The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 18, 1939, Page 4

PAGE FOUR SOCIAL CALENDAR TUESDAY— Important meeting of Garden Club at Library. 8:00 p. m. WEDNESDAY— Key West Choral Society concert at Convent of Mary maculate, 8:00 p. m. San Carlos School Christmas program at Palace theater. tween feature pictures in the eyening. ee THURSDAY— Rotary Club Luncheon. 12:15 p. m. St. Paul’s Parish Hall. Lions Club Supper. 6:30 p. m. Stone Chutch Annex. Band Concert. 8 p. m. Bayview : Park. ee SUNDAY— é Band Concert. 4 p. m. Art Center Park, Harrie P.-T. A. Wants | | | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | Young Girls Waging Heath Comeback at Sanaiorim | WANTED—Used household furni- | a OPENING FOR THE SEASON, Patrols Director Harris School Parent-Teacher Association went on record Wed- ! nesday to approve a move to ap- point a committee to make plans for requesting the city council to appoint a capable the School Safety Patrols, which have been operating for some weeks without the guidance and leadership of an adult. One member expressed con- cern for the efficiency of the groups of boys, who are left to govern themselves completely. Another member expressed the opinion that it would be a pity | to interrupt this activity, which | is a distinct benefit to the com- munity both directly and indi- rectly. Still another member } stated that since the present councilmen had pledged to do the will of the citizens, she was of the opinion that an appointment would be made by the council if this was the expressed will of} individuals, associations and civ- ic-minded groups. Announcement was made of; the Christmas Tree Party to b given Friday, Dec. 23, by the as- | sociation for all pupils attending | Harris School. Mrs. Charlotte Haskins gave a concise and interesting report of the regional convention held in Ft. Lauderdale, Nov. 10. Prof. Duncan made the month- ly lunch room report. He also urged parents to purchase their 1940 licenses at an early ate and so assist the availability of funds for. teachers’ salaries, which are overdue, Roll call showed the following winning classes: Mrs. Isabel Ball, Mrs. Mavereen Meadow, Mrs. Emma Albury and Mrs. Magdelin Huddleston and Mrs. Thelma Watkins tied. Thompson-Hinde Naptials Satarday Marriage ceremony Saturday | afternoon at 2:00 o'clock united Miss Marcella Elizabeth Hinde | and Clyde Thompson in holy | wedlock. | Rev. J. C. Gekeler, of the First | Presbyterian church performed the ceremony at the home of the | groom's father and mother, Mr. leader for | PERSONAL MENTION Mrs. Vincent McDermott, who ispent the weekend with relatives {and friends in Miami, was a re- | turning passenger on the after- {noon bus yesterday. Mrs. Oliver Haskins, who spent the weekend in Fort Lauderdale with Mr. Haskins, engineer with the P. and O. S. S. Co. and other relatives, returned on the afternoon bus yesterday. Paul Lake, who has been in the veterans hospital at Gulf- port’ for several months, was an arrival on the afternoon bus yes- terday, 4 Maxwell Russell, former Key Wester, who, for the past nine months, has been employed in the supply department of the Charleston|Navy Yard, returned to Key West yesterday to spend Christmas with relatives. Mrs. Russell preceded him here a month ago. William Barker, connected with ie P. and O. Steamship Com- is visiting Key West for Christmas holidays. Mr. Barker has many friends and relatives here. Ernest Hemingway, who had ;been absent from the city for | several months, returned Satur- \day and plans to spend the jChristmas holidays with the ‘family at the home on White- | head ‘street. Miss Dorothy May Dungan, |student at Florida State College for Women, was an arrival on {the noon bus yesterday for the {Christmas holidays with rel- |atives and friends. | | Miss Madeline Foltz, teacher in the public schools at Sanford, arrived yesterday and will be the guest over the holidays of Mr. jand Mrs. Albert