The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-06-09
q Personal and Social. a

Hon. ]. H. Harp was visitor 10 De.
Land last week.
Prof. Hammer visited Pensacola this
week 10 attend the wedding of his sister.
MIR. and Mrs. Sidney Gautier of lack
sonVille spent the week end with Mr..
and Mrs. T. C, Da by.
Carpenters and builders of Crescent
City have been engaged ahead till next
midwinter. The old town is surely
growing.
| M. II. Read has the plans for his new
Prospec, street bungalow 1t shows a
house that will prove a decided addition
TO this beautiful street.
Miss Bowman is spending the week
in Palatka, where she is taking the
teachers examination being conducted
by the county school board.
The big Mccormick & Hubbs pack
ing house is making fine progress. It's
TO be the biggest thing in the packing
house line ever seen here
Fine rains of the past week have
started the orange trees to growing fast.
And there is much of the June bloom to
be seen in the various groves.
Miss Elsie Padgett returned last week
from DeLand where she has successfully
passed her first year as a student in the
John B. Stetson University.
The stores of Crescent City close for
a halfholiday every Wednesday noon,
and are not opened until Thursday
morning. Remember this fact
Mr.. Powell and family have moved to
Palatka, where Mr.. Powell is employed
in the factory of the Florida Wooden
ware Company.
Miss Bessie A. Williams and Miss
Bowman expect to leave early in the
coming week for New York, and New
England. They expect TO return about
the middle of August
A delegation of citizens from Ores
cent City, the pretty town that hugs
Lake Crescent, Putnam county, was
here this week attending the Stetson
commencement-DeLand Record
Capt. C. z. Cooks new residence
will be built Immediately. The lumber
for il is being brought from the Brown
ing mill at East Palatka, and the contract
for building has been placed with Mr.
Card.
Rev. DR.. G. H. Ward, who has been
appointed 10 succeed Rev. Arthur T..
Cornwcll, as pastor of the church Of
THE Holy lnnocentS, arrived on the
Olivette yesterday afternoon from Tam
pa.-Key West Citizen May 3Oth.
II. H. Cooper has returned 10 his old
home in Philadelphia for the summer.
Mr.. Cooper has been winter visitor TO
Crescent City for about 80 years, and is
popular with all our people. For the
past several years he has made his home
with Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Andersen.
Rev. A. McGinnSS, rector of the EpiS,
copal church, expects to start for the
north next week for his vacation. Dur
ing his incumbcncy of the parish the
Episcopal church has taken on new life,
the services have been well attended
and the work of the church in all lines
has made a steady advance.
Miss Lillian NJ. Appleby is visiting
friends at St. Augustine. 1t is presumed
that Miss Appleby will take up her
teaching again the coming school year,
a work she was compelled to abandon
in order 10 be with and nurse her father
during the few weeks proceeding his
death.
Mrs. Seaton and her son who have
been guests at Grove Hall since carly in
the winter, left for their New York
home Sunday morning. The young
man is lust recovering from prolonged
attack of fever, and up 10 this week was
IN no condition to travel. Ii is hoped
that his recovery will soon be complete
Walter B. Campbell has this week
completed his contract for building ST.
miles of hard surfaced sand clay road loI
the county, north from the town limits
Mr.. Campbell has built good road Du'
like all roads of this kind ii will take
time for the material to become well
mixed. But when once Thoroughly
mixed the road will be great conVe'
J nience to all people going over IT.
I Sam Varnes who resides a mile SCUM
! If town. last week sold all his cattle
S with his marks and brands to r. .
. Nicholson OF Daytona Beach. Inc
consideration was $4,5OO. 1t is said tina
Mr. Varncs had some 400 head oil cattle
The hill of sale was drawn up and VIII
messed and the money paid over al .h'
office of Paul c. Smith, notary. lhi'
r is the biggest sale of cattle to take place.
= bcreabouts in several years
i Rev. Father Higgins, 5. J. OF Tampa
q who is temporarily supplying ST. Nom
] IS parish in PaIalka during the absence
:. Of Father Barry in Ireland, held service
in the Catholic chapel last Sunday even
i inc. as well as an early morning mas
on Monday. Father Barry Will De aOsen
4 about three months, during which TINT
,. Father Higgins, Jesuitc priest .
IS Tampa, will visit this place.
There are some especially line cor
crops growing in this section, one o, y" u,