anaheim-gazette 1915-12-09

NEW INDUSTRY IS TALKED OF HERE PLANT FOR DRYING AND CONDENSING VEGETABLES MAY LOCATE IN ANAHEIM REPRESENTATIVE OF COMPANY THINKS ANAHEIM THE IDEAL TOWN FOR ENTERPRISE There is a strong probability that a valuable addition will shortly be made to Anaheim's industries, and that too, without the people being called upon to purchase a lot of stock and furnish the capital. The O. Q. Beckwith Company of Seattle, a vegetable preserving and drying company, has turned its eyes in this direction, and is so favorably impressed with the possibilities of Anaheim and its surrounding territory, that in all probability a plant will be erected here. The company now owns a dozen plants, situated in Washington, Colorado and Nebraska, each employing because of their surprise at a remarkable action of the student body who, it is believed, have established a world's record by asking that the Christmas two weeks' vacation be abolished this year. Not only that, but they demanded the right to have classes meet the day after Thanksgiving, which had been declared a holiday; and it is believed that they have dark designs on the Easter recess. The students' explanation of their idea is that they like to work and see no reason why they should take vacations if they don't want to. ANAHEIM HIGH SCHOOL IN TWO DEBATES Will Meet Fullerton at Auditorium And Santa Ana on Its Home Grounds Students of the Anaheim Union high school will wrestle with two foes in forensic debate Friday evening. This is the opening of the Orange County High School Debating League, the five high schools of the county forming the league. It happens that two debates in which Anaheim is engaged fall upon the same night, consequently four champions of the local school will contest for honors. One of the debates will be held at the high school auditorium, Fullerton EASY VICTOR ANAHEIM DEBATES WHITTIER HIGH SCHOOL ED BY LOCAL FIRST DEBATE FULLERTON AND A CONTEST IN AUDIOMORROW EVEN The cast off mantles '15 of the Anaheim Universe appear to have fallen shoulders. The junior who are the seniors stepped into the forefront to maintain the high school both in intellect and on the athletic field. The Anaheim school bate and first in athletics it is expected to reconstituted. The first contest of Southern California H to purchase a lot of stock and furnish the capital. The O. Q. Beckwith Company of Seattle, a vegetable preserving and drying company, has turned its eyes in this direction, and is so favorably impressed with the possibilities of Anaheim and its surrounding territory, that in all probability a plant will be erected here. The company now owns a dozen plants, situated in Washington, Colorado and Nebraska, each employing one hundred people, and it is proposed to build one of the same capacity at Anaheim. Its goods are put up by a patented process owned by the company, by which seven pounds of green vegetables are compressed into one pound. Under the process the vegetables retain their green flavor, and one pound of dried product is equal in nutriment to seven pounds of green. Recently the company received an order from Germany for forty tons of dried vegetables, which is equal to 280 tons of green. Miss Gilmore a representative of the company, was in Anaheim this week looking over the situation and consulting with J. W. Duckworth, secretary of the board of trade. She was enthusiastic over the possibilities of this section and declared she would recommend the establishment of a plant here forthwith. "This is the greatest vegetable country in the world," she declared. "Here everything grows to perfection, and moreover you can raise vegetables the year round, whereas in other sections a portion of the year is closed to us. This is an ideal place for our business, and I shall recommend it to our house." The company, by its patent process, condenses and dries potatoes, tomatoes, beans, cauliflower and all vegetables which the soil of this region produces in abundance. A plant employing one hundred men can handle an immense amount of these products within a year, and its establishment here would give the vegetable industry a stimulus. MAY TEACH BY MOVING PICTURE Dr. G. E. Bailey of the U. S. C. is conducting an important series of experiments which will aid in establishing definitely the value of moving pictures in the schools. Many educators believe that teaching done by means of the "filckering films" is more effective than any other. The United States human education at Washoughey will wrestle with two foes in forensic debate Friday evening. This is the opening of the Orange County High School Debating League, the five