anaheim-gazette 1926-01-14

IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Items of Local Interest Culled From the Files of Former Issues of This Paper 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK January 15, 1876 Mr. Bittner's New Year's dinner consisted of fresh green corn, new potatoes and strawberries grown on his place on Center street. There was a surprise party at the residence of Mr. Pete Richards last night. As it is leap year, the ladies did the inviting. Martin Classen is busy fitting up his new saloon in the building formerly occupied as a restaurant near Mitchell's stable on Center street. Geo. C. Knox, now in Sacramento, has been appointed clerk of both hospital committees. C. A. Bancroft and Miss Annie Thomas, both of Los Angeles, were married on Thursday night. Mr. Langenberger received a letter last night from Pridham, Wells Fargo & Co.'s agent in Los Angeles, stating that no through mail had been received owing to the bad condition of the roads. George H. Kimball has gone to San Francisco. H. D. Polhemus will leave today for a short visit to San Jose. The squatters on the Bolsas held a meeting at the school house in the Sears settlement yesterday afternoon at which a petition for division of the county was signed by every member present except two. We had the pleasure of an interview with Mr. C. E. French of the San Joaquin ranch yesterday. He says that everything in that section looks promising. ange, Newport and San Juan were opposed to division, and strange as it may appear, Jas. McFadden and Wm. H. Spurgeon who in 1889 were leaders in the formation of Orange county, were opposed to the creation of the new county. Others in opposition were: Columbus Tustin, J. W. Anderson, J. H. Fruit and A. W. Birch. With these men fighting division the bill to create the new county failed in the legislature. 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK January 17th, 1891. Frank Dyer is out again after a ten days' attack of bilious fever. J. B. Rae returned on Tuesday from Berkeley after a month's absence. Mr. Cahen of the Citizen's Bank has been indisposed during the week with la gripe. Mrs. Wm. Falkenstein has invitations out for a musical at her residence on Broadway this afternoon. Mrs. T. L. Garrison and Mrs. Sydner Ross of the Placentia district visited with friends in town on Tuesday afternoon. Gov. and Mrs. Whitaker were in from Buena Park yesterday. Mrs. Whitaker will have a parlor concert at her home the evening of January 31st, the proceeds to go to charitable purposes. Allan Melrose came in from the oil wells on Monday. He reports development work progressing energetically, new wells being put down constantly. In a game of baseball on Sunday between the Santa Fe and Columbia nines Clarence McFadden, who played with Anaheim lodge No., Monday evening instantiated brethren as offspring year; Master, A. Treasurer, W. M. J. H. Encard; J. W. Joseph Helmsan; S. Jer; J. D., W. O. F. Scherer; Wm. Crowther; S. Krick, Gustav Schaer Crowther. NEED JUST NO VARIED FIELDS The farm census of just released by the Commerce, has ever as statistics are conceived confirmation to have all the while knowing value of our farms. But the report in last five years California been getting away from going in more and more specialized products And this is a move most thoughtful because the present has gone. California's soil and didly suited for the variety of fruits not raised in other age They are specialty of the raisin, the almond prune. The opportunity fruits has been given many farmers to get them exclusively and held crops for which profitable market not supplied. We have enough orchard and vineyard present markets, but the fact that may be cotton, potato, sunflower have a farm value value of fruits, and rowding of the man California vegetation canaloupe in good demand. H. D. Polhemus will leave today for a short visit to San Jose. The squatters on the Bolsas held a meeting at the school house in the Sears settlement yesterday afternoon at which a petition for division of the county was signed by every member present except two. We had the pleasure of an interview with Mr. C. E. French of the San Joaquin ranch yesterday. He says that everything in that section looks promising. The country is lovely and purchasers are sensibly visiting the southern section of the county and buying eagerly. The San Joaquin ranch is coming up as a region very desirable for investment. A number of citizens of San Juan Capistrano were in town yesterday, having been summoned to Los Angeles as witnesses in