The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 23, 1936, Page 4

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PAGE FOUR PeweeecsesPeoesececcccces Arrange Program At | Big Time At Raul’s Habana-Madrid Christmas Eve Everything is set for the big; Christmas Eve festivities at opening of Habana-Madrid Club Ranl’s Club on Roosevelt Boule- Christmas Eve, tomorrow night, under the new maneger, Thomas A. Joy. : xt Mr Joy has been here for the! #rd’s orchestra will hit off the fast week making preparations initial tune to begin the big dance for this affair. Many of his en-| which is expected to draw the tertainers are already here. The ‘largest crowd of the year. balance of his company will ar-} “Management of this club is pre- rive over the Overseas Highway! pared to show its patrons the today. | “time of their lives” tomorrow “ommy Joy’s Gloom Chasers night. A splendid floor show has appeared for the: first time last been arranged which ineludes the fight when it played for the best of local talent. dance given by Caballeros de 1a! Appearing on the floor show Luz. This was largely attended; will be Gerald Pinder and Louise and music and entertainment fur-| Pritchard in a modern swing fox nished by this musical unit was trot. Miss Edna Riggs will-give a appreciated by all present. | Vocal interpretation of several of Headliners on the Thomas A.' the latest song hits and Gerald Joy company are Darnell and Se-' Pinder will favor the audience noff, famous dance team. They; with a tap dance number. have quite a number of specialty} John Pritchard and his or- dances in store for patrons of Ha-jchestra have an especially good bana-Madrid including a novelty; program of the new “swing” toe tap dance. music. Miss Gerry Lynn, widely known blues singer and Bobby O’Conners | Grand Opening At with her male impersonations nt G di both make their appearance on! arden Of Roses tomorrow night’s floor shows. | An entertainer familiar to Key! An event long looked forward West who will give a number, to is the grand opening of Pena’s Christmas Eve is Claude Clark'Garden of Roses on. Christmas who appeared on programs here Eve, tomorrow, December 24. two years ago while in this city.| According to the management a He is an accomplished accordionist, Jarge number of reservations KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Ago Today As Taken From | Tomorrow the Christmas edi- ition of The Key West Citizen for jthe year 1926 will be issued, This; the worth while business places ort iKey West conveying messages to, the readers of this paper. The jadvertising patronage in this is- isue is very gratifying to the pub- lisher and shows that the mer- chants of the city have faith in ‘the city and the daily paper earry- ing their messages year after year. Judge Jefferson B. Browne will gave for Miami for the opening ;of the Dade eounty court on January 10 having been tem- porarily assigned to duty in that jcourt by Governor John z to assist the three Miami judges in trial work. The governor’s or- der contemplates that Judge Browne will practically handle all eriminal cases and those going to juries, while the judges of the Miami district.will); devote their time to hearing of cases in cham- bers. Judge Browne will succeed} Judge Thomas F,; Westyswho will return, to, Pensacola, after, being! about one, month, in, Miami on the circuit, bench. 