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, 1920-08-18
F. COULTER
Vice Chairman.

Avis No. SO Of 18th. February a. y. in
which appeared the following passage:
The worst feature Of the case with
the Bethlehem Factory is that they
paid their contracting Planters for the
first cane delivered during the crop
''on the basis OF a quotation of $7.z8
for 100 ID. Of 96 0 Crystals, knowing
full well that $13. 90 was the correct
price"
which article bears the signature of Long
field Smith.
The Plaintiffs assert that they are the
Managing Directors, of Bethlehem Fac
tory and as such are the parties, who cal
culate and decide the prices, which &C
cording to the contracts are paid the de
~liverers of cane to the Bethlehem Factory
and who are responsible for payments,
the article in question consequently re
fers to them and contains an accusation
against them, for Intentionally and con-
traly to their better knowledge to have
paid a lower figure to their contracting
Planters for canes delivered TO Bethle-
hem Factory than the actual price, which
they were entitled TO, whereby the i'm
preston is conveyed to the re Ader that
they deliberately and Intentionally cheat
, 1920-08-18

The new town-clo(k is now installed
and the welcome and familiar pea]s OF the
old bell are once more heard. This clock
does not strike the quarters as did the
old one, only the full hours which, while
not so accommodating, will nevertheless
prove a source of great help to the public.
The Creole arrived here this morning
with St Thomas mails.
We have been asked to mention that
the Native Brass Band vii! give q con
cert on the Wharf this evening.
, 1920-08-18
ORDER OF THE DAY
for the End Ordinary Meeting Of the
Colonial Council for St. gCroix,
M0NDAY 7, August %. 1920, at one
o'clock o. m.
/ Council Bill No. a.

l. Colonial Council Bill No. A.
Introduction Of and 1st Discussion
on Colonial Csuncil Bill No. "A, Ad-
ditional Money Bill to the Budget
forsthe Municipality Of St. Croix for
the fiscal year l920-21. Repairs to
Frederiksted High School. Intro
duced by Government.
2. Colonial Council Bill NO. As.
Introduction of and. LIST Discussion
on Colonial Council Bill No. 45, Reso-
luton introduced by Government
transferring Furniture and equip
ment to the Post Office Department
3. Colonial Council Bill No. 46.
Introduction Of and 1st Discussion
90 Colonial Council Bill No. DC, Draft
of an Ordinance introduced by Gov
eminent providing a Code Of SAM
tary Laws for St. Croix.
4. Colonial Council Bill No. AZ.
Introduction Of and 1st Discussion
on Colonial Council Bill No. 47,eDraft
of an Ordinance introduced by LIST
Member for C~hristiansted Country
District (S+akemannJ amending Or
diaancc establishing and declaring
the organization Of the Judiciary
and Educational Departments etc.
CoIonia,. Council Office. St. Uroix,
A1gust112, 1920.
F. COULTER,
Vice Chairman.
, 1920-08-18
OFFICIAL NEWS

Judge G. &. L4iele who returned from
leave In the States last week resumed
his duties as Judge of the District Court
of st. Thomas this morning.
MIR. George A. Keyser o. Omaha, Ne
braska, recently appointed Government
Attorney, arrived via steamer Guiana
and will remain in St. Thomas for a short
period before entering upon duty in St.
CrOiX.
B~andmaster Alton A. Adams. u. S.
Navy. of the Naval Sand ST. Thomas,
has been given a permanent appointment
in that rating by the Navy Department.
, 1920-08-18

To the Editor of the 'St. Crod& Av5s."
Dear Sir
| am sending you enclosed here
with, a copy Of the Courts Sentence in
the Case Foimer Andersen and P. Adam
sen, Plaintiffs, VS., DR.. Longfeld Smith,
Defendant. | believe the public Of St.
Croix would be interested in seeing the
whole Of this published.
| am,
Yours very truly
.LONGFIELD SMITH.
A~gromo1nist an Charge.
Copy.
CHRISTIANSTED'S TOWN COURT IN
ORDINARY SITTING
was on August 9th. in the Case
NJ. l, 1920.
Folmer Andersen and
P. Adamsen, Plaintiffs
VS.. ACTION FOR LIBEL.
DR., Longfeld Smith
Defendant
Passed the following
SENTENC
The Plaintiffs In this Case Folmer An
dersen and F.. iAdamsen sued the Defen-
dant Longfe|d Smith for Libel, in conse-
uuence on an article addressed to the
Editor of the Avis" dated February
18th; 1920 and published in the St Croix
, 1920-08-18
Mary Mac Laren
Herbert Prior
Mulhall.<
Clarrissa Selwyn,
i~ucretia Harris,
Dear Lane"
Mark Winfield
Fred Willard
The Buyer.
Elsie
Story by Evelyn CampeIl.

