anaheim-gazette 1919-02-20

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Many pieces of property were under consideration, but last week it was stated that the lodge had decided to build at once, and a lot belonging to the Ruhman estate, at the corner of Los Angeles and Cypress streets would probably be the site. The building will be a substantial one, as the Elks never do anything on a cheap scale. There are ninety-nine stars on the new service flag recently put up in the auditorium by the Anaheim high school. One of the stars is a gold one, commemorating the death of Walter Spaeth, a graduate of the school who at one time was a leader in debate and helped bring honors to the school. The Knights of Columbus will give a “welcome home” entertainment to their returning soldier boys next Tuesday evening. It promises to be a pleasant affair. Painters and decorators who are fitting up the Exchange Grill announce that their work will not be completed in time for the formal opening which the proprietor, Fritz Kluewer, wanted to hold Saturday, consequently the affair will be postponed until the following Saturday. D. A. Blank, of Orange, is made defendant in a suit for $760 alleged to be due as commission on a realty deal that was not put through. Chas. F. Grim is the plaintiff. The action was brought in Madera county and was transferred to this county. The complaint alleges that Blank instructed Grim to sell eighty acres of land at $190 an acre, and Grim says that he The Kill Kare Klub was entertained at its last meeting by Mrs. A. V. Wheeler at her home on Placentia avenue. Refreshments were served by the hostess at the close of a pleasantly spent afternoon. State Appraisers J. N. Anderson, J. C. Craft and J. E. Baker have appraised the estate of the late K. S. Jensen at $27,000. Anderson, Louis Frahm and William Sandersfeld have appraised the estate of Fred Manske at $11,700. County Asessor James Sleeper, County Auditor W. C. Jerome and State Inheritance Tax Appraiser J. N. Anderson have gone to Sacramento to attend state conventions of assessors, auditors, tax collectors and appraisers. The conventions open on Thursday. The meetings are to consider proposed legislation. A petition for final papers of naturalization has been filed by Garrett Van Delden, born in Groningen, Netherlands, in 1877, now a rancher on Anaheim R. D. 1. He came to this country in 1904. He has a wife and three children who will become citizens through his naturalization. Witnesses who have known him five years are Herman Schlistra and Thomas Haster. The enterprising citizens of Garden Grove have finished a commendable piece of work on the west bank of the Santa Ana river, above and below the Olive bridge, by the construction of a dyke along a three- or four-mile stretch of the river bed. Considering the material at hand the structure is solidly built and no doubt will withstand the rush of water, provided there is not too great a volume at one time. The dyke extends up as far as the bend in the river near the Santa Fe bridge. Orange county has re-totaling $1204.26 from pension insurance finance during the year county paid $3127.94; $547.39 was sent here ago, and yesterday W. Brace statistician for received another refund which amount was the treasury.“You have amount, $1204.26, by in state in 1915,” says the Gregg. In order that Ruth ton, a minor, may have represent her in a clergy Risk Insurance de United States, a pet Thursday asking her grandmother, Mrs. as her guardian. Her Dunn, died in the Pedro on November 4, er and father are dead of the policy is $5000. Thursday afternoon of Buena Park became citizen. He was born France, in 1880, and country in 1907. Re petition was heard it one of his witnesses, Los Angeles, had secured through the naturalizer. Before Pelous ted it was necessary play to the court a clerk’s naturalization or has just arrived, Pelous was given his pers. A hungry burglar, o were several of th night burglarized th owned by H. LaRue, D. A. Blank, of Orange, is made defendant in a suit for $760 alleged to be due as commission on a realty deal that was not put through. Chas. F. Grim is the plaintiff. The action was brought in Madera county and was transferred to this county. The complaint alleges that Blank instructed Grim to sell eighty acres of land at $190 an acre, and Grim says that he found a customer, Henry Desmond. Blank refused to complete the deal. Grim alleges that he did his part, earned his commission and is entitled to it. The Water Conservation Association is just completing the construction of a concrete head gate and concrete culvert, the latter being 6 feet by 12 feet, 40 feet long, for the diversion of water from the Santa Ana river just below the power house, onto the land the association has leased from the Richey heirs. All of the water reaching the