The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-10-27
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City Happenings and
Personal mention.


Ii is said that Allie NJ Steen will
manage Frank Clark's campaign in Pa
latka and Putnam county.
Rev. DR.. ]. w. Purcell left Wednes-
day TO attend the fall meeting OF Suwan-
nee Presbytery at Mikesville.
MessrS. Leonard Mosby and John Deal,
prominent young men of Oak Hill, were
pleasant visitors in Palatka Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. Cooper and little
son OF Jacksonville are spending few
days with their parents, DR.. and Mrs. E.
S. Grill.
Gid Thigpen has this week purchased
40 acres OF potato land in the Hilburn
tract, East Palatka, of the P. j. BeckS
agency.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Cartledge of Hun
tington were in the city this week,
guests of Mayor and Mrs. Howell A.,
Davis.
The contractor for laying the concrete
curbing on the streets now 10 be paved
with brick began work laying the same
this week.
Rev. C. Fred Blackburn of Miami,
presiding elder OF the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South, was in the city on
Tuesday and Wednesday, aguest at the
Saratoga Hotel.
| Bittenbender's new restaurant in the
Shelley building, opened for business
last wsek, is doing very good business
| The restaurant is neat and has mosi
i in yitinU apnaaranCa
The Earnest Company began moving
into their new and enlarged store yes
terday. By tomorrow everything viii
be in place. One of the best appointed
dry goods stores in the state.
| The city hall park keeper has beer
fresh seeded lawns and digging up thu
new grass again this week, and nov
| "keep off the grass" signs will be posted
| The Ladies of the Maccabees will Civ,
| a benefit performance al the Orpheun
theatre on Friday night, November Sd
admission and 10 cents. A special
| good program has been arranged.
| The cleverly written comedy from III,
| popular book of the same name by Har
old McRath, will be the attraction al tn
Orpheum Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 81
for one night only. Mr.. Bert Leigl
will be seen in the part once: played b.
Henry E. Dixey.
II DR.. J. r. Randolph late of Jacksonville
Ohio, has Just purchased of P. ]. Beck
40 acres of potato land in the Hilbur
tract, East Palatka. DR.. Randolph has
4 81 all oil 81 II
| place preparatory 10 putting in crop
potatoes this winter.
| James F. Hager of Virginia is clearn
up 20 acres of potato land recently pul
| chased by him in the Hilburn trac
through the P. ]. Becks agency Nj
/ Hager proposes to be ready TO put in
! potato crop at the opening of the plan
ing season. He has come 10 PutnaI
county TO reside permanently.
II Mrs. Lulu Van Sinderen of Schnet
tady, N. Y, is spending some time
the home of DR.. and Mrs. E. S Grill
PaIatka Heights. Mrs Van Sinderen
father was one of the early settlers o
| Drayton Island, where he had large o
ange grove. Mrs. Van Sinderen is
niece of Mrs. Grill
The Ladies Aid society of St. Jamt
NJ. Z. church will meet on Tuesday a
-- ternoon, Oct 31st, at 3 O'Clock at th
- home of Mrs. H. o. Hamm, and fu
attendance of members is earnestly n
n quested. The society will give Suppe
d on Thursday evening, Nov. I'd, in III
1 Tilghman building, Lemon street, and
I fine menu is being prepared.
j The w. A. Merryday Co. has moi
4 than quarter of million orange boXC
Il stored in its warehouse, the equivaleI
/ of hundred carloads of box matters
j knocked down and piled 10 the car roo
B Shipment of this material 10 orang
Il shipping centers like Crescent City, Sa
& Matco and Pomona in this county al
Il now being made.
4 Chas. w. Hutchinson, eldest son (
County Clerk and Mrs. Henry HutChil
q son is spending the week with his pa
q ents. Mr.. Hutchinson is the manager (
the mercantile department of the Unite
d Fruit Co.'S. big sugar plantation at Bane
Cuba, and is on his way 10 New lor
B for brief business and pleasure tril
He expects TO leave for New York o
4 Sunday and will be accompanied by hi
mother.
Wednesday man came i n froI
y Etoniah Scrub to sell some coon skin
Z He was observed walking at the side {
the sidewalks and was asked why h
did not use them. He answered thu
oval, you see I'm little Splay-footc
and am used 10 unrestricted territor!
Walkin' on them rock paths makes IN
feel sorter like wuS wallIin on log
and foot-walks, where ii is easy 10 Sli
! off Walkin' at the side Pm safe.
Hl-Starke Telegraph.
Rev. Thos. P. Hay and family d.
J parted Thursday afternoon for Birmint
J ham, Ala, where they will reside
future, and where DR.. Hay will take u
7 the paStorate of the EnSley PreSbyteria
church, the largest of the denominatio
i in that city. For eight years DR.. Ha
labored as pastor OF the First PreSbyte
ian church and has endeared himself
his congregation and TO the people c
! the city generally. A large number {
Z friends, of all denominations were at th
] depot TO say goodbye TO DIR. Hay, h
wife and son, and their going is Sourc
of much regret here.--GaineSville SUI
Hon. and Mrs. r. L. Earnest of Ba
tow have been spending the larger pa
of the week here, guests of Mr.. an
Mrs. f. NJ. Earnest. Like his brothC
in this place the Barlow man is III
leading dry goods merchant of his city
but unlike his Palatka brother he he
mixed some in politics-enough at lea
i to make him the mayor of Barlow. :
like Palatka," said Mr.. Earnest TO tn
/ News, like it so we'll that | wouldn
object to living here. Palatka has som
very fine business houses and its street
and sidewalks are among the best care
for in the state. am glad your count