The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-02-04
CRESCENT CITY NEWS

COuHCy Talr at LELAND last week, ana
) it is said that quite a number more
from this place went down.
The Citrus Exchange packing house
at the junction is now urging its Gus
toners to ship their fruit, and for the
next week or two this packing house
will be working overtime.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Shull of Column
bus, Ohio, the foster parents of Rev.
R. Shull Burris, pastor of the Pres
byterian church, are epected next
Tuesday to be the guests for a week
or more at the manse. From here
they will go to Tampa by auto, near
which city they have an orange grove.
Two sons and daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. G. W. Stubs, students in
Rollins College, Winter Park, spent
several days with their parents at the
Methodist parsonage during the past
week. On Monday night the young
people of the church gave a reception
at the parsonage in honor of the WISH
tors. They returned to their college
duties on Wednesday.
J. A. Stats of New Jersey, with
his father, an invalid, is spending
some time at the Turner House. Mr..
Stats is an earnest sportsman and
enjoys the hunting and fishing here
abouts immensely. He says that this
section is ideal for sportsmen-that
the bird shooting is excellent, and
that man doesn't have to go far
to secure all the fish he wants.
At the weekly school entertainment
next Tuesday morning the program
most elaborate one-will be given
bv the pupils of the Eighth grade,
who have been preparing for the oc-
casion for some two weeks under di-
rection of Miss Kendall. These en-
tertainments are open to all citizens
and visitors and they are cordially in
vited to be present.
Rev. R. S. Bonsteel and his bride
will arrive home today. They will be
met at the junction on arrival by Hon.
and Mrs. L. A. Hurlbut, who will en-
terrain them at luncheon. Later in
the day they will go to their own
home, the larder of which has been
fully stocked by the members of the
Baptist church. All Crescent City
accords a hearty welcome to Rev. and
Mrs. Bonsteel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edw. w. Glynn Of
Saginaw, Mich, are spending their
usual winter vacation at Grove Hall
and all their old friends are rejoiced
to see them. Mr.. Glynn, who is a
brother of our townsman, Mr.. w. F.
Glynn, is cashier of one of the lead
ing national banks in Saginaw, and
by reason of this important position,
has to cut his stay to some two
weeks.
Mrs. A. T. Pierson and her daugh-
ter, Miss Anna W. Pierson, of Brook
| Ign, N. Y, who are guests this win
ter at Grove Hall, are respectively
the widow and daughter of the late
Rev. DIR. Arthur T. Pierson, one Of
the most noted minister of the Pres
byterian church in the United st
and the author of many works on the
Scriptures, works which are standard
and which are in the libraries of Bible
students wherever the English Ian
guage is spoken.
Up to last Saturday the Crutch-
field & Voolfolk packing house had
shipped 100 cars of citrus fruit this
season, together with many smaller
shipments. Their total output had
been little in excess of $4,000 boxes.
Mrs. F. L. LASER has arrived and
with her sisters, Mrs. McCaskey and
Sister Alice of the Sisters of st. Mary,
New York, is occupying the home of
her daughter, Mrs. H. C. Hubbard.
Mrs. Hubbard and daughters are still
at Nassau, New Providence.
The ladies of the Methodist church
are making arrangements to give a
bazaar in the Horton store building
tn the afternoon and evening of the
18th inst. They will have three ia
bles, one for fancy work, one for cam
dies and one for food. Small tables
will be placed in convenient places
for serving coffee and sandwiches and
other light refreshments. This is the
first effort the ladies of this church
have made this winter for the raising
of money for church work, and as it
is their purpose to refurnish the par
sonage, it is hoped that they will be
generously patronized at this bazaar.
Go and help them out.
Frank W. Cady of Spencerport, N.
Y, who had for some two weeks
been the guest of his uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. L: A. Hurlbut, left on
Monday for his home, making stops
at several points of interest en- route.
Mr.. Cady was greatly pleased with
Crescent City and the people, and Ger
tainly left with fine impression Of
the place and climate, and more es
pecially with the series of parties and
picnics which had been arranged in
his behalf. He says he means to
come again, something we all hope he
will do and soon. Mr.. Cady is en-
gagged in apple culture in the fine
fruit section of New York state and
has an immense acreage in apple .
trees.
The Thirteenth Annual Bible Con- /
ference of the Southfield Bible Con-
ference Association will be held in the
Auditorium this season March 1924
inclusive. These meetings, which are
evangelistic in character and unde-