The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-02-06
Crescent City News

sic was by the band orchestra and
the ladies served tempting refresh
ments.
A regular meeting of the V. |. A.
will be held on Monday, Feb. 9th at
three o'clock. A full attendance is
desired as there is business of impor-
lance to be transacted. The execu-
tive board will meet at $3.50 the same
afternoon.
Messrs. L. and A. Eaton are push
ing work on the new Episcopal church
rectory and the home of the rector is
finished sufficiently to show that the
reverend gentleman will have CO.
zy home of modern DulId. 1t is of
bungalow style and is after drawings
made by Audley Eaton.
Frederick Baby, prominent citi-
zen of Detroit, and related to a promi.
nent old French family in that city,
was guest for few days last week
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Pipe. On
| Tuesday evening of last week Mr..
Pipe entertained stag party vt his
home with Mr.. Baby as the honor
guest.
DR.. H. H. Mcclellan is said to have
typhoid fever; at any rate he is quite
! i'll and has been for the past week.
At latest report he was doing nicely
and it was thought that while the
fever would run its regular course,
the doctor would likely have a mild
case. His many friends hope so.
This is the only case of typhoid fever
reported here in some time.
Hoit A. B. Catlin of Roosevelt,
| N. Y, is expected here to-day for a
stay of some weeks with his friend,
Mr.. J. H. Cort at Grove Hall. Mr..
Catlin, who is connected with the New
York customs house, is a brother of
Gen. Catlin, federal officer who
gained distinction in the civil war,
and also a brother-in-law of Gen. B.
F. Tracy, former secretary of the
navy.
Mrs. E. II. Williams entertained
the ladies of the Presbyterian church
and other friends at her home last
Saturday afternoon in aid of the
Church's mission in China and where
Mrs. Williams has sister in the work
Ice cream, cake and candy were sold
and the proceeds will be forwarded
to the mission. Ladies present praise
Mrs. Williams entertainment very
highly.
Hon. and Mrs. w. J. Webb of Bog-
ton, Mass, arrived last week to be
the guests for the remainder of the
winter season of Mr.. and Mrs. C. A.
Gowen. Mr.. Webb formerly lived i'll
Palatka for a number of years be-
tween 1883 and 1890, and of which
city he was for two terms the mayor
Since leaving Palatka Mr.. and Mrs.
Webb have been making their home
in Boston.
Miss Harris of the Florida State
College for Women in Tallahassee,
and who is representing the Agri-
cultural Department at Washington
in its work in behalf of the Girls
Canning Clubs now being organized
throughout Florida, was here on Mon
day, the guest of Mrs. L. A. Hurlbut.
In the afternoon at three o'clock Miss
Harris delivered a lecture on the sub
ject at V. l. A. hall.
Rudolph Kinard has his grocery
store in clean shape and has most
attractive stock of groceries, and
while doing strickly cash business
reports a nice trade. He has just
received very neat peanut and pop
corn rooster which turns out the
goods rapidly, and on this product he
is doing a big business with the
school kids. And there are a good
many grown-ups who are very fond
of these things and VINO are buying
them hot from the new rooster.
Mrs. C. M. Sandusky of Jackson
vile, has been the guest for some
days the past week of Mrs. R. G.
Middleton at Grove Hall. Mrs. San
dusky will be pleasantly remembered
here as Miss Carrie Hodges Of Sat.
suma Heights. Her husband, DR.. G.
NJ. Sandusky, one of the best known
eye and ear specialists in the South
formerly for a short time practiceC
medicine here as a partner Of DR.
Harry WEIGH.
Mr.. ]. H. Cort of Tenahy, u. Y.
who is one of the popular guests fol
the season at Grove Hall, busies him
self at making pen and ink jk4c:he
of the pretty .pots about town az
also sketches Of otter countries ant
places seen in his travels. Tat edi
tor of the News is indebted to Mr.
Cort for two pretty sketches, one C
which represents cot on the palace
grounds in Paris built in the time o.
Marie Antoinette. 81 have seen tn
original of this SKETCH" remarked Mr.
George Seaton, land it is so natura
that would recognize it Instantly.
Mr.. Cort enjoys himself in takin.
long strolls in the country on pleas
ant days, and it is on these stroll
that he picks up subjects for hi
sketches.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred S. Lasher o
Saugerties, N. Y, were the homo
guests at a most delightful reception
and dancing party given by Mrs. Sea
ton at V. l. A. hall last Saturda,
; night The hall was beautifully dec
grated in bamboo and palms. TIL
Crescent City band orchestra fur
nished the music for the occasion an
while the younger set danced the old
err ones played cards. Much prais
: is given Mrs. Seaton and her sor
+. Mr.. George Seaton, as hostess an
assistant. In the late. evening salad
and other delicious refreshment
! were served, the younger people pres
! ! ent acting as assistants in the serv
= ing. Some seventy-five guests wer
i present. This delightful receptio
= will go down in the social history O
the place as one of the most era
S ciously charming affairs of the kin
a ever attempted.
n Mrs. Anna Belle Read, grand ms
tron of the Order of Eastern Star /
Florida, made an official visit to tn
order here last Saturday evening &