Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-02-23
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stamped him the Christian gentleman
that he was. Mr.. Padgett is surviv.
ed by three sons and two daughters
Messrs. Starting, James and Irving
Padgett, of this place, and Mesdames
Barnes and Margenhall, of Jackson
vile.
HARDWOOD Mathis goes fishing al
most every day and it is rare thing
when he does not bring home a big
string of fish. And we're not
stringing you. HARDWOOD never had
the ordinary fisherman's luck. Har-
wood sells his fish, and is making
money faster than his pa wants him
to spend it. On Saturday this young
man, who carries smile that won't
rub off, caught over forty fish. Like
father like son. Harwood's pa is
some fisherman, but he is attending
to other things now.
Mrs. R. F. Adams, of Palatka, has
been spending the past ten days here
on a visit to her sister, Mrs. L. Ea-
ton. Mr.. Adams was also a visitor
here last Sunday.
The New England club announces
that it will give an entertainment
at V. |. A. hall on Monday evening,
the 9th instant. The date of this
entertainment had been fixed for an
earlier day, but owing to other
amusements it was deferred to next
Monday. The entertainment will con-
sist of musical selections and read
ings, and most pleasurable eve
ming is promised.
The seats for the Harry d'Obbs
Minstrels were practically all taken
on Tuesday at 2 o'clock. Only here
and there was single seat to be
secured. House isn't big enough for
anything real clever.
The New England club has in mind,
we understand, the establishment of
the Eva Lyon park and the erection
of comfort station therein. Per-
mission will be asked of the authori-
ties to this extent. The club believes
the park should present more at
tractive front to tourists and other
strangers within our gates. And the
New England club is eternally and
everlastingly right, and then some.
But government comfort station is
another matter. We were never
much in favor of the government
management of comfort stations.
The sweet spring time is almost upon
us; it is the mating season; the COO
ing season, and the benches are not
advantageously placed. Some of
them are standing on their heads and
some are resting on their sides. They
should be so placed that "spooners"
and SIGH can get the worth of their
money-on their feet and under the
trees, away from the inquisitive, and
out from under the glare of the cleo
trio street lamps, and where the
young and frivolous may practice
the last act of the social movie drama
without interruption and away from
the prying eyes of those who affect
to scorn loves young dream. We
like the Eva Lyon park; we like it |
because it does afford blissful re-
treat to all, regardless of age or pre-
vious condition of servitude, where
there is afforded full opportunity to |
cultivate and renew pledges of love
made under an incOnstant moon, not |
only in New England, but in other
frontier states of our great American
union. But the place, we must ack-
nowledge, is somewhat dilapidated-
it needs fitting preparation for the
now fast approaching spring time,
when yum yum parties will be en-
regla. Age cannot obliterate nor
time remove from the mind, no mat
ter how engrossed we may be in sor-
did affairs of business the lal Ia
poosa experiences of any man, no
matter how bald his pate, or streak
ed with white his whiskers But
who of US can bring to our mind as
an appropriate act the establishment
of comfort station in a love gar
den?
Colonel A. B. Torrey has sold his
undertaking business to Mr.. Lloyd
Moose, formerly of Buffalo, N. Y,
town made famous as the home of at
least two presidents, Millard Fill
more and Grover Cleveland, and
where the latter moved and had his
ponderous being as sheriff of the
county. Mr.. Moose knew Grover .
Cleveland in the flesh, and Florida
democrats will remember there was
some flesh as we'll as puissant pug
nacity. But we were speaking of
Mr.. Moose is our I'M
dertaker now, and that he will lend
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