The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-26
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DR.. Mcclellan now drives about il
Ia fine Cole automobile.
IS Mrs. John Rafferty, has only re
q Gently returned from a visit to st
Augustine where she went for a rest
i Mrs. Kinard of Jacksonville spen
a few days here during the week tn
guest of Mrs. C. A. Cheatham.
Mrs, ]. L. Burton, who has been OF
:, visit to her son in Braidentown
returned last week.
e Victor Carrier returned last weel
! from an extended visit in New Eng
! land.
) W. B. Carrier has fine crop Of
l grapefruit on his Clifton grove. lie
has also just saved a beautiful cror
Of hay from the anne grove.
Col. and Mrs. G. T. Graham whc
have been spending the summer al
; Summer Haven beach are expected
home this week.
Preacher Warn of Georgetown has
fine crop of well-colored grapefruit
so clean and pretty that it will not
need washing.
Every one who has used it is COM
mending the town officials for the fine
piece Of road built out lakewood ave-
nue..
Misses Annie Burton and Nettie
Holley left last Tueday for ITALIA
nassee where they have entered the
Florida State College for Wome.
The public schools will open next
Monday morning and the blow will
fall heaviest on the small boy base
oall clubs.
Miss Jane B. Bowman, assistant
principal of the high school arrives
this week, having enjoyed a pleasant
vacation at her old home in Franklin,
Tenn.
Chester Norton arrived home last
week from stay of some three
weeks in Jacksonville, during which
time his auto business was looked af-
Ter by John Reynolds.
Miss Jones who is to have the pri-
nary grade in the school this year
S expected today or tomorrow, and
will make her home with her sister,
Mrs. DR.. C. G. Hardie.
VIM. Pipe whose illness was re-
ported in last weeks paper and
Who was taken to a Jacksonville
lcspial, has gone on from that
,ity to Detroit, Mich.
j. P. Cowburn is said to have a
inc crop of tangerines, with trees
much overloaded. Mr.. and Mrs.
Cowburn visited Jacksonville last
week.
Several crowns have sold their
round oranges to dealers at one dol
lar the box on the tree, and others
have given options on their crop at
The same figure.
James Padgett, Jr., George Neal
md Mitchell Newbold spent Satur-
lay and Sunday in st. Augutine, go
ng over and back with Tom Russell
n his automobile.
The first cool wave of the season
struck Crescent City last Sunday
light, during which the mercury des-
ended to 60 deg. Blankets were in
lemand during the night A heavy
ain fell on Sunday.
Mr.. Campbell, superintendent for
Mcfarland, Hadee & Hunt, orange
buyers and shippers, arrived on Sat
lrday with Mrs. Campbell, and is
making his headquarters at the Cou-
ant
Geo. W. Seaton has returned from
lis wanderings to and fro about the
lorth and is again settling down to
he business of a gentleman farmer
With fair orange prospect for the
coming season. Mr.. Seaton is be-
ng welcomed back by his hosts Of
friends.
John A. Cosby of San Mateo made
The first shipment of grapefruit from
this county on. Monday, when the
steamer Crescent carried As boxes of
well-colored fruit from his dock and
was asked to call for another ship
nent on Wednesday. The fruit went
to New York.
J. L. Welsh, a young man who
came here last summer and who has
been engaged most of the time since
on the house of c. A. Cheatham, has
decided to engage IN the plumbing.
painting and kalsbmiming business
here, he being an expert in all of this
work. All who have had Mr.. Welsh
do work speak in high terms of his
ability.
Mrs. Frank Gautier and her daugh-
terin.law, Mrs. GroveSnor Gaulier
Of California, arrived home last week
and the latter comes to make her
permanent home in Crescent City.
Mr.. Grosvernor Gautier who is now
in Denver, Colorado, expects to wind
up his business affairs in that city
shortly andwill then come here.
Mrs. Frank Gautier came from Chi
cago, where he had a pleasant visit OF
some ten days with her sister, Mrs
w. B. Clore. She also enjoyed her
visit toCalifornia and other points
in the far west very much.
1t is a matter of interest 10 CreS-
cent City people that the Lake
George Farms Company is about to
resume business at the old stand with
Girard Alexander the elder as he d
push. Mr.. Alexander was the tIst
man on the job of managing this
property and the people here have
an abiding opinion that he is the one
man who best understands local condi-
lions and has given his company
the best service. Last week MesSrs.
Walter S. Adams and Rodman GrubbS
OF Louisville, directors in the compa
ny were here and re-instated Mr.. Alex
andcr They also authorized the
statement that the compa
ny would soon begin the building OF
public highway through tn proper
ty of the company from Crescent
City Junction to Lake George. The
company is getting ready to begin
actively the work of selling its lands