The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-08-11

R. L. Becks spent Sunday with
friends at Seville.
|, Col. H. H. Hayes of Pomona was
among our Monday visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Rifles are
spending the week at Daytona Beach.
Col. Chas. P. Cooper of Jacksonville
spent Sunday at the home of Mrs.
E. S. Grill.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Phillips have
gone to the Summer Haven beach for
, a vacation and rest-up.
Engineer Will Shelley was here on
visit to his mother yesterday. He
still talks politics.
State Tax Commissioner Patterson
of Tallahassee was a visitor in the
city this week.
DR.. G. L. Sipprell was among the
Florahome visitors to the city this
week.
Capt. J. D. Points has returned
from short visit to Lincolnton, N.
C.
Miss Josephine Stead of DeLand
has been the charming guest this
week of Miss Grizella Merrill.
B. E. Jarrett has been made no.
tary public with power to perform
the marriage ceremony.
Mrs. w. H. Hoyt left today for
visit with her brothers, Judge D. T.
Gray and E. W. Gray.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hutchinson,
Jr., and little son have gone on
few days vacation to Crescent Beach.
E. J. McLendon, one of the leading
men of the Hollister section was a
visitor in the city on Monday and
Tuesday.
This is the season of the year for
the "blind mosquitoes" to put in their
appearance, and they have disappoint-
ed no one.
The Womans Club will meet at the
Putnam House at o'clock this af-
ternoon on call Of the president, Mrs
j. l.. Dunsford.
Col. Goethe Of Rodman was in the .
city yesterday and said that the Rod !
man people were well pleased with
the price paid for the road bonds.
F. D. Wattles has been awarded
the contract for printing the ballots
for the general election for Putnam
county, by the board of county COM
miSsioners.
Miss Louise Boyd left on Wednes-
day for pleasure trip to New York
and other points north and east. Miss
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Kate Lucas.
Mrs. A. V. Mount, we'll remembered
here as former resident, came over
from her home on Anastasia Island
this week, for short visit with Mr..
and Mrs. Horace Blainey.
Miss Dorothy Merriam who has
been a student at Paramount College,
Monteagle, Tenn, arrived home yes
terday. Her brother Jack went to
Jacksonville yesterday morning to
meet her on her arrival in that city.
DR.. Chandler has returned from a
visit to his old home in Georgia.
While away he met with an accident
which resulted in the fracture of a
rib, so that he didn't get all the
pleasure out of the trip that he felt '
was coming to him.
Mrs. B. H. Hopkins and little son
Of Jacksonville, were guests at the !
Saratoga Hotel on Thursday, coming c
over to make the return trip with Mr..
Hopkins, one of the travelling men to il
make this city from jacksonville each e
week. c
J. H. Wylie of the Interlachen Ora
vel Co. was an interested spectator Q
1T the opening of the road bids by f
he county commissioners on Monday t
Wylie can smell good road contract
'urther than most people, for he has Il
good material to sell. W
Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Earnest left g
N their long motor trip up country n
N Tuesday. They will stop at
and other points en- route \
o New York where they will buy Il
Foods and recuperate as the spirit o
If the hour and day moves them. II
They will certainly have fine outing.
The Methodist people of Palatka o
re again seriously considering the f
dvisability of starting this fall the $
for funds with which to h
'uild their new church, for which the
OF at the corner of Fourth and Reid d
treets was secured some two years /
go. The church eventually to be e.
rected will be modern structure to ~
ost at least $4,000. !"
Mrs. F. L. Thorp arrived on Sat- -
rday last from her home in Orlan- =
o and will spend her vacation with -
er Palatka friends. Mrs. Thorp is u u
he guest of Mrs. E. L. Mann. Mr.. u
'horp is expected tomorrow for a .
hort stay. Few people ever got III
loser to the hearts of Palatkans than
If. and Mrs. F. L. Thorp, who for Of
everal years lived here. Mr.. Thorp te
'as assigned to Orlando in the spring, tt
here he assumed management Of the Il
outhern Bell Telephone Co. m
Musician f. Thos. Shinn Of the A
econd Regiment Band, N. G. F.. who g
as been with the regiment at Black NJ
oint since the first call to arms, re- D
lrned home last week with an hon NJ
rable discharge, given because he is cy
husband and father and has other q
lings to do than play soldier for II
lonths in time of peace. Mr.. Shinn al
willing to go to the front whenever
is country needs him, but he hates
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