The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-05-18

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some two or three weeks with mild NJ
attack of typhoid fever, and is report II
ed as improving. q
Rev. w. L. Atkisson has been nurs-
ing an attack of la grippe and in con- A
seGuence no service was held at the o.
church last Sunday even f
ing. )
w. H. Fuller, town treasurer, is I
verv ill with typhoid fever. He was .
III several days before the disease !
was diagnosed, or a physician called, I
Mrs. Crotty is attending to this case
as nurse.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Kinard announce +
the marriage of their daughter, Louie
Elees, to Mr.. Arthur Albertus Hay
den of Hancock, N. H., Wednesday
morning, May 23rd, 1917, Crescent
City, Florida.
Remember the closing exercises Of
the Crescent City high and grammar
school will take place this evening at
the a2ditorium. All are invited, and
all should 90, thereby showing their
pride and interest in the school, one
of the very best in all Florida.
Joseph Tweedale of Port Chester,
N. Y, a former winter visitor to this
place and remembered as guest at
Grove Hall, died recently and the pa
ners of his home town gave lengthy
accounts of his life. Mr.. Tweedale
was a civil war veteran. He spent
eeyeral seasons here.
Growers hereabouts are now learn
ing that the damage to the fruit
trees by the early February cold, was
| much more disastrous than at first
thought. Tangerine trees that were
| seemingly but little damaged are now
showing great injury as a result OF
the cold. This injury consists IN nu-
merous spots on the trunk where the
bark is drying up and breaking.
Il County Superintendent Chas. H;
| Price visited the Crescent City school
| last Monday, spending the entire day
here. The News isn't going to re-
| neat all the nice things the county
superintendent had to say concerning
= This school-it might give the teach
: ers and pupils a puffed appearance
O suffice it to say that he was charmed
with the perfect discipline and the
smooth, orderly manner IN Which lnJ IaJ
. routine of school work progressed
~ from opening to closing time I res,
IT, cent City has one of the very oeS'
Junior high schools in Florlda' re
marked Mr.. Price, "and school Of
|, which any community may be prouu
:" The records of the past 10 year!
show, too, that instead Of ccontr,Ihu
, t;nr to the total falliNg off in schnn,
} stendance during that time, thl
echco, he's mafo steady lhcFe.,S
in attendance. Fifteen years ago IN
school employed two teachers: NJ" ;,
teachers have all they ought to 90.
da Gathering moss from the trees
. the streets of Crescent CITY, IS d nC
. industry which has seemingly SPLSSi!,
| IN in a day. Dozens OF peopte' "lI'
and colored. are engaged IN the WoI
and some are making extra gol
wages. This moss BRINGS Vnv I,''.( ~,
er25 cents a hundred, pounds al al
some are pulling and delivering . iao
thousand to fifteen hundrea poum l.,,
| a dav. Capt. Hiscock OF OeorgeIIo;T 10,
huvs the moss and after Qteacn'
and bailing, ships it to New YORK.
;s said to be used for various PuIPo
es principally stuffing auto cushlo
"a r,a+tresses. So far only Sd
moss mos as is easily pulled has oeen . Ia a
INV llro'o I'D Consequently the big trees a
oniv indjfferently stripped tiaU sol
ono Marty had the forethought 10 l.
- % On the town council with a pEoPo
ton to clean the trees VnoLo"@," t,,'., ~.
on might have secured a coolF"yy ~
i X the town and had a mo"G,PII..l y, y,
rms which case it would have p@};o IL, j, Iu ~.
secure the needed tools ana nun
. thorough Job of it, and at tne -. 80,
t;mo t;,ut Secured for himself 4 sue"
the snnmer s business with a ste@g\
With oon,n # is said that Capt til~I'
nate vii VII soon start a bleaching ana o'
ever ing establishment here
city There's always something "didon
IS of ~ Crascent City. This time 1t
tiful h.stv he retirement from business ol
and ieSoy ne w.. merchants. He hadn't b
way VI onro but a short time, however
tho Uuls ."ns one % If those who slipped IN
20 Of Ms from somewhere, stayl1 ~ a.,
: tho enough to make the staying ;,
'"' and then left for someWaSIe- .Eere
ele evon the sheriff knows where
+ as was man named Cham9ers' .t,. ns
!, the rTiVed rive in town one day. last N T'I
linen looked about a short time :. GI.~
ndia. cluded it offered good open,
entail ca,Ied on John ReynolGs %n' s,r Il.
.orite SeT him how w much he would take for
ID to Tusiness. John took @ sto@5 ana n
tions ured a little, then named p
~, % in All right" said the visitor, ,,.,
,ln ,nsn1t If take you" Then he Went .oT of
eSu,. SUI his pants and pulled ro. ,,3 "5 h
not nonnted m off the stated price IN, IN" II Il
J by ed, it to Mr.. Reynolds ao,. NO \.
other mind you, but the real mG,,ll, 5l;,lr =
Chnmbers t!I,,u wos seemin0lv d",ng d,i q
- business: h" ness, al, easily u"derysto2;a .,
u He bought freely especially s,.4 S.t'[ : :
'A days daSs in in the month he sold freely, ety.
@ ;ng much to other merchants an
lower price for cash tn,m III,
could buv in the who.eS' Ie M" M,
,s,. he also sold much for cash TO ,oo guT \
sSbIe.. sSbfI. ers who learned of his eTgen ,oro
your low nrices Must of QUIT ilel