Carey. Cc. C. Brown, ordnance me- chanic with the U. S. Army at Charleston, S. C., arrived yes- terday to join Mrs. Brown who is visiting with relatives and friends. Miss Teresa Sullivan, daugh- | ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Sulli- |van, arrived on the midday bus yesterday from the Florida State and Mrs. Hersel Thompson, 404 White street. The bride is the aa tebe end eM evel ; College for Women, to spend the Attending the bride was Miss|Chtistmas holidays with her Ruby Thompson and best man |Parents and friends. was Robert Causler. Others at-| |. <a tending the wedding, besides the| , Miss Margaret L. Dexter, stu- parents of both of the young peo- | ent at Tallahassee State Col- ple, were: Chester Curry, Mrs. lege for Women, was an arrival Three young patients recovering from tuberculosis receiving their afternoon refreshment. Complete rest in a sanatorium is the Number One requirement in curing from this disease, Christmas Seals are enabling tuberculosis associations to assist in finding people ill with this disease and in starting them on the road back to health, ee OLIVER GRISWOLD WRITES ARTICLE (Continued frora Page One) when the rest was mainly rough- and-tumble on a raw frontier. The Southland’s conjuring rises strong and impelling over the swamplands around Savannah. A night in Jacksonville. beside the hyacinth-matted, black St. John’s River is a dramatic prelude for ‘ é ¥ the next morning’s - swift en- {that will rise to your bait. trance into St. Augustine’s| “Honest, I was in an orange- crowded brilliance of palms and trimmed, snow-white boat, troll- biiciera’ jing a slvery bait, when an olive- | “From there on down the East |green sailfish with a jet-black | Coast’ it is truly Florida, getting |spike on his nose and a steel-blue | sunnier, warmer, greener, and more frequently punctuated with its | fantastically-hued blossoms. and made off waiae “It is a near thing to magic,| ,, this swift change from the land| | When you hear people zeye| where foliage falls to these lati-|about the colors of a dying dol-| tudes where trees and sky and|phin, believe them, even when; sea hold summer colors per-|they wind up saying it just can’t petually. be described. al “Old Florida visitors who have| “For parrotfish, _ yellowtails, seen most of the towns in thejmutonfish, sisi, blue angelfish, state, and that is a good idea, {and bonita, dip your brush in the develop the custom of comparing. |most flamboyant colors of your We all have favorites. To those |imagination. who want to enjoy the full! “Every change in depth as you! gamut of experiences in Florida,|pass above the sunken reefs| I commend Key West. It is pure |brings a different hue. Over the contrast. |sandy bottoms it is emerald, over “As the last inhabited island | the coral and sea-fans it gges| of the long chain that dangles | purplish, with each fathom .of}| from the tip of the peninsula, it | variation sending up a new tone | has by geographic accident, asjin the green-to-violet range -of| much as anything else, managed | the spectrum. ent to be neither the United States! “For the full marine pallette, | nor Cuba. If so many people jyou fly over the keys. The long| didn’t ask, I wouldn’t bother to!chain of green islands stretches | verify; it is in the United: States.|ahead to the horizon. The shoal But it has absorbed enough of}|water makes a rim around each. both countries to be delightfully |From overhead the confusing. loose their blues and greens, and | “By driving South out of Mi-|the bottom shows . through the | ami you can in 165 miles get) transluscent water in soft shad- one of the quickest presto-|ings of ivory, eggshell, creamy} changeos of locale possible and |tan, buff, tawny, and smoked still stay in this country. Havana | pearl. is only 90 miles across the Straits; “As the water deepens toward | from Key West. |the ocean, the familiar sea colors | “A lady standing on the steps | grow strong again, until