anaheim-gazette 1918-12-12

A. U. W. CO. FINANCE COMMITTEE Report of the finance committee for the month of November was as follows: Nov. 1, cash in Treas... $ 6,829.56 Nov. 1, cash with Secretary... 162.58 Water collections ... 2,466.15 C. C. Chapman ... 2,522.33 Construction ... 4.20 Oil royalties ... 4,856.98 Gravel ... 1.50 Total ... $16,843.30 Warrants paid and returned... $ 6,532.87 Paid out by Secretary... 16.90 Total ... $ 6,549.77 Available cash Dec. 1, 1918... $10,293.53 Expenditures Gibbs Lumber Company ... $ 9.11 Anaheim Truck & T. Co... 36.30 Yorba Linda Water Co... 3.00 Schumacher's Garage ... 66.18 W. M. Martenet ... 32.05 Daily Tribune ... 2.40 Standard Oil Co... 107.95 The Petroleum Co... 30.00 S. Cal. Edison Co... 1.82 Pacific Tel. Co., "A" ... 12.45 Cal. Port. Cement Co... 987.00 Pacific Tel. Co., "F" ... 19.95 Geo. B. Peck ... 4.42 Wm. Wallop, exp... 28.35 Pac. Rock & Gravel Co... 84.40 C. R. Farrar ... 25.84 Stein, Fassel & Hax... 4.45 J. Schuffer ... 14.60 Santa Fe Co... 7.01 Wm. Wallop, salary ... 175.00 Brown & Dauser ... 45.28 L. E. Yaeger ... 28.85 Anaheim Garage ... 4.40 R. B. Ingram ... 61.90 COMMUNITY COUNCILS With 5,000 community councils as its goal the state council of defense acting through the county divisions is preparing to establish new after-the-war units in every section of California. Plans for this undertaking already are completed and are going ahead under the direction of William V. Cowan, commissioner on community councils and state director of four-minute men. The community council movement is a nation-wide one. It is a suggestion both of President Wilson and the council of national defense, and already 41 states of the Union have these new councils in a large number of their communities. An immediate task or the community council will be the re-establishment of the returning soldier and sailor and the care of the man or woman thrown out of employment through the cessation of hostilities. The prime idea, however, back of these new bodies is the belief that organization in time of peace will result in advancement almost as marvelous as the progress along military lines which organization produced during the war. "After-the-war problems that confront ralifornia," says Cowan, "are more important, if anything, than the problems during the war. This period of reconstruction and of re-adjustment will be one of the important eras of our national history. We on the western coast with unlimited possibilities ahead must organize as we have never organized before. "Now that we know what can be accomplished by organized destruction, we can look forward with confidence to those wonderful and glorious things that can be accomplished by organized construction." The president calls the move one of many cities more or less the proposed park purposes he should in area to peek citizens of no doubt, gument heard appear that he be easy of a ers look upongressive spirit that the park scant an area an interest ling their ene mation of tha it is not impr enjoy the plot not far dista cture will be la disposal of se concerns even towns united this vexing p ance that tha come a really important comm by representatives councils have liminary fea t have been dis these joint some concern whereby the before the pe present data to the proba Pacific Ter. Co. 19.58 Geo. B. Peck 4.42 Wm. Wallop, exp. 28.35 Pac. Rock & Gravel Co. 84.40 C. R. Farrar 25.84 Steln, Fassel & Hax. 4.45 J. Schuffer 14.60 Santa Fe Co. 7.01 Wm. Wallop, salary 175.00 Brown & Dauser 45.28 L. E. Yaeger 28.85 Anaheim Garage 4.40 R. B. Ingram 61.90 A. Nagel 236.85 J. T. Gardiner 2.85 W. H. Houts .85 Snow Mfg. Co. 66.03 Griffith Lumber Co. 8.40 G. W. Sherwood 6.50 A. G. Miller 8.00 J. Chas. Thamer 6.50 E. E. Beazley 112.50 E. E. Beazley 5.00 J. J. Dwyer 8.00 Orange Co. Title Co. 5.00 H. H. Hale 5.00 Payroll, regular emp 985.00 Payroll, labor 3,257.38 Total $6,475.57 Available cash $10,293.53 Balance $3,817.96 Warrants returned include E.A. Beck $2.00, Santa Fe agent, Placentia, $43.34, $50.04 and $50.28, S.A.R.D. Co., $600.00 and $177.23, not in last report We recommend that the foregoing bills be paid. SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT Superintendent McFadden submitted the following report: Regular employees $985.00 Oil well employees 100.00 Yorba Linda zanjero 84.00 Extra zanjero, Anaheim 95.00 Total $1,264.00 Construction Making pipe (1024 sks.cem.) $778.65 Siphon at flume 12 (332 sks. cement) 577.60 Strain-Key pipe line (25 sks. cement) 118.00 T. Strain (5 sks.cement) 16.50 Mrs.G.Key (10 sks.cement) 71.00 Work at P.P.No.3 (157 sks. cement) 420.20 Work for R.A.Marsden (30 sks.cement) 77.45 Total $2,165.40 Repairs Raising gate at F.Tuffree's (12) ARMENIAN RELIEF Armenia, the first nation to embrace Christianity as a national religion, looks to America for help All that