anaheim-gazette 1917-11-08

ENTERTAINMENT FOR SOLDIERS IN CAMP WHAT IS BEING DONE TO PROVIDE NORMAL SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS FOR BOYS LIBRARIANS, ATHLETIC FIELDS, THEATRES AND DANCES ARE BEING INAUGURATED In April, 1917, Secretary Baker appointed a commission on training camp activities under the chairmanship of Raymond B. Fosdick of New York. The members, in addition to the chairman, were Lee F. Hanmer of New York, Thomas J. Hoyells of Pittsburg, Marc Klaw of New York, Joseph Lee of Boston, Malcolm L. McBride of Cleveland, Dr. John R. Mott of New York, Charles P. Neill of Washington, Lieut. Col. Palmer E. Pierce, U. S. A., and Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft of Princeton University. Jasper J. Mayer is secretary to the commission. To supply the normalities of life to nearly a million and a half men in training camps, and to keep the environs of those camps clean and wholesome was the two fold task outlined for the commission. When one considers that these men in camp have left their families, homes and friends, their clubs, churches and college gatherings, their dances, their town libraries, athletic fields, the each camp, are superintending the operation of the regimental post exchanges, or soldiers' cooperative stores. This constitutes a brief resume of the machinery by which the commission is accomplishing its work. To meet its expenses, congresses has made an appropriation. The size of its task is evidenced by the fact that its activities have to do with all classes of camps and cantonments under the jurisdiction of the war department. Some of these camps contain as many as 50,000 men and the problem of arranging and ordering their leisure time opportunities must be promptly and effectively met. OFFICERS FOR FOREST BATTALIONS ARE CHOSEN It is announced by the forest service that it has been able to comply in full with the request of the war department for assistance in securing lumbermen and foresters to serve as officers for the forest battalions which are to comprise a part of the American overseas forces. Three hundred and nine men have been recommended for commissions in the grades of major, captain, first lieutenant, and second lieutenant. Of these two thirds are practical lumbermen or sawmill operators and one third are trained foresters with long woods experience. Some of the lumbermen who were recommended have also had theoretical training in forestry and many of the foresters have had experience in logging or sawmilling. In the selection of qualified lumbermen the forest service has had the close cooperation of a subcommittee of the lumber committee of the council of national defense and of fourteen investigations. Dr. The curves of the average light, and minimum day by day, these last most closely with the sea. He found that respond almost identically air temperatures, and nite relation to the water temperature but secure with certainty air minimum was taken. As a result of this search, it is now cooled by Dr. Thompson that sink with colder weather fore, present methods by surface trolling for ever the fish are run off the fishermen's geography is close to the top. Deep trolling has in taking salmon cray well as in a minor Monterey bay, and menting on Bear Lake fish could be had methods failed to get. SPELLMEYER C. F. Spellmeyer, engineer had charge of all the state southern section of the past several years appointment for a shi Fernando. He will position within a shi Following his injury cycle accident here Spellmeyer has been home. He is not yet to take up his new strong enough to curing of the shoulder this county. For state transfer re When one considers that these men in camp have left their families, homes and friends, their clubs, churches and college gatherings, their dances, their town libraries, athletic fields, theatres and movie houses—in fact, all the normal social relationships to which they have been accustomed—and have entered a strange new life in which everything is necessarily subordinated to the need of creating an efficient fighting force, the importance of the commission's work becomes apparent. An army in fighting trim is a contented army; contentment, for the average man, cannot be maintained without the normal relations of life. The task of this commission, therefore, is to reestablish, as far as possible, the old social ties—to furnish these young men a substitute for the recreational and relaxational opportunities to which they have been accustomed—in brief, to rationalize, as far as it can be done, the bewildering environment of a war camp. It is also for the commission to prevent and suppress certain vicious conditions traditionally associated with armies and training camps. To a great extent the commission has employed in these two important activities the machinery of organizations and agencies heretofore interested along such lines. Except where necessary, it has not created any new machinery. To the Young Men's Christian Association and the Knights of Columbus for instance, the commission has looked to supply a large share of the club life and entertainment inside of the training camps. To the American Library Association it has instinctively turned for