The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-05-05
CRESCENT CITY NEWS
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

usual hour.
Miss Grace Macdonald of Provi
dence, K. l., arrived this week for =.
visit of week or two with her moth
er, Mrs. E. G. Sackett.
Mrs. Mary R. Wilson has accepte,
a place in the post office as clerl
in the general delivery, a place mad,
vacant by the retirement of Mr. R
o. Burton.
B. F. Fudge of Bainbridge, Ga,
spent the weekend here, the guest o.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. Darby. Mrs
Fudge, who is the sister of Mrs
Darby, has been visiting her siste1
for several weeks.
The Baptist Sunday school will
hold basket picnic at the oak grove
opposite Mr.. Bartlett's home tomor.
row. What we hope is that the day
will be a good picnic day and thai
the children and their friends will
all have good time.
Mrs. F. C. Norris and Miss R. E
Anderson, both of Wellsville, Ohio
who have been spending the winter
here, guests of Mrs. Norris, left on
Tuesday for their northern home
much to the regret of a large circle
of friends.
The Woman's Missionary Society
of the Baptist church will have its
regular business meeting next Tues
day, May 9th, at the church. The
meeting will be at $3.50 p. M, and
Mrs. R. L. Bonsteel, president of the
society, says that as business of i'm
portance is to come before the meet
ing it is important that there be a
full attendance of all the ladies of
the church.
Capt. R. C. Ivory of Jacksonville
arrived last week and has been the
guest of his sister, Mrs. A d. Wool
man, on South Summit street. Capt.
Ivory will be pleasantly remembered
as a former well-known citizen of
this place who moved to Jacksonville
some eight or nine years ago. He
lived here continuously for four years
and took a prominent part in all To-
cal matters.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Eaton expect to
leave early next week for Hot
Springs, Ark, where they will like
ly spend the summer and where Mrs.
Eaton will take treatment for her
trouble, a treatment that
gave her much relief on her last visit
there. Mr.. Eaton expects to spend
the summer with her. Mrs Eaton
has been great sufferer for several
years, and her friends are hoping that
she will get speedy relief from these
famous springs.
Interesting games of baseball were
played on the North Park grounds
last Thursday and Friday afternoons
between the local team and the Flor
ida Military Academy club. 1t was
the first of the summers games and
both drew large crowds. The visit
ing team won both games, though
that of Thursday required ten innings
to determine, and interest was tense
all through. The score was 8 to 8.
The game of Friday was won by the
visitors in a score of 8 to 4.
The grove of Capt. W. M Miller,
next north of Ilesmere on the lake
front, was sold on Saturday to Mr.. ].
n. Ten Eyck Burr of Casnovia, N. Y.
This property consists of some 20
acres of land on which there are about
500 bearing citrus fruit trees and
some 800 bearing, or yolng trees.
The consideration is said to have been
$4,000. Mr.. Burr has been here for
about a month, a guest at the Turner
House. He expects to take an active
in his new property and will
spend a good part of his winter sea-
sons here. Mr.. Burr visited Crescent
City first in 1886, and was here again
some three years ago.
j. f. Bartlett has announced that
he will have a picnic and "fsh fry"
it his place, coax Crest" tomorrow
Saturday, May 9Th, to which the
people generally are cordially invited.
Mr.. Bartlett never does things by
halves; in his invitation he states
that he will furnish the fish and
black coffee. and the people bring
whatever else they desire" Mr..
Bartlett loves a picnic; if he wasn't
bothered like the rest of us with TINS
occupation of making a living, his
ife would be one prolonged picnic;
you can see evidence Of this in his
smile. His place is a beautiful one:
IN the west side of Lake Stella and
lear the junction. In front Of his
louse is beautiful oHk grove. where
he picnic will be held. Crescent |
7itv will be well represented at this |
,icnic. Mr.. Bartlett has piven sew
,ral of them in the past. and the peo- |!
,le fully understand that they are /
'eal picnics.
The item concerning the death of |
Mr.. C. A. Pratt, published last week !
vas somewhat misleading in that it
'onveved the impression that his
leath was due to natural causes.
when in fact it was due to an acci-
lent. 1t seems that Mr.. Pratt was
tanding on the track at Milton as a
rain was passing and failed to no.
ice that freight car had been
u-I4oly tho fra ok |