AUCTION.
T the request—of-t.he
Directors
for the
A WEST
INDIA SUGAR
FACTORY,
the following articles
will be
offered
for
sale
by
ARNOLD
M.
GOLDEN
licensed
auctioneer
at
a public auction
to
be held at Estate
Bethlehem
Factory.
25th November
1922
AT2OOCEOeR P Al
among which are
MARES, SADDLE HORSES &
CULTS.
v
HOUSEHOLDFURNITURE
consisting
of:
PRESSES,
BEDSTEAD,
ONE VICTORIA,
ONE BUGGY.
ONE
PHAETON,
ONE DOUBLE SEAT CARRIAGE,
HARNESS,
ETC. ETC:
= ul
Some
Automebile
Tires
suit-
able for:
FORDS,
OVERLANDS,
and
other
Cars.
Christiansted
Vendue
Office,
St. Croix,
V. L. U. S. A. November
18th 1922
A. D.
F.
G. Mc KEAN, Jr.,
Acting Vendue Director.
Fee
Fr.
10.00
}_
Say
ten Francs
SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE REPORT
No.
14.
Week
Endirg Nov. 17,
1922.
Municipality of St. Croix.
Per-
Percent of
cent of
Pupils not
Attend-
School
Class
tardy.
ance.
Frederiksted
Senior High
100 ¢0
100.00
Krederiksted
Jr. High
97.72
100.00
La Princess
Rural
98.42
100.00
La Vallee
Rural
100.00
100.00
Frederiksted
Public
-
90.31
99.73
Friedensfeld
Rural
93.52
99 63
Christiansted
Publie
9597
99.55
Christiansted
Jr. High
97 46
98 33
Diamond
Rural
9012
9166
Peter’s
Rest
Rural
100.00
96.76
Mails Close
for the W. I. Islands
by s. s. Bolivar
at 11.00 a. m. today;
for Porto
Rico
by the Tadousac at
5.00 this after-
noon,
and
for United States,
Eu-
rope,
ete, by s.s.
Guiana
on Wednes-
day 22nd at 4 00 p.
m.
8§
OXx
A Vlw
P OCAL.
The
¢.
s. Marina
made
her usual
call
at this port on Saturday
last,
landed
pas-
sengers,
eargo
and
58 bags
mail and
re-
turned
to San
Juan
via Frederiksted
yes-
terday.
This
evening
the
second
instalment
of Dare-devil
Jack
will
be
preéunted
to
patrons
at
the
Christiansted
" Theatre,
See programme
on previous
page.
The
Raporel liner Bolivar arrived
here
at
noon
yeserloy
and
landed
3
bags
mail.
She
is
discharging
cargo
today
and
will sail
for tae
islands
later.
The
Industrial
Band
enlivened
the
town
last
nigiit with
one of its rousing
concerts.
PERSONAL
MENTIDN
Among
the passengers
by the
Marina
was
Mrs.
Inger Heyn
from
Mayaguez,
P.
R.
Welcome
back.
WANTED TO KND N
Aspatrons of the
Christiansted
Thea-
tre
we would like to know
why the prices
of admission
in the Frederiksted
Theatre
are
20 and
10 cents
and
the prices
in the
Christiansted
Theatre
for
the
same
pie-
tures
are
25
and
15
cents?
Wil those
concerned
be kind enough
as
to give
us
the desired information?
With thanks
in advance,
we are,
CHRISTIANSTED THEATRE PATRONS.
St. Thomas News
The
Tadousac
will make
a recreation
and
health
trip for
the
officials
of St.
uroix and their families
next week.
The
itinerary of
the Tadousac
is to szil from
Christiansted
to San
Juan
on 2lst,
spend
two
days
in
San
Juan,
and
return
to
Frederiksted
on
the
24th —The
St.
Thomas
TFimes,
Nov.
18th.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION
London,
Nov.
15th.—Lady
Cooper,
whose
husband,
Sir Richard Cooper,
re-
tired to make
way for her,
and
who had
made
a
strong
campaign
as
a
(Conser-
vative,
was
defeated
in
Walsall.
