Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archive
A Publisher Extra® Newspaper

The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 8

Location:
West Palm Beach, Florida
Issue Date:
Page:
8
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

Page Eight THE PALM BEACH POST Thursday Morning, October 27, 1932 TRIBUTE PAID TO JUDGE DONNELLY The Church of Bethesda-by-theSea was crowded Wednesday afternoon by friends of Judge J. B. Donnelly, who assembled to pay final tribute to the aged municipal magistrate and vestryman of church. Judge Donnelly died Tuesday at his Palm Beach home and will be buried at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the family lot in Palatka. Before the funeral services Ferdinand V.

Anderson, organist, played a program of Judge Donnelly's favorite hymng on the chimes, and during the services "Abide With Me" and "Lead Kindly Light" were sung by Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Joseph D. Hill, Harvey Warwick and Hansford Dickens. The Rev.

William P. S. Lander, rector of Holy Trinity church, read the Episcopal service. Attending in a body were the Palm Beach Gardeners association, of which Judge Donnelly was a charter member, and the Palm Beach police. The town hall was closed in tribute to his memory.

Serving as an honorary escort were: James M. Owens, William Fremd, Town Manager L. Trevette Lockwood, Fred M. Delavan, E. M.

Brelsford, Roscoe T. Anthony, Adolph Jordahn, B. A. Maxfield. Jack Blair, Earl Blair, and M.

E. the police force were escort, and pall-bearers from the police department were: L. O. Ecklund, J. A.

Ecklund, John Menoher, J. T. Fountain, D. H. O'Brien and John Helpinstine.

Diphtheria, Typhoid Vaccination Available Those wishing to take advantage of immunization protection from diphtheria or typhoid fever are reminded that immunization treatment will be given twice weekly on Tuesday and Saturday at state board of health building by the city health department. On Tuesday afternoons at 2 o'clock and Saturday mornings at 9 o'clock there will be available toxin-antitoxin for diphtheria and typhoid vaccination. COMMODORE BROOK HURT Fort Lauderdale, Oct. A. H.

Brook, chairman of the Inland Navigation district developing the East Coast canal, suffered two fractured ribs and a broken wrist Tuesday, when he fell from the roof of his home here. A falling beam struck him on the back as he fell to the ground. While his injuries are painful, his condition is considered satisfactory, STAINLESS Same formula same price. la original form, too, if you prefer for COLDS VAPORU8 OVER MILLION JARS USED YEARLY Our Boat Will Arrive This Morning With a Cargo of Choice CRAWFISH Live 10c lb. Steamed lb.

All Varieties of Sea Food at Unusually Low Prices Hudgins Fish Co. 612 N. OLIVE AVE. PHONES 2-1084-8814 The place to buy fresh Sea Food PURCHASE OF "FREE" SCHOOL BOOKS IS EXPLAINED HERE Following receipt of complaints that students are being required to purchase school books here which are furnished by the state in other counties, Superintendent Joe A. Youngblood said Wednesday the state free law is uniform throughout textbook, Inasmuch as standardized schools require a more thorough course of study and wider variety of books than schools not standardized, Mr.

Youngblood said naturally there are schools in the state which do not require the purchase of as many in the schools of this county. a few counties finanas, cially able, the school boards purchase supplementary books, Palm Beach county has no funds with which to do this, Mr. Youngblood said. Although school books for the first eight grades were changed in all schools this year, some supple- ROOSEVELT-GARNER CLUB MEETING SET Five speakers are scheduled to address the Roosevelt-Garner club of Palm Beach this evening in a meeting at the resort town hall. starting at 8 o'clock.

Members of the Young Democratic League are scheduled to attend the meeting following a session of their own, starting at 7 o'clock, at the court house, according to E. Allen Dixon, club ity director. John Beacham, candidate for state senate, has been included in the list of speakers. Others are Mrs. C.

A. Hartmann, leader in the county democratic women's zation; Oscar G. Davies, resort publisher; E. M. Baynes and Egbert Beall, local attorneys.

J. F. McGinnis, chairman of the speakers' committee, will have charge of the meeting. Chamber Directors Will Meet Friday Both the retiring and the new directors of the Chamber of Commerce will meet Friday afternoon in a joint session at the chamber offices in the Commercial building on South Olive avenue. The meeting will start at 4 o'clock.

reports are scheduled to be by various committees at Written, this meeting, the last of the fiscal year. While incoming directors were named at the annual election on Oct. 18, officers will not be elected until the first meeting in November which probably will be Nov. 4. SHARK IS LANDED A nine-foot shark was landed last night at the Merchants and Miners dock by John A.

