The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-11-26
SOCIETY
q IN WASHINGTON
Contains a Number of Form
er Palatkans-Senator aas s.s
Fletcher.

Only a few weeks ago there was
organized in Washington, D. c., a so
ciety to be known as "The Florida So
ciety." 1t is composed of citizens of
the national capital who were once
so fortunate as to have home in
this favored state, and whose
thoughts turn with longing to the
Land of Sunshine and Soft Showers.
Palatka is represented in this So
ciety by Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. B. Sell
den, Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Canova, Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Cato, Mrs. D. H. Fow-
Ter and Mr.. Paul Selden. Mr.. Fow-
Ter doesn't appear to be a member,
though it was in this city that he OBJ
tanned his wife, and Putnam county
is the home of his mother-Mrs. :.
D. Mitchell of Lake Como. These
facts ought to let Mr.. Fowler have a
look in, anyway.
The Florida Society evidently in
tends to be an active social force dur
ing the present winter, for it is
already out with announcements of
coming social events.
Senator D. U. Fletacher is the pres
ident of the society, Mr.. Selden, treas
urer, and Mrs. D. H. Fowler, sec
retary.
Last week, Thursday, the Florida
Society gave a concert at the Logan
Hotel, when the following delightful
program was rendered.:
Artistic Dancing-Mr. James Bish-
op, Miss Elenor Griffith.
Song-"The Little Woman" Mr..
Frank Duggan.
Reading-Miss King.
Piano Discrimination to the
Dance" Mrs. Selden, Mrs. Butler.
Grand Opera Excerpt-"Woodman
Spare that Tree" Mr.. VIM. A. Nor
sell.
Solo Dance-Miss Elenor Griffith.
Monologue-Mr. Kluttz.
Songs-(a) "a Southern Song"
(b) Sweet Miss Mary" Mrs. Kemp;
accompanied Mrs. Selden.
"Hitting the Mark in Florida,
Capt. Harllee.
"The Florida Song" dedicated to
the Florida Society by the composer,
Miss Edna Burnside) sung by Mrs.
Kemp.
The Society is arranging to have an
evening with John Temple Graves,
Tuesday, Dec. 21, and afterwards an
old fashioned Florida Christmas par
tv. Col. Graves was a former Flor
idian. The entertainments of the So
ciety through the courtesy of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Cato, are usually held at
the Hotel Logan, over which they are
presiding with that charming gra-
ciousness which made them so popu-
lar in the years gone when they man
aged the Putnam House in Palatka.
The Palatka News is going to offer
one suggestion to this Florida Socie
ty. This from an item appearing in
the Florida Metropolis of the 23rd
inst, and which stated that the $50
ciety" had adopted as its official song
the "Florida, My Florida" written by
Mrs. Cora Drew Bollinger of Jack
sonville, who recently sent copies Of
| it to the Society. The original song,
"Florida, My Florida" adopted by the
Legislature of Florida as the official
state song, was written by Rev. DR.
C. V. Waugh, for many years an hon.
ored professor in the old Florida Agri
cultural College, and a devoted minis.
ter of the Baptist church. This song
was adopted as the official State
Song of Florida by a concurrent res.
olution in the Legislature of 1918, anC
was duly approved by Gov. Parl
Trammell. 1t is the only "rea
goods" and the Florida Society il
Washington ought to have nothins
but the official Florida goods.