Deare Lane IS me Of h@e very immoral girls wo taxes He as ONES and
future Then she marnes Fred Willard and finds love IN cottage even more delight
fh than being a great lady" Winfield again crosses hr ptn but during a visit to
her he dies in the IHE parour of her home and "Depia lane fearful that her hs
band will suspect her seeks to dispose fthe body, but only succeeds in making things
worse, and It's only the cooLheadedD oarder who calmly brings safety and fixes the
stairs of the past that hey nay never creak again in the future
"Daare Lane, like many oter FrI Women, takes the way of least resistance TO
Fanced Happiness But the little Decehs of Life Sounds Alarm like the Creaking
Stairs at Midnight 49,
The Beautiful Mary Mac Laren" Has in this Picture a Fitting Successor to her
famous play in Shoes ;"
ASoy Of True Life that is closer Eve yday Than Mos Persons realize
ADHESION:
Reserved Seas .. FL. .... 49,. 40c
Two first and two last rows of reserved seats ~ SOC.
General Entrance .. zoe
Children 20 and 1c.
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and have taken an apartment at the Dian.
 Mrs. J. O. Smith of Savannah. Ga. is the guest of Mrs. G. H. Houston Davis.
 Mrs. H. Lee Koenig and son. Warner. left few days ago to join Mir. Koenig
 Mrs. Frank Morrow, after a visit to friends in the city has returned to her home in Anniston
 Rev. pr. w. R. Dobyns and family will occupy one of the Garber apart ments on Caldwell avenue.
 Miss Carrie Boardman of Washing ton will be among the out -of-town guests at the Harsh -Sfbley wedding.
 MT. and Mrs. John P. T. Tillman have returned from North Carolina
 Mrs c. B. Spencer has returned from an eastern trip. where several weeks were spent at Chautauqua. N. Y.
 Mrs. George B. Allen. who has been the guest of her sisters, Miss Hattie and Sarah Weakley. left yesterday for her home in New Orleans.
 Mrs. E. B. Vaughan of Mobile is the guest of her niece, Mrs. Frank Clarke, at Terrace Court.
 Mr. and Mrs. Allen Glover announce the birth of daughter. Mrs A. l.. Fulenwider, who has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-05
Ruth ROIand'S
 Beauty Advice

Ruth Roland. that beautiful actress. is famous for her wonderful complexion. When her friends inquired about it, she said, Its all due to a simple toilet prepara- tion called derwillo. which I twice daily. Any girl woman beautify their com plexion they follow my advice. Here it is Just go to any up- date toilet counter and get bottle of derwillo, use it as di- rected, and loi the first application will as tonish you. It immediately gives the skin a youthful, rosy-white appearance and clear baby softness much desired by every one" Be sure to read the large announce ment of Miss Roland's soon to appear in this paper. in which she tells how to in- stantly have a beautiful, rosy-white com plexion and soft unwrinkled skin everyone Just loves to touch." In the meantime try derwiIlo today; you will be delightfully."- sur prised.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-05

Mrs. A. l.. Fulenwider. who has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-05

from Philadelphia, where she accom- panied Mir. W. G. Bickell and children.
 Mir. and Mrs. W. R. Mabry and fam fly will be at home this winter at 1221 Virginia avenue.
 Mir. and Mrs. N. l.. Steele have named their little son, Andrew Franklin.
 MT. and Mrs. Whit Collier and Miss Martha Collier are at home for the winter at the Ridgley.
 MT. and Mrs. Edward Day Harris have returned from their wedding trip which was spent on the southern coast
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the guest of relatives in Connecticut. is now in New York City for few weeks.
 Mrs. E. R. Hopkins of Columbus. Miss. is the guest of her daughter. Mrs. Ebert Hopkins, and MT. Hopkins. Miss May Burson of Washington, but formerly of this city. is spending a few weeks in the city as the guest of MT. and Mrs. W. L. Durham.
 Miss Irene Shields has returned from three weeks stay in New Orleans. Mrs. W. F. Savage is in Savannah, Ga
 'ss
 Mrs. Avery Calder is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Knox Fleming.
 Miss Anne Rowan of Jacksonville is spending a few days in the city.
 
