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


purpose of going over the registration
books and striking off the dead ones"
W. R. Revels of Florahome, man
who has made small fortune dicli-
ering in cattle and lands and who is
filled with enthusiasm for his section,
was business visitor in the city on
Tueday.
Jim Ray was little fabbergasted
by the way the Bawston bean eaters
made monkeys out of his favorite
Philadelphia Athletics, but he is 60
ing right on with his ice cream busl..
ness, just the same.
The president of the Palatka Wo-
mans Club while recountiag the lead
ership of women in. several fields of
science and art, says: "The greatest
poet OF China was woman" She
might also have added "the greatest
washerwomen of China are mer."
Osceola county not only has farm
expert, but the county commission
ers are to provide him with an au-
tomobile to enable him to travel over
the county. That's a live bunch
down at Kissimmee, and the town
and county are both growing.
John H. Franklin of San Francisco,
Cal, was a guest at the Hotel Sara
toga last Monday. Mr. Franklin, it
will be remembered, came to Palatka
some years ago and married Miss
Maud Mckenzie, a young lady who
resided with her mother on Reid St.
The Palatka News announces that
it will issue big edition in the near
future, telling all about the good quail
tiles of Putnam county. Anything
that Brother Russell has to do with
is bound to be big. There is nothing
short in his make up.-St. Cloud Tri-
bune.
One only needs to take a walk
around the city to see weeds and tail
grass on every street. Seeds are now
ripening for still larger crop. If
the reader of this has something I'M
slightly in his yard, we advise him
to get rid of it and set good ex-
ample to his neighbor.
C. A. LeHardy the well-known So
cialist of this city has had his name
presented to the board of county COM
missioners by petition to be placed on
the ticket to be voted next month
as an independent candidate for the
legislature. Mr.. LeHardy is regis
tered as a alistic-democratic,
whatever that is.
State Convict Inspector R. R. Tom
lin of Plant City was in the city on
Wednesday and Thursday, a guest at
the Saratoga Hotel. During his stay
here Mr.. Tomlin inspected the camps
at Norwalk. Mr.. Tomlin was mem
Der of the House of Representatives
in the legislatures of 1911 and 1913
from Hilsborough county.
The body of the man Johnson found
in a small lake near Johnson Station
some two weeks ago and inferred,
was this week exhumed and shipped
to Philadelphia, Miss, by Mooney Il
Davis, Palatka undertakers. R. F. |
Johnson, a brother of the dead man
residing at that place came here and |
identified the body and ordered it
shipped.
Rev. Sidney ]. Cats of DeFuniak |
Springs, a Baptist preacher and life
insurance agent, who is running as a
for Governor of Florida on
4 platform demanding that Roman
priests marry and do away with the
was in the city on Tues
day circulating his literature Mr.
Cats is going to get a little adver-
Using if he never lays up cent.
The city's force of tree doctors are
BUSY with saws putting the palmet-
toes in shape for the coming of tour
lists. Now, if everybody will 90 to
work in their door yards and trim
clear away weeds there
and in the streets, Palatka will have
some style about her Things are
pretty ragged and shabby in many
spots, and this should not be so when
A very little work will remedy it. Pa
atka is very pretty city, but it can
De made prettier.
B. E. Bringeman of Pittsburg, Pa.
an old friend Of Secretary Flosom,
was in the city yesterday. He has
been in Florida several times and says
OSudllN
The new conner has Paradise ideas be.
fore he starts, and is disappointed at
first sight, but the oftener he comes
the more wonderful everything be-
comes. He says Florida is a Won
ierland and the man who takes ad-
vantage of the opportunities afforded
can do wonders.
DIR. Sarah NJ. Davis the osteopath
physician has returned to Palatka
rom summer season in Europe. DR.,
Davis says she was in Switzerland
when the war broke out, and that the
'seatest inconvenience she suffered
vas in being obliged to return steer
zee. She says she had no difficulty
n getting what money she needed,
though she had to submit. to a IS per
cent discount. Dr. Davis will spend
he winter months in Palatka as usual
)ut as yet has not decided on a loca-
ion for her office.
Down at Miami on Tuesday Kloe-
Der and Thomas, managers of the
theater, and E. J. Lynch,
ather of the Lynch trio of children,
;ong and dance artists, were arrested
or violations of the child labor laws
If Florida. The people of Palatka
will generally remember with pleas
Ire the visit of these children; they
'voked spontaneous and general APP
,lause from the crowds at Kalbfield's;
We enjoyed them, but forgot that
here was a lazy "pa" somewhere
Jack who was making an easy living
rom the labor of his bright and pref
y children. The laws of Florida
that father should earn
he living and that children should play
While the few fleeing years of child
rood are passing. These kids were
Tot being overworked and it is said