The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-09

City Happenings and
Personal Mention.

| pleasant visit TO Havana, Cuba.
Col. Henry Strunz is visiting Jas.
]. Lowe at Niece.
H. A. Perry, of Pomona, was in
the city last Monday.
Hon. F. j. Fearnside spent several
days of this week in Tallahassee.
c. A. Dupont, of Hastings, was a
business visitor in Palatka this week.
James J. Lowe, of Niece, has been
the guest of Col Henry Srtunz the
past week.
Rev. and Mrs. R. C. Drisko, of Po-
mona, were visitors in the city last
Saturday.
Miss L. NJ. Smith, of Micanopyy,
was the guest of Mrs. H. A. Davis
the past week.
Rufus Ashley was shot at Pomona
and instantly killed by Lewis Lessen
bury, alias Doc. Hill,
HARDWOOD Rosser, of Jacksonville,
spent last Sunday with H. E. Merry
day and Miss Ellene Merryday.
Miss Ellene Merryday entertained
a number of her friends at deligne-
full impromptu musical Saturday
evening last.
Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Jenkins, Misses
Laura and Alice Whiteside visited
Lake Como last Sunday, going in
Miss Whiteside's car.
Owing to the increase of business,
the Gulf Refining Co., has placed a
new truck in service. 1t is fine one,
and much larger than the old one.
Commencing the first Thursday in
June, all stores will close Thursday
afternoons to give their clerks a half
holiday during the summer months.
Closing exercises of the primary
department of the Palatka school are
in progress this morning. The eighth
grade will hold forth at the Howell
theater tonight.
The closing exercises of st. Joseph's
Academy will be held at the Howell
theater on the 22nd inst. Tickets will
be on sale at Alderman Stewards
and at John Mallem's.
Mrs. Helen Kalbfeld will be one of
the attractions at the benefit for the
band given at the Grand on next We'd
nesday, May Ia. Mrs. X. will feature
one of Prof. Chattaway's songs.
The Ladies Aid Society of St.
James M. E. church will continue
their sale of cakes, pies, rolls and
bread at Miss Kate Lucas millinery
store. tomorrow Saturday com
mencing at o'clock.
In addition to the regular program
Of pictures, Manager KalbfelG an
nounces two big features next week.
The Might Riders at Reelfoot Lake"
and Nat c. Goodwin as Fagin in a
5-reel production of Oliver Twist.
The wholesale liquor dealers of
Baltimore have issued circular offer
ing to ship kegs of fire water to the
Delaware line on the Nanticoke river
where they will drop them in the
water and let them float up to Sea-
ford with the tide.
A mother who was frequently call
ed from more important affairs to
remove from her Johnny's pockets
melted tar, collections of sat-upon
cherries, angleworms, suffocated
toads of uncertain date, broken birds
eggs, and the like, finally devised the
sanitary pockets which are described
in The Youths Companion of May
LIST.
Clarence A. Gridley, the new mus
cal director of Kalbfeld's Grand is
surely creating some sensation not
only with his piano playing, but with
MS splendid singing as we'll. His
rendition of the Anvil Chorus calls
forth encore after encore every night.
Mr.. Gridley will be pleased to play
anything the patrons of the theater
request at any time.
May Day exercises, with a deeply
religious significance, were carried GU,
as usual Sunday afternoon by the
members of st. Monicas Sunday
school, The little girls dressed in
white, carrying beautiful flowers, and
the little boys also carrying flowers,
made a very pretty and attractive
scene, marching from the convent to
he church.
Palatka can be made more attrac-
i've than it is without the expenditure
of cent by the city council, pro-
vlded the residents will exercise their
civic pride and do their part toward
keeping it clean by doing everything
their power to prevent rubbish, etc,
getting into the streets, keeping the
weeds down, and by repairing or re-
moving un8ightly fences.
Next Sunday, May the 18th, will be
celebrated as Mothers Day. Special
services will be held in many of the
'hurches on that day and white car
nations, symbolizing the purity of
mothers love, will be worn by thous-
ands of people. Those that cannot
get the carnations will wear some
other white flower. This will be the
fourth annual celebration of the dav.
At the ball park Tuesday afternoon
while the colored players of the To-
cal team were practicing, Louis John
son and Will O'Neal, one of the club I
got into a quarrel about !
some disturbance that johnson was
making, and O'Neal struck him over |
,he head with base ball bat and I
led. johnson has never regained
and may die. O'Neal i
S still at large. /
Mrs. George E. Gay returned from .
last Thursday where she
.ttended the council meeting of the -
General Federation of Women's Clubs. I
here were over 1000 women in at \
enhance at the meetings of the coun-
IL. Special trips to Baltimore and h
Their cities were arranged for the