the case of Foucarde. A foot-race for $1,000 will come off at Agricultural Park on Saturday. Adolph Cells and John Wesley are the contestants. D. C. Hayward, the Orange nurseryman, is meeting with success in growing pineapples. Judge McNealy of San Diego will take Judge Sepulveda's place in the District Court today. Mr. Charles Brown is making extensive preparations to the end that the ball at Kroeger's hall on Saturday evening will prove a success. The music will be furnished by five talented professors. On Wednesday evening the installation of the officers of Orange Lodge of I. O. O. F. was held. Mr. Champlin has kindly furnished us with the following list of officers: A. Johnston, N. G.; C. M. Marshall, V. G.; H. Lockwood, R. S.; A. J. Hayward, P. S.; J. M. Mitchell, Treasurer; Wm. L. Oge, Warden; M. A. Peters, Conductor; A. C. Bowers, I. G.; T. B. Hulse, R. S. N. G.; L. G. Bilgin, L. S. N. G.; G. W. Barber, R. S. S. About 6,000 head of sheep were sold from the San Joaquin ranch last week to be taken to New Mexico. C. W. Shane has been appointed administrator of the estate of James A. Crawford, deceased. The following officers of Anaheim Lodge I. O. O. F. were installed on Tuesday evening; N. G., S. H. Dyer; V. G., T. H. Shelley; R. R., John J. Hill; P. S., J. H. Gooch; Treasurer, P. C.Mkinnle; W., A.J.Brown; Conductor, S.J.Davis; R.S.N.G., Richard Helmann; L.S.N.G., D.J.Sorenson; R.S.V.G., H.S.Austin; L.S.V.G., John Sullivan; R.S.S.R.Bohen; L.S.S.J., J.J.Dyer; L.G.Otto Evers; O.G.A Bandillitz. Several new brick buildings are shortly to be erected on Los Angeles and Center streets. Gov. and Mrs. Whitaker were in from Buena Park yesterday. Mrs. Whitaker will have a parlor concert at her home the evening of January 31st, the proceeds to go to charitable purposes. Allan Melrose came in from the oil wells on Monday. He reports development work progressing energetically, new wells being put down constantly. In a game of baseball on Sunday between the Santa Fe and Columbia nines, Clarence McFadden, who played with the latter, had the bad luck to fall and isolate his knee. The injury is serious. The score was 13 to 7 in favor of the Santa Fe nine. Bishop Montgomery of Los Angeles will confirm a large class of children at St. Boniface Catholic church on Sunday next at 10 o'clock. The bishop is a very forceful speaker and all who attend will be amply repaid for their attendance. The Ladies Euchre Club was entertained by Mrs. Strodthoff at her home on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs.Shanley won the first prize, Mrs.Eddy the second and Miss Melanie Cahen the conolation. The club will have a business meeting at the home of Mrs.Shanley on Thursday afternoon next. Mrs.Malwinka Luedke died on Friday evening at her home on Center street She had been ill for seven months of an incurable alliment.The death of Mrs.Luedke has cast a gloom over her family and friends.She and her husband were among the earliest of the pioneers coming here in 1865.Mr.Luedke died in 1897.Mrs.Luedke was the mother of nine children, three of whom survive.Two sons, Oscar and Adolph of this city and one daughter, Olga Sobcleff, wife of Rev.Ivan Sobleeff of Killisnoo, Alaska; Mrs.Frohling of this city and Mrs.Wenzel foSan Francisco, also survive her. Arnold Dickel has returned from Los Angeles the injury to his eye having improved sufficiently to admit of his coming home.The lad's escape from losing his sight by being struck by a shot fired from an air gun was miraculous. Henry Burdorf, one of the solid farmers of Orangethorpe avenue, was in town on Saturday. The contest for secretary of the water company has brought out a number of aspirants for the office, among them being A.H.Cargill, Wm.Schwenckert, Fred Aliborn, Max Nebelung, B.V.Garwood and Mr.Spencer.The knowing ones say it is any one's fight, with the possibility of a dark horse turning up and capturing the prize.The report that Mr.S storm, bookkeeper for Mr.Dickel is an aspirant for the place, is an error.H informs us he has no such aspirations. Held up by Masked Robber—Herman Stern,the popular young grocery man of this city,was driving along the roadway between Anaheim and Fullerton on Friday however.would financeFor rats hady ways of getting way is.by coming ships docking in California The following officers of Ananheim Lodge I. O. O. F. were installed on Tuesday evening; N. G., S. H. Dyer; V. G., T. H. Shelley; R. R., John J. Hill; P. S., J. H. Gooch; Treasurer, P. C.McKinnle; W., A. J. Brown; Conductor, S. J. Davis; R. S. N. G., Richard