 MT. and Mrs. Henry King and fam fly left few days for Oneonta where they will make their home.
 MT. and Mrs F. P. Fern have moved to their new home, 1145 South Four teehth street.
 MT. and Mrs. Robert Simpson and daughter, Miss Nancy, have returned from California.
 MT. White Doster. after spending a few weeks in Boston, has returned home.
 Misses Mary and Diddie Calhoun ar rived yesterday from their home in Selma to spend two weeks in the city with relatives.
 Mrs. Southerland Noble of Montgom- cry is the guest of Mrs. Murray White. Mrs. Warren Boyd and children, Harry Jane and Marvin, have recently come to Birmingham from Montgomery to make their home. Miss Margaret Conniff is their guest for few weeks. Mrs. A. c. McClelland is in Mont gomery. where she went to be with her sister. Mrs D. n. Fraser, who has a little daughter, Mary Elizabeth Fraser at hospital in that place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-05
s250,000 Galveston Fire

Galveston, October 4-Fire which broke out here yesterday in 15000 bales Of Mexican sisal stored in section A of Pier 41 did damage estimated at s250.- 900, Lee Wiley. manager of the Cotton Concentration Company lessees of the pier, announced tonight. The sisal is sun smoulderinE and a force of men remain on duty as a precaution against another outbreak of the flames.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-05
Japs Evacuating Nikolaevak

fssUTIHNNu
 Honolulu, October 4.-Japanese naval and military forces have begun evacu- ation of Nikolaevsk. withdrawing to the northern portion of Saehailien, ac- cording to cable dispatches received from Tokio today by Nippu Jijb Japa- nese language newspaper here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-05
Hardwick Sues Paper R- Assncsut>1 Pr1an

Macon, Ga., October 3.-Thomas w. Hardwick, former United States sen ator and candidate for the demo- cratic nomination for governor of Georgia in the run off primary, to be held here next week, filed suit yes terday against the Macon Daily Tel egraph for $100,o00 damages for all leged hhel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-05
Government Wants Oil
By Associafed Press

ny NkHoVN.1stttE
 Washington, October 4.-Tenders for supply of 2.T7S70 gallons of lubricating oils for the use of the government owned and controlled merchant ships for the year beginning November 24. were invited tonight by the shipping board. Deliver ies are to be made at Atlantic and gulf nrfe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-05

Paper money. called flying money was first used by the Chinese 2607 B. c. These banknotes were also call ed "convenient money" and forgeries were known in those days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-05

To the Public of Birmingham,
 Alabama:
 On March T. 916 the City of Birmingham filed petition with the Alabama Public Utilities Commission alleging that the rates then charged by the Southern Bell Telephone ana Telegraph Company for its exchange at Brmngnam Alabama exobitant and demanding that they be re- duced.
 The Alabama Commission thorough investigation of every fact and figure circumstance of the operation of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company company including its relations with all other companies and with special reference to it's operations within the City o Br mingham.
 This investigation covered period of than two and oneha years the City of Birmingham employing two sets of Experts who made thorough examination of the companys books and records After reearng and considering the tes all the witnesses including the City five Experts the Commission the 22nd day of October folows
 "The facts being that for the year 1916 basedur
 o these conclusions of the Commission the
 ings of the respondent company have been less than
 3 per per upon its investment in the Bir-
 mingham exchange, while the legal rate of interest
 within this statei per cent and while the strongest
 institutions are unable to money in normal
 times for less than 5 and per cent"
 The earnings and this company it's Biring ham exchange since that time have been as follows:
 During 1917, the company earned 1.51 per cent investment
 During 1918, the company suffered net loss of
 DOS per cent upon its investment
 During 1919, the company earned 0.27 per cent
 upon its investment.
 During the twelve months beginning August l. 1919 and ending July 31 1920 the company earned 054 per upon it's investment. sn.x aasas au um sssauss.aux These and other facts will be established the hearing fore the Commission Octobe 5 We shall be glad act of the thoroughly scrnized We ask welcome the cooperation of the telephone of B1ning ham in this investigation.
  There approximately two thousand people Bfr1ni- ham desiring telephone service This service nsh until additional facilities constructed Additional facilities only be had by increased invest ment In the face the small net earnings of the Birmingham during the past four years the company cannot m its investment until the confscaoy are increased.
 The interests of the public and of company demand prompt investigation and prompt decision Dlaory tactics efforts to postpone decision by whoever made will delay the furnishing of service needed demanded by the people of Birmingham
 The will do it's at the hearing October 5t and 1t will not be responsible for any delay. 0 'sS':FEs ssS ss55 SSAsgW ident
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Mrs. A. c. McClelland is in Mont gomery, where she went to be with hel sister. Mrs. D. n. Fraser, who has little daughter, Mary Elizabeth Fraser at hospital in that place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-05

