anaheim-gazette 1926-04-08

IN THE DAYS OF LONDON Extracts From Files of The Gazette Issued Half a Century Ago. These Files Contain the Only Authentic History of the Citizens of Anaheim and Orange County in (Copyright Applied for) 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK APRIL 8, 1876 A six-horse and a four-horse team yesterday passed through town, lugging enormous loads of wool from the San Joaquin. Frank Ey has sold the blacksmith building recently bought by him to Frank Jordan. Thursday was the anniversary of the battle of Shiloh, fought April 6, 1862. Ex-Sheriff Rowland has just finished shearing his 4000 sheep and reports the yield of wool to be 15,000 pounds and remarkably clean. Our friends, D. and G. D. Plato, are now employing an army of carpenters in taking down the partition which formerly separated their store from that of Savin & Gaillard. Their intention is to occupy both rooms with their own extensive stock. At a meeting of the members of the Episcopal church mission last week, the amount of the building fund was reported as about $1750. Resolutions of thanks were passed to the donors of gifts in San Francisco, and in particular to the Los Angeles Land Company for a donation of $400. Committees were appointed to canvass the cities of Los Angeles and Anaheim for contributions in money, labor and merchandise, and the com- Our friends, D. and G. D. Plato, are now employing an army of carpenters in taking down the partition which formerly separated their store from that of Savin & Gaillard. Their intention is to occupy both rooms with their own extensive stock. At a meeting of the members of the Episcopal church mission last week, the amount of the building fund was reported as about $1750. Resolutions of thanks were passed to the donors of gifts in San Francisco, and in particular to the Los Angeles Land Company for a donation of $400. Committees were appointed to canvass the cities of Los Angeles and Anaheim for contributions in money, labor and merchandise, and the committee to whom was assigned the duty of getting a church plan and specifications was continued for three weeks longer to enable them to complete the work given them. It was resolved that, in their opinion, the time had come for taking some active steps toward the erection of a church. The auction of the effects of Adam Hill, deceased, was yesterday made by order of the probate court. The building was bought by Frank Ey for $2800. Mr. Crowther bought the lot in the rear of it for $106, and Mr. Lewis bought a very fine buggy for $260. A considerable number of miscellaneous things were sold to other parties. We are informed that Mr. Ey has a standing offer, from a party who wishes to rent the house, of $75 per month, which sum will pay him nearly 33 per cent per annum on his investment. The practice of sprinkling which is observed by some of our citizens in front of their doors is a most commendable one and, if it were done by all the town, would be so infinitely more comfortable as to well repay them for their trouble and Anaheim would cease to be in the summer synonymous with dust. Saturday being the first day of April, of course the usual stereotyped hoaxes were attempted, and many of the young gentlemen received delicately perfumed billets doux appointing meetings, making declarations, etc. The board of supervisors yesterday appointed E. A. Pullen constable for Anaheim township, vice Johnson, resigned. The Anaheim Lodge No. 207, F. and A. M., yesterday gave a formal reception to the Grand Master and Grand Lecturer of the state. The number of Masonic gentlemen assembled for the purpose was very large, and the ceremonies are said to have passed off very imposingly. After the reception a presentation was made to Theodore Reiser of a past master's jewel. The jewel is a testimonial from the lodge to the many Masonic and personal virtues of Mr. Reiser, and as such was appreciatively acknowledged by him. The jewel itself is a model of beauty and a worthy product of the skillful workmanship of L. W. Thatcher, the noted jeweler of Los Angeles. The amount turned over to Mr. Huber, the present city treasurer of Los Angeles, by Mr. Mellus, formerly occupying that position, is $18,722.74. The balance of the funds, amounting to $23,082.47, he says is in the suspended bank of Temple & Workman. The finance committee of the council reported upon this that it was the duty of the council to take steps to recover this sum from the bondsmen of Mr. Mellus, which suggestion was concurred in by the council. A Los Angeles hotel claims to have Maximilian's cook. The amount turned over to Mr. Huber, the present