Helmann; L. S. N. G., D. J. Sorenson; R. S. V. G., H. S. Austin; L. S. V. G., John Sullivan; R. S. S., R. Bohen; L. S. S., J. J. Dyer; L. G., Otto Evers; O. G., A. Bandilitz. Several new brick buildings are shortly to be erected on Los Angeles and Center streets. Our late rains have forcibly called the attention of the public to our thoroughfares. Our streets are so depressed in the center as to be only broad shallow gutters, and the passing teams cut deeply into the soil, leaving as a result a mud-hole extending through their whole length and breadth, which is actually appalling to all pedestrians, especially to women with "pullbacks" and to all who take pride in clean carriages. The part of our streets approaching our bridges over the ditches has a deeper depression and becomes in many places the bottom of ponds of water. One perpetual nuance of this sort is just in front of Mr. Knox's new residence on Lemon street. Another is not far from the old Strobel place on the same street. Another is down Center street, near the Kuchel vineyard. Why cannot our road commissioners have all these places turnpike at least, so that the water will be turned into a ditch at one side? Then if all our people were public spirited and would prepare a sidewalk as Mr. Langenberger and many others have done with broad planking, the worst part of our troubles on this score would be removed. A slight elevation of dirt along the roadside would very soon harden into a good path. A very few days labor would provide this on all our side streets while in the business part of the town: a plank sidewalk should be provided in the interests both of comfort and of business. The Gazette of this date is filled with arguments for county division. There are several editorials and a lengthy argument by M.L. Wicks showing that division would be advantageous to the new county. People of Santa Ana, Or- Held up by Maskel Robber—Herman Stern, the popular young groceryman of this city, was driving along the roadway between Anaheim and Fullerton on Friday evening, Jan. 11, at about $30 o'clock, when, as he was passing the Pfeninger place, a man with a white cloth over his face stepped out and seized the horse by the reins. "Hold on there young man," he explained. "What's going on now?" Stern inquired, beginning to wish he had a squad of Company E's men with him. "Don't make any noise, and pass over your money." Only replied the robber for such the man with the cloth over his face proved to be. "I would give you all I had with pleasure," said Stern, "but really I haven't a cent with me tonight." The robber persuaded him to open his overcoat and essayed to assist him in unbuttoning that garment. "Don't put your dirty hands on me," said Stern, beginning to get excited. The robber felt in the vest pockets but found no money. From one of the upper pockets he drew forth a check for the amount of $80, made payable to Stern Bros., which had been handed to him that afternoon by a customer. The robber looked at it by the light of his lantern then put it back saying: "I don't want that, you may have it." In the rear pocket of Stern's trousers there was $10 in silver. This the robber did not discover. Finding nothing he could make use of, the robber cut both reins in two places, once near the bit and once near the middle of the lines. Then turning a bull's-eye lantern full in Stern's face, he stepped back several spaces and disappeared in the darkness. Stern alighted, not caring to remain in the buggy with the lines cut. He procured a pair of reins from some campers who had a fire not far away, and contin- ANAHEIM GAZETTE used on his way to Fullerton. Here he told of his novel experience, and later went to pay a call upon some friends. The robber is described as a man about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighing about 160 pounds. Anaheim lodge No. 207, F. & A. M. on Monday evening installed the following named brethren as officers for the ensuing year: Master, A. S. Bradford; S. W. Treasurer, W. M. Higgins; Secretary, J. H. Encarl; J. W., Gen. S. Eddy; Joseph Helmsen; S. D. Waten Crowthier; J. D., W. O. F. Schwencker; Marshal, Wm. Crowther; Stewards, Philip H. Krick, Gustav Schade; Tyler, Edgar Crowther. NEED JUST NOW IS IN VARIED FIELD PRODUCTS The farm census of California for 1925 just released by the Department of Commerce, has everything right so far as statistics are concerned and gives official confirmation to what we at home have all the while known of the increasing value of our farm lands. But the report indicates that in the last five years California farmers