The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-05-28
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! PERSONAL AND SOCIAL 1
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Tom Russell sold his motor car
last Saturday to a Mr.. Merwin of Pa
latka.
James Padgett is making prepara-
tions to move the telephone exchange
land telegraph office into his new build
ing at the head of Central avenue.
Little William Sackett has been
spending several days in Palatka this
week, visiting his aunt, Mrs. Chas. C.
Slade.
Miss Hilda Some of Jacksonville
came on Sunday to spend few days
Of rest and recreation with her sis
ter Mrs. 7. Raymond Beggs.
The V. l. A. gave fine supper and
dancing party at the hall last night
which was largely attended and most
enjoyable. The party was for the
purpose of raising funds for the GEM
etery fence.
Miss Elsie Padgett will graduate
from the John B. Stetson University,
DeLand, next week, when she will re-
turn home. Miss Padgett has already
been engaged to teach in the public
school here the coming year.
Capt. and Mrs. S. NJ. LaBree and
Col. and Mrs NJ. H. Read drove over
to Palatka on Monday in Capt. La
Bree's automobile for the afternoon
and found entertainment in supper
at James cafe, and an evening per-
fcrmance at the Kalbfeld Grand.
Shipments of peaches go forward
every day-some to the north of us
and some to the south. But no mat
ter where they go they are bringing
good prices. R. o. Burton is another
Of Crescent City's peach growers who
is sending off good crop.
Miss Ethel Jones and her brother,
Huron, left on Saturday for their
home in Hahira, Ga. Miss Jones has
been engaged to teach again in the
Crescent City school next year, fact
that will not only please the people
but one which reflects credit on the
school board.
George Miller is expected home to-
morrow or Sunday, from the Georgia
Military Academy, from which insti-
tuition he was graduated this week af-
ter a four years course. 1t is said
that he will assist his mother in the
management Of the Beach & Miller
line.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Hurlbut and
Miss Mary Haak are to leave in day
or two for the Hurlbut summer cot
tage on the Connecticut beach, near
New London. Of course we are all
sorry to have these good people leave
us even for the few months of sum-
mer; but they seem to have gotten
the notion that they can get more en-
ioyment out of life on the northern
beach, and there is nothing for us to
do but bid 'em God speed and tell 'em
to hurry back.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd S. Tenny and
two little children of Orlando motor
ed to Crescent City on Friday last
and remained until the middle of the
present week, guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
b, f. Tillinghast. Mr. Tenny is the
general manager of the Growers 4
Shippers League of Florida, and is one
of the hustling young men who is
helping to organize the fruit and truck
growers of the state into cooperative
marketing, and who is meeting with
success. Mr.. Tenny's visit to Cres-
cent City was purely social.
The law which prohibited fishing,
except with hook and line, in the wa
tcrs of Dunn's Creek, Crescent Lake
and its tributary waters, has been re
Ipealed. The repeating act w2s passed
through the lower house of the legis-
lature on the Doth inst. on motion of
Hon. Henry s. Mckenzie. Nearly all
those VINO petitioned the legislature
for the enactment of this law two
Years ago. united in a petition this
wear for its repeal. The law was
|yaluless; men in the fishing business
along the St. Johns river paid no at
|tcntion to the law whatever, and there
was TO way to enforce its mandate.
| ]. Fairfield Carpenter expects to
leave tomorrow for his old home in
Casnovia, n. Y, to be gone for the
1 summer. Mr.. Carpenter is one Of
the energetic young men with educa-
ton and money who have recently
come among US to engage in the or
ange business and who will spend q
large part Of their brain power and
good portion of their money in
making two blades of grass grow
where only one grew before. Only
for grass you may substitute the
words fruit and truck" Mr.. Car
penter purchased beautiful place of
/ Mr.. Darling early in the winter He
expects to return early in the fall.
The two baseball games scheduled
for last week on the home grounds
failed to materialize, and for reasons
that are of no special credit to the
teams that failed to come up to the
mark. The Green Cove Springs team
was to have been here on Wednesday.
but when the club found that it could
not play a Jacksonville league (South
Atlantic) pitcher, its management ac-
CURED bad case of cold feet. Wood.
the Jacksonville pitcher, makes his
home in Green Cove Springs; he had
been temporarily suspended and was
resting at home; the club of that