The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 30, 1947, Page 3

Which ‘side ought to Make? VAG arded the appropriation of the to the ad- soil, the facility of:,eommunica- Observatory of Cam-| tion, the rapidity of transport, the e gun must be fired per-| claims of both States woe repose t is to say, toward the | sessions, they Sgr zenith ee re aes antares th me | ¢ . ~ ex ‘ ea ade or > earth to in a situated between 0° and 28" | some little time, when Barbicane 4), oo ataie ‘of ite 0 The’ It became, them! resolved to get. rid of it. at once. > iption aneret at Baltimore. ge determine exactly! He called a meeting of his col-| extended ; “to. the whole: - lobe where the| jeagues, and laid before them al world—=Urbi Solum iad should be/ proposition which, it wu be seen, |}. cast. . was profound! ly sagacious, On. “the 20th of October, at al “On carefully ‘ considering,” he of pate Gun Club, said, “what is going on now be- uced a magnificent tween Florida and Texas, it is map of the esi ‘he States. “Gen-|clear that the same. difficulties in opening the/| will recur with all the towns of presume that we/the fayored State. The rivalry are agreed ta this experiment] will descend from State to city, cannot and ought not to be tried | and so on downward. Now Texas anywhere but. within the limits| possesses eleven towns within or of the soil of the Union. Now, by | prescribed conditions, which wi certain frontiers of|further dispute the honor and United States extend down-j|create us new enemies, while ward as far as the 28th parallel| Florida has only one. I go in, of the n north. latitude. If you = therefore, for Florida and Tampa cast your eye over this map, you! Town.” will y oe we have at our is- This decision, on being made posal whole of the southern | known, utterly crushed the Texan portion of Texas and Florida. deputies. ‘Seized with an inde- was fin agreed, then, that|scribable fury, they addressed Col must be cast on| threatening letters to the different soil of either Texas or Florida.}members of the Gun Club by result, however, of this de-|name. The Bacon mabey ; had but cision was to create a rivalry en-| one course ake, and they took tirely without. precedent between|it. They chartered a special agency eine pipes er ad different towns of these twoj|train, forced the Texans into it|the rest maintained a prudent:si- | beige m5 eos Bo ag a om and cg chad pele se Grae ey quitte € cl peed s for the observatory a n= Scarcely was the decision | of thirty miles an hour, wich, ‘seconded ‘as jt was by the - known,. when the Texan Bo Quickly, however, as they were | twenty-two ‘astronomical: .estab- Floridan raat eee at pa; |despatched, they found time to lishments of Great Britain, it spoke moment Prosifient Barbicane ve ‘uae. to the extent: of pronounc wy i ely of the ‘shtee meee enone oft a Florida, a mere peninsula con-|Ties of Captain Nicholl. But_ this Club were besieged day and/ fined between two seas, they pre-| was nothing more than mere Eng- night by formidable claims. tended that it could never sustain | ish jealousy. -— rival parties promenaded|the shock of the discharge, and On the 8th of October Prési streets with arms in their that it would “bust up” at the], ms rbicane + ublish ¥ Presi 4 hands and at every occasion of| y, very first shot. : ; % rae 3 ee Pd i e 2 mene their meeting a collision was to ery well, let it bust up!” re-| age 4 i cya wan a Gpeeehended which might] plied the Floridans, with a brev- f na wilt ro a three pot th ll n attended oe pone 8 ity of the days of ancient Sparta. peat > This doctnant translated 5 een: Ses poh — wee = F ide t into all languages, met wtih’ im- ence and address of Presiden HE -astronomical, mechanical, Ropar Barbicane averted the danger. . and topographicab difficulties | Mense § President Barbicane knew not'resolved, finally came the ques- (To be continued) Ce ree eee eee name em ee Ce RR a ee ey TODAY IN HISTORY TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS | Key West In ' ,, (Know America) _ (Know America) 1789-—George Washington in-| ‘Mrs. Mary S. L. Harrison. of . : Da Gone B augurated the first President ‘‘éf|New York, widow of a President, ys ' Y; ‘the’ United ‘States, in'‘New ‘York }boin ‘in Honesdale, Pa., 89 years 2 r3 , T bey) subeription bokerd a seity ‘u expectatio -. Withetending ‘that it was.a ned : tidn not of lending’ but of * the money. It was a purely ; terested operation in the S rictast sense of the term, and offered not the slightest chance of profit..