anaheim-gazette 1926-09-16

IN THE DAYS OF 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. (Copyright Applied for) 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1876 The Literary Society held their regular meeting on Monday evening, President Montgomery in the chair. After a declaration by Ed Schubert, a committee consisting of Messrs. S. B. Smith, W. H. Henderson and McDermont was appointed to decide upon the merits of the debate. The question, "Resolved, That local option is a desirable measure," was then discussed in the affirmative by F. M. Cahill, and in the negative by John Fischer. The committee decided in favor of the affirmative. Messrs. McDermott and Forth were elected as members. The report of the treasurer showed a balance of $25.23 on hand. The order of business was somewhat changed and the following resolution was carried: Resolved, That rule four be amended to read as follows: The president shall decide upon the merits of the arguments in debate. The debate at the next meeting will be upon the question: "Resolved, That education increases the happiness of the race." W. H. Henderson on the affirmative, with Messrs. McFadden, Viles and Schubert as assistants. F. W. Athearn on the negative with Messrs Mendelson, S. B. Smith and Fred Rimpau as assistants. Theo. Lynill and J. S. Bancroft will deliver declamations. The Republican Club met at Blanken's drug store on Wednesday evening, and 17 new members were enrolled. The club now numbers 150 persons. George C. Knox resigned his position as secretary of the club, and James Viles was elected in his place. A committee of four, consisting of S. C. Lowe, D. R. Payne, John Fischer and James Viles, were appointed to receive the Hon. The debate at the next meeting will be upon the question: "Resolved, That education increases the happiness of the race." W. H. Henderson on the affirmative, with Messrs. McFadden, Viles and Schubert as assistants. F. W. Athearn on the negative with Messrs Mendelson, S. B. Smith and Fred Rimpau as assistants. Theo. Lynill and J. S. Bancroft will deliver declamations. The Republican Club met at Blanken's drug store on Wednesday evening, and 17 new members were enrolled. The club now numbers 150 persons. George C. Knox resigned his position as secretary of the club, and James Viles was elected in his place. A committee of four, consisting of S. C. Lowe, D. R. Payne, John Fischer and James Viles, were appointed to receive the Hon. John F. Swift on Wednesday next. The San Diego Union says: "Now let the railroad be extended from Anaheim, and we will pay them a friendly visit occasionally. We expect to be able to attend the Southern District Fair of 1877, journeying to Los Angeles by rail." The railroad company has fixed the fare from Los Angeles to San Francisco at $22.50; lay-over tickets, $28. The incidental expenses, sleeping car, etc., will amount to about $5 more. Yesterday, while Master Jesse Parker was endeavoring to take his revolver from its holster, it was accidentally discharged, and the ball passed through both legs. D. Plato left yesterday for San Francisco on a short visit. Dewitt C. Lawrence of the West Oakland Press called on us yesterday. He will remain in Anaheim for several weeks. Governor Irwin has issued a proclamation making the anniversary of California's admission into the Union a legal holiday. On Friday, while Mrs. L. Parke was riding out, the carriage entered a deep gulch, throwing her against the seat and breaking her arm. The Santa Ana Republicans have had printed at The Gazette office posters announcing political gatherings at that town. Judge Swift will speak next Monday night. Hon. J. J. Maxwell on Saturday, September 23, and Hon. J. G. Eastman has consented to speak, but the time has not been definitely set. L. J. Lockhart of Orange is in Los Angeles, whiling the happy hours away as a special juror. The firm of Parker & Armor are now at work on C. E. French's fine residence on the San Joaquin ranch. The Methodist Episcopal Conference for Southern California appointed F. D. Bovard for Orange and Anaheim and J. D. Crum, formerly of Santa Monica, for Santa Ana district. Hon. Romualdo Pacheco, Republican candidate for congress, will arrive in Los Angeles on Thursday morning and will speak in that city on October 7, with Eslee and Spivalo. Mr. Siebert, cashier of the Anaheim bank, informs us that he is now ready for the transaction of banking business. We hope our citizens will see the necessity of doing all in their power to make this institution a thorough success, as its great convenience to business men cannot be gainsaid. Hon. Romualdo Pacheco, Republican candidate for