o
®
Publication.
IT.
is hereby brought to public
no-
tice that the Government
has,
this
date,
authorized
REV.
FRANCIS
NEVILLE,
C.35.R.,
to
perform
civil-religious functions
in the Muni-
cihality of St. Crpix.
Government
of the Virgin Islands
of the United
States,
St. Croix. 15
September
1921.
C.
C. TIMMONS,
Government
Sec
etary.
>
®
®
Publication.
['l‘
is hereby brought
to
puablie
no-
tice
that
the
Government
has,
this date, authorized
REv. ANDREW
WILL,
C.SSR.,
to
perform
c1y11;
religiows
functions
in
the
Munici-
pality of St. Croix,
Government
of
the
Virgin
is-
lands
of
the
United
States,
sSt.
Oroix,
15 September,
1921.
:
C. C. TIMMONS,,
Government
Secretary.
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26.
September
KI.
8
Aften.
BESTYRELSEN.
THERE
will be
a regular
meeting
of
the Home Service
Conmittee
TUES-
DAY AFTERNOON
AT 3.30 O’CLOCK.
EDITORIAL.
In yesterday's
issue
we published
the
school
report for the week ended
Septem-
ber
2,
1921,
showing
the
averages
of
attendance
in the schools
here
and
in St.
Thomas.
It is
striking,
and
doubtless
many
readers
have
noted
that
St.
Thom-
as is considerably
ahead
of this
island
in
point
of attendance
at
the
Government
schools,
which
arouses
some
curiosity as
to why this should
be
the
case.
for it is a
fact
that
there
is nothin
more
serious
and important
than
the
efficiency of the
public schools,
and
that
noching will
so
readily
affect
the
standard
of efficieney
as the attendance
can
1t is
understood
that
considerable
progress
has
been
made
in
the
selection
»f high
grade
teachers,
and
that
there
have
been
add-
ed many
improvements
in the equipment
s
P O
R UL2
A Yl
of
the schools,
which
will centinue
for
sone
time:
therefore,
it is
natural
that
the
school
authoritiee
and
the
pubiic
should
be interested
in attaining
a
100%
attendance,
as
the
result
from
certain
|
sehools
in
St.
Thomas
show
to
be
'
practicable.
Such
a
result
cannot
be
.
secured
by
t
e
efforis
of
the
school
|
authorities
alone,
but
it may be
gained
i
it the hearty
cooperation
of the
parents
'
be
forthcoming,
and
especially
if
the
i
many
guardians
who
have assumed
the
responsibility
for taking
care o children
-
would
give more
than
passing
attention
|
1o the necessity
for their support.
It
is
|
reported
that
many
excuses
are
received
|
for
the absence
of
children
attached
to
|
our local public schools.
some
of
them
so
.
tlimsy
as
to
reflect
anything but
ecredit
i
upon
those
who
should
constantly
have
.
before
them
the
importance
of precept
.
and example
as these
are imbibed by the
!
growing
generation
from
those
whom
.
they
have
come
to imitate in many
mat-
|
ters.
Probablv
some
of
the
excuses
I
which
are
received
are
genuine;
it
is
;
quite
likely that
in
a
poor
community-
i
like
this
there
may
be si~kness
or ‘want
|
of
some
extra help
and
that
tkis
might
|
occur
on schooldays,
giving the
parents
|
~
the only alternative
of keeping
the
child
1
away
from
school.
But it
is also certain
*
that
many
avoidable
excuses
for the
non
|
attendance
at schools
come
from
people
a
who
are
reputed
to
be financially
inde-
dent
and
can afford
to get
along
without
child labor.
The at itude of some
people
seems
to be that they
bestow
a privilege
'
in
sending
their
children
to school
and
that
att ndance
is a
matter
left to
the
will
of the parent
or guardian.
This
is
|
an
sttitude
that should
be corrected
im-
mediately,
and
we wis'
very
seriously
to
invite the attention
of one
and all
to
the desirability for observing or enforcing
okservance
of
more
regularity
in
the
attendance
of
their children
at
school.
