The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-02-07
crescent City News

Miss Miriam Payson also arrivo,
iaSt week day or two in advance Of
her mother and sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. P. Hale are 20.
Jolclng eXtravagantly over the arriva,
az thelr home of little daughter on
the 9th ultimo. ''' VII
EX-Chief of Police Andrew Jack
son Keen is now making a small for
tune logging and in the cord wood
phSlness near the old WAINWRIGHT mill
location.
All will be glad to know of the i'm
proved condition of Miss Elsie Pad
gett who has been very ill of typhoid
lever contracted at DeI.and where
She IS a student. She is one of the
young ladies in whom all we of Cras
cent City feel special pride and her
Illness made us all anxious.
Rev. DR.. C. V. Waugh has accented
me pa5torate of the Baptist church
and will be here regularly each Sun
day from now on. He is an able
preacher and under his guidance our
baptist friends are bound to advance
spiritually and prosper as an organi-
zed band of Christian workers.
The ladies of the Methodist church
are making preparations for a lawn
social to be given at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. 7. W. Wilson on the even
ing OF the 18th inst. AS this will be
on Saturday night week, time when
most every one has leisure there
ought to be a good turn out in order
to encourage these good people in
their church work. 1t costs money to
operate churches and our Methods.
friends are no exception.
The V. |. A. has arranged to hold n
County Fair" on Friday and Satur
day the 21st and 22d inste. The fair
will open on Friday with a Martha
Washington party and in which
George and Martha" will receive.
All who can are urged TOO come in
Colonial costume; there will he a
mlnuet among the dances; haby
show; music by tie orchestra, and
the usual l0otts fer the sale Of fancy
articles, candy, ice cream, etc. On
Saturday the features will be that of
4 county fair; children's Buggy pa
rade, Merry -go-round, fish pond, etc.
The ladies of the V. |. A. hope there
will be a good dcplay of vegetables
and urge growers to bring in exhibits.
The prizes will be the usual blue rib (
BON, honorable mention, etc. Lunch
will be served at noon and at o'clock. /
The ladies also solicit donations to l
lelp make the fair a success. Season
tickets will be sold at rs cents.
A special to the Times-Union Of
last states that the Sec :
etary of War has recommended ar :
appropriation Of $4,000 to provide I
N 8 foot deep channel and 100 feet +
vide with three proposed cut-offs il r
)unns Creek and Crescent Lake front /
he st. Johns river to Crescent City, i
nd has also recommended an annu- 7
| appropriation of 81 900 a year for l.
That will be good news
o Mr.. Tillinghast and the othei n
Iorking members of the Crescent p
lily board of trade who got behind +
his project and worked it to a finish !;
n the face of the most discouraging "
bstacles. When some one tells you ),
hat the board of trade is of small i
Importance to the town, you may tell h
i'm for US he is off his mental bang. q
is a working force that ought u h
ave the moral and financial support
every citizen in the town-and es- r
ecially is this true when you con.
der that to give it financial backing
My costs each individual member So
er year in dues. And this reminds
S that the dues for 1918 are now
asst due and should be paid imme- HI
lately to the secretary, Mr.. Gutter
lge.
Editor Palatka News: l am with h,
gu in your defense of our Crescent "
ity boys. Boys will be boys and T..
ley couldn't always be that if they IT
ID not sometimes do foolish things. CT