The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-04-17
Crescent City News

week.
Miss Elsie Padgett returned from
Stetson University last week to be
with her mother, Mrs. James Padgett,
Jr., who has been seriously i'll, but
who is now on the road to recovery.
In the town election on Tuesday the
regular ticket was elected. In fact
there was no opposition to the nomi-
nees except in the case OF clerk and
collector, which was contested by G.
E. Gutteridge, running independent,
and who received II votes against AZ
for Albert Edward Lounds. regular.
The ticket is as follows: Mayor, G.
E. Graham; clerk and collector, A. y.
Lounds; assessor and treasurer, w.
H. Fuller; aldermen two years, Cliff
ford Hunter, K. Borson, L. G. Preston;
alderman one year, E. H. Williams;
marshal C. j. Hunter.
The marriage of Miss Ursula Grace
Stockmann, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. F.. Stockmann of Grasselli, Ind,
and Crescent City, to Mr.. Eugene A.
Pierson of Pierson, Fla, occurred at
the Stockmann winter home here on
Sunday evening last. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. S.. |. Henrik
of the Methodist church and was wit
messed by only members Of the inn
mediate family. The bride, in the
absence of her father, was given away
by her brother, Clair Stockmann.
The happy couple took the midnight
southbound train for trip, and will
make their future home at Pierscn,
Tia, where the groom IS engaged in
business.
On Tuesday evening next, April Fl,
an important meeting will be held in
this place. To this meeting all cit
rus fruit growers in the Fruitland pc
ninsula are invited. 1t is expected
that Lloyd S. Tenny, the secretary
manager of the Florida Growers and
Shippers League, will be present and
explain what his organization is doing
Cor the benefit Of the fruit and vege-
table growers. The largest and most
progressive growers in the state, in
the Citrus Exchange and outside that
body, are working to make conditions
better and the industry more profit
able. The fruit growers of Crescent
City and vicinity cannot afford to
miss hearing Mr. Tenny whose bust
ness it is to help them out of trouble
Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Weeks and Mr..
Brown, among the most popular of
our\winter residents, and who have
been making their home for the past
six months at the Turner House, left
e. +bo;, bnr1on of
Galesburg, Ill. Mr.. and Mrs. Weeks
and Mr. Brown have valuable grove
properties near Hammond station and
their fruit this year was the cleanest
shipped from this section. There
was no white fly smut to mar the
brightness of the fruit. Their crop
prospects for the coming year are al
so very bright. These pleasant peo-
pie, for many years interested here,
will be greatly missed, but there is
Joy in the knowledge that they will
return, providence permitting, early
in the autumn.
Louis Funk died at the home of
his brother, Nicholas Funk, on the
night of the 9Th inst. after long ILL
ness. His funeral occurred on the
following day in the afternoon and
was conducted by sRev. S. l. Hendrix
of the Methodist church. The inter-
ment was in Eden cemetery. Louis
Funk has been an invalid for many
yeards. Some seventeen years ago
he suffered what was then called a
sunstroke. The following year while
engaged in clearing a field and burn
ing stumps, he was overcome and fell
with his head to the fire, and was ter
ribly burned about the head before
being rescued. For a time after his
recovery from the burns he was able
to do light work, but for the last four
years he has been dependent upon his
brother. He was great sufferer.
! A severe hail storm passed over the
town one day last week doing some
damage to trees and shrubs and gar
dens. In certain sections it is known
to have done great damage to peach
crops, though there are but few ex-
tensive peach orchards in this neigh
borhood. At Huntington the storm
was at its height, and Mr.. Walter
CARTRIDGE is afraid great damage has
been done to his growing orange crop
South of the town there was no hail
The storm of hail was followed by a
good rain. The hail in Marion coun-
ty was more disastrous to growing
crops, but even the reports were
greatly exaggerated. The Ocala Star
states that one excited person sent the
following dispatch to the Tampa Tri-
bune: 1.-THE terrific hail storm was &C
companied by furious wind, which
uprooted oak, hickory and magnolia
trees with trunks as big around as
whiskey barrels, and hurled them
through the air like chaff for dis
lance of fifty yards or more
The hail stones not only pelted thru
the roofs of houses, but in some in
stances bored their way through the
sides like cannon balls IN lombard
ment. The hailstones, or at least
many of them,were not spherical as
in ordinary cases, but were in all
sorts of shapes, ragged and jagged
and seem to have frozen together, SC
to speak, before hitting the ground
and fell in blocks. In low places
the ground was covered to depth
of three feet, and twenty-four hours
after the catastrophe the ground was
still covered over twelve inches thick