is left of this once prosperous people is a handful of patriots, driven from their homes and their farms, starved, outraged and maltreated by inhuman captors, yet firm in their resolve to worship God Never in the history of the world has there been such an example of devotion to principle, never such persecution and destitution. Today what is left of these people must be saved They must be given the opportunity to become self-supporting They must be cared for until they can care for themselves, until they can harvest and supply their own foodstuffs It is up to America to make it possible for these people to exist. The American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief will make a drive for $30,000,000 during the week of January 12 Every cent will be used for the rehabilitation of these people, for food and clothing They have been living in rags, filthy, starved, their property confiscated, their wives and daughters outraged, their children distributed, their homes blotted out The people of America have it in their power to do a great humanit arian act, to save a great Christian people from utter annihilation, to put them on their feet Workers ready to set out on the mammoth undertaking All that is required is money. BRITISH MARINE LOSSES British merchant tonnage losses were 9,031,828 gross tons from the beginning of the war to October 31, 1918, according to an official statement issued Thursday. —Strained list among some library boards member states in his recent resolution issued during he was unable member also taken at the which, owing gagements here This dissension cause the libr ing with only of the board stantial raised librarian,the janitor.A of the city tru was agreed,r raise of salaries but not as h allowed by th whose action approved by the new schedule effect One of did not attend new salary takes excepti claims to have light in the the salary rate that which b approval,and tion. —It is gett the rialto the snooping arrows he follows cl night guards different part to the call of the apex of th Total $2,165.40 Repairs Raising gate at F. Tuffree's (12 sks. cement) $14.00 Repair gate Placentia (1 sk. cement) 4.00 Repair pipe line at Fullerton (7 sks. cement) 30.00 Repairs to ditches in Placentia. 6.00 Removing crossing North and East streets 21.50 Total $75.50 Cleaning Main canal, Sec. 1 $322.33 Main canal, Sec. 2 200.15 Total $522.48 Truck driver $100.00 Pumpman 115.00 Total $215.00 Cement Account Sacks Nov. 1, cement on hand 730 Received in November 1,880 Total 2,610 Used in construction 1,583 Used in repairs 20 Furnished with pipe 29 On hand November 30th 978 Total 2,610 George Beckman went ducking hunting one day last week and brought in so many birds that all his neighbors on Chartres street feasted on duck for a day or two. BRITISH MARINE LOSSES British merchant tonnage losses were 9,031,828 gross tons from the beginning of the war to October 31, 1918, according to an official statement issued Thursday. New construction in the United Kingdom in the same period was 4,342,296, purchases abroad were 530,000 tons, and enemy tonnage captured was 716,520. The net loss was 3,443,012 tons. Official announcement made in London "Thursday night placed the total world's losses in merchant tonnage by enemy action and marine risk from the beginning of the war to the end of October, 1918, at 15,853,786 gross tons." During the war 2475 British ships were sunk with their crews, and 3147 vessels were sunk and their crews left adrift, according to a statement by Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty, in an address in support of a fund by the women of the empire to erect a memorial to British merchant seamen. Fishing vessels numbering 670 had been lost during the period of hostilities and the merchant marine service had suffered casualties exceeding 15,000, Sir Eric added. CARD OF THANKS We take this means of thanking our many friends for their kindly sympathy and for the many floral pieces given for our beloved wife and mother, and during this our sad hour of bereavement. J. C. CORDES AND FAMILY, H. C. CORDES AND FAMILY, MR and MRS. H. J. BURDORF. CILLS councils as its defense acting is preparme-war units ornia. Plans may are commilled under theowan, communicils and men. movement is suggestion and the counal already 41 these new order of their community establishment of sailor and man thrown in time of enactment all progress with organization. that conowan, "are long, than this period adjustment eras of on the westpossibilities have never can be acclestruction, confidence various things organized move one of They Say Many citizens have been taking more or less interest the past week in the proposed acquisition of land for park purposes in this city. That Anaheim should have a park large enough in area to permit of enjoyment by its citizens of