spreading grounds of the association is now being sunk. When the new diversion gate and ditch have been completed the association will have a maximum capacity of about 20,000 miner inches, which can be diverted and sunk into the debris cone at the mouth of the Santa Ana river. Eight Southern California high schools will contest for athletic honors on the Poly field at Santa Ana, Saturday, April 5. The schools competing are Anaheim, Santa Ana, Fullerton, Orange, Huntington Beach, San Diego, Whittier and Pomona. Here is a chance for the Anaheim boys to prove their metal. The Southern California meet will be held on April 12, and the state meet, somewhere in the south, April 26. The enterprising citizens of Garden Grove have finished a commendable piece of work on the west bank of the Santa Ana river, above and below the Olive bridge, by the construction of a dyke along three- or four-mile stretch of the river bed. Considering the material at hand the structure is solidly built and no doubt will withstand the rush of water, provided there is not too great a volume at one time. The dyke extends up as far as the bend in the river near the Santa Fe bridge. Men who have looked the situation over believe here is a vital point. At this place it would appear the people to the north and northwest of this city should interest themselves more keenly, as in case flood waters of any magnitude descended, the point in the bend would receive a terrific force, and in all likelihood, the river would cut a new channel, diverging to the west in stead of southward, as at present. The Garden Grove people have strengthened the banks of the river from which points they have in the past sustained considerable damage from flooding and it is to be hoped that their labors have not been in vain. If the people of this city and the ranchers to the north and northwest would hustle and follow the example of the good people of Garden Grove by taking time by the forelock, there would not be so much need of worrying about the Tri-Counties Conservation activities. The Mesita Rancho, comprising 310 acres three miles northwest of Huntington Beach, was sold last week to a syndicate of Long Beach men represented by W. D. Seely. The price stated was $75,000. J. J. Graham the seller, paid $30 an acre for the land in 1900. The new owners will subdivide the land into five-acre tracts. Mr. Graham retained twenty acres of the original tract. A hungry burglar, owe several of them night burglarized their owned by H. LaRue, of provisions consisting meat, canned goods and at $25. The burglary by LaRue when he entered for business Thursday trance was gained through door. It is thought that committed sometime there. Through R. C. Dutton Mrs. Kathryn M. Nicifion for letters of affection to the estate of her late Nicolas, who died Feheirs are the widow three sisters. The ex $125,000. E. C. Murray has signed on North Olive street Day. Consideration $ Justus Schneider acre orange ranch on enue and is preparing Half of the reach was man-from Oregon, th Oswald, of Fullerton tion, it is said, was $ Merrill C. Royer Rose L. Livingston been licensed to man A slight shock of reported Sunday, but alarming extent in A Local Notes City Clerk Merritt received a number of neatly printed posters from the federal authorities, announcing that the time is opportune for people to start building along legitimate lines, as by this means employment will in great part be given to men who are now fast arriving home from overseas. At a recent meeting of the council the clerk was instructed to hand out the posters to intending builders who called for permits, and the first thing the clerk did was to go over and tack up one of the posters on the door of the old city hall. Leslie Swope gave the boys of the fire company a fine dinner at his home on Zeyn street a few evenings ago, upon the eve of his departure with his family for Hollywood, where they will reside. Leslie was a royal entertainer and did not overlook anything in having the repast prepared, to which his guests did ample justice. Later the evening was passed in social conversation and with games of cards. Leslie hates to leave Anaheim, but his firemen friends say the keys of the city will be turned over to him whenever he returns. If three soldiers in the German army are alive today, each will receive a $100 Liberty loan bond as a legacy from their uncle, Ernest Schroeder, who died in Los Alamitos recently, leaving an estate valued at $35,000. A sister-in-law and two brothers residing in Germany get $2000 each. The remainder is to be distributed among a large number of nephews and other relatives residing in Germany. The Security Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles is named as administrator. It is reported a new motion picture theater is to be opened up in a room on West Center