3] £0 De fuGh Soeocccceescesese PERSONAL - 2980009009 002209000090 Mrs. J. A. Gaiti.and daughter, 999°) Happenings Here Just 10 Yeart'y:.. Macie Gaiti, are expected to arrive over the highway tomorrow afternoon to spend the Christmas holidays with relatives and friends. Mrs. Leonard Sands, who was visiting with re’atives and friends vard will begin tomorrow evening huge paper of 24 pages eight! for several days, left this morn- jat 10 o’clock when John. Priteh-! columns to each page will carry] ing over the ‘highway for Port a. the good will advertisements of} Everglades from which Mr- ‘Saurts} terday fer head 3 is on the run to Havana as edat-, neer with the Florida ‘East Coast) Railway Car Ferry company. ‘ Mrs. Everett Russell and daugh- ter, Miss Betty Rae Russell, left by Florida Motor Lines bus this morning to join Mr. Russell, agent for an oil company in Fort Laud-| erdale, and spend the Christmas holidays. R. L. Farmer, traffic manager of the Florida Moter Lines, with; headquarters in Miami, who was) in the city on business, left this morning. John (Carey, who was spending | several weeks in the-city, left this} MENTION e Miss Pinky Samuels, beautician with the Thomasine Miller Beau-; 4, \tomey ! ty Shop, left this morning for) 1,0" eon Tampa where she will spend the; Yuletide season with her family. | : re Luethi, J. R. Blair, U. &. inspector of; ilies G. Ly Scher 0 eed ee ter of boilers, who were here on/ a_regelar inspection tp, i pa. Mrs. D. A. DuPuis and children” other places adjacent June and Ed., ee wee — West, left yesterday afternoon fer two days with friends in Key plan West, left yesterday on the jong a Steamship Cyba for the home in; ‘ a Tampa. |W. L. Wilson, labor project co-! zi lordinator with the WPA ad Martinez init ‘: daughter, Miss Zilia Martinez, | interests of the sponge fishermen were passengers on the S. S. Cuba; ive movement, left yes yesterday afternoon going to join trday for Jacksonville, going as Mr, Martinez in Tampa and there far as Miami by plane. make th¢ir home, C. A Parramore, representing Somers Pierce, accompanied by jone of the larger meat packing his wife and daughter, Elizabeth: concerns, who was here on 2 regu-- Ann, were arriva’s in the city last lar visit to local merchants, jeft! evening over the highway from'yesterday for headquarters in’ and morning for Miami where he will Florence, Alabama, will | Tampa. join his family, for the holidays.‘ spend an indefinite stay in Key ! West with relatives. Mr. Pierce, Mrs. Laurie Gates, who was in| Who was formerly employed by the admini Key West for two,.weeks and had’ The ‘Citizen, is now a member of WPA in Key a delightful'y pleasant visit with) {jo her son-in-law and daughter, Rev,| ° | Joe Tolle, of Methodist | church, and Mrs. Tolle and: thei children, left yesterday for the! home in Tampa. iy ” he Shee LONG DISTANCE CALLS AT REDUCED RATES Tue YEas wou cas capeme Four Macey CUED to ocutof‘ow: relatwss enc fem os =oopmeme anv time Chremas or Now Years Get x De ee ge cele ‘ The roguser iow meget mao Sor ee ee Stance anc Powe Peue als wel cee ime 7 P.M. December 25 etd 4-30 A ME Dee 26 and from 7 P.M. December 3] eneil 6-30 4 ML prophets. Now they are more con- j : - : Januar; 2 and is now assistant direetor of; Were made weeks in advance. This the orchestra. {indicates that there will be an Mr, Joy, new manager of Ha-,UMusually large attendance. , bana-Madrid, is widely known in| Some of the improvements re- the musical world. A! former, cently made at Pena’s is the new member of his orchestra, Freddie, @nnex with a spacious ballroom McMurray, now a famous movie/and ultra modern bar. This will star, started his career with} be open to the public for the first Tommy Joy’s Gloom Chasers. bee tomorrow night. 2 Mr. Joy was formerly manager! Noyelty hats, balloons » noise- of the Palm Gardens of Chicago.