have been getting away from field crops and going in more and more for the highly specialized products of orchard and vine. And this is a movement many of our most thoughtful economists believe for the present has gone far enough. California's soil and climate are splendidly suited for the production of a variety of fruits not capable of being raised in other agricultural districts. They are specialty crops—the orange, the raisin, the almond, the walnut, the prune. The opportunity to grow such fruits has been a great temptation to many farmers to go into their cultivation exclusively and to neglect those field crops for which there is an equally profitable market not likely to be oversupplied. We have enough acreage planted to orchard and vineyard to take care of our present markets, but are apt to overlook the fact that hay, barley, beans, wheat, cotton, potatoes, sugar beets and rice have a farm value equal to the farm value of fruits, and there is no overrowding of the market. California vegetables—asparagus, pinnach, cantaloupes and tomatoes—received in good demand at a good price mile after mile of open government land on each side of the transcontinental highways. There is no way to raise adequate funds for highway work in these sections of San Bernardino county, and to relieve the situation California has taken over the building and maintenance of all the transcontinental highways in San Bernardino county, but the only way that the state can properly, or rather even inexactly finance operations on these roads, is from the federal aid funds. The manner in which the California Highway Commission protested the original suggestion that federal aid be abandoned is known to have aided in the change of sentiment in Washington. Gold Sovereign Would Weigh Ton on Strange Star LONDON, Jan. 11—In the tiny star known as the Companion of Sirius, discovered by Alvan Clark of New York, in 1862, the universe has a mysterious body of such tremendous mass or gravitation that a match there would weigh sixty pounds and a gold sovereign would weigh a ton. Its force of gravity is 200,000 times that of the earth, although its size is no bigger than a mere planet. Sir Oliver Lodge, giving the "Huxley lecture" before the Charling Cross Hospital medical school, cited this powerful little star, capable of distributing periodically that vast colossus of the heavens, Sirius, as an example of one of the stages in the mysterious evolution of the universe. "The beginning of our own little world was the formation of nebulae 2000 million years ago," said Sir Oliver, "and I may add that this date is no mere guess. The end of the world apparently will be the disappearance of all the familiar matter around us and the existence once more of an ether filled with perpetual remnants of radiation, traveling toward infinity with the speed of light; this will take place at a date incomparably more remote than any I have mentioned." DEMAND FOR TELEPHONE OUTSTRIPS POPULATION The telephone requirements of the people in this United States increase much faster than during the last five years imposed district whose names appear as such owners of land upon the last completed assessment roll of the county in which all the acresage of said proposed district is situated. to-wit, Orange County in the State of California hereby respectfully request your honorable body to organize into a public cemetery district under an act of the State of California, entitled "An Act to Provide for the Organization and Government of Public Cemetery Districts," as amended, the territory in said Orange County within certain boundaries, which boundaries are definitely described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the Southwest corner of Section 24, T. 4 S., R. 11 W., S. B. B. & M., said point being the Southwest corner of the Magnolia School District; thence, Northerly along section lines, 2 miles, more or less, to Northwest corner of Section 13, said township and range; thence, Easterly to the Southwest corner of the East one-half (E½), of the East one-half (E½), of the Southwest one-quarter (SW¼), of the Southwest one-quarter (SW¼), of Section 12, said township and range; thence, North to the Northwest corner of the East one-half (E½), of the East one-half (E½), of the Southwest one-quarter (SW¼), of said Section 12; thence, East to the Northeast corner of the Southeast one-quarter (SE¼), of the Southeast one-quarter (SW¼), of said Section 12; thence, North to the Northwest corner of the Southeast one-quarter (SW¼), of said Section 12; thence, East to