The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-06-26
Crescent CITY News

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Palatka this week.
Train 80 over the A. G. L., north
bound passing Crescent City Junction
in the late afternoon, will soon be
scheduled to stop at the junction for
Crescent City passengers. A letter
to Mr.. E. L. Mathis from w. J. Craig,
general passenger agent of the line, is
our authority for this statement.
Mrs. Maude Barron, of the DeLand
high school, left this week for brief
visit at Palatka. Next week she and
Mss Constance Waterman sail from
! Jacksonville for New York City. The
daughter Miss Inez Barron, in charge
OF the Latin department of college
at Clinton, S. c., the past year, will
nect them in New York City, all 60
ing to Hague, beautiful summer re-
sort On Lake George in New Yorll
state, where they will be until Sep
tember.--Volusia County Record.
W. F. Glynn received on Tuesday
a telegram from Monson, Mass, an
nouncing the death of his aunt, Miss
Fanny M. Warren, following a recent
attack of pneumonia. Miss Warren
will be remembered as having spent
the winter of 1928 at Grove Hall,
and her lovable character and charm
of manner endeared her to all who
came in contact with her at that time.
Her whole life was unselfshly devot-
ed to the care of those about her. Miss
Warren was 81 years of age. The
burial will be at Brattleboro, vt.
j. W. F. Hodges, former resident
Of the peninsula and who once resided
here, has been refused a pardon by
the State board of pardons. Hodges
killed old man Hughes over on the
Fruitland road in front of the Bradt
place some few years ago and in 1911
was convicted of manslaughter and
sentenced to nine years in the peni-
tertiary from the Putnam circuit
court. His crime at the time caused
a feeling of horror in all this section
Hodges evidently doesn't like his pres
ent abode, and neither does his vic
tim, presumably.
Nothing has so far come of the eff
forts of Mr.. Burr to organize branch
of the Florida Citrus Exchange in this
community, though several have ex,
pressed a desire to see such branS-
organized. The experience of the last
local exchange and its bad manage.
ment has been dampener on any
prospects the exchange may have hac
here and will take years to live down
Too bad that a good organization
should have had such luck in Crescent
City. A few men will ship through
the exchange during the coming year
but they will put up their own fruit
under exchange methods.
Some thirty years ago the people
living here had to go to Palatka fol
their ordinary supplies. The trip was
made there and back in row boats by
one or two men, who did the neigh
borhood buying. From twenty t
| twenty-four hours were required fol
the round trip. The stocks carried
by Palatka merchants in those days
were not equal to those carried by To-
4 cal merchants now. Today the store!
of Crescent City carry complete lines
of general merchandise and some Of
our merchants specialize in certain
lines fully as completely as do mer
chants in any Florida city. What ha!
brought about this change? 1t GER
tainly has not been the spirit tina
prompts residents to patronize thu
mail order houses for all the items O
household necessities that are no
perishable, and which holds up it,
hands in horror if the local dealeI
does not have fresh fruit, vegetables
butter, eggs, bread, fresh meats, ant
the score of other articles which, i
the place was deprived of, would un
der the present style of living, maxi
q residence here unbearable. Th
Crescent City merchants are entities
to first consideration at the hands d
he ouying public, When you contem
plare sending an order out of towh
suppose you go to the local merriam
who serves you best and let him maxi
his prices on a quantity order, 10
, cash. If he is able to satisfy You OF
the prices, give him the bushes;
Keep the money at home. 1t will b.
time enough to send your order ava!
after the home merchant has had hi
chance and has failed to satisfy you
The merchants here are progressiv
and quick to see a point-giwe them
chance. They have helped mightil!
in making the town what 1t is.