wishes
to
come
and
help
sew
for this
|
worthy
purpos>
will
be
welcome.
It
is
|
not
necassary
to pledge
oneself
to attend
|
every
week.
Bring
your
own
scissors
and
thimble.
The
Sewing Committec
has
already
made
up
a quantity
of hospital
|
garments
for use in our
municival
hospi-
tal, and
is making
zarments,
sheets
and
|
pilloweases,
ete.
for a
l.oan Closet
to
be
|
used
by the visiting Nurse
to
make
her
|
patients
comfortable
w~hen
she
finds
|
them
without the
necessary
linen.
These
|
ooods
will be returned
after
using,
and
can
thus
be
used
over and
over,
benefit-
|
ing many.
Some
garments
are
also e
ing
made
for
the
old
people
at King’s
~
Hill,
and
for
needv
persons
at the
re-
|
quest
of the
Home
Service
Committee.
|
Tea
is served
at the meetings
for
which
each
person
pays
ten
ce
ts.
:
§
Red
Cross
women
members
who
can
|
spare
the time
for
this
good
woik
are
|
cordially invi‘ed by the Chairmat
of
the
‘
Sewing Committee,
Mrs. E.Smith,
tocome
|
to these
meetings.
|
CORRECTION
|
In yesterday’s
local
item
re
boxing
|
performance
at
the
theatre
this evening
please
read:
“‘We
are
glad to welcome
Fighting
Boney
with
his
training part-
ners from
Frederiksted,
who has
arrived
ete.”’
i
TELEGRAMS.
|
ST.
CROIX STATION.
Lisbon,
Oct.
4th.—The
S.
S. ‘‘Quest’!,
|
having
on
hoard
Sir
Ernest
Shackleton
and his party
on
their
way to the Antar-
|
tic
op
3
trio of exploration, expected
to
last
four years,
has
heen
placed in a diffi-
cult
position
by
storm
off Cape
Daroca,
west
of
here.
She
has
asked
that help
be
sent.
Hull England.
Oct. 4th.—The
inquest
in
connection
with
the
dirigible ZR2,
wrecked
August
24th,
with
the
loss of
more
than
two score
lives,
was resumed
here
this morning,
The coroner presiding
over
the
inquest announced
at .he begin-
|
ning of the proceedings
that he had deait
tully at the
previous
hearing
with all the
|
formal evidence,
identifications and
oth-
‘
er
matters
of
the
sort and
said
it
was
|
now the duty of the
jury to find whether
|
in
its
opinion,
the circumstances
of the
|
appalling
disaster
indicated
any degree
|
of eriminal
negligence
or cr.minal
culpa-
bility,
and
if so to what degree.
If the
|
jurors
added
the
coroner,
determined
that the disasfer
was accidental
and there
was
an entirrabsence
of any
such
negli-
|
gence,
they thust enquire
as
to what
pre-
|
cautions
should
be taken
to prevent
a
re-
1
currence
of tsuch
a catastrophe.
,
Washington,
Oct. 4th.— Losses
in earn-
|
ings
of
workers
throughout
the United
|
States
during the
past fiscal year,
due to
|
involuntary
idleness,
were
put
at more
i
than
$6,500,000,000
estimated
today by
ie b
€ iyl
X
A vl
the
economic
experts
of
the
National
Conference
on
unemployment.
Pittsburg,
Oct.
4th.—Another
advance
in
the
price
of
Pennsylvania
crude oil
was announced
here today by the princi-
pal
purchasing
agencies,
the
second.
within a week.
The new
price is $2.75
a
hbl, an increase
of
25 cents.
Edinburgh,
Seotland,
Oct.
4th.
-Field
Marshal Earl Haig speaking
at
a
grand
rally
of
the
Edinburgh
Branch
of
the
British
Legion
held
here,
said
he
had
written
to President
Harding
congra*u-
lating
him
upon
what
he
wvas doing in
connection
with the calling of
a
confer-
ence
at
Washington
on limitatio:
of arm-
aments
and
problems
of
the
Far
East,
and
that
he
had
received
a
reply
from
the
U.
S. President
to
this
¢)>mmunica-
tion.
The
Field Marshal
read
the
Pre-
sident’s letter
to the audience.
In it Mr.
Harding
said
ne
was
deeply
impressed
with the
warm congratulations
upon
‘“‘our
efforts
o
establish
more
friendly,
the
foundations
of world peace’’.
Huil,
England,
Oct.
4th.
