The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-17

Miss Grizella Merrill was a week.
end visitor with friends in Jackson
vile.
Misses Susie Lee Walton and Annie
Deaderick have returned from a visit
with friends in Crescent City.
Mrs. Albert O. Martin has returned
to the city after a visit with her sis
ter, Mrs. T. Earl Price, at Mariana.
Hon. W. G. Tilghman and family
and Mrs. DR.. L. w. Warren are spend
ing a few days at the Tilghman cot
tage at Assembly Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melton had as their
weekend guests, J. H. Alliston and
children of Jacksonville and Mr.. and
Mrs. Grover Alliston of Gainesville
Col. and Mrs. H. M. de Montmollin
and Mrs. E. H. Mcllvaine spent We'd
nesday in Jacksonville, returning in
their new Dodge car, in the evening.
The Luncheon Bridge Club post
poned its meeting from yesterday af
ternoon till next Thursday, November
Odd at which time it will meet with
Mrs. Stewart Worden.
DR.. II. A. Johnson addressed the
Parent Teachers Association at the
high school building yesterday after
noon at 8 o'clock, on symptoms of
Physical Defects in School Children"
and those who heard him feel that
much good was accomplished in the
way of helping both parents and
teachers to better judge the children
The Palatka News insinuates that
George E. Gay of that city who was
candidate for state treasurer on the
republican ticket, will become q good
democrat "now that there is to be no
federal patronage" 1t is possible
that it was "pie" that good candidates
were after in their activity for repub-
lican "principle. Miami Metropolis.
Mrs. r. S. Bonsteel wife of the pas
tor of the First Baptist church, left
yesterday for visit of several weeks
at her old home in Macon, Ga. Mrs. |
Bonsteel has not been in her usual
health for some little time, and is
taking this much needed rest in the |
belief that she will soon be we'll |
again. She expects to be away until |
the holiday season.
Mrs. D. J. Coughlin and Miss Ida
Leib will leave Monday for Miami as
delegates from the Palatka Woman's !
Club to the State Federation of Wo-
mans Clubs which convenes in that |
city next week. Part of the enter
tainment provided is trip by auto
to the Royal Palm Park, the newly |
acquired and valuable property of the
National Federation of Clubs. No
doubt these ladies will have an in
tensely interesting report to bring
back to the local club.
Palatkans who have pleasant recol-
lections of three brothers, cousins of
our old friend Dan O'Driscoll, Jack,
Bert and Jim Williams, who formerly
lived here but left some three years
ago, will be interested to learn that
all three are now serving Great Brit
ain in the war. Jack is on the firing
line in France, Jim is a member of
the engineering corps, and Bert is on
a man of war some where on the
ocean. May they pull through the
war in as perfect physical trim as
when they went in.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. NJ. McKillop and
niece, Miss Cameron, departed Mon
day for New Zealand, their ultimate
destination. Enroute they will stop
at Baltimore, Washington, Niagara
Falls and Toronto. From New York
they will sail for England where they
will remain several months. Mr..
and Mrs. McKillop have two sons
fighting for England and they have
felt keenly the effects of the awful
struggle, on account of inability to
receive news from them because Of
the strict censorship of all mail leav-
ing England. These estimable neo-
pie will be missed from our midst,
where they have won many friends.
The president of the board of trade
has sent telegram to President Will
son extending hearty congratulations
over his reelection and reminding him
that the National Farmers Educa-
tional and Cooperative Union of Am
erica will meet in Palatka next week
and that we'd all be awfully glad to
have him join US. Up to last evening
President wilson hadn't responded,
and he may not do so until the con-
vention is underway, when he'll wire
and tell the gathered delegates how
the nation owes debt of gratitude
to the farmer; what a bulwark he is
to the nation and what an awful time
the country would have if there were
no farmers to get up at A 9. m. to
worry the geese and stir up the hogs.
Last August Mr.. NJ. P. Walsh of this
oity, in company with Senator Fletch-
ar and Congressman Sears called on
the president and gave him a personal
invitation