The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-04-02
CITY HAPPENINGS AND
PERSONAL MENTION

mere, were in the city overnight or
Wednesday and guests at the Sara
toga.
The Palatka Morning Post reminds
us of the pea in the shell game
Sometimes we see it, and sometimes
wo don't.-Ocala Star.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the First
Baptist church will meet at the home
of Mrs. j. T. Ashby next Tuesday
afternoon, April 9Th, at 3 o'clock.
With four big State conventions
meeting in Palatka within twenty
days, perhaps Palatka isn't getting
to the front as convention city?
Eight hundred barrels of potatoes
were shipped via. the steamer Cres-
cent from Federal Point on Monday
night, and large shipments have fol-
lowed each day since.
Senator Middleton expects to take
his family to Tallahassee to live dur
ing the session of the legislature, and
has arranged for a house. Repre-
sentatives Mckenzie and Tilghman
will enjoy boarding house fare.
Good Friday And Mayor Van C.
Swearengen of Jacksonville, who has
religious cast of countenance has
proclaimed it a legal holiday in that
city "In it thou shalt do no work"
provided you are on the municipal
pay roll.
The recent legislature in North
Carolina passed a compulsory school
law, and also one which requires any
grower offering fruit or vegetables
for sale to write, stamp, or print his
name on the box, barrel or package
containing the produce.
Hon. w. G. Tilghman, member
elect of the Florida House of Repre-
sentatives, with Mrs. Tilghman, will
leave today for Tallahassee in their
automobile. Mrs. Tilghman will re-
main in Tallahassee through the
session of the legislature.
A Jacksonville attorney has been
lecturing to the Y. M. C. A. boys of
that city on international Law" In
tenational law now seems to be a
matter of force, to Judge from the
way some of the European powers are
cavorting around, and trampling on it.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Gates, Chas.
Dentzer, G. W. Davidson, H. H.
Bratten, and the Misses Dorothy
Fiddler and Lillian Skalact of Lake
Como, were at the Putnam House
on Wednesday on their way home
from a pleasure trip up the Ockla-
waha
Clarence A. Gridley,s the accom-
plished musician at the Kalbfeld
Grand is sick with an attack of fever,
but his numerous friends are hopeful
that he will soon be oft again. Dur
ing Mr.. Gridley's indisposition his
place at the Grand is being filled by
Miss Mary Belle Stallings.
Hon. Henry S. Mckenzie, member
elect of the lower house of the Flor
ida legislature, expects to leave for
Tallahassee on Sunday. The legis-
lature opens on Tuesday next, but the
Senate and House caIcusses are held
on Monday night, when nominations
for President and Speaker are made,
as we'll for all other offices.
Hon. w. V. Knott, State comptroll-
er, and Hon. j. c. Luning, State
treasurer, were among the distin-
guished visitors in Palatka last Fri
day and Saturday in attendance up
on the meeting of the Florida Bank
er's Association. The visit of these
distinguished officials was a source of
much pleasure to the people of Pa
latka, where they are held in the
| highest esteem.
1t was strange sight, that on
Lemon street last Wednesday noon.
Mons. Gravier, official janitor to the
court house was walking Up the street
from the postoffice reading The Men
ace, and so absorbed was his interest
that he neglected to say "Cummose-
veaux" to his friends. Mons. Gravier
is the only Roman Catholic connected
in an official capacity with the county
government.
Col. M. A. Wilkinson, formerly of
this city but now living at st. Pc
tersburg, spent a day or two in Pa
latka this week and was warmly
greeted by many of his old friends.
Col. Wilkinson states that he likes st.
Petersburg very much, and that he is
engaged in the real estate and other
lines of business of a speculative ma
ture. He also thought that old Pa
latka was showing great enterprise
and that the city was advancing on
solid lines.
If the South is ever to become a
/ livestock producer, she must stop
looking for new breeds and look more
to feeds. We must stop looking for
stock that are good rustlers" and
go to "rustling" more ourselves. 1t
is the business of the livestock man
to provide feeds and protect his ami
mails from hardships and the business
of the livestock to eat the feeds and
change them into more valuable prod
ucts. Are we doing our duty PRO
gressive Farmer.
Col. Fred E. Farnsworth of New
York, secretary of the National Bank
er's Association, and who made the
principle address at the Friday meet
ing of the State Bankers Association,
was a pleasant caller at the office of
the Palatka News, whose editor, as
little boy, many years ago, had the
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