anaheim-gazette 1919-12-25

GRAND JURY FILES ITS ANNUAL REPORT FINDS COURT HOUSE INADEQUATE AND RECOMMENDS MORE ROOM FOR OFFICIALS. Books of City Governments Found in Good Condition and County Officers Given Clean Slate.—$1,309,000 in Treasurer Joplin's Strong Box. Criticism of the condition of some of the school buildings in Orange county, together with recommendations for the provision of increased facilities at the Santa Ana Polytechnic high school, were among the principal features contained in the 1919 grand jury report, which was on file with the county clerk Tuesday. The Orange Union high school auditorium was declared to be inadequate for the needs placed upon it and the general facilities of the school were characterized as insufficient for present needs. The report contained a recommendation to the school authorities that they take immediate steps to provide the necessary facilities. In part the reports says: "We have carefully checked the books of the various officials in all the incorporated cities of the county to-wit: Anaheim, Brea, Fullerton, Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Sealmates properly taken care of. The committee on public bridges have gone over practically all the roads in the county, and find that the paved roads are in fair condition, but in many places they are getting quite rough and broken from the heavy truck travel and should be repaired at once. We commend the Board of Supervisors in their recent action in placing the roads of the county under the management of one official who will be responsible for their condition. With reference to blocking highways at roadside markets, the report says: We recommend and ask that the Board of Supervisors pass such ordinances as may be necessary to prevent the obstruction or blocking of the highways along and at roadside markets. If necessary to prevent such obstruction we would suggest that this ordinance make a penalty against any person so parking or stopping automobiles along and at such markets, in such a way as to block or obstruct vehicles passing thereby. We further recommend that the Board of Supervisors take such steps as may be necessary to protect the traveling public by way of placing or having placed guard fences along drainage ditches that are within the right of way of any public highway. We also recommend that the board pass such ordinances as may be necessary to prevent any person from dumping rubbish within the right of way of any highway within the county. We found that there are more justices of the peace in the county than Scrip is sold cash and the sale payment for them. Homestead men can relied through the Superintendent title to purchase of scraps not live on or on. The proceeds go to the support of the State. COURT Children Exclude Refusal to Ties Or A peremptory been granted to nell in the Superfiled by the P League against tion and school Under the terrie who refused to taken and we public school for immediately ree. The suit invoices child enrolled a stat ed by the parent will not consen tation of the such child sha physical exami Prior to 1917 thority therefore general facilities of the school were characterized as insufficient for present needs. The report contained a recommendation to the school authorities that they take immediate steps to provide the necessary facilities. In part the reports says: "We have carefully checked the books of the various officials in all the incorporated cities of the county to-wit: Anaheim, Brea, Fullerton, Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Seal Beach and Stanton, and find, with a few minor clerical errors, the books to be correct. "Your committee did not check the books of the various officials of the city of Orange, for the reason that the city trustees had recently employed Mr. M. T. Lee, a public accountant, to audit the various books of the city. Mr. Lee has spent considerable time in auditing the books, and we thought it would be a waste of public money to duplicate this labor. Mr. Lee informs your grand jury that while he found various minor errors, there was nothing materially wrong. He did, however, criticize the city for the loose manner in which its records had been kept." The books of the supervisors, superintendent of schools, auditor, treasurer, clerk, recorder, assessor, district attorney, coroner and public administrator, tax collector, and sheriff, have been carefully checked and found to be accurate, with the exception of a few small clerical errors which have since been corrected. All the books are neatly kept and worthy of especial commendation. The money in the county treasury was counted on November 29, 1919, and found to agree with the amounts shown by the treasurer's books, the grand jury's report says, continuing: We found the following money on hand: Amounts and kinds of money in county treasury: Money loaned to banks at 2 per cent, $750,500. United