anaheim-gazette 1911-05-11

THURSDAY, MAY 11 CHILDREN'S VOICES THRILL MULTITUDE HIGH SCHOOL GROUNDS CROWDED AT MAY FESTIVAL Teachers Accompany Pupils on Triumphal March Through Streets—Queen, Maid of Honor and Court Take Seats on Throne—Queen Gives Signal for Exercises to Begin—Opening Chorous Musical Triumph—Little Tots in Dances—Pretty High School Girls in Poppy and Spanish Dances — Maypole Dances Voices of 600 children blending in harmony as they sang "Away to the Woods," at the Mayday fete at the high school on Friday afternoon thrilled an audience of 3000 gathered to hear them and witness the Maypole dances. The chorous was under the leadership of Miss Edna Ames, teacher of music in the public schools, and was accompanied by the high school orchestra. The song was loudly applauded, as were the other musical numbers and dances on a really meritorious program. Great credit is due Miss Ames for the success of her work, as well as to the other teachers who had charge of children's dances and their costuming. The exercises were held in front of the high school, and the great crowd in attendance filled the lawn and overflowed into the street. The children gayly attired, and accompanied by their teachers, marched from the primary and grammar schools along Center street to the high school. The Queen of the May was impersonated. Miss Elleen Cayce, with Miss Dorothy Schellens, Maid of Honor, rode in a flower-bedecked carriage, drawn by a number of sturdy youths, who seemed to feel the honor Malds — Martha Whipperman, Agnes Weber, Gladys Goble, Vicenta Doyle, Violet Gervais, Inez Elliott, Frances Backs, Rachael Kuhlman. Banner men—Bert Conliff, Harold Curtis. Queen—Eileen Cayce. Carriage boys—Lester Berdrow, Herbert Gade, Albert Edson, Elmer Janss, Theodore Kuchel, Francis Holcomb, Tommy Kemp, Edwin Schleuter. Queen's Maypole—Eileen Cayce, Inez Elliott, Bessie Thompson, Agnes Weber, Gladys Goble, Vicenta Doyle, Violet Gervais, Frances Backs, Rachael Kuhlman, Alice Pannier, Augusta Lensing, Goldie Mathews, Tillie Morningstar, Martha Whipperman, Elva Stark, Hazel Kemp. A chorous of the 600 children, composed of tots of the primary grade to students of the high school, sang sweetly "Away to the Woods" as the Queen entered the grounds. After the grand march little Dorothy Schellens, maid of honor, sweetly sang the coronation song and then crowned the Queen. This floral crown was carried on a pink satin pillow and was a creation of white carnations and Cecile Bruner roses. The Queen sang the response, after which the attendants sang the greeting to "Queen Elleen." Her Majesty then gave the signal for the opening of the games which included "Hansel and Gretel" (Old German) by primary grades. Klappdanse (Swedish) was acted by the seniors and freshmen of High School. This dance deserves special mention. The young ladies represented the State flower, the California poppy, and looked charming in their fluffy suits of green and gold. The sixth grade girls represented "Reaping the Flax," as follows: (a) pulling, (b) loading, (c) spinning, (d) shuttle. Following amalgamation First violin and violin, Gnet, August Ward Backs; Webb, Mr. Al Leander Starling piano; Earl Fran The program Entrance of Chorus—An 600 voices, acclaimed school orchestra Coronation Song to the Response—T Greeting to full chorus. Queen's sig games. Hansel and Primary school Klappdanse-Girls. Reaping of Lobby Lou—Spanish Dance Butterflies—F Finnish Dance Morris Dance grade and high Minuette—Pr Raising of Maypole dance 1.—Primary 2.—Roses grade. 3.—Poppies 4.—Queen and Hobby Horse. FOUR-DAY San Diego Pre- Breaking Within a wee gin constructing mission parade pageant, which the ground-breaking and the great crowd in attendance filled the lawn and overflowed into the street. The children gayly attired, and accompanied by their teachers, marched from the primary and grammar schools along Center street to the high school. The Queen of the May was impersonated. Miss Eileen Cayce, with Miss Dorothy Schellens, Maid of Honor, rode in a flower-bedecked carriage, drawn by a number of sturdy youths, who seemed to feel the honor placed upon them. The queen and her court sat upon a throne erected at the west end of the lawn, while the chorous and orchestra were seated in front of the school building. The large assemblage applauded the singing and dancing, and each class of the little tots came in for its share of friendly appreciation. The grounds where the program was given, were bedecked with pennants, banners and ropes of flowers. Four Maypoles graced the center of the lawn. At 1 o'clock Horace Howard mounted a pretty black horse, rode up and down the principal streets and gave the bugle call announcing the May fete was about to open. At 1:30 600 grammar school pupils marched from their school to the high school, where the gorgeous pageant was at once formed and composed of the Queen, her court, and the 600 pupils. As Queen Eileen approached, a shout arose. It was the Queen with her maids, and every maid quite fitted to be a queen. The occupant of the throne was seated in a carriage with pink and white flowers. She