high schools of the county forming the league. It happens that two debates in which Anaheim is engaged fall upon the same night, consequently four champions of the local school will contest for honors. One of the debates will be held at the high school auditorium, Fullerton speakers being the opponents. Morris Martenet and Harold Goodale are the Anaheim debaters, but the Fullerton orators have not yet been announced. At Santa Ana on the same evening Dale Quarton and John Bradley will uphold Anaheim's side of the question in a debate with Santa Ana high. The same question will be debated at both places, but it will not be announced until twenty-four hours before the opening of the debate, and the contestants will be given sides a half-hour before going on to the rostrum. STANDARD BEAN BAGS Standard sized bean sacks made of 12 ounce burlap, and with 100 pounds capacity, have been adopted for the California bean crop, according to information received. The decision to standardize the bags was reached at a recent meeting of the Bean Dealers association and the bag people. Mr. Morris is confident the new plan will prove advantageous to both the bean producer and the buyer as there has heretofore been much confusion on account of the varying size of the bags, many of which contains only 75 pounds. The standard 12-ounce burlap will also insure good wearing qualities for the bags, so they can stand long shipments. A standard bag will enable the purchaser to know he is getting his money's worth in size as well as quality, and every participant in bean marketing will be benefited by the confidence which will be engendered. Orange county growers should exercise care in ordering sacks for the 1916 crop, as the shippers will expect the standard size sacks to be used. WON'T SEIZE RIPE FRUIT An announcement by the Secretary of Agriculture, which is of great importance to the orange growing districts of Southern California, was telegraphed to L. M. & C. O. Banks Co., citrus brokers, by Congressman Curry. Students of the Anaheim Union high school will wrestle with two foes in forensic debate Friday evening. This is the opening of the Orange County High School Debating League, the five high schools of the county forming the league. It happens that two debates in which Anaheim is engaged fall upon the same night, consequently four champions of the local school will contest for honors. One of the debates will be held at the high school auditorium, Fullerton speakers being the opponents. Morris Martenet and Harold Goodale are the Anaheim debaters, but the Fullerton orators have not yet been announced. At Santa Ana on the same evening Dale Quarton and John Bradley will uphold Anaheim's side of the question in a debate with Santa Ana high. The same question will be debated at both places, but it will not be announced until twenty-four hours before the opening of the debate, and the contestants will be given sides a half-hour before going on to the rostrum. Nearly two hundred high school accompanies to Whittier, for the purpose of encouraging enthusing local speakers, and carried with them was a revelation to the state citizens of the Quake boys needed no outside ever, as they easily oppONENTS and had fifth to spare. This is a story considering that debates the points were widely contested on both scales between the two at such an even balance difficult to decide both last debate of the contest between Anaheim geles for the championference between these teams was only one point. The Anaheimmers have no work before them this season. There are in the Southern California League, and they are state. Three of them geles, namely, L. A. Hile and Polytechnic. The anaheim, Pasadena, Los Diego, Whittier and O number will gradually MAY TEACH BY MOVING PICTURE Dr. G. E. Bailey of the U. S. C. is conducting an important series of experiments which will aid in establishing definitely the value of moving pictures in the schools. Many educators believe that teaching done by means of the "filckering films" is more effective than any other. The United States bureau of education, at Washington, has asked universities in all parts of the country to conduct uniform experiments to determine the relative value of moving pictures and lectures. Dr. Bailey is one of the men selected to carry out this work. One group of students is shown a moving picture film of an educational character. Another group sees the film and hears a lecture on the same subject, and a third group hears the lecture only. Then the students are examined at the end of 24 hours, a month and three months, to see how much of the information has stuck in each