The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-11-13
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mrs. Howell A. Davis, spent last
week here the guest of Mrs. o. F.
Cheatham.
Mrs. Henry G. Hubbard expects to
leave her summer home at Woods
Hole, Mass, this week for Crescent
City.
A baby daughter entered the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Graham on
Friday night last. Mr.. and Mrs. Cor
don Graham came here from Orange
Mills some four weeks ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bell of Sylvania, Ca,
are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. X.
Borson and will remain for several
weeks. Mr.. Bell is prominent
druggist in his home town.
Cool weather is making the orange
and grapefruit and tangerines to COL
or rapidly and is giving to them the
needed flavor. Price always follows
flavor.
Your new butcher, David MacGilly-
cuddye Gautier, seems to be making
a hit with the people; he keeps a
clean place and has sawdust on the
floor to show up any foreign matter.
Preston's store has been made extra
attractive during the past two weeks,
but then Preston always did keep an
attractive store. He has strung some
electric lights across the street in
front of his place.
A check for twenty-five dollars
came to a Huntington young man
as the proceeds of 223 boxes of grape
fruit sent to market already glutted
with green fruit. He won't do so any
more.
The Citrus Exchange is not in po-
sition to ply this "holier than thou
racket on Independent orange ship
pers. The first man pulled" last
season for violation of the green fruit
law was an exchange official.
DR.. L. w. Denham, dentist, moved
on Monday into his new home and of
fees, in the King residence opposite
Grove Hall. DR.. Denham has fitted
up very attractive operating rooms
and laboratory.
After all Yankee sentiment and 6
] former experience in green fruit
Juices can be more depended upon tx
cure immature fruit shipments thar
all the laws that a wicked and per
verse generation of lobbyists can ge
placed on the statute books.
y On Thanksgiving night the ladies
of the V. |. A. will give "Cottol
Party" at which all ladies are asked
to wear cotton frocks and the gen
tlemen cotton ties. No lady will b.
: allowed to dance who does not wear ;
: cotton frock entire, including the CIR
die or belt.
, The Hon. Bill Norton is to be con
|gratulated on the size and general eN
cellence of his new garage. We ais
congratulate the Hon. William Alex
ander Sturdy on the improvement l
his outlook. 1t was the latter VIII
set the pace. The Sturdy home
one of the most attractive in the tow
Alfred Clay left for Jacksonville o
Monday with the purpose of drivin
back home in a new Buick motor ca
Mr.. Clay drives Losier up in Virgin
| ia. but he thought Buick would su
his purposes here very well. 1t
said bv experts to be one of the bes
cars of this type in the market.
The ladies of the Episcopal Churc
are arranging to present an amateu
= plav at V. |. A. Hall on the night
December 1st. 1t should be remen
: bered that Crescent City has som
r All-star amateur actors and actresse
and that the coming event will b
something worth waiting for.
John Newbold, one of the old timer
of this place, now living IN Duv'
l. county, spent Sunday and Monda
v here the guest of his brother, w.
- Newbold, and saw many OF his OF
" friends Hs is engaged extensivel
l. in chicken farming near Jacksonvlll
where he has a good all year roun
market, and he looks prosperous
Mr., and Mrs. c. A. Pratt have a.
rived for the winter and are at the
l. nleasant home in the west end. The
= left Vermont about the 22d of Octobt
and have been much of the time sinC
' with their daughter, Mrs. Porter Pie
! mont in Savannah. All here are r.
ioicing over the arrival of Mr.. ar
Mrs Pratt.
At the regular meeting of the V.
A on Monday a secret ballot W;
taken to decide who shall receive tt
first and second prizes offered
> white citizens for the greatest II
il, movement in neatness and orname
tation of yard. The ballot box W
he opened on the first night of Il
motion pictures in the hall, and t
prizes will be awarded at that time
Crescent City has more pretty b
bies between the ages Of three al
nine months, in proportion to its pop
lation than any town in Florida, a
Florida babies beat the world +
= beauty. NOT going to try and me
ton 'em all by name, might skip OF
unintentionally, and that would me
- trouble.
Mrs. w. N. Ferguson, I'd vice pr
an ident of the United Daughters OF
or Confederacy of Florida, spent Sund
an here, the guest of her nephew a
It. niece, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. F, Pixton, hi
he ing come up from the annual meet
an of U. D. C. at Kissimmee, especia
n. to see them in their new home. M
Ferguson left for her home in Df
City on the noon train Monday.
- John R. Springer, son of Mr.. g
Mrs. H. S. Springer, arrived last w
and will make his home here for
least a part of the winter.
Springer was graduated last year fr
the Florida State University, in
Agricultural department, and has b
W doing some work for the Departm