The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-10-22

F. L. Thorpe spent Monday in Bun
nell and at Dinner Island on business
for the telephone company.
Mrs. J. H. Millican entertained the
Young Maids and Matrons Club Tues
day afternoon. After the games,
light refreshments were served.
Mrs. John N. Walton is spending
the weekend at Assembly Beach, the
guest of Hon. and Mrs. W. G. Thigh
man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur r. Bauer re-
turned Wednesday from their we'd
ding trip, and are at home at the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. T.
Read, fer several days.
Mrs. Warner Hamm entertained
the Thursday Afternoon Club yester-
day at her beautiful home on River
side drive. Delicious refreshments
were served.
Miss Aaa Deaderick of Charleston,
West Virginia, is the guest of Miss
Susie Walton. Miss Deaderick was d
former Palatka resident, and she will
remain here several weeks enjoying
her friends.
The Rebekahs held a most enjoya-
BILE session Monday evening in the /.
o. o. F. Hall. After the usual rou-
tin, a new candidate, Miss Georgia
Rowan, was initiated. The rest of
the evening was spent socially.
Miss Edith Kupperbusch is the hos
tess for the Library card benefit this
afternoon. The chairmen have Sc
cured the promises of enough players
to fill six tables. After the prize is
awarded, light refreshments will be
SERVED.
Mayor w. P. Merriam left Tuesday
evening for a three-weeks' vacation,
first going to Monteagle, Tenn, where
his daughter, Dorothy, is attending
college. After a few days with her
he will go on to Detroit, Mich, and
thence to Mt. Pleasant and Saginaw
to visit his mother and sister.
Mrs. H. F. Lecks will entertain sew
en- tables at bridge, next Friday af-
ternoon, for the benefit of the library.
C. H. Price, proprietor of the City
Cash Grocery, is confined to his home
with an attack of mumps-something
he neglected to acquire in his child.
hood days over at Melrose.
The Monday Night Bridge Club was
entertained by Mrs. Charles Kupper-
busch. The lucky players were Mrs.
Warner Hamm, Mrs. S. G. Coburn and
Miss Laura Whiteside. After the
games, refreshments were served
Mrs. Warner Hamm will be hostess
for the club next Monday evening.
Miss Margaret Willard, sponsor of
the new schooner "Palatka," and Miss
Mamie Evans, left yesterday morning
for Tallahassee where Miss Willard
will resume her studies, and Miss
Evans will take up vocal and instru-
mental music in the Florida College
for Women.
AS if to make our new schooner,
the "Palatka," feel that she is not
alone, two schooners are anchored in
the river this week taking on lumber
for the Wilson Cypress Co. They are
the Gamma M. Hudson" Capt. F. J.
Morton, and the -. E. Dubignon,"
Capt. H. D. Baldwin. Both boats will
sail for New York ports. ,p
DR.. E. S. Grill, whose long illness
has been a source of great anxiety to
his family and friends, has not been
so we'll this week, though there is
nothing especially alarming about his
symptoms. Simply one of the re-
curing attacks which always seem
to leave him weaker. His daughter,
Mrs. J. H Randolph Of Savannah, ar
rived on Monday and will remain for
an indefinite stay.
County School Commissioner F. V.
Owen of Satsuma flights is one coun-
try merchant with progressive ideas
of business which he has put in prac-
tice and which is rapidly gaining him
trade from all sections of the county.
Mr.. Owen sells goods all up and down
the A. C. L. rail road. His store
was only recently greatly improved
and has an air of business which all
who pass in autos or by rail do not
fail to notice and comment on favora-
bly,.
NJ. P Walsh, late of the New
York Herald, arrived in the city this
week and will be on the staff Of Col.
Jas. R. Murphy, president of the
Florida Farms & Homes, Inc, as ad-
vertising manager. Mr.. Walsh is an
experienced advertising expert, and
after acquainting himself with the
lands of the company and its possibili-
ties, will launch winning campaign.
Mr.. Walsh is southern man. He
was born in Charleston, S. c., and
when a lad moved with his parents
to Alabama. He is a nephew of the
late Patrick Walsh, for many years
owner and editor of the Augusta
Chronicle.
The beautiful flag which the mem
bers of the Woman's Club presented
to the new schooner, "Palatka," last
Thursday, and which was gracefully
draped over the canopy of the car
loaned by Mrs. J. H. Yelverton, in
which rode the president of the club,
Mrs. Mabel Coughlin, and several of
the officers, in the morning parade,
was the object of much admiration as
the car passed through the crowds.
For several days previous the flag
with its beautiful folds of stars and
stripes, was gracefully draped in C. E.
Rowton's window. The next time the
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