The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-05-22
Gity happenings and
Personal mention.

Miss Dora Pelote of Arcadia speu
several days in Palatka last week tn
guest of Miss Katie Barstow.
Mrs. Stewart Worden entertaine
the Thursday Bridge club yesterda
afternoon.
Chas. Solana, prominent citizen O
san Mateo, was among the visitors il
the city this week
Mrs. F. E. Reeder and little son O.
Welaka were in the city Tuesday
guests at the Saratoga Hotel.
w. F. Rogero was prominent amons
tire San Mateo visitors in the city O:
Tut .'day.
Miss Nellie Jackson entertained Z
humber of her friends at an informa
dinner last Saturday evening.
! Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Padgett Of
Grandin spent Saturday in the city
shopping.
R. M. Burt has retired from the edi.
torial management of the Hastings
Journal, and that paper has lost a
most valuable man.
M. Dixon whose business affairs
keep him in Atmore, Ala, much of the
time arrived last week to spend few
days with his family.
County Judge Haskell returned or
'londay from professional engage
ncnt of some ten days in st. Louis,
No.
Mrs. M. F. Benet and her sister,
Mrs. H. D. Wilson, of Valley Head,
Ala, who is spending some time visit
ing here, spent Tuesday sight seeing
in st. Augustine
The Ninth Grade of the Palatka
High School enjoyed a picnic at Sill
ver Lake last Saturday. This is one
of the most beautiful picnic spots in
Florida.
Ilr. Herbertt Crook of Palatka, for
merry grand master of the K. OF ! =,
o,.d at one time citizen of our city,
was in Ocala Monday, renewing Old
acquaintances.-Ocala Banner.
Mrs. Hickman Collins entertained
charmingly yesterday afternoon at an
auction and progressive 500 party in
honor Of the ride-to-be, Miss Maud
Fry.
The County school board will hold
its June meeting on Monday, the 1st
of June, instead of on Tuesday, the
I'd because of the teachers examina-
tons.
Miss Susie Lee Walton was the
leader of a most interesting meet
ing of the Ladies Missionary Society
at the home of Mrs. Geo. E. Welch
on Monday.
Miss Lenora Purcell of Chicora col
lege for young women, Greenville, n. |
c., arrived home Tuesday evening and
will spend the summer with her par
ents, Rev. DR.. and Mrs. j. w. Purcell. |
Miss May Solana, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Matthew Solana Jr, of San
Mateo, was married on Wednesday af-
ternoon to Mr.. A. H. Farrell. The
ceremony at the home of the brides
parents was solemnized by Rev. DR..
Brown of Hastings.
Miss Katie Barstow attended the
of Pi Cappa Delta frater-
nifty at John B. Stetson University,
DeLand, last Friday, and while there
was initiated a member of the Delta .
Delta Deltas, one of the most promi-
lent college fraternities in the Unit
ed States.
X. Borson, X. NJ. White and C. H.
Curtiss, prominent men of Crescent
City, guests at the Saratoga Hotel on
Sunday, having come over from the
orange city in Mr.. Whites touring car
Prof. Dana Walden has arrived in
he city from an extended series of
engagements over the
country and will remain some time
With Mrs. Walden.
Lew Barstow was host to pretty
given at the home of
lis parents last Tuesday night in hon
II of the Senior and Junior classes Of
he Palatka High School. Music and
yames were the order of the evenings
and the rooms were hand
lonely decorated in the school coiors
If yellow. Games were also played.
After which delicious refreshments
we're served.
Davis Lane has returned from his
irst years study in Davidson Col
eye, North Carolina. Davidson is
me of the oldest colleges in the South,
md likewise one of the strongest. A
picture taken on the college campus
hows several hundred of the south's
brightest young men students. This
picture Mr.. Lane will be pleased to
how any of his friends or those in
crested. 1t shows magnificent ar
ay of college buildings.
Palatka is contributing $1,000
month to its baseball team and those
Who go up against the aggregation
nay expect to meet some near bic
eague talent. Lew. Barstow, the
principal star of the Gem City pitch
ng staff this season, is a Palatka-
cared young man, we'll known in
'caia, having appeared in several !
ames here last season, and il is the
pinion of those who know the game :
hat the young man is destined for l
professional career as a twirlcr. l
.arstow has speed and excellent con-
rul Of the ball.-Ocala Star.
Emil Held, editor and manager of {
he Florida School Exponent, was
.isitor in the city on Tuesday. NJ. q
1eld is arranging to issue a special \
lumber of the Florida School journal t
nd preparing to conduct a tour of
florida boosters to the great educa-
!onal convention to be held in Mime
polls, Mimi, in July. 1t is the pur-
-ose of the boosters and Mr.. Held,
Who will personally conduct the tour,
0 secure the next national education
| convention for Florida, and with
his in view he will take great free
Xibit of Florida products. :