The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-10-29

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Putnam county game warden, was
visitor here on Sunday.
Starting Padgett has purchased T.
j. Hes Overland motor car, and Mr..
lies has purchased new Maxwell mo-
tor car of the 1916 model.
Miss Bessie A. Williams has return
ed from an extended visit in north
ern New York state and other parts
of the north and east.
Miss Alice Carnes, student in a
private school in Jacksonville spent
the weekend at the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. V. Carnes.
Mrs. Gordon Graham has opened
% cent restaurant in the Mccormick
building at the foot of Central ave-
nue..
Parson Brown oranges will be leav-
ing in few days; they are still
green, of course, but they will easily
pass the test for acid and sugar.
Rev. R. S. Burris has purchased a
Ford motor car. This week he and
Mrs. Burris with Mrs. Denham, who
has been their guest, left for trip to
Jacksonville.
Don't forget the Halloween party
of the Tennis Club at V. l. A. hall to-
night. There will be ghost dances
and other appropriate amusements,
| tCs,ether with supper.
Miss Florence Johnson, who has
been spending the summer in Illinois,
returned last Friday and has opened
her home for the winter. Miss Ken
dali expects to spend the winter with
her.
Mrs. Fiske-Cannon of Jacksonville,
an experienced modiste, arrived in
the CITY last week and will open a
dress making parlor over Miss Bessie
Meals millinery store. Mrs. tlske-
Cannon has fitted gowns for num-
Der of our ladies in the past and her
ability is well-known.
A Younger brother of Mr.. Fair
field Carpenter arrived last Satur-
dav and will remain for the winter.
Fairfield Carpenter, who purchased
tie Darling grove last winter is eX-
pected this week, with his mother.
The family have taken the Monroe
Harris house on Park street for the
winter.
Miss Addie McGrady, now teach
err in the public school at San Mateo,
accompanied by Miss Turner of that
place, spent the weekend with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. j. McGrady.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. McGrady drove
to Palatka in their automobile on Fri
day last, having as guests for the trip
Mr.. and Mrs. j. ]. McGrady.
Quite a number from this place
went to Palatka on Sunday last to at
tend the funeral of DR.. E. S. Grill.
Among the number were Maj. j. l..
Burton, accompanied by his daugh-
ter, Miss Jessie Burton, and Mrs.
Mary Scott Miller; Messrs. Her F:
Babers, j. H. Harp and L. Eaton, and
w. A. Russell.
Miss Ethel Jones arrived last week
to take her place in the public school,
having been detained through illness
at her parents home in Georgia.
Miss Jones is not only popular as a
teacher, but socially, and her return
is occasion of much pleasure among
her numerous friends. Miss Jones Is
making her home with Mrs. W. M.
Miller on Prospect street.
Blaine SILVER and j. c. Turner own
very fine citrus nursery llttle
south of town on the clay road, and
this contains some splendid buds of
the various varieties Of oranges, such
as Parson Browns, Ruby Bloods'
Harris late, Pineapple, etc, etc. AS
well as grapefruit and tangerlnes.
They should do a big business in this
section the coming months. 1t Is a
little hazardous for local growers. 10
send away for nursery stock, especial,
/ " in these days of citrus canker ana
other diseases, which experience mas
shown to have been spread through
buving stock from outside nurseries.
This local nursery has some fine stock
An item in the Crescent City cor
respondence of the Times-Unlon tells
ms that Mr.. and Mrs. Mullbull haYe
returned to their home here and are
ENJOYING it. Of course they are; the
home life of the Mullbulls was al
ways enjoyable, and a pattern in do
mesticity to all of us. The Mullbuils
are an old family here-one of the
first families, you might say-and
whenever the name is mentioned your
thoughts invariable turn to the home
Old Zeke Mullbull built the first oys-
ter wagon here, way befo' the war,
when oysters were not so tame as
thew are now and frequently sneaked
ND the creek and into the lake, and
lZeke used to catch and peddle 'em
round through Huntington and Den
yer and their environs. This was be-
fore Crescent City was located. Os-
car Mulbul is the man who discooV-
cred the mulberry (wh!cA beals his
name) by simply buddin' If the old
fashioned dewberry bud into a barb
ed wire fence post back in the '"es.
Jim Mullbull the present-day repre-.
sentative of the family and man OF
home habits. frequently gets the boys
together and tells how in his boyhood
DAYS he lister drive OK cart, and how
Inv a stickin' close to business and alb
stainin' from liker, stayin' at home
and savin' his money, he was at last
able to buy a automobile and go away