The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 25, 1946, Page 3

SOCIETY By PATRICIA * PHONE 535 Suecessful “Blithe Spirit” Play To Be Presented Again April 1 Navy Day Broadcast in 1943 for NBC with TyronesPower. The directors of the play, with standees and many, Maida and Joseph Lazarovici, as rtd away | well as the members of the cast helt : j Key West as a soloist, and who has for many years been }a professional musician, insists | that she is probably unique as an | actress since her histrionic exper- tence has been cohfined to a per- Re formance as a young girl, at the be Ohio Mrs. Jeffers refuses to capital- ize on her many public appear- in Pittsburgh Cleveland, but the players that in rehearsals she’s do- “Key West to attend a \Cobo, Sawyer |Have Bridge -| Mrs. Armando Cobo and Miss | Florence Sawyer entertained ¢, jointly with a bridge party, Sat- urday, at the residence of Mrs. | Cobo on Whitehead street. Farmers Institute in Smithfield,; | ‘PATRICIA’S NOTEBOOK Here are notes sent tronr WATSON). and lovely sisters t for a game of basketball at the beach yes- * and prac- is getting *® Others @Ut in the sunshine and who also went into the water Demeritt. ‘West Players, Barn Thea-| “wooay” Young's sailboat yester- ter, aa’ day. That is I believe Woody ** Young also enjoyed it because TURSDAY : Cyril Marshall and stepson, Dick,| Beerrendy Star Club, Home of) took over the boat and directed it Mrs. Liltie Weaver, 609 South-! throughout the day. The only/ ard, 3:00 pm time they gave Woody something a * * }to do, hold the 7 ont, me . dropped it! Seriously, though, Chub, Officers’ CluP.| Woody is a good sailor too and ant Unt “| enjoyed seeing his guests take 608 pm over. The wind was from the euemet’ “* east so a ey _ up Northwest Channel and al out to a com- . 730 . = cme Aggy ora munications ship off Fort Taylor eauee. — } was enjoyed with the wind allow- ing good runs all the way. On the trip were Mr. and Mrs, Woody Young and young dauhgter, Han- Sewing Committee, Key West Hespite!, 2:00 pm ee Suess, Woman's CM) ah, Mr. and Mrs, Cyril Marshall, wv & Dick Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Gaudet, and Winkie, and Mr, and Mrs. L. P. Artman, Jr., and six months old daughter, Carolyn, who didn’t get seasick on the trip. Carolyn was most interested in the bouncing water during the ¥ , - a Troop 4, St. Paul's | Partsh Mall, 4:00 p.m. *** RDAY mie Meeting, Fleming | ‘sujegtotaevetaneeanasienapsene eee | P * ei* Enjoyed a lovely sail aboard), SHOWN ABOVE are the various, functions of the weather bureau at Naval Operating Base, including the release of balloons sent up to determine wind direction and velocity, and the various instruments 3 Navy Photos to médsure Pressure. Compated with reports from all over the coun- try, Key West's weather for 24 hours in advanced is predicted. $30,000,000 OVERSEAS HIGHWAY. Series Of Articles Starts Today; Railroad To Roadway | Kite ok Wiehe: ake | HISTORY TOLD IN THE CITIZEN | | | RABABLDAAAAADAADADALABAAABABAAAAAAADSD (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is ed in 1886, allowed to so = the first in a series of articles [ter its cha as to, allow it to; tracing the history of the jbuild to and through Dade Coun-}{ Overseas Highway. a $30,000,- ty. This was soon amended to} 000 project and the means of !/permit this company to “ext making the Florida Keys a its lines on @ntackoss the F! tremendous tourist area.) da Keys to. Key West.” The che ae : ter» gavye.the, company 8,000 acre At the tip of some sun-drench of land for each mile of the rai. éd Key West pier today .oné pa eee ‘ Rig hunched ovendhe weath ae Bayes hard pine caplog a seared native, | ‘US bipe ‘askew, fish line in grimy 0! the railway fingers, whose “old Aunt Becky told me how her paw told her} that one day th d be’a roai across them Keys”—with an in- definite wave of the other hard —‘to the mainland”. Old Aunt Becky is quoted col- orlessly. Then the fisherman remov his pipe, glances keenly under the brim of a battered straw he | | s 1905, the Leg ain enlarged the privil nd it was dec Roac ling toward its extension to Ki West. The railroad had been op ened to Miami in 1896 and in i it reached Home dad at wh int the extension to Key Wi and completed 2, 1912, a year death. 