The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-03-30

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

end with MS parents.
Mrs. A. B. Torrey who has been
quite i'll for some two weeks is again
up and about.
Yes, we have had all that was
coming to us in the way of Nuts"
this year.
Louis A. Sturdy of Charley, Mass,
arrived last week to spend some time
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A..
Sturdy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. H. Herrick are
going to leave US next week. This
is mentioned as our annual spring
calamity, which is little ahead of
time this year.
Miss Linda Payson and her guests,
the Misses Ethel Heath and Myrtis
Paginton, left last week for their
home in Attleboro, Mass. Misses
Miriam Payson and Alice Torrey will
remain some time longer.
Mrs. Taft of Detroit, Mich, has
been here some two weeks on Wis
it to her daughter, Mrs. Pipe. She
was to leave this week for New York.
Mrs. Taft had been spending a part
of the season at Palm Beach.
This is the week of the annual
spring exodus. More northern visi-
tors are leaving Crescent City this
week than in any other one week of
the spring. Most of them are goin'
early in order to catch pneumony be-
fore he pulls his freight fer the Hud-
son Bay country.
A. F. Claycomb of Webster, KY,
who has been spending several
months here, left this week for his
home. Mr.. Claycomb has been drawn
to Crescent City by the climate and
the Southfeld Bible Conference, and
he likes 'em both so well that he'll
come again.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Hurlbut and
Miss Hattie S .Holibird of East Free
town, Mass, among our best known
and best liked winter visitors, left on
Friday of last week for Orlando and
Winter Park, where they will spend
some little time before returning to
their northern home.
| Miss Mathews who has been here
some three weeks with Mr.. and Mrs.
E. C. Anthony, who have rooms at
the Horton residence, left on the
early train Sunday morning for Birm-
ingham and Bessemer, Ala, where
she will visit relatives for month
before continuing on to her home in
the Lake Superior country.
The Cinderella Party at V. l. A.
Club House on Saturday afternoon
drew out big crowd. The perform
ance was most clever and all who
were present are profuse in their
praises of the little folks who had
part. After the performance the
ladies of the V. l. A. served ice
cream and cake on the porches. The
affair is said tohave netted something
like $28.
One man went about the streets
last week urging the people to at
tend the Bible Conference on Sunday.
He told one lady that he wanted
Crescent City to become a Christian
community. Don't know where his
unctiousness came from, but its dol
lars to doughnuts that there are
few of his own people who fail to
show any evidence of sprouting
wings.
The board of trade at meeting
last Friday night passed resolution
urging Putnam county members OF
the legislature to favor another ap-
preparation for fighting citrus can
ker, and copy of the resolution was
sent to Senator Middleton and Repre-
sentatives Mckenzie and Tilghman.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. E. Bullock and
their pleasant household are all leav-
ing this week for their summer home
at Onset, Mass.
The ladies of the Methodist church
are going to give their pastor. and
his wife a Shower" this friday
afternoon to which all are cordially
invited. Ice cream and cake will be
served and "silver offering" taken.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church served ice cream and cake IN
the chapel one afternoon last week,
the same being in the interest OF the
chapel piano fund. A "silver offer
ing" was taken which was most sat
isfactory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira C. Pratt, who
have been quite ill for some three. or
four weeks, are now reported as I'M
proving, though still too feeble to ap-
pear on the streets. Their son, Mr..
Frank Pratt is still with them and
will remain until his parents are able
to start for their home in Illinois,
when he will accompany them. Cres-
cent City people have been very anx-
ious concerning this grand old cou-
pie and are greatly relieved now that
they are mending.
Mrs. s. E. Neal and daughter,
Mrs. w. H. Fuller, were called to st.
Augustine last Monday by a tele-
phone message announcing the illness
of Mrs. Boyd, nee Miss Bessie Neal.
W. ]. Smalley, who has been stop
ping for some two weeks with E. M.
Ballard, left on Monday for Palatka,
St. Augustine and Jacksonville in
which towns he will spend a few days
before returning to his home IN
Coldwater, Mich. Mr.. Smalley has
been at Crescent City a portion OF
three winters and says he likes Flor,
ida, especially Crescent City, ana
that he expects to come again.