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SH URG X ANLE CHRISTIANSTED THEATRE 5.30. THURSDAY EVENING 8.30. x X 3 » -'. = ' *Mary Mac Laren” in “Creaking Stairs®. AN ORIGINAL STORY OF A GIRL WHO TOOK LI;*E AS IT CAME CAST: : “Dear Lane”’ e ‘Mary Mac Laren = Mare Wannels. .00 omo Hepbert Prior. Fred Millard: ... .. Co s eSR N L The Buyer. : iy e ....Clarrissa Selwyn. Plsie .. WL oo o s EOOTSTIN ISR, A = 2 : : Story by Evelyn Campell. o/ - ‘Dearte Lane’ is one of those very unmoral giris, who takes life as it comes, and shc has “‘an affair’® wits Mark Winfield, with never a thought of the present or the future Then she marries Fred Millard and finds love in a cottage even more delight- ful than,being a “great lady’”’. Winfield again cedsses ner path but during a visit to her he dies in the iitti- pariour of her home, and '‘Deavie Lane’’, fearful tnat her hus- band will suspect her, seeks to dispose of*the body, but only succeeds 1o making things worse, and it is only the cool-headed boarder who calmly brings safety and fixes the stairs of the past that they may never creak again in the future, . : “Dearie [ane’”’, like many other Frailk Women, takes the way of least resistance to Fancied Happiness, But the Little Decefts of Life Sounds Alirm like the Creaking Stairs at Midnight : TS The Beautitful .‘‘Mary Mac Laren’’ Has in this Pieture a Fitting Sacecessor to her famous play in ‘‘Shoes’;. . . b A Story of True Life that is closer to Eve yday Than Mos. Persons real ze. > . & DMISSION, - ; Reserved Sem's. ... ... o : : e LS 40e : Two first and two last rows of reserved seats dw el R e olle Generaluntrante. . ... NN el e Children 20 and 10ec. The new town-clof£ is now installed and the welcome and tamiliar peals of the o'd bell are once more heard. This clock docs not strike the quarters as did the old one, onlv the full hours which, while not so accomodating, will nevertheless prove a source of great help to the public. The Creoile arrived here: this morning with St. Thomas mails. W 2 have been asked to mention that the Native Brass Band will give a con- cert on the Whnarf this evening. OFFICIAL NKW»H S ,a T - Judge C. G, lyiele who returned irom leave in the States last week resumed his duties as Judge of the District Court of St. Thomas this morning. : mr. George A. Keyser o Omaha, Ne- braska, rvecently appointed “overnment Attorney, arrived via steamer Guiana and wili remain in St. Thomas for a shert period before entering upon duty in St. Croix , : Bandmdster Alton .A.-. Adams. U. S. “Navy, of the Navai Band St. Thomas, . has been given a permanent appointment in that rating by the Navy Department. To the Editor of the ‘'St. Croix " Aws.”’ Dear Sir :- . I am se~ding you enclosed here- with, a copy of the Court’s Sentence in . the Case Feimer Andersen and P. Adam- sen, Plaintiffs, vs. Dr. Longfield Smith, Defendant. [ believe the public of St. Croix would be interested in seeing the whole ot this published. I am, Yours very truly : LONGFIELD SMITH. Agronomist wn Chirge. Copy. . CHRISTIANSTED’S TOWN COURT IN ORDINARY SITTING - was on August 9th. in the Case : No. 1, 1920. Folmer Andersen and P. Adamsen, Plaintiffs : i V 8 AGQTION FOR LIBEL. b, Long?el(? Smith o Defendant.’. e Passed the foliowing ’ . SENTENCE The Plaintiffs in this Case Foimer An- dersen and P. jAdamsen sued.the [eféen- dant Longfield Smith for Libel, in conse- gquence on an artucie aaddresed: to the “Editor ¢f the Avis’> dated February 15th; 1920 and published in the St. Croix i / e ! T v ORDER OF THE DAY for'the 2nd Ordinary Meeting ot the i Colonial Coun@il for St. 'Croix, . MONDAY, August 23, 1520, at one | o’clock p. m. | oo b e . | 1. Colonial Council Bill No. 44. ' ' Introduction of and lst Discussion - on Coloniad C:uncil Biii No. 44, Ad- i ditional *Money Bill to the Budget ; for:the Municipaiity of St. Croix for the fiscal year 1920-21. Repairs to | Frederiksted High School. Intro- f duced by Government. . i 2. Colonial Couneil Biti No. 45. - i Introduetion of and. Ist Discussion | on Colonial Council Bill No. 45, Reso- ! lution introdueced by (Government ! transferring furnitlire and equip- l ment to the Post Office Departinent g 3. Colonial Counecil Bill No. 46. - } Introduction of and Ist Discussion g ou Coionial Council Bill No. 46, Draft 3 of aun Ordinam_ze_ introduced by Gov- | ernment providing a Code of Sani- tary LLaws for St. Croix. ' 4. Colonial Council Bill No. 47. | Introduction of and Ist Discussion ! - on Colonial Council Bill No. 472 Draft , of an Ordinance introduced: by lst { _ Memter for Christiansted Country | District (Stakemann, amending Or- dinance establishing and deglaring ; the organization of thc Judiciary ] and Educational Departments ete. (‘olonia,y Conuncil Offige, Bt. Croix, . Angusttl2, 1920. - f : F. COULTER, ; - Vice-Chatrman. i Avis No. 38 of 17th. February a. y. in : which appeared the foliowing passage: '~ "“The worst featare of the case with ; “the Bethle.em Factory is that they ! “‘paid their contracting Planters for the ! ““first cane delivered during the crop ; “‘on the basis oi a quotation of $7.28 ; “for 100 Ib. of 96 ¢ Crystals, knowing i “full weli that $13.00 was the correct ! “‘price.’”’ : which article bears the signature of Long- i field Smith’’. i~ . The Plaintiffs assert that thexare the . Managing Directors: of Bethleh®m Fac- —tory and as such are the parties, who cal- ' culate and gecide the prices, which ac- . cording to tHe contracts are paid the de- liverers of cane to the Bethlehem ggctory ¢ and who are re?xmsible for payments, ' the article in question consequently ‘re- ~ fers to them and contains an accusation . against them, for intentionally and con- | traly to their better knowledge to have | paid a lower figure to théi¢ contracting . Planters for canes delivered to Bethle- | hem Factory than the actuai price, which { they were entitied to, whereby the im- ' pression is conveyed to the reider that ' they deliberately and intentionally cheéat-