for
the
6th
Ordinary
Meeting of
the Colonial Conncil
for St. Croix,
MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1922, at Onz
o’clock p.
m.
5.
Colonial Council
Bill No. 18.
.
Introduction
of
and
Ist
discussion
on
Colonial
Council
Bill
No.
18,
draft of an ordinance,
introduced
by
4th Appointed
Member (Blackwood),
amending Title 11, Chapter
31
of an
Ordinanee providing
a compiled Code
of general
and
special
Laws for St.
Croix, etc.
Colonial Council Office, St. Croix, April
20,
1922.
ROBT. L. MERWIN,
Chairman.
'ISEASES
DANGEROUS
TO
PUBLIC
TALTH IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
OF THE UNITED STATES
Juring
the
month
of March,
1922,
- following diseases
of interest
to the
lic, have
been reported:
In Saint Croix.
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Thomas.—St.
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Tuberculosis
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ALEX. B. HAYWARD, M. D.
Chief Sanitation
Officer.
Municipality of St.
Croux.
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LOCAL.
We have
been
asked
to mention
that
the Industrial
brass
Band
will give two
concerts
on
the wharf,
one
this evening
and the other on Sunday evening.
The
Creole
arrived
here
séme
time
before noon yesterday.
The
drama
screened
at
the
theatre
last night was well attended
and proved
highly entertaining
to ’le
large gather-
ing.
OFFICIAL NEWS NOI'ES
It is expected
that
Governor Kittelle,
Government
Secretary
Gaffney,
Medical
Aide Shiffert,
Public
Works
Officer Mc-
Tigue, Aide for Public
Welfare Steiner
ET
CRBULXE
AVi
"
and Direetor
of Education
Nase,
will ar-
rive in Christiansted
on board the “Vix-
en”
about
11:00
a.
m.,
Monday
April
t
24th,
1922.
|
The **Vixen””will return
..~
~ ~m-
E
as Tuesday
afternoon.
'
Wedding
Solemunized
in
St
!
John’s Episcopal
Church
{
HASSELL—BERG
i
—————
o
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A very quiet family wedding was,
cele-
|
brated
in St.
John’s Episcopal
Church by
|
the Rev.
H. M. Pigott at 6.00 p.
m.
Wed-
i
nesday,
19th.,
the
contracting
parties
|
being
Miss
Adele
Hassell,
voungesi
‘
daughter
of Capt.
E. H. Hassell,
diceas-
ed,
and
Mrs.
Hassell,
and
Mr.
H.
¥,
|
Berg, Manager of the St. Croix Municipal
i
Telephone System.
The bride
was given
away by her brother-in-law,
our
esteem-
|
ed townsman,
P.
L. Laßega,
and
ber
E
brother,
Mr. Elias Hassell,
acted
as
best-
|
man.
The
young
lady
looked
.cry
!
charming
in a beaded
silk crepg
se-chine
dress elaborate
and yet so simple
and
be-
coming
as
to elicit generai
admiraticn
.
among
the large
number
of specthtors
'
which
thronged
the saered
edifice
lnong
|
before the appointed
time; sbe
carried
a
|
bouquet
of roses,
and easter
lilies.
After
'
the eeremony
the
happy couple
repaired
‘
to
her
mother’s
home.
where,
despite
the
fact that
no formal
invitations
had
'
been
issued,
numerous friends and
well-
|
wishers
called
and
spent
a very
enjoy-
.
able
evening,
the
oceczsion
k. ;ing
en-
|
livened
with
music
and
dancing
last
|
jng
until
midnight.
A
speech
was
!
delirered
by
His
Honor
Judg:
C.
H
Payne,
an old ard intimate
friend of
the
bridgegroom’s
family, and
was
heartily
responded ' to.
The™
gifts’
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|
many
pretty,
useful and
valuable
art
|
cles
and
there was
a display
of ?owerb
lare
at this
time
of
the
year.
Among
the
former
was included
a silver
flower
basket
presented
by the personnel
of the
office
of
the
Telephone
System,
a
very
attractive
token
of
the regard
and
es-
teem
in which
Mr. Berg
is held
by
the
staff
of
his
depariment.
