The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-06
CRESCENT CITY NEWS

Memorial M. E Church on Tuesuay,
Nov. 10th, at p. m. A full al
tendance of the ladies of the church
is requested.
DR.. L. B. Denham, the dentist, ex-
pects to move into his rev hoi.e cp-
posite Grove Hall the early part of
the coming week. He will have ris
office in his new residence an has
had the same fitted up with that in
view.
Mrs. Elizabeth Haskell has arrived
from her summer home at Pawtucket,
R. l., and announces that she will open
the Haskell House for the reception of
guests on December LIST. Mrs. Has
kell spent two or three days in Pa
latka before coming to Crescent City.
Mrs. Gilbert Evans, State Organi-
ger for the Woman's Missionary So.
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, spent Sunday and
Monday here and on Sunday evening
addressed the congregation at the
M. E. Church, organizing a branch
society.
Dave Gautier has purchased the
meat business established some weeks
ago by o. M. Newbold, and took
charge on Monday. Dave has long
had liking for the meat business
and has been awaiting an opportunity
for an opening. When it came he
was not long in siezing it. He should
do well. His place of business is in
the Chamberlin building
There will be dancing party at V.
|. A. hall next Tuesday night, Nov.
10th, with music by the Crescent City
Band orchestra under direction of
Prof. Wallace. This is to be thefrst
of a series of subscription dances Civ
en- under the auspices of the ladies of
the V. |. A. Admission, $1.25 for
gentlemen; spectators, rs cents; ladies
free. Refreshments will be served
without extra charge.
One of our early grapefruit ship
pers has his'n. He sent through
the agency of a commission house
here 120 boxes of grapefruit. The
reurns came in ON Monday, but
IHeIe was HOIlllllS lOI HllH DuG d
freight bill for 5000. His fruit is
said to have been excellent consider
ing the time of year, but he had to
suffer with the other shippers of |
green grapefruit, 1925 boxes of |
which had gone north by Oct 9th.
The ladies of the V. l. A. will give
a Cotton Party Thanksgiving night,
at which all ladies will be expected to
wear cotton costumes and the gentle
men, cotton neckties. Prizes will be
awarded to the lady wearing the pref |
test cotton costume costing not over
SO, and to the gentleman wearing the
prettiest cotton necktie. The price of |
admission for gentleman which will |
also admit lady or ladies, will be
$685.; gentlemen spectators will be
charged rs cents; no charge for la
dies. The music will be furnished by
the orchestra of the c. c. Band and
will be served without
extra charge.
The annual meeting of the Crescent |
City board of trade was held at the
Auditorium on Monday evening with
President Tillinghast in the chair. A
number of matters Of Importance
were taken up and disposed of, per
haps the most important of which |
was the report of President Tilling- |
hast of the committee charged with |
securing deeds and abstracts of the
land needed by the government in Or
der to make its contemplated improve
ments to the channel of Crescent Lake
and Dunn's Greek. The report
showed that this committee had ac-
an immense amount of
work and that there remained but lit
tie more to do. A committee con-
sisting of Messrs. Middleton, Camp
bell and Russell was appointed to
meet with the board of county COM
missioners this week and urge the
need of improved neighborhood roads
before the shipping season opened,
and especially improvements on the
road across the Lake Como scrub,
from the end of the clay road to Lake
Como. Some 81 members were pre-
sent and more than ever before was
the need of a commercial organiza-
ton made manifest. President Till
inghast and the other officers were re-
elected unanimously.