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PAGE FOUR ‘Riley Review’ To B Tomorrow Evening At High Schoo The “Riley Review” will be presented tomorrow night, start- ing at 8:00 o’clock, at the High School auditorium, under direc- fion of Mrs. G. W. Hutchinson, wife of the pastor of First Meth- adist church The program is announced as follows: “The Name of Old Glory”, Paul Esquinaldo; Reading, “Indiana” by Mrs. Hutchinson to be given after a roll call of “Hoosiers” has been made. Mrs. Hutchinson then will present a sketch of James Whitcomb Riley. Solo, “The Prayer Edmund Curry; Readings, Raggedy Man” and “The Tree- toad”, by George Jensen. Read- ings, “The Old Hay Mow” and ‘A Parent Reprimanded”, by Jimmie E. Singleton. “A Hymn of Faith”, by First Methodist Church choir—the first and last sung, the intervening to be read. eadings, “Iry and Billy and Jo” and “The Bumblebee”. John Day ing Pictur the following prese: My Bride, Lovely and I, My Fiddle, Fishing Party, Myle Jones’ Wife, A Canary At The Farm, Griggsby’s Station,"De Perfect”, “The e Presented | Cross - bearin’ Chile, Circus} Parade, Little Orphant Annie, Raggedy Man, Boy On Our Farm, Old Tramp, Impetuous Resolve, Our ‘Hired Girl, Grandfather Squeers, Farmer Whipple — Bachelor, Little Fat Doctor, Old Shoemaker, Old Retired sea-Cap- | tain, Iry and Billy and Jo, A Dis-} the Giant Killer, hood, Billy Goodin. Duet, “Just Be .Glad”, Mes- dames Russell and Bervaldi. “My Philosophy”, by P. B, Roberts; song, “Old Fashioned Bible” by} the choir—second stanza to be read; “Song of the Road”, by young people; Musical reading, | “Out to Old Aunt Mary’s”, by Mrs. Hutchinson; Solo, “There, Little Girl, Don’t Cry”, by Mrs. | Minnie H. Robinson; Reading, “Let Something Good Be Said”, by Mrs. K. Sweeting. Duet, “There Is Ever a Song Somewhere”, by Mr. and Mrs. George Mills White; Musical reading, “That Old Swectheart of Mine” by Mrs. O. W. Bodler; “Lullaby”, by Mrs. Julia Nelson; | Reading, “God Bless Us Every One”, by Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz. | The program ends with “Peace | Hymn of the Republic”, by the; choir and audience joining in on the chorus. Red Riding- HOPES FOR badebewd dae cuandeqsoucccceocvsisconecncseuseiesaa | WRdae Chief Executive Says Politics Is A Grave Undertaking ses | eae A (By Associated Press) ja the couraging Model, Granny, Jack, | At 23, and after two years as “the | mountain country. WHITESBURG, Ky., Jan. 29.— |youngest mayor in the United | | States”, Bill—just plain Bill— Collins, admits “reluctantly” that | politics is a pretty grave under- | col | EGE |from a government bulletin is CAREER cuctea by’ a Washington corre-| .THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | 200000060000000000000000000000 0000040 00000000000 | PLAIN BILL, TWO YEARS A MAYOR, SIDELIGHTS By MARCY B. DARNALL Former Editor of The Citizen | S:% The following bureaucratic gem| “The extensive re-} ‘search by the Federal govern-| southeastern Kentucky /ment into the possibilities of | jusing gourds for bird houses has! Bill has a lot of definite ideas|developed the important” fact | about running Whitesburg’s gov- | that the size of the gourd should! ‘ernment, Basically, however, he | be in proportion to the size of the! |he says. taking for a young man. “There have been many occa- sions since my tenure of office! that I should have welcomed a few more years of experience”, | works on the theory that “a true democracy must start down at the people’s level if it is expected to thrive throughout an entire na- tion”, In other words”, “I believe in the old slogan that a house is only as strong as its foundation. If America is to make his office, was elected November itself safe for Americans it must 7, 1937, when he was 21, He de-|begin its work in each town or feated his former school’ teacher, | village”. 