street, but the manager's name has not yet been made public. Sergeant Leo Chezick, brother of Mrs. George Meyers, of this city, arrived in Los Angeles Sunday, from overseas, and during the short stay there visited with his parents and family. He had received a shrapnel wound in his right leg just above the knee and was on his way to San Francisco, where he was to undergo a third operation. Sergeant Chezick had command of 45 men and was in the Chateau Thierry sector. He gave harrowing details of the frightfulness that raged during that memorable encounter. Bombs bursted and bullets were flying in a deadly hail all around them as the Yankee boys lay in the trenches, and the situation was nerve racking and perilous, but when the order was given to advance the brave American lads went over the top unfilinchingly. Trenches presented a ghastly spectacle, the boys literally wading through human blood. Sergeant Chezick received a bad, jagged shrapnel wound in his leg, the missile being a rough piece of iron about an inch or two long. He was sent to a hospital. He brought the piece of shrapnel home with him as a souvenir. Out of 45 men under his command, 16 came out of the battle alive. Sergeant Chezick remained in a hospital in France for several months, and when able to be moved was sent home. While his wound is a serious one, hopes are entertained that he will eventually recover and regain the use of his limb. The improved five-acre Valencia orange grove and home of William M. Mattern, two and a quarter miles Personal Mention Mrs. H. A. Dickel was quite sick a few days last week. F. T. Edmiston was confined to his home with illness the first of the week. Miss Bessie McPherson, of Los Angeles, visited several days with Mrs. J. Helmsen last week. F. K. Gresswell was busy last week at San Bernardino, helping arrange the Orange county display at the National Orange Show. County Clerk Backs drove to Seal Beach on Sunday afternoon, accompanied by Mrs. Backs and Miss Edna Backs, and spent the day at that popular resort. Alex Wright was in town on Tuesday afternoon, jubilant over the victory of the Fullerton high school football club over San Diego. Alex's son Henry is a member of the team, and one of the stars of the aggregation. Joe Gibson is working on the Murphy Standard lease. He begins at 11 o'clock at night and works until 7 in the morning. He rides from this city to Fullerton on his wheel, then taking the bus to the wells. Frank Steadman has been home from Victor for several days, and expects to return there shortly. He informs us a government engineer has been looking over the valley with a view to reporting on the feasibility of organizing an irrigation district, to comprise 60,000 acres. It is proposed to float a $5,000,000 bond issue to complete the system. If three soldiers in the German army are alive today, each will receive a $100 Liberty loan bond as a legacy from their uncle, Ernest Schroeder, who died in Los Alamitos recently, leaving an estate valued at $35,000. A sister-in-law and two brothers residing in Germany get $2000 each. The remainder is to be distributed among a large number of nephews and other relatives residing in Germany. The Security Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles is named as administrator and petition for the appointment by the court will be heard in department 1 on February 28 at 10 A.M. Orange county has received a refund totaling $1204.26 from the State Compensation Insurance fund. For insurance during the year 1915-1916, the county paid $3127.94. A refund of $547.39 was sent here several months ago, and yesterday W. S. Gregg, insurance statistician for the county, received another refund of $656.87, which amount was turned into the treasury. "You have saved this amount, $1204.26, by insuring with the state in 1915," says the notice sent to Gregg. In order that Ruth Dunn, of Fullerton, a minor, may have a guardian to represent her in a claim against the War Risk Insurance department of the United States, a petition was filed Thursday asking the appointment of her grandmother, Mrs. Delaney Dunn, as her guardian. Her brother, Chas. Dunn, died in the service at San Pedro on November 4, 1918. Her mother and father are dead. The amount of the policy is $5000. Thursday afternoon Joseph Pelous of Buena Park became an American citizen. He was born at Lasseube, France, in 1880, and came to this country in 1907. Recently when his petition was heard it developed that one of his witnesses, L. P. Collette, of Los Angeles, had secured citizenship through the naturalization of his father. Before Pelous could be admitted it was necessary that Collette display to the court a copy of his father's naturalization order. That copy has just arrived, and immediately Pelous was given his citizenship papers. A hungry burglar, or possibly there