Lady
Emmott,
Asquithian Liberal,
was at the
bottom
of
the
poll
in
Oldham.
The
Georgian,
Sir E. Gibb,
headed
the
Ili t,
polling
24,747.
The Labourite
was
sec-
ond,
with 24,434 capturing
the seat
from
the
Conservative
by
a
few
hundred
votes.
Lady
Emmott’s
vote
was
6,186.
Mr.Derwent Hall Cain,
the novelist’s
son
and
labour
candidate,
was
defeated
in
Reading.
The
Conservative
candidate,
Major Cadogan
retaining
the
seat.
Mr.
Ben Tillett, Labourite, retains
his seat
in
the
North division
of Salford by
a
nar-
row
margin. poiling 21,368
against
the
Conservative
opponents
21,348.
Miss
Eleanor
Rathbone,
Independent,
was
de-
feated
for the
Kast Toxteth
division
of
Liverpool
polling 9,984
agairst
13,149
for the Conservative,
Captain
Ranking.
London,
Nov. 15th.—Mr. Asquith
was
re-elected
in
Paisley,
but
his
majority
was greatly reduced.
Ha received
15.00)
votes
and his labour
opponent,
Mr. Big-
gar 14,689.
Constantinople,
Nov. 15th —The
Turk-
ish
Mationalist
Government
has
given
formal
assurances
to
the Allies rhat
the
stipulations
of
the
Mudania
armistice
agreement
will be respecied.
Berlin, Nov,
15th.--1t
is semi-officially
stated
that the resignation
of
the
Gov-
ernment
will not
affect
the
reparations
programme,
as expounded
in yesterday’s
note.
This, it is
declared,
will
be
main-
tained
by any future Government.
Paris,
Nov.
15th.—Germany
today
turned
over the secc nd instalment
of notes
to
meet
Belgium’s
reparations
elaims
under
the decision
of
August 21st
last.
German
reparatioas
officials here depos-
ited
with
the
reparations
commission
55,000,000
gold marks,
the
worth of such
notes
being payabie
in Brussels
on
May
15th
1923.
The cash
balance
dne
today,
under
the schedule
of
payments
previ-
ously
decided
upon,
was
6,000,000
gold marks.
The
difference
of 5,000,000
marks
is that
the 5,000,000
is
parcially
covered
by other receipts
in the hands
of
the
commission
and
Germany
has
an-
nounced
that she
will daliver
on Friday,
such
additional
notes,
as
are
necessary
to cover
the baianca
due.
London,
Nuv.
15th —Mr.
Rudyard
Kipling suzcessfully
underwent
an opera-
tion this morning.
Berlin,
Nov.
15th.—The
renort
that
the French
Government
was
demanding
of Germany
50,000
tons
of
potash
on
re-
parations
accoant
was
confirmed
today
by
the potash syndicate.
The
syndicate
representatives
added
that the
negotia-
tions
for the
potash
had
been
virtuaily
completed,
Dublin,
Nov.
15th.—Cardinal
Logue,
Primate
of lreland,
suggests
the release
of
Mary
Mace Sweeney
from the
Mount-
Joy
prison,
where
she
has
baen
on
a
hunger strike for
11 days.
His
sugges-
tion
was contained
in
a felegram
to
Mr.
O’Higgins,
Free State
Minister
of Home
Aftairs.
TS@
message
said
that
more
harm
would
be
caused
by
delaying
the
release
of the
women prisoners
in Ireland
than by liberating them.
Washingtin,
Nove rber 14th.—Receipt
of $30,610,000
for
account
of
the
Uni-
ted
States
G)vernment,
was
reported
today
to
the
Treasury
by
the
Federal
reserve
bank of New York.
Os the total,
$50,000,000
represents
interest
on the war
debt of Great Britain to the United States
and $5_0,000,
represents
interests
on the
debt repeesceating
the
sale
of
silver
to