The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-06-11

Frank D. Wattles is out again af.
ter a slight vacation at home on ac.
count of illness.
] E. Osborn of Kenwood has open.
ed a very attractive and neat soft
drinks parlor in the small room next
to the Grand Theater entrance.
Hon. Henry S. Chubb, for many
years the popular registrar of the U
S. Land Office at Gainesville, was a
visitor in the city this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. X. Merwin and
daughter, Miss Mabel, have gone to
Bloomington, ILL.,, for the summer
months.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. C. Chamberlain
and infant son Devereaux, left last
Saturday for their home in Cuthbert
Georgia.
The Florida Association of Post
masters will meet in convention t
Live Oak on June %, "a and 25. Put,
nam county is to be well represented.
A tri-city baseball league, with Pa
latka, Hastings and ut. Augustine
figuring, is proposed. Also to play
a series of Sc games, II in each of
the places named. The scheme should
go through with whooppee.
Miss Jessie Harrison Burton, agent
of the Putnam County Girls Garden
ing and Canning Club work, has been
urged by an Alabama county to take
charge of a similar work in that
State. 1t seems that really clever
agents in this line are hard to secure.
Hon. and Mrs. w. G. Tilghman have
returned from Tallahassee, making
the trip from the capitol city in their
auto. Mr.. Tilghman says he now un-
derstands why man who has been
to the LEGISLATURE once always wants
to go back. ...
Chas. Pratt Phillips of this city has
been admitted to the bar before the
NSupreme Court at Tallahassee this
week on his certificate of graduation
from John B. Stetson university, De-
Land. Mr.. Phillips will associate
himself with Judge J. C. Calhoun of
this city in the practice of his profess
sion.
The Financial Age of New York, a
publication devoted to the interests of
members of the American Bankers
Association, in it's June number, con-
tains a part of the address of Col. F.
J. H. Won Engelken of East Palatka,
delivered before the Georgia Bankers
Association in Savannah several weeks
ago.
Ticket Agent Martin of the Union
Depot told the Chamber of Commerce
the other night that man named
P. F. Tracy was anxious to open a
respectable lunch counter and restau-
rant at the Union station, and that in
all probability the A. C. L. would con-
sent, provided the people of the city
would stand for it. He asked an ex-
preston from both the chamber Of
commerce and the board oftrade.
Dear Mr.. Farmer: Don't come to
Palatka on Thursday afternoons to do
your shopping. The merchants of' the
city have united in Thursday after
noon holiday and all stores are closed
by agreement except the drug stores
and the ice cream places. These same
merchants would hate to disappoint
you-have you come long distance
and not be able to make your pur-
chases. So in arranging to come to
Falatka to do trading, arrange to
come any day but Thursday after
noon. The stores close at p. m.
Those who saw Marguerite Clark in
"The Goose Girl at Kalbheld's last
Monday will be more than apt to at
tend that theater tonight and see this
same dainty star in her bewtching
of Mary Germaine'S
"Wildfower" in four parts
be great Next Monday night Kalh-
fields will show "The New Exploits
Of Elaine" in Shadows of War. And |
on Tuesday Mary Pickford will appear
in a picturization of "Mistress Nell" /
Chas. (Dopy) Chaplin is the regular
Wednesday attraction at this popular
-heater He is the greatest comme-
iian of the age. There is a laugh N
every move Of his face and form.