instance. The lecture and the motion picture scenario are both the work of Dr. Bailey, who is a national authority on their subject. The Use of Explosives in Agriculture. COUNTY'S TAXES According to the figures given out by the grand jury the taxes of Orange county for the past four years were as follows: 1912 $ 891,447.41 1913 1,005,486.59 1914 1,208,521.77 1915 1,460,937.79 The school taxes amounted to $851,-153.85, or over 50 per cent of the total. STUDENTS BREAK RECORD WON'T TAKE VACATION The faculty of the college of Fine Arts, at the University of Southern California, are still gasping for breath Anaheim Gazette Anaheim, California, Thursday, December 9, 1915 EASY VICTORY FOR ANAHEIM'S DEBATERS WHITTIER HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATED BY LOCAL ORATORS IN FIRST DEBATE OF SEASON FULLERTON AND ANAHEIM WILL CONTEST IN AUDITORIUM TO-MORROW EVENING The cast off mantles of the class of '15 of the Anaheim Union High School appear to have fallen upon capable shoulders. The juniors of a year ago, who are the seniors of today, have stepped into the forefront and bid fare to maintain the high reputation of the school both in intellectual pursuits and on the athletic field. Last year the Anaheim school was first in debate and first in athletics. This year it is expected the record will be maintained. The first contest of the series of the Southern California High School De- an empty honor. Anaheim won three debates and lost one to Los Angeles by less than two points. Los Angeles won three and lost one to Anaheim by seven points. In the total score Anaheim led the league by seven points, yet Los Angeles carried off the championship banner because it won the final contest. The next debate will be with Los Angeles high school. The date, place and subject are not yet announced, but it will probably be held in this city. Anaheim students will be glad to meet their chief opponents of last year. COUNTY CLERK WILLIAMS UPHOLD BY CONFERENCE California Clerks Decide Registration Must be Non-Partisan The decision of County Clerk Williams to print registration affidavits without giving party affiliation is in accordance with a decision reached at a conference in San Francisco. Williams has received the following circular letter from San Francisco: "The new registration, which opens on the first of the year, will contain only non-partisan registrations, unless the courts decree otherwise. "This decision was reached at a conference Saturday afternoon be- FIRE DESTROYS E. CENTER ST. RESIDENCE HOME OF W. T. ALLING GUTTED BY FLAMES AT 11:30 O'CLOCK SATURDAY NIGHT HOUSE BELONGED TO AND WAS THE FORMER HOME OF MRS. SUSAN BEEBE Fire within one hundred feet of the city hall Saturday night almost completely destroyed the home of W. T. Alling together with most of its contents. The fire started at 11:30 o'clock, its origin being a mystery. Mrs. Alling, Miss Leota Alling and a baby were the only occupants of the house at the time. The ladies had just retired for the night when a crackling noise was heard. Miss Alling thinking someone was at the front door got up to investigate, but seeing nobody returned to her room. Mrs. Alling then decided to inspect the rear, and on opening the shoulders. The juniors of a year ago, who are the seniors of today, have stepped into the forefront and bid fare to maintain the high reputation of the school both in intellectual pursuits and on the athletic field. Last year the Anaheim school was first in debate and first in athletics. This year it is expected the record will be maintained. The first contest of the series of the Southern California High School Debating League in which Anaheim participated, was held at Whittier Friday evening, and resulted in an easy victory for the local orators. The question was, "Resolved, that the closed shop is beneficial to the best interests of the people of the United States." George Kemp and Arthur Coons represented Anaheim and were given the affirmative side of the question, while Cooper and Seale argued in the negative for Whittier. The judges were Prof. Elliott of Long Beach, Prof. Knowles of University of Southern California, and Prof. Ferguson of Polytechnic High. Their findings footed up 198 points for Anaheim and 183 for Whittier. Nearly two hundred pupils of the high school accompanied the debaters to Whittier, for the purpose of 'encouraging, enthusing and stimulating' local speakers, and the noise they carried with them was something of a revelation to the stalem and serious citizens of the Quaker town. The boys needed no outside stimulus however, as they easily trimmed their opponents and had fifteen good