75TH YEAR.
CHRISBIANSTED:
V.I. U.S.a.,
MONDAY
28D
AUGUST
1920.
THE
ST.-CROIX
AVIS
is printed and published
daily
(Sundays
and Holidays excepted)
by
G.
Johansen
«t the Avis Office.
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per single copy.
.
Entered
as
second-class
matier
May
26th 1917 at
the Post Office
at Christian-
sted,
St. Crowe.
V.
1. of the
U. S. A.,
un
der the Act of March
3.
1879.
:
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Contribution
to this paper will be glad-
ly received
when the
same
deals
with mat-
ters of general
interest,
and is
accompa-
nied with
the
author’s
name,
as
a quar-
antee of good faith.
The editor cannot
be
responsible for the views of his correspon-
dents
nor does
he necessarily endorse them.
A home-made
rain
gauge
can
be made
UL ally Stiaigiiv siaca i,
Lhe-epen
and
being
carefully
cut
in
order
that
the
aperture
may
be of the
same
share
and
dimensions
as the bottom
of the tin, and
the
‘sides
tremaining
unbulged.
This
ahould
be set in a clear spot
on a flat
sur-
facc.
'T'o aseertain-
the
amomnt
of rain
that
has
fallen,
it is only necessary
to
use the ordinary rule.
Angeignhth
of
an
inch
represents
about twelve and
a half
parts;
a quarter of-an inch
25 parts,
and
s 0 on.
This is not strictly
ac®urate,
but
sufficientiy
so for
ordinary
purposes.
(The
Agricultural Gazette of New
South
Wales.
.
The
Union
of South
Africa
now
has
soma 34,000,000
sheep
within its borders
reared for both wool and
mutton.
There
are
over
8,000,000
head
of
cattle
in
South
Africa
exeluding
Rhodesia,
and
beef,
the export of
which
was practically
unknown
‘ten
years
ago,
is
now
sent
. to Europe at
the
rate
of something
like
. 21,800
tons
per
annum.
Meat
canning
factories,
planned
in
1913,
are
now
be-
ing erected
in the
Union
and
Rhodesia.
Today one
can
buy
tinned
tongues
and
meat,
turned
out
by
establishments
in
Rhodesia,
anl
their
overseas
trade
is
iu
a
vigorous
and
healthy
condition,—
Ibid.
A note in Unuted Empire,
April
1920,
states
that in Western
Australia
rabbits
ave
no longer reg irded as pests, but,
on the
contrary,
they have become
an important
asset,
both
the
carecases,
and
the
skins
having
acquired
increased
value
for
export.
In
consequence
the
authorities
have
found
it necessary
to
draw
publie
attention
to
the uneconomic
character
of
the
old methods
of voisoning
wild
rab-
bits,
and
otherwise
destroying
them.
Some
time ago shipments
of
590,000
ib.
of rabbit
skins from 4.vstralia
and 50,000
. from
New Zealani
realized
an
aver-
age-of Ts. 9d.
per .
13 the United States.
An inerease
in demand
“or both
carcases
and
skins
is also
reporte
from England.
—lbd.
THE VALUE C¥ CHARCOAL.
Few
people
know
the
benefit
derived
from
the
use
of charcoal.
It
is not a
drug.
it simply abscrbs
the gases
when
taken
into
the
syst=m
and
acts
as
a
na-
tural
and
safe
eathartic.
It
sweetens
the
breath
after smoking,
eating onions
and other odorous vegetables.
It not only
absorbs
the
injurious
gases
of the
sys-
tem
hnt disinfeeis
tlie mouth
and .throat
from
the poison
of catarih,
whitens
the
teeth,
and clears
and
improves
the
com-
plexion. Charcoal
lozenges
are
usually
mixed
with
honey
znd
sare
pleasant
to
take. —lbid.
HARBO
R DREDGING
TO COMMEMCE
NEXT MONTH.
Although
it was
believed
fora
time
that the dredging
oi .the
barbor
would
have
to
be
indefinitely postponed,
be-
cause
of the
lack
of sufficient funds
to
carry
on the
work,
a
vecent
appropria-
tion
of
$200,000
by
Congress
for
this
specific work
has made
it possible
to
go
ahead.
Th2 pireliminary arrangements
are
al-
ready
well
under
way,
and it is
believ-
ed that the big suction
dredger,
Captain
Houston
will
begin work
next
month.
When
this work
is
once
under-way,
it
will go
on steadily
until the
deep
ship
channel
surveyed
by
the
U.
S.
Engi-
neers,
is complete.
The
shore
lines
in
Puerta
de Tierra will be entirely
chang-
ed when the work is all finished.
The
work of dredging
the
harbor
has
been
very
much
delaved
because
mate-
rials needed,
the poncoons
for the piping
etc.
have
not
yet
arrived,
They are
being
made
on
the
mainland,
and
are
to
be
gchinped
down
on
the
decks
of
freight
toats.—Poric
Rico
Progress,
July 15th.
TO SEND TEN STUDENTS
TO U.S.
The
Sociedad
Protec¢cora
de la Juventud
is now actively engag»d
in making
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arations
to send
ten young men and
wom-
en
to the States o
avail
themseves
of
scholarships
which
have
been
obtained
for them through the efforts of
this soc:
ety.
So far the
aspiring
students
have
not
been
selected,
but within
a
week’s
time
each
young man
or
woman
who
has
the
good luck to be chosen
by the
society
as
the most
neeedy
and
most appropriate
tor
this years
exodus
will be
notified,
and
instructed
as
to what
he or she has
to
do
before leaving the island
to take
up stud.
ies
on the mainland.
The aim of this society
is
to help
those
who
are pr-mising and
have
no means
of
their
own,
t»
make
good,
and
become
self-support'ng
and
resourceful.—J/bid.
NOTICE.
ÜBLIC notice
is hereby
given
that
the
P
School
Year
1920-21
will begin
A
gust
9, 1920.
All childreq
who
will be
six
vears
of
age by Febrliary
9,
1921,
and who
will
not have attained
their fifteenth birthday
before August
9,
1920
must
be
present
in
their respective
schools
at 9
4.
m.
on
August 9,
1920, provided
they have
not
already
been
dismissed
from
school.
Non-attendance,
except
for
legitimate
cause,
is punishable by
fines
imposed
on
parents
or guardians.
No
child
will
be
admitted
to
school
after August
23,
1920, except
in the
case
of
a new arrival in St. Croix,
unless
he
can show
fitness
to undertake
the
work
of a class already established.
By
direction
of
the
Chief
Municipal
Physician
all children
of school
age
who
do
not
possess
vaccination
certificates
must
be
vaccinated
prior
to August
9,
1920.
DANIEL R. NASE.
Darector of Education.
““For the Governor’’.
You
Are
Invi
ou
Are
Invited
to call and see
the fine assortment
of Groceries
received
-
Ex S. S. Korona
,
A. R. Mclntosh.
Christiansted,
St. Croix.
11
June
1920.