} makers and other favors will be Recently his orchestra was fea-' given to all who attend this’ fes- tured regularly over a radioftive event. broadeasting station, Sugar Sweeting’s Swing Band | will be on hand to furnish a good : | musical program. This orchestra Christmas Pageant |announces that the intermission On Sanday Night | between each piece has been eli- {minated and there will be con- A Christmas pageant, entitled | tinuous music until 12 o’clock “The Heart of Christmas,” will be} when a 20 minute intermission presented at the First Baptist: will be given. After this music Chureh Sunday night, December | will be continuous until the close 27, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. of the dance. The pageant will be under the - direction of Mrs. F. F. Hoffman, | Mj. H and promises to be very beautiful ' Miss Jennie Seymour and impressive, it is stated. Has House Guests The platform will be appropri- ately and beautifully decorated, Mrs. Benjamin Trujillo was an and the characters wi!l be Orient-jarrival in the city last evening ally costumed, with the manger|over the highway from Miami, ae- scene to be made complete, companied by Mrs. Nellie Morris. The pageant will take the place! They will remain here for the of the regular evening preaching| holiday season as the guests of service, it is announced. Miss Jennie Seymour at 519 Eliza- beth street. Mrs. Morris is a sis- Program Tonight ter of Miss Seymour. At Local Church Christmas Tree Annual Christmas program of At Baptist Charch Fleming Street Methodist Chureh by members of the Sunday Sehoo!} The Sunday School of the First will be given this evening at 7:30! Baptist Chureh will have a Christ- o’clock in the chureh. mas Tree and Santa Claus Friday A splendid program will be pre-!night at 7:30 o’clock, it is stated. sented. The publie is invited to} Distribution of gifts will also attend. be held at the same time. WIDE COLLECTION TOOTHPICK TOPICS (By C, G, FLINT) PHOENIX, Arizona—R. W. Palmer, meat packer of. this city makes a collection of things that Caccccccoepsseccoooooccs + Miami, in the opinion of this writer, is not packing them in as fast as in years past, She has cracked the whip and the tourists have jumped, but not now, The towns along the way have sapped the tourist artery some- what and are growing fat, too. animals swallow. His collection includes everything from Indian arrow-heads to chains. state agricul- established in The Mississippi tural board was 1856, The closed season on mullet fishing in Florida begins Decem- They thought Miami Beach was! ber 1 and extends to January 20. the only sun-spot, the Mecear of {bring ’em back alive” to the delight, but ether Meccars are beckoning. A fine state of af- fairs for the investors in big buildings which were supposed to pay for themselves in one or two, seasons, The high-rent whip makes pretty sound but tourists are funhy and have a “grapevine telegraph” and it gets around when landlords play trieks. ‘And'this is the time for the smaller cities, including Key West, to throw ‘in their chips with a good chance of winning a lot of Miami’s “trade.” As an old-enough timer, who: Beach. We may be all just @ hunch. 50 S, E. 7th St., Miani, Fia., Dec. 19, 1936. wrong, ~/BumsteadsWormSjrup predicted the “bust” some months; before it happened here last time, we say that rents in this area will drop, nor will legalized gambling HEAR YE! Old Island Trading Post Maintains traditions of Old Ke: West, when ships brought treasure} from far seas and voyagers from distant parts departed laden with products of our island, At sign of little Iron Boy— foot of Duval Street HEAR YE!! | Ensign C. G. Carlstedt, U. S. Coast Guard, has arrived in Key West to take charge of the sec- tion base of the Coast Guard here, when headquarters are re- moved from this port to Mobile. No official orders for the trans- fer of the headquarters from Key West to Mobile have been re- ceived by Captain H. H. Wolf, commander of the Gulf Division, !but they are expected within the jnext few days. Ensign Carlstedt comes here direct from New York where he has been~in command of the Coast Guard Destroyer Pat- terson. His assignment to duties as head of this division is per- manent. Operation of new club cars as part of the de luxe equipment of the Havana Special between