were several of them, Wednesday night burglarized the Cypress store owned by H. LaRue, taking a quantity as a souvenir. Out of 45 men under his command, 16 came out of the battle alive. Sergeant Chezick remained in a hospital in France for several months, and when able to be moved was sent home. While his wound is a serious one, hopes are entertained that he will eventually recover and regain the use of his limb. The improved five-acre Valencia orange grove and home of William M. Mattern, two and a quarter miles south of Anaheim, has been sold to H. M. Patterson of Cedar Falls, Iowa, who has been living there for the last two months. There is a scarcity of houses in Anaheim at the present time. L. W. Bushard, realty dealer, reports that there is not a dwelling in the city to be rented, and he has applicants for houses. Other real estate men tell the same story. At the monthly directers' meeting of the Orange County Farm Bureau Friday, sentiment was heard from all the farming districts in the county protesting the raise in rates to become effective March 1st. Telegrams of protest are being sent to the railroad commission and representatives in Congress regarding the raise in rates and discontinuance of free tolls. A committee has been appointed to consider the organization of a mutual county telephone if the new schedule of rates is enforced. The matter will also be taken up with the 35 farm bureau in the state to bring pressure to bear on the situation. The committee will report its findings at the next directors' meeting at which time it is hoped all interests of the county affected by the new rates will co-operate to demand the old schedule or a new system. The stockholders of the Olive Heights Citrus Association held their annual meeting Saturday, February 15. The meeting was well attended and proved to be a most enjoyable and profitable day for all. The manager's report showed everything to be in first class condition. According to this report, 33,822 boxes of oranges had been shipped for the year ending December 31; 28,444 boxes of the 33,822 boxes were Valencias, for which a return was made to the growers of $157,468.13. A large stock of packing supplies have been stored for the coming season, so that no trouble is anticipated in case a general shortage should develop. Frank Steadman has been home from Victor for several days, and expects to return there shortly. He informs us a government engineer has been looking over the valley with a view to reporting on the feasibility of organizing an irrigation district, to comprise 60,000 acres. It is proposed to float a $500,000 bond issue to complete the system. Mrs. Geraff Sandilands entertained the Ladies' Euchre Club last Thursday afternoon at her home on Los Angeles street. The first prize, a dozen sherbert glasses, was won by Mrs. Nebelung, the second, also a dozen sherbert glasses, was won by Mrs. Strodthoff, while Mrs. Adolf Rimpau was awarded the consolation prize. Col. and Mrs. Luneberg, Mrs. Barbara Parker, Mrs. Rose Kiltz, of Jefferson, Wis., and Miss Frances Johnson, of British Columbia, formed an enjoyable automobile party visiting Seal Beach on Sunday afternoon. The two last named ladies have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Luneberg for some time past. Governor Stephens has appointed Mrs. Ida Dutton, of this city, a delegate to the Pacific Coast Congress which meets in San Francisco this week to organize a League to Enforce Peace. Mrs. Dutton has for years been a prominent worker in club life. Mrs. Henry Tuffree, of Placentia, who was taken to the hospital some two months ago for the amputation of a lower Himb, and who was in a critical condition for several weeks, improved wonderfully the past two weeks and Thursday was enabled to leave the hospital, being practically well and in the best of spirits. She is back at her home in Placentia. Alfonzo Corona, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Corona, arrived here Sunday from overseas and there was great rejoicing at the Corona home. Alfonzo brought with him a big box of souvenirs from the battle fields of France, where he was engaged with the American forces. Duke Corona, who has received his discharge from the navy reserves, is at home, while Ray Corona is still at San Francisco, expecting to go to the eastern coast for a period of two months. Speaking Volnay easily reviewed of grief France. H American administration that despair he had frightened classes of not prepare was beyond not the dude endeavor such deceased admittances. "There ing today rection m said Mr abstinence gret. If man wers A hungry burglar, or possibly there were several of them, Wednesday night burglarized the Cypress store owned by H. LaRue, taking a quantity of provisions consisting of cheese, meat, canned goods and butter valued at $25. The burglary was