anaheim-gazette 1929-08-01

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 in 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK AUGUST 9, 1879. The Board of Town Trustees met in regular session on Wednesday. The Committee on Public Improvements was instructed to procure the proper signature to the deeds drawn up under instructions of the preceding Board, conveying to the town lands for sidewalks along the principal streets. The same committee was authorized to accept or reject the water works when notified of their completion by the contractor, which will probably be on Monday or Tuesday next. R. W. Scott addressed the Board in the matter of licensing peddlers or dealers who sold the agricultural or mechanical productions of the state produced by themselves, and quoted law authorities showing that the Board had no power to exact a license from such persons. The matter was brought before the Board on a proposition to license Chinese vegetable peddlers, but in view of the law in the matter the Board cannot enforce a license against them. A vote of thanks was tenured Mr. Scott for his courtesy in explaining the law. The tank frame was accepted from the contractor, Mr. Dalton, and his bill was ordered paid. The marshal was instructed to collect the poll tax and dog tax before the next meeting of the Board. The tax levy for the year was fixed at sixty cents on the $100 assessed valuation of property, the same as last year. At a meeting of the school trustees of Anaheim district help... At a meeting of the school trustees of Anaheim district held on Thursday, it was decided to re-open the school on Monday the 18th inst. The position of teacher in the intermediate department has been tendered to Mr. Henderson, but it is not known as yet whether he will accept. The primary department will be taught by Mrs. Breed and Miss Des Granges. A change has also been made in the salaries of the teachers of the intermediate and primary departments. The first named has been reduced from $75 to $70 per month and the second from $70 to $65 per month. Mr. John Fischer, candidate for the County Recorder, has lived in Anaheim ever since the town was founded. He has been identified with every enterprise calculated to promote the prosperity of the place and has, in season and out of season, advocated Anaheim's interests with all his ability. He ought to receive the hearty support of his townsmen. Col. H. G. Otis of the Santa Barbara Press, is in Alaska and writes to his paper that he has seen an orange tree and a rose bush growing in that frigid country. He hastens to explain, however, that they are potted plants, and flourish in the warmth of a fur-trader's parlor, where a fireplace continually gives forth heat. O. W. Childs, John G. Downey and I. W. Hellman have given a large tract of land near Los Angeles, for the purpose of endowment, to the trustees of an educational institution to be established and known as the University of Southern California. It is thought that seven thousand votes will be polled in this county at the coming election. E. J. Baldwin has purchased 20,000 acres of land adjoining the Santa Anita Rancho, in this county, and announces that he will shortly commence the erection of a residence to cost $20,000. A Frenchman alighted from the train on Wednesday evening, whose actions betokened that he was suffering from poison. He was brought to town and under the ministrations of Mrs. Dr. Higgins was in a few hours comparatively well. His story is that he was decoyed into a low saloon in Los Angeles and induced to take a drink, after which he was robbed of $45. The liquor put him in fearful pain, and he has no knowledge of how he got on the cars in Los Angeles or of who robbed him of his money. The twelve-year-old son of Mr. E. W. Champlin, who has been seriously ill for some time with typhoid fever, is happily recovering. The physician says that the case was one of the most severe that he has ever encountered in this country. The genial M. B. Craig of Westminster was in town on Monday. If our townsman, John Fischer, is not elected to the Recordship, we sincerely hope that Mr. Craig will be. He is an honorable law authorities showing that the Board had no power to exact a license from such persons. The matter was brought before the Board on a proposition to license Chinese vegetable peddlers, but in view of the law in the matter the Board cannot enforce a license against them. A vote of thanks was tenured Mr. Scott for his courtesy in explaining the law. The tank frame was accepted from the contractor, Mr. Dalton, and his bill was ordered paid. The marshal was instructed to collect the poll tax and dog tax before the next meeting of the Board. The tax levy for the year was fixed at sixty cents on the $100 assessed valuation of property, the same as last year. Col. S. H. orders from the him in charge of Seventh Regiment for the annual semble at Los Col. Finley will geles will be ththe following There will be and three box rison equipment John Pfenn Los Angeles road. John ha city's electric c his walnut or Los Angeles, Road Over and W. A. Barre stead by Super satisfactory suf experience u Carl Zeus Friday