The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-10-09

turned on Sunday from a two weeks
visit in New York city, a trip they
both greatly enjoyed.
C. F. Walters of Alpena, Michigan,
has been spending the week in Pala tka
ard surrounding country and is much
pleased with both.
Mrs. Marshall W. Stewart of Jack
sonville is among the ladies from
that city attending the opening at
art will spend several days in the
city visiting relatives and friends.
Mrs. F. c. Cochrane, at present
visiting her brother at Tulsa, Oklaho-
ma, expects to return to Palatka
about the 18th inst. Mrs. Cochrane
has spent the greater part of the sum-
mer in New York state.
Capt. and Mrs. S. M. LaBree, Mr..
and Mrs. C. H. Preston and Miss
Bessie A. Williams formed party
from Crescent City to come here last
night, enjoy a special dinner at
James, and see the million Dollar
Mystery" at Kalbfelds'.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. W. McGrady of
Crescent City, with their guest, Mr..
Geo. R. Ide of Washington, D. c,
were in the city yesterday, having
come down in an auto with Tom, Rus
sell. Mr.. McGrady is one of the old
and substantial orange growers of
that place, and for years he has had
the care of the grove property OF
Mr.. Ide, whose family has been inter
ested in orange culture at Crescent
City for nearly thirty years.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. S. Brown and
daughter, Miss Rena, arrived home on
Tuesday night. Mrs. Brown and Miss
Rena left Palatka early in the sum-
mer for Baltimore where they re-
NAMED some time, then Mrs. Brown
went to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Cana
da, to attend the Supreme Lodge OF
Pvthian Sisters as supreme represen-
tative from Florida. Mr.. Brown went
to their summer home, Menlo Park,
Ga. late in August, where they I'll
met and where they have been en-
toying delightfully."- cool weather Tor
several weeks.
Talk about window trimming; those
Tilghman boys at the Tilghman Hard
ware Co.'S store have the thing down
nat. They know how to take advan-
tage of local conditions to call atten-
ton to the goods inside. Their Ia
est is millinery" display ira
vesty. On regular millinery mount
ings they have lot of inverted TIN
mans and other utensils of the kitch-
en- so arranged and trimmed as to
command attention. Coming at
time ,co-incident with Palatka's annu-
al millinery openings, most people Will
see the advertising value of the dis
play.
President E. NJ. Earnest Of the board
of trade is anxious that all slgnefs
of the Chautauqua contract come out
to meeting to be held at the board
of trade rooms next Monday even
ing and arrive at some determination
as to what disposition will be made
with the matter. If the gentlemen
interested will take the advise of one
who has been stung and who is will
ing to acknowledge that he was played
for sucker and bit, they will dump
the entire proposition into a conve-
nient garbage pail. By so doing they
will be giving the party Of the first
part all that is coming to him from
either a moral or legal standpoint.
You can serve the cause of good NOR
ais and the "up-life" in no better way
Joe Dawson, young hardware
drummer of emaciated cast of coun-
tenance who makes his hCme when
MOI on the road at Orlando, was iii
Falatka this week and made his stop
at the Putnam House. Mr.. Dawson
las been travelling for one New York
fartware house for 80 years, and IS
a travelling man is the nestor to the
drummer fraternity in FlCJiia. which
is some honor for one SO young in
appearance. His house evidently
thinks a lot of him, for it has named
garden tools, shovels, pick axes, grub
hoes, curry-combs, pIows and whole
lot of other tools and implements al
ter him. On a dozen or more pages
of the firms catalogue you will run
across some tool labeled the Joe
Dawson" this or that. evidence that
he has made a name in New York rs
We'll as Florida. Every fall M.
Dawson goes to headquarters in New
York where the firm treats him as
one Of the family; gives him auto
rides, takes him to Coney Island 10
shoot the chute and enjoy other diver
sions commensurate with his style of
living here at home. Mr.. Dawson
has just returned from his annual
visit to New York.