--The
catas-
trophe
to the giant
airship
ZR 2
over
the
Humber
river
on
August
24th,
in
which
more
than forty persons
l.st
their
lives,
was due
to an
accident,
according
to
the
verdict
reached
by
the
County
jury at the resumed
inquest
heie
today.
There
is
no
evidence
as
to
the
actual
cause
of the disaster,
the
verdict
saysi:
This verdict
was rendered
in
the
casz
of
Lieut.
Commander
:.ittle
of
the
U.
S,
Navy,
who
was
the first
to be
considered
by
the County
jury.
A similar
verdiet
was rendered
in
each
of
the
remaining
cases.
Chicago,
Oct. 4th.—With
the
coun
ing
of the strike
ballots
of
four
big railway
unions
well underway,
evidznee
develop-
e
today tbat'a
difference of opinion
ex-
ists
among
the
union
leaders.
While
officiais
of
some
of the
unions
whose
860.000
men
are
voting
on
a
sirike
against
the twel/e
per cent
wage
cut put
into
effect
on
July Ist
by
order
of the
United States
Raiiway Board,
have
mihi-
mized
the possibility of
a
general
walk-
out,
the President
of one
of
the
organi-
zations
today
declared
his
men
were
not
bluffing sand
would
strike
if
she
majority favoured
that action.
A
mem-
ber of the
switchmens
union
of
North
America
also
announced
that
his
men
were
voting
on other questions
than the
wage
cut
The
leaders
of
the
Union will
abide
by
the
strike
v.te,
though
the
joint ballot jauthorizes
the executive
offi-
cers
to use
their
own
discretion
in
ca ling
a
strike.
Geneva,
Oect.
4th.-—The
four
non
per-
maneni
members
of
the
Council
of the
League cf
Wations,
Spain, Belgium,
Chi-
na,
and
Brazil,
wili
be
reelected,
the
Commitiee
on
Internal
Organization
so
decided
unanimously
today.
New
York.
Oect.
4th.—Fifteen
of the
twentynine
locals
of
the
Ipternational
Longshoremens
Association
foday voted
to
withdraw
from
the
organization,
Spokesmen
for
the
seceders
amnounced
they
will appeal
to
Mayor
Hylan
this
a.fternoo.n
and
ask
him to cyen
negotia-
tiong with
the
steamship
interests
for
them,
with
a
view to ending the strike
at
this port.
They
declared
that if the
negotiations
could
be
es*ablished,
they
would
return
to
work, pending
the
out-
come.
Demerara,
Oct.
3rd—Mr.
N.
Farrar
Postmaster
General
of
British
Guiana
has
retired
as
from
end
September.
Mr.-J.
G.
Gray chief iclerk Post
Office
will act
as Postmaster
General.
Demerara,
Oct.
4th.—M.
G
B. Greene
Assistant
Colonial
Secretary
returned
on
Sunday
from
leave
and has
resumed
his duties.
NEW YORK, October
stk
1921.
Flour, Blendad Clears
St. Lawrence
l-ran:i
pr.
bri.
$7.2b.
Meai
Kilndried per
100 tbs
$1.95
New
Season’s
Pork
per
bri. $37.00
Heavy Mess
Pork
per bbl. $25.4
Sugar---Crystals
maximum
per
100
Ibs.
:
$4.13
Moiasses
Sugar
89
test,
no guotation.
Cotinn,
Middiing Upiand,
at
iiverpool
per
Ib.
15 6-100 d.
mxchange,
New
York
and
l_,(md(m,
U
days’
sight
$3.72
nixchange
New York
and
London,
sizat
3. 74%
LoNDON,
October
sth.
1921
Sugar,
Demerara
Crystals,
per
cwt.
425.
—46s.
"
Muscavado
per
cwt. 275. 38s
(German
Beet
88°¢
f.o.b.
no sales.
White
Java
suear
cif United
Kingdom
21s.
6d.
September
shiptent,
Demerara
Rum,
per gal. nominal.
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good
Middiing Red
p
r
cwt
H6s.
SHBs.
nominal.
Cotto
ood
Medium
West
Indian
Sea
Island
per 'h. 29d.
nominal.
Bank
of
ltingland
rate
of
ihsceutil
ber
cent.
by,
Consols
488.
:
Thiree
per
cent
rentes
in Pari:
Fes
56.60.
-
Frederiksted
Apothecary
Hal
has just received
a small lot of
Maillard’s Chocolates
& Eon-
bons
famous
{or their excellence
pound
and half pound
boxes
Jean Pelersen,
Frederiksied.
Di. MicDonald’s Aimanac
~
For
1922
FOR
SALE AT
CARL SCHOU’S
SODA
SHOP.