5, thre on fees ene GPa ‘1 In 18 years before Ty isuicossiGle armine | threw Ke , so close to C ae once De adele into a turmoil, the late who first thought of building railroad over the Florida K and his name is lost in oblivion, but as early as 1831, when Flag'er was but one year old, The Ga- | COM ss zette, published in Key West, pub- as eee bold stroke of the | licized such a project aad four sof phantasy he s| d years later The Inquirer, also a! W@¥ a jKey West newspaper, urged + lead building of this road, but the ten tative survey was not made until; W. All collector of and president of a bank the Florida Keys tog course of a political a oss the Keys every to America. door xx * Mr. and Mrs. Saul who left yesterday for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were discussing the derivation of the phrase “Philadelphia Lawyer”. It seems that in the early days of news- papers that the papers couldn’t print anything because there was no precedent for the amount of thruth one could print. Well this fellow got in dutch with some- thing he had in the paper and no New York lawyer would take tlie case because they were afraid i ist 720 pm., Red Men's and 3rd Mon » Knights of Ord Fridays, 7:30 Eagle Hall. Ledge Number 163, of Pythias. Mects every * at Knights of’ criminate them m a further suit Fleming Street Well a Philadelphia lawyer was ! ne if i ; [ i : : | that whatever they said might ir-| 1866. In 1883, General John B.} {Gordon ,of Atlanta, was granted! !by the Legislature of Florida a/Flagler, whose vision in jcharter for such a railroad andj|Augustine 20 years before jabout 50 miles of grading was!the Flagler System which dev |done on the upper end before the |oped the East Coast of Flor |money ran out and others cou:d|into what it is today, stepped f not be induced to invest. jupon the island of Flagler Enters Picture {dredged up for a ra Now Henry M. Flagler enters:nus in the Island jthe picture. In 1893 the Jackson-! mally opened the Ove ville, St. Augustine and Indian sion. River Railway, which he purchas Thereafter . the highway he and the matter lay d Pres He | hired and deic the enve | so weil that fror | adélphia law: aw ~1Fle i!and the late David Townsend U “| started a movement for ar before “!tion at Saint Augustine, Flagle Miss Margery Lucy Usher Weds Lieut. Comdr. John J. Jackson, Jr. iss Margery Lucy Usher was Jackson is the son of Mr. and married Friday, March 22, to Lt.) Mrs. John Jonathan Jackson cf Comdr. John Jonathan Jackson,| ew York City. He was gradu- Jr, USN. The ceremony was Per" | ated from the United States Na- ormed in the Bryan Memorial} val Academy in the Class of 1936 hurch at Coconut Grove, Miami, | and served init. aaeiantic ana Mediterranean areas ‘until 1944. He received his wings.at Pensa- cola, Fla., in 1945, and is now stationed at the Naval Air Station at Boca Chica. , The couple will © make home |temporarily at 634 Margaret! street; this; city. The bride was given in mar riage by her uncle, Walter Tucker j Lakeland, Fla. The groom’s! er, Miss Marijahe ‘MacBeth son of NewYork City, was} maid’ of Hodét!' Iéhin “Jona- n Jackson ‘of New ‘York Cily best man for’ his ‘sdh.'"* their harpooned a sea turtle 360 pounds, was brought in, : two. ey eg two. pTpruea, one, arty were Adolph ‘Nat Price,’ Jules’ Moyer, Podell,' alt.of New York City. G the. same),boat: Sunday abtain “afi E. Bush:6f) thé Key +West + Barracks: brought‘in’nine one albd¢ore tuna, one mael er Aboard' the Mae West, Captain John West brought in r one jack and C party .consisted of C..:A. Van Deursen of the City Electric oni tem, Jack Cody of Yoming, J. E. Bradfort of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Al. Wodenfoffer of Milwau- kee,. Wisconsin. sone Aboard Captain Ted Canova's Switchtail Saturday Mrs. . e e e e e e e e ry e ° ny e ° ry e ry e Cecevccccccceseeosed Bradwell of Nebraska and Jim: of Key West, Dr. and Mrs, low-cost joMth and Mrs. Emory Donaldson, ‘in “the pital. | a 1¢ newcomer was named Lin- tints LPR precrnge-— Program to spur output, . OPA extends liss Usher’ is the daughtér''o David Townsend Usher,' r of Cincinnati, Ohio. Lt. Comdr \ a road; openly adv ated it. Railroad Vanished In 1935 Four hundred and eighty-five niles northeast from Key West . until the Labor Day hur 1935, one said, “By rail . in the little park beside the Florida East Coast sta yellow {the Dreamer stands in bronze, ‘facing south. Beyond Flagler n’s darling child at a reputed cost of $49,000,000. And now, the railroad vanish Overseas Highway, d true of another dreame 's many thrilling mile nd among the mangrove tween the Atlantic aai ly in Key West some duy : citizens will erect to the mem- of that one among them om many, too, called visionar; another bronze—facing north! Hurricane Brought Highway In all human probability oa hurricane of - ea 193 TIMI mn 532 Duval Street Key West Jewelry Co. "The Store of Service” (Next to Gardner’s Pharmacy) Will Be Closed Until Further Notice For Remodeling Phone 155 seas Highway to Ke a motor road 111 miles o! th no ferry hauls. belie