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Advertisement.
BII)S are
requested
for the
following
supplies
which are
needed
in
the
ad-
ministration
o”
the
Christiansted
Muni-
cipal
Hospital,
for tha
moath
of
Janu-
ary
1920.
Delivery
is
to
be
made
by
the
merchant,
ir
case
the
merchant
is
outside
the
limit
8f
Christians:ed
Municipality.
Bids
should
be
add:ressed
to
the
Inspector,
Municipal
Hospial,
Christiansted.
After
Dacember
27th,
no
bids
will
bz
considered.
|
All supplies
to
be
of the best
¢ iality.
Wheat
flour,
50
lbs.;
Corn
Meal,
85
Ibs.; Rice
100 ibs.; Sugar 300
lbs.;
Table
butter,
50 llbs.;
Cooking
butter,
35 lbs.;
Lard, 35 Ibs.: Trish vctatoes
300 Ibs.; Meat
(Beef, Mutton Pork, )400 Ibs.; Salt fish, 60
Ibs.;
Tea,
3
lbs.;
Quaker
Oats,
60 lbs.;
Cream
oi
Wheat,
20
lbs.;
Beans
and
Peas,
50 lbs.; Onigns,
20 lbs.;
¥
:rosene
]Obil,‘
50 gallons;
Matéhes
1 gross: Sap
112
Christiansted,
St. Croix, V.I. of U.S.A.,
December
20th
1919.
.
a. . DuBOIS
Inspector
Municip il Hospital.
Advertisement.
IDS
are
requested
for
the
following
B supplies
which
are
needed
in the
ad-
ministration
of Richmond
Sick-houses
and l.eper Asylum for the month
of Jan-
uary
1920.
Delivery
is to
be
made
by the
mer-
chant.
Bids should
be addressed
to Inspector,
Richmond
Sick-houses.
All supplies
to be of best guality.
Flour 70 tbs.,
Cornmeal
500
lbs.;
Rice
400
lbs.,
Oats
360
lbs.,
Sago
100
Ibs.:
Sugar
1,000 lbs.,
Beef
460 lbs., Pork 180
lbs.,
Fish (salt)
224 lbs.
Beans
200 lbs.,
Potatoes
200 lbs., Lard
100 lbs., Cooking
butter
100
lbs.,
Table
butter
110
lbs.,
Onions
50
lbs.,
Tea
15 lbs.,Matches2
gross,
Soap 6
cases.
All bids should be received
by Decem-
ber 27th,
1919.
Christiansted,
St. Croix, V. I. of U. S.
A., December
22nd 1919.
H. T. HANSEN,
Inspector
Richmond
Sickhouses
&
Leper Asylum.
The
S.
S.
‘‘Parima’’ left New York
on
the 20th. inst for these
islands,
omitting
Dominica and St Lucia.
The S.
S.
‘‘Guiana’’ will
leave
New
York on the 31st
inst for all
ports.
Last night’s ex ibition at
the
theatre
was not
conclnded.
It
was
interesting
and deserved
a larger
audienee
which is
S
5
CREEILX
&Y Lo
looked
for
at
the
next
show
on Friday
.
evening.
.
’
i
Johnny’s
Advice To
Future
|
Lovers
i
When
you boys
go a-wooing
?
As you are prone
to do,
|
At some
time or Other
l
When things get rather blue,
.
You’ll have
to go at seven,
‘
And leave precise
at ten
§
With
a ritten
declaration
‘
To convinee
the poiicemen,
E
As to what vou Lcth
were saying
And moreso
what you
did;
Whether
she
kissed
you boldly
Or whether
she blushing hid.
_
Oh the
cop: will have
a great
time
i
These
contessions
to receive,
|
They’ll attend
the call of duty
’i
And never
their stations
leave,
i
Whether
you get out the wind w
i
Whether
vou get out the door
.
Whetter
you get out
the ceiling
|
Or you scuttle through the floor
‘
You’ll {ind a eop awaiting;
A cop
you never
saw,
;
A gentle smiling darkie
|
Rut the strong
hand of
he law.
i
When
in the morning after
|
In the prison cell you wake,
|
You’ll at last admit that wooing
!
Is
a rather
grave mistake.
|
You’ll wish you’d listened
to father
|
That you’d have
to pay the toll
f
In the
morning after the nigh:
before
When
you’re up against
judge Knoll.
|
;
e
|
Rememkbker
the great contest
be-
'
tween
the
Dreadnought
F. B.
C.
and
the Christiansted
Athletic
As-
.
sociation
on
Friday
26th
inst.
at
'
4.30
p.
m.
