anaheim-gazette 1919-10-30

AMERICAN LEGION ORGANIZING IN ANAHEIM POST MAY START WITH CHARTER MEMBERSHIP OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY Organization to be Perfected at Board of Trade Rooms Tuesday Night. —Soldiers Asked to Leave Applications With E. E. Smith. First steps toward the organization of a post of the American Legion was taken last Tuesday night when a large number of the boys who wore the khaki and the blue assembled at the board of trade rooms in response to a call and signed their names to the roll as charter members. Lieutenant Brinkoff of Los Angeles, one of the organizers for Southern California, was payroll to operate a plant of twice the capacity of the one here, but a big majority are content with working two days a week, by which they make as much wages as they could in a week when wages ruled lower. Last year, when many of the men members of a family were off to the war, female help was plentiful. Today husbands and sons are back home and making good wages. This has had the effect of causing some of the women to forsake work at the cannery. There is no doubt but that there are a great many women in Santa Ana duties to put in time at the cannery and help swell the weekly income. Local Manager J. W. Shumate of the California Packers' Corporation, has suggested to the managers that the plant here should be enlarged, and if his recommendations are accepted the corporation will spend between $100,000 and $150,000 in improvements in the local cannery that will double its capacity and mean its operation for eight or nine months out of the year instead of six months. The cannery will distribute about $150,000 in wages for six months' work this season. Should the plant fall down on help in finishing up this sea- First steps toward the organization of a post of the American Legion was taken last Tuesday night when a large number of the boys who wore the khaki and the blue assembled at the board of trade rooms in response to a call and signed their names to the roll as charter members. Lieutenant Brinkoff of Los Angeles, one of the organizers for Southern California, was present and made a talk. W. P. Webo, Jr., was chosen chairman of the meeting and E. E. Smith secretary. Seventy-five boys signed up that night and it was decided to hold the roll open two weeks and give those who were not present an opportunity to put in their applications and come in as charter members. Secretary Smith reports that many applications are being handed in to him at the Golden State Bank, and he expects the roll will reach 125 and possibly 150. On Tuesday next another meeting will be held at the board of trade rooms, at which time the organization will be completed and permanent officers elected. All those who file their applications will be taken in as charter members without initiation. The charter fee is only $1.50. It is desired that the post start out with as large a membership as possible. Three hundred boys went into the service from Anaheim, and every one of them should belong to the American Legion. Anaheim's service flag has three hundred stars on it, indicating that three hundred men from this city joined the colors during the war, and every one of them should become a member of the legion. All who were in the service either in the army or navy, are entitled to membership, whether they were sent abroad or only reached camp, and all should join. The American Legion will take the place of the rapidly dying Grand Army, and will be a force in the United States. There were more than four million men taken into the service, scattered among the various states. United they will stand for Americanism, patriotism and good citizenship. Any man who has an honorable discharge from service in any branch his recommendations are accepted the corporation will spend between $100,000 and $150,000 in improvements in the local cannery that will double its capacity and mean its operation for eight or nine months out of the year instead of six months. The cannery will distribute about $150,000 in wages for six months' work this season. Should the plant fall down on help in finishing up this season the situation might control the company in its decision as to enlarging here. If help is found available, there is little doubt but that the corporation will authorize the expenditure of $100,000 or $150,000 in providing equipment for handling fruits as well as vegetables. Apricots canned here this season was in the nature of an experiment and the experiment was highly satisfactory. Help could be imported if there were housing accommodations—and here the city is losing out through lack of homes for people who might become permanent residents. CULP'S HUSKIES DEFEAT POMONA On Muddy Grounds Before Large Crowd, Take Game by Score of 21 to 14. Headed straightaway for the Orange county pennant, Coach Culp's huskies on Friday afternoon on muddy grounds at Pomona took the uplanders' measure by a score of 21 to 14. In the first quarter Fullerton was penalized, the referee taking the ball back twenty yards to Fullerton's first line. By a series of forward plunges Pomona put the ball over for the first touchdown. Fullerton