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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-05-11

: After using It's Tpfe- 's,,, %, p
For II years, Alabama is to'tRA |
new design, bearing map of the
state and showing it's principal rivers,
%he Daughters of the Confederacy
spdhssfed the new seal, asserting thai
the present one, adopted in 1856
"was designed by carpetbagger."
Last year more than 700 bills regu-
lating retail distribution were introdu
ced in Congress. This is twice the num-
bcr that related to the control Of
crime.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-05-11

The Republican candidates, on the
other hand, are as vague in their poll
cies as the slumbering Glenn Frank
policy committee, which has been i'll
existence for two years and hash t
been able to agree ON the first plank
cf platform yet.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31
SOUTH AMERICA IMPORTANT


J. Funk, who has just re-
turned from a trip to South America,
thinks that the United States should sub
sidize its movies in South America, if
necessary. They are considered our most
persuasive ambassador and are credited
with firing the imagination of the South
American youth and turning their minds
away from Europe to this country.
Mr. Funk says it will be wise for us
to remember that Brazil alone is larger
than the United States and two-thirds the
size of all Europe; that fifty-seven Eng
lands can be dropped into it like pennies
in slot and that only four per cent of its
territory is under cultivation.
He believes that the United States
should make definite drive to encourage
greater trade with South America and, if
necessary the Government should lend
some of Nits gold hoard to the South Am
erfcaf7 countries.
-, Among other things that he suggests
is the encouragement of tourists to travel
in South America, the study of Spanish in
our schools and colleges, the establish
ment of scholarships in our educational
institutions for South American students,
the loan of technicians and experts to as
sist i'm the development of great resources
md willingness on the part of our busi-
nessmen to sell the South Americans what
hey want to buy rather than what our
businessmen want to sell.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31
Kew West. Fla.

Key West, Fla.
This is the city that came back.
Knocked down by labor troubles,
/ knocked out by the hurricane of
four years ago, this southern out
post of the United States-but 80
miles from Cuba and 375 miles
farther south than Cairo, Egypt
has come alive again.
1t is quite a story of rugged in
dividuality"-this will to survive
in an American city which easily
could have given up the ghost
and called it a day. In fact, at one
time that very thought lowered
disastrousIy in the minds of the
city fathers.
! Key West stands today as at
least one monument to the credit
SIDE of the ledger of the federal
emergency relief administration.
After the 1885 hurricane destroyed
the railroad between here and the
mainland-the only real means of
transport at the time to Key West
the Roosevelt administration
poured several millions into the
city to save it from collapse.
The people of the city did the
rest of the "comeback" job.
There was a time when the
city boosted population of more
than $4,000 people. Today there
are only about 10000 inhabitants.
In bygone days many tobacco
companies employed hundreds in
cigar factroies-here the Ameri-
can Tobacco Co.'S payroll running
beyond 1000, with weekly pay
envelopes amounting to a large
| figure.
But the continual chickering's
and often fantastic demands of
the workers-the majority were
characterised most of the big
tobacco companies to abandon
their properties in Key West and
resettle in Tampa. There they
employ mostly girls from Geor-
gia.
/ Cubans are inveterate consum-
ers of homeland news. One of
their demands was for the estab-
/ liShment of permanent readers of
Cuban newspapers in each of the
factories. The readers were to sit
and read the latest news while
their audiences tried to listen and
concentrate on making cigars at
one and the same timel
Key West once was the great
terminus for freight going
through 90 Havana. Chinese inn
migrants not allowed to tarry in
the United States on their way
from China, rode in to Key West
in cattle cars all the way from
San Francisco. From here they
were shipped to Cuba and South
America
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31
"BUT" Saws. Boake Carter
BY Melville

locate where they can find more
congenial surroundings, and we
are frank to say there is no place
for them on this island.
Don't for moment think that
Key West is a "goody-goody"
town where the local constable
starts fishing for footrule and
handouts if a lady appears IN
shorts on the main stem. But, on
the other hand, it is a city which
decided to make its comeback on
a decent commercial basis, offer
ing clean inducements to clean
people. Commercialized vice,
dressed up in camouflage, so COM
mon a foundation to so many
popular resorts in America, was
told to scram from Key West and
stay Scrammedi
Thus Key West, stuck way out
in the ocean amid the most my
Rad colors of blues and green's,
exists now on the honey type of
American tourists. From the l.
900 people per day who pour in
and out of the town, Key West
has found that sometimes il real
ly does pay to be decent
They plug their fishing bust
ness, their sponge business, their
pineapple trade from Cuba. They
talk with as much pride as any
Californian about the fact they
have what they call the longest
main street in the world, extend
ing from the Atlantic to the Cuff
They boast about the romantic
days when pirates used to hide
their treasures along the Keys
They talk about their climate
with unabashed egoism. In short,
Key West, knocked out com
mercially, about ready to quit.
and 60 out of business as a COM
munity, has come back by max
ing America Key West con-
sciouS.
If that isn't old-time rugged
individualism, what is, pray
Copyright, Ledger Syndicate.)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