an adequate supply of books and reading facilities for the troops. To organize the social and recreational life of the communities adjacent to the training camps the commission enlisted the services of the Playground and Recreation Association of America which has placed representatives in over 100 such communities and has harnessed the lodges, churches, clubs and other local groups and organizations with the men in the camps. So, too, such agencies as the Travelers' secretary to the commission. To supply the normalities of life to nearly a million and a half men in training camps, and to keep the environs of those camps clean and wholesome was the two fold task outlined for the commission. In the selection of qualified lumbermen the forest service has had the close cooperation of a subcommittee of the lumber committee of the council of national defense and of fourteen committees of lumber men in different parts of the country. Almost every man selected was interviewed by a lumbermen's committee or by the forest service officials. Many private foresters and forest schools have assisted in finding technical foresters suitable for commissions. All of the men recommended have, by successful experience, shown themselves capable of handling some important phase of lumbering, sawmill or technical forest work, according to officials of the forest service. All have proved by experience their qualities of leadership and their ability to handle men in large numbers. Every timber region of the United States has contributed its share of the men who been nominated for officers and it is believed that every class of lumbering, from the smallest portable mill operation to the largest and most up to date plant, is represented. Among those selected are men experienced in logging and sawing every merchantable wood growing in this country. The age limits set in the beginning required that all officers of the forest battalions should be 31 years of age, or older. Because of the difficulty of finding men suitable for lieutenants, the age limit for this grade was later lowered to 25 years. The bulk of the men recommended as lieutenants range in age from 25 to 35, for captains from 30 to 40, and for majors from 40 to 50. Men who have been recommended have been notified that all further action as regards physical examination, the issuance of commissions, and the order in which the successful applicants will be called for service rests with the war department. FISH AND GAME COMMISSION MAKES REPORT Interesting alike to sporting as well as commercial fishermen are the findings of Dr. William F. Thompson, who two thirds are practical lumbermen or sawmill operators and one third are trained foresters with long woods experience. Some of the lumbermen who were recommended have also had theoretical training in forestry and many of the foresters have had experience in logging or sawmilling. In the cycle accident here Spellmeyer has been home. He is not yet able to take up his new strong enough to carry out of the shoulder this county. For state has transferred at San Fernando him an opportunity to face work and attend without doing a great about as would be shoulder construction. The San Fernandoists of building this way will take about Spellmeyer stated very much to have county, but that he made it impossible with the work in therefore the move. CIVIL SERVICE The California commission announces examinations, to be future. Request for tion should be made Employment management bureau men) $125 to $150 Placement clerk, mmbt bureau (me) to $125 a month. Stenographer and women) $50 to $60 Senior and Junior women) $50 Assistant state for Application blank formation regardinginations may be state civil service of the following Hall of Records Francisco, or Sacramento. NATURAL Statistics just on supervision of J. geological survey,ume of natural galized in the United greater than that other year in the try. The volume turned for an adequate supply of books and reading facilities for the troops. To organize the social and recreational life of the communities adjacent to the training camps the commission enlisted the services of the Playground and Recreation Association of America which has placed representatives in over 100 such communities and has harnessed the lodges, churches, clubs and other local groups and organizations with the men in the camps. So, too, such agencies as the Travelers' Aid Society and the Young Women's Christian Association have been brot into play in connection with the community problem. Suppressive work in dealing with vicious conditions is handled by direct representatives of the commission, with whom are cooperating such organizations as the committee of fourteen of New York, the Watch and Ward society of New England, the committee of fifteen of Chicago, the Bureau of Social Hygiene of New York, and the American Social Hygiene association. Local police organizations and sheriffs, as well as the machinery of the department of justice and the military provost guards, have been utilized in this work. The special problem arising from the presence of young girls in the vicinity of the camps is handled by the Young Women's Christian association and by a committee on