seemed to be at a disadvantage on muddy ground, and Arch Hawkins found it impossible to hurl the wet ball for his usual brilliant forward passes. Fullerton evened the score in the next quarter, and in succeeding chapters played superior football, and took the game without difficulty. With two wins to its credit Fullerton is out for the county penant, with excellent prospects of winning the coveted trophy. It will play its first game on its home grounds The contention of men that millionaire no jurisdiction over leave the gun club play the law prohibiting which slipped through by a trick, was uncle been upheld by Judge quently many a fine ignominious death at rank outsider who is ter the sacred precinct club territory. Theitting shooting in th fathered by the gun give their members the duck hunting spent in the legislature tacked onto the motor slipped through unb members. Anaheim duck hunt to fight the law, and sen was chosen to m day the day the season o rately violated the law of Deputy Sheriff Sloo under arrest. Judge G which he refused to payly the judge ordered Attorney A. E. Koep instituted habeas corp in Superior Court, and on Wednesday evening opinion, declaring th national. The judge's follower. "The act known as was enacted in 1915 ed in 1919, one of t being the insertion of person shall discharge upon any public high tended that this amene reptitiously inserted o the Vehicle Act without of the majority of of the legislature and knowledge that the cl pass the legislature if thing in the title of attention to the same in the open to be pass if the requirements of Article IV of the co been complied with t never would have pass "The court is not o reached camp, and all should join. The American Legion will take the place of the rapidly dying Grand Army, and will be a force in the United States. There were more than four million men taken into the service, scattered among the various states. United they will stand for Americanism, patriotism and good citizenship. Any man who has an honorable discharge from service in any branch during the late war is entitled to membership, but conscientious objectors are not wanted. SANTA ANA CANNERY NEEDS WOMEN WORKERS Wages Offered Good, but No Applicants for the Jobs. Positions for women that mean from $18 to $45 per week are going begging here and one of Santa Ana's largest employing concerns today is in distress through the lack of help essential to its big canning enterprise in its establishment on East First street. Future enlargement of the plant here may be effected by the situation. Pimentos are arriving at the cannery very fast at this time and 150 women are needed at this time to help take care of them. The vegetable is arriving at the rate of about 3500 sacks daily. The wages the women receive are entirely dependent upon their own dexterity, for the pimentos are handled by piece work. The average earning is $3 per day, with some women making $30 per week and others from $45 to $48. High wages and prosperity seem to be militating against this establishment. There are enough women on the Arch Hawkins found it impossible to hurl the wet ball for his usual brilliant forward passes. Fullerton evened the score in the next quarter, and in succeeding chapters played superior football, and took the game without difficulty. With two wins to its credit Fullerton is out for the county penant, with excellent prospects of winning the coveted trophy. It will play its first game on its home grounds tomorrow afternoon, when it goes against the speedy Orange team, which played a 0 to 0 game with San Diego last week. The game between Orange and Santa Ana, which was to have been played on Friday afternoon was postponed on account of wet grounds. Whittier defeated San Diego, and Fullerton and the latter club will play at Fullerton next week. Fullerton will meet Whittier the following week, when the county football season may close. Should Fullerton keep up its winning gait it will win the county league championship, and will thereafter in semi-finals meet winners of the other Southern California leagues. In a practice game Long Beach overshelmed Whittler by a score of 62 to 0. Fullerton defeated Poly of Los in a practice game and it is believed that Fullerton will have to meet Long Beach and Poly high in semi-finals. It is announced another raise in milk will be made the first of the month. People are getting so accustomed to the increases in price of foodstuffs that they are growing apathetic, regarding a raise as a matter of course. While officials talk of restrictions prices continue to advance. In fact threats merely stimulate the profiteer to greater exertions in his endeavors to rob the consumers. "The court is not owing consider how this amends passage, but only question 'does it violate Section 24 of Article constitution of the State' which provides that shall embrace but one subject shall be expelled title." Our Supreme Court considered the reason under insertion of this provision institution and has said pose was to prevent abuses or the passage misleading and deceive which gave no indications contained therein. "It has also been herions of an act may be however numerous, if by general intendment falling within the subject legislation or necessary means to the attainment object the act will not constitute, but if they found to be made of incarceration or to comprehend unreasonable subjects to it in its title it cannot be." "The act known and vehicle Act is one design purpose of regulating comprises about thirty printed matter and until AHEIM GAZETY Anaheim, California, Thursday, October 30, 1919 LOCAL HUNTERS WIN DECISIVE VICTORY LAW PROHIBITING ROAD SHOOTING IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL SAYS JUDGE WILLIAMS Efforts of Millionaire Gun Clubs to Hog All the Ducks Fails.