The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-05-21
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Heavy rain and hail storm Monday
afternoon.
Mrs. NJ. S. Miller and daughter, Miss
Abbijean, spent Tuesday and Wednes-
day in Jacksonville.
Fuller the cobbler has closed his
shop and gone north for the summer
season.
Prof. Wheatley will spend the sum-
mer vacation at his old home, Lex
ington, Ky.
The Crescent City ball club is going
to lose H. Hahira Jones, who leaves
this week for his old Georgia home.
The Presbyterian church has order
ed fine new organ of the Estey make
with pipe tones. The choir will not
be changed until fall.
Mrs. E. T. Clark and two little
children left on Tuesday for a visit
of some days with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Roland Woodward, at Man
DARN.
Col. Sturdy is the happiest man Of
his years in town. He has a fine
garden, and hennery full of fresh
eggs and fried chicken, and all he has
to do is cultivate and eat them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul C. Smith drove
their motor car over to Archer, AL
achua county last Sunday, spending
the night with their daughter, Mrs.
Roy P. Perkins, and returning home
on Monday.
Train No. 85, on the A. C. L. is
again making regular stops at Cres-
cent City Junction, this as result
ct tne pI0Uesr registered at a mass
meeting of citizens held some three
weeks ago, when the Junction stop
had been cut out.
The V. |. A. has decided to con-
tinue the semi-weekly moving picture
theatre through the summer, and in
so doing has again earned the graft
tude of a people who were worrying
over the threatened approach of en-
mi.
Miss Nellie Grimsley was operated
on early in the week at DeSoto Hos
pital, Jacksonville, for appendicitis,
and reports from that institution are
to effect that she is coming along all
right. Her mother, Mrs. J. C. Grims-
ley was with her during the trying
ordeal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy P Perkins and
little daughter, of Archer, came over
on Monday with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Paul G. Smith. Mrs. Per-
kins and the little one will remain a
week or two, but Mr.. Perkins could
only stay a couple days. Mr.. Perkins
was formerly connected with the Bank
of Crescent City, but is now cashier
of the Bank of Archer.
Crescent City stands to lose its
little old friend, T. c. Darby, Jr., who
last Saturday severed his connection
with the Hancock store and is spend
ing this week in Orlando, at which
place he may conclude to remain. T.
C. Darby is one of the most popular
young men of the place, and the peo-
Iple, young and of the elder brand, are
not going to take kindly to the idea
Of losing him.
Growers are complaining that the
new orange crop has been dropping
heavily. This is a very common
spring complaint, but one in which
there seems to be more reason for
alarm this year than common. The six
weeks of dry weather together with
the weakened condition of the trees
is given as the cause. The complaint
is quite general and the heavy inroads
on the prospective crop is given as
fact by some of our most observing
and intelligent growers.
The Second Quarterly Conference
of the Methodist church will be held
next Saturday and Sunday. Rev. Dr.
Smith Hardin of Orlando, presiding
elder of the district will be present.
and it is expected will preach at
both the morning and evening services
lon Sunday. The coming of this emil
nent divine is always a matter of in
terest to Crescent City Nethodists
land those from the surrounding coun-
try, as well as the Christian people
generally, who enjoy his sermons.
Get out and root for the Cres-
cent City baseball team this after
noon. They are to play their second
game with the Palatka club, a club
with reputation for being one of the
best amateur organizations in the
state. Crescent City beaten on
their own grounds last Friday and
thereby secured Palatkas attention,
Beat 'em again today if its a possible
thing. Herlong will pitch for the
home team. and probably Barstow
for the visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. William c. Norton
left on Sunday for New York Mrs.
Norton will go to her fathers home at
Hamburg-on-the- Hudson while Mr..
Norton will go to Rochester, N. Y,
to attend the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian church as the lay dele
gate representing the church in Flor
ida, an honor that comes to but few
laymen in the church. Mr.. and Mrs
Norton expect to be away from home
about one month. Grove Hall will be
managed during their absence by their
son and daughter, Mr.. Chester w. and
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