protective work, attached to the commission. Within the camps, in addition to the facilities already mentioned, the commission has appointed sport directors, boxing instructors, song leaders, and dramatic entertainment managers. Theatres are being erected in each cantonment for the exhibition of regular dramatic performances, and special facilities have been provided for the production of moving pictures, vaudeville, and other forms of amusement. Divisional exchange officers, appointed by the commission, one in Interesting alike to sporting as well as commercial fishermen are the findings of Dr. William F. Thompson, who has been studying life problems of the albacore for the Fish & Game commission, and now announces that the commonly held theory of migration to warmer waters is all wrong, the movements of the albacore being vertical rather than latitudinal, and in direct response to the temperature of the water. Reduced to its economic value, Expert Thompson’s conclusions suggest a possibility of lengthening the fishing season and standardizing or regulating the albacore catch. The day to day fluctuations of the catch under present unscientific hit or miss fishery methods have hampered the big canners greatly by making it difficult to prepare for any fixed or standard daily average approaching their capacity, whic hhas resulted in rushes and slack times right at the height of the season. Dr. Thompson, who like most scientific men, has learned caution in scientific men, has learned caution in his announcements, owing to the continually changing conditions, is inclined to believe that systematic deep trolling will enable the "tuna" fishermen to keep in much closer touch with their fish and thus render a much more nearly constant output during the months when the fish are within reach of the surface. The assumption that sunshine influenced the catch was early put aside by the Fish & Game commission’s in- Statistics just on supervision of J. geological survey, volume of natural gasized in the United States greater than that other year in the last try. The volume added to 753,170,253,587 situtes a new record nearly 125 billion per cent, the formed in 1915. The average price point of consumption thousand cubic feet per year was $10.16 cent in unit $18,915,087, or 18.84 value compared with credit for increased natural gas in 1915 der given, to Washington, Pennsylvaniaiana, Kansas, Tenn., which together produce cubic feet more in 1915. Significant ant locally, but using the production try, are credited with Montana. In there a significant reduction in 1916. Of the prolific Clio ahoga county, Ohio of 9.6 billion cubic volume produced steady decline of diana caused a f million cubic feet in state. The general invention of natural gas in 1916 is attributive enormous expansion. Anaheim Gazette vestigations. Dr. Thompson plotted curves of the average catch, the sunlight, and minimum air temperature day by day, these last corresponding most closely with the temperature of the sea. He found the catch to correspond almost identically with the air temperatures, and to bear no definite relation to the sunshine. Exact water temperature being difficult to secure with certainty of accuracy, the air minimum was taken instead. As a result of this exhaustive research, it is now considered proved by Dr. Thompson that the albacore sink with colder weather, and therefore, present methods of locating them by surface trolling fall utterly whenever the fish are running below sight of the fishermen's gear, which always is close to the top. Deep trolling has proved its worth in taking salmon commercially, as well as in a minor sportway, in Monterey bay, and similar experimenting on Bear Lake trout showed fish could be had when surface methods failed to get them. SPELLMEYER MOVES C. F. Spellmeyer, who as resident engineer had charge of the construction of all the state highways in the southern section of the county during the past several years, has received an appointment for a similar work at San Fernando. He will leave for this new position within a short time. Following his injury in a motorcycle accident here a few weeks ago, Spellmeyer has been confined to his home. He is not yet physically able to take up his new work, and is not strong enough to continue the building of the shoulders on the roads in this county. For that reason the state has transferred him to the posi- as fuel by industries engaged in the head gasoline industry in all natural gas producing states and to a greatly augmented demand for natural gas manufacture of munitions of war. The influence of this demand is shown in the increase in the volume of gas distributed to industrial consumers and in the increase in the value of gas consumed, its effect being sufficient to lower the average price per thousand cubic feet of all gas sold in 1916 1 per cent as compared with 1915. The principal beneficiaries of the increased production of natural gas were in the order named, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, West Virginia, California and Louisiana, with which together consumed some 104 billion cubic feet more gas in 1916 than in 1915. Of the total volume of natural gas produced and consumed in 1916, it