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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Peak Motor Year Seen as Crowds Jam Auto Show PAGE FOUK Soecoooseovccsesoenc | Prrvrrrrr rr PERSONAL MENTION Society woceesensnss-ssnsssaeses| Mrs. Charlotte Wiggins, Malcolm, daughter, Mrs, Seaton ee eT de daegiter| eet eyes Betty Lou, and Miss Kitty Brink-| Given Sarprise ley, who have been visiting with! relatives for the past two weeks! yp, Stickney, retired em-| left over the highway this morn- ploye of the city, was pleasantly ing for their homes in Tampa. | surprised yesterday when he wai }presented with a wonderfully; iwin Lunsford, of Miami,! decorated birthday cake on which} was an arrival yesterday by plane; had been placed 80 lighted can-! for a visit with his friend Dr. Ar-!dles. The cake was baked and! mando Cobo, and was to spend the| presented by a close friend of the! day fishing as guest of Dr. Cobo.! | family. | Only members of the immediate; W. J. Hamrick, agency super-| family were present to wish Mr. y of an insurance company! Stickney a happy birthday anal h headquarters in Jacksonville,; many others of the same kind. | wit | BICYOLES_WE RENT by CLASSIFIED COLUMN COSC ee ee- cenerezenceuas FOR SALE the Hour, Day or Week. Repair all makes and paint them with Nu- Enamel. We carry a full sup- ply of parts. Agents for the Rellfast and Dayton Bicycles. And sell them as low as $1.00 per week. Phone 276. J. R. Stowers Company. nov20-tf pet “FOR RENT FOR RE RENT—Upper ~ par tment. Four rooms and bath; no chil- dren, Apply Gaiti’s Barber | To reach MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Washington <<: = = = Sees = wal ees © te 2k oe Ise The report referred to poimts — out that if the nineteen millien families in 00 a they crease the consump in this country dollars annually and & would be necessary to imerease eur output by twenty-five percent more than in 1929. Probably such 2 coné- ton would insure emp'eyment fer all workacles aud eng the spomal of wast im the —_ ef plertr. such would grem:- gue nation 2 55m, ferences gf opmet Beces year, ly ben and may € and J. M. Harrison, manager of a} branch the company in Miami, were arrivals in Key West yesterday afternoon over the high-| way, and will remain here for sev-} eral days as the guests of J. B. Symmonette, local manager of the; organization. | o. and yes- Mrs. Andrew J. Page daughte arguerite, left terday afternoon on the plane for Miami en route to Iberia, La., for! a visit with Mrs, Page’s son-in- law and daughter, Mr. and Mr Cc. B. Harve Mrs. FE wi formerly Miss Wilhelmina Goehr- ing of this city. Archer Shepherd, representing a refrigerator company, left over the highway this morning for Marathon to meet Walter Wag- staff, manager, who is en route to Key West for a week’s visit. (Mrs. Amelia Olivieri, left by Florida Motor Lines bus this; morning for Miami to visit with} her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Olivieri. i Mrs. J. W. Coulter, before mar-| riage Miss Virginia Fabal, left over the highway this morning for Philadelphia to join her husband, who is attached to the U. S. S. Porter, stationed at the Philadel- phia navy yard. an arri- yester-{ father, ( on al Mrs. Carrie Clark was val by plane from Miami day morning to join her John Lopez, at the home garet street. —— ‘ Wm. R. Porter, president of the First National Bank, who was away for about 10 days on a business trip up the east coast, returned yesterday morning from Miami by plane. B. M. Duncan, chief engineer in| charge of construction of the Overseas bridges, and A. L. West, bridge engineer, returned yester- day by plane from Miami, after a business visit in Jacksonville. Ralph Dominguez, who has been spending the summer in New York, arrived yesterday by) plane from Miami and expects to spend a few days with his family} before returning to Miami to join the yachting party with whom he is employed. Mrs. Mattie Richard, of Mar- shallville, Ga., was a recent arri- val in Key West and