50 years his senior. Bill took office soon after He’s rather proud of his claim | graduation from high school and, to “youngest mayor” honors and |so far, hasn’t got around to going of the “pioneering stock” from ‘to college, But he hopes to enter which came many of the 1,800\a university at the expiration of residents of this county seat town his four-year term. Mayor Bill, who clings to his nickname on the city’s official stationery and in the records of Junior Women POINTS OF INTEREST Meet Thursday IN KEY WEST , he continues, \bird, for it is useless to invite al \large bird to nest in a small) | gourd.” i i | Fred Terron may be said-to be ‘an interstate character. His; ranch being located at the inter- ‘section of four states, he calls for | his mail in Colorado, votes in ‘Utah, trades at a county seat in | Arizona, and goes to church in |New Mexico. | Anecdotes concerning. the late! \Florenz Ziegfeld still appear now 'and then, and one is told of his| precaution in having Sally Long lof the Follies insured. against |getting married. It later de- jveloped that the attractive Sally | \had already been married at the jage of 15, and had two children |at the time the policy was writ-| j ten. | MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1940 ...and I’m happy to present the combination of the‘Andrews Sisters and my band for your pleasure every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.” ex: GLENN MILLER It’s a great tie-up ,.. America’s No. 1 Cigarette for, more smoking pleasure «+-America’s No.1. Band for dancing, Chesterfield is the one cigarette with the right combination of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos§That’s why Chesterfieldssare DEFINITELY MILDER) , TASTE BETTER’ and SMOKE_COOLER, Everyone who triesxthem likes -the cigarette that satisfies .. ” You can’t.buy,a_betterzcii aE Social meeting of the Junior|_tshe only city in the United| |Woman’s Club will be held next | States with a perfect SUMMER! fa Peterson of Pomona, Calif, | oooes Y * arette, . CASA MARINA NOTES: ecccce 27 AC @@CC@OD | WITH A GOOD HOT SUN beaming down the biggest entry eason so lar enjoyed the Sunday putting contest beautiful Casa Marina of the regu un the green. THIS WEEK the tournament was an 1]8-hole event and f prize in the ladies’ division was won by Mrs. DeWitt Balch of Cincinnati with a very creditable score of 39. THREE WERE TIED in the men’s division. They were R. D Patterson, Ridgewood, N. J.; E. M. heu and his son, William. of Buffalo. Their scores were 38 | and they decided to divide the prize, which consisted of golf balls. AMONG THOSE PARTICI- PATING in the putting tourna ment were: Col. and Mrs. Henry Barrett, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Schutt, C. B. Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hitchcock, Miss Elizabeth Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Scheu, William Scheu, Edward Walsh, Mrs. E. J. Halligan, Mr. and 's. J. R. Roberts, E. H. Fo Mrs. R A. Spring and Mrs. rt H. Hoffman. MR. AND MRS. HENRY DUN- DAS, who have been at the Casa ieft yesterday morning mi. They really had on going to India this winter, even going so far as to sail from California early last spting. They stopped off for awhile in Australia, Aukland ana New 2 and. He , due the they -ontinued their j ney abroad. Now they ing Florida first, until-the time comes for them to go, to India. They enjoyed their stay here very much and hope to re- turn before the end of the sea son. SEVERAL OF THE CASA MARINA GUESTS left yesterday morning, sailing for Havana They were Mr. and Mrs. Albert D. Barton of Wayne, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Lucien R. Patton of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. William Lipman of Los Angeles. Mrs. Lipman will spend s 1 days in Havana before sailing for California. Mr. and Mrs. Patton plan on being in Cuba for a month, after which they will re- | turn to the Casa Marina. | BINGO WAS PLAYED Satur- day night at the Casa Marina and a large crowd turned out to en- joy the game. Those were Mrs, Henry R. Gross, E. Walsh, Mrs. E. J. Halligan, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Cole Mrs. Ger- trude Rabke, Carl Rabke, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Colt, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Barton and Mrs. R. A. Spring. LAST EVENING. all of the guests were invited to witness some colored pictures taken by C. H. Stuart. They were taken at Christmas Cove and showed Mr. Schutt’s summer hotel, the “Hol- ly Inn”; Mr. Stuart’s summer home in Newark, N. Y., and oth- ers filmed here. The one taken in Key West showed the Casa Marina, the dock and the