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Council of St Croix. * That the following days in each year, namely: The First Day of January; the 12th. day of Febru- ary; the 22nd. day of February; the 4th. dav of July; the First Monday in September; the Day declared by tha President as Thanksgiving Day; tne 25'n. and 25th. Days of De- cember, the Days upon which Good I'riday, Easter Monday and Whit Mboaday fall; the 30th. day of May; and every Sunday; and such other days as the President or the Gov- ernor may by proclamation declare t> be a holiday shall be legal holi- days in St. Croix for all purposes; Provided, that whenever any such day set apart as 2 legal holiday, other than the 25th day of Decem- ber, shall fa.l on Sunday, then, and in such case, the next succeeding < day shall be a legal holiday. All commercial papers falling due and all negntiab?)e instruments matur- ing on a Sunday or a legal holiday shall, for all purposes of preserting for payment, payment and (or) ac- ceptance, and (or) payable on the next secular day succeeding:. Section 2. ‘That all laws cr or- dinances, or parts thereof, in con- flict with the provisions of this or- dinance be, and the same are here- by repealed, and no other (ays than those hereinbefore sct apart as such shall be deemed or consid- ered legal holidays. St. Cro:x, February '2sth 1924, ROBT. L. MERVI, 2nd Member Frederiksted Town. 2nd Member for Frederikstead Country Di-triet (Curry)in introducing he crdi- , nence sud,-Mr. Vice-Chairman. The pr-poner of this bill requests e to ask that it be iurthered- He gives as his rea- son for i: Iroducing this ordinance that the days desired to be made publie holi- days :hculd be embodied in the ordi- nance, He believes that it woclid be bet- ter to hae the 12th day of February in the ordim:nce rather than have the Gov- ernor use his prorogative of muking it a holiday. The ordinance as offered today is the sar-e as the one now in existence except that the 17th day of January is struck ou: znd the 12th day of F'ebruary added and ziso the words: ‘‘Shculd any of these holidays fall on a Sunday the ““The Barquae Rosalia, Captain Hill, sailed yesterday for Philadelphia with a full cargo of molasses. etc. Among her passengors is Captain Newton, of the Coldstream Guards, who, with his brother, has been passing the winter upon their estates in this island. Those who make his acquaintance will find him rare- ly endowed with accomplishmants and virtues.”’ P (To becontinued.) following day may be observed as a holi- day instead.’”” On behalf of the propn- nent of the bill [ ask t it be furthered. (To be conzluded.) EDITORIAL. ; As will have been noted by an ad | which was inserted for the first time on | Saturday, Mr. M. A. Roman. proprietor | of Estate Lowvry Hill, has placed his milk | on the market selling directly to the con- | sumer instead of through tne Christian- | sted Croperative Dairy as heretofore. Mr. Roman i¢ established on the pre- | mises formerly known as Miss Marie | Fross’s store. As regards the open selling | of milk by individual dairyvmen it is | questionable whether the public has any- | thing to gain by it although it may in- | crease the returns of those entering upon | it. We have no axe to grind in this mat- | ter and neither wish to boost the Cooper- | ative Dairy nor oppose the retailers. ‘ However this is how we look at it: The | Christiansted Cooperative Dairy was z started some years ago by progressively 1 inclined farmers who it muast be sup- posed had previously given this matter their careful consideration and must have fouanad it at least in their own inter- est to establish this eooperative plan of disposinz of their milk and other dairy products. The arguments advanced at the time why this dairv was an improve- ment on the earlier method of serving the public are only too fresh to memory | to call for a repitition of them here. | Everybody appreciatest e sanitary hand- | ling, the facility to get milk at any time of the day, the advantage of having fresh butter at the table every morning, the skimmed milk which isa veritable | blessing to those less fortunate patrons | whose means do not admit of sweet | whole milk; cream that was otherwise | never seen here now an innovation of | the cooperative dairy; and so on. Os i late cheese is added to the list of things | the dairy effers. The business has to all | outward appearances prospered and just | recently an expert dairyman tfrom Den- ; mark has come out to still inprove the | quality of the products. This institution ‘ furthermore affords a living to a number | of natives. In all seriousness we ask, what’s the occasion for a change at this time? Is it in the interest of the public? ~ We can scarcely see our way to answerin ~ the affirmative since there were times ~ when the individual members of the Christiansted Cooperative Dairy had a - better opportunity of showing such in- terest and it was not shown. Does this ~ geparation of members mean better pro- ' ducts to the public? Hardly for at all events i: will involve he discontinuance ' 5T 0L A YD of some of the present ones such as but- ter and cheese for which the dairy is specially equipped and which the indivi- dual farmers do r.ot offer for the present at least. Will prices be cheaper? Per- haps for now until the dairy is forced outof business. On the whole we don’t like this chopping and changing in business and if the selling of milk individually spells the ultimate vclosing of the dairy then we fear it will do the commun- ty no good. Trat we have such an in- stitution in Christiansted is always an as- set to the nlace. One doesn’t have to be chasing about town to get a bottle of milk, and one feels tolerably certain that the milk served is clean and of a good quality. It is our opinion that this vlace cannot support two independent and fu' ly equipped dairies, and in attempting o create two we will soon have nre. 1} opening of a milk room by Mis. Jorgensen the other day did not last long. ¢robat - ly the dairy members will make an effort to adjust their differences it they have any and the institutian whiceh the public has grown to appreciate may yet be pe:- mitted to survive in the interest of all the farmers allke. LOCAL The Native Brass Band and the In. dustrial Band gave public concerts on the wharf yesterday afternoon and evening to the enjovment of apprecia- tive gacherings. It is advised that effective today the conversion rates for the transaction of postal money order business have been fixed at 5 and 6 cents U, S. money, for the Belgian and French franc respec- tively. Friends of the Rev. and Mrs, F. L. Gower, formerly of 3aint Paul’s Fred- eriksted. will learr. with regret of the recent death of Mrs, Gower under an operation ata New York hospital, ac- cording to news received by last Satui- day’s mail. She is survived by a daugh- ter, and little son 9 veurs old, The weather was exceedingly calm and close yesterday. The water in tne har- bor glistened without a ripple as a sheet of polished glass and the flags around hung limply at their poles. Toward mid- night a shower of rain fell which mea- sured at the fort this morning 23 lines and was the means of cooling the atmos- phere somewhat, keeping down the dust and adding a few gallons of drinking water to our diminishing supply. With this calm weather the mosquitoes are cut in full force. Since writing our editorial remarks the price of sweet milk has dropped all around, the dairy leading, at 6 cents a bottle. This is the people’s chance to get cheap milk while it lasts, Meat next we hear-