recreative pursuits admits of no doubt, and from the drift of argument heard along the rialto it would appear that such an enterprise would be easy of attainment. Many taxpayers look upon the project with a progressive spirit, but invariably insist that the park topography be not of too scant an area. Many citizens who take an interest in public affairs are lending their energies toward the consumption of this desirable adjunct, and it is not improbable that Anaheim will enjoy the pleasures of a park in the not far distant future. The manner in which people in towns and cities in northern Orange county are advocating the outfall sewerage system, gives hope that the venture will be launched successfully. The disposal of sewerage is a question that concerns everyone, and to have all the towns united with a view of solving this vexing problem gives added assurance that the ocean outfall would become a reality. Already several important committee meetings attended by representatives of the various city councils have been held, and many preliminary features of the undertaking have been discussed. The one aim of these joint sessions is to arrive at some concerted action by the cities whereby the question may be placed before the people, and at the same time present data along scientific lines as to the probable cost of the venture. The placing of the project in concrete NEW COMMISSION AT THE STATE CAPITAL This One, However, Is Expected to Reduce Expense of Government The committee appointed recently by Governor William D. Stephens to make recommendations for the reduction of state expenses, adopted the name of Efficiency and Economy Commission, at its session in Sacramento December 9th. The commission decided to make a study of all of the activities of the state government, dividing them into groups such as agricultural, horticultural, labor and health. There will be eleven groups, it was announced. A committee composed of John L. Chambers, state controller; Clyde L. Seavey and E. A. Dickson, members of the board of control, were appointed to segregate the various state departments and commissions into groups nad report at another meeting to be held next week. A. E. Boynton, of San Francisco, who was elected chairman of the commission, said: "We hope to devise a model form of state government." EXAMINATION FOR MIDSHIPMEN The Eleventh California District will he entitled to a midshipman at Annapolis in June, 1919. I have received so many requests from the boys that in order to be absolutely fair and impartial I have secured the consent of the United States Civil Service Commission to conduct a preliminary competitive examination, to enable me to determine whom to designate to take the final government examination to be held later. The boy who receives the highest mark will be principal. First, second, and third alternates will be named from those re- come a reality. Already several important committee meetings attended by representatives of the various city councils have been held, and many preliminary features of the undertaking have been discussed. The one aim of these joint sessions is to arrive at some concerted action by the cities whereby the question may be placed before the people, and at the same time present data along scientific lines as to the probable cost of the venture. The placing of the project in concrete form will be a matter that will be submitted to the taxpayers at a later date. The right-of-way feature is an important one, but by concerted action upon the part of the people that phase of the question may be relieved of many obstacles that would crop out otherwise. — Strained relations in mild form exist among some of the members of the library board of trustees, and one member states he is thinking of handling in his resignation, owing to a recent resolution of that governing body issued during a meeting, which session he was unable to attend. And another member also disapproves of the action taken at the meeting in question, at which, owing to other business engagements he, too, was not present. This dissension has come about because the library trustees, at a meeting with only a part of the personnel of the board in attendance, gave a substantial raise in the salaries of the librarian, the assistant librarian and the janitor. At a recent joint meeting of the city trustees and library board it was agreed, so report has it, that a raise of salaries was to be granted, but not as high as was subsequently allowed by the trustees of the library, whose action, by the way, was later approved by the city council, and the new schedule of wages is now in effect. One of the library trustees, who did not attend the meeting when the new salary schedule was adopted, takes exceptions to this order, and claims to have been placed in a false light in the eyes of the public, since