fishing boats going out and_ returning after a day’s catch. There were also some beautiful shots of sun- sets, catching the rare colors that heretofore were impossible to re cord. MRS. GERTRUDE RABKE and her son, Carl, who have been ut the Casa Marina for the past| \dock. YOUR LODGE MEETS | Minoca Council No. 13, Degree) of Pocahontas meets Ist and 3rd! Tuesdays of month, 8:00 p. m., at Red Men’s Hall, corner of Caro-} line and Elizabeth streets. Im-| proved Order of Red Men mects} every Monday, 7:30 p. m., at Wig- | wam Hall. | F. & A. M. Lodges meet at! Scottish Rite Hall as follows:| Anchor Lodge No. 182 every sec-| ond and fourth Mondays; Dade ‘ Ledge No. 14 every first and third/ guests at the Hotel La Concha, ‘Wednesdays: Scottish Rite, second and fourch Wednesdays; Dr. Felix | Varela Lodge meets at the Eliza beth street hall every second and fourth Thursdays; Robert J. Perry Chapter, Order DeMolay, meets every Tuesday. P.0.0.A., second Thursdays of each month at Duval Street Hall. Knights of Golden Eagle Lodges meet at Golden Eagle Hall as fol- lows: Key of the Gulf Castle No. 2 every Tuesday, and Ignacio Agramonte No. 3, first and third Thursdays. Florida Temple No. 1, K.G.E., meets second, fourth Mondays at K.G.E. Hall. Equity Lodge, No. 70, 1.0.0.F., mects fiirst and third Thursdays, K. P. Hall, Fleming street. Spark- ling Waters, Rebekah Lodge No. 14, meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7:30 p. m. Cuba Lodge No.116,! 1.0.0.F., Varela Hall, 919 Eliza- beth street. Order Caballero de la Luz, Inc., O.C.L. Hall, 422 Amelia street: Marti Lodge No. 3 meets every Wednesday; Luminares Pasados Lodge Ne. 2 meets first Friday of each month. Fern Chapter No. 21, O.ES., meets, second and fourth Fridays of each month at Scottish . Rite | Hall. Pythian Organizations meet at Fleming . street Pythias Hall,| Pythian Sisters every Monday night; Knights of Pythias Lodg 163 every Friday night. | a | B. H. McCalla Camp No. 5,/ United Spanish War Veterans, and Ladies Auxiliary No. 2 meets} first Tuesday of each month at | Legion Hall. i Order Caballeros de Marti: Marti Lodge No. 3, Saco Carrasco No. 2, called meetings on Wed- nesdays; Sacerdotisas del Hogar. | second and fourth Fridays in! month. few weeks, left yesterday morn- ing. After spending the night in Miami they caught the train for their home in New Brunswick, N. J. Also leaving yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Hogle. They | are planning*’a drive up the! | West Coast before returning to} their home in Chicago. i ONLY ONE BOAT went | out yesterday from the La Casa} It was the “Legion” with Captain Jakie Key. In the boat were Herbert Hoffman and De- Witt Balch of Cincinnati. They brought in several bonita but re- ceived their biggest thrill when a sailfish flirted with their bait. It struck three times but they failed to hook it. However, “ac- cording to Jakie the fish are be- ginning to run now and from now on it should be a fisherman’s| paradise in the waters around the Island City. : Thursday afternoon, February 1,, climate in WINTER and every at the Woman's Club building on |¢ay of the year Division street. > | : Hostesses will be Mrs. Andrew! 1. The wigictaouse and Aviary Elwood and Miss Betty Rae Rus-! —Division and Whitehead sell. The meeting will be called | siveets: to order at 5:00 o’clock by presi- | a I 3 dent Miss Susan LaKin. 2. Tropical Open-Air Aquarium ee eee —Front and Whitehead PERSONAL MENTION ® "=" Naval Re:ervation—entrance on Greene street. Army Barracks — Main en- Richard H. Graham, who was visiting with his parents, Mr. d Mrs. W. H. Graham, who are , trance on White strcet. Art Center — Frort an Whitehead streets. Public Library — Duval and Catherine streets. Rest Beach and Cabanas— Atlantic Ocean side, east of White street. County Courthouse—White- head, between Southard and Fleming streets. Wrecsing tug “Warbler’— Foot of Duval street. Fish Markets—Gulf side of Elizabeth street. Federal Building and Post Office — Simonton and Caroline streets. Turtle Crawls and Market— Caroline and Margaret streets, da left yesterday for Miami. Francisco T’erez was a passen-! | Ser leaving on the early bus this moring for a visit with relatives \in Miami. : Carl Ingraham left this morn- | |ing for Bahia Honda to join his! vessel which has been berthed| 9- there pending. more _ suitable {weather for sponging. Carl ex-/ 10. | pects to return with not less than, | 200 bunches of wool. ji | W. H. Huntley, from Worces- ter, Mass., who had been spend- ; ;9 ing three: days in the city, left on the early bus today for Jack- sonville. | ie EES and Mrs. Mr. A. S. Byrum, who had been spending a few days with relatives, left on the 7 o'clock bus this morning for j their home in Raleigh, N. C. Miss Blanche Curry of Day- tona, is spending a vacation in jthe city and is the guest of Mr. 16. }and Mrs, Edwin Trevor. 