HE sewing of the
American
Red
Cross
has
been
clcsed
for
the
season,
and
will
be re-started
again
at
3
o’clock
on
WEDNESDAY
afternoon,
the
11TH
JANUARY
1922
(D.V.),
when
it
g
hoped for a large attendance.
MRS. S.
A. SMITH,
Chairman of the
Workroom.
Christiansted,
4th
Dec.
1922
St Groix Graded Grammar School
Amendment
of School
Regulations
AT a meeting
of the Board of tl.e above
.
school
the following was ~dopted
and
incorporatee
inlo the
Schoo”
.egulations,
as paragraph
3a:
Periods
of vacation
sh .l be
included
in
the
school-year
and
f.es
coliected
for
such periods
at regu'.r
rates.
Christiansted,
/.t.
Croix,
Virgin
Is
lands,
Novembe
30,
1921
e
2
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: 7
‘le
. Notire:
Notice:
Th@iristiansied Entertaining Gompany
®
WILL GIVE
AVariety tnertainment
AT THE
.’
.
.
Labor Union's
Hall, ghrfstiansted
on
Wednesday
Evening
Dec.
7,
1921
47
F M
Programme
consists
of
Dialogues,
Sones
and
Recitations,
which
willi
be
shared
at
the hall
on
the
night
of the
entertain
nent.
Come
and
hear
for yourselves
the
lat-
est
pepular
song
entitling
Si. Uroix
as
“The
Garden
of
the
Virgin
Islands’’,
whiech
will
b 2 sang
by
the
well-known
Suprano
and
Alto Miss
M. Hendricks
and
M. Stevens.
Price
for admission
to door
as
follows:
Resérved
Soats
...
......
. 2>e.
(General
Eatrance
..........20e
(hiltien.
...
.0
ua e
Doors
open
at 7p.
m.
Pe-formance
at
8
o’cloeck sharp.
Tickets
wiil ba sold
at
the Union Office
(. BASTIAN,
Manager.
EDITORIAL.
In
this
issue
we
reprint
a Christmas
Message
from
the
Postmaster
(General
s
P HOUIX
AVID
to
the
Boys
and
Girls
of
the
United
States
which
has
been
furnish=d
us hy
the
postmaster
and
to
the
subject
of
Wwhich the attention
of everybody
is in-
vited.
It
is to be hoped
that
ome and all
of
us
will exercise
due effort this busy
season
to the proper preparation,
address-
ing, and stamping of mail,
and to posting
letters
and parcels
as early as practicable,
not
to hold them
to the last
moment
and
thereby
not alone impose extra strain
on
the
service,
but
increase
'he chance
of
delay
in
delivery.
The postmaster
tells
us that plans
for
meeting
the rush
inci-
dent
to Xmas
have
been
carefully work-
ed
ant
end
with
the
co operation of the
.vlie
better
service
than
cver may
be
attained.
By
the
kind
concurrence
of
the Assistant
Director
of Eduecation
th
message
referred
to
wili
be read
ir all
the punlic schools
today.
100CAlL.,
The
Native Brass
Band
delive ed
its
concert
vesterday
afternoon.
The
selec-
tions
were
choice
and well rendered
and
the music
as
a whole
dezerves
much
ap-
preciation
and commeundation.
The footbalt match
played
-
Par-
ade
Ground
resulted
ina
¢
~ the
Red
Sox and
Fearless
teams
scoring
one goal
each.
Both the
schooners,
Vigilant and
Zu-
rah which
recently
mad-
trips
to Porto
.Rico b=
- reternrd
to this port.
We
welcome
bome
Lessrs
Hans
A.
Bishop
and
KErnest
A.
Johnson
who
were
among
the
passengers
from New
York by the S.
S. Fort
St.
George
The Trail of
the
Octopus
will be
con-
tinued
at
Christiansted
Theatre
this
ing.
See
programme_in
this
&
.-
ber.
CHRISTMAS
MESSAGE.
OFFICE
OF THE POSTMASTER
GEN-
ERAL.
Washington,
November
22,
1921.
