Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-30
.JAx BOOSTERS TO
AID SMALL TOWNS
TO ATTAIN GOALS.
Pledge Support in All
Matters for Good Of
Communities
WILL REPAIR ST. JOHNS
Good Time Enjoy
ed Here as Guests of
Palatka
More than a hundred representa-

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! More than a hundred representa-
tive Jacksonville business men APP
Iplauded r. o. Miller's pledge Friday
night that Jacksonville stands ready
to extend, not only friendly hand,
but helping hand to all Florida Cit
les in whatever endeavor they may
conceive for the good of their COM
munities, and especially to Palatka in
opening up the st. Johns river to traf-
fic so that towns along its shores may
prosper and enjoy those benefits to
which their location entities them.
The Friendship Unlimited" ar
rived in Palatka Friday afternoon at
6:2O o'clock. Palatka autos were
lined up and numerically numbered
around the block at the union station,
and each visitor had been assigned
to numbered car before he arrived
here. It worked like clockwork, and
in a few minutes after the special
pulled in the visitors We're enjoying
a fifteen minute whirl around the city.
Arriving at the Elks club the visi-
tors were ushered up stairs where
places had been provided for more
than 200 and the festivities began
with selections By the Jacksonville
Municipal band. Charlie Morrison
also regaled those present with sew
eral vocal selections, displaying "a
voice and presence that were cap
tivating.
A song rendered with much ef-
feet by the entire eudience was one
prepared by the Jacksonville choir
masters association, and set to the
music of "Till We Meet Again." the
words to which were:
Florida, we are ever proud of you,
With your skies of fairest summer
blue,
Where the ocean breezes blow,
That's Gods country, that we know,
Where the st. Johns river meets the
ca,
That's the land Of Home Sweet
lone to me,
All her sons were ever true, {
Florida, our home. 6
Davis Welcomes Visitors
President W. P. Merriam, of the
'hamber of Commerce, presided at
ne banquet and introduced Howell A.
avis, who welcome the visitors to
alatka in speech which idicated
lat Palatka was not unware of the
;mpliment bestowed by the Jackson
lie party in coming here to shake
ands. He said he hoped this was Fl
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r. L. Blagg, president of the G
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lcksonville, replied to Mr.. Davis, tv
aking an earnest plea for closer re- A
tionship between the cities of the II
ate, and especially with Jacksonville, to
,ich sc said, realized that there has 90
ng prevailed false impression as ri
the metropolis appreciation of the tn
of the state. He said that he
had once raised cattle in Putnam
unity that he was glad to be beck he ha
again and that he though it fitting er
1T the tour he was now on had begun We
the present state capital an dwould tn
nd up at the future capital. ca
Mayor Hands Over Keys ,th
Mayor A. M. Steen, in few fit he
g remarks, turned over the keys of he
, city to the visitors. The Mayor 80
* occasin to say that he had never he
fore understood why Jacksonville M,
S a larger city than Palatka, but to-
It he though he understood now that M,
is the spirit such rs was displayed lau
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