The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-10-16
Reunion OF
Florida Veterans

| and eniOyed a monster f1Sh Try prepaT-
ed by the people of Green Springs.
hard times out in the country.
It became known in Washington, d.
c., that the treasury department is
working on plans submitted by the
friends of naval stores producers IN
Florida for immediate financial relief.
! II also became known that, during the
past day or two, several important
conferences have been held by those
interested, with Secretary McAdoo and
others relative to the matter.
The handsome building of the First
National bank of Pensacola forming
the assets of that suspended institu-
| ton, was sold at public auction by
Receiver w. H. Milton and was
bought in by w. w. Downing OF
Brewton for $7S,625. The only other
bidder was the National Bank of Com
merce of Pensacola which now occu-
pies the building The price paid was
over $4,000 more than offered sew
eral months ago when the building was
offered for sale.
On the docks in Fernandina, in the
afternoons when the shrimp boats
have come in, it is no unusual thing
to find some fisherman who has a fish,
the name or species of which he can
not ascertain. These fish are many
shapes and sizes, and some are hid
eous to look upon, one fisherman de-
scribing one of the fish caught in his
net said: at started to become toad
and changed its mind.
Concluding one Of the most spirited
municipal campaigns in the history
of that municipality, Mayport voters
named the officers for the ensuing
term from mayor down, A. ]. Floyd be-
ing elected mayor over James d. Cav,
igan, the new members of the city
council being w. ]. King, Fred Tora-I
! BILE, Sam Floyd, ]. D. Mccormick andI
A. Greenberg.
| By unanimous vote the county com
missioners appropriated $1,000 to the
Alachua County Fair association to be-
used in advertising and exploiting the
big exposition which is planned for
November II to 20, inclusive.
Coal shipments by water to Boca
Grande, down the coast, have been
inaugurated here and the first cargo
will go out on the steamer Dorothy,
which began loading about 5000 tons
by rail. The coal is coming from
the Alabama fields and If it proves
satisfactory it will mean a continuous
contract for the local shipper. The
coal is being loaded into the vessel
from the Muscogee wharf chutes and
therefore can be taken aboard quick
ly and at a small cost.
At the regular monthly meeting of
the city council of Barlow, Council
men Tate, Burrows and Clark were
lappointed a committee to ask for bids
for the new city hall, to cost $4,000
Early in the year bond issue OF ST.,
500 was authorized for city hall and
site and recently very desirable
lot on Parker street extending IRON
Central to Wilson avenue and adJoln
, ing the one on which the federal gov
eminent will erect a $4,000 postoffice
building. 1t is probable that both the
postoffice and the city hall will b'
begun within few months, the gov
f eminent several weeks ago havint
ordered the buildings then occupyin!
: the proposed site RACED and the debris
removed, and the funds for the cit.
hall are also available.
TYi+ Cd Stotn
( demonstration agent for the Eas
J Florida district, was at Palatka Ell
/ route to Gainesville from Dade coun
) ty. He has been down there for
week or two inspecting the citru
aanker situation and says it is SER
Gus. The disease is difficult to recog
lize in its early stages, and even tn
experienced man would take it 70
scab. Every known form of spra
has been used to kill it but withou
. success. The only remedy so far
to burn the tree. The canker to thi
time has confined it's operations large
ly TO grapefruit and tangerines
O Long in doubt, uncertainty and dt
> pute, the county line may be establish
o ed once and for all in the near futur
q If the cooperation Of the state an
- Monroe county is secured by the Dad
o county commissioners. This boar
: passed resolution asking the stat
!, to appoint an engineer to run the Lin
!, between the two counties and askin
= Monroe county to take part in tt
~ movement for the establishment Of
- boundary line.
~ A means to increase the membersh
=, OF the Agricultural and Market B
- reau Of Duval county and the probab
effectiveness of an agricultural exhih
y, being held showing the products
y the county, were some Of the impol
y ant things talked over at the meetir
of the agricultural committee of Il
10 Jacksonville board of trade. The boz
y, also decided to urge the board of &C
q" ernors of the board of trade to Ian
III if possible, the National Vegetah
'e Growers association convention
next year.
he Lakeland took another step on t
III road of progress by voting bonds
the sum of S165,OOO; S19O,OO0 of viii
III is to be used in enlarging the Zig
and water plants and extension
lines; $4,000 for equipping Morr
Memorial hospital and $4,000 for t
M Improvement and enlargement of t
~ fire department.
~ Wear cotton gowns and advertise
ed special cotton fabric day are the t
things now being most talked of
the women and by the merchants
jacksonville, following the examl
"a. h. thn rrnrnnn of Washinrtnn q