city treasurer of Los Angeles, by Mr. Mellus, formerly occupying that position, is $18,722.74. The balance of the funds, amounting to $23,082.47, he says is in the suspended bank of Temple & Workman. The finance committee of the council reported upon this that it was the duty of the council to take steps to recover this sum from the bondsmen of Mr. Mellus, which suggestion was concurred in by the council. A Los Angeles hotel claims to have Maximilian's cook. Mr. Murtha, the Atlantic and Pacific operator, has moved his telegraph office from Dr. Roberts' store to the store of Cahen & Willard. The mountains and hills were completely hidden from sight by the sand in the recent blow. The Gazette has done a large amount of printing for the T. S. C.'s in connection with their calico ball, to be given on Tuesday night, April 11. It will take place at Enterprise hall and will, we are informed, be of such a character as will make it a privilege to be present. Louis Bronson, constable of Agua Caliente township, San Diego county, arrived here last evening in charge of Wilson Ely, whom he arrested at Potrero, 18 miles from Milquatay, on the charge of stealing a saddle horse from Messrs. Gaddy & Lewis of this town. A preliminary examination will be held before a justice of the peace. On J. B. Pierce's farm, north of Anaheim, may be seen one of the finest wheat crops ever raised in this valley. There are seven churches in San Bernardino and one Mormon tabernacle. The celebrated Presbyterian minister, I. P. Kallock, will visit Southern California soon. (Kallock was, some years later, elected mayor of San Francisco. During a bitter political quarrel with the Chronicle, Kallock was shot in front of his church, the Metropolitan temple, on Fifth street, near Market, by Charles de Young, editor of the paper. Kallock's son, Ike, went to the office of the Chronicle, on the corner of Bush and Kearny, and shot and instantly killed de Young. He was acquitted. Kallock was elected mayor. The campaign was the most bitter ever fought out in San Francisco—Ed.) OF LONG AGO Half a Century and a Quarter of a Century Authentic History in Print of the Daily Doings Orange County in the Days of the Pioneers. Applied for) 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK APRIL 11, 1901 A club was organized at the home of Miss Belle Lyons on April 6 which is called the D. W. C. The officers are as follows: Gretchen Weisel, president; Lillie Conrad, vice-president; Belle Lyons, guide; Elsie Nebelung, treasurer; Dora Click, secretary. The next meeting will be at the home of Miss Elsie Nebelung. Invincible Parlor, Native Sons, has reorganized and elected the following officers: John A. Eymann, past president; Otto Rust, president; E. F. Kellogg, first vice-president; H. A. Davis, second vice-president; Charles Boege, third vice-president; J. J. Schneider, marshal; Joe Backs, Jr., recording secretary; J. A. Eymann, treasurer and financial secretary. Miss Mosseman and Miss Bowland of the Central school are ill and unable to teach. The former's place is being filled by Miss Fay, the latter's by Miss Kurtz, the new high school teacher, during the morning hours and by Miss Snyder, a high school pupil, during the afternoon. Miss Kurtz teaches afternoons in the high school. The ladies are not seriously ill, and will soon be able to resume their duties in the schoolroom. The Deciduous Fruit Growers' Association held its annual meeting on Monday, when the old board of directors were elected as follows: J. B. Neff, J. B. Rae, George A. Hunter, L. W. Kirby and John A. Eymann. A considerable new acreage will probably be in the association this year. Fruit will be marketed on the automobile notes. Although an increasing percentage of stolen motor vehicles are being recovered each year, auto thieves are increasing the number of their pilferings the country over, according to advises received by the Automobile Club of Southern California. The theft statistics in 28 key cities kept by the Automobile Dealers' Association indicate that in 1925 there were 77,174 motor vehicles stolen compared with 57,331 in 1924. The situation would be far from comforting were it not that there has been a steady improvement in the efficiency of the police departments and auto club theft departments in these cities, which has brought up the percentage of recoveries steadily since 1921. Last year there were recovered 86 per cent of all the cars stolen, while in 1924 the recovery was 83 per cent. In 1921 the cars recovered were 71 per cent, showing that the percentage had been raised 15 per cent in the past few years. It is believed that while Los