—Case Against Walter Heitsheusen Dismissed by Order of Superior Court. The contention of Anaheim sportsmen that millionaire gun clubs have no jurisdiction over ducks after they leave the gun club preserves, and that the law prohibiting road shooting, which slipped through the legislature by a trick, was unconstitutional, has been upheld by Judge Williams, consequently many a fine bird will meet an ignominious death at the hands of a rank outsider who is forbidden to en- ment all of its provisions were relevant to the regulation of vehicles. The act is a voluminous one, providing for registration of motor vehicles, licensing same, amount of license required to be paid, who can operate same and rules regulating the operation of vehicles. "It is contended that the amendment is valid, in that there are certain provisions in said vehicle act providing for the safety of the public in the operation of vehicles, and that provision for the safety of the public from firearms would be a subject germane to the main subject. If the act had been one regulating the use of highways the amendment would be in order, but because a section of the Vehicle Act may provide for the safety of the public in the use of vehicles and be germane to the main subject, the regulation of vehicles, does not make the provision against the discharge of firearms upon a public highway in any way germane to the main subject, the regulation of vehicles. If the amendment had been the statute enacted under another heading prohibiting the shooting from an automobile it would undoubtedly be connected with the subject. It would CITY IN MARKET FOR LOAD OF CEDAR POLES CITY WILL RENEW LEASE FOR ANOTHER YEAR FOR ROOMS IN MASONIC TEMPLE Godfrey Stock Buys Street Sweepings for $75.—Fording Given Permission to do Electrical Wiring WhileOff Duty.—Gibbs Presides. The board of trustees met in regular session Thursday evening. There were present Trustees Gibbs, Backs and Mann. In the absence of Mayor Dwyer, Trustee Gibbs was elected chairman pro tem. The finance committee audited bills to the amount of $1343.29, which were ordered paid. The contention of Anaheim sportsmen that millionaire gun clubs have no jurisdiction over ducks after they leave the gun club preserves, and that the law prohibiting road shooting, which slipped through the legislature by a trick, was unconstitutional, has been upheld by Judge Williams, consequently many a fine bird will meet an ignominous death at the hands of a rank outsider who is forbidden to enter the sacred precincts of the gun club territory. The provision, prohibiting shooting in the highways, was fathered by the gun clubs, in order to give their members a monopoly on the duck hunting sport. It was defeated in the legislature but afterward tacked onto the motor vehicle act and slipped through unbeknown to the members. Anaheim duck hunters raised a fund to fight the law, and Walter Heitsheuens was chosen to make the test. On the day the season opened he deliberately violated the law in the presence of Deputy Sheriff Sloop and was placed under arrest. Judge Cox fined him $5, which he refused to pay. Consequently the judge ordered him sent to jail. Attorney A. E. Koepsel immediately instituted habeas corpus proceedings in Superior Court, and Judge Williams on Wednesday evening rendered his opinion, declaring the law unconstitutional. The judge's decision was as follows. "The act known as the Vehicle Act was enacted in 1915 and was amended in 1919, one of the amendments being the insertion of clause 'Z'—'No person shall discharge any fire arms upon any public highway.' It is contended that this amendment was surreptitiously inserted or grafted upon the Vehicle Act without the knowledge of the majority of the members of the legislature and with the full knowledge that the clause would not pass the legislature if there was anything in the title of the act calling attention to the same or if it stood in the open to be passed upon. That if the requirements of Section 24 of Article IV of the constitution had been complied with the amendment never would have passed. "The court is not called upon to The contention of Anaheim sportsmen that millionaire gun clubs have no jurisdiction over ducks after they leave the gun club preserves, and that the law prohibiting road shooting, which slipped through the legislature by a trick, was unconstitutional, has been upheld by Judge Williams, consequently many a fine bird will meet an ignominious death at the hands of a rank outsider who is