80 1t might be we'll for Mr. and Mrs. Key
West Citizen to brush up a bit on personal
that the census takers will be around be-
fore long with set of questions that are
likely to put a heavy strain on most peo-
pies memory. 1t is not going to be job
Of-Iust counting noses, etc. This year the
government wants to know what each citi-
zen was doing 10 years ago; where he lived
10 years ago; what his earnings were, and
any number of other memory puzzlers. -,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31
WHAT ABOUT PUBLIC BEACHES?

All last year various groups discussed
proposals to provide Key West with an
adequate public beach For some weeks
it appeared likely the Monroe County Com
mission and the Works Progress Admins
tratiOn here would join in providing some
kind of beach facilities It was hoped the
project would be completed and ready
for the tourist season beginning last No
vember.L =. =:
Everyone knows that nothing was ac-
cOmplished Tens of thousands of tourists
came'to Key West. The great majority re-
manned short time and then returned to
the mainland: Others wanted to remain
here in our bright and healing sunshine,
but only the harder souls among them
were able stomach the small beach areas
available here. Disgruntled, the majority
of these people headed northward toward
those communities which provide their
guests with carefully tended beaches
Key West lost untold thousands of dollars
through her inability to give these visitors
"Ildl LIICy III Inc OCCdH VII
a sandy shore
For time last year a substantial de-
velopment appeared in the making at Rest
Beach. A group of investors offered the
South Shore Development Co., the ma
thrifty of the stockholders of which live in
Boston, $4,000 for that sandy shore The
syndicate proposed to erect large colony
of cottages, extend yacht pier out into
tire ocean, build bathing house and put
up a pavilion. The beach would have
been open to public use and would have
been one of the most attractive of the
tourist facilities here.
Like other owners of beach proper
ties here, the South Shore Development
Co. did not accept the offer. The develop
ment that would have meant so much to
the city was killed before it was born.
This is not the kind of public spirit that is
good for struggling resort community.
No resort can attain full growth without
proper beach facilities, whether they be in
private or public hands.
If the owners of beach property will
not sell to qualified developers, it seems
to The Citizen that the properties ought to
be assessed at somewhere near their true
value. The city at least should get some
taxes from those properties, so that it will
be in a position to sponsor beach-build-
ing WPA project. The owners of Rest
Beach have been permitted to escape pay
ment of taxes because the spot has been
given over to public use, but no provision
has been made for keeping the sand clean
and fit for public use. 1t is pretty sad
situation that cOmpels our visitors them
selves to clean the beaches so that they
may stay here and spend their money.
Something concrete and definite must
be dore and done very soon to provide de-
cent beaches if the people of Key West
expect to reap any lasting benefit from the
tourist trade. Any hotel and lodging
house operator or businessman will verify
the fact that lack of beach facilities here
is a costly deficiency.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Some day Hitler and Mussolini will
clash and then the democracies will come
back to their own. For instance the Ger
mans in South TyroI, which once belonged
to Austria but was coded to Italy after the
World War, have been supposed to the
extent that even on their tombstones the
German language is not tolerated In due
course, Der Fuehrer will want to take over
the Tyrol under the guise of sef-deter-
mination for the German-speaking people
living there, and then watch the sparks
fly.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

The PoEder Puff bezurT rzrlu-
Is nov open II 50 FeE
street M Czun- - CHS Ezs
been Temporarily gzzr-ereG -
barber sh0p pend1rE flrE-E - e
fhe present CEzr1eTz Zr and
Mr. Cano are eEperls m -1eE
line Of Work having been receE--
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and before rhzt W7-h rhe Wes1-
chester. n Y County Ciuh
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31
l'oday's Horoscope
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Today gives assurance Of being
a strong day and the native can
rise to great heights. Other
things being equal, he win prob
ably attain to some comparatively
high position in life. There are
success and honor, and many in
ffuentia1 friends, whatever the
station in life may be- It Is a
day of executive ability, and
firmly placed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