discovered by LaRue when he opened his place for business Thursday morning. Entrance was gained through the rear door. It is thought the burglary was committed sometime after midnight. Through R. C. Dutton, her attorney, Mrs. Kathryn M. Nicolas has filed petition for letters of administration on the estate of her late husband, Pierre Nicolas, who died February 10. The heirs are the widow, a brother and three sisters. The estate is valued at $125,000. E. C. Murray has sold his residence on North Olive street to Charles O. Day. Consideration $3250. Justus Schneider has sold his 20-acre orange ranch on Orangethorpe avenue and is preparing to move to town. Half of the reach was sold to a gentleman-from Oregon, the other half to A. Oswald, of Fullerton. The compensation, it is said, was $2500 per acre. Merrill C. Royer of Anaheim, and Rose L. Livingston of Fullerton, have been licensed to marry. A slight shock of earthquake was reported Sunday, but was not felt to an alarming extent in Anaheim. FOUND DEAD IN BED Ernest E. Schroedder, for twenty years a baker at Los Alamitos, was found dead in his bed Tuesday afternoon. Death was due to pneumonia. Schroeder was 66 years old and lived alone. Neighbors say that for two or three days he seemed ill. Monday he did not open his little bakery, and in the afternoon neighbors broke into the place to see if there was anything the matter with the man. He was found dead. So far as known the only relative left by Schroeder is a brother who lives near San Francisco. His address has not been secured. The remains were taken to Mills and Winbigler's parlors, where the cause of death was ascertained. For a long time there has been a rumor around Los Alamitos to the effect that Schroeder kept a goodly sum of money hidden at his place. At one time a plot of some boys to rob him was interrupted. Tuesday authorities made a search of the place and could discover no hidden money. Miss Annie Everhardy has sold her 5½-acre home tract on West street to R. P. Pember, recently arrived from South Dakota, and on Saturday left for Venice, where she will be a guest of her sister, Mrs. John Rimpau until May. Miss Everhardy will later take up her residence in Los Angeles. She has been for many years a social favorite here and has many warm personal friends throughout this section who will greatly regret her departure. Mr. Pember is a well known former business man of South Dakota, who has come to Anaheim with his family to take up his permanent residence. AFTER THE SQUIRREL Tuesday morning an agreement was reached by the Board of Supervisors and County Horticultural Commissioner E. L. Morris, whereby the county-wide campaign to get rid of ground squirrels will start soon. George W. Wardwell, an inspector in Morris' department, will have charge of the campaign, and he will be assisted by other inspectors. Wardwell is to be ranked as superintendent of rodent control with a compensation of $5 a day. E. H. Paddock, of Orange, has been appointed as a deputy horticultural commissioner with a salary of $5 a day, and practically all of his time will be given to citrus work. Falkenstein's Annual Sale of White NOW IN PROGRESS Bringing unusual values in every sort of White Merchandise at WorthWhile Savings. Falkensteins Department Store While Savings. Falkensteins Department Store REPARATION PLAN ADVOCATED BY HOOVER Declares Germany Should Be Forced to Replace All Stolen Cows Herbert Hoover, director general of the International Relief Organization, addressing the Anglo-France-American Club, made a novel proposal regarding one form of German reparation. "For four years," he said, "we have maintained a stream of condensed milk and other children's foods into Belgium and Northern France. There is no cruelty to the European population greater than to rob them of their dairy stock, for on that depends the feeding of their young. "There is one reparation that the Germans should be compelled to make, above all others, to the devastated countries they have pillaged, namely, the restitution, cow for cow, of the herds they have taken. Money is not sufficient; children cannot be nursed on money." Speaking at a dinner of the Circle Volnay earlier in the evening, Hoover reviewed the work of the commission of grief in Belgium and Northern France. He related experiences of the American delegates with the German administration of occupation and said that, despite the depth of feeling which he had from two and half years' of intimate experience with the then ruling classes of the German people, he was not prepared to say the German race was beyond redemption or that it was not the duty of the Allied countries to endeavor to build up that people to such decency as would warrant their admittance into the League of Nations. "There is perhaps one step outstanding today in their progress in