forbidden to enter the sacred precincts of the gun club territory. The provision, prohibiting shooting in the highways, was fathered by the gun clubs, in order to give their members a monopoly on the duck hunting sport. It was defeat ed in the legislature but afterward tacked onto the motor vehicle act and slipped through unbeknown to the members. Anaheim duck hunters raised a fund to fight the law, and Walter Heitsheuens was chosen to make the test. On the day the season opened he deliberately violated the law in the presence of Deputy Sheriff Sloop and was placed under arrest. Judge Cox fined him $5, which he refused to pay. Consequently the judge ordered him sent to jail. Attorney A. E. Koepsel immediately instituted habeas corpus proceedings in Superior Court, and Judge Williams on Wednesday evening rendered his opinion, declaring the law unconstitutional. The judge's decision was as follows. "The act known as the Vehicle Act was enacted in 1915 and was amended in 1919, one of the amendments being the insertion of clause 'Z'—'No person shall discharge any firearms upon any public highway.' It is contended that this amendment was surreptitiously inserted or grafted upon the Vehicle Act without the knowledge of the majority of the members of the legislature and with the full knowledge that the clause would not pass the legislature if there was anything in the title of the act calling attention to the same or if it stood in the open to be passed upon. That if the requirements of Section 24 of Article IV of the constitution had been complied with the amendment never would have passed. "The court is not called upon to The contention of Anaheim sportsmen that millionaire gun clubs have no jurisdiction over ducks after they leave the gun club preserves, and that the law prohibiting road shooting, which slipped through the legislature by a trick, was unconstitutional, has been upheld by Judge Williams, consequently many a fine bird will meet an ignominious death at the hands of a rank outsider who is forbidden to enter the sacred precincts of the gun club territory. The provision, prohibiting shooting in the highways, was fathered by the gun clubs, in order to give their members a monopoly on the duck hunting sport. It was defeat ed in the legislature but afterward tacked onto the motor vehicle act and slipped through unbeknown to the members. Anaheim duck hunters raised a fund to fight the law, and Walter Heitsheuens was chosen to make the test. On the day the season opened he deliberately violated the law in the presence of Deputy Sheriff Sloop and was placed under arrest. Judge Cox fined him $5, which he refused to pay. Consequently the judge ordered him sent to jail. Attorney A. E. Koepsel immediately instituted habeas corpus proceedings in Superior Court, and Judge Williams on Wednesday evening rendered his opinion, declaring the law unconstitutional. The judge's decision was as follows. "The act known as the Vehicle Act was enacted in 1915 and was amended in 1919, one of the amendments being the insertion of clause 'Z'—'No person shall discharge any firearms upon any public highway.' It is contended that this amendment was surreptitiously inserted or grafted upon the Vehicle Act without the knowledge of the majority of the members of the legislature and with the full knowledge that the clause would not pass the legislature if there was anything in the title of the act calling attention to the same or if it stood in the open to be passed upon. That if the requirements of Section 24 of Article IV of the constitution had been complied with the amendment never would have passed." "The court is not called upon to The contention of Anaheim sportsmen that millionaire gun clubs have no jurisdiction over ducks after they leave the gun club preserves, and that the law prohibiting road shooting, which slipped through the legislature by a trick, was unconstitutional, has been upheld by Judge Williams, consequently many a fine bird will meet an ignominious death at the hands of a rank outsider who is forbidden to enter the sacred precincts of the gun club territory. The provision, prohibiting shooting in the highways, was fathered by the gun clubs, in order to give their members a monopoly on the duck hunting sport. It was defeat ed in the legislature but afterward tacked ontothe motor vehicle act and slipped through unbeknown tothe members. Anaheim duck hunters raised a fund to fightthe law,andWalterHeitsheuenswaschosentomakethetest.OnthedaytheseasonopenhedeliberatelyviolatedthelawinthepresenceOfDeputySheriffSloopandwasplacedunderarrest.JudgeCoxfinedhim$5whichherefusedtophay.Consequentlythejudgeorderedhimsenttojail.AttorneyA.E.KoepselimmediatelyinstituitedhabeascorpusproceedingsinSuperiorCourt,andJudgeWilliamsonWednesdayeveningrenderedhisopinion,declaringthelawunconstitutional.Thejudge'sdecisionwasasfollows. "TheactknownastheVehicleActwasenactedin1915andwasamendedin1919,一omeoftheamendmentsbeingtheinsertionofclause'Z'—'Nopersonshalldischargeanyfirearmsuponanypublichighway.'ItiscontendedthatthisamendmentwassurreptitiouslyinsertedorgraftedupontheVehicleActwithouttheknowledgeofthemajorityofthemembersofthelegislatureandwiththefullknowledgethattheclausewouldnotpassthelegislatureiftherewasanythingintheltitleoftheactcallingattentiontothesameorifitstoodintheopentobepasseduponThatiftherequirementsofSection24ofArticleIVofthe