The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-07-03

W. S. Prior of Lake Como was
business visitor in the city yesterday.
Mrs. ]. C. Wilroy has gone to
Richmond, Va, to visit her mother.
City Clerk w. A. Williams and
bride have returned from their honey
moon trip.
A car load of watermelons shipped
from the Barenburg farm at East Pa
| latka sold in New York for S235.00.
Mrs. w. S. Fry and son, William,
! have returned from their visit to st.
Petersburg.
G. l. Roberts the well-known mill
man of Putnam Hall was a business
visitor in the city Tuesday.
K. Borson and w. F. Glynn, prom
inent in the business affairs of Cres-
cent City, were in the city Wednesday.
Miss Francis Walker, for the past
year with Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ. Earn
est, has returned to her former home
in Maryland
Rev. P. Q. Cason, pastor of the
First Baptist church in this city, has
been holding a successful revival
at Welborn.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Middleton and
friends came over from Pomona on
Tuesday and spent few hours in the
city.
7. F. Baker comes to the city Of
tener now that his new Ford touring
ear has cut the distance to his home
in Satusma Nights.
License tags for that street dog
are now to be had at the office of the
city clerk. If you value your dog,
take out a license for his life.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
Baptist church will meet at the home
of Mrs. Lamon on Tuesday afternoon,
July 7th, at $3.50.
Chas. H. Sieg, president of the New
South Farm & Home Co. is in Chicago
this week on business for the COM
pany.
L. NJ. Baldwin, merchant and men,
Der of the county democratic eXecu
tive committee from Melrose, was in
the city yesterday.
You can get a nice lunch or full
dinner in the building at the corner
Of Lemon and Fourth streets t)mor-
row 1.-THE tourtn) served by the ladies
of st. Monicas church.
The Florida State troops will go
into camp at Black Point, Duval
county, July 9th to 10Th. The Gem
Eity Guards will hardly be reaav to
participate in this encampment.
The ladies of st. Monicas Catho-
lie church will serve lunch and dinner
in the business college building, cor
ner Of Lemon and Fourth streets all
day on the Fourth.
Loads of 15-pound watermelons
were sold in Palatka this week by c.
Ii. Price, the Lemon street cash gro
Ger opposite the court house, at five
cents each. They were excellent mel
ons of the Georgia rattlesnake varie-
ty. The very large sizes brought
from 10 to 20 cents each.
An excursion will enter Palatka to-
morrow from Hastings over the Fla.
E. C. R'y; the train will leave Hast
ings at s am. and returning will leave
Palatka at pm. A big delegation
of ball rooters will be along and many
people from the potato fields sur
rounding the town will be here to en-
joy the day.
Rev. DR.. Smith Harden, presiding
der of the Palatka district Of he
Methodist Episcopal church, South, is
rapidly recovering from the blood
poisoning in one of his feet and from
which he has been suffering since his
return from the general conference
of his church in Oklahoma City, in
May.
Mrs. Bryant Wilkinson died at her
home in this city at 80 on Monday,
and the interment was in Oak Hill
cemetery at 10 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. Mrs. Wilkinson was native of
Putnam county, having been born at |
Bostwick. She is survived by her |
husband and nine children, besides |
her aged mother, Mrs. G. w. Cribs.
VIM. W. Fineren of the U. S. En-
cheering Department, Tampa, was in !
the city Tuesday looking up data |
about river shipments. Secretary |
Folsom took Mr.. Fineren to our prin-
ciple shippers. Mr.. Fineren has been
gathering statistics in this State for |
the government for the last four years
He states that appropriations for riv-
er improvements depend on the vol
ume of shipments.