The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-12-24
Cracks And Comments
MERRY CHRISTMAS
ELonIDA cRAcgER

MERRY CHNlSIMASt
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER
CARL II HILTON is tops with
about fifty boys and glels Ia Key
West for = ereat favor ~ een.
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tell yoa NotAer. iaSsStlng.
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tie girl We'll Il wa must
know. did thank her bat she
told me not 10 mention II
MORE DEADLY THAN THE
MALE The Rance Of Sarawak.
who. with her husband, rules
half million people on the
northwest coast Of Berneo. Is IN
New York She says through
out their entire reign they have
tried TO eliminate the head
hunting practices of the natives.
Now. when told of the japanese
invasion OF Sarawak, she says.
81 hope TO God they line their
houses with japanese heads and
smoke them. Another form Of
cured ham,.
MRS. FRIEDRICH KNAPP.
President of the Key West wom-
ans Club, has been seriously i'll
for many weeks and her friends
are so glad 10 hear that she is
recovering Mrs. Knapp viii
deny it. but her friends fear that
long and strenuous hours Of
work. getting settled in the new
Woman's Club building had
much to do with her illness.
ERNEST AVILA. Future
successful business man in the
making. When boy is proud
that his work has increased and
doubled in a year, he has char
acter and what it takes. Ernest
is a newspaper carrier for The
Key West Citizen, where he has
worked since the age of ten. He
IS popular with the boys and
girls Of this community and is
the president of religious and
social organization for young peo-
pie.
WISHFUL THINKING: Our
city usually is badly in need of
funds If we take a moment to
regard Memphis, Tenn, then, as
a good example. it might be well
to follow Memphis, a city of
100000 persons. has never a
honk from automobile horns.
Not beep or squeek The past
year that city has taken in 500
900 in fines from drivers who
violated its anti-horn-blowing
ordinance. Practically all fines
start at $40 and range upward.
A speed Init of 30 miles an hour
is rigidly enforced and Memphis
boasts of being one of the quiet
est. most peaceful cities IN the
world since the nuisaee of horn
blowing has stopped. A number
of lives have been saved by
that city's about safety drive
and in many cases the taxi cab
drivers have disconnected their
horns altogether.
HELLOi HELLO,: Merry
Christmas to the telephone girls
who do a swell job being pleas
ant all the year to a lot of
grouches-
MENTAL MEANDERTNGS:
Wondering if that nice young
sailor from Texas I talked to is
home-sick at Christmas. Hope
he is having a good time and
meeting some of the boys and
girls. He was lonely but cheer
ful and had been i'll since COM
mig here Mary Sweeting and
her baby girl. Mary Theodore,
doing Christmas shopping. Nice
gentleman brought some badly
needed blotters. Catherine
Corners, future Woman's Club
president In the making.
Christmas. Christmas, every
where. DR.. and Mrs. Harry
Galley have the most beautiful
tree I've seen in ages. Miss
Decker's window thrilling the
passersby on the street. Lighted
candles in windows. wreathes,
colored lights, trees. the Spirit
OF Good VIII.
CHRISTMAS 1871
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