Misses Mary and Diddie Calhoun ar rived yesterday from their home in Selma to spend two weeks in the city with relatives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-05

Mrs. Souther1and Noble of Montgom- cry is the guest of Mrs Murray White.
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Mrs. Warren Boyd and children Harry Jane and Marvin, have recently come to Birmingham from Montgomery to make their home. Miss Margare Conniff is their guest for a few weeks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-31
OSCAR wrLDE,s HOTEL BILL

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 A literary curiosity, owned by a.. Philadelphian and never published, has just been shown me with permission to make extracts.
 It is the hotel bill of Oscar Wilde at the Hotel Voltaire. in Paris, April 1883. when he was writing "The Duchess of Padau." The items cover four pages. each 1s inches long and five and one-half inches wide
 The first item is for account al ready rendered. PAS francs s5 cen times.
 Eggs, coffee. tea and salad figure most frequently.
 For the two weeks. March 15-2S. in elusive, the charge for two persons -352 francs 20 centimes. for every thing except the room. That would be about ST week for each person. scarcely exorbitant when we consider that the bill includes roast fowl, news papers. postage. petty tradesmens &C., counts discharged. lights, laundry. wines. medicines. firewood and service.
 It is a disappointingly matter-of- fact bill. but it goes to show that the eccentric and in-starred writer was not throwing his money away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-31
CONTRAST IN GROWING OLD

From the Continental Edition of the
 London Mail.
 1O) ERLIN.-A great woman has writ iOO ten a great book. She has writ
 ten it with a devastating analy- sis of the human soul that makes the ordinary reader shiver. But the book bas its interest for many women today.
 She is alive still, and still caustic resplendent European figure She is Princess Pauline Metternich, and her grSndfather was the astute statesman, Prince Metternich, who dominated diplomacy in Europe at the time of the collapse of Napoleon and kept the flag of reaction flying in central Europe with cynical light-heartedness until vigorous little revolution in 1S4S brought down his subtle structure of administration like a house of cards.
 This wonderful old Princess Pauline has now written her Memoirs. I take tnerefrom two pen portraits almost un- paralleled in their utter sincerity.
 The first is of Princess Bagration, a noted European beauty of century ago. Growing old, she visits the fa- nous Metternich in London in the sos of last century. Study this bitter and pathetic portrait:
 ''She had forgotten that she was growing old and still pictured herself as the admired beauty of a past gener- ation. All her beauty had vanished. The marvellous blonde curls had tapered down to five or seven yellow hairs Her skin resembled the rind gof a lemon. Her body for one could see dering skeleton. The poor princess had scantily clothed herself in a kind o1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-31
STORM CHILD OF TEBA

Ferdinand Tuohy in the Continental
 Edition of the London Daily Mail. @ NE night in 1926, during a great Il J thunderstor, girl was born N> at the castle of Teba, in An dalusia.
 Today, ninety-four years after, Teba is welcoming back it's stormchild
 There is something unreal in the ex- Empress Eugenie being still alive. know there are older people on the coast of Clare, but all you can associate with them is the history of a hovel. Eu- genies name conjures an epoch thumbed in the history books of school bcys, and of the great of Europe who cIrtseyed to her in her heyday most have been coffined>this half century.
 Eugenie does not seem to belong to were living on among us, phantom of the past she who journeyed across the Pyrenes to Paris in a stage coach, and now lives beneath the drone borough.
 As the proud guardian of period, she seems to take no interest in our lives, choosing to wander from place to place, to live again, in locked re- gret, her days as empress. Wonderful lf-transformations. per mitted only those whose lives have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-31
+ z x Fragrant Miscarriage of Justice In Chicago