States gold coin, $20. United States silver coin, $130.03. Currency, $136,044. Warrants, $197,568.37. Money in transit, $25,340.56. Total of all money in county treasury, $1,309,602.96. Remarkable progress has been made in legislation providing for mothers' pensions since the first mothers' pension laws were passed in 1911 in Illinois and Missouri. Now 39 states, Alaska and Hawaii have made some provision for mothers left with young children to support, and at least 5 of the remaining states have mothers' pension laws under consideration. This rapid spread of legislation in so brief a period is indicative of the widespread conviction that no child should be deprived of home life and a mother's care because of poverty alone. All mothers' pension laws provide for the payment of a stated weekly or monthly sum for each child under a certain age to mothers who are dependent upon their own efforts to support their children and are morally and physically fit persons to bring up their children. There is considerable variation of the laws in force in different states, some providing pensions only for widowed mothers, others including women who are divorced, who have been deserted by their husbands, or those whose or having placed guard fences along drainage ditches that are within the right of way of any public highway. We also recommend that the board pass such ordinances as may be necessary to prevent any person from dumping rubbish within the right of way of any highway within the county. We found that there are more justices of the peace in the county than are necessary. In some cases the fees taken in by the justices of the peace are less than 5 per cent of their salaries. We would particularly call attention of the board of supervisors to the justices of the peace at Stanton and at Yorba. We would recommend that the board of supervisors take stops to consolidate the judicial townships. MOTHERS' PENSION LAW BENEFITS THE CHILDREN Thirty-nine States Have Made a Provision for Allotments to Support the Little Ones. Lying exhaustive automobile for though not fatal pleasure parties nearby and refusing you, is an unpleasant happening to the southern part fourteen days, re Club of Southern Three reasons... Amounts and kinds of money in county treasury: Money loaned to banks at 2 per cent, $750,500. United States gold coin, $20. United States silver coin, $130.03. Currency, $136,044. Warrants, $197,568.37. Money in transit, $25,340.56. Total of all money in county treasury, $1,309,602.96. Your committee also checked the collateral held by the treasurer as security for money loaned to banks at 2 per cent interest, and found all the securities, as listed, to be on hand. It is generally conceded that our courthouse is wholly inadequate to handle the large volume of public business, and it will be necessary for the supervisors in the very near future to devise some plan for increasing room for the public officials, says the grand jury's report on county buildings. We would particularly call attention to the crowded condition of the tax collector's office. It is almost impossible during the busy tax collecting season for the tax collector to properly serve the public in an efficient manner owing to the crowded condition of his quarters. We would recommend that the board of supervisors take immediate steps to give him additional room facilities. The buildings at the county hospital are in first-class condition, well cared for and adequate for the needs of the county. We find the inmates are well provided for. The county jail is in good condition, clean, and sanitary, and the in- A public auction sale of scrip under the provisions of Section 3408d of the Political Code will be held by W. S. Kingsbury, Surveyor General, at his office in the State Capitol, Sacramento, commencing at the hour of ten a.m., Monday, January 5, 1920. Scrip can only be purchased by citizens of the United States who are residents of the State of California and who have not filed applications for school land with the Surveyor General amounting to 640 acres under the provisions of Section 3495 of the Political Code. Scrip is not transferable. Persons who have only purchased school lands at public auction are qualified to purchase scrip. The purchaser of scrip is entitled to apply through the Surveyor General for non-mineral land of the United States. Lying exhaustively automobile for though not fatal pleasure parties nearby and refusing you, is an unpleasant happening to the southern part fourteen days, re Club of Southern Three reasons inhuman indifference motoring parties fear of being held apparently fearing cording to the rule It is the opinion club officers that if ever wreck a decoy for hold At any rate, when city of life being seized and maybe taking "Night blindness among motorists their sub-conscious they are the last trouble, so are there an accident them cers. This appeal for human kindness organization in state-wide safety under way. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Scrip is sold in forty-acre lots for cash and the surrender of the scrip is payment for that amount of government. Homestead and desert land entrymen can relinquish their entries through the Surveyor General and acquire title to the land through the purchase of scrip. The applicant need not live on or improve theland. The proceeds from the sale of scrip go to the support of the public schools of the State. COURT UPHOLDS LAW Children Excluded from School for Refusal to Submit to Examinations Ordered Admitted. A peremptory writ of mandate has been granted by Judge W. T. O'Donnell in the Superior Court in the suit filed by the Public School Protective League against the Board of Education and school officials of Vallejo. Under the terms of the writ children who refused to have throat cultures taken and were excluded from the public school for that reason must be immediately readmitted. The suit involved the present law which provides that any parent of a child enrolled in the public schools may file annually with the principal of the school in which the child is enrolled a statement in writing signed by the parent to the effect that he will not consent to the physical examination of the child and thereupon such child shall be exempt from any physical examination. Prior to 1917, and without any authority therefor, health officers in GARDEN GROVE NEWS Three months ago Kirk & Davis of Arthur, Ill., purchased the McClintbck ranch of 40 acres through E. R. Stillens, local realty man. The property has just been resold through the same agency, to E. M. Dozier at a profit of $8000. The property is an open ranch, devoted principally to growing alfalfa, and is situated one mile west and one mile north of Garden Grove. This is not on instance where an eastern "tenderfoot" has had a California ranch saddled onto him at a fancy figure, as the latest purchaser, Mr. Dozier, is an old resident of Garden Grove, and secretary and manager of the Garden Grove Walnut Association. He is as well posted on land values in this section as any man. While the price paid for the McClintock property has not been made public, Mr. Dozier is well pleased with his purchase, even if the former owners have realized a profit of $8000 in a little less than ninety days. F. E. Bissitt's confidence in the future of Garden Grove is again in evidence. He recently purchased the south ten acres of E. M. Dozier's 20-acre walnut and orange grove for $18,400. Since then Mr. Bissitt has bought the Salisbury residence on Third street, north of the boulevard turn, the purchase price being $2800. Mr. Bissitt has not quite decided whether he will move to the Dozier property or occupy the Salisbury home. The Salisbury family will move to Santa Ana, where Mr. Salisbury is engaged in the realty busi- which provides that any parent of a child enrolled in the public schools may file annually with the principal of the school in which the child is enrolled a statement in writing signed by the parent to the effect that he will not consent to the physical examination of the child and thereupon such child shall be exempt from any physical examination. Prior to 1917, and without any authority therefor, health officers in California assumed the right to exclude from school and quarantine children alleged to be "carriers." As the right to take this action was widely challenged, a bill was introduced at the 1917 session of the legislature to definitely authorize this inquisitous practice and to place beyond all question the authority of health officials over alleged "carriers." This bill never became a law, nor has there ever been any legal authority for the exclusion of children from schools as "carriers" nor for their quarantine and isolation. Nevertheless the State Board of Health attempted to enforce an order that throat culture be taken of all school children at Vallejo, but the Court held that the liberty of citizens cannot be arbitrarily interfered with and that a child cannot be excluded from school or quarantined on mere suspicion. The decision in this case definitively establishes the rights of school children to exemption from any physical examination and will prevent their further exclusion as alleged "carriers." AUTOISTS ARE AFFLICTED BY NIGHT BLINDNESS This is the Reason Given by Many for Failure to Play Good Samaritan. Lying exhausted under a wrecked automobile for several hours, even though not fatally injured, while gay pleasure parties scoot along the road nearby and refuse to lift the car off you, is an unpleasant experience which is happening to scores of motorists in the southern part of the state every fourteen days, reports the Automobile Club of Southern California. Three reasons are ascribed for this That the present population of Orange is in the neighborhood of 6750 people is indicated