The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-01-27
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City Happenings and
Personal mention.

- Henry Clay Tucker was in from Flora
home yesterday.
"Black PATTI and her excellent com
pany should have big house at the
Howell Theater tonight.
Becks & Wells the we'll known Lemon
street real estate dealers have dissolved
partnership.
Mrs. r. f. Adams returned on Monday
from an extended stay in Baltimore, Md,
and North Carolina.
Geo. +. Carpenter and c. II. Preston
were among the prominent visitors from
Crescent City here yesterday.
Benz. B. Bair, who has been spending
some time in California and other west
ern states, returned 10 Palatka last Sat
urday.
N. C. Crews of Bostwick was a bust
ness visitor in Palatka yesterday who
had many friends give him the glad
hand.
]. w. Scott prominent business man
of Moberly, Mo-, is spending the season
at his winter home at Carleton, this
county.
VIC. Townsend of Lake Butler, one of
the big naval stores operators of Florida,
has been business visitor in the city
this week.
A little son was born TO Mr.. and Mrs.
C. P. Cooper on Monday last at the
home of Dr. and Mrs f. S. Grill in Pa
latka Heights.
Col. Joe Merrill has returned from an
absence of 10 months in Chicago and
will spend the balance of the winter
among home folk.
Miss Ona Bond expects TO sail tomor
row for New York, where she will be
identified with one of the large whole
sale millinary houses.
Norman Rifles of LeeSburg, where he
went some months ago to engage in the
drug business, was visiting among his
| friends here on Monday.
The ladies of the Baptist church will
serve Valentine Supper on Friday,
February 18th, in the Shelly building,
on Lemon street. Supper from to s.
A. r. Cartmel of Jacksonville was call
ing upon many of his old friends yeSter
I day. Mr.. Cartmel is now selling goods
and expects 10 make occasional visits TO
Palatka.
Some 40 or 50 of the young lady
friends of Miss Ona Bond gave party
in her honor one night this week at the
home of Judge and Mrs. M |. Coke.
Cards were played.
John Mallem has a young nephew
with him who only this week arrived
direct from the Holy Land. The young
man, who is but 10 years of age, comes |
to America TO make his permanent
home.
DR.. A. NJ. Steen has let contract TO
Contractor Johnson TO build two six
room dwelling houses on Oak street
back of St. James Methodist church.
| The frame work OF one of the new |
houses is already up The new houses
will be for tenements.
By the will of the late Eugene ]. Gay,
which was drawn before entering the |
U. S. Sanitarium last summer, and which |
will be probated here, one clause re-
queSted that no monument be erected
over his grave, and that he be buried
where he died.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo w. Cyrus of Camp
Point, and Mrs. Emma Hess of Augusta,
Ill. are in the city for a time on a visit
to DR.. and Mrs. w. H. Cyrus. Mr.. Geo.
w. Cyrus is editor of the Journal at
Camp Point, and is brother of DR..
Cyrus.
Mr.. Louis c. Canova, prominent
young man of Palatka, will spend Sun
day in the city the guest of Mr.. w. E.
Morris and family. He comes TO see his
fiancee, Miss Katherine Beall. Their
marriage will be lovely quiet affair of
February S.-St. Augustine Record.
Plans for the organization of camp
of Spanish war veterans for Palatka are
progressing favorably, and all interested
in the movement are asked 10 meet at
the office of ]. D. Points & Co., Water
street, Tuesday night, Feb. 9TH, 1911, at
7:30 o'clock.
r. H. Cooper'S new home on North
Third street is nearing completion. Mr.
Cooper purchased the Aycock cottage,
at the corner of North Third and Dun
ham streets, and this has been remodeled
by Contractors Stokes & Atkinson and
another story added. In its remodeled
and enlarged shape Mr.. and Mrs. Cooper
will have very pretty home.
Frank Hepburn, some eight or nine
years ago president and general manager
of the Monkridge Manufacturing Co. in
this city, has been in Palatka this week
and renewed pleasant acquaintaceshipS.
Mr.. Hepburn states that he now has pat
entS which will protect him in all the
products of his manufacturing enterprise
and that new plant will be built on
Trout Creek. Considerable of the old
Monkridge machinery will be used, il
having been stored at the Stanton foun-
dry
Henry E. Cowart of Tampa, a former
Palatkan and a member of the Palatka
company in the Spanish American war,
has been appointed a Florida aide-de-
camp on the staff of the commandment
rams. Other members of the staff from
Florida are Governor A. w. GilchriSt
and w. F. Stovall of Tampa. H
The sale of seats for "The Firing
Line" will not open until Monday morn
ing, Jan. 30th. Probably no dramatic
event of the season has awakened great.
er interest among Palatka play-goerS.
The famous novel of that name by Robt II
w. Chambers was generally read by the
people as serial story in the Saturday II
Evening Post. ii
]. D. Livingston, general merchant of III
HolliSter, was among the prominent L
business visitors in the city on WedneS- -
day. Mr.. Livingston is member of the
executive committee of the
county and is another of the patriotic
party workers who brought in the box
md gave his time free to the late. pri-
nary.
Nash & Rinehart, song and dance
lrtiStS have been attracting good audien-
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