The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-12-17

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL
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10 your christmas shopping soon
er.
DR.. and Mrs. Beggs were visitors
to Palatka on Monday.
! Mrs. Carrier is on a visit to her
son, W. B. Carrier, in Winter Haven.
Mrs. L. A. Hurlbut entertained the
Carlyle Glass most delightfully."- last
week.
| Prices of fruit as shown by returns
to shippers are better than last year.
In some cases they are satisfactory;
in other cases there is lack of salts
faction.
Louis Newsome left for his
home in La Gloria, Cuba, last Sunday
He will make stops at st. Petersburg
and Tampa, and expected to sail for
/ Havana from the latter city some day
this week
R. B. Bethel has purchased Of
Chester Nortons agency an Overland
touring car of the 1916 pattern, and
Miss Eva Bethel is driving it and the
whole family is getting added pleas
ure from its use.
Four thousand dollars in cash was
paid out at the Crescent City packing
houses last Saturday afternoon. This
does not include the checks paid out
by the Exchange packing house or
by Crutchfeld & Voolfolk. 1t
was cold cash
Mr.. and Mrs. X. Borson and Miss
Carolyn Stone motored to Palatka on
Monday to do some Christmas shop
ping. The editor also enjoyed the ride
down with the party and is under OBJ
legation to Mr.. and Mrs .Borson for
most delightful outing.
Mrs. W. NJ. Chenery, neighbor
of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. H. Libby, of
Portland, Maine, came with them to
spend the winter, and is already q
most popular parsonage socially.
Mrs. Chenery is delighted with Ores.
cent City and can be counted on in
the years to come as one more of
our staunch friends and missionaries
in the northland.
Friends here of Mrs. L. w. Denham
will be glad to know that she is
rapidly improving from serious OPP
Grafton at the DeSoto Sanitarium,
Jacksonville, several weeks ago. Mrs.
/ Denham was taken to the home of
her mother, Mrs. C. B. Hodges, last
week Wednesday, where she will make
her home. Mrs. Hodges lives at
1926 Liberty street, Jacksonville.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. Cary of Mas
sachusetts arrived last week ana
have again opened their pleasant win
ter home on Summit street. With
them this year to spend the winter
is Mrs. Margaret F. Moves, friend
also from Massachusetts. Mr.. and
Mrs. Shattuck of Michigan, who
usually spend the winter with Mr..
and Mrs. Cary, will not come down
until after the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. S. Owen of Frank
lin, Tenn, expect to spend the holl-
day season here the guests of Miss
Bessie A. Williams. Mrs. Owen will
be best remembered in Crescent City
as Miss Bowman for several years
assistant principal of our high school
and popular with all children and
grown-ups. Possibly the visit of no
one at this time would create as gen
eral pleasure as the anticipated visit
of Mrs. Owen.
This afternoon at Grove Hall the
Ladies' Aid Society of the Presby-
terrain church will entertain all friends
with a social tea and sale of aprons.
The tea feature is called a "Silver
Tea" In other words you sip the
tea and lay down bit of silver mon
ev. This money goes in aid of the
church work. The invitation is to
all. and the ladies are hoping that
there will be a universal response to
their universal invitation. From to
) this afternoon.
4 Can't Geo. U. Beach of Savannah
spent Monday and a part Of Tuesday
here. ccompanicd on his visit by Mr..
Howard Ball Of Weedsport, N. Y.
cant Beach is one of the founders OF
tte Beach & Miller Line, selling his
interest in 1895 and going to Savan-
nah, where he has made a fortune OPP
Grating a line of steamers between Sa-
.va7noh and Beaufort. s. c. He has
= warm spot in his heart for Crescent
civ where he lived from 1880 to
1893. and expressed himself with
M, ~ tho advanrement made here