The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-20
City Happenings and
Personal Mention.

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Mrs. H. M. Fearnside will entert4in
the Monday Bridge club next week.
A. B. Prevatt of Seville was a bus
mess visitor in Palatka on Tuesday.
y. S. Vans Agnew, well-kncwn
and leading attorney of kissimlnee
was visitor in the city Tuesday.
Col. T. S. Darling an orange grow
er of Crescent City section, was a
business visitor here on Tuesday.
John Dallow of Welaka was in the
city few hours on Monday and was
seen by number of his Pala .ka
friends.
! w. J. Stierwalt, proprietor of The
| Welaka ice factory and a leaC ng
plugger for his community was a
business visitor in the city on Tues
day.
DR.. Geo. E. WEIGH, president, and
DR.. j. G. Chandler, secretary of The
Putnam County Medical Society, hive
called a meeting ofthe society Tor
Friday night the 9th inst. at the
board of trade rooms.
Harvey H. Bard of Norwalk, who
gets to Palatka now only once and
occasionally, but who always finds a
warm welcome from host of friends,
spent part of the day here on Tues
day.
Prof. 2. II. Rolls, head of the Flor
ida Experiment Station at the Univer-
sity was in the city Tuesday for a
orlef time. Prof kolfs looks for a
record breaking crowd in Palatka
during the meeting of the State Hor-
ticultural Society next month.
A couple of cars in northbound A
c. l.. railway freight train due here
at a O'Clock tuesday, left the
track on the curve near the old wa
terWorks pumping station and made
such a miXup that the passengers of
the north and south-bound trains, due
about the same time, had to be trans
ferred. Fortunately nobody was hurt.
Judge E. E. Haskell, Chas. E. Row.
ton, geo. E. Gay, l.. A. Smith and
NV. 0. Richtman are over, at Gaines
vile this week in attendance upon
the Twentieth Annual Conclave of the
Grand Commandery, Knights Templar.
1t may be that other Palatka knights
are in attendance, but the News was
not able to learn of them
G. johnson Tucker of Georgetown,
one Of the best known and liked resi-
dents of the Fruitland peninsula, and
a candidate for County Commission
er from the First district was bust
ness visitor in the city last Monday.
Mr.. Tucker reports the prospects for
mis- success bright and as growing
| ,,.;rh+ar ! $780,. ,---- :"
Palatka is law-abiding community
and good place to live. Noble trees
shade Its streets. Its health record
IS OF the best. 1t is summer as well
as a winter resort. Northern read
ers of this paragraph should come
and spend a summer with us: then
they would know by experience some
of the real joys and comforts of "that
good old summer time"
Mrs. Salvatore Mackillop and
daughter, Miss Violet, of Wellington,
New Zealand, registered at the board
OF trade rooms on Tuesday. The
daughter was born on the island and
the mother in England. They came
via the Suez canal, and notwithstand-
ing many cities and countries visited,
like Florida and Palatka and viii
probably make this city their home.
Mr.. Mackillop has gone to work in
the Wilson mill.
Samples of Putnam county pota-
toes have been on exhibition at the
BOARD of trade rooms for six months
and are still in good condition and
capable of being cooked French fried
Or haShed brown. 1t is sometimes
remarked that Florida potatoes are
hot good keepers, and they are not,
unless placed some where out of the |
reach of Commands, as in the case
II these at the board of trade.
Henry Merkle and sister of New
York city, who spent January in Pa
iatka and February down the east
coast, are here again and will stay
until the middle of April. They have
oeen in various towns of the State,
out like Palatka best. They are fond
Of fishing and like the St. Johns for
10Th boat riding and fishing, and they
ike Palatka because with good side
walks they are able to stroll about
With comfort.
Prof. Willoughby, head of the de-
partment of animal industry in the
University of Florida, Gainesville, was
in the city Wednesday with a class of
sixteen young men, students in the
university, who are making a tour
looking over the farms and noting
he condition of stock, daring meth
DDS, trucking, ETC., or anything else
relating to advanced methods in ag-