The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-06-16
CRESCENT CITY NEWS
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL
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Sort o dull in Crescent Citv,

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Sort o dull in Crescent City.
X. M. White spent the weekend in
st. Augustine.
Nice showers during the day and
comfortable nights.
Capt. LaBrec took big auto load
to Palatka on Tuesday to sec the We
laka- -Palatka ball game.
The Woman's Missionary Society of
the Baptist church will meet next
Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock.
Phillips Cash and Rev. Burris went
to Palatka on Tuesday to assist the
Welaka baseball club in its match
game with the Palatka's.
The June bloom on the orange trees
is the greatest in a number of years.
In certain parts of the Hurlbut grove
the trees are white with bloom. Most
of the groves hereabouts have lots Of
it.
Mr.. Fred Andersen and his daugh-
ters, Misses Sarah and Mabel Ander-
sen, desire to express through The
News their heartfelt gratitude to the
people of Crescent City Tor their uni
form kindness in their late bereave-
ment.
Colored baseball teams played
match game on the North Park Sat-
urday afternoon, helping to relieve
the monotony somewhat. There is
more real fun in witnessing cou-
pie black teams playing than is fur
nished by the best teams in the ma
jor Leagues. The game on Saturday
was between home club and one
from Welaka. The home team won
by a score of II to I.
Crescent City orange growers gen.
orally are well pleased with the crop
prospects for the coming winter.
Mr.. E. H. Williams, who perhaps is
as well posted on the present condi-
ton of the crop as any man in the
place, says that the crop of oranges
tangerines and grapefruit for the
coming winter will be heavy and that
if prices hold good, our growers will
reap q harvest of dollars.
Two motor loads of young people
from Palatka came to Crescent City
on Sunday afternoon and asked for
the Baptist pastor, Rev r. L. Bon
steel. In the party were Mr.. Joseph
Austin, Sd, and Miss Ruth Eline
Grooms, who had a license to marry,
ceremony which Pastor Bonsteel
proceeded to perform in the orthodox
way at his home on North Main
street, in the presence of the young
people accompanying them
E. H. Williams and X. Borson, as
members Of the city council, went to
Palatka last week Friday where they
attended the meeting of the board of
county commissioners to make a de-
mand for Crescent City's share in the
road tax fund. This the board had
already decided it would not pay over
though the law which requires tPcm
to do so is mandatory. Mr.. Will
liams insisted that the money was
due and that it was the duty of the
board to pay it, even going so far as
to threaten that if it was not paid
that mandamus proceedings would
be started in the court. The threat
had weight; anyway the board finally
voted to pay the amount Several
hundred dollars) and McSsrs. Viii
liams and Borson came away with
Il warrant for part of the amount.
The balance is to be paid soon.
An auto accident on Saturday even
ing about six o'clock, resulted in the
partial demolition of Chas. Smiths
beautiful new Buick touring car,
which was damaged perhaps to the
extent of 5000. Mr.. Smith and his
brother-in-law, Mr.. Prevatt, and a
colored man were in the car. For
tunately they escaped with only
slight bruises. Mr.. Smith is the A.
C. L. agent at Huntingdon As Is MS
custom almost every evening, he
drove over for supplies. He was
driving down Summit street at
pretty lively clip and when approach,
ing Central avenue his foot pressed
the accelerator instead of the brake.
This caused him to round the corner
much more rapidly, with the result
that he lost control of the car, ana
it shot across the sidewalk, Just
missing big oak tree, and landing
on its side in the vacant LaBree lot.
A terrific noise accompanied the turn
ing of the car, and as there were
quite a number on the street it didn't
take long for a crowd to gather. Mr..
Smith states that his foot was caught
and that it was impossible for hm
to release it in time to avert the ac'
cident. 1t was very narrow escape
The car is a new one and was,
beauty. This beauty is mared, but
the parts can be replaced.
Woody Whitehy Spreading.
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