by the best available estimates based on school enrollment, city water connections and the directory names. City water connections are perhaps the most reliable basis of estimates. With 1350 existing water connections and many more in prospect the estimate is considered rather conservative. This estimate assumes five water users to each connection. In the face of present building operations within three months the total number of water connections will be 1500. Directory names and school enrollment support the estimate on the basis of water connections. Comparisons of water connections at the time of the 1910 census when the population south ten acres of Elmwood and orange grove for $18,400. Since then Mr. Bissitt has bought the Salisbury residence on Third street, north of the boulevard turn, the purchase price being $2800. Mr. Bissitt has not quite decided whether he will move to the Dozier property or occupy the Salisbury home. The Salisbury family will move to Saita Ana, where Mr. Salisbury is engaged in the realty business. He last week bought the residence of Rev. J. A. Stevenson at 1016 North Broadway. R. B. Richey has sold his home place, comprising a dwelling house and five-acre orange grove southwest of Garden Grove, to Mr. Backinhus of Seattle. Mr. Backinhus, who is a man of means, will move his family here some time during the holidays. Mr. Richey will immediately build a modern bungalow on his twenty acres north of Garden Grove, where he will make his home. The Associated Fruit Company has entered the Garden Grove field. M. Campean, for the company, has rented the unoccupied 20 feet of the Lee warehouse and also leased from Mr. Lee ground on which to erect a packing house 50x50 feet. The Association will handle vegetable as well as fruits and is practically ready for business. POPULATION OF ORANGE WANTED—In every city and town in Southern California, a bright, active High School lad over sixteen years of age, with executive ability, to organize and manage a business in his home town after school hours. A wonderful opportunity to gain valuable experience. Very profitable. Make application by letter in own handwriting to Cirulation Manager, "California" Magazine, The Examiner, Los Angeles, California. 10-16-t10 BOYS WANTED—In every city and town in Southern California, a bright, active High School lad over sixteen years of age, with executive ability, to organize and manage a business in his home town after school hours. A wonderful opportunity to gain valuable experience. Very profitable. Make application by letter in own handwriting to Cirulation Manager, "California" Magazine, The Examiner, Los Angeles, California. 10-16-t10 Lying exhausted under a wrecked automobile for several hours, even though not fatally injured, while gay pleasure parties scoot along the road nearby and refuse to lift the car off you, is an unpleasant experience which is happening to scores of motorists in the southern part of the state every fourteen days, reports the Automobile Club of Southern California. Three reasons are ascribed for this inhuman indifference on the part of motoring parties, by club directors: fear of being held up; absolute selfishness, and "night blindness." Thomas P. Swift, a club member of Oxnard, Calif., is the latest car owner to complain to the organization, stating that his son lay for hours under his wrecked automobile, calling loudly to passing motorists for help before lapsing into semi-consciousness. All passing cars ignored him and speeded apparently fearing a hold-up ruse, according to the report. It is the opinion of Mr. Swift and club officers that thieves will seldom ever wreck a car in order to make a decoy for holding up auto parties. At any rate, where there is a possibility of life being saved by a little effort and maybe taking a very slight chance "Night blindness" is prevalent among motorists who drive only with their sub-conscious minds, and just as they are the last to help a sufferer in trouble, so are they the first to cause an accident themselves, say club officers. This appeal for a little of the "milk of human kindness" is made by the organization in connection with its state-wide safety first campaign now under way. WORK BEGINNING ON NEW PACKING HOUSE Placentia Orange Growers' Association to Have Fine Home. Ground has been broken for the Placentia Mutual's new packing house, material is coming in and the work of construction will be rushed as rapidly as possible. The building will front toward the east and will set far enough back from Melrose avenue to permit the planting of an ornamental garden in front. The main entrance will be in the center, through a big colonial art door of plate glass, into a lobby 7x25 feet in size. On the left of the lobby will be the general office, 17x32, from which the manager's and foreman's offices will open, the former 15x17 and the latter 7x8 in size. On the right of