morning on West street when, as he sto he was kicked v trampling upon kick, and the w picked up by M storatives were the horse having and drove back pelled to go ho deck again on the ring. William C Crowther, have K. Benchley an John Rimp The twelve-year-old son of Mr. E. W. Champlin, who has been seriously ill for some time with typhoid fever, is happily recovering. The physician says that the case was one of the most severe that he has ever encountered in this country. The genial M. B. Craig of Westminster was in town on Monday. If our townsman, John Fischer, is not elected to the Recordership, we sincerely hope that Mr. Craig will be. He is an honorable, able man. The citizens of Wilmington have petitioned the Board of Supervisors for an appropriation of $250 with which to purchase fire apparatus. The district attorney reported to the Board that there is no law authorizing them to make any such appropriation. The St. Helena Star says: A large grape grower informs us he has been offered $22, $18 and $16 for this year's crop of grapes. The former for Zinfandel, the next for all foreign varieties and the latter for Mission. The Democratic convention meets in Orange today to nominate a candidate for supervisor. It is said that Richard Egan of San Juan Capistrano, who is prominently mentioned as a candidate, has declined to allow his name to be presented. It is said that Mr. Philip Davis of Anaheim will probably be nominated. Anaheim is entitled to the supervisor this year and if Mr. Davis is elected we will have a supervisor who will see that the interests of this district are well cared for. Stephen N. White has been nominated for district attorney by the W. P. C. of this county, vice Wilcox, who did not accept the nomination. A Los Angeles paper says that the settlers of Las Bolsas Rancho are about to purchase Col. Baker's one-eighth interest in the ranch, and thus gain perfect title. A. A. McKinnie has been appointed administrator of the estate of P. C. McKinnie, deceased, with bonds fixed at $5,000. The shareholders of the Cajon Irrigation Company will hold a meeting in Anaheim on the 18th inst. to devise ways and means for paying the company's indebtedness. From the telegraphic list of passengers we see that Mrs. Julia Schneider and three children of Anaheim will arrive in San Francisco today by overland train. S OF LONG AGO Issued Half a Century and a Quarter of a Century Authentic History in Print of the Daily Doings of Orange County in the Days of the Pioneers. 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK AUGUST 4, 1904. J. B. Rae this week sold his walnut grove at Katella to Los Angeles parties, the price paid being $40,000. Acheck drawn on the American Bank of Los Angeles lies in the vault of the First National Bank in that city, awaiting completion of the certificate of title. The purchasers are the Union Investment Company of Los Angeles, in which Mr. Botsford is interested, and M. J. Connell, a multi-millionaire of that city. The orchard contains 80 acres of the finest walnut trees in the state. Half of the trees are thirteen years of age, the remainder being ten. The entire tract is included in the water district and it has as well a fine pumping plant upon it from which a large flow of water is secured. Mr. Rae purchased forty acres from the Stearns Rancho in 1891 at $75 per acre. He set the acreage to walnuts. In 1891 he planted another forty acres to walnuts, adjoining the older orchard on the south. The sale is the largest which has taken place in this neighborhood in some time. It fixes the price of similar orchard property at $500 per acre. The crop of nuts upon the trees is estimated at $8,000. While there was nothing for miles around when Mr. Rae purchased the tract of bare land thirteen years ago, now there is a continuous belt of orchard extending for miles in every direction. New orchard tracts are being set out on all sides. It is doubtful REORGANIZING THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH According to press dispatches from Washington, on the fourth day of the month when the youth of the nation was doing its best to make a lot of patriotic noise, and the older folks were trying to get into the country to escape the noise, President Hoover braved the heat of the National Capital and remained at his desk busy with the problem of the re-organization of the executive government's many bureaus and commissions, along lines which will make for economy and efficiency of administration. We have heard a great deal during the past few years about the re-organization of the executive branch of the government to permit the wheels of the administration to run more smoothly and efficiently. Back in the administration of the late President Harding it was recognized that something along this line should be done and an inquiry into the overlapping of various government departments was entered into under the direction of Walter F. Brown, who has since become Postmaster General in President Hoover's cabinet. Up to this time, however, nothing tangible has been accomplished. Many of the bureaus which it is sought to change and consolidate have been in existence in Washington