The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 24, 1938, Page 3

MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1938. CIGARET MAKERS HAVE | Today In Histery 1838—~(100 years ago) Gen. (Ry Associated Press) ; Thomas S. Jesup, leader of the) NEW YORK, Jan. 24—Enough American army in Florida, | Cigarets to encircle the earth at wounded in the face in battle the equator 282 times, if laid end | er eg nin ae | KEY | DAYS GONE BY, Hospeulags teen Sat Sh Years| Ago Today As Taken From | The Files Of The Citizen | %,, The Characters “Of course,” Nelda responded. | = the ne Indians at Ju-/t> end, were rolled in American | Nelda, who is struggling with She might as well do somethin; js piter Inle bacto - factories -i c lecsous form: breaks her espeocs_ | 10 belyy bee forget ber berken ent | Rupert Knowles puts on tonight | —~ bas estates ment to Reck when they quarrel | agement and Jack's mad beha- what he considers a beginning to’ 1848 Gold discovered at Sut-|°Pd veer. | hotly over her ambitions. . Wior. SPF . | Stage fights which will reawaken} ter’s Fort, Cal.-by Ji W. Mar-| _ The total reached the stupen-/ se ened, rowng tatince . gpd crewing Dore ane interest in the sport in Key West. | Sutter's pevtner in building GUS sum of 163,000,000,000, as! together, in spite 2f° frequent po: ig a fate-like yoice:? 206 Athletic Club will be aay a saw mill there; like Sutter turn-'0™mPpared with 152,400,000,000 in ; PLAY SAFE— wealth! playboy, scoffs Jack, Nelda’s yinger brother, has given’ up medical . school against Nelda’s wishes. Chapte. 24 “We're Through’ A and Reck rode the rest of the way to the rancho in si- lence. Ui en words throbbed in the cont of the car. When Reck stopped at her home she had the door of the roadster partly open. “Good night!” she flung at him ‘and leaped out. “Good-night!” He jammed the engine into gear and roared to- ward the highway. fe “Well,” she said to her reflection in the mirror of her dresser, “that’s. that!” She kicked off a shoe and it flew across the room. “As if life eppugh without She awakened early next morn- ing and went to gaze out a window. The field where the lettuce had been looked dead and beaten. She noticed’a point of movement at the far end. It was Bill with his tractor. “If anyone ever takes me out of this environment,” she thought, “itll be Nelda Barrie herself. noe or a strike could sweep everything aa it ther day b tw mai it wins se tie ate one for Nelda and one for Laura. Ina Nelda saw that hers was Jack, mailed at Sacra-|_ “You are!” she fumed. “In been for the last two weeks aid-j You jing the Steamship Santiago de} York's famed lawyer, statesman, mento. He wrote that he was in a cannery, i spinach. Sorting spinach! She thought of those fine, sensitive hands that tec See, ret aciy ene ‘ing t water-soaked, those hands were With a bitter pang she recalled that ‘her father had unusual about'the boy’s hands. Jack. was a mere child. Recalled how. Jack had age Sct Toa f hed severe) because he performed on her dolls that ren- : Sir ithont being seen Presently there was a knock on ura called to her: he'd been weeping: the said not dressed.” geet Hy deliee ch while waiting a with the idea 0’ going into the res- taurant next door for a piece of custard pie. gs 2 “Aud Til make salad and ‘sand- wiches —” - . “Wait a minute! What am T go- ing:to bring?” 2 oncom. + “A.cake if, you like.” “And some pickles, and cheese ~ “And hard boiled eggs,”‘Ray in- are also featured as are Bobby! \\ terrupted, coming up to them at Waugh and Dalbert Bethel. An-/} YU, nouncements as to matching for) that moment. “What, I ask isa eggs? “Don't forget the ants,” Nelda reminded him. “We'll go up into the moun- tains,” Doris clapped her hands with delight at the thought. Picnic without hard boiled smiling down into her eager face. “How does Sunday -suit you, Nelda?” Set 1) ask the bo suppose you’! the y “Reck arid I—well, we've agreed to write finis to our engagement.” “Anybody else you'd like to ask to the picnic?” ris wanted to know. “Let's invite Bill.” “3 ‘ wart, upon analyzing the impnlse»that' made her suggest him, Nelda-concluded she did it in the-hope:that Reck would hear about it..and become jealous enough to seek a reconciliation. 