13. Fishing Boats — >. Docks. Municipal Sponge, Dock — Caroline and Grinnell streets. Cuba:Tampa Boat Dock and old F.E.C. R’y. Station— Grinnell street to Trymbo Island. Bayview Park — Division street, between North Beach and Georgia street. Memorial Monument to great Cuban Patriot — North Beach and Virginia street in Bayview Park. Million Dollar Boulevard— Starts at Division street and North Beach, circling island to Rest Beach. Municipal Southernmost Golf Course—Stock Island. * See direction sign. Botanical Gardens — Stock Island just _ before Golf| Course and Country Club.! Trained . Fish and Raul’s Club—Boulevard,.. Atlantic Ocean side. Key West-Miami Airport— Atlantic side on Boulevard. | Old Salt Ponds — Visible from Boulevard on Atlan- tic side. Old Cigar Factories—Situat- | ed mostly on Flagler Ave-} 15. Mrs. J. E. Ward, before mar- 17. riage Miss Roberta Curry, who arrived last Friday for a visit with relatives and friends, left this morning on the 7 o'clock bus 18. for her home at Daytona. Edgar Sanchez left on the early morning bus today for a/19. visit of several days in Miami. Edward A. Jones, of Albany, N. 20, Y., was an arrival on the 12:30 bus yesterday and is a guest for everal days at ‘the Hotel La 9). Concha. s H. D. King, commissioner of lighthouses, retired, and Mrs. King, were passengers leaving yesterday on the Cuba for a va- cation in Havana. Senator and Mrs. William A. 7+ jand other points west, became a super-salesman early in life. Be-| fore he was 17 he had “sold” an/ lold derrick, a barn, two unoccu- | pied houses, a sugar company’s | emiployees’ club house and other | property, none of which he had jever owned. Police finally nabbed | [him in Phoenix, Ariz., where he | was about to sell a railroad train | |to a Pullman porter for $190. | Imbued with the idea that ;motor busses are run for the jconvenience of the public, a ‘young woman in Evanston, IIl.,! hailed one. When it stopped she| |put her foot on the step, tied her; |shoe lace, smilingly thanked the |motorman and walked away. | An attorney in Rio de Janiero| ‘obtained the release on writs of! jhabeas corpus of two men | ‘charged with passing counterfeit | | United States currency. He} |charged them a fee of $500,; {which was promptly paid in| |nice, new bills, and the culprits; jleft Brazil. The attorney found | |the bills to be counterfeit. | ,_. Certain burglars operating inf |Rochester, N. Y., either cay’; jfead or don’t believe in sigr's | Disregarding a sign on a bow’ ing! lalley safe which read “Thir, safe! does not contain money.”’ they blew it open anyway. / And got! away with $1,100 that/ was in- side. | Judge S. W. Glea‘son of Minne-| sota has reached “the age of 97, | Possibly because te refuses to be | Tushed through lj fe. He recently | took a month to’ decide a dog license case, fin ally ruling that inasmuch as the dog had died bear Par’ decision was being awaited the o i the licsade, wner need not pay | oe |. ANSWERS TO, ; TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ | | | Below are the Answers to Today's | | Daily Quiz printed on Page 2 { EE et eettetees | 1, Red, hardiness and valor; | White, purity and inno-| cence; Blue, vigilance, | perseverance and justice. | Jefferson City. | Leslie Hore-Belisha. | Because of their hardness | and resistance to wear. Struts. | | Henry Picard. Meuse. i Norman Armour. MacWilliams of St. Augustine ar- rived in Key West this morning where they will remain several days as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Browne at the Jefferson Hotel. nue, or County Road. Skeet and Trap Shooting— White street and Rest, Beach, Casa Marina Hotel—Reyn- olds and Flagler Avenue. ; Natural Rock Hoyse—South | and Reynolds streets. { Mollie Parker’s Tropical Gardens—South street, east of Reynolds. Convent of Mary Immacu-! late with Spanish-Ameri-| can War Museum—Divi-| sion ‘and Elizabeth streets. | Southernmost home in U. S.