The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-07-18
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City Happenings and
Personal 'l11entien.
Capt. H. Y. Snow is having an ex.
cellent time over at Daytona Beach.

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is in the city this week the guest of
Mrs. DR.. f. E. Jenkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Keatiing Of
Ocala were in the city on Monday
greeting old friends.
Mrs. Elizabeth Howe has been
spending some days in Washington,
but is now visiting in New York.
DR.. Main of Welaka was a profes.
Sional visitor to the city on Monday,
coming over in his auto.
Miss Louise Henley of Norfolk, Va,
is the attractive guest of Miss Sallie
Roberts who entertained Wednesday
evening in her honor.
Miss Mervin Ray who has been the
guest for some time of Mrs. Fred
Merrill, returned last week to her
home in Gainesville.
Misses Annie Bruce, Nora Sharp
and Julia Mclver are the guests this
week Of Miss June Brown at her home
in Hastings.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Hamm and
daughter, Miss Priscilla, arrived home
on Monday from an extended visiting
trip in the north.
Judge E. E. Haskell returned last
week from his summer home in New
Hampshire and after catching up with
the work in the county judges court
will return.
Prof. and Mrs. j. D. Cottingham
nave gone to the mountain district of
Tennessee, where they are hopeful the
Drachg air will have a beneficial eff
feet on Prof. Cottingham's health.
Mrs. w. c. Davis and little child
left on Tuesday for Leitchfield, Kv.,
where they will remain some several
months on visit to Mrs. Davis
parents.
The social meeting af the Wo-
mans Missionary Society of the
Methodist church will be held on Mon
day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, at the
home of Mrs. David Howell, in the
North end.
EX-County Commissioner Solana of
San Mateo who was in the city We'd
nesday states that his section is real
~ suffering for lack of rain and that
Ii is next to impossible for the farm
ers to get stand of sweet potatoes.
Mrs. W. NJ Boyd of Palatka ar
rived Tuesday to spend some time at
the beach enjoying the cool ocean air.
Mrs Boyd was formerly Miss Marie
mann and is sister of Mrs. Freder-
lex Dupont, who is also at the beach
.-Daytona Journal.
Rev. N ]. Tilghman the venerable
Methodist minister of this city, re-
ceived a telegram on Saturday tell
ing of the death of his eldest brother,
Samuel, at Salisbury, Maryland, aged
81 years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ridley Wilkinson of
Chattanooga, Tenn, who have been on
a visit to their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
s. j. Kennerly, will leave for home
next Sunday, much to the regret of
large circle of friends.
Jack Keen, a man IS years of age,
and Fred. Stanfill, II years of age,
have been arrested by Sheriff Ramsey
Of Alachua county charged with the
murder of G. J. Guthrie on the John
Fennell plantation last Tuesday. The
place Of the murder is near CampviIle,
few miles north of Hawthorne,
Fred. Stanfill has since his arrest
confessed the murder, which was
planned by old man Keen. Jack Keen
is the father of Charlie Keen, the
young man who was killed by Guthrie
while resisting arrest last year near
. Hawthorne.
About three hundred excursionists
came over from. Palatka today. The |
eXcurSionists are mainly negroes, but
they are giving no trouble, enjoying |
their visit in an ordinary manner
st. Augustine Record. OF course
Ialatka negroes are as a rule orderly |
at home, but all the more so when |
they go away from home. They have
the Palatka habit of orderliness and
they want to emphasize it when away.
The colored people of Palatka are a
prosperous people because thrifty. and
this gives them plenty of money with
which to indulge the excursion fad in
the summer, fad which they work to
a FRAGILE.
The fire alarm on Thursday morn
ing was occasioned by the burning
OF some grass in the vacant lot which
separates the office of The Palatka
News from the Presbyterian church.
and somewhat nearer to the newspa-
per than the church. Someone saw
the fire and, turned in the alarm and
qulcker'n you could say "Jack Rob
lnson" the American LaFrance motor
engine was on its way. The fire was
quenched by one small application of
the chemical fluid. The loss is par.
TALLY covered by smut But had the
fire been a serious one the engine h
would have been on hand just as quick /
1t was good drill for the firemen. ,
and showed that they are on hand (
subject to call. 9
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian C. Calhoun of c
Palatka were Sunday visitors in Q
Ocala, coming over on the afternoon v
train for brief visit with Mr.. Cal 7
houn's brothers, Messrs. Noble and S
VIM. L. Calhoun. Mr.. and Mrs. Cal Il
houn have but recently returned from \
their honeymoon trip to North Caro- v
lima. Mr.. Calhoun was recently elect. Il
I'd municipal judge of Palatka, which a
position he is filling most acceptablv U
to the citizens of the Gem City. Mrs. h
Julian Calhoun, nee Miss Genevieve r
Phillips, is a granddaughter of Col. l
Joseph Pratt, the pioneer publisher of n
Palatka and founder of the well-known f
Herald, which is at present owned G.
md published by the McKenzies.- tt
Dcala Star. g
Moses Ellison, a well-known mer n