-.- . The effect, however, of Barbi- i cane’s communication was not ™ confined to the frontiers: ofthe United States; it crossed. the.At-. lantic and Pacific, invading ‘si-:~ - multaneously Asia and Europe, . Africa and Oceanica. The observ- atories of the Union placed them- ‘selves. in immediate. communicd- ; tion with those of. foreign coun- tries. Some, such as those. of. Paris, Petersburg, Berlin, ‘Stock- - holm, Hamburg, Malta, Lisbon, Benares, Madras, and others, seer eo AZEN FROM FILES City; thén the country's ‘capital: agg. |... ise ey Me CITIZEN QF 1798—-The -Navy.. br asappenaees t J. Whitney: Peterson, president. . sf 30, he sate a fie oceerdbin FT pat) cfgfit the. U.S. Tobacco,.Company,. \° '1803—Louisiana |:Territory «is born in Brooklyn,.N. Y., 49. years bought from France for $15. mjl- | ago. A special dispatch, in ‘The Citi- tion. | "Francis B. Sayre, U.S. ‘repre: ° ws zen “today from Miami tells; 1812—Louisiana, admitted. ied [zenttative on the UN Trusteeship _about a’ visit ‘made by: ‘Secrbtary |Statehond ., Ste agg Beck ygepncll ex-high commissioner to of the Interior Harold ‘Ickes’ and: | 1900—Hawaii, created a: “Terri Spinyions, Smale oun ayaa ‘tory of the. United Stat ee ae oe Me WPA Administrator Harry Hop-|*Y of the. Uni ates... Dr. Theodore | ‘W. Schultz of the kins to the area where it is pro- Johh-Luther, prea pase wr aly. - Chicago, noted nero “ei m = posed to establish the Everglades | tral- engineers. ones ft} fits. ay fo, s, D. 45 years 6, in & National Park. The dispatch says th: save-his paserigers, dying When |. : the outlook is favorable to the thi sl2-car train. crashes into establishment of the proposed freight near Vaugn, Miss park. ; .1915—Landmark in wireless: Navy operators at Arlington, Va., P id Tre oe cs , Fire Chief “Harty Baker, Milton oes witthttre-Carrai-Zone-by-wire-/p +> 2h “Pri — Roberts, senior and junior, John! “says: rices mus Lord and Theodore Albury re- | P967---The Neutrality Bill. ex- come down,’ so we urned acted by Congress. be apne! rand a cae Baretethy” 1942—German air and sea fore-| have reduced every: thing in our store State Convention of Firemen. ae pean — English convoys | HS Sosrpeamee 1943—Americans driven back 10% or more. Charles E, Smith, who return- Fe enemy forces in Tunisia. | eSHOES ed *yesterday from the fifteenth| ~1945—Soviets hoist their flag | : eHATS annuol convention of Rotarians in! over Reichstag in Berlin. <i eSHIRTS Florida, held in Jacksonville, said 1946—Anglo-American Commit- ePANTS that ‘Key West Rotary Club!tee bars a Jewish’ State in Pales- ; ; eETC.. ranked second in the number of tine but urges admigsion of 100,- members .obtained during the | 000 Jewish refugees. FRANK last year. —_————————. HOLTSBERG It-is estimated 300 million peo- 600 Duval Street . Forty-eight Key West men on'ple are stricken with malaria ev- relief. rolls were .transferred to-|ery year and of these three million day té work on the Overseas | die. Highway bridges. —_—_—_—--—-- R. C. Roberts, keeper at the American Shoals lighthouse, who had been on his quarterly vaca- tion, will resume his duties to- morrow. ee RE ee RS OTRO - ee’ E. R. Lowe, who had been in} Key West on business, relating ! to his office as justice of the peace, returned yesterday to Ta- | vernier. tis, who had_ been visiting Mrs. Meltzer’s mother, Mrs. Charles Curtis, Caroline and Simonton | streets, returned yesterday to their home in Miami. Mrs. I. N. Meltzer a and son, a Mrs./W. W. Williamson, who|{| #% Guaranteed had been visiting her sister, PURE Mrs. Paul Herrick, and other; relatives in Key West, returned yesterday to her home ‘in Miami. | Place Your Refrigeration : Today The Citizen says in an on @ truth but distorts it and readily ‘ es UBlevie tis worst reports.” and You Will Get GUARANTEED Refrigeration Service ——— | | is More Economical | REAL ICE = ‘CeapennnnnedaananammnaataUaannauangnuucnnnusssanegasannansauiuatt® Returns to New York Rete Mew Yon Thompson Enterprises, Ine. York, has returned to her home ( ICE DIVISION) after spending three months — PHONE NO. 8 KEY WEST, FLA. ing friends’ in Key West,.