| A—Duval and South! streets. _ 25. 26. Ernest Greenlees, retired, of 27- Liverpool, England, and Havana, Cuba, arrived on the 1:30 bus 28. this afternoon for an indefinite stay. Although Mr. Greenlees was in Havana. for about 30/29. years«this. is his first visit to Key Westc»He is staying at the Keys’ Guest: House on Simonton street fox the present. 30. L. J. Hoose, superintendent of terminals of the Texaco Co., with Lea eS headquarters in New York and §, S. ALAMO DUE TUESDAY E. L. Lott, superintendent of PR ETE Se Tampa Terminals, arrived in the Steamship Alamo, of the} city yesterday on the regular | Clyde-Mallory lines is due to at- | tour of inspection, and are guests rive in port tomorrow morning. | of Chas. Taylor, manager of the The vessel will discharge freight | Porter Dock Co., local agents of at Key West and then proceed to the Texaco Co. }Tampa, which is the end of the} — run. Leonard Hall, Ivan Hall and | Eddie Carson, from Girard, Ohio, day, enjoying the sights at the! and V. O. Brown, from Warren, aquarium and the Coast Guard) Ohio, are visitors in the city to- | headquarters. 5 Gon’-do-la; not gon-do’-la. | Lithium. PEeneen pop my | ” ( ‘hesterfie the cooler... hetter-tasting DEFINITELY MILDER cigarette erfiele’s Listen Glenn 3 nights o at 10° “Ail Columbia Stations Chest ‘miller teen we : Joy and Thursdcy Tuesday, Wedneseey e's. T. 4 leopyight 1940, Laccerr & Myers TosaccoC , Giuu. ~ ANAKENE GOOD INVESTMENT (AP Feature Service) JACKSON, Tenn., profit. Because the private electric _ utility this area didn’t want to be owners of the serving left ee from the original investment of |$1. When all costs of salvage! jand repairs are charged off, . |there’ll be a surplus of approxi-; Jan. 29.—. mately $5,000.” | Jackson paid $i ior a street car | system in 1938. Now it appears | the city deal will turn a $5,000! Except for the cars the salvage material was sold through vari- ous agents. A Cincinnati firm | bought most of the cars and dis- mantled them. The rest, now iused for lunch stands, soon will be Jackson’s lone reminder of ~.|Wwith the trolley system after sell- {het street railway system. THE ANSWERS See “Who Knows?” on Page 2 | L fas 2. 3. No. No. f More than a billion ang] a 4 5. 6. £5 Yes. No. ~ Tn, 1930. ee It. is an evolution of dn old, Roman calendar, mech re-| formed. f } Seven. | Joseph William Marizin. Yes; Grandpapa Frejst. DIVORCES FILE}> lee 10. | i | Divorce papers wes:e filed, Saturday afternoon in ‘the office, of Ross C. Sawyer in the suit entered by Emilie Van Zampt versus Saul Van Zampt. Papers) were also filed in the case of suit | for divorce of Euphemia Reed | versus Henry Reed. _ Strictly ing their other properties ’to the! city and TVA, the street cars, tracks and so on, were thrown in for $1. When the salvage of the street | Sponsored by First M. E. Church |Tailway system is completed in the spring,” City Engineer J. A. |Gasell reports, “we shall have half dollars. {realized approximately $15,000 ADMISSION ___ THE RAINS CAME Matinee—Balcony 10c, Or- “Key West's Outstanding” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Fireproof Garage Open The Year Around sa SS Jackson’s population in i930 fRILEY REVIEW’ | HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM | | Tuesday, Jan. 30, 8 p. m. | 25c _ Boca Chica Resort | | and FISHING CAMP | Restaurant—Home Cooking chestra 15-20c: Night—15-25¢ i = (TRY IT TODAY— ‘The Favorite in Key West | STAR + BRAND | j ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS | i The city is now buses. The trolley than a dozen was 22,1 served by system had street cars. less For Fifty Years A NAME! In Coffee In Key West STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION NO NAME LODGE Directly on Beach Famous Bahia Honda Fishing Reef — Tarpon — Permit Bone Fishing COTTAGES $2.50 AND UP Stone Crab Dinners a Special PHONE NO NAME KEY NO. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. 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