congress, will arrive in Los Angeles on Thursday morning and will speak in that city on October 7, with Eslee and Spivalo. Mr. Siebert, cashier of the Anaheim bank, informs us that he is now ready for the transaction of banking business. We hope our citizens will see the necessity of doing all in their power to make this institution a thorough success, as its great convenience to business men cannot be gainsaid. Rev. M. Chambers will preach at the Presbyterian church on Sunday morning and evening. Governor Irwin has commissioned C. W. Humphreys a notary public to reside at Santa Ana, vice Loop, term expired. Frank Ey, on Wednesday, found a pocketbook containing some $600 in notes. The owner called for it yesterday. John P. Zeyn, the new proprietor of the Mechanics Exchange, will give a fine lunch tomorrow night, which we have no doubt will be dispatched with promptitude. Several emigrant wagons passed through Anaheim yesterday, bound for Las Bolsas. At a meeting of the Los Angeles Anti-Coolie Club, held on Thursday evening, a committee consisting of R. A. Ling, J. C. Cays, William Reddy, W. W. Creighton and Stephen M. White was appointed to invite the commission appointed by the House of Representatives and Senate to visit Los Angeles and take testimony in regard to the Chinese evil in our midst. On Monday, September 25, Cooper-Bailey & Company's great international circus will show in Anaheim. Besides a wonderful menagerie of rare wild animals, it has the greatest arsenic artists in the world, among them James Robinson, the champion bareback rider of the world, engaged at the princely salary of $1000 per week, the largest salary ever paid to any one artist. The Siegrist children, who are the greatest living acrobats, and hundreds of other attractions, grand spectacular street pageant, etc. We are informed that a great many of M. Cheeseman's hogs will recover from the effects of the poison lately given them. He will save about one hundred. 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1901 City Clerk Merritt has received from Sacramento a copy of Governor Henry T. Gage's proclamation, fixing today (Thursday) a public holiday for prayer and mourning in commemoration of the life of the martyred President: "Executive Department, State of California—At this time of a nation's sorrow the people of the state of California join in the deep grief shared by their fellow citizens in all the states and territories of the nation on account of the sad and untimely death, on this fourteenth day of September, A. D. 1901, of our grand and good President William McKinley. "The despicable assassin, whose murderous shot deprived America of one of her greatest Presidents, has by his base act struck a coward's blow at popular liberty and human rights. "In public testimony of the sorrow of the people of the state of California for the loss of their illustrious President McKinley, I, as chief executive of the state, do hereby order that the flags be placed and kept at half-mast on all the state buildings for 30 days from this date. I do hereby order that the day which shall hereafter be selected and set apart for the funeral of President McKinley be, and the same is hereby declared to be a public holiday for general prayer and mourning. "In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of this state to be hereunto affixed this fourteenth day of September, A. D. 1901. (Signed) "HENRY T. GAGE, Governor of the State of California." Attest: C. F. Curry Secretary of State." In public testimony of California for the loss of their illustrious President McKinley, I, as chief executive of the state, do hereby order that the flags be placed and kept at half-mast on all the state buildings for 30 days from this date. I do hereby order that the day which shall hereafter be selected and set apart for the funeral of President McKinley be, and the same is hereby declared to be a public holiday for general prayer and mourning. "In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of this state to be hereunto affixed this fourteenth day of September, A. D. 1901. (Signed) "HENRY T. GAGE, Governor of the State of California. "Attest: C. F. Curry, Secretary of State." The 18-year-old son of Decatur Harris of Buena Park was quite seriously injured by the accidental discharge of a 22-calibre rifle, which he was trying to load on Friday afternoon. His father had loaded the weapon earlier in the day, and when the youth sought to load it again, it discharged. He was seriously but not fatally wounded. Archie Henry was in town a day or two ago, setting up Havana's to his many friends on account of the arrival of an 8½-pound son