constitutionhadbeencompliedwiththeamendmentneverwouldhavepassed." "Thecourtisnotcalleduponto The contention of Anaheim sportsmen that millionaire gun clubs have no jurisdiction over ducks after they leave the gun club preserves, and that the law prohibiting road shooting, which slipped through the legislature by a trick, was unconstitutional, has been upheld by Judge Williams, consequently many a fine bird will meet an ignominious death at the hands of a rank outsider who is forbidden to enter the sacred precincts of the gun club territory. The provision, prohibiting shooting in the highways, was fathered by the gun clubs, in order to give their members a monopoly ontheduckhuntingsport. Itwasdefeat edinthelegislaturebutafterwardtackedontothemotorvehicleactandslippedthroughunbeknowntothemembers. Anaheim duck hunters raised a fund to fightthelaw,andWalterHeitsheuenswaschosentomakethetest.OnthedaytheseasonopenhedeliberatelyviolatedthelawinthepresenceOfDeputySheriffSloopandwasplacedunderarrest.JudgeCoxfinedhim$5whichherefusedtophay.Consequentlythejudgeorderedhimsenttojail.AttorneyA.E.KoepselimmediatelyinstituitedhabeascorpusproceedingsinSuperiorCourt,andJudgeWilliamsonWednesdayeveningrenderedhisopinion,declaringthelawunconstitutional.Thejudge'sdecisionwasasfollows. "TheactknownastheVehicleActwasenactedin1915andwasamendedin1919,一omeoftheamendmentsbeingtheinsertionofclause'Z'—'Nopersonshalldischargeanyfirearmsuponanypublichighway.'ItiscontendedthatthisamendmentwassurreptitiouslyinsertedorgraftedupontheVehicleActwithouttheknowledgeofthemajorityofthemembersofthelegislatureandwiththefullknowledgethattheclausewouldnotpassthelegislatureiftherewasanythingintheltitleoftheactcallingattentiontothesameorifitstoodintheopentobepasseduponThatiftherequirementsofSection24ofArticleIVofthe constitutionhadbeencompliedwiththeamendmentneverwouldhavepassed." of the legislature and with the full knowledge that the clause would not pass the legislature if there was anything in the title of the act calling attention to the same or if it stood in the open to be passed upon. That if the requirements of Section 24 of Article IV of the constitution had been complied with the amendment never would have passed. "The court is not called upon to consider how this amendment secured passage, but only with the question 'does it violate the requirements of Section 24 of Article IV of the constitution of the State of California' which provides that 'every act shall embrace but one subject, which subject shall be expressed in its title.' Our Supreme Court has considered the reason underlying the insertion of this provision in the constitution and has said 'that the purpose was to prevent legislative abuses or the passage of acts bearing misleading and deceitful titles which gave no indication of the matters contained therein. "It has also been held that provisions of an act may be numerous, but however numerous, if they can be by general intendment construed as falling within the subject matter of legislation or necessary as ends and means to the attainment of the subject the act will not conflict with the constitution, but if the act shall be found to be made of incongruous parts or to comprehend unconnected and dissimilar subjects to that expressed in its title it cannot be upheld. "The act known and called the Vehicle Act is one designed for the purpose of regulating vehicles. It comprises about thirty pages of printed matter and until this amend- MAKING EFFORTS TO AMERICANIZE MEXICANS Santa Ana is Going to Educate Them to the U. S. Standard. Preliminary steps for the organization of a vigorous Americanization association in Santa Ana to co-operate with whatever agencies may arise in bringing Mexicans of this community to a better understanding of American ways, customs and ideals were taken at a meeting at the city hall Saturday afternoon. At that meeting it was arranged that J. A. Cranston, city superintendent of schools, who was chairman of the meeting, shall set a date for another meeting at which every parent-teacher association of the city and all clubs interested in the work shall be represented. At that meeting permanent organization is to be secured, and committees will be appointed to take up definite lines of action. That there are conditions in Santa Ana that need remedying was pointed out in an address by Superintendent Cranston in opening the meeting. "There has been a great deal said and done about the necessity of Americanization," said he, "and in the plan we all agree. So far as we are concerned, however, we have but one Americanization problem. That is our Mexican problem, and in order to do effective and needed Americanization work we do not need to go any further than to portions of our own city." Mrs. Paula McAdoo of Alhambra visited with relatives and friends here this week. Godfrey Stock offered to pay $75 per year for street sweepings and the barn manure at the city stables. Mr. Stock says the sum offered by him