is estimated that 235,380,764,000 cubic feet, or 31 per cent, was distributed to 2,364,494 domestic consumers at an average price of 28.63 cents a thousand cubic feet, and that the remaining 69 per cent, or 517,789,489,000 cubic feet, was distributed to 18,278 industrial consumers at an average price of 10.21 cents a thousand. Compared with 1915 these data show a gain of 8 per cent in volume, of 8 per cent in number of consumers, and of 1 per cent in average unit price of gas supplied for domestic use, and a gain of 26 per cent in volume and of 5.5 per cent in average unit price, but a decrease of 0.4 per cent in the number of consumers of gas supplied for industrial use. The proportion of natural gas supplied to industrial consumers in 1916 was 4 per cent larger than in 1915. BEANS YIELD GOLDEN HARVEST the past several years, has received an appointment for a similar work at San Fernando. He will leave for this new position within a short time. Following his injury in a motorcycle accident here a few weeks ago, Spellmeyer has been confined to his home. He is not yet physically able to take up his new work, and is not strong enough to continue the building of the shoulders on the roads in this county. For that reason the state has transferred him to the position at San Fernando, which will give him an opportunity to handle the office work and attend to the inspection without doing a great deal of walking about as would be required in the shoulder construction in this county. The San Fernando job, which consists of building ten miles of roadway will take about a year. Spellmeyer stated that he regretted very much to have to leave Orange county, but that his recent injury made it impossible for him to continue with the work in this county, and therefore the move was necessary. CIVIL SERVICE SITUATIONS The California state civil service commission announces the following examinations, to be held in the near future. Request for further information should be made at an early date. Employment manager, state free employment bureau, (men and women) $125 to $150 a month. Placement clerk, state free employment bureau (men and women) $75 to $125 a month. Stenographer and typist, (men and women) $50 to $125 a month. Senior and Junior bookkeeper, (men and women) $50 to $150 a month. Assistant state forester, $1600 a year. Application blanks and further information regarding the above examinations may be secured from the state civil service commission at any of the following offices, room 1007, Hall of Records, Los Angeles; San Francisco, or Sacramento. NATURAL GAS Statistics just compiled under the supervision of J. D. Northrop of the geological survey, show that the volume of natural gas commercially utilized in the United States in 1916 was greater than that so utilized in any other year in the history of the industry. The volume used, which amount- BEANS YIELD GOLDEN HARVEST Santa Maria's bean crop will net $4,000,000 and Lompoc's at least $3,250,000, according to latest estimates from these districts. No such returns have ever been known before. As a result, land values have jumped from $350 an acre to $850 and $100 and in the Lompoc district ranch sales are being made daily, the demand being active. Though bean prices, for little whites have dropped from 14 cents to around 11 cents, growers anticipate even higher prices, as the market absorbs all of the crop so far sold. One flower-seed grower at Lompoc has cleaned up $9000 on five acres planted to Austrian poppy. The seed is used by the Austrian and Holland bakers and candy makers, and Lompoc has the only supply since the war has closed Austrian imports. FRUIT CONVENTION Arrangements have been completed for holding the California Fruit Growers convention the third week in November in the senate chamber, Sacramento. The committee which has undertaken to aid State Horticultural Commissioner Hecke in preparation for the convention is composed of G. P. Weldon, chief deputy horticultural commissioner; Senator C. B. Bills of the Pioneer Fruit company, Frank B. McKevitt, president of the California Fruit Distributors; Charles E. Virden, manager of the distributors; E. M. Sheehan, secretary of the California Viticultural commission; Dean H. E. Van Normen of the University Farm; E. A. Gammon, a pear and cherry grower of Hood; Harry S. Smith, superintendent of the state insectary, and Fred C. Borsius, chief deputy horticultural commissioner. FIELD MAN FOR WALNUT RESEARCH The ranchers who are affiliated with the California Walnut Growers' association be in the near future, the Riverside experiment station director is to plan sufficient research work so that he may devote his attention entirely to walnuts. The creating of such an experimental system is certain to result in the discovery of much information which will be quite beneficial to walnut growers at large as it will be to the growers who are affiliated with the association. