The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-03-10
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City Happenings and
Personal Mention.


week in Pensacola on business.
Frank Hepburn of Jacksonville was a
business visitor in the city this week.
Mrs. Carson of Lake Como is spend
ing few days with Mrs M. E. Erwin.
The recent Catholic fair netted $101..
81, and D. ]. Coughlin drew the amath-
ySt rosary.
Hon. w. B. Sadler, state bank ex.
aminer, spent couple days in the city
this week.
Miss Myrtle Holden has returned from
an extended visit in Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Tennessee.
Rev. DR.. w. H. Dodge of Ocala will
occupy the pulpit of the Presbyterian
church next Sunday, morning and even
ing.
ST. Marks Guild will have cake sale
at the store of the Alderman Stewart
Co. Saturday March 18th, beginning at
10 a. M.
Miss RoSalie Metcalf entertained the
S. S. Bridge club last week in most
delightful manner, Miss Marie Merryday
received the top score.
There will be no meeting of the
WomanS Club this week, but on Friday,
March 18th, the club will meet at the
home of Mrs. M. S. Brown.
The Lenten services al ST. Marks
Episcopal church include daily prayer at
3 a. M; evenSong at p. m, and organ
recital at 4 p. m. on Thursdays.
Prof. Theodore Culp, principal of the
St. Augustine high school, passed
through the city last Sunday, en- route
from DeLand to St. Augustine.
The Woman'S Auxiliary of St. Marks
church will give silver tea at the home
of Mrs. H. A. Davis, March 17th. The
public is cordially invited TO attend.
The supper for the benefit of the
Baptist church will be given on Thurs
day, March 10th, from 5 TO 8 p. m. in
the Shelley building on Lemon street.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Eldridge and
granddaught Miss Ruth Emery of
kennebunkport, Me-, are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. A. F. Reed on Emmett street.
Mrs. Harry Holcomb and little daugh-
ter, Rebecca, who have been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Holcomb, have re-
turned to their home, Yates Center,
Kansas
Mr.. and Mrs. F. ]. Fearnside, Miss
Gene FearnSide and her guest Miss
Elliott, and Mr.. Frank Fearnside spent
Tuesday in ST. Augustine, going over
and returning in Mr.. FearnSide'S big
Rambler touring car.
Hon. S. ]. Hilburn of Paatka has pre-
Sented Sutherland College with eighty
acres of land. He says il is rather ex-
pentive to be the brother of the preSi.
dent of the Sutherland college Gaines.
] vile Sun.
w. T. Francis and old Federal soldier
II from Charlottesville, Ind, has been in
the city this week. Mr.. Francis has Sc.
cured small farm south of the city and
expects to move here with his family
next fall.
Mrs. |. A. Boughton, who with her at
\ tractive grand daughter, Miss Grace
Hall, has been stopping several weeks al
the Saratoga Hotel, left for her home
Bridgeport-on-the-St. Johns, Wednesday
afternoon.
l.. w. Gunby one of the great hard
ware merchants of the country, and his
daughters, the Misses Ruth and Louise
Gunby, of Salisbury, Md, are spending
a few weeks in the city and have rooms
at the Putnam House.
Mrs. M. S. Brown, past grand chief Of
the order of Pythian Sisters of Florida,
made the responsive address on behalf
of that order at the grand lodge of the
Knights of Pythias in Gainesville on
Wednesday.
Capt and Mrs. ]. D. Lane and their
little daughter will leave TO day for Tate
Springs, Tenn, where Capt. Lane has
been advised TO recuperate for time
and get the benefit of the healing waters
OF that famous spring.
Mr.. and Mrs JOS E. Falk of Wash
ington, D. c., spent several days in the
city this week guests at the Saratoga
Hotel. Mr.. Falk, who is a prosperous
business man in Washington, formerly
resided in Palatka, and is a son of the
late Louis Falk.
Miss Rosa Coke has returned from an
extended visit with her sister, Mrs. A.
E. AdamSon, in Jacksonville. The
Times Union, speaking of the visit of
Miss Coke, states that she has many
friends in Jacksonville who entertain
her charmingly on the occasion OF her
frequent visits TO that city.
There were 610 admission tickets sold
to the Orpheum theater last Saturday
night and many were unable to get even
standing room. Tonight the colored
moving pictures will depict real grand
opera-Il Trovatore. with special music
accompanying. The Cooke Comedy
Co. is booked for the Orpheum all next
week.
ST. Johns Lodge, X. of P, of this city
is being represented this week at the
great grand lodge of the order in Gaines
vile by DR.. J. w. Darsy, H. E. Merry
day and ]. n. Walton. These delegates
left Tuesday evening with Hon. S. J.
IIilburn, the new grand chancellor, in
his automobile. Other PythianS of this
city are also visiting the grand lodge.
W. n. Coffee has just placed new
10 horse power Otto gasoline engine in
his cabinet shop which runs as smoothly
: as light running domestic sewing ma
chine. Mr.. Coffee purchased the Otto
of H. NJ. de Montmollin because OF
need for increased business, and this
engine replaces an old Otto of less horse
power which has been run satisfactorily
for IS years.
J NJ. V. Willard of Interltchen was in
; the city over Sunday night and until
noon on Monday and the News was
favored with a call from this progressive
farmer. Mr.. Willard has hundred acres
fronting Mariners Lake, about a mile
and a quarter from lnterlachen, a large
part being set out to pecan, peach,
plum and pear trees. He also raises
other small fruits, vegetables and de-
votes many acres TO the growing of vel.