is a guest at the home of Mrs. W. Hunt Harris on Caroline street. Mrs. Richard is a sister of the late Judge J. Vining Harris. ‘Dr. Edwin Lunsford, who was in Key West for a visit with Dr. Armando Cobo and fishing trip yesterday, left on the plane in the afternoon for Miami. Paul Marks and Herman Marks, who were spending a short time; in Key West, left by plane yes-} terday afternoon for their home in Miami. P. H. House, second keeper at Sombrero lighthouse, ar- rived in the city this week and will spend his vacation with his family. MANY USED CARS AT LOW PRICES: Advertised on the front page of} this issue are two of the many used cars offered at bargain prices this week at Navarro’: rs Inc., local Dodge-Plymouth dealer. jeity but, as was explained by Rev.! About her pleasant Spanish peo-| ‘unrest and Since the appearance of the new} Dodge and Plymouth on the mar-} ket, Navarro’s, Ine. have sold quite, a number of new cars and as al result have many used cars taken} as trade-in on new ones. These cars must be moved at, once and have been priced to sell, states Dan Navarro. CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS! Get a pre-view of the lovely new things coming in every day at Old Island Trading Pest North Eng Duval Street on Water Front ' Arrange Dance | At Cuban Club (nesday evening starting at (At The Stores| |Ne teh H They were agreeably surprised; when the recipient:of the cake; took a long breath and puffed out every one of the lighted candles. { | | t Annual _pre- rekeetving dance; "| given each year at Cuban Club on} Duval street will be held on Wed-! 9:30 o'clock. George Deane and his 13-piece, dance band will furnish a lively, program of music for the occa-} sion. Plan Dance At Raul’s Club A big event of the year at | Raul’s Club is the Thanksgiving; eve dance to be held Wednesday: evening starting at 10 o’clock. Music for the affair will be} furnished by John Pritchard and| his orchestra. A live turkey will; ;be given away to a lucky person attending this event. SOUTH FLORIDA special sale on advertised this week at South {Florida Contracting and En- gineering Company. i Texolite is a washable paint for, interior use that is put on in paste form. One gallon of paste re- duced with water covers approxi- mately 350 to 500 square feet wi’ vith | one coat, Texolite is} CHRISTMAS GIFTS ! Gardner Pharmacy has _placed| in stock one of the largest varie-} ties of Christmas gifts to be found! anywhere in the city. Those just received inelude both novelty and practical items. POULTRY e Fulford’s Poultry Farm is today advertising a full line of poutry! for the Thanksgiving dinner. List-} ed in the advertisement on the! front page is turkeys, capons,| soft-bone roasters, big chicks, stags, hens, fryers and geese, i i MOVING i White Star Cleaners, formerly} located on Duval street, next to Monroe Theater, is today moving, across the street, corner Angela street. | This place is owned by Joe Me- i All work is called for and! DR. VUET WILL HOLD. SERVICES| DISTRICT TO ARRIVE THIS AFTERNOON C. K. Vliet, presiding elder jst the Miami Methodist District,! wit arrive over the highway this | afternoon and tonight at 7:45! jo’clock in Fleming Street church, | | will -hold the first of a series of revival services covering the week. These services are sponsored by the young people of the three} Methodist congregations in the} Shuler. Peele of Flem‘ng Street| church, persons of-a'l ages will be! given a hearty welcome. ' It was also .announced _ this morning that while here Dr. Vliet jwill hold the regular quarterly | conferences, and the time and| places for these conferences will! {be announced this evening at the| sentte | TooDen | For This Liquid Sass rial Lotion contains six itch | Milling me pedicines tbat go ea the | = of ee nee tetter, ring- worm and common go>. Pleasant | to use..Two sizes, 35¢ and $1.00. Right—a small section of the crowds that have been pouring into the New York automobile show. it is smartly finished in a rich fawn me- that gives visitors inside information on the in- Left—one of the wider, hair velvet. Below—a unique cross-section roomier interiors featured this year. display tricate operation of the 1937 models. NEW YORK.