points to spare. This is a remarkable victory considering that in last year's debates the points were so hotly and ably contested on both sides that the scales between the two usually swung at such an even balance that it was difficult to decide between them. In the last debate of the season the great contest between Anaheim and Los Angeles for the championship, the difference between the two debating teams was only one and two-thirds points. The Anaheimmers have some strenuous work before them in the debates this season. There are nine schools in the Southern California Debating League, and they are the best in the state. Three of them are in Los Angeles, namely, L. A. High, Manual Arts and Polytechnic. The others are Anaheim, Pasadena, Long Beach, San Diego, Whittler and Compton. This number will gradually be lessened by The decision of County Clark Williams to print registration affidavits without giving party affiliation is in accordance with a decision reached at a conference in San Francisco. Williams has received the following circular letter from San Francisco: "The new registration, which opens on the first of the year, will contain only non-partisan registrations, unless the courts decree otherwise. "This decision was reached at a conference Saturday afternoon between the county clerks of fifteen counties, Speaker C. C. Young of the State Assembly, Registrar Harry Zemansky of this city and representatives of the attorney general's office. "The county clerks determined to continue the present system of non-partisan registration on the new registration and to prepare a new supply of non-partisan registration affidavits. No declaration of party affiliation will be entered on the new registration unless the courts should issue writs of mandamus, compelling the county clerks and registrars to do so. "A circular letter to this effect was drawn up, and copies will be sent to all the county clerks in the state who did not attend the conference. "The conference recommended that, if an extra session of the legislature should be called for the purpose of rectifying the tangle in the election laws, the new non-partisan registration law be allowed to remain intact. It was suggested that the old direct primary law, which was revived when the so-called non-partisan direct primary law was repealed at the recent referendum election, be amended to provide for declarations of party affiliation at the polls." EBELL SOCIETY For several years past the Ebell has given a children's party some time during the Christmas season. Following out this pretty custom about fifty children were their guests on last Saturday afternoon. After the formal program was rendered Mrs. Terry introduced to the children a quaint old-fashioned grandmother (impersonated by Mrs. C. E. Chamberlain) in a costume of fifty years ago, accompanied by a number of "Mother Goose" children in appropriate costumes. "Grandmother" delightfully entertained the children with "oMther Goose" stories and so interested did they become in them that the time passed all too quickly. Each child was presented Kling together with most of its contents. The fire started at 11:30 o'clock, its origin being a mystery. Mrs. Alling, Miss Leota Alling and a baby were the only occupants of the house at the time. The ladies had just retired for the night when a crackling noise was heard. Miss Alling thinking someone was at the front door got up to investigate, but seeing nobody returned to her room. Mrs. Alling then decided to inspect the rear, and on opening the door into the kitchen discovered that the room was in flames. The fire had not gained much headway at the time of its discovery, but by the time the alarm was given and the fire department was on the scene, the entire rear of the building was in flames. Seeing the headway the fire was making an effort was made to save the household goods, but beyond getting out a piano and a few other articles nothing was saved. The goods not destroyed or injured by fire were damaged by water. The house is almost a complete wreck. It is charred on the inside and numerous holes are burned in the roof. It is probable that the shell will have to be demolished and completely rebuilt. It belongs to Mrs. Susan Beebe, and is only partially insured. Mr. Allings carried no insurance on the household goods, and his loss was heavy. No cause can be assigned for the fire. There was no gas burning in tue house at the time. The man who blows the siren again gave a wrong interpretation of the signals. It is seldom that people can locate a fire by listening to the siren. On this occasion the signal was for an outlaying precinct