The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-11-07
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City Happenings and
Personal Mention.

Mrs. W. p. Merriam will entertain
this friday afternoon in honor Of
Miss Alicu Whitcside, the bride-elect
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Presbyterian church will meet next
Tuesday afternoon at $3.50.
The board of trade wants all boat
owners on the river tributary to Pa
latka to be here with there crafts
during the waterways convention, ano
thus help make showing.
Mrs. II. A. Ford and little son
Henry, of Mulberry, who spent the
summer ia Hendersonville, N. c..
were visitors here with friends fol
several days en- route home,
Johnny j. Jones and, his great
shows are to be hore during the Put,
nam County Fair in December. John
nys show has two bands and there'll
be music along the line.
William G .Tilghman will leave to-
morrow for Columbus, Ohio, where
he will attend tho National Anti-Sa-
loon League convention as one of the
delegates from Florida. This will
be one Of the greatest gatherings
of temperance workers ever held in
this country.
The Literary class of the Woman's
Club will hold it's first meeting in the
Athletic club house on Friday after
neon thl 18th inst, at $3.50. Miss
Pasteur will be the leader. The class
is studying English literature this
season, beginning with the Anglo
Saxon, A. D. 440.
The steamer Crescent unloadod q
large consignment Of goods for Gay
Bros. last Monday, among which was
one shipment of 500 crates of canned
tomatoes. AS each crate contains
two dozen cans it can readily be seen
that this was something of tomato
purchase.
The Office of the Superintendent of
Public instruction has been moved by
order of the county commissioners
from the small room on the top floor
of the court house to the pleasant of
flee on the first floor adjoining the
county tax collector. The move was
on Wednesday.
Raymond K. Prico of Jacksonville.
spent a day in the city this week.
Mr.. Price, who is the elder son of
the late Joseph Price, for many years
the popular Clerk of the Circuit
Court, is now engaged in the auto
mobile business in Jacksonville, where
he has the State agency of the cele-
brated Hupmobile.
The Ford Sales Co., in this city re-
ceived another car load of tho cele-
brated Ford cars last week and by
Tuesday had arranged for the sale
of three of them. In this consign-
ment the company has a number of
what is called the Ford Special"
which is few inches wider, but no
more expensive.
Theo. F. Lansing is back from a
business trip to San Francisco,
California. Mr.. Lansing is interested
in Florida lands and comes to Florida
after residence of many years in
California and Hawaii. He has had
Experience enough in the west to
know good thing when he sees it,
and that is why he is in Palatka.
Mrs. M. P. Adams arrived this
week from Jacksonville to take over
tho local management of the Yves
tern Union telegraph Office Most
patrons of the office will pleasantly
remember Mrs. Adams as a former
manager who left here some -four
years ago to take charge of an office
in a Georgia city.
County Tax Assessor Billiard had
to return to Jacksonville last Thurs
day in order to have his second oper-
alton for an eye infirmity at the
hands Of DR.. C. M. Sandusky. MIR.
bullard didn't appear to dread the
operation so much (you see he had
bo2n through one) as he did for fear
that owing to the short hunting sea
son he might be deprived of his
usual sport.
Senator John P. Wall of Putnam
Hall was in the city this week for the
purpose of interesting the board of
county commissioners in a gravel de-
post for road purposes. The Sena-
tor has plenty of good gravel and it
looks like an ideal road material. The
county board didn't buy, but intimat-
ed that gravel from tho Senator's de-
post would be used on all roads in the |
of Putnam Hall.
Allie M. Steen returned on Tues
day night from Phoenix, Arizona,
where he has been spending some
weeks in the interests of his health |
He failed to get the desired benefit |
and 50 came home. The young man
has the stuff in him and the will
power to get well on his native heath,
and under tho care of his parents and
the daily intercourse of friends, it is
expected that Allie Stoan will soon
be out hustling again for insurance
ousiness-and getting it.
DR.. H. R. Estes, after a week or
Two here returned to Daytona on
Monday. DR.. Estes expects to re-
turn to Palatka during the month,
when he will launch his campaign
'oE county treasurer. He had fully
made up his mind to again seek this
office at the hands of his fellow citi-
,ens of Putnam county and has au-
.horized the Nows to make this an
louncement for him. DR.. Estes re-,
,ired from the practice of dentistry
,omething like year or more ago.
lie has spent large part of the sum-
ner at Daytona.
All Putnam County people will be
in any good news aon-
,erning Capt. B. F. McGraw, former
Y Of Buffalo Bluff, and who came to
'utnam county soon after the war
md continued here up to only some
hree years ago. Capt. McGraw was
| familiar Palatka figure for 40
'ears and numbered his friends by
lis acquaintances-which was every
me- He is now an inmate in the