The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-02-25
CRESCENT CITY NEWS
Col. j. Blaine Shiver had business
that took him to Jacksonville for
couple days early in the week.

Souple udyS early III Une week.
The ladies of the Methodist church
cleared something like $4,000 from
last weeks bazaar.
The new theater building (name
not decided) has cost complete near
| ly $1,000; but it is one of the pref
test theaters in all Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coe D. Smith and
their guest, Mr.. c.. W. Bishop, of
New York, visited the Orlando fair
last week, driving over and back in
their new Buick car.
According to the latest ecclesiasti-
cal edict, "those who dance in future
in Crescent City will be obliged to
pay the stoker," or do it themselves
jim the future.
OVERLY Branch and several other
young men engaged here during the
orange packing season have gone to
the lower east coast to engage in
tomato packing, which starts up
this week.
Rev. DR.. Smith Hardin, presiding
elder of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, will officiate at the
church here next Sunday, holding
the first quarterly meeting of the
present conference year.
Church services will be held at
the Park next Sunday, February 2Oth
at 3 o'clock, the Rev. Stubs preach
ing the sermon. Sunday school will
be held at 2 o'clock. Rev. Stubs is
a preacher of marked ability and
experience and everyone who can
should hear him. He will preaci,
at the Haw Creek church in the
morning. A most cordial invitation
is extended to each and every one
to be present at these meetings.
St. Johns Park Items in Bunnell Tri-
bune.
Mr.. Henry Saunders royalty enter
tanned a number of his Park friends
last Saturday evening. The festivi-
ties began with delightful launch
trip across the lake to Crescent City,
where a splendid dinner was prepared
| for them. After dinner the host led
the way to the moving picture the
atre where seats had been reserved
to see William Farnum in "The Sign
of the Cross" Mr.. Saunders guests
included Mesdames d. Jones, John
Jones; Misses Florence Kratz, Hor
tense Senge, Neva Brown and Ler-
ma Corey; Messrs. Ray Unkefer,
Harold Sphinx and Edward Salyerds.
st. Johns Park Items in Bunnell
Tribune.
The union revival services an
nounced to begin last Sunday night
at the Auditorium, have been post
poned a week. The meetings will
begin next Sunday night at that
place with sermon by Rev. DR..
Smith Hardin of Orlando, presiding
elder of the Methodist church. The
meetings will continue through the
week, two leach at the Methodist.
Baptist and Presbyterian churches in
the order MENTIONED. The announce
ment of the postponement was made
at the evening meeting at the Audi
forum last Sunday, when an able
sermon was preached by Rev. K. l..
Bonsteel, in which he showed the
need of revival even in the order
w little town of Crescent City. The
reason gives for the postponement
was the long announced three days Of
festivities under the auspices of the
V. |. A. which are to close the week.
The editor of The News has an
swered three letters from dentists
in different parts of the State who
were making enquiry regarding the
prospects for a dentist to make a
living here in the practice of his
profession. 1t seems that some one
not long since inserted an advertise
ment in the Times Union, in which
it was stated that there was an ex-
cellent opening for a dentist-that
no dentist was here. To these let
tiers the editor has replied that DR..
A. |. Spencer has been practicing
dentistry here several years; that
within two years another dentist
opened an office here, secured but
little practice and that last spring
through worry over lack of work took
sick and has moved away. Why any
one should go to the expense of adver-
Using for a dentist to come here is
more than we can understand, unless
it is because he thinks he can injure
q man already here, and who as far
as we can learn, is a good dentist
and a gentleman who minds his own
husineSs and as a result of which he