The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-03-19
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PERSONAL AND SOCIAL I

Miss Ollie Peterson of Boston, is
the charming guest of Miss Stone at
the Gautier home.
Miss Louise Hunter and Miss Bes-
sic Campbell were visitors to Palatka
on Tuesday.
Mrs. Gill, accompanied by her son,
Albert E. Lounds went to Palatka on
Tuesday to consult DR.. jenkins.
Miss E. ]. Quinn of Pittsburg, Pa,
arrived last week for visit with her
sister, Mrs. R. S. Burris, at the Pres
byterian manse.
Mrs. Preston Jones is the new post
master at Huntington, The post
Office is on the lot opposite the rail-
road depot.
Mrs G. E. Graham and family left
last week for Summer Haven Beach
with tine purpose of spending a week
or two in their beach cottage.
Mrs. Gill in care of her son, A. E.
Lounds, visited Jacksonville last week
to consult hospital physicians. They
returned the following day.
Col. and Mrs. John Mccormick mo-
tored to Daytona Beach this week for
a few days stay, and had as guests
for the trip, Col. and Mrs. NJ. H. Read.
N. N. Jacobs the contractor has
finished up his town contracts for con-
crete sidewalk, and the walks are all
now in use. People in front of whose
property the walks were laid feel that
they have an increased value.
D. ]. FAINT, the locomotive engin-
eer-evangelist from Atlanta, is the
principle speaker at the Bible Confer
ence this week Rev. and Mrs. l.. S.
Chafer remained until last night The
meetings will close on Saturday,
The secretary of the V. I. A. asks
all members who would like to con-
tribute 10 cents with other club wo-
men of America towards restoring
the Longfellow birth place, to hand
these contributions to her by the Gath
inst.
Mrs. Herlong left last week for
Jacksonville, where she will undergo
treatment in St. Lukes Hospital.
Mrs. Herlong has been suffering
from gall stones, and it is thought
she will be obliged to undergo an OPP
Grafton. Her case is considered
; critical.
Tom Russell is now in his third
week of a serious illness with typhoid
fever, but up to the present the fever
is running it's course without compli-
cations. Drs. G. c. Hardie and 7. R.
Beggs have been handling the case
nicely, and Miss Lucy Gautier, nurse
. of wide experience, is looking after
the case in her most careful manner.
Mrs. Horace Seedlings and daugh-
ter, Miss Mary Seedlings. of Chicago,
ILL.,, were here over Saturday and Sum-
day on visit to Mr.. and Mrs. C. H.
Preston and Capt. and Mrs. S. Nj. La
Bree. Mrs. Stebbings is a sister of
the late J. R.. Preston, who was the
. father of Mr.. c. H. Preston and Mrs.
LaBree. This was her first visit to
Crescent City, long the home of her
brother.
1t don't do to talk hard times in
Crescent City any more, especially
among the winter residents and mer-
chant classes. Now and then poor
orange grower may put up a hard
mouth, but the merchants! Never!
Three motor cars of the Overland 1915
model were delivered here this week.
One to Mr.. Bullock a winter resident,
and one each to C. H. Preston and
Paul C. Smith, both merchants. They
are all pretty cars.
Dr. G. C. Hardie a popular young
practicing physician of this place for
the past two years, LEFT on Tuesday
for Fcllsmere, the new colony town on
) the east coast, a place already with
approximately 1900 population and no
physician. The people of Fellsmere
will have a good one in DR. Hardie,
who has lived and labored here faith
fully and successfully for two years,
and who could have made it a life
time had he so wished His depar-
ture is greatly regretted. Mrs. Har-
die will not leave Crescent City for a
. few weeks-not Until the doctor gets
settled and makes arrangements for a
home.
The Tennis Club is preparing to
produce at V. |. A. Hall on Thursday.
The 25th inst, the comely "a Box of
, Monkeys" This is to follow the regu-
lar program of motion pictures sched-
, uIed for that night. Among those
who will have prominent parts in the
comedy are the Misses Ruth Herlong,
Abbiiean Miller and Helen Tilling-
hast; and Messrs. G. w. Seaton and J.
Fairfield Carpenter The general ad,
mission will be So cents; reserved
seats at so cents may be obtained at
Mathis store on Tuesday, March 23d.
The play is given as a benefit for the
Tennis Club, whose courts have been
much in use this winter by or home
people and visitors, and have proved
very popular resorts. The annual
dues of one dollar are not sufficient
to keep up these courts, hence the
Club is appealing to the :, public
through the "Box of Monkeys" The
News has a "hunchH that the appeal
will not be in vain.