was enwrapped in white. Half of her maids were gowned in pink and the other half in white. The Queen's court was: Heralds—Willie Thomas, Lane Bentz, Eugene Storm, George Kemp, Hugo Schulz. Maid of Honor—Dorothy Schellens. "Hansel and Gretel" (Old German) by primary grades. Klappdanse (Swedish) was acted by the seniors and freshmen of High School. This dance deserves special mention. The young ladies represented the State flower, the California poppy, and looked charming in their fluffy suits of green and gold. The sixth grade girls represented "Reaping the Flax," as follows: (a) pulling, (b) loading, (c) spinning, (d) shuttle. Looby Loo was played by the primary department. The catchy Spanish dance was given by the sophomores in complete Spanish costume. The tiny tots of the first grade acted the butterfly dance with as much grace as the grown ups. The old English Morris dance was one of the best hits of the afternoon's festivities. This was composed of the fifth grade boys and high school young men. A minuet given by dainty tiny tots closed the games and the four Maypoles were then braided. The Queen and her attendants were at one pole. The fourth grade girls dressed as roses, and chorous boys were at another. The high school young ladies braided their Maypole with their school colors, purple and gold. The first graders braided their pole and the tiny tots deserve special mention for their successful entertainment during the afternoon. The hobby horse, managed by Franklin Walker of the fifth grade created much merriment for both young and old. Clarence Beebe of the high school, garbed in a clown outfit, acted his part as "fool," while "folly" was carried out by Miss Lila Reed. The stores of the city closed in order that the clerks might attend the festivities of the afternoon. The orchestra was composed of the SIXTH ANNIVERSARY Oldest established Jeweler Jewelry, Silverware, C SIXTH ANNIVERSARY Oldest established Jeweler Jewelry, Silverware, C At a great reduction. This being our sixth year of successful business come in and see our large stock we are offering at this sale. Remember were so well pleased with our goods and prices that they will su Ask For Our Special Gold Filled Beauty Pins AT 15c PER PAIR You will find everything marked in plain figures as usual. A child can buy at this sale as well as the shrewd judge of bargains B, HARTFIELD ANAHEIM GAZETTE following amateur artists: First violin, Helena Goodale; second violin, Gladys Shields; 1st cornet, August Wilkie; 2nd cornet, Edward Backs; 1st clarionet, William Webb, Mr. Alexander; 2nd clarionet, Leander Stark; flute, Wayne Goble; piano, Earl Fraser. The program was as follows: Entrance of the Queen. Chorous—Anaheim schools, about 600 voices, accompanied by the high school orchestra. Coronation Song—Maid of Honor. Song to the Queen—Her attendants. Response—The Queen. Greeting to Queen—Attendants and full chorous. Queen's signal for opening of games. Hansel and Gretel (Old German) Primary school. Klappdanse—High School Poppy Girls. Reaping of the Flax—Sixth grade. Lobby Lou—Primary tots. Spanish Dance—High school girls. Butterflies—Primary school. Finnish Dance—High School. Morris Dance (Old English)—Flith grade and high school boys. Minuette—Primary school. Raising of the Maypoles. Maypole dances by: 1. Primary school. 2. Roses and Thorns—Fourth grade. 3. Poppies—High school. 4. Queen and attendants. Hobby Horse. Fool. Folly. FOUR-DAY CELEBRATION San Diego Preparing for Ground-Breaking Festivities Within a week workmen will begin constructing floats for the big mission parade and historical night pageant, which are to be features of the ground-breaking celebration July BIG WATER SUIT NOW ON Valley Irrigators at War With Up-River Diverters The big water suit brought by the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Co., the Anaheim Union Water Co. and the Santa Ana River Development Co., the holding company of the first two named, against a long list of men and companies alleged to be diverting Santa Ana river water, surface and sub-surface, to non-riparian lands, is now on trial before Judge Conrey of the Los Angeles superior court. The case was set for trial on May 1, but the judge postponed the case for a week. The case is of great importance to this valley, since it is brought to head off the draining of the up-river underground supply. The plaintiff water companies are represented by Attorneys John D. Pope and A. W. Hutton of Los Angeles, E. E. Keech of Santa Ana and Richard Melrose of Anaheim. The defendants have an array of brilliant legal talent also. The attorneys for the defendants are E. W. Britt, Scarborough & Bowen, Leonard & Surr, Curtiss & McNabb and G. R. Freeman. The defendants are divided into a number of groups. In the first group are James Long, Paul Searles, E. H. Bagley, W. J. Hole, Fairchild, Bertrand, E. R. Feuerborn, W. G. Hall, S. J. White, G. R. Murdock, G. E. Pillsbury, J. C. Garvey, and the Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank. The complaint alleges that these people have sunk wells in Temescal creek at Auburndale and have diverted 250 