that direction more lacking than any other," said Mr. Hoover, "and that is total abstinence from any expression of regret. If the seventy millions of Germans were to shed the tears of Nobe." growers of the Pacific Southwest and the workers in the groves, threatening and even attempting destruction of property in their frenzied determination to ruin this section's citrus industry, that person would have promptly been put down as a fit subject for the psychopathic ward. And yet that is just what a gang of aliens from the tenement districts of eastern cities has been trying to do for the past several weeks. We of Southern California have been inclined to look with indifference upon the reports of Bolshevik agitations in different parts of the United States, putting such activities down to the efforts of foreign cranks trying to stir up trouble among illiterate and excitable countrymen of their own polyglot nationalities. At last the significance of the thing has begun to come home to us. No one knows exactly what these agitators are up to, or what they seek to accomplish. There has been no indication, so far as that goes, that the mass of them know themselves what they are doing. Southern California has had an opportunity to see at first-hand, however, how determined their leaders are to leave no act un tried which promises to disorganize the industries of the country. The question of the motives basis of this vicious Bolshevik intrusion is not just now so important. That will be something for investigation later. The thing now is to make it so hot for these impudent trouble-makers that they will flee Southern California as the plague and keep on running until they reach their original hiding places in the city. COX GROWING FAMOUS Judge Cox has broken into the Saturday Evening Post. His picture has on occasions decorated the pages of Los Angeles papers, and once there was a picture and article about him in was beyond redemption or that it was not the duty of the Allied countries to endeavor to build up that people to such decency as would warrant their admittance into the League of Nations. "There is perhaps one step outstanding today in their progress in that direction more lacking than any other," said Mr. Hoover, "and that is total abstinence from any expression of regret. If the seventy millions of Germans were to shed the tears of Niobe for the next thousand years they could not wash away the human misery for which they have been responsible in Belgium and Northern France alone. "The population of the occupied territories, after four years of endurance, have come out alive and healthy. They are, however, suffering from a very mental apathy. It will be months before they recover their initial activity. The food situation in the Allied world has now passed all danger, but the armistice finds us confronted with enormous food problems of two hundred millions of people dominated by Germany, and again solid action by the associated governments becomes necessary." BOLSHEVISM'S LATEST The extent to which the imported Bolsheviks in America will go in their efforts to disrupt social and economic conditions and create terror and chaos in this country has been startlingly revealed to the orchardists of Southern California. Had anyone suggested a few years ago that there would ever be a collection of people so maniacal in their hatred of the established order of things in free America that they would come clear across the continent to incite trouble between the orange COX GROWING FAMOUS Judge Cox has broken into the Saturday Evening Post. His picture has on occasions decorated the pages of Los Angeles papers, and once there was a picture and article about him in Sunset Magazine. Fame has come to him because he jails men who are convicted of speeding over 50 miles an hour. This week there is a fiction story in the Saturday Evening Post that makes use of Orange county's speed system. In the story the man who was hastening on a business deal was arrested and thrown into jail right away. Of course, in reality a speeder is merely given a card and he can go to court some days later. In fiction, however, the speedcop drags 'em off to jail right away. The story says that the welcome signs, representing a big orange, that appear at the Orange county line, are not meant as welcome signs for any but thirty-mile-an-hour people. Justice Cox's name is not mentioned, but everyone in Southern California at least knows that he is the man who has made Orange county highways safe for motor vehicles. Up at the courthouse they have been telling Judge Cox that it costs $7500 a page for advertising in the Saturday Evening Post. SPIRITUALIST MEETING Rev. Alice Williams, pastor of Santa Ana, will lecture and give messages in the hall over the Plain Dealer office. February 21, at 7:45 P.M. All are welcome.