in ward 3, whereas the fire was in ward four and in the business district. HARTFIELD'S NEW FIXTURES FINEST IN THE SOUTH Several Thousand Dollars' Worth of Holiday Goods Received This Week B. Hartfield is one of the optimistic business men who refuse to believe in hard times—especially at Christmas Time. This week he received a consignment of several thousand dollars' worth of goods, mostly for the holiday trade, and he expects to sell it. He says he can see no reason why the trade in high grade holiday goods will not be heavy this season, and he has prepared for it. Mr Hartfield has just finished his new reel. Uncle Torr, "State masters cows to tuberculosis dairies." "That must be retailing whichever Mile." He is so these we will have meant to means cares." The Anaheimers have some strenuous work before them in the debates this season. There are nine schools in the Southern California Debating League, and they are the best in the state. Three of them are in Los Angeles, namely, L. A. High, Manual Arts and Polytechnic. The others are Anaheim, Pasadena, Long Beach, San Diego, Whittier and Compton. This number will gradually be lessened by elimination as the weaker schools fall before the eloquence of the stronger ones, until at the wind up the two highest on the list will fight alone for the championship cup. Anaheim has made a splendid start and confidently expects to again be one of the contestants for championship honors. If so it is to be hoped the debaters will receive better treatment than that accorded them in the final contest last spring. At the close of the season last year Anaheim was leading the league with a good lead. Before the final debate San Diego and Los Angeles were running neck and neck for second place, but Anaheim defeated San Diego and Los Angeles nosed out its opponents, thus giving it the right to contest with Anaheim for the championship. The debate was held at Polytechnic high school on May 21. The question was, Resolved, that the short ballot has a safer tendency in American government than the initiative." Anaheim was represented by Frank Schacht and Fred Owen, who argued for the negative as the Los Angeles people refused to debate until they were permitted to select the subject and choose their side of it. It was a hot contest—one of the best debates ever held by California schools, and Los Angeles was given the decision by one and two-thirds points. According to the rules of the debating league Los Angeles was entitled to the championship banner, but it was B. Hartfield is one of the optimistic business men who refuse to believe in hard times—especially at Christmas Time. This week he received a consignment of several thousand dollar's worth of goods, mostly for the holiday trade, and he expects to sell it. He says he can see no reason why the trade in high grade holiday goods will not be heavy this season, and he has prepared for it. Mr. Hartfield has just finished putting in complete new fixtures in his store, and now has one of the finest jewelry establishments in the Southland, outside of Los Angeles. The cases and fixtures were put in by C. S. Bentley, of the Western Show Case and Fixture company. All the woodwork is of mahogany, giving the interior of the building a uniform and pleasing appearance. The Christmas goods were unboxed and placed on display first of the week, and visitors to the store can see them and at the same time admire the new and costly fixtures. Mr. Hartfield announces a grand opening of his holiday stock on Saturday, when everything will be ready for the Christmas shopper. ADVISES DAIRIES TO PREPARE FOR NEW LAW Ray Hasson of Hollywood, State Inspector, Visiting Orange County Dairymen "Dairies of this section should begin right now to get their herds and dairies into shape for meeting the requirements of the new state law that is to go into effect on October 1, 1916," declared Ray Hasson of Hollywood, state dairy inspector. Hasson is in Orange county on a tour of the daries in this vicinity. While here he is telling the dairymen about the new law, and he is advising them to begin right now to meet the Zette. 1915 Number 10 GSTROYS ER ST. ENCE WELLING GUTTED. 