The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-27
ROUND ABOUT FLORIDA.


A lodge known as the Fraterna
Order of Mechanics has been estab'
lished at Jacksonville with 1876 mem
bers.
Another large motion picture pro.
ducing concern is making arrange
mentS to open a studio at Jackson
vile.
The registration books of st. Johns
county show that $500 voters have
registered. All former years have
been eclipsed.
Claude Brown won the pig club
prize in fernando county. He 'eX-
hibited brood SOW go days old
that weighed 80 pounds.
In the football game between st.
Augustine High school team and the
Deaf and Blind school team the for
mer won by score of 10 to Z.
Plans have been decided upon for
| the formation of an athletic field and
equipping a gymnasium for the young
| Catholic men of st. Augustine.
Thirty Nassau county corn club
boys finished the work this year.
Their average was fifty eight bushels
to the acre.
The poStottice department an
nounces the appointment of number
Of FIoridians to places III the railway
mail service.
ST. Augustine has been placed in
the field as a candidate for the con-
vention of the National Farmers con-
greSs in 1917.
Prominent speakers will stump the
state for the next three weeks. MAX
ing political speeches. Senator Bryan
will be among the number, it is said,
Charles IEardee Spencer, of Tampa,
was elected commander of the Florida
Grams. y. n. WellonS, of Tampa
serves with him as state adjutant.
The big naval parade and water
carnival staged on the beautiful St
Johns river was the most interesting
ana entertaining Of all the fall festiya
events ut Jacksonville.
Following an illness extending over
two or three years, II. w. Rhodes
died ut his home in New Augustine
He was at one tim" chief Of the loca
fire department.
itl, .F I,,, ,,.i1 |.
chapter of the ri Kappa Alpha fra.
q tcruity plans for the national cOnyon.
ton to be held there in April Wcr,
perfected.
Extra transportation has been pm
on in order to handle the output in tn,
shrimpmg business, which is tn,
largest in the history If the industry
in Fernandina.
, Governor Trammcll has SUSPENDED
f the tax collector Of IIilISborougl
: county, Il shortage being alleged il
his accounts. The county is SccurCt
, by bond.
= 1t is said that Il 4,000-acre no!
ranch is to be opened in Duval county
0 The Woman'S Benefit Association
e of the MaccAbreS will hold con
:, ventiOu in Jacksonville October 90
= Voters of Duval county will be ask
) ed to endorse the issuance Of $1,000.
; 600 for bridge and road purpose
: their ballots in the bond election TO
= the st. Johns river bridge.
At the initial fall meeting of tn
Civic League. held in Pensacola,
was decided to establish and main
tain free medical and dental cIini
for the public school children of Pen
- sacOla.
A. n. Dow, of the Jacksonville Riff
q club won the 1,O00-yard match, i
f which there were Scventy-three com
- petitorS. Each fired twenty shot
# slow fire and Dow finished first wit
n ninety one, winning a gold medal.
d The individual pistol match, tn
l. concluding event Of the National Riff
associations program. was won at tn
Il shooting tournament by George 1
Il Cook. of Washington. ID. c., VIII
II scored $50 out of i possible ~
o points.
l. News was received of the death q
Tallahassee of Mrs. Thomas ]. Al
pleyard. wife of State Printer Apple
yard. Mrs. Applcyard succumbe
p after Il long illness, and for some day
her death had been momentarily e2
II pected.