the salary raise ordered is higher than that which he had previously given approval, and may hand in his resignation. — It is getting to be the talk along the rialto the way a certain man goes snooping around at night. Sometimes he follows close upon the heels of night guards when they are called to different parts of the city, in response to the call of the red light, flashed at the apex of the tall flag pole, in emergence. I have received so many requests from the boys that in order to be absolutely fair and impartial I have secured the consent of the United States Civil Service Commission to conduct a preliminary competitive examination, to enable me to determine whom to designate to take the final government examination to be held later. The boy who receives the highest mark will be principal. First, second, and third alternates will be named from those receiving the next highest marks. This examination will be held at the postoffice building in Bishop, San Bernardino, Santa Ana, Riverside, El Cantro, and San Diego, on January 11, 1919. Candidates must be citizens of the United States and must not be under 16 nor over 20 years of age. Those desiring to take the examination please write to me at once, giving full name, exact age, and complete residence address. I will then send him authorization to take this examination, as well as the physical examination. Faithfully yours, WILLIAM KETTNER. BARGAINS IN FORDS GOOD BARGAINS in used Ford Touring Cars and Roadsters in first class condition at the following prices: $305.00, $315.00, $350.00, $375.00, $380.00, $400.00, $475.00, $605.00, and $615.00. The last two are 1918 models, nearly new. A good Ford Truck with Body, $475.00; also two new Ford Trucks and a Sedan. At these prices, we will close all of these cars out during this month. Also new OAKLAND SIXES at the new prices. Come early and get a good selection. Cash or easy terms. Come early and get just what you want. WICKERSHEIM IMPLEMENT CO., Fullerton, Calif. W. A. Cornelius, of Newport Beach, a revenue agent, has been selected as one of five men out of 147 working in the investigating department in Internal Revenue division comprising California, Nevada and Hawaii, to go to Washington, D.C., to audit reports of field officers.. The assignment is for eight weeks, and Cornelius is to leave San Francisco for Washington at once. At the end of the period he will return to San Francisco. Juen Escarzega, of Placentia, is list- It is getting to be the talk along the rialto the way a certain man goes snooping around at night. Sometimes he follows close upon the heels of night guards when they are called to different parts of the city, in response to the call of the red light, flashed at the apex of the tall flag pole, in emergency cases. Late the other night a call was sent in for the police for a disturbance at a business house on West Center street, and when the cop appeared, there also bobbed up serenely the man who has acquired the habit of snooping around at all hours of the day and night, for some unaccountable reason. As Gum Shoe Gus says, maybe he wants to "get the man's number" when his foot's slipping. A man stepped into a grocery store opened up here recently and having the Carnegie feeling, purchased a pound of walnuts, paying 35 cents for the package. The nuts outwardly looked good, but inwardly the case was different. The kernels in over half of them were shrivelled up and of no account, although the man who sold the nuts said they were fine. Stung! People who have been congratulating themselves upon escaping the flu, had better knock wood, as the germ still lingers in a more or less virulent form. The rainfall Friday afternoon and night was nearly sixty hundredths of an inch in Anaheim, making 4.31 for the season. This is far above the normal precipitation to this date. a revenue agent, has been selected as one of five men out of 147 working in the investigating department in the Internal Revenue division comprising California, Nevada and Hawaii, to go to Washington, D.C., to audit reports of field officers. The assignment is for eight weeks, and Cornellius is to leave San Francisco for Washington at once. At the end of the period he will return to San Francisco. Juen Escarzega, of Placentia, is listed as one of the several wounded in France. Santa Ana is talking of a municipal auditorium as a memorial to the soldier boys of that city. CLASSIFIED FOR SALE—Pumpkins, $10 per ton. Stanton Ranch, Brookshurst. PUMPKINS FOR SALE On George Ford's ranch, 2½ miles southwest of Anaheim. Phone Orange 276J5. T. B. Cone, R. D. 2, Orange, Cal. 2t FOR SALE—Cabbage plants, cheap for quick removal. J. E. Durkee, Anaheim, ½ mile north Brookhurst. Home 1561. WANTED—By experienced Japanese farmer, 100 to 200 acres of unimproved land for farming purposes. Will work land on