8 can all go in our car,” Doris “It’s wise not to trust Bill's car,” ames laughed. “It has moods, you iow.” @ -4 10.” “Til be ready.” On Saturday Nelda received another letter from Jack. He wrote that he’d been fired from the can- nery and that he’d secured a job as service-station attendant. He ended with: Nothing I’ve ever attempted has turned out right. Guess I'm a misfit. everything but medicine. fool! You fool!” Let Bygones Be Bygones ,Seene of hostililties. Baby Rey, the be known to every member of fight game in Key West, will one of the headliners and along with him will be Young Fernan- dez. Joe Baker and Oscar Pita the big scrap. will be made early next- week. Editorial comment: The whole state is teeming with both resi- “When?” her husband asked, dents and visitors who will come | to Key West the moment they are assured they can get over the | highway with certainty and with- out unreasonable delay at one end or the other of the water gap. “Murderers in Key West—Who Are They” will be the unusual subject .of the sermon. to be preached at the First- Baptist ehurch tonight by Dr. E. E. Carr: This sermon will be a part of the regular revival services which are being ocnducted at the church during the next week. A mammoth Moray measuring five feet three inches in length and weighing 45 pounds was “We'll pick you up at about caught yesterday by Captain Ben| ford, Conn. Died there, July 5, Demeritt while he was fishing in )a depth of 15 feet of water. The moray, which is said to be the biggest ever caught in these waters, is on display and may be seen at Peter Roberts’ tank. Wrecking Tug Warbler return- ted yesterday from the coast of Cuba, where it went, and Cuba, which has been around off ‘Guantanamo for the past two | Newt Yokus, th’ barber, is tryin’ | # find out who sent him thet whet- | tone fer Christmas. The’ favorite holiday dish o’ some politicians is a political plum pud- din’. Today’s Anniversaries i 1733—Benjarmin © Linedin; Teat-| lant . soldier pof) the, wehution, , secretary of war from 1781 to | 1784, born. .at..Hingham, Mass. | { Died there, May 9, 1810: | 1811—Henry Barnard, reformer of popular education, prolific i writer on education, first commis-! sioner of education, born at Hart-! 1900. } t 1820—Henry Raymond, one of the founders of the N. Y. Times, editor, pioneer of decency in American journalism, elevator of: }the profession, born at Lima, N | ¥. Died June 18, 1869. New 1832—Joseph Choate, | orator, wit, ambassador and vig- forous citizen, born at Salem, Mass. UNDAY morning broke bright weeks. The ship was finally|Died May 14, 1917. and clear, giving day made to order a picnic. Nelda put on dark blue slacks and a cream silk shirt. The outfit ac- cented the slenderness of her form | gage of a floated, and proceeded on her, bans Se oes | 1834—Charles H. Webb (“John j © way, the Warbler reports. Key West is the sunniest city | Paul”), noted New York author, ; journalist and humorist, born at dark beauty of her in Florida. St. Petersburg is get- Rouse’s Point, N. Y. Died May and the di eyes. ‘She looked as fresh and beautiful as the of the promptly at 10. Bill leaped out of the tonneau and took Doris age ety in was an i knickers and tan shirt with red tie. Her eyes were twin glints of impishness. “That gal has a figger,” she re- marked as Nelda came toward the car. “Makes me simply mad with envy.” She gave a pretense of esShe looks like a nymph of ie ea some kind.” Bill said. “What is the title of the moun- Youve, been, to, coll ‘ou've to college—you to know,” Doris 3 1 heard in college,” he retorted, his brows drawn together in thought. “What is that name? It’s on = my tongue, but I can’t recall ii “Oread.” This from Bill. “That's it!” Ray cried. “But how did Fe get so smart?” “Just a whimsical farmer. Shall 1 put the ges in the ton- ™*A little hurry of reerrangin little flurry of rea: ing the articles followed, then 4 off amid bright sallies. They went over the same road that Reck had taken when he and Nelda were forced to spend the night in the old shack. As they assed it Nelda stole a glance at Bill and found him gazing intent- ly at her. io }ing credit for being, but never- ) theless Key. West records show the greatest number of hours of \ sunshine yearly, even though the ) other city has adopted the slogan that contained Nel- | “The Sunshine City” and capital-! ized on it. That doesn’t make it any less a fact, that the oun) shines ten percent more in Key West than in St. Petersburg. In 1927 St. Petersburg got 67 percent |of all the sunshine possible. In | the same year Key West got 87 percent, more than did St. Pete. These figures are taken from the records of both cities, in Tampa and Key West. Government rec- ords also show that Miami got nine percent more sunshine last year than did St. Petersburg. The records show Key West the sun- niest city in the state, with Miami a close second. Interest in the payment of taxes ‘by out of town owners has been given a big boost by the opening of the Over-Seas Highway, coun- 'tyTax Colector Wm. F. Maloney asserts. Scores of letters are be the intention of redeem- ing properties which have been ' sél@ for Aaxes. Yesterday a letter was received from one of the big- | 24, 1905. ’ 1865—Paul W. Bartlett, among the country’s greatest sculptors, born at New Haven, Conn. Died j in Paris, Sept. 20, 1925. 