The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-20

MIS-. Lillian .. hnlgnC mas gone 10
White Springs for a two weeks stay
at the Fdgegrovo hotel.
Miss Lee of Gainesville is now with
her sister, Mrs. Geiger, and will assist
Miss Sipprell in her school work.
Miss Edith Kupperbusch was hos
tess for the Monday night Bridge
Club.
Albion Hutchinson has returned
from visit with his brother Robert
in Jacksonville.
Edward l.. Mann left Tuesday for
Atlanta to attend the livestock con-
Vention.
Mrs. T. L.. Pritchard and children of
st. Augustine were week end guests
of Miss Kate Lucas.
Mrs. w. j. Whitthorne has returned
to spend the winter months with her
son Frank Whitthorne on Kirkland
street.
Mrs. H M. Fearnside entertained
her mother Mrs. J. J. Brown and her
sister Miss Blanche Brown from Has
tings on Tuesday.
L. M. Baldwin, merchant at Melrose
and member of the county democrat
cic executive committee, was among
the visitors in the city on Tuesday,
here for the purpose of attending the
committee meeting.
Judge and Mrs. E. E. Haskell and
Mrs. H. H. Kent returned last Fri
day from their summer home at North
Conway, N. H. All are looking we'll
after their summer sojourn in the
hills.
Mrs. Mary Scott Miller, president
of the Beach & Miller Line, who has
been quite seriously i'll in this city
for the past week or more, is now con-
valescing and hopes to leave for home
in few days.
Mrs. Charles M. Afford, sailed from
New York Wednesday on the Lenape
for Jacksonville, arriving there Sat-
urday afternoon, Mrs. Afford will be
guest at "The Manse" a few days
next week.
The Palatka board of trade has APP
pointed a special committee of prom
lnent business men and members to
again take up the matter of securing
a new school building for this city and
this committee will work in con junc-
ton with the regular civics committee
of the board.
The Steamer Crescent of the Beach
O. 7 ,,,o ,,.L, al. L. L.
ways at the Merrill & Stevens ship I
yard in Jacksonville for the past sew
eral weeks undergoing thorough
overhauling, will resume it's regular
trips between Jacksonville and Palat-
ka and Crescent City early next week
DR.. J. C. Chandler left yesterday
morning for New Orleans, where he
will take a post graduate course in
the hospital of Tulane University,
with special reference to the treat
ment of the eye, ear, throat and nose.
DR.. Chandler it will be remembered
had previously turned over his Palat-
ka practice to DR.. Martin.
The Woman's Missionary Society of
the Methodist church met with Mrs.
H. o. Hamm on Tuesday afternoon
for the purpose of organizing for
quick campaign of the city in the in ;
terests of missions. A committee .
was appointed to prosecute the work.
Mrs. Hamm served dainty refresh
ments during the afternoon. t
Mrs. Raymond Uric and son, James,
will motor up from Frostproof to at
tend the wedding of Mrs. Ures sis 6
ter, Miss Annie Louise. Thursday /
they will be accompanied home by {
Misses Grace and Mildred Uric who |
will make their home in FroStproof, i
Mr.. and Mrs. Uric following the latter
part of the month.
Judge and Mrs. J. I. Wimberly of t
were in the city several t
hours on Tuesday and were greeted d
by many old friends. Judge Wimber- v
ly is one of the grand old men of the a
democratic party in Putnam county
who still takes an active interest in
matters political. He came to attend !
the meeting of the county democratic !:
executive committee, of which he has Z {;
been a member great many years. !;
Prof. Geiger called the teachers of a
the public schools to a meeting at his
home Wednesday afternoon at 3 ?
o'clock for business session. After !,
A half hours debate; during which a
time the guests were served fruit =
punch, Mrs. Geiger invited them all !
to the dining room where delicious :
were served. Various =
games We're enjoyed and a
social get-together feeling was en- f
gendered by this courtesy which will J
endear the new principal and his a
charming wife to the public. n
William s. Baughman, aged IA "
years, and for three years Or more a Il !,
resident of Palatka, died on Friday of Il
asst week. The funeral in charge of F
Mooney & Davis, and conducted by 7
Rev. S. Grady, was held on Saturday s
afternoon, the interment being in Oak \
Hill. Mr.. Baughman was a hero of Y
he civil war and a member of the A
J. A. R. He is survived by wife r
md several children, among them be- n
ng Mrs. c. D. Sands of Porto Rico, s
lanes B., of Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. G. G
}. Thigpin of East Palatka, f. C. B.
# Okeechobee, and VIM. z. of Mont
rOmerV Ala These have unitnI in II