Angeles is the favorite wintering place of motor car thieves, the high efficiency reached through the close co-operation of the theft bureau of the club, the city police department and the county sheriff's office has held down the record of unrecovered cars. It is expected that the 1926 record will show further improvement due to the international agreement reached at the conference last year brought about by Walter Wood, manager of the theft bureau of the automobile club with the police authorities of Lower California. This agreement virtually closed the border to auto thieves in Southern California and made possible quick recovery of cars driven across the international boundary line for disposal. Motorists are warned against parking their cars in dark, obscure places, leaving them without the protection of theft-proof locks and renting garages to unknown persons for storage purposes without reporting the transaction to the police department. Senators may also be the Locarno situation problems, will continue to speculate on Babe Ruth is liaison. A New Jersey have shown how to make life but it still retains fur in your after. NOTICE Estate of CLUE ceased. Notice Is Here signed, Executive Testament of deceased, to the sons having clipped deceased to file sary vouchers lion of the Superior Orange State ciphit the same vouchers to the place of business Masonic Building Street, in the County of Orale after the first pdate this 21st. Executrix of the ment of Clinic-3-25-5t LUM We are r stocked w large quai building tile, cement The Deciduous Fruit Growers' Association held its annual meeting on Monday, when the old board of directors were elected as follows: J. B. Neff, J. B. Rae, George A. Hunter, L. W. Kirby and John A. Eymann. A considerable new acreage will probably be in the association this year. Fruit will be marketed on the same plan which has been found to be so successful during the past three years. Mr. Neff will represent the association at the Southern California Deciduous Fruit Exchange. Hartwell, Percy Bradford and Carl Johnson are off on a camping trip to Lucas canyon. Johnny Kellenberger came over from Buena Park on Sunday evening to take his best girl to the theater. Mrs. Crist will entertain the Ladies' Euchre Club at her home this afternoon. Herman Harris came over from Santa Ana to attend the German theater on Sunday evening. D. M. Baker, editor of the Santa Ana Bulletin, is in San Francisco to undergo a surgical operation upon the throat for a severe ailment. George McDonald, George Kammerer and Allan Melrose, three expert oil men from the Santa Fe wells, were in town Tuesday on a short visit. Mr. Crowther acted as secretary pro tem in the water company's office on Tuesday and Wednesday during the absence of Mr. Krick, consequent upon the death of his mother. Pat Seale, while chipping beef in Stearn's grocery store, some days ago, accidentally chipped off the end of the left index finger. The wound was a painful one and incapacitated Pat from service for a day or two. Godfrey Stock has been appointed special agent of the Equitable Life Insurance Company and is now giving attention to that business. He returned last week from San Francisco, where he was in conference with some of the leading officers of that company. H. Deutsch was in town from Los Angeles on Thursday. He states that not in many years has such an active demand for real estate existed in that city. The building of the Salt Lake railroad will, in his opinion, give Los Angeles and Southern California a boom such as it has never had in all its history. W. M. Johnson, father of Eugene Johnson of Olive, and brother-in-law to Godfrey Stock of this city, who has been here on a visit for a month, departed on Tuesday for his home in Michigan. Mr. Johnson was so favorably impressed with this county that he talks of returning next winter with his family and locating permanently. As Billy Woods was driving with a load of eggs in one of Harris & Folkstein's teams on Center street, on Saturday, at Motorists are warned against parking their cars in dark, obscure places, leaving them without the protection of chief-proof locks and renting garages to unknown persons for storage purposes without reporting the transaction to the police department. "The motor car is now man's most faithful servant," he rises to remark, "but the average autoist thinks it never needs to be 'ted' or cared for. A man ought to treat his car like a living thing. He has to give it gas to make it go, but he often neglects the very essential oil and grease. There’s where he runs into trouble. Sufficient oil in the motor, frequent oiling of