The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-03-21

| - W. ~ bSIJIy anu MI .. benII y
of Chicago, are among the guests a
the Putnam House. DR.. Gentry i.
well known to many of our Palatks
people.
Mrs. M. S. Brown, supreme repre-.
sentative and Mrs. J. E. Edmonson
represented the Pythian Sisters oil
Palatka at the meeting of the Crane
Lodge of Pythian Sisters in Kissim.
NEE last week.
George Hoffman, of Saskatoon, Sas-
katchewan, Canada, has been visitor
in Palatka for the past two weeks.
Mr.. Hoffman is the owner of farm
near Burbank He is leaving this
week on visit to Key West and other
points in South Florida.
Judge P. S. Thompson, for the past
twenty years county judge of Gads-
den county, was visitor at the home
of his brother, A. S. Willard, last
Friday, en- route to his home in
Quincy from Kissimmee where he had
represented his home lodge at the
Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
Despite the efforts of the so-called
Goo-goos, the liquor interests, and
many high grade citizens organized
in the name of the Law and Order
League and managed by Pleasant A.
Holt in the interests of the re-elec-
ton of Mayor w. S. Jordan of Jack
sonville, the people refused to res
pond. They elected Van C. Swear
ingen mayor by majority of $50,
last Tuesday,
II. C. Marshall, of Boston, who has
been spending the winter with his
brother, Judge John E. Marshall, of
the Municipal Court, once lived for
four years at Fruitland, but that was
some thirty years ago; in fact
he left the county thirty years ago
after continuous residence of four
years. He has been in Florida but
once since, previous to the present
visit and that was ten years ago. He
likes Florida and would reside here
if he was only properly coaxed.
The incessant rain of Monday and
Tuesday has probably injured the
potato prospects in this section some.
There is some blight at Hastings.
The extent of the injury will not be
known before the end oof the week.
Last week Thursday night the dem
tai office of DR.. J. w. Darsey was
broken into and $3.50 worth of gold |
leaf and other gold taken. There is |
no clue to the robber. But he is
probably the same fellow who has |
been robing other dental offices |
throughout the State this winter.
A commission of physicians ap-
pointed by County Judge Haskell this |
week to examine into the physical |
and mental condition of Willie Price
of the Melrose section reported |
that he had form of insan-
lty that required mechanical restraint
to prevent infiiction of violence upon
himself or other persons, and on this
report Judge Haskell committed Price
to the State Asylum for Insane for
care and treatment. Mr.. Price is
member of one of Putnam county's
oldest and best known families and
there is general sympathy for them
N the decline of mental health of
their relative. Mr.. Price is forty
SIX years of age and has wife and
'hildren. He was brought to the city
~ his brother, Mr.. Allen Price.
Evangelist Raleigh Wright, who
leld series of meetings at the Bap-
list church here recently has gotten
himself and cause into peck of trou-
lie In Tampa, where one of his stunts
vas to advertise a public burning of
he books of that famous bewhis-
cred saint, pastor" Russell"
Wright went about the city, gather
ng either by purchase or donation, :
IL the books he could of the "Pas- I
or's" until he had some thirty or !,
1ore of them-among the number L.
eng Russell's "To He'll with He'll" !
Where are the Mont omblatants ?" .
If Man is Roasted Shall he Roast ;
gain 2" "Out Of the Frying Pan into II
ire" etc. Rev. Wright was hold $
lg meetings in the Baptist church of II II
Inch Rev. c. W. Duke is pastor, and W
ad advertised that there would be o
public burning of these books last VI
unday. The Russell agent in Tam
a made howl and number of The 7,
ty pastors objected to the burning NJ
the ground that it was a return to Ut
lie methods of the dark ages and o.
ally would only serve to advertise l
fake and give it standing. Then
right got mad and left the city, say
g 81 never was so badly mistreated
my life as | have been in Tampa.
hold some one responsible for the pa
lssell books that were stolen from fiji
e church. They must be returned, iet
other copies, as intend burning W;
EN-. Fully thirty books are miss in
6. This is thievery, as the books &c
ere my property" Others who OF
IRE opposed to the burning declared OIL
hat If they burn the books of those die
10 disagree with them, they would gr
I'm the bodies of those who did not ce'
inform to their ideas, if they had ed
e power" Rev. C. W. Duke. pastor Cli
the church, said: "The pastor and tel
aScon3 feel that the burning of wit
Oks is not the proper method of ida