To the
BOYS and
GIRLS OF THE
UNI-
TED STATES.
Christmas
is almost
here.
Your
great
Post
Oifiee
Department
has
a big job ahead
and
n-eds
your help.
Think what it neans
to be Santa
Claus
to
our 100,000,000
people
and
to
deliver
Christmas
narcels
to
every ramily in this
great
count.v
within the short
space
ot a
few days
anca
without disappoint ment.
It
can
be dcae,
and we’re
going
to do
it if we may
nav2
your help,
I wanc
to
enlist
the active
assistance
of
every boy
and giri in
the schowls
of
,our ¢country
in
getting
parcels
mailed THIS
WEEK
to
relieve
the
rush
that
comes directly
be-
fore Christmas,
Will you 4
.
home
to-day and take
this
message
tofour parents
and friends:
“Our
pgbtmaster
has
asked
us to mail
our Christhhas
parcels
THIS WEEK, for,
unl
ss
wdldo.
'ncle
Sam’s
load may
be
sc heavy
ghe
last
few days before
Christ-
mas
thaf
ae
won’t be
able
to
deliver
all
the pregents
by
Christmas
eve.”’
The
fFarcels
must
be well wrapped
and
tied
afld addressed
plainly in order
that
they
"iay arrive
in good
condition
with
their
Jhristmasy
appearance
unspoiled.
You
‘:an put
on
your packages,
Do
not
ope
until Christmas.”’
d, there
must
be
a number
cn
your
r
e
af.d a
mail receptacle,
too,
for,
if
reisn’t, Santa Claus’s
messenger,
your
tter carrier,
may
not
be
able
to find the
house
where
tne present
helongs.
There
are
some
other
things,
too,
In
which
you
ean
all assist
in improving the 4
mail service
and in savirg
our
great
Gov- |
ernment
miilions of doilars
a year
that is
now wasted
because
of our carelessness
yours
and
mine.
fivery day that
you drop
a letter
in t
wail
box 40,000,000
other
letters
=re
-
:ady pushing
and jamining
througn
e
stal machinery.
Oune
letter
a day
Jbr
e
1 family of five persons
in
the Uiffted
Sta¥s
is given
to Unecle
Sam
to
daliver.
When
you
send
a parcel
to the
post
office for mailing any day there
are
about
8,000,000
s other
parcels
ahead
of
yours
passing
througa
the postal
hopper.
This
is in ordinary
days;
at
Christmas
time it
is multiplied many
times.
One
iamily in about
every
ten
puts
a
badly
addressed
letter
in the mail every
day.
This
mixes
up
over 2,000,000
baif
addressed
letters
with
the
20,000,000
fully addressed
|:tters.
That
means
that
the fully addresse<
ietters
must wait
on
the slow moving poorly addressed
letters
just
like
the larger
boys
and
giris
are
delayed
by
a bunch
of
‘‘bad kids’
tag-
ging
along.
You boys
«s
_,
..s
can
help the Postal
Service
and
save
your
father
some
money,
because
he
has
to help
pay
the®
cost
of searching
addresses
on
letters
and parcels
sent
out by
this
one
careless
and thoughtless
family m every
ten.
First
find
out
if
your
family
is
the
careless
one,
then bear in mind
that your
letters
must
be nandled
by
skilied
mail
distributors
standing
in post
offices
and
on swaying postal
cars of a mile a-m.inute
mail trains,
often
under
poor light.
[he
address
on every
letter.
ecard,
or
nackage
must
be correct,
eomplete,
and
legible. including
the house
number
and
same
of street,
and
the
"‘From’’ address
should
be in the
upper
left-hand
corner
so
that
the
mail
will be
returned
to
you
in
case
it is
not
delivered.
i)o
not
ab-
breviaie
names
of States,
beca
se
so
many look alike
when abbreviated.
Put
the proper
amount
of
postage
sn
;
your
lelters
and
wrasg
tae
parcels
care-
tully. Avoid fancy vnkng,
which
causes
post-office
clerks
and
letter
carriers
to
stop
and
study,
and
thus
lose
time. _