The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-04-11
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) City Happenings and
: Personal Mention.

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Mis- Mervn Ray visited relatives in
Gainesville this week.
Davis Lane is the proud posesor of
an Excelsior motor cycle.
Mrs Geo. Washington of Havana,
Cuba, is in the city visiting relatives
and friends.
The Misses Whiteside entertained
the Book club with a trip on the river
last Friday afternoon.
The Palatka Military band will give
its first sacred concert in the ham
mock next Sunday afternoon.
The messages of President Wilson
and Governor Trammel will be found
in this issue of The News.
Capt. and Mrs. G. w. Anderson of
Interlachen were visitors in the city
Monday.
R. w. Grace the Georgetown mer-
| chant made business visit to the city
last Monday.
] Mrs. J. R. Mellon entertained yes
| terday Thursday afternoon in honor
of Mrs. Charles billiard of Tampa.
There will be a meeting of the Flo
rahome Drainage board on April 18th.
Maj James 0. Wright, C. E., will be
| present.
The st. Johns river bridge will close
to traffic Monday morning for repairs
and will probably be closed for two
days. Patrons please take notice.
The Ladies Aid society of the Pres
byterian church will have a cake sale
on Saturday, April 10Th, at Acker-
man-Stewart's drug store.
Will Taylor, a negro boy, was
struck by an A. C. l.. train near Pa
latka Sunday and received severe,
though not fatal injuries.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. ]. Elliott, Mr.. and
| Mrs. Warner T. Hamm, spent Wed
nesday in st. Augustine. They made
the trip in Mr.. Hamm's Ford car.
Tom Mellon of Pittsburg, Pa, ar
rived in the city last Friday on visit
to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. r.
Mellon.
Mrs. E. w. Elliott returned to her
home in Pensacola last Saturday.
She was accompanied by her niece,
Miss Dorothy Davis of Sanford
The degree team of Jacksonville
Rebecca lodge No. 26, will visit Pa
latka Tuesday, April 18th, and will
conduct the degree work in Redmen's
hall.
The county commissioners met on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week and transacted business of
Importance, but nothing of a special
nature.
Mrs. W. H. Hoyt, Misses Pansy
DevereuX and Maude Kennerly re-
turned from Anastasia last Friday
where they had been enjoying house
party given by Mrs. Robert Gibson.
At the rally day services at st.
James M. E. Church last Sunday the
collection amounted to about $500;
$500 of which was raised through
the Sunday school.
O. F. Berger and A. D. Spen-
Ger of the University of Florida,
Gainesville, passed through Palatka
Monday on their way to Hastings to
investigate the potato blight.
Judge E. E. Haskell, grand patron,
and Mrs. Haskell, grand chaplain at
tended the meeting of the Grand
Chapter of Eastern Star at Jackson
vile this week.
The Woman's missioary society of
the First Baptist church will meet at
the home of Mrs. P. @. Cason on Mon
day, April 18th, at o'clock p. m. All
members requested to be present.
Mrs. ]. E. Lucas gave a reception
last Saturday afternoon at her home
on River street in honor of her moth
er, Mrs. S. McSpaden, of Missouri,
who is her guest. There were about
seventy ladies present
Mrs. N. O. Riles left this week for
| visit to her former home in Leesburg.
| While there she will attend the we'd
ding of Miss Evelyn Geary who j.
well known in Palatka, having visitet
here several times.
Secretary Register entertained
| party Of his little friends last Mon
day afternoon in honor of Miss Nellie |
Lucas who left for Missouri this week
on a visit to her grandmother, Mrs. |
McSpaden.
Announcement is made by the
dance committee that the Palatka |
Athletic association will give an in
formal dance at the club house or |
Friday night, April 18th. All men,
bers are invited to attend.
Ex-Governor Gilchrist was in the
city this week meeting old friends |
and making new ones. While here |
he took part in the entertainment at |
the Howell theater Tuesday night He
not only donated his services to the |
ladies but bought tickets also.
The members of the Ladies Aid
society of st. James Methodist church
take this method of extending their
thanks and appreciation to all who
so generously assisted in making the
'Reveries of a Bachelor" success
Committee.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. K. Bates of San
ford arrived in the city last Sunday on
a visit to relatives. Mr.. Bates left
on the late train for Tallahassee
where he has gone on business con-
nected with the county division of
Orange county.
Sneak thieves entered the home of
A. f. Wilson in the Hammock last
Monday night and succeeded in carry
ing off about $50 in money and an
overcoat, the property of Mr.. Wilson
and his son Ralph. AS yet they have
not been apprehended.