at the} of the U. S. Postoffice in Key |edge of the Gulf Stream the foam- | West told me that if she got in- jing line of breakers on the reefs) volved in any sort of difficulty | gleams intensely white against she would go immediately to the | the blue. | Amercan consul. You feel as for-| “There is another world ‘of | egn as that. Washington feels | colors under the water to be} ten timies as far away as it is. | viewed through the window of.a “The Cuban.political, refugees |diving helmet. But few of. us who a_ long time, ago. rushed jhave the nerve or the equipment across the Straits of Florda, plus|to enjoy this unforgettable ex- |their cigar-making confreres who | perience. 'You, can rent a row- jcame over in the intervening boat anda glass-bottomed bucket lyéars, plus the Conchs ‘of British:|and see enough of the sea gar- |ancestry who sailed in from the dens, near shore to understand. Bahamas, plus Bahaman negroes,, “And if you are afflicted with | {plus Floridians who came down | inability to enjoy the undulating | 'from the mainland, plus a lot ofjsea from a boat, there is mag- |Yankee writers and painters, and !nificence enough ashore. ja medley of business people, in-| “Magenta bouganvillaea, flam- jvalids, beachcombers, and tour- jing hibiscus, pink oleander, blue jists from the four quarters make |alamada, yellow cork-tree blos- lit a community that fits in no | soms, fiery poinciana, and deli- \bracket with another. cate frangipani make some of it. “It is a place that belongs to} “There are always the white {the imagination, but with mod- clouds and the living blue of the 1 ‘lons of primeval territory he hasn’t been able to touch, save jfor small stirrings with his pro- pellers and purloining a few fish |from the surface and edges. | “Neither the Bay of Naples jnor the eyes of the prettiest girl | lin: Hollywood have anything to} jmatch the blue of ‘the Gulf |Stream. Nor can the flowers of | paradise or the jewels of India| compare with the colors of fishes dots lunged out of the water} "|FURNISHED APARTMENTS, |TREAT YOURSELF AND FAM- | sail sprinkled with purple polka- | REG EERE NSF CARLOS ROBELLI, %-size VIO- shallows | Katie Logan, Mrs. Ed. Thompson, | ¥°sterday morning for the holi- Mrs, ae Samuelson, Borba |days with her mother Mrs. Sybil Thompson, Lorraine Harrington, Dexter, and other relatives. Mrs. Mamie Thompson, Mary eee ee Elizabeth Russell, Mrs. Tom}| Mrs. James Johnson, who was Woody, Edmund Thompson, Mary | visiting over the week with Thompson and Walter Thompson. | Mr. Johnson and relatives and ORE friends, left on the ser, this ‘morning for the home in Miami JWC Tea Dance | Beach. Next Monday | —- ee: G. W. Bonniwell, chief en- Annual Christmas Tea Dance |gineer with the P. and O. S. S. oi Junior Woman’s Club honor-|Co., who was visiting with Mrs. ing Key West college students | Bonniwell and the family at the home for the holidays will be | home, 503 White street, left for held Christmas afternoon from 5-9 o'clock at Raul’s Club, Presi- dent Susan La Kin announces to- day. | A social hour of the Junior Woman’s Club will be held Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock at Woman's Clubhouse. On the entertaining commit- | tee are Mrs. E. C. Cassity, Miss | dance will be ‘discussed. Winifred Shine Home | Fort Lauderdale on the the early bus this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Balek, of East their brother-in-law and _ sister, at 1018 Elgin street. ~ |_A. G, Watson, Jr., assistant you reach Key West, you have| % Rose Appel and Miss Solita Cobo. | collector of customs at Tampa/absorbed the feeling of wilder-| Albert D:-Lasker’s pet story of; ers artivitig’daily for alt-occa-| Final plans for the Christmas tea | and Frank Russell, customs agent |ness so thoroughly that it takes |the week isiabéu' in charge at Miami, were visitors that city of about 10,000 inhabit- maid in the home of a friend who in the city last week, coming and