11:30 O'CLOCK NIGHT TO AND WAS HOME OF MRS. REEBE hundred feet of the night almost comthe home of W. T. most of its constarted at 11:30 being a mystery. nota Alling and a occupants of the OIL FIELD NOTES A. L. Anderson, Dan Lowery, Frank Brown, Clyde Kelley and Lee Hamilton of the Murphy lease, joined the Elks at Whittler last week. Nick Sanchez of Murphy is replacing S. N. Bradley as yard foreman. Bob Wilson, whose hand was painfully crushed last week while working on a rig at the Emery lease, is very much improved. C. Otinger of the Emery, who was badly cut up about the face in an auto accident last Thursday, is also doing nicely, and will soon be back at work. George Williams, formerly of the Head Drilling company, left for Taft, Cal., one night last week. West Coast well No. 70, is being drilled. They are also erecting a rig for another new well. A. B. Criden of the Murphy lease, left to visit his father at Horse Branch, Ky. Bill Beason of the Coyote camp, left last week for the Lost Hills district, to work for the Standard there. Tom Reams of the Murphy, is away on a visit. Fred Mayer of the Murphy, will be in Whittler for the next two weeks working on some pumps for the Standard. George Allen has left the Coyote ROY CHARLESTON BEING TRIED FOR THEFT YOUNG MAN ACCUSED OF ROB-BING HIS EMPLOYER NOW FACING A JURY I. N. CAMP, THE DAIRYMAN, ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF DR. O. H. GREGORY Roy Charleston, the young man who, some months ago, was arrested charged with wholesale stealing from the Graham Furniture company where he was a trusted employee, is now on trial in superior court. The trial began Tuesday but most of the day was occupied in securing a jury. Attorneys H. G. Ames of this city and Peck of Los Angeles, are defending Charleston while District Attorney Koepsel is prosecuting. Charleston is accused of carrying on a system of robbery extending over a period of more than a year. The A. B. Criden of the Murphy lease, left to visit his father at Horse Branch, Ky. Bill Beason of the Coyote camp, left last week for the Lost Hills district, to work for the Standard there. Tom Reams of the Murphy, is away on a visit. Fred Mayer of the Murphy, will be in Whittler for the next two weeks working on some pumps for the Standard. George Allen has left the Coyote camp and is now at the Murphy lease. AUTOS INCREASING Figures compiled by the Automobile Publishing company, publishers of the automobile director and automobile statistics up to December 1st, show the number of autos in the cities surrounding Los Angeles to be increasing rapidly. The percentage of gain over last year is nearly 25 per cent. Following is approximately the number of cars of various makes in the cities adjacent to os Angeles: Pasadena ... 4825 Long Beach ... 3002 Santa Ana ... 2114 Pomona ... 1400 Riverside ... 1310 San Bernardino ... 1239 Redlands ... 1150 Anaheim ... 784 Whittler ... 750 Orange ... 732 Santa Monica ... 670 Monrovia ... 410 Venice ... 350 Redondo Beach ... 255 Ocean Park ... 248 drastic inspection to which dairies and dairy products will be put when the new regulations are effective. "Under that law," said the inspector, "all milk that is sold in this state must be Pasteurized or be from cows that have favorably passed the tubercular test. That means a radical change will be necessary in most dairies. "That law provides that all milk must be sold according to grade, and retail bottles must be marked showing what grade of milk is in the bottle. Milk is to be scored, and a dairy is to sell its milk in accordance with these scores. Many of the dairies will have to have a far better equipment than they now have. It also means that dairies that milk in corns cannot make the high grade." Graham Furniture company where he was a trusted employee, is now on trial in superior court. The trial began Tuesday but most of the day was occupied in securing a jury. Attorneys H. G. Ames of this city and Peck of Los Angeles, are defending Charleston while District Attorney Koepsel is prosecuting. Charleston is accused of carrying on a system of robbery extending over a period of more than a year. The goods which were recovered from various places, consisted of rugs, bedroom suits, tables, wall paper, paints, in fact, a little of everything that is carried in a large furniture establishment. Mr. Graham had been missing articles for more than a year, and finally secured evidence pointing to Charleston as the man who was robbing him. In company with an officer he searched the Charleston home on Kroeger street, and picked out half a dray load of stuff which he recognized as having been taken from his store without the formality of paying for the same. Mrs. Charleston declared that all the articles were hers and had been paid for by her. The home of J. M. Pickering at Hollywood, also yielded up a number of articles including a birdseye bedroom suit. Mrs. Pickering produced returned checks to show that she had purchased most of the articles from Charleston. The bedroom suit, however, was a present to her daughter. Charleston strenuously denies his guilt, and