The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-06-04

| Inc Ford Sales 20. received car
load Of Fords on Wednesday.
Miss Olive Tilghman and Miss
Maye Boyd are home from, Brenau
college.
| L. H. Hyers, Kirby street, is con-
fined to his home with a severe attack
of rheumatism.
T. J. Barnett has gone to Detroit to
be present at the automobile manu-
facturers convention.
Mrs. M. X. Tavel returned Thurs
day from Tampa where she has been
spending her vacation.
The Misses Stella and Winifred
Browning of East Palatka have re-
turned from Brenau College.
Miss Isabelle Welch is attending
the annual reunion of the United Con-
federate Veterans in Richmond, Va.
P. Jack Becks has been summoned
to serve as a grand juror in the U. S.
district court, Jacksonville, on Monday
( the 18th inst.
The Monday night club was enter
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home Of Mrs. Howell A. Davis. The
club will meet next week with Mrs.
| S. A. Coburn. Mrs. Coburn will al
so be the hostess for the Thursday
afternoon club.
The city council has awarded a
contract for 500 feet of fire hose to
H. M. de Montmollin at rs cents per
foot. The hose is guaranteed for
three years. The city has 60 days on
the purchase, with per cent dis
count if paid within ten days.
Mrs. F. R. LeBarron of St. Peters,
burg, wife of one of the popular con-
ductors of the Atlantic Coast Line.
passed through Gainesville SUNDAY.
heing en- route home from Philadel-
phia, where, several weeks ago, she
was summoned upon the sad mission
to attend the funeral of her brother
n-law.-Gainesville Sun.
Miss Edelmira Rivero entertained
the senior class of the high school,
Wednesday afternoon with lawn
party; during the afternoon. pictures
were taken of the class. Those pres
ent We're Misses Thelma Hyers, Edel-
mira Rivero and Messrs. Robert Ear
nest. Harlan Hickenlooper, Alden and
Ralph Crosby, and Aubrey Milton.
L. F.. McRae is back from the Bap-
tist Theological Seminary in T.
vile, KY, where he has been studying
for the ministry of his church. Mr..
McRae is a Palatka and Putnam
county young man who is W, rking
his own way through this theological
school, fact which in itself, is evil
dence Of the certainty of his call to
the ministry.
Alderman Howell A. Davis get
warm under the collar at the council
meeting last Tuesday night while
contemplating the list of civ delin-
uuents-men who owed the city mon
ev for taxes. He urged that most of
them were able TO pay and that they
should be brought to time. There
is over $4,000 due the city in delin-
quent taxes. '1
The Florahome drainage bill which
passed the House some days ago was
put through the Senate by Senator
Middleton on Wednesday, and as soon
as signed by the governor, will become
law. The new bill cuts ont much Of
the highland and places the work of
drainage in the hands of local truS-
tees instead of the county commission
ers as heretofore.
Miss Ellie Tidings. for many years
a missionary in Mexico, has been the
ouest this week of Rev. end Mrs. Wy.
NJ. Poapn. She addressed the ladies
of the Woman's Missionary Society
of St. James church, on T~esd"v "f-
ternoon at the home of Mrs. Wright
on Laurel street, and also at the reo-
ular weekly prayer service of the
church on Wednesday evening.
Miss Jessie Harrison Burton. county
oqent of the Girls Gardening and
Canning Clubs, was in the citv short
time yesterday, and is in Bostwick
today. Miss Burton is doing sp!en-
did educational work among the girls
of the county, and it is surprising the
interest she has aroused in this splen-
III, work. 1t is In be hoped the coun-
Nv boprd will decide to keen her on the
list of county teachers indefinitely.
Tho povero,d Doctor George Sell
don Waldo, P. D. O., of Gainesville,
has authorized his attornev, c. R.
Lavtor of that city, to bring suit
a cainst the Palatkans who entered
the late Chautauoua. Association,
we were to have several win
ter visitations from lot of Bawston
- bags. but which was repudiated
when the real menace was understood. |
Mr.. Lavton will not bring suit pro-
vided the Pslatka boilers get together
and settle the matter. How much
win Won rive, Mr.. Signer, to stave off
this suit?
The little humming bird can do bet
ter than the aeroplane. for in its mi
grafton across the Gulf of Mexico it
flies over 500 miles in a single night. !
Nearly all birds, in fact, show in their
soaring and sailing that they are
proficient in the use of several fac
tors in the art of flying that have not
yet been mastered eithered in princi-
pie or practice by the most skillful of
modern aviators. A vulture or
crane, after a few preliminary wing
beats, sets its wings and mounts in
wide sweeping circles to a great |
height. overcoming gravity with no |