ants several days.to remove the answered ag Simp yeturning over the highway. For Christmas | George Albury, who was 3 — |the city over the weekend with Miss Winifred Shine, student |his family, left yesterday after- at Florida-State College for Wom-|noon for the home at Taver- en, is home for the Christmas /|nier. holidays end was accompanied | in! here by her grandmother, Mrs. | Miss Phyllis Adams, student at {ern plumbing, a primitive island ; With good hotels. } jof flat, mangrove-garnished is- | Paterson, N. J., are visiting with! lands connnected by causeways jand some of the longest bridges |Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Watkins, |in the world. The islands, or keys las they are called in Florida, are | {mostly uninhabited. By the time} |refreshing sensation of’adventur- ing in the unknown. : “But you can revive that feel- |: ‘ing by hiring one of the sports {fshing boats and going into the ;Gulf Stream. Out beyond the ‘coral reefs that bare their back- bones aboye the sapphire water, | jyou hit the inky blue of the “You arrive over a long series | the telephor lie “t | “| Yes’, hee heard her jmediately and the girl made jsky, save when night. replaces them with sequins and indigo. “And when your eyes tire of |too much beauty, let the trade j;winds whisper their lullaby through the fronds of a cocoanut ‘palm”. | | LONG DISTANCE 3 { a it the colored } } ring of say. And a second time: “Yes'm”. Then she added: “Tt shor is”, and hung up. “The telephone rang again im- identically the same replies, then disconnected. E. L. Dorsey of Tallahassee, who | Florida State College for Women, will visit daughter-in-law, Mr. Clarence Shine on Flagler ave-|to spend the holidays with her nue. |parents and friends. They were met in Miami by} = Mr. and Mrs. Shine, Miss Vir-| Miss Olive Schoreheer, arrived ginia Shine and Miss Casandra| yesterday on the noon bus, and Knowles. who spent’ the week-/this morning left for Havana to end in that city. 5 lreturn by plane to Miami. with her son and j|daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill | and Mrs.|Adams, arrived home yesterday ; Stream. “This is truly the last frontier unspoiled by man. He may have |“What did they want?” Tuined the forests with axe and, “Well, they asked if this was |fire, made a dust bowl of the/the Blank house and I said yes’m, Great Plains with his plow, poi-|and then they asked if Mrs. Blank 'soned the rivers with factories was home and I told "em yas’m”, ;and sewage, and sooted whole the girl answered..:“Then they. counties with his steel mills. « |said, ‘Long distance from Wash- “But here are billions of gal- ington’, and I said ‘it sho was’.” “What kind of a. conversation was that, Lucy?” she asked. ;} a CLASSIFIED COLUMN WANTED ture of every description, in- cluding rugs, lamps, pictures, ete. Will pay cash. Phone 33R Monday and Tuesday. decl8-1t MISCELLANEOUS Key West's loveliest Gift Shop. OLD ISLAND TRADING POST, ‘at the Water Front, North End“ of Duval street. ie) dec13-1mo FOR RENT PRIVATE HOME FOR RENT, furnished. All modern con-! veniences. 1403 Catherine St. dec2-1mo FURNISHED COTTAGE and two Apartments. Hot Water. Apply 630 Elizabeth St. dec16-1mox electric refrigerators. Valdes Bakery. Apply sept30-3mo PRIVATE HOME with all modern conveniences; two bedrooms; also, hot and cold running wa- ter. 1418 Catherine Street. a nov20-Imo FOR ‘SALE ILY TO THIS FINE CHRIST- MAS PRESENT—Bargain in| nice corner lot near North} Beach and City Park, com-/} pletely renovated, new floors and a new Bathroom. Price, $3,300, terms $1,008 cash and $1,500 first mortage, payable in 30 months, balance $25 month. House alone could not be re- | placed for less than $4,500. JOHNSON and JOHNSON, 419 | ~ Duval Street. dec18-tf FOR SALE CHEAP—’31 Chevro- let Coach, cash or terms. Apply Archer’s Grocery. dec18-3t LATE 1934 STUDEBAKER DIC- TATOR, fine condition, $215. | 1409 Albury street. dec18-2tx | LIN, orignal