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NOTES Ore car of walnuts recently netted Orange county shippers $12,900. Redlands is making exhibits at the apple show at Yucalpa. The Riverside county fair association closed up its affairs $7000 to the good. Brawley, Imperial county, is to hold NATURAL GAS Statistics just compiled under the supervision of J. D. Northrop of the geological survey, show that the volume of natural gas commercially utilized in the United States in 1916 was greater than that so utilized in any other year in the history of the industry. The volume used, which amounted to 753,170,253,000 cubic feet, constitutes a new record, exceeding by nearly 125 billion cubic feet, or 20 per cent, the former record, established in 1915. The average price of this gas at the point of consumption was 15.96 cents a thousand cubic feet and its total market value was $120,227,468, a loss of 0.16 cent in unit price, but a gain of $18,915,087, or 18.6 per cent, in total value compared with 1915. Credit for increased production of natural gas in 1916 belongs in the order given, to West Virginia, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, California, Louisiana, Kansas, Texas, and Arkansas, which together produced 132 billion cubic feet more gas in 1916 than in 1915. Significant increases, important locally, but unimportant as affecting the production of the entire country, are credited to Illinois, New York and Montana. In only two states was there a significant decrease in production in 1916. The rapid exhaustion of the prolific Cleveland field in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, resulted in a loss of 9.6 billion cubic feet in the total volume produced in Ohio, and the steady decline of the old fields in Indiana caused a falling off of 0.6 billion cubic feet in the output of this state. The general increase in the production of natural gas in the United States in 1916 is attributed principally to an enormous expansion of the casing Viticultural commission; Dean H. E. Van Normen of the University Farm; E. A. Gammon, a pear and cherry grower of Hood; Harry S. Smith, superintendent of the state insectary, and Fred C. Borsius, chief deputy horticultural commissioner. FIELD MAN FOR WALNUT RESEARCH The ranchers who are affiliated with the California Walnut Growers' association recently authorized their board of directors to arrange for the employment of a field man to do experimental work in connection with English walnut culture for a term of five to ten years. This work is to be done in cooperation with the staff at the citrus experiment station in Riverside, and it is understood that the laboratories of the station will be at his command. The walnut growers are undertaking to supply themselves with an expert field man, because the state has heretofore failed to provide a man for walnut research work except for brief intervals. It is argued by the growers that no permanent research history can be recorded until the same experimenter has been continued on a set of observations for a period of at least five years so that he may compile reports of his observations which will reveal comparisons under a wide variety of conditions. The present plan of the growers in the association is to defray the expense of the field man's salary which will be not more than $4000 per year—by standing a tax of 2 cents per bag on all the nuts marketed during the year. In dollars and cents the tax will amount to one-tenth of 1 per cent of the crop's value. It is understood that when the field man is employed, which will probably SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NOTES Ore car of walnuts recently netted Orange county shippers $12,900. Redlands is making exhibits at the apple show at Yucalpa. The Riverside county fair association closed up its affairs $7000 to the good. Brawley, Imperial county, is to hold an auto show the week of November 12-17. Victorville, San Bernardino county, is launching an immense irrigation project. Over 100 carloads of canned tuna have been shipped from Long Beach this season. Live stock trains out of Imperial Valley for Los Angeles are run on Mondays and Fridays only. The Fullerton Placentia walnut association has recently shipped about 350 tons of first quality nuts. Farm Adviser Bauhmeler of San Bernardino county, has an assistant, Harry E. Dorbish having been recently appointed. At the recent meeting of the Hemet Cured Fruit association, A. E. Goodrich, Ben Wierson and Wm. Sheppard were elected directors. The various citrus shipping associations are now making refund of money not required for season's packing house expense. San Diego county is now finding that it possesses a great sugar beet section in the lands along the Tia Juana and Otay rivers. Serious damage was visited upon the potato and vegetable truck farms near San Bernardino by frost and a severe north wind recently. The recent windstorm near Yuma, Arizona, caused much damage to cotton. There is an effort to find method Southern California Edison Company Common Capital Stock ANNOUNCEMENT IN SEPTEMBER THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY FIRST TO ITS EMPLOYEES, CONSUMERS AND THE PUBLIC IN SOUTHERN CALI THE UNSOLD PORTION OF 25,000 SHARES OF ITS COMMON CAPITAL THIS OFFERING MET WITH SUCH POPULAR FAVOR THAT THE ENTIRE HAS SOLD OUT IN A VERY SHORT TIME AND OVERSUBSCRIBED BY 6630 GING THE LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN. THE COMPANY SUSPENDED ITS OBJECT NOW THAT THIS IS SO SATISFACTORILY