proposes fighting the case to the end. I. N. Camp of the Anaheim dairy, was one of the victims of Dr. O. H. Gregory, the swindler who is now in jail awaiting trial on a charge of defrauding Mrs. Gilmore of the Iowa House. Gregory floated $50 worth of worthless paper while here. He asked Mr. Camp to cash a $20 draft drawn on Mrs. O. H. Gregory in Chicago. Camp refused but the doctor had another string to pull. He told Mrs. Camp, who was behind ten counter at the dairy, that her husband had told him to get the money from her. She cashed the draft, and it subsequently returned from Chicago unpaid. All the money Mrs. Gregory has in the bank is tied up in litigation. NEWPORT BOND ELECTION The city of Newport Beach may hold an election during the latter part of the optimistic house to believe in at Christmas received a con- thousand dollar's pay for the holiday to sell it. He reason why the holiday goods will season, and he has must finished putti fixtures in his one of the finest stores in the South- Angeles. The were put in by C. Eastern Show Case All the wood-giving the inter- uniform and were unboxed at the first of the day the store can same time admire fixtures.ences a grand stock on Sat- ing will be ready to open. FOR NEW LAW wood, State In- range County tion should be their herds and meeting the re- state law that October 1, 1916," of Hollywood, large county on a this vicinity. Using the dairymen he is advising how to meet the cal change will be necessary in most dairies. "That law provides that all milk must be sold according to grade, and retail bottles must be marked showing what grade of milk is in the bottle. Milk is to be scored, and a dairy is to sell its milk in accordance with these scores. Many of the dairies will have to have a far better equipment than they now have. It also means that dairies that milk in corals cannot make the high grade product, on account of the fact that they will be unable to meet the bacterial count for the high grade product. "This law is framed in the interests of 'Safety First.' It is a known fact that a great deal of public health is a purchasable quantity, and along that line the milk and butter supply sources must be given attention. "In order to get the best results from the opportunity offered under the new law, each city should provide for adequate inspection and tests." Inspector Hasson has a big territory to cover. He gets to this section about once in every eight months. He says that he finds it hard to keep some of the dairies in line on account of the fact that he cannot visit them oftener. It is probable that some of the dairies visited by him in the last two or three days will be made the subject of prosecution. He demands that each dairy keep all receptacles thoroughly clean. Yards must be kept in good shape, and milk must not be handled within certain distances of manure plies or pig pens. Hasson's work is largely educative. He is neither obstinate nor hard-hearted, and he works with dairymen toward improvement of conditions rather than merely with a view to bringing prosecutions. The dairyman who persists in not obeying the law when it is made plain to him is the one who is most likely to be arrested and fined. NEWPORT BOND ELECTION The city of Newport Beach may hold an election during the latter part of February, 1916, for the purposes of voting $100,000 or thereabouts in bonds for construction of one of the jettles at the entrance to Newport bay. At a meeting of the Newport Chamber of Commerce, president Lew Wallace said a meeting would be held in the near future to arrange the matter of placing the deed for frontage to be given to the city by Mr. Irvine in case the city votes bonds for building a jetty in escrow. Mr. Wallace said it would be possible to hold the election probably not later than the latter part of next February. Mr. Wallace said the matter was now in the hands of Mr. Scarborough, attorney for Mr. Irvine, and that all preliminary details had been arranged so that there should be no hitch in the proceedings." CITRUS CROP ESTIMATES According to the annual estimate gathered through exchange sources, the 1916 citrus crop of California is put at 47,000 cars, on which the California returns are lumped at $30,000,-000. That is, exclusive of freight charges. The totals for the year ending August 31,1915, ran to 47,658 cars, so that the present crop is now estimated to be practically the same as that of last season. But possibly the Southern California proportion of this total may be slightly under that of last season. The northern crop is increasing and Tulare county alone promises to ship 6,000 cars this season.