief Illness Inc 10,
lowing particulars concerning the dea'l
Of Mrs Newhall are from the Delroi
Journal of Tuesday the nth inst;
"Mrs. Mary Lyon Newhall, Wl,e ,h .
Eldridge Garry NewhalI, ana me'm mos
Of one of Detroit's oldest ana mos MOI
0 ., families died at the iamli'
[pas;dence' III Alger avenue, Monday
to eI a brief illness, Mrs, Newhal
, was the daughter Of the late Edw a.,
a lyon, one of the leading hotels il
e enrIT s6e,Toil and prominent 6p' i9ss
man of the city from 1917 until 100 90
when he retired. Mrs. Newhail wa wa