The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06

M. M. Vickers will attend the
meeting of the State Press Associa-
ton in Jacksonville to-day.
Col. Wyllie the "gravel man" of
Interlachen, was a business visitor in
the city Wednesday.
DR.. T. Raymond Beggs and Geo. W.
Seaton were prominent Crescent City
visitors in Paiatka on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. M. Barrett and
baby of Ocala spent the fore-part of
the week in Palatka with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Starke of De-
Land were visitors in the city Tues
day.
Mrs. W. H. Collins left yesterday
for Madison where she will visit Mr..
and Mrs. ]. L. Bunting.
DR.. Sarah Davis returned Wednes-
day from summers vacation spent
in Kansas City and the Ozark Noun
tains.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Riles have re-
turned from visit with their par
ents at Leesburg, and an outing at
Daytona Beach.
Miss Edith Kupperbusch has re-
turned from a summers soiourn with
her sister, Mrs. Cradle of Minneapo-
| lis.
Hon. S. J. Hilburn has been some
what discommoded this week with a
stiff neck, but he does not belong to
a stiff-necked generation.
Mrs. A. G. Spring of Tampa is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. A. M.
Haughton, and will visit friends in
Baltimore, before returning home.
The Misses Moragne have returned
to Palatka after enjoying the summer
months in Jacksonville, with their
sister, Mrs. Lake Jones.
County Demonstration Agent Cam
trell has been attending State
meeting of county agents at Gaines
vile this week.
Mrs. M. j. Martin left Tuesday for
her home in Jacksonville after short
visit with her daughter, Mrs. Albert
o. Martin.
Mrs. Enoch Alderman and baby are
visiting in Georgia for several weeks
Mr.. Alderman will join them in a
week.
Mrs. George W. Lansing opened her
kindergarten school Monday morning
at her home on South 5th street, with
most interesting class of bright
faced young Americans.
D. w. Ramsaur of the Ackerman-
Stewart Drug Co. is spending a cou-
pie days in Jacksonville this week in
attendance upon the meetings of the
State Rexall Club. He was one of
the principal speakers.
The Civic and Education Committee
Of the board of trade will look into
and report on the matter of offering
a site for the proposed State Masonic
Home and Orphanage, reference to
which was made in The News of last
week.
1t is said that in the neighborhood
of 400 republican voters have al
ready qualified in Putnam county for
the general election next month.
Now watch some of these independ-
ents work for the support of the
"cul'ud brother"
Col. Geo. Leonard, secretary of the
Jacksonville chamber of commerce
spent a little time in the city last
Friday and Saturday, and also went
to Crescent City on an auto ride with
the committee of the local board of
trade appointed to escort President |
Barrett and Shepard to that place.
Fred Cochrane didn't think the Pa
latka board of trade was doing
enough in the way of looking after
locating manufacturing enterprises in |
this city, and he brought the matter
up in the board meeting last Monday,
with the result that the Manufacture
ing Committee has been asked to be a
little more active in it's work.
1t is real pity to see such a bril-
liant man of brains as the editor of
the Cats Club Column spend his !
energies where there is so little to
gain in the way of emolument That
man ought to be drawing several
dollars year plowing corn and dig
ging gpotatoes-contributing his mite
to the wealth of the nation.
David Howell, former cashier of
the State Bank of Palatka, was
visitor in the city over Sunday and |
Monday, leaving on Tuesday for An
astasia Island and st. Augustine.
Mrs. Howell is in Kentucky, and Mr.
Howell came to Florida from q sum-
mer spent in that state in order to
place his daughter in the Woman's |
College at Tallahassee.
People, and especially patrons of
the school, are divided as to whether |
the school should have one session q
day, or go back to the old morning
and aftcrnon sessions with an hours |
for lunch. They are
asked to express their preference and
send to some member of the board of |
trustees like J. H. Haughton, and |
when the board Of trustees meet next |
Tuesday the board will come to some
decisive action.
Miss Kate Lucas store looked like
a reception parlor in a palace yes
terday, the occasion being her annual
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