She (dining)-Seems 10 me we
don't hear much jazz in the res
taurants.
He-No, and as a consequence
we hear more soup.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Mast0lds- SIuuSes and sEcn
Bother chlldren CE-ruIuc1-
IN the happy days &C ed
ChIl6ren merely hzd q cal-
But q cuImuu Csl- Is G
And fhe fee Is r1a11z
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

County commissioners. Al
special session Saturday, checked
the ccdnty's depository accounts
and found everything IN balance.
The only other business trsnsacf-
ed was authorization 10 meet the
payroll for the truckers Of me
Chase project.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage
2 Comprehensive City Plan tZoning)
5. Hotels and Apartments
a. Bathing Pavilion.
5. Airports-Land and Sea
G. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31
Repnted Boake Carter The Ledger Syndicate
by Secretary Singleton
of the Key Chamber of Commefce)
scessssssstuss esse1.sesss ssssssssse

Then came the expansion of
transport vehicles. Shippers found
it cheaper to ship by steamship
from Havana to Miami than to
Key West, and then be obliged to
pay for a 17O-mile railroad haul
to Miami. The Florida East Coast
railroad watched its revenue 60
ing down and down. 10 be ad-
ministered the coup de grace by
the 1885 hurricane. So it yanked
up its rails and sold them to the
japanese government for scrap.
1t was after that year that Key
West decided to make its come
back on one Of the sure-fire bets
of the world-the great American
tourist If other cities could do
tiff France, England and other
European countries could attract
Americans-Key West felt it
could beat them all!
Apparently the city is coming
back fast. Where there were four
hotels there are now eight. Where
there, were but a handful of
boarding houses, now there are
between 40 and so. Where there
were no such things as trailer
camps, there are now four such
parking lots. While there were
some 80 automobiles per day
over a rough trail from Miami,
which charitably was called a
highway. now an average of 500
cars whistle over one of the most
amazing highways in the world
a high sometimes almost out of
sight of land and aided by mag
nificent concrete bridges, one OF
which is seven miles long!
But Key West does not cater to
tourists as some of her sister
cities in Florida have done.
Tramps, riffraff, the sporting ele-
ment and the gambling crowd are
not wanted in Key West. Under
Mayor Albury, what few gamb-
ling housese there were have been
closed up.
The city's chamber of COM
merce puts it neatly IN this fash
ion:
We welcome the stranger who
would exchange money for
service or service for money, who
would add homes and enterprises
to our commonwealth, who comes
seeking a more abundant life.
We have no welcome for any
of that muItifarious class who
are 'on the make; whose aim is
to find easy money - and who
can offer only dishonorable EN-
ploynent to our young people
Because race tracks and casinos
are invariably accompanied by
an undesirable underworld fol.
lowing, we perfer to have them
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Eventually women reach the stage of
life when run in silk stocking is not i'm
portant but it takes some of them long
time
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

When man begins to feel a bit leery
when streamlines are mentioned, it is a
good sign of middle age.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Regular meeting Of the Won
ans Club has been postponed un-
til Tuesday afternoon. April g. II
was to be held tomorrow but was
deferred because Of the firemen's
convention. which is 10 be held
this week.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Officers of the law have a great call
ing when they follow it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Young Sluggers trimmed the
Pirates yesterday afternoon IN
one of the niftiest games Of base
bali played on the American Le-
gion grounds, it being q hard
fought exhibition throughout
Bethel, star pitcher Of the Slug
gers, was knocked out and was
relieved by Ubieta. who finished
the game, allowing 10 hits. but
was given good support The
game ended with the Sluggers
having accumulated nine runs.
while the Pirates had seen
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Some of this so-called personality is
the same thing that used to be known as
the big head.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Sugar is one of the most important in
dustries of Bohemia, and didn't Hitler help
himself to huge lump.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

-. Income tax returns may be made on
cash or accrual basis But both are cruel
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

A scientist says the flight of time is
an illusion. We wish he would convince
our banker
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31
KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY
ts.sysssss. Her. lad Tea Ys.S. ISs Tss.y s T.L-.
Frsn Ths Flies O. IL c5szsss

Judge HaEh Gunn dEErg ne Pz-
week. and were o. the tuLlgEZs-
Roy " Edwards zn6 My IL
beth Weech- Pzu1cza Ere1es z-4
Coralia Castellzno- RzEDu1d
Buttman and Jezne-1e So L.
nscio Perez and E1elEa HerlE-
dez-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Every editor hopes at this time of the
year that the crop of poetry has
diminished.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Newspaper editors are constantly
boosting others, but are seldom boosted
themselves-except in the pants.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

1t is said there is always a tie between
father and son. That's why dad seldom
gets a chance to wear it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

