The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-07-04


Miss Margaret Willard has gone to
Daytona Beach to be the guest for a
time of Miss Marie Merryday.
Miss Ellene Merryday has returned
from a pleasant visit to her sister,
Mrs. HARDWOOD Rosser, in Jackson
vile.
Mrs. Ridley Wilkinson of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, arrived in the city We'd
nesday on visit to her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. s. j. Kennerly.
Henry S. Mckenzie attended the
State Press Association meeting at
Tampa last week and found himself
quite at home among the bunch.
What's the matter with the Palatka
Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Animals? We still have the
animals and the cruelty.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. ]. Fearnside are
contemplating trip next week to
Tate Springs, Tenn, where they will
spend some time.
Col. c. c. Alvers, mayor of Sisco,
was in the city yesterday. Col. AL
VerS is doing surveying work at Whit
5ler, the new town down on the east
coast.
Mr.. ard and Mrs. w. D. Judy, form
erIy of this city but now living at
Iephyrhills, were in the city a few
lays this week en- route to their old
Virginia home to spend the summer.
Walter W. Tilghman, manager of
he Ford Sales Co. in this city, will
-emonstrate the climbing abilities of
the celebrated Ford automobile TODAY
oy running one of his cars up the
front steps of the court house.
The July meeting of the Patton
Anderson Chapter, U. d. c., will be
held at the home of Mrs. Anderson on
Thursday afternoon of next week,
the 10th inst. 1t is urged that all
members make special effort to at
tend this melting. This will be the
last meeting of the summer.
Marcus Loeb of Atlanta is on his
annual visit to his friends in Palatka,
where he lived once on a time in the
Ioong ago and where he has yet suffi-
:lent old friends to keep him busy
shaking hands for month. Mr..
Loeb was once Palatka's merchant
prince; in Atlanta he is king among
manufacturers.
DR.. II. r. Estes is over this week
from his home in Daytona to shake
hands with his old friends and talk
politics and enjoy the Fourth of July
in little old Palatka." DR.. EaIes
only moved to Daytona this spring
and he is even now saying that "while
1t is a good place to live, it can't sup
ply the natural longings which he ac
CURED in Palatka."
With Frank Fearnside president of
the State Health Board, DR.. ]. w.
Darcy president of the State Dental
Association, Frank Sands president of
the Anti-annexationists, and pastor
Bill' Russell president of the Florida
Press Association, it looks as if Pa
latka had been pulling down it's share
OF presidencies this summer.
Parties have been here this week
looking over the Saratoga Hotel with
the view of leasing. They are said
to be high-grade hotel men and if
they take the house will make i'm
provements and continue the place on
even a higher plane than heretofore.
Mr.. Jacobson is in poor health and
finds it impossible to continue in the
management.
Frank S. Chapman of The News
staff and Mrs. F. L. Thorpe, Palatka
delegates to the big Baraca- Philathea
Convention in Nashville, Tenn, last
week, returned home on Sunday. Next
years convention will be held either
at Macon, Ga, or Waco, Texas, this
to be decided in November. Miss
May Cannon and Mr.. J. C. Lanier of
Jacksonville, who have been Florida
secretaries for the past three years
were reelected.
Capt. F. R. LeBaron is spending a
few days at his home in this city.
Mrs. LeBaron and Miss Blanche Lee
Baron have been in Marshall, Mo-, at
tending the graduating exercises of
Sion Academy, where Miss GLADYS Le-
Baron has been studying art for the
past two years, and in which course
she was graduated on June goth, re-
ceiving the gold medal for excellent
work. 1t is said that her display was
greatly admired. 1t consisted of an
entire dinner set in white and gold,
handsome vases and numerous bits
of china paintings in oil and water
colors depicting animals, landscapes
and flowers, and all showing individ-
uality and unmistakable talent. Mrs.
LeBaron and her daughters are now
visiting relatives in Wilmer and Mo-
bile, Ala, but are expected home to-
day. 1t is said the family soon ex-
poets to move to st. Petersburg.