The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-04-24
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CIV happeniEGs and
Personal tNsHticE.

MRS. w. L. Merriam IIeFIdlileu
the Monday night bridge club this
week.
R. H. Cooper and DR.. ]. W. Darcy
have been spending several days this
week in Eustis.
Fred Green, merchant of Grandin,
was business visitor in the city on
last Tuesday.
Miss Alice Moragne and Miss Mar
garet Jones went to Jacksonville Sun
day.
Mrs. Frank Smith is recovering
from a serious illness which has con-
fined her to her bed Tor several days.
Quintus |. Roberts of Grandin was
anon" the prominent visitors in the
city Tuesday. Mr.. Roberts is oper-
atlng mil at Grandin.
Mrs. Thomas Hyers entertained the
Tuesday night bridge club in de-
lightful manner this week at her
nome on Kirby street.
Joseph Merrill came down from his
business in Atlanta to spend the
week end with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. B. Merrill.
! Mr.. and Mrs. II. o. Hamm are in
Baltimore, Md, where Mr.. Hamm is
being treated at Johns Hopkins Hos
pital. Tney lett Palatka last Friiay
| Registered voters who have not
qualified by the payment of their poll
tax must do so before the first of
] lnl
! The editor of The News left We'd
nesday for Fort Myers, where he
went to attend the annual session of
the Florida Press Association.
Miss Grace Hall spent Monday in
the city ana was accompanied on her
return to Bridgeport by her grand
mother, Mrs. Boughton.
Paul C. Smith, prominent mer
chant Of Crescent City and long an
official of that place was business
visitor in Palatka on Tuesday.
Mrs. l. A. Boughton who has been
the guest for some days of Mrs. H.
A. Bulky on Kirby street, has return
ed to her home at Bridgeport the
st. Johns.
The home of J. J. Harris, a colored
man employed by the Wilson Cypress
Co., burned to the ground in Palat-
ka Heights last Monday. The house
was insured
Miss Mary Aids of DeLand spent
the weekend with Miss Irene Gard
ner, being one of the several attrac-
tive out-of-town girls who were at the
Easter dance on Friuay night.
Mrs. C. H. Stillman of Fairview is
going to spend great portion of her
time In Palatka where she will re-
sumo her profession of piano tuning.
Mrs. Stillman's husband purchased a
large farm at Fairview a few years
ago.
Miss Louiebell Brown returned
Monday to her home in Lawtey, af-
ter pleasant visit to this city. She
was accompanied by Miss Marjorie
Barstow, who will be her guest for a
week in Lawtey.
DR.. Frank McRae of Melrose, one
of the most popular men of the coun-
ty and former valued representa-
tive in the Legislature from Putnam
county, was a visitor in the city yes
terday.
The Palatka Daily Item was up to
the notch on Monday, when because
Of the close proximity of the war
cloud it printed three editions, giving
tine Up-to-the-minute details Of the
.AmNrigo-M eXicano imbroglio.
J. H. Yelverton Jr has formed
Refrigerator Club" the merits of
which he will gladly explain; it is
enough here to say that it is a
scheme to enable citizens to enter the
summer season well and cheaply
equipped with a frst-class refrigera-
tor at modest cost.
Miss Jessie Harrison Burton of
Crescent City is spending the week
with Miss Susie Walton. Miss Bur-
ton has just been appointed County
Agent for the Girls Canning Clubs,
the appointment coming from Miss
Agnes Harris of Tallahassee, State
superintendent of the work, who was
in the city on Monday.
r. L. Smith of Crescent City was
in Palatka on Tuesday on his way
out to the western part of the county
where he has extensive timber inter
ests. Mr.. Smith reports that Florida
cattle on the Haw Creek ranges are
rapidly fattening and that he will be-
gin killing for the home market soon.
He has a big bunch of cattle.
R. L. Gibson, a son of Deputy
Sheriff John w. Gibson of this city,
has been appointed manager of the
J. P. Buie turpentine still at Rodman
and will also have charge of the com
missary in the absence of Mr.. Buie
mir. Gibson knows the turpentine bus
mess thoroughly and will make a rec
ord for accomplishment in his new
place.
The Misses Gladys and Florence
LeBaTon of st. Petersburg arrived
in the city Sunday and spent little
time with old friends. They wern
en- route to Alabama where they %
q s guests to a house party given By
Miss Lloyd Warren of Coden. With
them was Miss Norton Of st. Louis,
who is also to be a member of the
house party.
Hon. James E. Alexander of De-
Land was in the city on Wednesday.
Mr.. Alexander is a candidate for the
State Senate. from Volusia county
and his election is a foregone conclu-
sion, for the reason that the people
of Volusia have always stood ready
, to give the Hon. "Jeems" anything
he wanted. Mr. Alexander stated
, that his grandmother was a Metho-
, fpr hn WOE no
to attend the District Conference of