was all the sweepings were worth, in view of the fact that almost everybody nowadays burns gasoline and moreover quantities of Bermuda grass are collected which he has to fight against. The board decided to accept of Mr. Stock's offer and a contract was ordered drawn up. A letter was received from the Pacific Pipe and Steel Co., in which that concern says they did not feel as though they should pay the $24 war tax imposed upon an allotment of pipe purchased by the city. The city clerk dug up the contract wherein it is stipulated that the pipe must be furnished free on board at Anaheim, which in the opinion of the attorney requires the pipe company to pungle up the war tax, and the clerk was instructed to so inform them. Permission was granted to move the frame building at the corner of Center and Clementine streets, belonging to John Cassou, to a lot on East Cypress street. The committee to whom was referred the rental of the rooms in the Masonic Temple, report that they would be able to report upon a renewal of lease at the next meeting. It is very probable that a new lease for an other year will be taken upon the premises. It is said the four east rooms, up stairs, have been sub-leased by the city. The clerk reported receiving a num- MARKET HEAD OF POLES LEASE FOR FOR ROOMS TEMPLE Street Sweepings Given Permission Wiring —Gibbs. met in reguvening. There Gibbs. Backs ence of Mayor was elected ree audited bills 29, which were ber of copies of the Pacific Coast Elk, containing an extended write-up of Anaheim, coincident with the report of the laying of the corner stone by the Elks lodge which has in view the construction of an $85,000 lodge building on the corner of Los Angeles and Sycamore streets. The publication is prized by the members who will file them away for future reference. As a means of securing more power a larger motor than an old one now used at the power plant, was recomended by Supt. Hannum. Upon suggestion of Trustee Mann, should the board decide to purchase a motor, two bids will be asked for—one for a new motor, and the other to include a price for the old motor in exchange. By this means Trustee Mann says a better price could be secured for the' old motor, which owing to its peculiar design would not find so easy a sale in the open market should it be put for sale by the city. These suggestions were accepted by the board and they ordered that Mann and Hannum draw up the specifications as indicated and that the bids be called for. IN ARGONNE FIGHT HOME FROM FRANCE CLYDE POTTER HAS PERSONAL LETTER FROM PRESIDENT WILSON, WHOM HE MET OFTEN Saw Many Celebrities at Versailles Where He Read Proofs of Official Reports.—Speaks Well of France. Clyde Potter advertising and publicity agent for the Southera Counties Gas Co., was in town this week, having just returned from France, where he spent thirteen months with the American Expeditionary Force. He left in April of last year, and on arriving in WELL KNOWN CITIZEN RETURNS FROM EAST C. C. Jenness Visits Relatives and Friends in Middle West Whom He Had Not Seen in Fifty Years. C. C. Jeness returned this week from a three-months trip to the Middle Western States and reports having had pleasant visits with relatives and old-time friends in Minnesota and Wisconsin, some of whom he had not seen in fifty years. In Waukesha county, Wisconsin, he paid a visit to J. Ireland and family and was their guest for several days. Jenness, while a young man, before coming out West, was in the employ of Ireland, and in a spirit of jest took delight in concealing his identity upon his arrival at the hospitable home of his former friend. After a lapse of fifty years Jenness says he had his eastern acquaintance guessing as to who he might be, and upon making himself known was accorded a warm welcome. The dwelling house upon the Ireland ranch stands just the same as it always has been, the aim of the family being to keep the old homestead intact as in former years. Each year the premises are repainted and renovated, but Jenness maintains he recognized many features of the household and environs just as they were when he left there. He sat down to dinner with the family and occupied the same seat he did when he was an employee there. The Ireland family was delighted with the return of their old-time friend, and Jenness says nothing was too good for him. He feels grateful for the hospital entertainment given him, and upon his leave taking had to make oath that he would return within two years. Over in Fergus Falls, Minn., Jenness Clyde Potter advertising and publicity agent for the Southern Counties Gas Co., was in town this week, having just returned from France, where he spent thirteen months with the American Expeditionary Force. He left in April of last year, and on arriving in France was assigned to the ordinance department, and was in the Argonne fight, his station being two miles behind the forward trenches, when the American boys were going over the top. After the armistice he was transferred to the army service corps at Paris, and was later detailed for work at the peace conference at Versailles. He was eight months at Versailles, and spent much time reading