Key West and New York will be- gin December 23 from New York and December 25 from Key West, The Citizen learned today. In- novations on the cars which were built by the Pullman company, in- elude separate men’s smoking. compartment, women’s smoking’ room, men’s and women’s baths, social pantry, soda fountain and marine V-1 arrived this afterneon. at the local naval station. Sub- marine V-2 and V-3 also sched- uled to arrive with the Argonne have perhaps gone to Dry Tor-| tugas. The three subs mentioned are among the largest and most. modern of the navy. The Ar-' gonne was instructed to stop at the Charleston Navy Yard and pick up a large caisson type tar- get raft together with all spires and target material to be used by the control, forge of, the: U.S, fleet which , consists; of eight, ves- sels and fourteen submarines. Editorial comment:;In ye olden. time the people listened to the hest Colds without “dosing” Vv —INCLUDE— AUNT MOLLY’S BREAD On That Christmas Menu —Made By— VALDES BAKERY CHRISTMAS SPECIALS —at— MONROE MEAT MARKET Fancy TURKEYS HENS AND FRYERS Fresh Killed PORK Florida PORK HAMS Large Shipment Received PLACE ORDERS EARLY ,| Phone 411 510 Fleming Street card tables, The U. S. S. Argonne and Sub- eerned with the profits. —— All people eligible for mem- bership in the American Legion who desire to go to Paris in 1927 to the international convention, must pay their dues for both 1926 and 1927, if they_want to take advantage of the greatly re- duced fares being offered by the stamship lines. Those who do not pay up will be foreed to pay) full fares on the vessels, This’ will cost several hundred dollars’ more than the reduced rate for, legionnaires who. are in . good standing. | Colonel Robert W. Thompson, guest at today’s Rotary luncheon,} was proposed for membership by! Rotarian J. Y. Porter, Sr.,: and { reeeived a hearty welcome as a: baby Rote. _ 2 SHOPPING —at— MENDELL’S CHRISTMAS | Fast colors with the new Trubernized collar .. $1.25 and $1.45 MANHATTAN PA- JAMAS .... $2.00, $2.50, om $3.50 and $5.95 MEN’S PAJAMAS a real attractive Pajama; Flannels and Broad- NECKTIES, made by Cheney, Botany and Beau Brummell .. $1.00, $1-50 METROPOLITAN TIES Attraetive patterns in Xmas boxes 50c MANHATTAN SHIRTS Ba .. $2.00 and $2.50 MONITO SOCKS, Silk or Lisle, 3 pairs $1.00 and i . 2 pairs $1.00 CLUBMAN UNDERWEAR Navy style, 3 for _... $1.00 MEN’S FELT HATS $1.50, $1.95 and $2.95 BELTS AND SUSPEND- ERS, Styled by Pioneer fis .. $1.00 to $2.00 BOXED HANDKERCHIEFS Made by Manhattan HANDKERCHIEFS Pure finen, hand rolled. Styled by Manhattan. FOP ASAE LE, MEN’S SHIRTS | PII PS TD ERY soon éach of our friends will be receiving an invitation to our Wedding; and ‘we want it to be the best looking invitation we cam get” Naturally, you want your Wedding Invitation to be the very finest;:and that is why we are snviting you to inspect omr temarkable line of genuine Stecl Engraved Wedding lavate- | tions and Announcements in the Favored Styles - THE ARTMAN PRESS CITIZEN BUILDING’ N This wil mean 2 subtas svg for Boe who will wamt w send Chremes and “ew Yor teicpmome asame aflorss With these meus 2 Set Cees et Year's dey, you can tok 100 bes oe 2 Sete to-Station call fer as tle os Se- Soe bee miles, $1.15, or one thownd wile $298 at greater or ies: (tamer « orespuning os ct Take advantage of Gs apperae 2 Oe ro relatives ame fremas Be Gol a omeceuy we goud wishes [rem vou 2 pores oe epaune fat tne jong dastamee speraicc for saa Bru Tecepaone ang Te ceaere Say Merry Christmas Give a G. E. REFRIGERATOR THE APPLIANCE ENJOYED BY THE WHOLE FAMILY An electri¢ rangé means aitool kitchen. and time. \, IO PLIALL LL LE oe pap rrr 9 OOOO OM: PAYMENT AND BALANCE WITH YOUR LIGHT SHi AND REMEMBER THAT ANY OF THESE CAN BE PURCHASED O8 A SHALL DOWN ee ee ee es

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