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Oect.
1919.
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TAKEMANN
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in 'reder.ksted
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IGGINS
Trustee.
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Balance
oi
deposits
to 18th October
1919
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of which
7 ip Christ: :nsted
$ 215.95
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Balanece
of d:posits
to date
$66,189.21
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the 1’ Nov.
1919.
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Vresidgni.
SUGAR
NOTES.
The New York curb had
a flood of can-
CHRISTIANSTED,
V.l DI.S.
5., . SATURDAY.
lar
NOVEMBER
1919,
dy stock
promotiors
in
August
the like
of ‘wnich
has
nev:r
been
seen
beiore.
[here
is a general
helief
that
with
:he
|
going
of the
liquor
business
rhe
candy
|
consumption
is on ge
increase.
It is be-
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Lieved that
the Am#vican pocket-book
has
|
.
been
tapped
by
the
dentists
via
the
|
.
sweet-tooth
route
and
now
these
new
companies
pian
tx
do
the
same.
The
Swee: Companyof
America
manafactures
.
and
sells
‘tootsie.
roils.’”’
the
Contin-
"
ental Candy
neovle
gell
* loliy pops’’
and
.
now eomes
a aew
canpany
known
as
the
.
United Retail
Candy.*Company
manufac-
L
turing,
buving
.apd
‘sclling
nothing
.
but
whienh
has
ihe
remarkable
joy
of
a
stock
markef
valued
at® $35.000,
!
000.
Themen
who are backing
this
com-
|
pany avein part
in the corporation
known
|
as
the United Oigar Stores.
These
stores
|
have beea
handling
an
increasing
am-
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ount
of
candy
especially
in
prohibition
|
States,
and
the
new
company
will
han-
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dle
can®es
exclusively.
These
tobacco
|
interests
know
nothing of the eendy
and -
|
sugar
husiness,
but'they
have exception-
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'
al oreanizing
ability and plan to
operate
|
100
stores
in
America.
Tue
prices
of
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-
candies
have been
exceptionally aigh and
it
is believed
the
United
States
will
cut
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into
the priees.
The Lowistana
Planter,
Oct.
Lth.
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:
Mua..
7 German
beetl
raisers
have
plow-
-
ed
down
their beet
field®
and have
sown
orass
upon
them
béeause
they
‘ind that
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fabor
conditions
avz
such -tnat in many
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sections
no
solution
seems
in s ght this
.
summer
and they do
that very reluctantly.
['he whole social
fabrie
seems
to be
brok-
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.
opn
upin
many
sections
and
lit:le hope
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.
of
an
immediate
.solution
seems
in
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store
for the
discouraged
iarniers.
Still
.
'
a
large
acreage
has
been
repo.ted
and
'
where farmers haves
good seizec
family
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there
ma;’
be
a chapece
to work
up
many
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of the fields. —lbid. *
3:e
e
:
i
Lehi,
Utah, reporiga
croy of 76 per cent
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above
normal
this yeair and
the
average
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yield is
10 tons per acre,
whichis
in kee,,-
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I
ing with
the tonnage
of
this
section
of
|
?
the Un:ted States.—lhid.
'
The Republicans
ar
.v gv
'
ue
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l
the tariff situation
re
‘ve
o
s
ai
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cording
to
advices
‘rom
"
'
.:.:
‘ton.
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They
are going to engurage
suy
.
gt
duection along the
whi'le
lini.
Jog
Way
down
in Souia Africa cne
s.
a0
|
makers
are
rejoicing
over
the
Jovern-
ment
increase
of 3 sk ‘iings ver handred
No
252
pounds
in the price
of sugar.
The Na:a!
Sugar
Association
rade a drive
on
hwe
government:for
this r-otable
increase
ar.d
succecded
‘in overthrowing
the
tfenche
of
ignorance.
The
increase
w:s
maue
~June
Tth. and
will stand
until April 30th,
.
1920.
. nder this increase
sugar
will s¢ |
at 26 shillings per
hundred
pounds
whic:
is 6.22 cents
a pound
and raws will sell at
25 shillings.
or 6.08 cents
a
pound.
Re-
-
tailers
are
allowed
1/4
of
a
penny
per
.
pound
at
Durban:
and
that
will be
4
pence
while in the interior it may be
sold
at 41/2 pence.
The
government
vielded
.
to
this
increase
on
condition
that
the
associition
supply
all
of
South
Afrieca.
Whatever
profits
should
acerue
from
expor
s,
these
profits
were
to be
divided
pro
vata
among
all
produc
s
so
that
sugar
makers
and
pianters
¢
»uld
share
in the margin.
Ibid.
}
Reports
from
Pennsylvar®.
say
. hat
potast
has been
discovered
in the
moun-
i
«tains
of the State
and
if the fil.d has
the
|
~
chemical
analysis
necessary
to
' e
pc-
tash
¢n article of ecommerce
in this
~cun
-
try wIl suddenly
be
independent
of all
'
foreig
potash
mines.
The
state
geolo
oist
r:ports
vast qnantites
of po ash
and
ot encugh
nitrate
to lower the competitive
prices
of potash
from Crile.
This is good
news
‘or
cane
plan
s
and
beet-sugar
rawsers.
[bid.
Publicann
rublication:.
I'
is
hereb* brought
to
public
notice
Ilhar
the
crade
mark shown
elow,
which
wa. registered
in
the
United
States
Patent
Offiee, Washington,
i).
€.,
February
15,
1916,
in
the
name
of the
Goodali
Worsted
Co..
a corporat.
OF-
-
under
the
laws
of the
&
0l
M&ine,
and
trade-mark
certifica.c
,
.o.
108,511
issued
therefor.
has
this
uuie
been
registered
in
the Office of
the
Gon
ernmert Secretary
ol the Viroin
Islands
of
the
United
States
at
St.
Thomas.
in
accordance
with the
provisions
con
ained
in the Governor’s
Publication
of
Auguvst
14,
1917.
:
L g\fé@é?{/&)&.z /g
~Z
Government
of
the
Virgin
Islands
of
the
Urited sdates
St
Thomas,
Septem-
ber
20,
1919.°
By d rection
of the Governor.
LEO
¢.
S. HORAN,
& ting Government
Secretary.
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