cost $55,: will sell | for $20. street, phone 581. PEC SRST AEROS EES COLLAPSIBLE BURROWES) POOL TABLE, 172”x36”, like | new. Cost $32.50; will sell for $15.00. Suitable for grown-ups ; as well as the teen-age boy or | girl. Phone 581. dec16-2t | HOUSE and TWO LOTS, nine! rooms, all modern | conven- iences, beautiful lawn, double garage. All taxes paid, furn- ished, radio, piano, typewriter, etc. $4500 cash or $2500 down, | balance in 1% years, Robt. J. Lewis, 1611 Von Phister street. é decll-s 1125. Washington | dec16-2t | CHRISTMAS CANDIES, choco- late assorted, 5-Ib. box $1.25.) Jockey Suits, :$1.00;Policeman | Outfit, $1.00; Cowboy Outfit, $1.00; Scooters, $1.00; Air Rifles, $1.00; : 21-piece Drink- N-Wet Doll Set in Chest, $1.00; Skee-Ball Alley, $1.00; Christ- mas Cards for every member of the family, beautiful senti- ments, from 1c to 50c_ each. SAN CARLOS BOOK STORE, 518 Duval Street. deci-tf | FOR SALE—2 lots, each 50x100. | Run from Washington to Von Phister street. $850. Apply rear 1217 Petronia street. calles _ aprl4-s Duval and Louisa | Apply 1212 Olivia nov23-mon-fri LOT, Cor. streets, street. DRIED, SALTED MULLET ROE. Lowe Fish Co., Phone 151. Life Preservers, One Fire Ex- tinguisher; Pair of Oars and Row Locks; Anchor with Rope —all for $150.00. Apply 1217) Petronia street. jun27-s | FLOWERS | CHRISTMAS FLOWERS—Flow- | sions. Pay us a visit. BRAX- ANSWERS TO TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ | Below are the Answers to Today's _ Daily Quiz printed on Page 2 a4 2. 3. The magnetic compass. John L. Sullivan. Au-tom’-a-ton; not ma’-ton. ,The, interior or cargo-con- taining part, below the deck or lower-deck. Nero. No; it was Noah Webster. Sport of Kings. In Congress alone. Hudson. No. CARD OF THANKS au-to- Our sincere appreciation is ex- tended to our friends and neigh- bors for the many acts of kind- ness tendered us during our re- cent bereavement, the illness and death of our beloved mother, Mrs. Josefina Montero Lopez. We are indeed grateful to those who gave the use of their cars, the donors of the beautiful floral tributes, messages of sympathy, the choir and clergy of St. Mary’s Church, | JOSEPHINE, JUAN and AMER- ICA LOPEZ and FAMILY. ILE 4 dec18-itx Subscribe to The Citizen—20c weekly, Seccevedsveceavescoccece — THY IT TODAY — The Favorite In Key West STAR ¥* BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS 20 PER CENT OFF on TIRES, TUBES and BATTERIES —at— POOR OLD CRAIG’S SERVICE STATION Cor. Francis and Division Sts. J. H. Brady, Mgr. Phone 9134 _ ETRE TESTS J. G. KANTOR, tne. Suits Fine 3 »c. WoolGaberdine and Wool Worsteds, made by famous Cutlee Griffon, Solids, Stripes, Smart Shades, Grays, Tans, Blues and Browns— $20.00 1. $24.50 Suits Of All wool wear Well $14.50 1. $18.50 Manhattan Shirts his ‘eellcenowa, ine. We have a fine selection’ of All White and Colors. Make a nice gift— $2.00 ano $2.50 Manhattan Pajamas $1.95, Manhattan Uperwear ~ $1.00 Manhattan Slack Ensembles We haye them Shades of Sharkskins, erner. Shirts have long and $4.95 1 $12.50 Other: Slack Ensembles $2.95 anv $3.95 All well-made of good Materials Hickok Belts and Buckles $1.00 anv $2.50 Hickok and Swank TIP ZFILCLLLLLLLLALAAL AL LEA x. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1939 Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28 THE AMERICAN LEGION BINGO POLL a Please register your opinion regarding a proposal to con- luct bingo games under the auspices of this post, using cer- tificates to be redeemed by Key West merchants. IN FAVOR__ OPPOSED Name___. we ee Address). = . : Mailvor leave at The Citizen office MODERN BANKING SERVICE The First National Bank of Key West Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Serving Key West and Monroe County Since 1891 Round Gut Your KEY\WEST vicit wilh o Oui to TELA AINA, via P & O Steamship CUBA as a enomen wedar $2) ROUND ff TRIP Arrive Hav: 500 P. M. 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