inches of water to the Riverside Orange Heights tract to irrigate non-riparian land. They expected to take out 250 inches more. In the second group are E. L. Hazcocks, both surface and sub-surface flows, to flow down for the use of the Aanta Ana valley companies. The court is asked to enjoin the defendants from making diversions to non-riparian lands. TIM CARROLL ON EASY STREET Dumping Apparatus Will Handle 4,000,000 Tons This Season Tim Carroll expects to handle half a million tons of beets this season with his dumping apparatus in Orange and Los Angeles counties. In the country at large his dumps will handle four million tons of beets. This apparatus has become such an indispensable adjunct to sugar making that it is doubtful if the four factories in Orange county could operate without it. When beets were first raised here fifteen years ago for Chino, the method of unloading them into cars was by block and tackle. The work was tedious, and a line of 100 wagons were frequently stalled by the slow process. Mr. Carroll's inventive genius saw a solution of the problem, and the following year he erected a beet dump, the base of which was made of railroad ties, with inclines at each end. He drove a load of beets upon the dump, tilted them into a car standing upon a spur track, and his fortune was made. Doubters there were who smiled at his efforts, and said it was time and labor thrown away. The following year he erected the first beet dump at the side of the original dump, and beets were thereafter dumped therefrom. The block and tackle were cast aside, and beets were dumped expeditiously. No more lines of waiting wagons were to be seen. Farmers dumped their loads as fast as they could drive upon the platform. The task consumed but a few seconds. Mr. Carroll had taken out patents FOUR-DAY CELEBRATION San Diego Preparing for Ground-Breaking Festivities Within a week workmen will begin constructing floats for the big mission parade and historical night pageant, which are to be features of the ground-breaking celebration July 19-20-21-22 for the Panama-California Exposition in 1915. These floats are to be built by the Historical and Industrial Pageant Organization of Philadelphia, Chicago, New York and San Francisco, which is the same firm that built the floats and handled the pageant for the famous Hudson River Celebration in New York City. It has been practically settled that the war vessels of the Pacific squadron now making their headquarters at San Diego will have a part in the four days' celebration. The five cruisers and a dozen torpedo crafts will be illuminated each night and during the days of the celebration will participate in novel maneuvers. The officers and men, together with the army will take part in the various parades. In addition to the aquatic events already scheduled, it is proposed to hold a big ocean race for a gold cup, open to all yachts in the United States and the one winning the cup three times is to be the permanent owner. In order to accommodate the large crowd, San Diego citizens are arranging a novel method of entertaining. As a result every one is fully assured of being furnished with proper accommodations with no increase in rates. Transportation lines are offering half fare rates for the trip. All the news while it it news. The Gazette gives it first. FAILURE, Clocks, Cut Glass, and Ha... established Jeweler of Anaheim. Beginning Saturday, May 13th, we are going to sell our entire ware, Clocks, Cut Glass, and Hat successful business we are going to give our customers and the public a chance to buy high g his sale. Remember we are only making this sale once a year. People who bought last year ha s that they will supply their wants at this sale again, so get in with the wise shoppers, and tak GRADUATION GIFTS This is a fine time to buy your Graduation and June Wedding Present. We will keep them until you are ready for them. HAT PINS Get one of our special White Stone Hat Pins, Regular $1.50 values, this sale 75c. LAVALLIERS Don't forget to see the Lavalliers— something real new—at special price during this sale. IELD, JEWELER & ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA RECORD OF HIGHSCHOOL Higher Than That of Any High School in County For some years the patrons of the Anaheim Union High School have felt that the building was not a credit to the city, and therefore at the first opportunity have decided to build more pretentious and up-to-date buildings. Very satisfactory progress is now being made in the preliminaries neces series for building, and all are anxious to see the work proceed rapidly. The same patrons have been justly proud of the record which has been made by the school, in spite of the physical drawbacks of frequent rebuilding and somewhat cramped conditions. The school has always done well in oratorical contests and in debates, having had the honor in 1907 of winning the Southern California championship in debates, and winning annually an average of 50 to 75 per cent of a perfect score. In athletics not much has been done until recently, when the Board of Trustees saw fit to introduce athletics