1870—William A. White, noted Washington, D. C., psychiatrist and hospital head, born in Brook- lyn, N. Y. Died March 7, 1937. the schedule put into effect a few days ago will become permanent and there will be visitors here from all points north coming in on the ferries. The opening will be marked by a special Over-Sea | Highway edition of The Citizen consisting of 36 pages of pictures and stories and advertising. It’s Deliciously Fresh! — TRY IT TODAY — _ STAR >* BRAND | CUBAN C ‘Tt seekers overran place and ignor- ed all claims; spent last years as based on bureau of internal reve- an embittered gardener at Colu- ma, Ca. where he died in 1885. | ganized in England by Sir Robert Baden-Powell. stitutional by U. Court. Party declared by Secretary of Labor Wilson to be a ‘ej tionary party” and all aliens be- longing subject to deportation. {took stand at Flemington, N. J., j trial ed out misfortune for him, as gold 1936, 103,560,000,000 in 1932 and 119,600,000,000 in 1929, estimates nue reports indicated. te | Subseribe to The Citizen—20 1908—First Boy Scout Troop or- weekly. LA CONCHA HOTEL In the Center of the Busi ness and Theater District EXCELLENT RESTAURANT Garage Elevator Fireproof 1916—Income Tax declared con- S. 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PHONES 24 and 55 JOE ALLER DURO PUMPS PLUMBING SUPPLIES All of a sudden she gave a little bleat of surprise and asked, your engagement ring, In a low tone he said, “Nelda, 1 | est Key Largo holding firms Watch The F ords Go By 's blurted out some nasty things that asking for a statement of taxes Nelda? You ain't—” morning I found you here with | owing, and mentioning a prompt Stas Setian ofc tara eet Ant Lace a ea cocoa, tis Pet ane low ain’ too 7” Laura | sorry. lon" ow wha le i said soothingly. “But he'll be back.|me say them, for I really didn’t | Wil approximate several PHONE 348 Kraft Miracle Whip $ HOT WATER ORIGINAL Bet it’s only y them lovers’| think they were true. I've been ands of dollars, .Mr. Maloney j ta sei 5 aera oe Manting to bag Dog | so ever since | showed, and there are numbers Ma from SUNSHINE “Here comes your bus.” at morning, but I” f similar cases. Dressing and : FUNERAL HOME Laura jum up and waddled| “That's all right, Bill,” she cut be For Reservations Telephone swiftly toward it as if she feared it would dart away and leave her behind. Seated, she looked out the eos red as -g so grinned self-consciously. waving until the bus turned a corner. in. “I guess you were excited.” “I suppose that was it, but I t have let my excitement turn into rudeness.” “We all do such things.” “Doris told me you've broken The Over-Sea Highway will be officially opened tomorrow when PIRATES COVE Picnic In The Mountains See LICENSED EMBALAER Lor ee acto Soot i as shejare you tw ing “about started back to her car. Without|back there?” 4 - ¥th te 44 she knew ‘t was Doris; “We're just letting bygones be bygones,” Bill su aTvempam “Hello!” Melda’s lips curved into ! pe oe was always glad PP ond TT 4 to see se aa {paren fallen in love with each “Y'know,” Doris sa.d, “thi¢ fide | wthet.” weather calls for a picnic” me (Copyright, 1937, Alice Marte Déddge)! ‘i “Defir‘tely. Want to be dr an it?” . > !se. temerrew. : a BARBECUE STAND — - — mMvitauce to our jedding, Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company edi tae During Sididegs Naturally, you want your Wedding Invitation to be the Home Mace orn ae wunlunik sal dathicly chdeindiig geet bnectate LAUNDRY ICE CREAM ee Lea’ Port on Sundays and Wednesdays at 2:30 inal out Ow wae AB Flevers CUBAR SANDWICHES P. M., arriving Key West 7 A. M. Mondays and Thursdays. ee. Wells’ Lunch Room —<—< gag Ean Nes West, Mondays ond: Therhdoyn £50. A.M. SERVICE or Vana. 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