.1MORsEY CHAMBLIss, former ll~ negro policeman, and Emma Ross, negro dive keeper, were found guilty in Chicago court on the charge of turing white girl into a resort in the "Black Belt" where she was subjected to such treatment that she died.
 This crime was one of the most re- volting imaginable, yet the punish ment will be, according to the Chi cago Herald and Examiner, a sentence of from one to five years in the peni- tentiary. An unsophisticated girl who had just arrived in Chicago from her country home in Kansas, lost her way in the city and appealed to Chambliss, who was then member of the Chicago police force. Instead of giving her the protection she ex- pected from a man in police uniform, he took her to the house of the Ross woman, where she was kept pris- oner until she succeeded in informing friend of her plight. She died in hospital shortly after being found.
 It was alleged that political influ- ence was being used to shield Cham bliss, but public indignation and de- mands from the Chicago papers that he be punished, resulted in his being tried and found guilty by jury on the first ballot, along with his ac- complice.
 According to the Illinois law, five years seems to be the maximum sen- tence for the crime. It is entirely inadequate. Chambliss ought to be hanged and the Ross woman kept in prison for the rest of her abominable life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-31
THE DEAD IN FRANCE
the Tuscaloosa News.

' rom lfle TUSCALOOSA News.
 Although they have consented cour. teously to the request for the removal of the American dead, there is still deep feeling among the French people for having the bodies of the American sol diers left where they sleep in France, as teries
 Nobody can blame the French The removal of these bodies means a menace to the health of the French people, the congestion of their already overburdened railways, and continuous sad process sion through already saddened towns. Last and worst of all, each body removed is broken link in that chain binding French and American hearts and inter- ests.
 Perhaps, if the home people can bring themselves to it, it is the wisest and Nindest thing to leave the bodies of our boys, as many as may be, over there. it seems, and they sleep well in the ground they died to defend. Then, too, there is this to be remembered Graves in those great military cemeteries will receive care forever. They will be tended for generations as will those in Arlington and Gettysburg here. But who shall say what will happen to the graves of the boys buried in our smaller cemeteries at home? After this generation that loved them is gone. who will water and tend and weep? How many cemeteries today are dreary, seldom visited, forgotten How many have already been disturbed which once seemed so secure?
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truncated in the long ago, must crowd rpor Eugenie as she roams.
 Today, at Malaga, she is the spark ling southern maid in Spain of almost the peninsular war; tomorrow, at Saint Cloud, she is the reignins teauty, Mademoiselle de Montijo.
 Now she is at Fontainebleau living again the zenith of her womanhood, those almost Roi-Soleil days of the early sos, when, at the sparkle of mad young eye the gouty and erudite of Europe would slide down the ban. isters in her wake and so to dinner.
 Eugenie, alone of her line and time, wanders on, searching out the past living it gladly, sadly again.
 Now the applause of Crimean war London is ringing in her ears as she smiles and bows and waves beside a very stern contemporary queen the same London through which she now swerves, a lifetime later, in silent limousine.
 Or else she is regent of France again willie her husband gains his swift tri- umph across the Alps, or she Is sailing rSGiantly through the Suez canal be- side Ferdinand de Lesseps on the great day when the waters of the east met the waters of the west.
 Was woman ever granted such mem. ories as Eugenie?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-31
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

The head of the Colonial Museum in Paris brags that she understands the language used by beetles. That's noth- ins. There isn't a day that some bug doesn't stop us on the street and start a conversation.
 You see lots of men doing it. but you never saw woman who shovels her food into her mouth with her knife, did you?
 When girls voice is so powerful that you can hear her yelling for a city block she has her voice cultivated so that you can hear her yelling for two city blocks.
 Every day or two some one starts an Armenian massacre or a Bed Bug massacre. But both the Armenians and the Bed Bugs seem to thrive and come back for more.
 Every man believes he has good sense until his wife reads him some of the love letters he wrote her before they were married.
 And what has become of the O. f. man who had to hunt for the beer opener every night when he got home? If girl can't get the man she wants she goes ahead and cops out the man some other girl wants. You may have noticed that 1t is the man who hasn't anything to divide who wants an equal division of wealth. Cheer up, When you have only one suit of clothes you know that the moths are not eating your other suit Many man who leads the converse : tional orchestra when he is downtown has to play second fiddle when he gets 1 home.
 A single man has to give in when he Is wrong. A married nfan has to give in whether he is right or wrong.