The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12

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he has business in connection with
the State board of pharmacy of
which he is the secretary:
Hon. S. ]. Hilburn drove his big
motor car through to Jacksonville on
Wednesday. He was accompanied by
Hon. Henry Hutchinson, county clerk.
DR.. Leroy w. Denham the we'll
known dentist of Crescent City, with
Mrs. Denham, was visitor in the city
on Monday for short time.
Mrs. R. F. Adams entertained last
evening in honor of her niece, Miss
Mary Alice Eaton, very attractive
young lady of Crescent City.
The Chas. Kupperbusch restaurant
under the management of the one and
only Chas. Kupperbusch, is again at
the top notch of popularity and still
holds the crowds.
Next Sunday will be st. Valentines
day. There were two St. Valentines
honored on the roster of Roman Cath
Ollie saints, but neither was known as
lady's man and the wonder is how
so much nonsense has come to be as
ISOLATED with their name.
Secretary Folsom of the board of
trade addressed the pupils of the Pa
latka high school on invitation of
Principal Van Brunt last Tuesday
morning. and his talk was Of the kind
calculated to put ginger into his
hearers.
The management of the Putnam
House have arranged for NIGHTLY MI
sicales in the parlor for the enter
tainment of their guests. Misses
Brown and Davidson of Connellville,
Pa, both vocalists of highly cult
waited voices will sing each night.
Miss Edith Kupperbusch entertain
ed at bridge on Wednesday night with
= large number of guests present.
The prizes for the high scores were
awarded to Mrs. Robert james, Mrs.
S. G. Coburn and Mrs. T. J. Bar
nett.
Reed & HODGE the seedmen have
pot settled in their new store 1T 121
Second street next to the Palatka
News office. and where they have one
of the finest store rooms in the city,
especially for their line of business.
These progressive Young men carry
the Deering line of farm implements.
Gov. Park Trammell has a~nointed
William A. Russell editor of The Pa
latka News, a delegate to represent
Florida at the International Press
Congress. to be held at San Francis
co. California, July 5. 6, 7, 8, 9 and
10th. 1915, an honor that is highly ap-
preciated by the appointee
Interested persons should send to
the Florida Experiment Station,
Gainesville, for Bulletin No. 1913
(Whitefv ControD and Bulletin No.
124, (Citrus Canker.) This last
mentioned is the latest and most
deadly disease to which citrus trees
are liable, and unless stamped out
will do great damage to one Of Flori-
da's most important industries.
Clarence H. Kennerlv exhibited two
white leghorn cockerels and ore cock
of the same breed at the Orlando
Mid Winter Fair this week and Sc
cured the first prize for the cock, 2
first prize for one of the cockrels and
third prize for the other The
uoultrv exhibit at this fair is said to
have been one of the best, most COM
plete, ever shown in Florida.
Today, February 18th. is the ami
versary of Lincoln's birth and in
twenty-one states of the union is a
legal holiday. Lincoln rose from the
most abiect poverty in his youth
being denied advantages now enjoyed
by boys in every town and country
communitv-to the presidency of the
United States. and left record of
achievement which will keep his mem
DRY alive as long as the world shall
stand.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. MacCov with their
little son and daughter of Oklahoma
Citv. Oklahoma, and Mr.. and Mrs. G..
l.. Mead and Mr.. and Mrs. A. W. Mead
of New York form a pleasant party
at the Saratoga Hotel where they
have been several davs. These young
men and their families have secured
a tract of land little west of Pa
latka on the A. C. l.. R'y and are go
l1p lIllU Illt uuSlt'tSS VI pObi'' v ldh-
ing on an extensive scale. The gen.
tlemen are experts at the business.
In at least two western cities the
Ford car has become public utility.
That is. for straight five cent fare
the populace of those two cities are
being transported in Ford cars as a
regular street service proposition. The
name of the company so using the
Ford is the Street Auto Service.
They already have eight Ford cars in
oneration in Salt Lake CITY. and are
planning tn have 100 in all operating
in the spring. Similar service in
Denver is now being organized. Here
in Palatka the fare is straight 25
cents to the depots and hotels.
Mrs. R. W. Van Rrunt entertained
large party of ladies at a matinee
marty in Kalbfeld's theater last
Monday in honor of her guest, Miss
Mcconnell of Danville. KY. The
party was composed beside the hos
tess and the honoree of Mesdames
Howard Rowton, W. Hickman Collins,
Caughlin. Rifles H. NJ. Fearnside, He
dick. Millican. Alfred Phillins, T..
Phillips, W. w. Tilghman. W. T.
Hamm. Calhoun. Fred T. Merrill, and
the Misses Edith KIpperbusch, Ell
l