the lobby is the directors' room, 14x16, and beyond these the women's rest room, 16x28, and the many more in prospect the estimate is considered rather conservative. This estimate assumes five water users to each connection. In the face of present building operations within three months the total number of water connections will be 1500. Directory names and school enrollment support the estimate on the basis of water connections. Comparisons of water connections at the time of the 1910 census, when the population was 2900 further confirm this estimate. At that time there were slightly more than 500 water connections. Now there are nearly three times that number of connections. THE basement will be lighted by a row of big windows on the south and the offices from eight windows in the front. The main work room will receive light from the "saw-tooth" roof. Electric lights, of course, will be placed in all parts of the building. The main basement will be 100x178 feet in size, with storage rooms on the east and a box-room 35x100 on the west. Three sweat rooms, each 25x36, will be located in the basement. The work room on the main floor will be 100x178 feet, without a post or pillar. It will be floored with factory maple. The fruit will be delivered to the basement on the south, a cement driveway, with a canopy roof, running full length of the building. Automatic conveyors will carry the fruit into the basement and dump it, other carriers taking the empty boxes to the box room. Conveyors will lift the fruit to the main floor Family Washing SAVE your wife the drudgery of the washtub by sending us your family washing. It costs you very little when compared to the pleasure it will bring to your wife—put the burden on us. Send us your shlrs and collars Immaculate linen is the mark of a gentleman. You get the best work here. Patronize a home concern. Anaheim Laundry Company Phone 18 WE KNOW MEATS "Every man to his own business" is a well-known saying—and we believe that this applies to us. Our business is buying meats as well as selling meats—upon the buying depends the success of the business. That's why we buy only the best meats—and we know the best meats. Any piece of meat that you buy in this shop has been selected by us because we know that it is a good piece of meat, meat that you can eat with satisfaction. Upon this basis we ask your patronage. Anaheim Cash Market WE KNOW MEATS —"Every man to his own business" is a well-known saying—and we believe that this applies to us. Our business is buying meats as well as selling meats—upon the buying depends the success of the business. That's why we buy only the best meats—and we know the best meats. Any piece of meat that you buy in this shop has been selected by us because we know that it is a good piece of meat, meat that you can eat with satisfaction. Upon this basis we ask your patronage. Anaheim Cash Market 109-11 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim J. E. STROUP, Proprietor Building Material If you contemplate building new or repairing an old building, let us figure on your material. We handle everything you need, and our prices are right. Griffith Lumber Company South Los Angeles St. H. M. ADAMS, Mgr. Good Place to Buy— G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim: : : : Cal ANAHEIM FEED and FUEL CO. DEALERS IN Wood, Coal, Hay, Grain Seeds and Flour PUBLIC WEIGHING SCALES Phones: Pacific 317, Home 294 R. W: McClellan, W. D. Grafton, Props. CITY CASH MARKET 117 W. Center St. “Quality Price and Service” PUBLIC WEIGHING SCALES Phones: Pacific 317, Home 294 R. W: McClellan, W. D. Grafton, Props. CITY CASH MARKET 117 W. Center St. "Quality, Price and Service" Our Motto We handle nothing but the choicest of meats. We deliver. Phone your orders early. Pacific 20 ED. W. SCHNEIDER Proprietor SHE WAS TRUE TO HIM "Now, I wonder," thought Alphonso, the new husband, who was a commercial traveler and away from home, "what Arabella is doing this precise moment. I wonder," he repeated "what she is doing." Then a brilliant idea struck him and he visited the nearest spiritualist medium. "What," said Alphonso, for the third time, "is Arabella doing?" She is looking out of the window," replied the medium, "evidently expecting somebody." "That is strange," said Alphonso, "Whom can she expect?" "Ah!" continued the medium, "some one enters the house and she caresses him fondly." "It can't be!" cried the excited husband. "My wife is true to me." Now she lays his head on her lap and looks tenderly into his eyes." "Nonsense!" roared the jealous husband. "Now she kisses him." "It's false!" yelled Alphonso. The medium saw that he had gone far enough. "Now," he said, "be wags his tail." It seems to have been Carranza's plan to give most of the states of the solid South the full benefit of the new freedom by immediate absorption into a "republic" that has a bolshevik status in full working order.