the Northeast corner of said Section 12; thence, South to the Northwest corner of the South one-half (S½) of the South one-half (S½), of the Northwest one-quarter (NW¼), of the Northwest one-quarter (NW¼), of Section 7, T. 4 S., R. 10 W., S. B. B. & M.; thence, East to the Northeast corner of the South one-half (S½), of the South one-half (S½), of the Northwest one-quarter (NW¼), of said Section 7; thence, South to the Northwest corner of the Southeast one-quarter (SE¼), of DEMAND FOR TELEPHONE OUTSTRIPS POPULATION The telephone requirements of the people in the United States increase much faster than the population. Statistics show that during the last five years to September 1, 1925, the population of the country increased only 7.2 percent while the number of telephones in the service of the public increased 26 percent. There were 13,151,000 telephones and on September 1, 1925, there were use in this country on September 1, 1920, 13,560,000, an increase of 3,415,000 over the five year period. This net increase is more than two and a half times the total number of telephones which comprise the entire telephone system of Great Britain. A health expert says that within the next fifty years twenty years can be added to the average human life. But it congress and the state legislatures keep on passing new laws at the present rate maybe the added twenty years won't be worth living. NOTICE TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Anaheim Union Water Company will be held at the office of the company at Anaheim, Orange County, California, on the sixth day of January, 1928, at the hour of 10 o'clock a.m. of said day, for the purpose of electing Directors to serve for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting. By order of the Board of Directors. L. J. SHERIDAN, Sec'y The Bridegroom OUGHT TO have TO PROMISE to LOVE AND cherish AND SEND out the FEDERAL AID NOT CHARITY California has been apportioned $218,706 in federal aid money for highways and perhaps there will be a new entry from the eastern states that such a large sum of money is to be expended by the government in the far west. This money is not charity from the government as the situation is viewed through California eyes, for the United States government does a vast domain of not less than 20,000,000 acres of land exclusive of worthless desert in California. On this vast holding of property there can be no tax levy by the state or any county, school district, or road district. The other property of the state must pay the taxes for the upkeep of this federal land. It has been figured that if this property was assessed at a value of $5 an acre—and there is much of it that is worth hundreds and even thousands of dollars in acres—the tax return to the counties in which there is federal land would be in excess of $2,500,000. California, in urging the continuation of the federal road aid arrangement, is accepting nothing but that to which it is fairly entitled, in fact more entitled to than eastern states which also receive federal aid, for there is no government land in eastern states. If the government would code to the western states the federal lands there would be no complaint if the highway aid was then withdrawn from all states. In San Bernardino county there is OUGHT TO have TO PROMISE to LOVE AND cherish AND SEND out the LAUNDRY "TILL death US DO part." WOMEN WOULD live LONGER. THE SANITARY LAUNDRY. O. A. HUNT, Agent 122 South Ohio St., Anaheim Phone 129 A. W. CLEAVER, Prop. FULLERTON 225 W. Santa Fe Ave. Phone 26 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on the 22nd day of December, 1925, a certain petition was presented to the Board of Supervisors of the County of Orange, which petition is as follows: TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF ORANGE, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA: We, the undersigned, citizen owners of land located within the hereinafter pro- SLIM'S CAFE On C. D. Campbell Ranch, one mile west of Cypress. Our Specialty is Corned Beef and Cabbage We serve Hot Lunch, Cold Drinks and carry Cigars and Tobacco. Hungry parties homeward bound from the beach at night can get an excellent lunch here. Open until midnight. F. FREEMAN, Prop'r The way Red Grange seems to be going this winter the French government ought to hire him to tackle the Riffs. Those insurgents in the House and Senate may have to raise the drawbridge and lower the portcullis. New Indiana Tractors Will Use All Horse-Drawn Tools $375—Easy Terms W. P. 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