SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE REPORT
No. 1.
Week Endirg Aug. 17,
1923.
Municipality of St.
Croix.
Per-
Percent
of
cent of
Pupils not
Attend-
Schoal
Clazs
tardy.
ance.
Christiansted
Jr. High
95 8
100.00
Frederiksted
Jr. High
100.00
100.00
Peter's
Rest
Rural
100.00
150.00
I.a Princesse
Rural
100.00
100.00
La Valle 2 Rural
100.00.
100.00
Christiansted
Public
99.92
99.93
Frederiksted
Public
97563
99.93
Diamond
Rural
100.00
99.78
Friedensfeld
Rural
97.64
96.81
CARD OF THANKS.
The
Children,
Grand-children
and
other lelltives of the
late Sherlock
Murshall Sczhuster beg to thank every
sody
who
sy
kundly
showed
them
sympathy during the illness
and at
£ 12 death of their beloved futher and
g-an’futier.
Christiansted,
St.
Crove, August
18th
1923.
LOCAL
4 lives
of rain
was
measured
at
the
Fort this moruing, Kingshill 5 and Fred-
wriksted 34 lines.
Among
the
passengers
for Porto Rico
by
the
'‘Romanita’’
were
Mrs.
A.
R.
Mec Intosh
of
this
town
who
will be
spending
some
time
in
San
Juan,
and
Miss
Hulyah
V.
Moore
en
route
to
Pricocke
Municipal Hospital, Ponce.
The ‘‘Romanita’’ brought
a large
mail
despite
the receipt
of direct States
mail
by the
s.
¢, ‘*‘Martinique’’ on Friday.
The
s,
s. Parima
arrived at
Frederik-
sted
vesterday
morning
and
sailed
for
New
York via
St.
Thomas
at 9.30 a.
m.
Some
45
passengers
are
understood
to
have embarked
from this island.
At this
rate yearly depletion ot population
would
be
nearly
110),
suflicient
to leave St.
Croix uninhabited in another
12 years
or
80.
At the
11 o'clock servic2
in the Luther-
an Church
vesterday
Mr.
Mc Ketney of
the
Navy
Band
trom
St. Thomas,
ren-
dered
the
solo
‘‘Hearts
and
Flowers”,
accompanied
on
the
organ
by
Miss
Stevens;
it
wus
excellent.
There
was
also
a well attended
song
service
in
the
evening selections
being
rendered
in fine
style
by the choir.
The so'o
""The Holy
City”’ by
Mrs. Albertina Petersen,
a trio
by Mr. Rivera on the violin, Miss Stevens
on the organ and Mr.
M. Stevens
on
the
clarinet
were well rendered,
as
well as
a
8010 by Mr. John H. Motta eatitied
“"Jesus
£ &o 8 i
& 20
Lover
of my
Ssul’”’ sung
to
the
air of
“When
the
Svallows
Homeward
Fly”
which showed
the old man
to be
in good
shape
vocally.
s
Hecess
s
The Native Brass
Band
ga e pilic can-
certs
on the
wharf
yesterday
afternoon
and
evening
to
the
enjoyment
of
the
children
and
large
numbers
of people
in general.
e
@
The third
instaiment
of
the
beautiful
film
“‘The Holy Bible’”’ wiil be
screened
at
the Christiansted
Theatre
this
even-
ing.
See
ad
or
next ,page
und
secure
your tickets
in
time.
The schooner Vigilant from Porto Rico
arrived here
this morning.
=N
Fo:tball.
The
football
game
played
on
Holger
Danske
ground
yesterday
betweeu
the
Merry Juvenile
and
Blue
Bird
clubs
re-
sulted
in
victory
for
M.
J.
The scure
being
1 to nil.N
s i
PASSENGERS
PER
S.
S. ROMANITA.
Aug.
18th.-- From
St.
Thomas:— Wil-
fam
M. Perry, Lieut. Comd.
E.
S. Stone,
Mrs .
Z. Stone,
Miss
Eleanor
Stene,
Miss Estelle
Renueis.
Aug. 19th. —To San
Juan:—Miss
Mabel
Christianser,
Miss
Huiyah
Moore,
Mrs.
Blanche
Meclntosh.
Aug.
19ih.—To
St.
Thomas:—Mr.
H.
Dix, Mr. John Havard,
Eagene
E. May.
TELEGRAMS.
ST.