Further particulars
to-
"
morrow
and the name
of the ground
'
will
be
mentioned.
We
hope
to
.
have
a band
in attendance.
.
Come
out and
see
the Boys
how
.
they
are
going
to play
this
great
' match.— Com.
|
eA
ee
et kis
I
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TELEGRAMS
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ST. CROIX STATION.
|
Paris,
Dee.
17th.—The
Senate
as
con-
.
stituted by the
election es January
11th,
will try Joseph Caillaux, former Premier,
"
on a charge of attempting
to brirng about
|
a
premature
and
dishonourable
peace
.
with Germany.
The trial
will begin
on
.
~
January
14th.
Washington,
Dec.
17th.—By a
vote
of
256 to 34, the House yesterday
passed
the
.
Senate
Bill continuing the
sugar
equali-
.
zation
board
through
1920 amendments
~
retaining
in force the war-time power of
|
the
Government
for controlling
prices
and movements
were
approved
necessi-
tating
the
sending
of
thLé measure
to
conference
cireles of the
twe Heuses.
London,
Deec.
17th.—An
anncunce-
ment by the Piince
of Wales at
the King
.
Edward
Hospital
Fund
lieeting,
that
-
he
is proceeding
to Australia
and
New
.
Zealand
about March,
for
six
or
sevzn
-
months,
has excited
¢ reat interest.
Com-
-
ments
of
the
anouncemert
all
pred ct
great
success
and a repetition
to
usg
|is
own words of a ““‘wonderfu. ti.ne in
Can-
iaea
;
1
Washington,
Dee.
17th.—Great
Eritain
|
is pcepared
now to release
American
own-
~ed goods seized during the
war, upcn
the
.
establishment
of their
American
cwner-
.
ship
at the time the
goods
were shipped,
.
the State Department
was advised
tocay
;
by the Dritish Foréign Office.
|
Rerlin, Dec.
17th.—Dr. ;Heine,
Miris-
.
ter of the Interior, declared ir the
Pruis-
|
sian Assembly:
‘‘We must
reckon
w th-
.
the possibi'ity of revolution
arisin:
tais
|
winter.
We
know
how
1o
deal
w:th
| ey
:
London
Dec.
17th.—Mr. Austen
“hem-
berlain, Chancellor of the
Excheq
ier, in
the course
of a debate
in
the
House
of
.
Commons
on
the
question
of
cu rercy
|
and exchange,
expressed
the opinicn thiat
*
|
the problems
could
be solved only by
n-
|
ternational
efforts in which
the
larg st
'
share
of the
work necessarily
must
be
'
borne by nations
possessing
the
larg st
|
means,
not those
which
were in
th»
war
|
from the first day to the end,
but
fmeri-
.
ca and
neutrals
who suffered
much
less
.
than
the
belligerents.
The
Chaicelior
'
said that those
members
of
Parliiment
|
who suggested
that he shouid
lecture
or
|
coerce
the
finance
ministers
of
foreian
'
cpuntries
failed to appreciate
the delicacy
|
of the probilem and
he
believed
sich
a
|
-course
would not promote the desired
sect-
|
tlement,
.
i
Washington,
Dec.
17th.—Protsting
against
an
enactment
of
the
Cumrmins’
{
Railway Bill, now before the Senate,
Mr.
|
Samuel Gompers,
President
of the /£ me i-
|
can Federation
of Fabour
and
Rep
esen-
|
tatives of
the Railroad
Brotherhood,
io-
%
gether with spokesmen
for some
firner
|
organizations today urged Chairman
Cuine
|
mins of the Senate Interstate
Comn ittee,
I
to withdraw the measure
and
give
gov-
|
ernment
operation of the roads
a fair and
|
thorough peacetime
test.
Senator
Cuia-
'
mins said he had
no
authority
to
with-
.
draw the Bill but expressed
his intention
|
of laying the request
before the full cori-
'
mittee.
Mr. Gompers'ceclared
that
cr-
‘
ganized
labour wanted the Government
‘o
|
retain
control of
the
railways
for
tvo
|
years
for the purpose
of tesiing
ou'
the
'
best
method
for
their
continued
cpera-
|
tion.
:
}
St. Thomas,
Dee.
19th.—The
Dutch
.
cruiser
“'Zeeland’’ left this
morning,
tor
'
Curacao
via Saba.
j
London, Dee.
17th.—The
GoVerrmet
.
was
declared
by Justice
Sir John Sakey,
,
of the King’s Bench Division,
today,
o
possess
no powers
to prohibit the
impor-