and heir at his household on the eleventh instant. Archie is one of the rising young men of the West End, and the wish of his friends is that the new arrival may grow up to be as good a citizen as his father and grandfather. Mother and child are doing well. Public school opened Monday, the attendance being 305 in the grammar and lower grades, and over 100 in the high school. Pupils are in attendance at the high school from Fullerton, Olive, Buena Park, Westminster and other sections. Ex-Governor Markham of Pasadena last week disposed of a part of his ranch north of Orange to the following named persons: J. A. Maag, 16.57 acres, consideration; $2400; Indiaola Atkinson, 12 acres; $1662; D. F. Campbell, 18.54 acres; $2300; A. D. Bishop, 18.19 acres; $2700; Frank Lord, 17.56 acres; $2600. Ex-Governor Markham retains 100 acres of the ranch. A University Farmers' Institute, held in Surgeon's hall, Santa Ana, on September 18 and 19, was conducted by Prof. A. J. Cook. Among the names on the program we find Judge J. W. Ballard, Santa Ana; Rev. A. L. Dearing, Orange; C. C. Chapman, Fullerton; George A. Hunter, Anaheim; Mrs. J. E. Pleasants of Silverado, Prof. E. J. Wickson, D. Edson Smith and others. Committee of arrangements, Frank Ey, I. N. Rafferty, F. P. Nickey, A. D. Bishop, J. B. Neff, Anaheim; J. J. Schneider and Charles Fay, Anaheim. Committee on exhibits, J. C. Joplin, O. B. Byram, C. P. Taft, Dr. W. B. Wall, Theodore Staley, Placentia; M. L. Rogers, Anaheim; A. H. Cargill, Brookshurst; J. Whittaker, Buena Park; J. C. Sheppard, Fullerton. Committee on music, E. A. White, Paul Knauf, Prof. Henri C. Babize. Misses Pauline and Amelia Kroeger were in Los Angeles during the week to attend the wedding of Miss Bertha Krug, formerly of this city, to Forest Nelson Velzy. Rev. Stone, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian church, writes that he is the proud father of a daughter born in Livermore on the eleventh instant. Mother and child doing fine. Mrs. Gustave Heimann, Mrs. Richard Heimann and Mrs. Sorenson were in town during the week from Los Angeles, paralleling the river and cost line equally dividing the population, would pass through the northwest portion of the cities of Orange and Santa Ana. "The intersection of these two lines would be very close to a point on Flower street, 1400 feet north of Seventeenth street, thus indicating the actual center of population is about two miles southeast of the county hospital. "The geographical center of Orange county is the property of the San Joaquin Fruit Company, near Irvine. "These two conclusions are very easy of confirmation by anyone who is willing to devote a little time to the investigation. "Two years ago at the time the registration closed for the presidential elections, I made a similar calculation and determined the population center at that time to be about Flower and Santa Clara streets. The present registration shows that in the last two years it has shifted slightly to the south." Better Transportation For Autos in Service Safer, faster and cheaper transportation of automobiles from the great eastern manufacturing centers to the Pacific coast has been effected by the installation of a thousand specially designed all-steel freight cars on Union Pacific lines, according to R. B. Robertson, assistant general traffic manager of the Union Pacific system. Without changing any dimensions, the new type all-steel cars can accommodate four average-size motor cars They are built of reinforced steel are 50 feet in length and have staggered double doors providing an opening of 12 feet on each side.A traveling crane of 3000 pounds capacity operates on a steel track near the roof over the entire length of the car When not in use,the crane can be fastened at one end not interfering in any way with the shipping of other merchandise. Two automobiles are backed into the wide side doors of the freight car,and one put in each end.The crane holists the front-end which is then fastened by hooks and decking to the steel roof track so that the car rests on its rear wheels against blocks.Two more machines are then placed on the floor of the car underneath the cars securely tied to the steel roof track. With the new giant three cylinder locomotives in operation,the running time of freight trains is also being reduced," Robertson said. Many leading motor car companies have started shipping their automobiles over the Union Pacific in the new freight cars,and report that these cars are the best they have ever used."The speed of the new locomotives linked with the safety and economy features of the new auto cars,makes a shipping combination the advantages