The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-09-18

Mrs. w. o. Wolff of Jacksonville is
visiting at the home of her brother,
A. NJ. Haughton.
Miss Louise Curtiss of Titusvire,
who has been here on a visit to her
father, C. c. Curtiss, has returned
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Q. Tilghnlan re-
turned on Wednesday from their wed
I ding trip down the east coast by au-
tomobile.
The Selden factory has a new arte-
sian well with an estimated flow of
$50 gallons per minute, recently COM
.pleted by J. M. Evans.
Browns clothing store has been
busy this week selling the new fall
styles in hats and clothing. The
stock is being added to daily.
"Paid in Full" was the splendid pic
ture which drew the big audience at
the Kalbfield Grand on Wednesday
night in spite of the rain.
Miss Marie Merryday and Master
Harlow Merryday of Daytona Beacn
are spending a few days in the city
visiting relatives and friends.
A little son was born to Mr.. and
I Ms. E. Chamberlin, nee Pansy Dew
ereuX, at their home in Cuthbert, Ga,
on Sunday last, the 18th inst.
Prof. Land has been in st. Angus
tine this week On business connected
with the Palatka Business College.
,, which draws its students from all over
Florida.
Lexington Barstow expects to leave
next Monday for Gainesville where he
will enter the State University with
the purpose of taking a course in
electrical and mechanical engineering.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. S. O'Haver of Ter
re Haute, Ind, are the guests of MIR
and Mrs. C. ]. OHavcr. l. is stated
that they are here with the view of
locating permanently. w" hope 50.
There were eleven pupils in the Pa
latka high school last spring who were
advanced from the tenth to the elev-
enth grade. Of these eleven, six have
already left the city to enter other
schools More will follow.
H. P. Schuyler of Frankfort, Indi-
ana, was in the city Thursday and
went to Bostwick to look over some
property Mr.. Schuyler formerly liv-
ed in Montana, which he says was too
cold, and now he is going to try Flor
ida, the land of sunshine and flowers.
Mrs. Lillian S. Knight, who is now
at Brockton, Mass, has sent to some
of her friends here post cards show
ing the crowd attending the Brock
| ton Fair and Horse Show. She writes
expressing the hope that the East
Florida Fair Association may have q
good turn out of people and fine
display of products.
Mr. and Mrs. E. NJ. Earnest are ex-
pected back from New York today.
They have been busy in the metropo-
lis picking out goods for the Earnest
Co. and many Of these have been ar
irving every day during the past two
or three weeks The Earnest Co. is
preparing for a big business this fall
and as an evidence Of faith has pur-
chased an immense and especially
fine stock in each of its several de-
partments.
Grand Chancellor Robt. f. Davis of
Gainesville, assisted by District Depu-
ty Grand Chancellor, J. Edward Lu-
cas- and the rank team of St. Johns
Lodge, X. of P, will go to Green
| Cove Springs on the afternoon of the
| 23d inst. and institute a Pythian lodge
in that place The Palatka party will
! go down that afternoon on the steam
er Lavinia and the Noah Tilghman
launch, Etawah. Some others of the
local lodge will go.
E. NJ. Albro, Sr. the well-known
carpenter met with a serious accident
last Monday afternoon. While stand
ing on ladder in front of J. H.
street, he fell with the ladder, sus-
and cutting a bad cash in his head.
He was picked up in an unconscious
condition and removed to his home in
Bungalow Park, where his injuries
were dressed.
Miss Agnes Harris head of the
Girls Canning Club work in Florida,
and connected with the department of
household economies in the Florida
College for Women, Tallahassee, was
in the city yesterday; here to meet
Miss Jessie Burton, county agent and
arrange for the work in Putnam coun-
ty Miss Harris is an exceptionally
bright young woman and it is through
her efforts that the present interest
in the Girls Canning Club work in
Florida has been aroused.
Tomorrow a crowd of eminent Pa
latkans, including Messrs. Chas. H..
Sieg, H. C. Bailey, Fred Higgins, A.
C Brabrook, T. H. Higgins, c. y.
Powers, and S. ]. Hilburn, with Hon.
H. L. Anderson and Dewitt 7. Gray
of jacksonville, A. J. Albritton of
Ocala and Fred Turner of Bunnell,,
will leave for Chicago, where Mr. Hill
burn and the other lawyers in the
party will argue in Sieg case before
the U. S. District Court commissioner.
They will be absent some ten days.
IL At the meeting of the board of
trade governors on Monday night res
olutions introduced by M. M. Vickers,
condemning the government for its
monopoly in the printing of envelopes
and calling for relief from our con-
gressmen, was passed. F. D. Wattles
l also had resolutions urging our rep
! resentatives in the legislature to work
I for a one mill tax levy for county a.
vertising purposes. Other states that
are making rapid development are 90
ing this thing and getting results,
and Mr.. Wattles thinks why not
Florida.
H. L. Chase of East Palatka has
Y filled his new 100-ton silo with ensI-
. lage (fodder) for the feeding of his
cattle through the winter months. The