The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-18

C. E. Kittle of Hastings was among
the visitors in the city on Tuesday.
Mrs. M. H. Minor of Boston is here
and expects to spend portion of the
winter in Palatka.
Rev. and Mrs. w. M. Poage who
have been attending the annual con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, at Arcadia, stopped
over for a few days visit with their
son at Sanford on their way home.
DR.. Poage will likely resume services
as usual at st. James church next
Sunday.
John Mallen is putting up some
nice small boxes of Florida oranges
and grape fruit for the Christmas
trade in sizes suitable for the parcel
post. His grape fruit and tangerines
are some of the prettiest raised in
Florida this year. What is nicer to
send to a northern friend than a
small box of this luscious Florida
fruit.
Palatka's police force is now gor-
geously arrayed in new uniforms of
Bohemian blue, cut on the bias, with
a yoke of gold and buttons to match
They look lovely and are just what
they look. Heretofore our guardians
and defenders have worn plain store
clothes without particular design
and the change is noticeable. Fearn-
side furnished the finery and it is up
to the Fearnside motto of being "all
right"
Business reasons have made it ne
cessary that H. Finley Tucker & Bro,
should make Jacksonville headquar-
tiers for that part of their business
connected with the state agencies for
Georgia and Florida for the Cont
mental Casualty Company of which
they have long been agents; this,
however, will make no difference
with their Palatka office, which will
be continued Just the same, but under
the management of L. K. Tucker, ST..
Henis Peterman, cabinet maker de
lux, has been disappointed. He
made a beautiful cedar chest for a
gentleman in Ocala Then the gen.
.tleman's wife went and died and bro
ken-hearted the man has left the
State. HeniS still has the cedar chest.
1t is "A inches long, 20 deep and 20
wide, with brass corners, lock, and
the wood ornamented so that it looks
like chest after the old masters.
Some one with the right degree of
taste will buy that chest for Christ
mas present for the lady of the
house.
On Wednesday the regular INSTALL
ment of Postem Serials were left at
the doors of business men, la cir
cular, at 1926 a. m. On other days
the delivery is made anywhere from
TAP to 1859 g. M, depending of
course on the load of automatic argu-
ment it has to bear. Some are heav-
Ter than others and others not so
heavy, and others more so. One
thing is certain no man has to pay
his money before he takes his choice.
A grand stairway is being erected
in the Moragne building leading to
the upper floors which contain such
offices as Drs. Hedick, and
Chandler, doctors of dentistry and
medicine respectively. and to the Ma
sonic Temple-the old Masonic Tenn
pie, not the new one.
Mike Mulcahey of East Palatka has
not been in town this week but sends
word that he hopes 10 come over some
time between now and Christmas. At
present he is engaged in wol king out
a problem given him by a Palatka
high school student with whom Mike
was recently engaged in discussing
the educational methods of them and
now. Mike says modern schools do
not train the boy to think, as in the
case Ct long ago when he attended
school. The boy thought differently,
and to prove his case gave Mike the
following problem to work out: "Tf
it takes a four-months old woodpecker
with a rubber bill, nine months and
thirteen days to peck a hole through
a cypress log that is large enough
to make 1T shingles, and it takes
l65 shingles to make a bundle worth
50 cents, how long will it take
croSs-eyed grass hopper with a cork
leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill
pickle" Mike says he'll have the an
swer.