Roker, night watchman. A battle of more than was required before the shark could brought "St close enough to the dock to be shot. LUMBER IS DESTROYED Chipley, Oct. of undetermined origin destroyed more than 1,000,000 feet of lumber at the Hughes-Law sawmill near here Tuesday. A similar fire occurred at the same mill a year ago.

Scarcity of water hindered the firemen. There are 5,872 grain elevators with a capacity of 414,660,260 bushels in the western and eastern divisions of Canada. Sell us your old pen for $125 to $250 Allowance on a new Parker Sell Duofold your old pencil 10 Pen 1 for 75c to $100 toward new Parker Duofold Pencil Any old pen (of any make with gold point)- any mechanical pencil- -accepted as cash toward a brand new Parker Duofold. Not discontinued models but Parker's latest and finest Pens and Pencils, newest styles- smartest jewel-like color effects. as Bring good Duofolds.

in as your Hurry money old pen on before or the sale pencil, purchase ends. or of both, brand at once. new They're Parker 228 We say "Yes Ma'am" to our Cooks Women cooks prepare the food for the Hotel Lexington restaurants. That's why it's so delicious and wholesome. And Lexington restaurant prices, like its room rates, are sensible -35c for breakfast, 65c for luncheon and $1.00 for dinner in the main dining room.

$3 a day and up for Lexington rooms- $4 and up for two persons. HOTEL LEXINGTON In Grand Central Zone, Lexington Ave. at 48th St. NEW YORK CITY CHARLES E. ROCHESTER, General Manager Local Boy Will Head Group at University At a meeting of ministerial students attending the University of Florida, Jack W.

Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney W. Young, 172 Worth avenue, Palm Beach, has been elected president of the organization for the current year. NEW STREET LIGHT FIGURES HELD OVER A schedule of reductions in street lighting whereby the contract with the Florida Power Light company is reduced for the current fiscal year to $20,000 was held over last night by the city commission and a supplemental agreements tabled.

The reduction would total about $10,000. The figures of the contract were agreeable to the commission but the members were unanimous in their opinion that one clause of the supplemental contract, which stipulates that it has nothing to do with the original 10 year contract, be eliminated. Under this new agreement the number of lights remains intact but the candle power is reduced. The original contract was signed August 27, 1925, and amended in 1928 and again in 1930. Last year the lights were 180 at 100 candlepower (brackets); 104 at 100 candlepower; 495 white way standards at 250 candlepower.

Under the new schedule there will be 180 from 100 to 80; 200 white way from 250 to 100, and 295 from 250 to 80; 104 from 100 to 80. The new 80-candlepower lights will be operated on a "dusk to schedule at $22.50 per year. Under the supplemental contract the coming year would not be taken as a part original contract, which still seven Dots years to run. City Manager A. S.

Andersen and City Attorney J. Mark Wilcox were given the new supplemental contract and asked to try and work out an understanding with officials of the power company. R. D. Hill, local manager for Florida Power and Light company, was present at last night's meeting.

SALERNO NEWS Salerno, Oct. 26. Mrs. Esther Larson and Mrs. W.

H. Smith were visitors in West Palm Beach Tuesday afternoon. Little Billy Heuck of Stuart is staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Peck.

Jean Peck's condition is reported good, after suffering a broken arm last week in a fall. Mr. and Mrs. C. S.

Clayton and Mrs. F. H. Chandler were business visitors in West Palm Beach recently. Mr.

and Mrs. J. R. Porter and children have moved from their home in Golden Gate. The Welfare work is still continuing several days a week.

Bushes along the road have been chopped and burned. A TROPICAL FRUIT AFRICA, THE TAMARIND THRIVES IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA The tamarind, now cultivated in fruit of a magnificent East African a height of 80 feet. It consists of pods filled with an acid-sweet pulp tartaric and citric acids and some countries the tamarind pulp thrown into kegs, filled with shipped to foreign markets. The diluted, makes a cooling summer also regarded as a pleasant laxative. At the head of one of the most ditions ever fitted out in Spain for power in the New World, Hernando POLICE COURT Frank Murphy, vagrancy, 30 days suspended.

