Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-11-19
PALATKABOOSTERS
MADE A GREAT HIT
WITH JAX PARAOES
Both Big Papers Praise
Spirit Which Prompt
ID. g. ed Visit
COULDN'T FIND BERRY
Biddie Shearouse Was
Hot on Trail of Jax
Band Master

That Palatka Boosters of the
Chamber of Commerce made a big
hit when they appeared in Jackson
vile yesterday to parade with the
Concert band and impart some pep in
to the Florida State Fair is indicat-
ed in the stories printed in the last
editions of the Metropolis and in yes
terday's Times Union
The Palatka contingent arrived at
Bay and Broad streets at 1890 and
Immediately formed for the parade
with two motorcycle policemen lead
ing the line of mare up Bay to Ocean
to Adams to Laura to Forsyth to
Broad, where the parade disbanded
and a" trip was made to the Duval
high school for conference with
the athletic direcors. Following this
the visitors went to the fair grounds
a concert to wnIcn 1t was aImpdssn1ie
TO drag the Jacksonville band for a
competition. Later in the evening
a concert was given in Hemming
park. In speaking of the visit of the
Palatkans the Metropolis had the
following:
"Palatka moved to Jacksonville
Thursday morning and at o'clock
Thursday afternoon it began to look
as though she would confscate the
city and take it home with her.
Forty-one car loads of 'em, rarin'
to go and boiling over with pep,
drove over the st. Johns river bridge
about 10 o'clock and, like the Assy-
rian of old, sweeped down upon the
unsuspecting city with the sudden
ness of wolves.
owe came to blow ]. Warren Ber-
ry into eternal silence" one of the
crew declared. Then he explained
that ]. Warren Berry. as everyone
already knows. is the ringmaster of
the trick band that is entertaining
thousands to their hearts delight at
the state fair daily and nightly.
"Contidentially, however," Goode
M. Guerry, publisher and editor of
the Palatka Daily News, who was
in the party, told the Metropolis, we
have come up here to get that Duval-
Gainesville football game. 1t looks
as though we would do it, too. Cal
nesville is willing to play in Palatka,
and it seems probable that Duval will
consent. In that case we can assure
all parties concerned that they will
receive a wholehearted support, be-
cause we have real bunch of foot
ball fans in that CITY,"
Although the football game was
the cause of the pilgrimage to the
state metropolis, all the Palatkans
will tell you that they came here to
with Berry band, and they
claim they have the stuff to make a
showing. There are % pieces in it,
and it has as an additional feature
the presence of six-year-old Louie
Kalbfeld Newton, the boy wonder
who has been directing 100-piece or
,hestras in Atlanta and Chicago and
who has made a national reputation
for himself as band leader.
'You might say we are going out
to the fair about three O'clock" one
If the party laughed, "to put on a
regular concert-that is, if Mr.. Ber-
~ will stand for it."
Palatka isn't minus anything
when it come to earning itself
place in the sun.
The Times-Union story was as
follows:
If there is one person in Jackson
Jille today who is unmindful of the
'act that Palatka is distinctly and
on the map, that person
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