The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-16
ROUND ABOUT FLORIDA.

JaChSOHNllle is WOEhlIIS W SSSuto
the 1914 Confederate Veteran reun-
ion.
A big barbecue and county division
celebration is being talked of for July
4th at Sanford.
The Atlantic Coast Line depot at
Ocoee was destroyed by fire during
a heavy rain storm. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000.
Beans are being shipped from Waldo
in carload lots and the growers are
pleased with the prices brought in
the markets.
The graduating exercises of Column
bia college will be held on Wednes-
day, May %, instead of Tuesday the
7th as previously announced.
The Joint committee of the board
of trade and Elks has appointed
subcommittee to arrange for mon
ster Fourth of July celebration at
Palatka.
Frank Blair and John Hollings-
worth, white men of Pinetta, were
arrested by Deputy Sheriff Bert Hern-
don on the charge of selling liquor
in a dry county. The men are now
in the county Jail awaiting trial.
In the wet or dry election in Palm
Beach county the county went wet
by 172 votes. West Palm Beach went
wet by more than two to one. The
election marks the close of the bit
terest political contest ever held In
that county.
Plans are under way for the i'm
proving of the Jacksonville Maroon
wireless station Where the present
radius of communication is now 15O tc
200 miles, it will be $50 to $50 miles
when the remodeling is completed.
John Morris, who is at FIT, Meyers
from London, England, for fishing
trip, succeeded in landing = fine tar
pom four miles down the river. Tit
fish weighed 140 pounds and gav'
the angler a lot of fun before being
| subdued.
At a meeting of the board OF trus
tees of the Gainesville sub-sehool dis
trict, Prof. w. H. Cassels was unani
mously reelected principal OF Gaines
vile graded and high school for tn
1894 term to begin next fall
The first watermelons to leave tn
state this year were shipped iron
Tarpon Springs. They were raise
by Mr.. Kimbrough and shipped b
D. H. Gilbert, of Monticello. Tn
shipment comprised two cars; bot
went to New Orleans.
Eight of the fourteen escaped cor
victs who got away from the Larg
camp of the M. w. Ulmer compan
have been recaptured. The eight
man was captured in Tampa by Shel
if Spencer, who saw the man, Char
lev Jones, in front of the Tampa post
office and picked him up.
Florida peaches will soon be read
for market. Even so early in som
of the small home gardens IN Sal
, ford this delicious fruit is beginnin
to ripen. While the peaches are M
extra large in size or excessiveI
abundant, they are seemingly ire
from insects.
]. G. Fancy's fine home at Fl. Meac
was destroyed by fire. 1t is SUI
posed that the fire started from d
= fective fue, and was not discoVert
= until too late to attempt to save
= Only the furniture on the first fo'
' was saved. Everything on the Sc
: ond floor was a total loss. The lo'
was partially covered by nsarane
Returns from recent shipments gi'
Fellsmere growers $3.50 per crate II
fancy and $210 per crate fer chou
tomatoes, f. o. b. cars. They r
/. allied $3.50 per barrel for potato,
and 80 cents per hamper, +. o.
: Fellsmere. A satisfactory yield
indicated by the present conditions
= the fields.