valves, grease in the universal joints, the differential, the wheel hubs, transmission and the springs are necessities in a car’s life. Give a car everything it wants and it will give you what you expect of it." All the improvements now being made on the famed coast route between Los Angeles and San Diego will be completed by late fall, according to reports received yesterday by the engineering department of the club. The greater part of straightening, widening and leveling this route to make it safer and more pleasant for motor travel has already been done, but there are still several major projects now being constructed by the California highway commission. Widening and thickening work is going forward on a 16-mile stretch just north of Oceanside, and a subway one mile north of Oceanside is being completed. An overhead crossing at Carlsbad is also under way; it is stated, and work has recently been started on the cut-off road at Del Mar. The wide San Juan Creek bridge, eliminating an old, narrow wooden structure, was one of the projects recently opened to traffic. On the inland route to San Diego, the bridge over the San Luis Rey river near Bonsal is one of the important improvements recently completed. With the return of spring the Sunday automobile casualty reports in the newspapers on Monday morning begin to read like war bulletins again. It's a hard life for the newspaper reader. We don't any more than get through with all the Senate investigation than we have to read a lot of wet and dry debate. Jokes Wanted SOME DAY, somebody W. M. Johnson, father of Eugene Johnson of Olive, and brother-in-law to Godfrey Stock of this city, who has been here on a visit for a month, departed on Tuesday for his home in Michigan. Mr. Johnson was so favorably impressed with this county that he talks of returning next winter with his family and locating permanently. As Billy Woods was driving with a load of eggs in one of Harris & Falkenstein's teams on Center street, on Saturday, at noon, a case containing 30 dozen eggs was jolted out of the wagon, and the street in the neighborhood was converted for a while into a beautiful omelette. Eggs were scattered in every direction, and few escaped with their casings intact. Billy was out $3.50 by the slump on the egg market. Mrs. Philip Krick, mother of Philip H. Krick, secretary of the water company, died at the home of her son-in-law, R. J. Laidlaw, at Placentia, on Monday. The funeral occurred yesterday morning at 10 o'clock from the residence of R. J. Laidlaw at Placentia. Interment was in Anaheim cemetery. Mrs. Joseph Backs was tendered a pleasant surprise on the occasion of her birthday, on April 1, by the ladies of the Turner Sisterhood, of which she is president. Mrs. William Fischer and Mrs. Oefinger called for her to attend a business meeting at the hall, where she was surprised to find a large number of friends waiting and two long tables filled with such a repast as only the Turner Sisterhood can prepare. She was presented with a beautiful jardiniere containing an asparagus fern. George B. Johnson, a wealthy horticulturist of San Jose, is visiting with his old-time friend, A. S. Bradford of Placentia. An evening of great enjoyment was provided by the performance of "Die Wilde Toni" at Turner hall on Sunday evening. Frau Emil Oder de Nicolas, in the title role, carried off the honors as the ungovernable village maiden. Previous to the rendition of the comedy, a fine musical program was given. A tenor solo and encore by August Freise, a mandolin solo by Prof. H. Babize of Santa Ana, a cello solo by Merrill Rice and a violin solo by J. W. Rice, both of Tustin, besides songs by the singing section of the Turners, were much enjoyed. Mr. Huntington submitted a report relative to the matter of a new method of daylight furnigating, Jokes Wanted SOME DAY, somebody IS GOING to write A JOKE ABOUT THE motorist WHO DOES BEAT THE engine to THE GRADE crossing. AND ANOTHER about THE LAUNDRY THAT DOESN'T LOSE SHEETS AND TEAR garments AND BREAK buttons. 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 Senators may rage as they will about the Locarno situation and the disarmament problems, but most of the public will continue to be more interested in speculating on how many home runs Babe Ruth is liable to get this summer. A New Jersey bootlegger is said to have shown the prohibition officers how to make liquor out of hair tonic. But it still retains the property of growing fur in your throat by the morning after. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of CLINTON A. GRIGGS, deceased. 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