It
has
been
customary
in the past
that
the spirit
of
|
goodwill between
heads of public depart-
"
ments
and employees
manifest
itself
on
oceasions
like this,
and
the
survival
of
such
usage
is to be
commended
and
ap-
preciated.
-
The editor of this paper
takes
this
op-
portunity of adding
to the many
already
recorded,
his
warmest
congratulations
to Mr. and Mrs. Berg,
and wishes
them
a long, happy and prosperous
union.
ST. THOMAS NEWS.
In spite of
the
fact
that
there
are
ro
penalties
attacbed
to the Holiday Ordi-
nance,
Holy Thursday
and
Good Frid:y
were
obsecved
in
the
customary
man-
ner, business
being
entirely
suspen
led.
There
was ail
attendance
a- all
the
religious serviees.—St
Thomas
Bulletin,
15th April
:
Fror.
the early hours
of this
morning,
ther-
were
persistent
rumours
regard
"
the
safety
of
Messrs.
Bang
and
Norup, the former of the West
India Co.
Ltd.,
and
the
latter
pharmacist
of the
Apothecary
Hall.
It appears
that
these
gentlemen
left
town yesterday
morning
o for Botany Bay
in
a
motor
boat.
They
arrived safeily at
their destination,
went
ashore,
spent
some
time with
Mr. Holst,
the owner of
the
estate,
who happen:d
to be
there,
and
left
at
about
2 P. ‘5.
on the return trip.
Failing
to
get
balk
ap
to a late hour st
aight, their friends
beeame
alarmed,
and early this mornife,
a
search
was
made,
the
‘‘Tadougfe”
tinding the motor boat
anchored
offgfor-
tuna Bay without occupants.d
The situaiion
now appeared
to
2
very
_alarming.
o2nd
-search T
ere
at
onece
organized
to
scour
the
district
where
the
boat
bhad
been
found,
and
District
Chief
of
Police
E. C. Guggen-
heim
in ab 0 ft.
launch
with an exper:
erew
started
to
explore
the
numerous
islets and
cays
that
abound
on the
west-
ern
side
of
the
island,
John
Brewer’s
Bay,
Lsverance
Bay
were
vissted
one
after the otber, but all in vain,
and
con-
tinging to
Fortuna
Bay,
the
Chief
dis-
cerped
a
man
on
a
big cliff. waving
to
him.
As
the
launch
approached,
the
person
thus calling for help
was
seen
to
b 2 Mr. Norap,
who
did
not
hesitate
to
abandon
his
forced
rocky
abode.
Mr.
Bang
was
found
a
couple
of minutes
later
on
the
shore.
The
Chief
landed
his exhausted
passengers‘safely
at
the
W.
1. Co’s. dock in about
one hour after-
wards.
They explained
that
the
motor
faaring,
they ha® anchored
the
boat
and
swam
ashore,
and
even
attempted
to
come
to town by land, but
had
failed
to
do
so.
Their
feet
had
suffered
some-
what severely being bruised and scratch-
ed
by
sea
eggs
and
ctharp
stones.
- St.
Thomas
Bulletin, 18th April.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATIO“
London, April 17th.—Prof.
Brcchardt
of the Moabit
hospital
has
gone
to Rus-
sia to operate
on
Nikolai Linine the B)l-
--shevik Premizr.
for
the
extraction
of a
bullet lodged
in Lenines
shoulder
in the
Autumn of 1918, when
he was fired upcn
by the student
Dora
Kaplan,
says
a des-
patch
to the Times
from Berlin.
Lordon,
Aprii 17th.—The
Exchange
Telegraph
Dublin
correspondent
des-
cribes
tbe attack
on
Collins
as
a
desper-
ate
attempt
on
his life.
‘“‘How he
es-
caped’’,
adds
the
despatch,
‘‘amazes
those
who
had
a brief glimpse
of
the
scene,
for shots
seemed
to be
aimed
at
the car from four directions.
Everybody
ne=rby
fearing
an
extention
of
the
trouble,
fled
from
the
scene.
After a