CLOSED, STEPS HAVE BEEN TO MEET THE DEMAND FOR OUR SECURITIES AND AUTHORITY HAS RECEIVED FROM THE RAILROAD COMMISSION TO SELL AND ADDITIONAL SHARES. YOU ARE NOW, THEREFORE, GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE TO PRIOR SALE, A PART OF THIS STOCK AND SHARE IN THE OF ONE OF THE LARGEST AND STRONGEST ELECTRICAL COMPANIES IN ENTRY. NEW OF THE REASONS WHY WE RECOMMEND THIS STOCK AS A SOUND IN-STATE ARE: IS A RECOGNIZED MARKET VALUE IN LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK, SO BREADILLY SOLD OR HYPOTHECATED IN CASE OF NEED. RAILROAD COMMISSION REGULATES BOTH THE COMPANY'S EARNINGS EXCESSES AND THIS STOCK COULD NOT BE OFFERED WITHOUT THEIR APPLICATION. TO THE HIGH PERCENTAGE OF POWER GENERATED BY WATER, THE COM-EXPENSES ARE NOT SUBJECT TO LARGE INCREASES THROUGH THE DAY-HIGH COST OF FUEL. OF THIS COMPANY STANDS ONE OF THE GREATEST HYDRO-ELECTRIC COMPANIES IN THE WORLD. THE TOTAL POWER INSTALLED IS OVER 300,000 HORSEWATER RIGHTS ARE OWNED WHICH PERMIT OF MORE THAN DOUBLE CAPACITY AT LOW COST. ARE IS OVER $75,000,000 INVESTED IN THIS PROPERTY WHICH SUPPLIES 10 CITIES, 150 CITIES AND TOWNS, OVER AND AREA OF 55,000 SQUARE MILES, POPULATION OF OVER 1,000,000 PEOPLE. RAILROAD COMMISSION REGULATES BOTH THE COMPANY'S EARNINGS INCENSES AND THIS STOCK COULD NOT BE OFFERED WITHOUT THEIR APTO THE HIGH PERCENTAGE OF POWER GENERATED BY WATER, THE COMEXPENSES ARE NOT SUBJECT TO LARGE INCREASES THROUGH THE DAY HIGH COST OF FUEL. OF THIS COMPANY STANDS ONE OF THE GREATEST HYDRO-ELECTRIC IN THE WORLD. THE TOTAL POWER INSTALLED IS OVER 300,000 HORSE AND WATER RIGHTS ARE OWNED WHICH PERMIT OF MORE THAN DOUBLE CAPACITY AT LOW COST. IS OVER $75,000,000 INVESTED IN THIS PROPERTY WHICH SUPPLIES 10, 150 CITIES AND TOWNS, OVER AND AREA OF 55,000 SQUARE MILES, POPULATION OF OVER 1,000,000 PEOPLE. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HAS ONLY BEGUN ITS GROWTH IN POPULATION AND BUSY AND THE BUSINESS OF THE COMPANY WILL GROW WITH THE COMCOMPANY IS A LOCAL CONCERN, OPERATED BY LOCAL PEOPLE, WHICH EN SERVING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOR TWENTY YEARS. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE SOUNDLY FINANCED AND PROSPEROUS UTILITIES IN THE COUNTRY. Liberty Bonds Taken In Payment LET YOUR DIVIDEND$ PAY YOUR LIGHT BILLS AT DIVIDEND RATE MEANS A RETURN OF OVER 7¾% ON YOUR MONEY. PER SHARE CASH OR $90 PER SHARE PAYABLE $5.00 DOWN AND $5.00 PER MONTH SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED AT: National Bank of Santa Ana. Farmers & Merchants Nat. Bank of Santa Ana. National Bank of Orange. The First National Bank of Huntington Beach Farmers & Merchants Nat. Bank of Fullerton. Southern California Edison Company SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA THE OFFICE OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY, 120 EAST FOURTH STREET, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. are, the Riverside director is to plan work so that he intention entirely to bring of such an ex-cess certain to re- of much informa-tile beneficial to large as it will be are affiliated with CALIFORNIA NOTES is recently netted persons $12,900. g exhibits at the pa. county fair associa-fairs $7000 to the county, is to hold of handling "windfall" catton. The Riverside-San Bernardino county Beekeepers' club held a convention during the Riverside county fair. "Standardization of Honey" was the main subject considered. The Charter Oak Citrus association received within the last year 387,807 field boxes of fruit. It shipped out 636 cars of fruit. The total paid to the growers was almost $280,000. Work at the Kingsbury evaporating plant at Redlands will be continued throughout the winter. The business of processing by-products from cull apples and oranges has been very largely extended. P. J. Dreher, who recently resigned as manager of the San Antonio Fruit Exchange, has been chosen to represent the exchange in the California Fruit Exchange and the Fruit Growth- The directors of the Southern Californiia Sugar Beet Growers Association have asked for a conference with owners of the various sugar factories in Southern California relative to securing better prices for sugar beets the coming year. Manager Churchill of the California Lima Bean Growers' association announces the sale of beans at $14 a hundred, which is the highest price recorded this year. Adolfo Camarillo of Camarillo is accredited with the biggest bean sale thus far for the season, having disposed of 10,000 sacks at $13.50, or $135,000 for the single deal. A warrant has been sworn out by Motorcycle Officer Carr charging P. Reuter with improper passing of an auto on the road. Work at the Kingsbury evaporating plant at Redlands will be continued throughout the winter. The business of processing by-products from cull apples and oranges has been very largely extended. P. J. Dreher, who recently resigned as manager of the San Antonio Fruit Exchange, has been chosen to represent the exchange in the California Fruit Exchange and the Fruit Growers' Supply Company. A warrant has been sworn out by Motorcycle Officer Carr charging P. Reuter with improper passing of an auto on the road. 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