CROIX STATION.
Bloemfontein,
South
Africa,
August
15th.=The
Premier,
General
Smuts,
was
given an ovation
upon
his
appearance
at
the South African
Party
Congress
after
his recent
indisposition
In
an
address
to Congress
he appealed
for
South Afri-
ca
to stand
in sympathy
with
Great
Brit-
ain in
her
effort
to
save
[urope
from
destruction.
He exhorted
all the nations
in
Europe,
great
and
small,
to
rally
round
Great
Biitain
and
avert
a wide-
world disaster.
The
position
today
was
grave
beyond
words,
the
Premier
said,
and if the
United
States
saw
the
Euro-
pean
nations
supporting
Great
Britain,
he
had
faith
that
the
United
States
would again
rush
to the rescue
and
save
the
break-up
of
Europe,
the
conse-
quences
of which might not be wiped out
for
a century.
1f all
the
nations
acted
together,
he continued,
there
was still a
possibility
that
France
would
see
her
danger before it was
too
late.
The dis-
solution of Germany
would be
a far more
serious
thing than the fail of
Russia.
If
Germany
broke up,
civilization would be
put back
a
century
or
more.
Whether
Lurope could stand
the
shock,
it
would
be diffizult to
say,
as
th2re
wasevena
prospect
of a breaking
up
of
the
whole
world.
G:neral
Smuacs
sail
he
did no®
know
whether
the
British
Government
wo‘d
consult
the
Leazue
of
Nations or
call '} special
conference
of
th2
mations
interested
to take
action.
South
Africa,
he declared,
cannut
cut
adrift from
Eu-
rope
because
she
is a
small
outpost
with
dangerous
surroundings,
a small oatpost
in a black continent,
and
if Eurove
went
under
we
eould
not
foresee
the
conse-
quences
and
could
not
disassociate
our-
selves
from Burop:zan
disasters.
Washington,
Aug. 15th. —Any
impres-
sion abroad
that there
has
been
a modifi-
cation
in
the
American
Government’s
attitude
on reparations
was said
on
high
authority
here
today
to be
wholly
un-
warranted.
Surprise
was expresse
that
unusual
potice
had
been
taken
in London
of the out'ine of this Government’s
posi-
tion,
as
gsiven
to
the
public
yesterday
from
tre White
House.
[t was
pointed
ont
that
the
White
House
spokesmen
reaffirmed
completely
the
position
10
which
the United
States
had
held-
since
the
reparations
problem
first
because
acate
and had
ass 'ried categorically
that
the policies of President
Harding will be
the polices of President
Coolidge,
furth-
ermore,
the
White House
as:zuranc.
that
the
United
States
wculd
give
‘‘ready
response’’
to
proposals
from
Europe
looking
to
the
United
States
aid,
was
coupled
with the specific
limitation
that
it would be the first business
of the
new
administration
to
see
that
any
course
adopted
served the United
States
inter-
ests,
It was also emphasized
again
that
the
policy and
hopes
of the
Washington
Goverament,
as
announced
by
Secretary
Hughes
in
his New
Haven
speech
last
December,
were unchanged.
London.,
Aug.
15th.—A
big
law
suit
pending
against
the
Corporation of Man-
chester,
the plaintift being
the Tramway
Company
Men’s
Unpion
with
100,600
pounds
involved.
The
action
has
been
brought
by the Union,
for claims arising
out
of the
war.
It §is aileged
that
the
Municipality
gave
an
undertaking
that
it
would pay its employees
at
least
half
of
their
wages
during their war service
and that this promise
was
not fulfilled.
Toronto,
Aug.
16th.--A
further
drog
of
25 cents
per nundredweight
was
re-
corded yesterday
in the
wholesale
prices
of Canadian
refined sugar
This
is
now
offered
to the trade of Toronto
on
a basis
of granulated
$9.84
per hundredweight.
These
prices
are fizured
on
a
Montireal
basis
of
$9.50,
allowing
34
cents
for
freight.
Whole ale
dcalers
yesterday
seemed
rather
of
the
opinion
that
the
decline in prices
would be continued
until
the
sugar
was
nearer
the
price
quoted
on the American refined
Paris.
Aug.
16th. —-France and Belgiug
have
agreed
to make
separate
replies
(g
the
note of Lord
Curzon
regarding
re-
parations.
It is semi-officially announced
that M. Poincare
will answer in consider-