The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-12-05
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City Happenings ana
Personal Mention.


Miss Katie Barstow spent the
Thanksgiving holidays visiting friends
in LaWtey.
The Ladies Aid society of the Pres
byteran church will meet with Mrs.
Reed next Tuesday afternoon at $3.50.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harw0Od Rosser and
Two sons OF Jacksonville spent the
weekend with relatives in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dewitt Gray and lit
lie daughter of jacksonville visited
Mr.. Gray's mother, Mrs. H. A. Gray,
this week.
Miss Annie Stephens Of the Colum.
oia college faculty, Lake City, was the
Thanksgiving guest of her father,
Hon. l.. c. Stephens.
Sheriff Kennerly is remodeling an
old house he recently purchased in
the west end and when completed he
VII have made new eight room
house that will be for rent, and in
nice section of the city.
Miss Isabelle Welcn, who but re-
:ently returned from an extended So
,ourn in New York, Philadelphia and
Virginia, was the guest over Thanks
'ivi~ of Mrs. Robert Coyer in jack
sonville.
MIR. and Mrs. Russell Bone of
Iecrgia, en- route to CUBA on their
bridal tour, stopped over in Palatka
a few days this week and were the
guests of their cousins, Mr. II. E.
Merryday and Miss Ellene Merryday.
M. r. Beck formerly with Jordon
& Schmidt of Jacksonville, and who
secently accepted position with w.
VI. Curry, the shoe dealer, is so well
pleased with Palatka that he has pur-
'ha"pG an interest in Mr.. Curry's shoe
business.
Attorney Henry Strunz returned
asst week from two-months' visit to
ais old home in Connecticut. His re-
urn was delayed some time by an at
ack of fever, during the run of which
lie lost some in averdupose but moth
ing in looks.
An exciting basket ball game is an
ticipatod when the Paatka high
school girls will play the Gainesville
Ugh school girls at the Athletic club
his evening. These two teams met
twice last year, each winning a game.
The ball will be put in motion at 8
o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Fearnside ar
rived home on TUESDAY from their
wedding trip and are at present max
.ng their home with Mr.. and Mrs. j.
H. Millican. AS soon as the house is
completed Mr.. and Mrs. Fearnside
will go to housekeeping in the pretty
bungalow now being erected or
Fourth street by Mr.. Millican.
Mr.. Burt, up at the Putnam Phar
macy, has big diamond back RATTLE
make on exhibition. If you want {
dose of the "creeps" go up and see it
His snakeship is in SAFE cage ant
the clerk, if he is not too busy, vii
stir him up so that you can see hin
in action.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Jenkins of Wash
ngton, D. c., passed through the cit
j this week on their way to their win
ter home in Lake Como, and wher
] Mr.. Jenkins is large real estat
owner, and one who has contribute
his full share to the preservation c
= that pretty Putnam county place. M
and Mrs. Jenkins are the parents {
Dr. F. E. Jenkins, the well-known ey
g and ear specialist of this city.
The columns of The Palatka New
this week are filled with suggestion
to all who are in a deep study jus
a now over the problem of what to bu
II for Christmas A look over the az
II vertisements of Palatka's leadin
business men is the solution to tn
problem. They are all represente
ii in this paper. Their stores of cours
III contain much that could not be ent
IL merated in a newspaper announce
ment.
II Or. E. w. Warren of this city
HI now the acting secretary of the Stat
ii Board of Medical Examiners, a boar
III of which he has been a member fC
IL number of years. DR.. Fernando
iii the regular secretary of the board
III will be remembered was stricken wit
lie paralysis some three weeks ago ar
is in a most critical condition. ID
Warren was selected unanimously
liz the board to take the place of tt
III stricken physician.
II Col. F. ]. H. Won Engelken of Vii
golf-on-th e-St. Johns has been electe
to a fellowship in the American ac;
DENY of political and social scient
of Philadelphia. This distinguish
gentleman was in Palatka last Tue
day, but no one could have told fro
his bearing that he had been thu
honored. In fact he didn't tell tl
News man anything about it. We
the honor is distinguished one ar
we'll deserved, and the News congra
ulates the wearer in spite of the ia
that we had to borrow the news fro
the Times-Union when we ought /
every consideration of right and mo
ais to have had it first hand.
II Ex-Mayor William S. Jordan
Jacksonville spent two or three da!
n the city this week and made tr
up the river with the committee e
gagged in securing exhibits for Il
county fair. Col. Jordan is great
pleased with the looks of Palatka al
the country round, and believes tn
fair is going to give the section b
boost. Since retiring from the ma.
orally Col. Jordan has accepted tt
general superintendency of Our Hon
Life Insurance Co. of Jacksonville ar
III during his stay here wrote several al
ulications for some of Palatka's Leaf
ing business men. He is one of Il
III 5est posted life underwriters in Il
III south.