The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-11-05
Mrs. George w. Bassett is GONZALES
cling from a recent malarial attack.


Mrs. George w. Bassett is GONZALES
cling from recent malarial attack.
Judge Cone of San Mateo was d
business visitor in the city on Wednes-
day.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. 7. J. Bar
nett entertained one of the Tea Cycles
given for the benefit of the Children's
Home, in Jacksonville.
Miss Adah Coughlin has returned
to her home in st. Augustine after
few days visit with her brother, D.
J. Coughlin.
Mrs. J. E. Lucas and little daughter
returned to Palatka Friday, from an
extended visit with relatives in Gale
donia and st. Louis, Missouri.
Mrs. Isabelle McNitt went to MUIR
ray Hill, Jacksonville, Monday after
noon and will be the guest of DR..
and Mrs. C. M. Afford for week.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Pres
byterian church will hold a meeting
with Mrs. Lillian S. Knight, next
Tuesday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
Miss Roberta Branch has returned
to her home in Orlando, after a sew
eral weeks visit with Mrs. Aston
Halle. While here, Miss Branch was
the recipient of many social favors.
E. H. Williams, leading orange
grower of the Crescent City district
and chairman of the board of school
trustees in that place, was in Palat-
ka on Tuesday, having business with
the county school board.
Thos. J. lies of Crescent City, or
ange grower and manager of the Max
well motor car agency for Putnam
county, was in the city on Wednes-
day with Mrs. lies, driving over in
their Maxwell touring car.
Col. Henry Strunz, the well-known
attorney, who has been enjoying an
extended trip in the west and in New
England, has returned to Palatka and
is again in his office in the Law Ex-
change building.
Mrs. C. H. Williams, whose home
is in Palatka, but who spent the sum-
mer months in New York and Ohio,
returned to the city this week and IS
with her niece, Mrs. w. P. Merriam
Mrs. Williams will make her home
with F. H. Wilson and family.
Col. H. A. Ford of Mulberry, form
er general superintendent of the At
lantic Coast Line, and for a time a
popular resident of Palatka, was in
the city one day this week. Col.
Ford was on his way home from at
tending the funeral of the late Capt.
W. B. Denham.
w. J. Bryan of Carraway was a
visitor in the city on Wednesday.
Mr.. Bryan is one of the old Confed-
crate veterans and wears with pride
his "Cross of Honor" to the Lost
Cause. He attended the meeting of
Confederate veterans at Ocala last
week and enjoyed his association with
the old soldiers very much.
Rev. c. M. Afford, D. D. will preach
next Sunday morning and evening in
the Presbyterian church, morning sub
ject, "What Is Truth" Evening
subject, "The Worlds Cry" Sun
day school meets at 9:45 a. m. Pray
err meeting on Wednesday evening at
1880 o'clock. The public is invited
to all these services.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. S. Brown and
their guest, Mrs. Ross, Miss Rena
Brown, and DR.. Leroy and Mr.. Sidney
Brown enjoyed an automobile trip
last Sunday to Crescent City and 9TH
er points on the peninsula, including
Welaka. 1t was pleasant day and
all enjoyed the trip immensely. Mr..
Brown was especially delighted with
Crescent City and Welaka. "These
are certainly pretty places" said he.
John Mallem has opened new de.
pertinent at his store and one which
ought to appeal to many people in
this town. 1t is a lunch and coffee
counter-a place where a busy man
or strangers in town can get a cup
of hot coffee and sandwich, or other
light lunch at a minimum of cost.
John Mallem knows how to prepare
these things and as the place is to be
kept scrupulously neat and clean, he
should do a good business from the
start. Anyway The News commends
him for his enterprise and like every
body else in Palatka, wishes him we'll
in his undertaking.
Mrs. J. L. Dunsford who has been
spending several months in Canada,
returned to the city Saturday. Mrs.
, Dunsford gives vivid account of the
war preparations that she witnessed
While there. One day she witnessed
the drilling of twenty thousand troops
on the open field. Another day she
witnessed the leave-taking of hun
dreds of soldier boys for France. She
said it brought the war too near
home and she could not look upon the
scene at the station where fathers.
brothers and sweethearts parted, per-
haps for the last time. Down in
this peaceful country we can scarce
ly realize that war is a grim reality.
C. B. GWvnn for the nas+ 5E ,,aaps