This
ecommunity
will improve,
advance,
and
take
its place
aming
the now
more
important
states
and
territories
of
the
great United States
in precisely
the
same
proportion
that it embraces
all the
educa-
tional
advantages
opened
to it,
and
in-
,
stead
of shirking
them
aid them
to
de
velop
and extend
over
still wider
fields.
CORRECTION
|
In
yesterday’s
note
re
theatre
please
read
° attention
ete. 8 invited’’ instead
of are.
-
TELEGRAMS.
!
i
ST. CROIX STATION.
!
Philadelphia,
Sept,
14th.——Nine
men
are
known
to have
been
killed and
more
than
a
secore
injured,
several
of vhom
~
are expected
to die,
in the second
serious
.
fire to
visit
the big point breeze plant of
the
Atlantic
Refining
Company
in
a
-
month.
Three
more
are
reported
to be
missing
and
may
have
been
burned
to
death
bencath
the
flaming
tanks
of ce-
troleum.
The
fire
was
preceded
by
a
terrific
explosion,
which
drenched
the
workmen
with flaming
oil before
they
could
leap
to
safety,
Kkilling several
in-
stantly.
Others
employed
further
back
from the
tanks
were sprayed
with sear-
ing petroleum
and painfully injured.
On-
ly prompt
action by the company’s
organ-
ized
rescue
squads
prevented
the
death
list
from
mounting
higher,.
witnesses
declared.
London,
Sept.
14th.- -Sir Philip Daw-
son.
congervative
and
anti
waste
candi-
date,
was
elected
to
the House
of Com-
mons
in
a
bve-election
yesterday
in the
West
Lewisham
Borough of
London,
the
vacancy-
having
been
made
by the death
of Sir Edward
Coates,
coalitinn unionist,
who
was
eleeted
unoppbosed
at the last
election.
Inverness,
Sept.
13th—Mr.
Lloyd
GGeorge
has
received
a
ecablegram
from
Halifax,
Nova
Secotia,
intimating
that
a
move
has
been
started
in
Canada
a-
mong
all
denominations
that
Sunday
be
devoted
to praver
in
aii Churches
for
the success
of the
Irish
Conference
and
asking
for
the
Prime
Minister’s
ap-
proval
and
coop-zration.
The
Premier
has cordially approved
of the
movement
and
expressed
the
belief
that
in
this
trying hour
the
hearts
of all
the people
were
turned
to
awaiting
hopefully
the
successful
outcome
nf the meeting.
Hamilton,
Bermuda,
Sept.
15th—The
tropical disturbance
which
passed
over
the
West
Indies
last
week
struck
Ber-
muda
at
midnight
last
night.
The
wind which, with hurricane
{orce started
to blow from
the south-east,
veered
later
to the
south
and
is
now
blowing from
south-south-west,
the barumeter
having
fallen
as
low
as
29.04.
Telephone
and
electric
light
wires
are
down
every
where
and
the
service
is entirely
inter-
rupted,
while
the
damage
to
property
cannot
be estimated
at present
but
will
apparently
be considerable
Hamilton,
Bermuda,
Sept.
15th.—The
lowest
barometer
reading
during
the
hurricane
was
29.00
while
at
about
8
a.
m. the maximum
velocity of the wind
registered
before
the
anemometer,
was
blown
away
113
miles
per
hour.
Min-
or damage
is
reported
from
all
points
communicated
with
several
hotels
hav-
ing
been
unroofed,
and
many
small
craft have
been sunk,
or driven ashore.
Dublin,
Sept.
15th.—Mr.
De
Valera,
in
his reply
to
Mr.
Lloyd
George,
ac-
cepts
the in\itation
to the
proposed
la-
verness
conference,
in
the
terms
of the
final
paragraph
of
the
Premier’s letter,
but re-asserts
the Sian Fein
demand
for
Ire.and’s
independence
as
a
sovereign
state
and declares
that only as represent-
atives
of
such
have
the
Sinn Fein
ne-
gotiations
any
authority.
New
York, Sept.
15th.—A
bloek
con-
sisting of hotels,
bath-houses
and
amuse-
ment places,
situated
on the board
work
of Rockaway
beach,
on the
ocean
side of