and gymnastics as a credit course. While it has been generally felt that effective academic work was being done, yet no definite report has been made on that point, and as that class of work is not so spectacular and could not be demonstrated to patrons, only as they visited the classes, therefore the following extracts from a recent report by the University Examiner of high schools in California will prove interesting: “This statistical study is an effort to ascertain the efficiency of the accredited schools through an examination of the scholarship records of their graduates who have been matriculated in the University on school credentials, without examination. “The scholarship records used in this study are exclusively those for the first half of the freshman year, since during that period the student is most nearly a product of his preparatory school. In the University records, grade 1 signifies excellence in a given course or subject; 2 thoroughly satisfactory work; 3 passable work; 4 conditioned work; 5 failure.” An average is struck for the school by dividing the sum of the products of the grades of scholarship and the units of work in each subject, by the total units of work carried by students from the given school, and the smaller the resulting number the better the record. Thus, 2.21 is a better record than 2.52, etc. Below is the record of several schools from 1901 to 1909: | Year | Anaheim | Fullerton | Huntington Beach | Orange | Santa Ana | Los Angeles High | Long Beach | | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | | 1901 | 2.33 | 2.65 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | | 1902 | 3.77 | 2.84 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | | 1903 | 2.71 | 2.19 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | During these years Anaheim has sent to the University 19 freshmen; Fullerton 18; Huntington Beach 1; Orange 1; Santa Ana 35; Los Angeles High 207; Long Beach Total also higher than that of larger neighboring schools. Only once, in 1908, did the record fall as low as the average for the whole State. During these years Anaheim has sent to the University 19 freshmen; Fullerton 18; Huntington Beach 1; Orange 1; Santa Ana 35; Los Angeles High 207; Long Beach 29. Total from the State 3965. A careful perusal of the table will show that since the time the present administration of the high school began in 1905, up to 1909, the average record of the Anaheim Union High School is not only higher than that of any other school in the county but also higher than that of larger neighboring schools. Only once, in 1908, did the record fall as low as the average for the whole State. The report for 1910 is not yet completed, but the records of the two Anaheim freshmen show no failures. Anaheim high school is now offering strong courses in commercial subjects manual training and domestic sciences, as well as the usual academic subjects and deserves a fair consideration from both friends and critics. GOLD AND SILVER PRODUCTION A report on the production of gold and silver in the United States in 1909, by H. D. McCaskey, of the United States Geological Survey, has just been issued as an advance chapter of the Survey's volume "Mineral Resources." The figures agree with those of the Director of the Mint, being the result of cooperation between the two bureaus, and are therefore final for both. The gold production was valued at $99,673,400 and the silver at $28,455,200, an increase over the figures for 1908 of $5,113,400 for gold and $404,600 for silver. The report includes figures and detailed statements of production by States, and comparisons of the total output for the last three decades. It also includes the statistics of imports and exports as well as tables of ore production. The report can be obtained by application to the Director of the Survey at Washington. Typical Plan for Valley I am trying to run the farm on what I think is the typical plan for this valley, that is, sugar beets, alfalfa and stock feeding. In doing this I plow up alfalfa for sugar beets, grow two crops of beets, then fertilize for the third crop. The fourth year it is put into oats and seeded back to alfalfa. The feeding of all alfalfa on the farm gives us the fertilizer to go back on the place. We put out about 2400 tons of manure each year and in that way keep the farm in a high state of fertility. The oats last year averaged over 100 bushels per acre. Beets over 18 tons and alfalfa a little less than five tons. Enough timber is being grown on the farm for the fuel supply. Rid your poultry house of mites and lice quickly and positively by spraying or painting Conkey's Lice Liquid about the roosts and walls. Guaranteed by H. H. Gardner & Co. to sell our entire stock of Hand Hand Painted China ance to buy high grade Jewelry at a very low price. It will pay you to bought last year have been waiting and asking us about this sale, as they shoppers, and take advantage of this unusual reduction of prices. ALSO CUT GLASS NAPPYS AT 75 CENTS They are beauties. Don't fail to come in early as this sale will only last a short time. R & OPTICIAN NIA