A. Wilder, negro, possessing liquor, $15 and costs or days. Margaret Stokes, disturbing the peace of Ruby Williams by fighting, both negroes, costs; Ruby Williams, costs. OF ONE ALL OF THE THE EARLY SPANISH CONQUERORS, THE RENONNED DE SOTO '1933 by Southern Features, Inc. Jacksonville, Fla.

on the shore of Tampa Bay in 1539 for the primary purpose of conquest and obtaining treasure. With about 600 well trained men, over two hundred horses and a drove of swine, he then began one of the most remarkable marches in military annals, traversing a great extent of what is now southern and western United States in his vain search, in the face of constant fighting with hostile Indians in an unknown land and without a dependable source of food. For three years his dwindling band continued its fruitless search until death ended Soto's adventurous career on the western bank of the Mississippi SHOES ASKED FOR NEEDY Florida, is the tree that thin brown shell containing acetic, potassium salts. In and seed are boiling syrup and syrup, highly beverage and is magnificent expethe extension of de Soto landed in 1542. Men's shoes, size are wanted at once, says an appeal issued Wednesday by the local Red Cross headquarters.

Anyone having shoes of this size that are in fair condition are asked to take them to 202 Comeau building or call 7514 and a messenger will call for them. Theft of gasoline from his automobile parked near the Jay-Cee diamondball park Tuesday night, was reported to police Wednesday morning by H. C. Fisher, 231 Dyer road. He listed two youths in a touring car as suspects.

in the Raw the Paul trayed natural "Nature black by Bransom the in ferocity panther the great of in Raw" animal inspired the "Bagheera," as by painter, famous por. the THE BLACK PANTHER nature MILD Raw is Seldom Book." "Nature and in the in seldom tobaccos have no place in cigarettes. raw BREAKERS HOTEL WILL OPEN ON DECEMBER 31 mentary books in the last two grades are being retained to lighten the financial burden for parents, Mr. Youngblood revealed. In a communication to The Post, Mrs.

Dorothy Brown, of 618 Thirtyeighth street, mother of a school child, wonders why county school children must buy books. "Mr. Martin as governor of Florida gave the state free school books through the sixth grade and our sister co coun. ties have free school books, so why don't we get them?" she asks. "Mrs.

L. E. Dairs, of Stuart, entered her 8-year-old girl in the fourth grade Northboro this week and had buy two books ato but did not have to buy any books fourth grade in Martin county. When she asked why she had to buy books when the state was furnishing them she was told that the tourists were here such a short time and didn't pay taxes and that it was on account of them." CUSTOMS MEN SEIZE WRECK OF AIRPLANE Parts of an alleged rumrunning plane which was wrecked near Indiantown early this week and which was being transported on two trucks through the city Tuesday night, were seized by customs border patrolmen. The officers confiscated the fuselage and wings of the plane which was being transported on two trucks.

Men on the trucks fled and escaped when confronted by the patrolmen on Tamarind and Lake avenues near Wright field. Officials believed the ship, a Curtiss Robin, was being transported to a repair field to be rebuilt. Neither the motor nor any of the undercarriage was on the trucks. FORT PIERCE NEWS Young Democrats Organize in St. Lucie Fort Pierce, Oct.

of a St. Lucie County Young Democrats' club has been effected tentatively and is to be perfected at a general meeting to be held at the court house Friday night at 7:30. Officers were chosen at the tentative organization as follows: president, Walker A. Liddon; vice presiJohn Pitts; secretary, Mrs. J.

B. Cone; treasurer, A. C. Simmons. Precinct committeemen were named follows: precinct 1, Robbert Gladin and Harriet Niemeyer; 2, Calvin Poppell and Evalyn Montgomery; 3, Ruth Kelly and Harry Reynolds; 4, Ben Summerlin and Mrs.

W. B. Jones; 5, Andrew T. Jorgensen and Bernice Smith; 6, Thad Carlton and R. Haislett; 7, Mrs.

E. T. Kinkade; 8, E. K. Sumner and Mary McManus; 9, M.

S. Starling. CITRUS FRUIT MOVES Fort Pierce, Oct. 26. -Twentythree more carloads of citrus fruit have been forwarded from the territory between Fort Pierce and Wabasso, inclusive, thus far this season than for the corresponding period last year, according to the icing records of the St.

Lucie Ice company here. The number handled thus far is 48. With two more packing plants having begun operations here, the movement is showing a gradual pickup, 18 cars having been shipped to date. Movement is not expected to get into full swing, however, before the mildle of November. Fort Pierce Notes Fort Pierce, Oct.

Marguerite Frere and Frank J. Guettler, both of this city, were united in marriage at a pretty ceremony held at St. Anastasia's Catholic church here Tuesday morning, with Rev. Fr. Beerhalter, pastor of the church, officiating, and members of the f-milies and a few friends attending.

Miss Mary McManus, niece of the bride, was the maid of honor, while the bride was given in marriage by her brother-in-law, P. L. McManus. Wedding music was furnished by L. L.

