Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-01-06

Eaton. Mr.. Eaton has returned to
Crescent City after a year away and
is now looking for the building boom
which is not far in the distance.
Curtis Cullum of Batesburg, S C,
is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Emily NJ
+ Cheatham.
Robert L Smith is violating the
union labor S-hour day law. He puts
in his time from Monday morning to
Saturday night on the other side #
Lake Crescent. He is preparing the
ground for a forty acre field of pota-
toes.
An addition has been made to
Principal Wheatley's staff in the per-
son of George H Herrick, one of the
most regular of our winter residents.
At the request of the school board
Mr.. Herrick has placed in position a
Seth Thomas 12-inch dial clock.
School time hereafter will be the cor
rect and standard time. Mr. H. is
designated as the official timekeeper
Mrs Jay Hobbs, teacher of the sew
enth and eighth grades, has the SYM
pathy of all who know her. During
the holidays she lost by death her 4
year old grandson in Philadelphia
The little fellow was called very sud
deny, being sick only "a hours.
The public schools reopened last
Monday with all the teachers at their
desks. Ten new pupils were enrolled
making the attendance the largest in
the history of Crescent City, 21O
with further increase in prospect
Some of the rooms are crowded with
no space for more desks. 1t is a
question of only a short time wher
more room will have to be provided
The municipal lighting plant is II
that fourishing condition that it :;
paying its way. There are now more
than two hundred consumers of cleo
trio light with addition application:
. coming.
The Village Improvement Associa
tino is engaged in another most com
mendable cause. 1t is helping thu
) people of Georgetown to start pub
lie library. All having readable
: books who wish to put them wher'
) they will be appreciated are request
: ed to leave them at the store of tn
! Mathis Mercantile Co. The peopI
5 of Georgetown are our nearest neigh
t bors on the west. They patronize gu
r schools and ought to be helped t.
start a good library.
S A petition has been largely signe
. to extend school district No. 8, know
as the Crescent City district, so as t.
include Fruitland and Georgetown, al
the territory between Crescent LAX
and the St. Johns river. This by tn
request of the county board of publ
] Instruction. The people of George
town now have the opportunity to pu
their names on the petition, Thi
! does not mean an increase in taxa
! ton. The children of the propose
i territory are now attending gu
schools and their parents are natur
ally interested in doing their part a
! it will cost them no more, and will en-
s able the trustees to make the school
more efficient
The community meeting held at tn
motion picture hall last Sunday even
4 ing was very successful from all an
i giles. All church services We're give
! up and the pulpits, the pews, and tn
i packing houses all united to help Her
i bert Hoover's child-feeding campaign
in central and southeastern Europe
The meeting was held under the au
i spices of the Crescent City branch o
{ the American Red Cross which is &C
] lively and cordially cooperating wit
q Mr.. Hoover as director. So are tn
American Relief Administration, tn
Y. NJ. c. A., the Y. W. C. A, tn
I American Friends, the Churches o
i Christ in America, the Jewish Com
! mittee, and the Knights of Columbus
The music was furnished by Mrs
j CHATTER, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Warner
and Mrs. Flick with the large audienc
i joining. Acting Mayor E. H. vii
! liams presided; B. F. Tillinghast ex
i planned the part the Red Cross is tax
ing in the war-swept countries 0
= Europe; Rev. DIR. M. W. Stryker de