We might as we'll start practicing
economy now and get used to it, for soon
it will not be matter of choice.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

It's all right to be our brothers keep
er, until the money runs out-then brother
will have to go to work.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

The messenger boy is the fellow who
=. put the 'leg" in telegram.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

When a man can't find time to go
fishing, he must be busy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Four marriage licenses we're Is
sued from the office Of County
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Editorial Comment: In = pre-
vious paragraph The Citizen sug-
gested giving the fire ladies q
hot time while they are our guests
for three days. Now we FIND that
they are used to hot times al
home and would greatly appre-
ciate . cool period. They'll find
il here, where refreshing breezes
ever blow.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

Congressman NJ Alfred Mich
aelson, of Chicago, who was IN
dicted for smuggling into Key
West from Cuba bottles Of rum.
signs of which were shown by
the leakage of the liquor from ms
trunks, surrendered voluntarily
TO the United States marshal IN
Chicago today and was taken Se-
fore the federal commissioner
He waived preliminary examins-
ton and posted a bond Of $4,000
and said he would 60 10 Florida
for trial and face the charges. ne
denied the indictment and said ne
would be able 10 prove the
charges were false.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-31

kilograms received IN Key
West today advise of the death Of
Myron T. Herrick yesterday IN
Paris. Mr.. Herrick died yester-
day from a heart attack al the
age of IS. He was the United
States ambassador at Paris The
country is prepared TO pay . great
tribute of respect to the man who
helped France through the dark
days Of the World War
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-27
Order Nisi-

In the Matter of the Estate of
Joseph H. Ward, deceased.
IN THE ORPHANS COURT
FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
ORDERED, this 18th day of
April "A. D. 1889, by the Orphans
Court for Montgomery County, that
the sale made by Louise B. Ward,
Executrix, to Ollie C. Baker and
Florence Baker, his wife, and re-
ported in the above entitled cause,
be ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary thereof be
shown on or before the 18th day of
May next: Provided copy of this
order he inserted in some newspaper
published in said Montgomery Coun-
ty, once in each of three successive
weeks before the said 18th day of
May, 1889.
The Report states the amount of
the sale to be $3800.00.
CHARLES M. IRELAN, JR.,
LEWIS F. HOBBS,
WASHINGTON WATERS,
Judges of the Orphans Court
for Montgomery County, Nd
True Copy-Test:
HANSON G. CASHELL, Log
Register of Wills for Montgomery
County, Maryland.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-27
Notice To Creditors

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
that the Subscriber of Montgomery
County, has obtained from the
Orphans Court of Montgomery
County, in Maryland, Letters of Ad-
ministration on the Personal Estate
of
JOHN HENRY OFFUTT
late of Montgomery County, deceased.
All persons having Claims against
the deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with vouchers
thereof, legally authenticated to the
subscriber on or before the 18th day
of October next: they may otherwise
by law be excluded from all benefit
of said Estate. All persons indebted
to said Estate are requested to make
immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 18th
day of April in the year of our
Lord, one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-nine.
WALTER C. OFFUTT,
Gaithersburg, Maryland,
I'll Administrator
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-27
Nntice To Creditors

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN,
that the Subscriber, of Montgomery
County, has obtained from the
Orphans Court of Montgomery
County, in Maryland, Letters Testa-
Tnentary on the Personal Estate of
WILLIAM L. BURKHART
late of Montgomery County, deceased.
All persons having Claims against
The deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with vouchers
thereof, legally authenticated to the
subscriber on or before the 11th day
of October next; they may other
wise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said Estate. All persons
indebted to said Estate are requested
to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 18th
day of April, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand nine hundred and
thirty-nine.
BABETTE o. E. BURKHART,
6312 Delaware ST.,
Chevy Chase, Md.
Executrix.
A. G. NICHOLS, Attorney. 165
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-04-27

Order Nisi-
In the Matter of the Deed of Trust
from Ida M. Winchell, widow,
To
William v. Bouic and
Albert M. Bouic, Trustees.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, AS
A COURT OF EQUITY.
No. 8784 Equity.
ORDERED, this 11th day of
April A. D. 1899, by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, as a
Court of Equity, that the Auditors
First Report filed in the above en-
titled cause, be ratified and con-
firmed, unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before the
9Th day of May next: Provided a
copy of this order be inserted in
some newspaper published in said
Montgomery County, once in each
of three successive weeks before the
said 9th day of May, 1889.
CLAYTON K. WATKINS,
Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County
True Copy-Test: 167
CLAYTON X. WATKINS, Clerk