Maser, who gave two violin solos, Mrs. Maud McCombs, who played the wedding march, and Elmo James, who sang an appropriate number. Immediately following the ceremony, a wedding breakfast was served at the of the bride's brother-in-law sister, Mr. and home, Mrs. McManus.

Guests besides members of the wedding party were the Rev. Fr. Beerhalter, Mr. and Mrs. E.

A. Guettler, Miss Rose Ann McM us. Miss Kathryn Cairns and Mary Frere served. Afterward, and Mrs. Guettler Miss.

left for a wedding trip to points in North Carolina. Upon their return they will make their home in Maravilla here. Celebrating the birthdays of Mrs. Ralph Cain and W. N.

Crooks, a group of their friends gave a skating party at Holmes' casino. Members of the party besides the honorees were Mrs. W. N. Crooks, Ralph Cain, Mrs.

Nathan Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Emerson, Mr.

and Mrs. C. C. Reaves, Mr. and Mrs.

W. E. Grace, Mr. and Mrs. C.

D. Mustaine, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Grant, Miss Romona Jackson and Ray Saunders. Mrs.

E. D. Kroeker, at her home on South Seventh street, was hostess Wednesday afternoon to members of the Ace of Clubs. Mrs. C.

E. Boynton has returned from a trip to Norfolk, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ritten and three children of Sioux City, Iowa, have come here to make their home.

Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Ellinor, daughter, Marjorie, and son, Ranhave returned from a motor trip to Orlando.

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Rose and children were the recent guests of relatives at Melbourne.

Mrs. H. A. Holmes has returned to her home here from a stay of two months at Hendersonville, N. C.

Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Powers and Mrs.

Gladys Holmes and two sons were recent visitors at Kissimmee. The Breakers hotel will officially open for the 1932-33 winter season December 31, according to announcement released at St. Augustine. It will close April: 5. The announcement was made by W.

R. Kenan, and S. M. Loftin, receivers for the Florida East Coast Railway company, and received here late Wednesday. John W.

Greene, who has managed the large resort hotel since its opening here several years ago, will return as its manager for the coming season. The various golf links operated in conjunction with the hotels are now being put in condition and open for play during the season, the announcement stated. The Palm Beach Golf and Palm Beach Country clubs are resort courses operated by the Florida East Coast Hotel company, operators of the Breakers. Hotel Company Group Makes Inspection Tour Officials of the Florida East Coast Hotel company in Palm Beach Wednesday on their annual fall inspection, declined to make any comment at this time on their plans for the winter season. W.

R. Kenan, president; L. C. Haines, vice-president and treasurer; Scott M. Loftin, general counsel, aboard Mr.

Kenan's private car, arrived Wednesday morning from St. Augustine. They were joined in conference here by H. E. Bemis, vice-president and manager of Royal Poinciana, hotel.

Today the party the Everglades to view the hotel and railroad properties there, and Friday to Miami and Key West, going straight from Miami to St. Augustine for the week-end. Japanese to Offer Disarmament Plan Tokyo, Oct. new disarmament plan, distinctly Japanese and differing from the American and British suggestions for naval reduction is to be advanced by Japanese representative when the disarmament conference resumes next February at Geneva. Its details are a closely guarded secret, and not even an idea of its general character was offered.

A high official said, however, the plan will embrace all naval categories and will be sufficiently complete to stand alongside the posals by President Hoover price Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain, GIVING HIS ALL Hunter: Just met a great big GAS THEFT REPORTED bear in the woods! Second Hunter: Good! Did you give him both barrels? First: Both barrels be blowed. I gave him the whole blooming gun. -Answers. The low temperature record for Illinois is 23 degrees below zero. No raw tobaccos in Luckies -that's why they're so mild STRU finest, the very finest mellowing, are then given the WE buy tobaccos the all the world- benefit of that Lucky Strike puribut that does not explain why fying process, described by the folks everywhere regard Lucky That's Strike as the mildest cigarette.

why folks in every city, town and TOASTED" The fact is, we never overlook the hamlet say that Luckies are such truth that "Nature in the Raw mild cigarettes. The American 1932. CIGARETTES is tobaccos, Seldom after Mild" proper so these aging fine and That 'It's package of mild toasted" Luckies Tobacco Co..

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

Publisher Extra® Newspapers

  • Exclusive licensed content from premium publishers like the The Palm Beach Post
  • Archives through last month
  • Continually updated

About The Palm Beach Post Archive

Pages Available:
3,841,130
Years Available:
1916-2018