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NOTICE. A\ Extraordinary (General Meet- b ing of St. Croix Club will be held in the ¢lub rooms on SATUR- DAY 25tH INST. AT 5 O’ LOCK I’ 0 THE BOARD. [ o ° Post Off:ce Notice. I'l‘ being expedient to curtail ex- cessive accumulation of Danish funds, purchasers of postal money orders are urged to tender what United States money is procur- able toward the payment of such orders, as Danish money will be accepted only in limited amounts. Christiansted Post Offlce, September 16th. 1920 B. R. LARSEN, Postmaster. OFFERS BEST MESS BEEF pickled 20cts. LARD compd. 28c. 5 lb. Tins $1.50. PICNIC HAMS 35c¢., L"4l‘”"m'\/ Lma DAUULY 40U, CHEESE Amr. Brich, Swiss ctc. 36,—45,--b64 and 64c. per Ib. SUPREME HAMS 58c., BONELESS CODFISH, COF FEE 30—60 c. per lb , ~‘fr(/"‘l z; : 125. y i : All Fresh Goods. And the usual staple articles re- duced where possible. LOCAL. The illustrated-iecture held at the Bar- racks last night was well attended, a mixed gathering of some 500 persons being present. The cemic views of Char- lie Chaplin were much enjoyved by the crovd aund the slides showing various phases of danger to public health were indeed instructive and very interesting. The event was opened by an address by Lieut. H. V. Hughens U. 8. N. Chief Sanitary Officer, who in gppropriate words thanked the Commanding Officer of the Magrine Detachment for the use &£ F glX. A NS of the premises, the Navy Band for its musical contribution to the programme and the local pewspapers for advertise- ment and rec&)mendmion of the ocea- sion. Dr. Hughens teferred to the fa- mous Prefessor of Medicine, Sir Wil- liam Osler who .said that the interest which 2 community takes in its sanitary affairs is an index to the intelligence of the people. The Dr. thought that might be applied to the gathering present. Dr, Hughens's remarks were followed by the slides which were ably and interestingly explained by Pharm. Kiney U. S. N 2 fairly soaking showel interrupted the lecture when about 4 slides had been shown and the gathering dispersed for for shelter, some persons going home when the weather cleared but the majo- rity remaining when it was seen that the programme would be resumed. The en- ter‘ainment closed with the National Anthem at about 10 o’clcck. "The thanks of the public is due those with whom the idea of this show origi- nated. They are to be commended on its success, and the value of it be- ing only too obvious, itis certain that those present will be looking for an- other in the near future as promised in the opening address. The Christiansted Theatre was crowd- ed last night with 2 highly entertained audience whieh, judging by the satis- faction on all faces, seemed to have thorougnly enjoyed the second instal- ment of the Gray Ghost serial. 1n a notice in this issue it is announced that local currency can be aczepted only in limited amounts for the purchase of money orders at the post office, this be- ing made necessary, it is explained, through the closing of faciiities for dis- posing of such funds. The s. s. Parima left St. Thowas at 6 o’clock this morning and is looked for at Frederiksted at 10 o’eloek. From an advertisement signed by Mr. Emile A. Berne and published in the St. Thomas Mail Notes of the 14th inst. we copy the following schedule: QUEBEC STEAMSHIP CO. Proposed sailings from New York to West Indies 1920. Ss. “‘Guiana’’’ Thursday, Sept. 16 Ss. '‘Korona’’ Saturday, Oct. 9 Ss. “‘Parima’’ Saturday. Oct. 16 Ss. “‘Guiana’’ Saturday, Oet. 23 . Ss. '‘Fort Victoria’’ Saturday, Nov. 6 Qs. “‘Korona’’ Wednesday, Nov. 17 Ss. “‘Parima’’ Wednesday, Nov. 24 Ss. ‘‘Guiana’’ Thursday, Dec. 2 Ss. “Korona’’ -Friday, Dec. 24 Subject to change wirhout notice - Correspondence. Christiansted, Sept. 16, 1920. Editor 'St. Croix Ans’’. Dear Mr. Editor:- Perhaps it is not in the editor’s place to publish eyervthing he thinks, and for this reason your silence is excused in these days when the prices of foodstuffs have dropped so materially that a square meal has come within the means of doz- ens who had to follow MaeSweeny’s ex- ample or at best go on quarter rations because our friends of the profiteer fra- ternity gouzed and skinned people so they almost longed to die and be done with it Now, anyway, things have changed, and not only changed but im- proved. thanks to that champion of the people’s cause, Mr. M. A Pretto whose activities, as you justly intimated the other day, have done more than all the Fond Commissions, newspapers or any- thing else put together. There is no get- ~ ting away from the fact that the reason why we have fair prices ranging today is because Mr. Pretto placed his things on the market at a fair profit and, metaphor- ically speaking, put the noses of his competitors to the grind stone so they . had to get down several rungs of their ' H. C. L ladder and either deal honestly . with the public or shut duown. Peopie . ought to think for 'a moment on these things and bear in mind that without ' Mr. Pretto they would have been pay- - ing the same high prices all aiong the line, wherefore it is their moral duty . to support that man and see that his business is constantly patronised and + his goods bought promptly. He lis | the savior of the poor people in this . island, or at least in Christiansted, for if tomorrow Mr. Pretto closes his | grocery we will have to pay through ' our noses the self-same exhorbitant | prices as before he came with the sledge- | hammer labeled ‘‘FAIRPLAY’ and | smashed the H. C. B. (high cost of but- ' ter) and start=d the ball a rolling right ' through the goal. In today’s issue of . vour esteemed paper, 1 note the head- ' ing ‘‘Competition 1s the life of Trade’ | over an advertisementnf the Dan- ' ish American Grocery, the proprietor . of which is also a good man and 2 rea- . sonabl: one; but believe me as far as . Christiansted s concerned, it no longer . means much to say ‘‘competition is . the life of trade’’; what we must realize | 18 -that PREITO I 3 THE ILIPE OF COMPETITION, without which compe- tition there would probably not have appeared those ads. seen in your paper recently. l.et’s call a spade a spade - and when we talk about the drop in '+ prices of foodstuffs, let us be fair and L. say "PRETTODID IT" Yours | OLD COOK.