The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-24
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
City Happenings ana
Personal mention.

| , WIS. u J. IOuRnlln anu Mrs. IeO'
w. BasSett Jr., left on Wednesday for
Virginia for visit of some weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Collins have
both been quite i'll during The past
week.
Dr. Alfred Abshire a prominent resi-.
dent OF Welaka was visitor in the city
yesterday.
T. J. Barnett is spending the day in
Crescent City, going over TO the grove
town IN his new Hupmobile.
Col. Walter McNally has been keep
ing 10 his room this week nursing a
mild case of dengue fever.
P. Jack BeckS the real estate man
with a hustle, was laid up couple day
this week with an attack of neuralgia.
The Ford Sales Company in this city
sold three Ford touring cars this week
and still there are others hesitating.
]. Nc N. Bard of Norwalk was among
the business visitors in the city yester-
day.
Mrs. NJ |. Coke has closed her board.
ing house temporarily aud will wish
with her daughter, Mrs. Glass, in
Gainesville.
Mrs. w. r. Lcdbciter and children
were expected home this week from
their summer cottage in North Georgia.
]. II. Millican is building new and
pretty cottage on n. Fourth street. A
tenant has already secured the new
house.
Arthur A. CorCoran who had the mis-
fortune TO break his collar bone lasl
week is now out and the fracture is
mending rapidly.
Deputy Sheriff Livingston of johnson
Station who is now acting office dcpuy
al the court house is proving very
popular official.
There will be two murder trials in
the circuit court next week. The Crimi,
nal docket is not considered especially
heavy.
Mr. and Mrs. II. c.. Middleton of
| Ores r City have Been spending a
large part OF the week in Palalka, guests
al the Saratoga hotel.
Hon. F. J. Fearnside has returned
from an official visit to Pensacola |
During his absence he also made a trip
10 Washington.
Judge and Mrs. Z. L. Hast ell are re-
ported TO have left their summer home
at North Conway, n. H., on WcdneS,
day of last week. They will reach
home this week.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ. M. NickerS returned
on Sunday evening from five weeks
visit in Maryland and Delaware. They
paid visit in Washington also on their
way home.
The fall tenn of the Putnam circuit
court will open on Monday next, with
Judge James T. Wills OF Gainesville
presiding, and Hon. A. V. Long o!
Starke, states attorney.
Mrs. DR.. Geo. Z. WEIGH returned on
Tuesday from an extended visit in Nir
ginia and New York. Miss Belle WEIGH
will remain in New York some time
longer.
]. H. Haughion is building a pretty e.
room bungalow on Madison street in
the rear OF his home, and the same has
already been rented. l.. S. Johnson has
the contract for building.
The KalbfieId Grand motion picture
theaIer has been playing TO crowded
houses all this week, and because they
have been showing some of the beSl
pictures obtainable.
County Superintendent Cottinghma
has appointed Miss Margaret Anderson
Of Green Cove Springs as a teacher in
the Crescent City school, she 10 begin
her duties next Monday.
Vice President ]. P. Beckwith of the
| Florida East Coast Railway has advised |
the Palaka board of trade that in max
ing up their winter schedules Palatka
will be well taken care of in The matter
of trains
A. NJ. Young, for ten years the lead
ing shoe dealer of Shelby, Ohio, has &C |
copied position in the shoe depart
ment of the Earnest Co., and will prob
ably locate permanently in Florida. Mr. |
Young is a cousin OF Mrs. NJ. X. Tavel' |
The funeral of T. J. Hearn OF Eas
Pllatka was held from the family home
on the 10th inst. and was conducted BY |
Rev. w. NJ. Poagc of the Methodist
church. Mr.. Hearn was long in charge
OF the Griffin orange grove proprrty al
East Palatka.
The new launch dock for which ar
engagements were made for building BY |
private subscription OF business men and
the award for the work let TO Mr. Elicit
OF Fairfield, is now in course of con
Struction. Ii will be a great conVe
nienCe TO people living up and down
the river and who come TO Palalka in
private launches.
The Palalka board of trade is not rep
resented in the meeting of the State
chamber OF commerce in OCala today
Certain influential members of the local
organization say they can see little OF
benefit 10 Palatka in state organization
which makes everybody'S business no.
body'S business.
The Florida Utahnite Safety Powder
Company recently established here and
located west of the city, has already
made ton or more OF its blasting pow.
der and given several demonstrations of
stump blasting. The company is said 10
have booked orders already sufficient 10
keep them running for the next year.
Freddie, the 7-yCar old son of Mrs
Flora Wells, who lives with her father,
Mr.. o. D. Pcrrine on N. Fifth street,
died yesterday and will be buried in Oak
Hill cemetery this forenoon. The fu- {
neral will be at the house at $50 and ;
will be conducted by Rev. p. Q. Cason
G fine Baptist church. Mrs. Wells came
to Palatka only recently from Missouri
J. H. Wylie of Interlachen who was
in The city yesterday says that Good
Roads Day was generally celebrated in