of which are bound to be welcomed by eastern manufacturers," said Robertson. Women Own Big Railroad Stock The Santa Fe railroad has more Misses Pauline and Amelia Kroeger were in Los Angeles during the week to attend the wedding of Miss Bertha Krug, formerly of this city, to Forest Nelson Velzy. Rev. Stone, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian church, writes that he is the proud father of a daughter born in Livermore on the eleventh instant. Mother and child doing fine. Mrs. Gustave Heimann, Mrs. Richard Heimann and Mrs. Sorenson were in town during the week from Los Angeles, visiting friends. Judge Richard Egan came up from San Juan Capistrano on Tuesday afternoon for a short visit with friends here. Prof. Ludwig Thomas came down from Los Angeles on Tuesday to instruct his Turner class in singing. Mr. Storm and family have returned from an outing at Laguna. Assemblyman Hasson of Buena Park was a business visitor in Santa Ana on Tuesday. Mrs. Barbara Parker and her daughter, Miss Eleanor, have departed for Long Beach to reside. Mrs. Meade of San Diego, sister of Mrs. Julius Schneider, visited with her several days the past week. C. Bruce and wife and George Boyd and wife have returned from an outing to San Jacinto mountain. J. C. Sheppard advertises this morning for 100 men and teams at good wages. Mrs. John Hunter was in town from her home in Fullerton on Monday. She is inexcellent health and is more active than many women a score of years her junior. Misses May and Irene Cargill will open a dancing school for boys and girls at the Del Campo every Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. R. H. Gilman of Placentia was in town on Friday. Women Own Big Railroad Stock The Santa Fe railroad has more women stockholders than men. In a bulletin issued by S. T. Bledsoe, general counsel, on authority of President W. B. Storey of the system, it is shown that 30,083 women, who own 995,357 shares, are on the books of the company, compared with 25,939 men who hold 1,375,934 shares. The bulletin very significantly remarks "that having passed in numbers our men stockholders, it seems not improbable that the women may before long own more shares of stock than are owned by the men." The largest single owner of shares in the Santa Fe is one of the leading educational institutions of this country, with 26,100 shares. This is only about three-fourths of 1 per cent of the total outstanding, the bulletin states. The Santa Fe has outstanding 3,565,-823 shares of capital stock of a par value of $100 each, and an aggregate par value of $356,582,300 owned by 63,933 shareholders, of which 1,241,728 shares are preferred, and 2,324,095 are common, states the counsel. Of the stockholders, each of the 48 states and the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Philippines, Porto Rico, Canal Zone and 35 other countries are represented. Individuals own 2,371,291, or 66 per cent of the total stock outstanding. The remaining 34 per cent is held by fiduciaries, estates, insurance companies, educational and scientific institutions, religious organizations, savings banks, trust companies and business firms. Still it must be admitted that Newt Baker was always generous with the people's money when he had the chance. According to the experts, the cost of living has been reduced 3.4 per cent since November, 1925, which gives us just that much more to spend for gasoline. That Williamstown conference seems to be a meeting called for the purpose of telling us what is the matter with Uncle Sam. ICE Delivered at your door, or at our plant at any time— PHONE 666 ANAHEIM CREAMERY 120 W. Chartress (in rear) NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ORANGE In the Matter of the Estate of J. I. Sheldon, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned administratrix of the estate of J. I. Sheldon, deceased, to the creditors and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the claims against the said deceased, with the necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice, to the said administratrix at No. 242 East Commonwealth Avenue, City of Fullerton, County of Orange, State of California, which said place the undersigned selects as a place of business in all matters connected with the business of said estate, or file them with the necessary vouchers within four months after the first publication of this notice in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Orange. Dated August 18th, 1926. CARRIE J. SHELDON, Administratrix of the Estate of J. I. Sheldon, Deceased. J. F. CONKEY, Attorney for Administratrix. 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