The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-11-06
KEY WEST In
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just Five. Ten.
and Fifteen Years Ago AS
Taken From The Files
Of The Citizen
NOVEMBER 6. 1894

Diving and life saving classes
are planned by the recreation
and parks department of the Key
West Administration. For the
past two weeks swimming classes
have been conducted by recrea-
tional supervisors, and it is the
aim of the department to instruct
every child.
Eloise Charlotte Illean Curry,
IL months old, daughter of Clerk
of Criminal Court c. Sam B.
Curry, is another Key West baby
to received the bronze medal of
honorable mention in the Sears
Roebuck contest, which was ma
tion-wide. Three other Key
West babies have received the
medals: John Craig Smith, son of
c. E. Smith and Mrs. Smith; an
other child of Mr.. and Mrs. Eos
ter Gomez, and the third, Rose
Marie Eugenia Sanchez, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Sanchez.
High winds and reported rough
seas between Key West and Tor
tugas, deferred the trip which
was to be made by Herbert Kah-
Ter, historical technician for the
National Park Service, who is
to make the trip with Mrs. Kah-
Ter as soon as the weather is calm
enough to permit.
Indications are that there will
not be many votes cast in the
election today. 1t is the opinion
of those who usually keep track
of the voting that out of the g.
O56 qualified voters, not more
than $500 will visit the polls.
NOVEMBER 6, 1929
Why do you always go to Key
West, DIR. E. w. Watson, of New
York, was asked, and he replied,
Because it is the only place in
Florida where ! can find warm
and pleasant weather during the
entire winter. He has been COM
ing to Key West for several years,
ever since his retirement from the
drug business.
Ailing people in the United
States and other parts of the
world will, under recently per-
fected arrangements find avail
able the benefits of a discovery
of a Key West physician, DIR. j.
w. v. R. Plummer. The discov-
cry is granular calcium, and is
said to be efficient in a number
of diseases.
An automobile collision be-
tween a car driven by Miss Mary
Elizabeth Grillon and the other
by Lieutenant Bilson of the navy
yard occurred this morning at
the intersection of Fleming and
Duval streets. Miss Grillon re-
ceived slight cuts about the face
from the broken windshield. No
one else was injured.
Six fast express carload ship
ments of race horses passed
through this port last night en-
route to Oriental Park in Cuba.
Two of the cars contained Cana
dian race animals, which were
shipped direct from Canada to
Havana. The cars had about Is
horses each.
NOVEMBER s. 1924
Work on the construction of the
La Concha Hotel has been delay
ed by the late arrival of steel,
more than 40 carloads of which
have been shipped. The ship
ment weighs 480 tons and work
on the hosiery will be started,
The Citizen was informed, as soon
as the steel starts arriving.
A party of Key Westers, made
up of Mr. and Mrs. w. d. Byrd
and children, Rev. DR.. Sinks, Miss
Mildred Elliott, Harry Link, Cap
tain Parker, Engineer Thomas
Pinder, Guide Vivian Pinder and
Chef John Davis. went out on the
Boomerang and returned in the
afternoon yesterday with one of
the best catches of the season.
Five members of the crew of
the British Schooner E. D. Bailey
were picked up yesterday by the
Steamship Boverton and will be
landed at Galveston, according