proofs of the printed slips of each day's deliberations. The printers worked all night preparing these reports for submission to the peace congress at 8 o'clock the following morning. He met President Wilson every day at the Hotel Crillon, which was American headquarters, and speaks in highest terms of the President. He says the President was most democratic in his relations with the Americans at the Hotel Crillon. He came in daily, and would say, "Hello, boys," or "Hello there, young man." He has in his possession a personal letter from the President thanking him for his good work at Versailles. He met General Pershing often, and saw Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, Orlando, General Foch and other celebrities attending the conference. Mr. Potter learned to parlez vous very well while in France, and says that if he could have spoken the French language more proficiently he would have remained in Paris, where there are a number of large American establishments, and where he had several offers of lucrative positions. He preferred to return home, and is glad to be again in Southern California. He has nothing but the kindest words for the French people and was received with utmost courtesy in many of the homes at Paris. While there appeared to be some misunderstanding on the part of the doughboys with other soldiers, this was merely an attribute of to pay $75 shipings and the city stables. Mr. Ferred by him were worth, in most everybody and moreover pass are collect against The of Mr. Stock's ordered drawn from the Co., in which did not feel as the $24 war treatment of pipe the city clerk nein it is stipbe furnished them, which in oney requires single up the was instructed to move the center of Center belonging to East Cypress was referred to the Masonic by would be reward of lease is very probor an other the premises rooms, up used by the living a num- just as they were when he left there. He sat down to dinner with the family and occupied the same seat he did when he was an employee there. The Ireland family was delighted with the return of their old-time friend, and Jenness says nothing was too good for him. He feels grateful for the hospitable entertainment given him, and upon his leave taking had to make oath that he would return within two years. Over in Fergus Falls, Minn., Jenness met his relatives and many friends whom he has not seen for half a century. He viewed with horror the destruction of much property at the Falls caused by a cyclone that twisted into that town several months ago. It is said never before had such a fearful visitation been experienced there. Many homes were literally destroyed while others immediately adjoining escaped unharmed. A hospital where in were housed 1800 patients escaped uninjured, while all around the sanitarium much damage and loss of life resulted from the twister. Mr. Jenness visited in Chicago where he ran into zero weather and was glad to get away from the cold snap. He spent some time in Iowa hunting up old-time friends and declared he had the time of his life while enjoying their hospitality. In Minnesota Jeness went on several hunting trips and declared the game was the best he ever encountered. Wherever he went he was delighted with meeting his old acquaintances and before leaving for home had to solemnly promise that he would not let so long a time elapse before calling again. Mr. Jeness was glad to return to his home here, and will devote several weeks looking up former eastern acquaintances who now reside in Southern California. there are a number of large American establishments, and where he had several offers of lucrative positions. He preferred to return home, and is glad to be again in Southern California. He has nothing but the kindest words for the French people and was received with utmost courtesy in many of the homes at Paris. While there appeared to be some misunderstanding on the part of the doughboys with other soldiers, this was merely an attribute of war, and he adds that so far as his personal experiences go he has nothing but the kindlest feeling toward the French people. He went over in a convoy of 19 vessels, and was 19 days making the trip over. Three times the vessel's course was altered on account of the presence of submarines, but the convoy did not sight a single U-boat. Conditions aboard the transport was the most crowded, and the boys ate and slept in relays. When one relay left their beds another relay followed them, and so it continued on the way over and coming back. The cannonade in the Argonne was most furious, and the deafening roar of the guns could be heard for many miles around. Mr Potter has resumed his position with the gas company, it having been kept for him while he was away. He is popular among a wide circle of acquaintances in Orange county, and finds a cordial welcome home on every hand. He is one of the red blooded Americans who went across the sea at his country's call, and the unanimous verdict is that he made good wherever he was stationed. We join his many friends in extending felicitations on his safe return, and we trust that we shall have the pleasure of meeting him often again.