The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-07
CRESCENT CITY NEWS
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PERSONAL AND SOCIAL
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VI. i. llXJOn mas purchased an du-
tomobile for pleasure riding.
Miss Mary and Master Ben Ora
ham are expected back from Summer
Haven this week.
Mrs. Oscar Cheatham has been WIS.,
ting friends in Palatka during the
past week.
Archdeacon Wyllie of Palatka Off
ciated at the Episcopal church last
Sunday morning.
E. T. Clark spent last week at Sum-
mer Haven to enjoy the fishing and
sea bathing.
Mrs. E. E. Austin left by the eaIly
train Monday for Baltimore, where
he goes to buy goods.
Mrs. 7. C. Darby left this week for
New York, taking the Clyde Line
Gamer from Jacksonville.
R. C. Williams returned from his
visit to Hot Springs on Friday OF last
week.
w. C. Norton has torn down the
old barn back of Grove Hall and VIII
erect an enlarged garage in its place.
Mrs. C. C. Slade of Palatka spent
most of the week here looking after
improvements at the home on Main
street.
Paul C. Smith spent the early days
of the week at Archer, where he was
called in connection with his banking
business.
Mrs. w. P. Field and children of
Sanford arrived last week for a visit
of some days with her brothers, W. +.
and Tim Allen.
Mrs. Roland Woodward of jack
sonville, who has been spending sew
Il weeks with her daughter, Mrs.
+. T. Clark, returned to her home
lst Monday.
L. A. Hurlbut left on Wednesday
for his summer cottage at Ocean
Beach, near New London, Conn. Mrs.
Iurlbut has been at the cottage for
some three months.
Regular morning and evening
preaching services are held at the
Methodist church each Sunday. All
the other churches are closed for the
summer.
Miss Louise Hunter has gone to
North Carolina and will visit for a
time with relatives in Union and 9TH
er points in South Carolina before
returning home.
E. N. Maui of Jacksonville was in
own Saturday. Mr.. Maui states
that his Jacksonville plant for the
manufacture of packing house machin-
ry is very busy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coe D. Smith are tour
ing New England in their automo-
bile, and the last heard from were at
Attleboro. Mass, where it is pre-
sumed they ran upon number of our
Crescent City winter residents.
Bill Sanders shot an eight-foot
alligator in Lake Stella one day last
week, the same big gator supposed
to have been soaring the children OF
the past several generations in this
place.
Capt. w. NJ. Miller, Mrs. Miller and
the children are at Summer Haven
for the balance of the summer. Capt.
Miller went around in his launch,
while Mrs. Miller and the children
went over with Mr.. and Mrs. K. {.
Middleton, in their auto.
Work is being done on the last lap
of the road to the junction and the
same is torn up so that it is closed
to traffic. This road is to be improv-
ed it's entire length during the sum
mer and fall and made ready for the
heavy traffic of the winter shipping
season.
Crescent City householders, both
white and colored should not forget
the prizes offered by the V. |. A. for
the best kept home grounds during
the summer. At present it looks as
ii Capt. and Mrs. S. NJ. LaBree
would be easy winners; their orna-
mental grounds are certainly beautl-
full.
Mrs. DR.. Hardie left on Sunday
morning for her old home in Hahira,
GA, whittier she was called owing to
the illness of her sister, Miss Ethel
Jones. Mrs. Hardie expected to go
to her old home later in the season
for months visit, and it is expected
she will be absent about that time.
Miss Jones has been i'll almost from
o,Iaria
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business trip TO Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and New York. Mr.. Mathis goes
to make his selections Oh IAN alI VIII ~
Ier E f +h m', Observation-Disclosures S He vii,
also take several side-trips out from
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