The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-01-19
CITY HAPPENINGS AND
PERSONAL MENTION.


with q hard cold al this week, but
is now improving.
Chris. Stanton is going to build an
Office for his foundry and machine
shop on Water street.
Mrs. r. S. O'Haver and Miss Joni
ia O'Haver are spending the week
, end with relatives in Daytona.
The city's lighting contract with
, the Southern Utilities Company will
have to be renewed on February 18th.
President Day Of the Southern Util-
titles Company was in the city on
, Monday.
Judge Lands Of DeLand was 2 visi-
! tor in the city Wednesday, enroute
down the east coast.
/ Miss Nora Sharpe arrived home to-
day from Hastings where she was the
/ guest Of Miss Louise Moragne at Dr..
Stanton's.
Mrs. E. P. Chamberlain Mr.. and
Mrs. Oglesby and Miss Mabel Wilson
/ were in St. Augustine, Tuesday to
see Madame Sarah Bernhard.
Mrs. NJ. c. Fisk has rented the
Mrs. Boyd apartments on Lemon
street and will open her dress-making
parlors there soon.
Miss Susie Lee Walton returned
Wednesday from an enjoyable visit
with DR.. and Mrs. Harry Merryday Of
Daytona.
Mrs. John Rogan Of Rockdale,
Tenn, and Miss Fannie Walton Of
Mount Pleasant, Tenn, arrived yes
terday to be guests of Mrs. John ".
! Walton for the remainder Of the win
ter,
Col. Q. I. Roberts was in from his
home at Putnam Hall on Tuesday;
accompanying him We're his sister-in-
law. Mrs. Walter Roberts. and Hon.
John P. Wall. The party came ii
Mr.. Roberts automobile.
The Palatka board Of trade is con-
sidering the advisability Of moving
its headquarters to the upper floor
Of the Griffin building at the head
Of Lemon street, the building now
owned by Col. H. NJ. de Montmollin.
Mrs. E..W. Gray had as her guests
Judge and Mrs. Dewitt T. Gray, little
daughter Nancy, and son Of Jackson
vile and Mrs. Gray's sister, Mrs. Wal
ter ". Wood of City Point, Va, for
few days visit.
The local Moose lodge has asked the
city council for refund Of one days
, license paid for the recent carnival =
the day it rained cats and pitchforks
and the people couldn't come out to
see the merry-go-round.
Did you see the school kids on pa
rade? Say, there was bunch OF
EN-; and it does seem as if Palatka
ought to take sufficient pride in them
to give them a decent school build
ing.
The reading given by Miss Bar
Der and the unaccompanied solos Of
Miss Ida Leib added much to the en-
. ioymcnt of the missionary Tea" Civ
, en- at the hospitable home Of Mrs. j..
H. Haughton Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. l. Z. Brown has as her guests,
her mother, Mrs. W. Y. Love, and sis
ter. Mrs. L. C. Caldwell with her lit
tie daughter Ellen, Of Statesville,
Sorth Carolina. Mrs. Caldwell will
remain for short while, and Mrs.
Love will make an extended visit.
Col. s. J. HIlburn and Goss Mattox
went fox hunting out from Bost-
wick last Wednesday. They got a
fox and cat-though they really
didn't get the cat for the dogs drove
him into pond and tbe cat was
drowned.
Mr.. and Mrs. George T. Oglesby
who have been the guests of Mrs. Og-
| lesby's aunt, Mrs. Richard Adams,
left Yesterday for two weeks visit
bin Quitman, Ga, and from there, will
20 on TO Ladonia, Texas, their future
home.
Mrs. T. Reese delightfully."- enter
tanned with cards Tuesday afternoon,
| having as her guests Mesdames Fer
rel. j. johnson. Merrill, Millican, H.
NJ. Fearnside, Riles, Collins and o.
Conner. A tempting salad course
with sandwiches, chips, olives and cof-
| fee was served.
February 19th-the anniversary Of
| the birth OF Gen. Robert E. Lee, one
| Of the nations greatest soldiers and
the hero Of the Confederacy. 1t is
legal holiday in Florida, but the
memory of this great man is only
indiferently celebrated, and that by
few
| Rev. R. L. Bonsteel, pastor Of the
] Palatka Baptist church, was honored
at the Baptist State Convention last
: week by being placed on the State
: Board Of Missions, the committee in
/ charge of church extension, and pos
sibly the most important in the de-
nomination.
Palatka Rebekah Lodge No. %,
held a most interesting meeting in
their new quarters in Red Mems Hall,
II Wednesday evening. Mrs. Lillian S.
II Knight as District Deputy President
i installed the following officers for the
Il ensuing year: \. G., Mrs. H. f. Wells;
II V. G., Mrs. NJ. NJ. Purdom; w, Mrs.
II Williams; Con-, Mrs. A. Johnson;
| Chaplain, Mrs. Rogers; |. G., Mrs.
II Saylors. There was a splendid at
II tendance.