—This will be a banner automobile year, judging from the enthusiasm of New York crowds that have been pouring into. the Automobile Show here. Experts say all én- dications point to sales rivaling boom-time records. Safety is the keynote this year, with manufacturers stressing new safety developments. In general, the cars themselves are more powerful and more luxuri- ous than ever, with definite price reductions in some cases revolutionary changes in design KEY WEST Editor, The Citizen: {1 write a lay (that must be brief) Concerning this. our coral reef. She sits upon a sea so green, Such as few northerners have seen, Sunpainted, to the hue of chalk, Her old-time walk: That, 1 ke all rivers, meet the sea With maritime cons‘stency, Low-hung, her balconies and blinds, As suits the manse climes, of With yards of limes and sapadillas | rainwater! And cisterns with fillers. But quite, by far, her chiefest | charm That tropic la The ¢ hello As friendly people come go. and From fish-piers, with their and ca (One water-front that no rats) To battered “crawls Key West smiles in its overalls!) broo! “tubs” and gelic, (With quaint a relic) Key West maidens stroll Duval To chat, in groups, at cool} nightfall. politeness—now With manly youths, in Roebuck; “pants” En_ route dance. Oh, I could ruminate for hours About Key West’s “trained fish” and flowers! to rendezvous ples, Her many churches (short ni steeples), 4 Her Cover ubian, pers,” Her Cuban cooking, full of pep-' pers. colored “step- | Perhaps I have !eft out the forts ee PALACE Warner Brothers Production THE GREEN PASTURES Two Comedies Matinee: 10-15c; Night: 15-25¢ houses shade her! tropic | dogs} turtle} of; on certain makes. Streamlinin; is advanced another step, witl last year’s sloping windshields and flowing body lines further accentuated. Hoods are longer and radiators more suggestive of speed. The interiors have been plan- ned to meet the demand ‘for more and more space and lux- ury. Luggage compartments have been increased all down the line, with built-in trunk compartments the rule rather than the exception. Interiors are more luxurious “ ever, with smart mohair velvet uphol- ee! ‘that doesn’t require . party to accomplish results. * just landed himself. In six month: lf, i | Marine cle The tennis, swimming, other and doctors | Citizen’s uplift endeavour! | ' !But you may come and see the rest, The many good things of Key | studied their religous societies and mayhap, you choose to | You'll be “at home” with Hem- | ingway! | BELLE DE POO. {330 Duval St iK | Nov. 2 | | “KING OF LA GONAVE” i ee i The Citizen: ! » you read about | some fellow negotiating for lease of a tropica! is'and where he and “like-miided” friends can en- little polite beachcombing from aE aggvavatic: of t week it was a | young broker from Massachusetts |who outlined something . of _ his | plans for an exclusive domain in | Bahama waters. It might be fun,! for a week of clear water,,if the. Editor, Periodic “dike-minded” companions Temain-)* ed that way, but an island-of-m’e- ts “in cannibal, trimumin’l” ean | become as irksome as — B, i jgundi Club meeting back» homed | Without the elements of work or ‘danger, preferably both, an island! assistant}PRESIDING ELDER OF MIAMI|Dark-eyed, piquant, or quite an-/ becomes just as much of a Hell-| j ‘hole as a sand-bar off Hoboken. } | Pitcairn makes good reading, and | they say thet Bali is worth seeing} jnow, but when a white man goes ‘adventuring and ends up by be- coming the king of a doma‘n num- bering eight monasid in. aig you ha | Faustin Ma! |La Gonave, a primitive black col- ony some twenty miles off Portj jau Prince, Haiti, to init‘ate “law; ‘and order.” He-was the only white ‘man on the island, a hot-bed of African voodooism. ! e —REMOVAL NOTICE— |} | WHITE STAR CLEANERS: | We're moving across the street, corner Duval and Angela. Same | good service. Suits called for | and delivered, only 25c. Jce Medina, Prop. Phone 707-W MONKOE THEATER Warner Baxter-Myrna Loy —in— 3 TO MARY, WITH LOVE Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches- tra, 15-20c; Night: 15-25¢ ing-field and created a well-organ- ‘tion of the black men and women :there today that title would be , just as good and as potent over !was the day he sat beside Te Me- ‘minie, on the throne, and receiv- steries in new Sighten shades giv- ing a luxurious finish to even the lowest price models. More than seventy-five per cent of the cars have now adopted this rich interior finish. Finally, the accessories which once were bought separately have increas- ingly been made standard equip- ment. Automotive observers agree that the new cars give more value for the money than ever before, and that the increased purchasing power of the country = result in record-breaking sales. Wirkus was the sort of Marine a landing He he had built a house, dock, land- ized community. But withal he| hed won the respect and ,affec- who had previously regarded white men with hatred and mistrust. He joined them at work and_ play, became a “bolod-brother” in their} secret, mystic rites. Before he left La Gonave the negroes crown- ed him “Faustin 2, King of La Gonave.” And were he to go back the lives of his “subjects” as it! ed the crown from the Papaloi high-priest. .. . “What became of Faust'n E, Wirkvs, after that?” People who read his book, “The White King of La Gonave,” may suppose that a man of his rare ability and striking appearance and personality is stil! organizing outposts for Uncle Sam? No. The United States is like a big fish, that eats and spews out able men. Red-tape and jealousy high- er up possibly hastened Wirkus’ ‘vement from the Service. 1 hint, ‘aman in his prime with a strong mind and strong hands, oman who-beloaged on,@ tropical and; a modern, Crusoe;"but very | h a resident’ of New York ‘City, “m's-cagt’”in private life. C. GROVER FLINT. 330 Duval St., Key West, Fla.; Noy. 20, 1936. "THANKSGIVING EVE— DANCE Wednesday, 10 till ? RAUL’S CLUB FREE: Live Turkey —Pritchard’s Orchestra— ADMISSION $1.00 PLUS TAX JOE ALLEN Notary Public THE CITIZEN OFFICE — When you think of KEY WEST REAL ESTATE think of the OVER-SEA REALTY EXCHANGE * OVER-SEA HOTEL BUY — SELL — RENT |CHRYSA NTHEMU MS, Shop, 109 Duval street. | sary se oct19-tf | fee! sure that the & — LARGE AIRY ROOMS, nicely| {oe == furnished. 529 Whitehead St.| 0 nov17-7t} | As an indicat i‘ effort to assis = we hear that z WE WILL PUMP OUT YOUR = acgengpetsact bey a CISTERN and clean it for the; 14 the remaining unemployed water therein. State Plant) industrial workers. estimated at Board. Phone 701 " ~ WANTED» WoMa? TO COOK and do ge eral housework on keys. Box Z, The Citizen. ‘NOTICE FOR SALE 1113 Stump Lane. nov23-3tx TYPEWRITING PAPER — 500 sheets, 75c. The Artman Press aug? PRE-THANKSCIVING— DANCE Wednesday, 9:30 sll 7 CUBAN CLUB Geo. Deane’s 13-Piece Band Ph. 63-W | ADMISSION THOMASINE M. MILLER —BEAUTICIAN— Latest Air Cooled Method Permanents: $2.50 to $20.00 Hair Dyeing a Specialty Colonial Hotel Bldg. EOPLE who take time in choosing a refrigerator, who compare before they buy, usually get an Electrolux. And here’s why! They find that Electrolux differs basically fromall othtrrefrigerators .-.and every point of difference is an advantage they want! For Electrolux is the only refrig- erator that has no moying parts. A tiny gas flame does all the work .-. circulates the refrigerant, which is cooled by ordinary air. This trolux’s greater efficiency . . . its amazingly low eost to Tun . - its conveniences! We want you to, for the more you know about refrig- erators, the more likely you are to choose Electrolux. Come in today! ACKSONVILLE FLORIDA Youd eee See ee ee ——See So ot nee —y ; ——T2 Si TS <i DE 2 ie See we Bie se | _— io te Florida Public Utilities Company “*Your Gas Company” ROY E. LADE, Manager