The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-18
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CITY HAPPENINGS AND 4
PERSONAL MENTION 4

tl'o your Christmas shopping soon
en-
The Brunswick Pool Room has been
closed for the season.
County Clerk Hutchinson had bust
ness which took him to Jacksonville
this week.
Capt. E. Noble Calhoun of St. Au-
gustine was in the city Tuesday on
legal business.
E. A. Sanchez, vice president of the
"Ask Mr.. Foster" company was in
Palatka this week.
E. A. Ginger and Ralph A. Hig-
bee Of Mansfield, Ohio, are here look
ing at some Putnam county land they
bought a year ago.
L. H. Wahl of Oklahoma City is
spending few days in Palatka and
may stay all winter, depending upon
how he likes us.
r. F. Rigdon, rural mail carrier
No. 2, and Mrs. Jessie H. BIrleigh,
were married by Judge Haskell at
the court house last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard D. Deane of
North Haven, Maine, are here and
have taken apartments, and plan to
spend the winter in Palatka.
The Associated Charities met at
the board of trade rooms on Wednes-
day and tranacted large amount of
business. The meeting adjourned
to Thursday the 91st inst.
Hugo Heleen, who comes from
Missoula, Montana, is visiting in Pa
latka. He says that it is real re-
lief to get away from snow and ice
and extreme cold.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. W. Edmonton of
Fresno cuonty, Calf, are looking
over Putnam county with a view of
locating. They say the Pacific coast
is all right but that it is too far from
the big markets.
A. S. Metzner of Jacksonville, head
sbf the Palatka Automatic Develop
Nnent Co. was in the city on Tuesday.
SThere is no record of his maxine
&, call at the office of the Palatka Item
to settle much mooted question per-
tanning to veracity.
Pete Hagan was in the city over
Sunday with his family. Just as
soon as he can get released from
Jacksonville he is coming to Palatka
for short stay when he will instruct
business men on the intricacies of
the new revenue law, law which is
greatly misunderstood.
Have you in mind this Christmas
season the poor-those to whom a
joyous Christmas is impossible with
out it comes from an unseen quarter?
If you want really happy Christ
mas yourself, it can be yours only
s by helping some one to whom joy is
& stranger.
Miss Ida Leib has had letter
from Mrs. Jas. R. Mellon in which it
is stated that Mrs. Mellon and Miss
Barbor with three servants will ar
rive to occupy their Palatka home
on January 2. Mr.. Mellon and other
members of the family will come la
ter, together with other friends who
are to be the guests of the MELONS
Whiskey circulars are clogging the
mails, and there is not a day passes
but every citizen of Palatka receives
from one to two and three and some
times four. They come from Jack
sonville principally. The whiskey
sellers of that town go on the princi-
pie that a little booze for our stomach
ache and our Christmas infrmities
will be good thing; and many there
be who bite.
Miss Nellie Wright of San Mateo,
a member of the Girls Gardening
and Canning club, has a fine garden
with all kinds of vegetables, and she
is selling vegetables from it through
Gay Bros. in this city. Tuesday
there was a lot of mustard
greens and they were snapped up by
house wives quicker'n chain light
rong, Too much mustard, you say;
no not enough of this kind.
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