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IBTH YHAR
FCHRISTIANSTIED.
Y.
@I .85
A,
THURSSDAY,
7T
FEERUARY
1924,
Juan-Hill.
The
statue
was
cesigned
by
Jomes
Earle
Fraozier
who
designed
the
statue
of Hamilton
on
the
steps
of
the
treasury
building
in
Washington.
The
Rooseve!t
statue
wiil
bear
the
inserip-
tion.
‘Only those
are
fit
10
live
who do
not fear
to die.””
[bid.
T
.
A PROCLAMATION
BY THE
GOVERNOR
OF
THE
VIRGIN
JSLANDS
OF
THE
UNITED
STATES.
BY
virtue of the authority
vested
D
in
me,
I
do
hereby
set
apart
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
12,
19214,
and
proclaim
it
a
public
holiday
within
the
Municipali*-of
Samnt
Croix, Virgin
Islands
£ che
United
states
for the puryose
ol observing
LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY.
PHILIP WILLIAMS,
‘TOvernor.
Government
House,
Saint
Thowas,
February
1,
1924.
BY request
of Government
a meeting
of
=~
the
Colonial Councils
of
St.
Thomas
and
St.
Jobn,
and
St.
Croix
assembled
in joint sessicn
wiil
be
held
on
IFSBRU-
ARY Tth.,
1924
in the Council
tlail at St.
Croix at
2 o’elock
p.
m.
RDER
OF
THE
DA!
DRD
£ DAY
1.
Colonial
Council
Bill No.
17.
Foarth
Couneil,
First
Session,
1923-
1924.
Introduction
of
draft
of
resolation
embodyving
recommendations
to bet-
ter
the
economic
condition
in
the
Virgin Islands.
:
forwarded
by the Mun eipal Com-
mittee
of St. Croix
forwarded by (he Mun’cipal Com-
mittee
of
St.
fhomss
and
St.
John.
Colonial Council Cifice, St. Croix, Feb-
ruary 4,
1924,
ROBT.
L. MERWIN,
Crairman.,
:
THE
ST. CrROIX AVIS
is printed and
published
daily (Sundays
and Holicays excepted)
by G. Johansen
ai
tne Avis ifice.
TERM 5:-—SO cants
mo: thly in advance,
2 ¢eonts
per single
copy.
Foatered
as
second
class
matter
May
268th
1917 at the
i'ost
Ofice at Chrishan-
glod
st Crne
V. Lol the
U. 5.
A,
un-
der
the Act of March 3, 1879.
Contrib:tion
to this paper
will be glad-
L7 receive
! when the
same
deals
with mat-
ters of gereral
interest,
and
is
accompa-
wied with the
author’s
name,
as
a guar-
antee
of ¢rod raith
Theeditor cannot
be
responsib
¢ for ihe views
of his correspon-
dents
wor woes he necessarily endorsethem.
BURN MAN WHO
STOLE
RELICS.
At Avezzano
a grounof
peasants
saw
Franeesco
{omel earry.ng
awayv from
toe
church
an
urn
enntaining
th2
ashes
of
one
of
the
patron
saints
of
the
place.
f'he
people
had
previously
missed
holv
r>hes
fron
the chureh,
and
feeling
was
high.
Tomel
was first
beaten
by
an
in-
tariated
mob,
then
his elothes
were
saty
rited
with
gasoline and
he
was
burnel
aiive.
—The
Pathfinder,
January
26th
COPFEE
DRINKER FINED.,
Williat:
Dorsey.
o
Kansas
“ity, had
an annoying
habit of
pouring
his
coifee
in his saucer
and
then
making
a
pereu-
i.r whistling noise
cooling
it.t
Ho
alio
o-casionally
blew
coffee on other
patrons
of the resiaurant
where
he
dined.
Tte
proprieto
asked
Dorsey
to
discontinue
his objectionable
practices,
but th: coffee
blower
became
indignant.
Ao
srgu-
ment followed and
Dorsey
was
puts
out
of
the
building.
Thes
smash!
a
briek
came
through
the
window
at
the
pro-
prietor
whe
was still
cleaninz
eoffsa
off
the table.
The next
day Dorsey
hud
au
opportuni’'y
to tell
the
jvud'.:.e
ail
about
the
affair.
*‘l'm
old
{ashioned.’””
he
said,
“‘and
I like to drink
my coff~
out
of
my
saucer.”
“*Rifty dollars,”’
said
tne judge.
lbid.
ROOSEVELT
BUST
AT SAN
JUAN.
A bust
of Theodore
Roosevelt
as
a
rouzh
rider
is
'o
be
erected
by
the
Roosevelt
Memorial
Association
on
the
boulevard
running
from Santiago
to San
Na.
31
B
Babv
Carriac
Oae Baby
Carriage
For
particulars
please
apnply
at
this office.
'FRESH AMERICAN EGGS
At
“Hiarwin's loe Cream Parlor”,
"Newest Arrival!
CELIGIOUS CHGCOLATES
in
1 Ib. and
2 Ik, Boxes.
“MERWIN'S
ICE CREAR PARLOR",
e
.
"
fidministraior’s Notice
O
:
.
.
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.
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In ihe Tictrict Court of the Lirgin Is-
i
'ntip:d
aln
Mariot:
lands
of
ihe Uniled Staies.
Christian-
Cph_tndinial
Pietrip
sted
Sub-Judicia!
Cistrict,
i
INTHE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
SUSANNA
MARGRETH
PLASKETT.
DECEASED,
§OTICE
is
hereby
given,
that
A,
E.
}
STAKEMANN, Administrator
of the
above entitled
estate,
havinge
filed in
the
Distriet
Court
of
the Virein
Islands
of the United
States,
his fins!
account
of
.
the administration
ol
ilie siid estate,
the
'
hearing
of the
same
buas
heen
fixed§ for
MONDAY the 3rd day
of MARCH A. D.
'
1924 at 10 o’clock
in the forencon
of that
|
day,
at the
Office of the
Judge
of
said
{
Court in the’ 'l‘gwn
of Christiansted,
ls-
.
land
of St.
Croix, ard
all persons
inter-
.
ested
in the said
estate
are hereby notified
.
then
and there
to appear
and
show
cause,
i
if any
they have,
why the
said
account
'
should
not be settled
and allow ed.
.
Christiansted,
St. Croix, January
30th
|
1924.
o
|
A. E. STAKEVANN,
Administrator,