shares. Anyone having such land, may write me full particulars. F. B. GOHATA, R. D. 1, Box 232 Anaheim, Cal. FOR SALE—Ford Touring car, new rubber, electric lights, shock absorber, speedometer, gas saver, good mileage. Extras. J. C. HEEREN, Placentia Ave., between Syracuse and North sts. Oct. 31—3t Watch out for Alum Great efforts have been made in this vicinity to sell baking powders of inferior class made from alum, which is of mineral origin. Don’t let canvassing agents fool you with tricks and deceptive tests. Insist on carefully reading the label, which must show all the ingredients the baking powder contains. Student housekeepers use ROYAL BAKING POWDER which is made from cream of tartar and is absolutely pure and wholesome. “I have tried many other baking powders but always go back to Royal which I commenced to use thirty years ago.”—[From an unsolicited letter. Name of writer given on request.] Royal Baking Powder Co., New York is absolutely pure and wholesome. "I have tried many other baking powders but always go back to Royal which I commenced to use thirty years ago."—[From an unsolicited letter. Name of writer given on request.] Royal Baking Powder Co., New York WILY JAP received and executed conJapanese laborers illeernia from Mexico is begregation authorities in be near exposure and to Ikenaga and T. Matguilty before U. S. Disjenjamin F. Bledsoe to entered the United Tuesday H. K. NishiJapanese cantaloupe imperial Valley, will be in the same court on a begling Japanese laborborder in defiance of defined $500 and sentdays in jail; Matsumoto a sixty days' jail sentence had no money. But into these two men, tools to the immigration offiof small moment. The later years of struggle to system by which Japan illegally brought into immigration men in Los to expect success. men and operates many trees of valuable land. later rights and employs Japanese, most of whom have come into the Uninity. From his employes whom he brought across the line, it is charged, Nishimoto collected from $40 to $60 each. Then he put them to work at whatever he chose to pay them. Over their heads he is said to have held the club that if they protested he would have them deported for illegal entry. UNITED STATES MINT ACTIVE DURING YEAR 714,000,000 Coins Turned Out in Past Twelve Months All records for coinage went by the boards during the year 1918, Ray Baker, director of the mint, announced in his annual report recently. Coinage of denominations under $1 for the year totalled 714,000,000 pieces. This is nearly double the coinage of 1917 and approximately five times the production of the mints in 1916. The unprecedented demand for fractional coins, Baker said, could be traced directly to war activities. The entire production was $43,596,895, of which $35,004,450 was silver half dollars, quarters and dimes; $4,136,163 was nickels, or 82,723,260 5-cent pieces. The coinage of pennies reached $4,-456,282. No gold was coloned. Gold production during the calendar year 1917 totalled $83,750,000, while the silver production was 71,740,362 fine ounces, the largest output of silver in the nation's history. The gold production dropped off slightly. An unusual feature of the year, Baker said, was the conversion of $36,-000,000 of silver bullion. Most of this bullion was used to assist foreign governments which employ silver as major coinage. At a meeting of the county board of education Saturday, three Orange county teachers were recommended to the state board of education for life diplomas. These diplomas cannot be issued until a teacher has taught successfully for forty-eight months. The diploma is useful when a teacher moves from one county to another, in getting a certificate to teach. The three recommended are Miss Mary Swass, Santa Ana high school; Lloyd P. Nichols, Anaheim Union high school and Miss Clara Owensen, Fullerton grammar school. Certificates to teach in Orange county were issued to the following: H. L. Kotsch, Mollie E. Vaughan, Olive Stewart, Alice M. Melick, Evangeline P. Sumner, Meta C. Daniel, Nelle M. Bate and Alfred E. Bratfisch. Mrs. Jack Dillon was operated on at the sanitarium some days ago, two large tumers being removed from her side. She is now on the road to recovery. More and more the enclosed motor car grows strong in popular favor. It's natural, especially with Ford cars, which are busy running every day in the year—winter and summer the Ford serves faithfully and profitably. So for a real genuine family car there is nothing equal to the Ford Sedan at $775 f.o.b. DeSeats five, large doors, plate glass sliding windows, silk mains, deeply upholstered seats, latest type ventilating winddid—car of refined luxury with everlasting reliable Ford chassis. Me in and know more about this superior car. George Dunton Los Angeles and Cypress Streets Times Pacific 263J Anaheim Home 1284