for a long time and resent any effort toward changing them. They came into being, many of them, so easily and noiselessly that they seem like Topsy to have "just growed." Many of the bureaus of course have stalwart friends inside Congress as well as out and this has slowed up the process of consolidation and co-ordination. According to the news dispatches from Washington President Hoover has for some time been studying the question of simplifying and co-ordinating the bureau activities in the interest of efficiency and economy, and he hopes to have a definite program ready to present to Congress at the next regular session. That this program will be an interesting and comprehensive one goes a large flow of water is secured. Mr. Rae purchased forty acres from the Stearns Rancho in 1891 at $75 per acre. He set the acreage to walnuts. In 1891 he planted another forty acres to walnuts, adjoining the older orchard on the south. The sale is the largest which has taken place in this neighborhood in some time. It fixes the price of similar orchard property at $500 per acre. The crop of nuts upon the trees is estimated at $8,000. While there was nothing for miles around when Mr. Rae purchased the tract of bare land thirteen years ago, now there is a continuous belt of orchard extending for miles in every direction. New orchard tracts are being set out on all sides. It is doubtful if any section of Southern California can show more substantial increase than the country about Katella. The name of the section, it may be added, was given it by Mr. Rae in honor of his two daughters, Miss Kate and Miss Ella, their given names being joined. Col. S. H. Finley of the Seventh Regiment is in receipt of orders from the California National Guard headquarters placing him in charge of the Signal Corps and Troop D, as well as of the Seventh Regiment, for their transportation to the Henry ranch for the annual encampment. The National Guardsmen will assemble at Los Angeles on the afternoon of the 12th inst., when Col. Finley will assume command. The departure from Los Angeles will be that evening and they will arrive at their destination the following morning. Col. Finley has command of the train. There will be fourteen coaches for the soldiers, one for officers, and three box cars for horses, one for baggage and one for garrison equipment. John Pfeninger and mother have returned to Fullerton from Los Angeles and are occupying their new residence on Spadra road. John has given up his position as conductor on one of the city's electric car lines, and will in future devote his attention to his walnut orchard. Miss Pfeninger will continue to reside in Los Angeles, where she has a position in the city schools. Road Oversee Porter of Fullerton has resigned his position and W. A. Barnes, former city marshal, has been appointed in his stead by Supervisor Linebarger. Mr. Barnes has proved a very satisfactory superintendent of streets and has had several years of experience under Mr. Porter. Carl Zeus narrowly escaped fatal injury in an accident on Friday morning, while delivering groceries at Fred Maurer's place on West street. Carl had driven into the yard and had alighted when, as he stooped to pick up a rake lying under the horse's feet, he was kicked viciously behind the ear. The horse started to run, trampling upon the lad, who was rendered unconscious by the kick, and the wheels of the wagon passed over him. He was picked up by Mr. Maurer and carried into the house where restoratives were applied. He regained consciousness shortly, and the horse having stopped in the yard, he delivered the groceries and drove back to town. His injuries were such that he was compelled to go home, where he remained several days. Carl was on deck again on Monday morning, slightly disfigured but still in the ring. William Crowther and daughters Misses Sarah and Ruby Crowther, have been sojourning at Newport Beach, guests of E. K. Benchley and family. John Rimpau, who has been visiting relatives here for many of them so closely and honestly that they seem like Topsy to have "just growed." Many of the bureaus of course have stalwart friends inside Congress as well as out and this has slowed up the process of consolidation and co-ordination. According to the news dispatches from Washington President Hoover has for some time been studying the question of simplifying and co-ordinating the bureau activities in the interest of efficiency and economy, and he hopes to have a definite program ready to present to Congress at the next regular session. That this program will be an interesting and comprehensive one goes without saying. It will meet with some opposition, of course, some of the reasons for which have been enumerated above, but there is little doubt that sooner or later the organization of government departments will become a reality. Friends of the administration who favor the reorganization plan say that if it is put into effect, the savings in the executive department of the government will be such that a reduction in taxes in 1930 will be made more likely. This assertion, of course, will be a trump card in the hands of those who favor the plan. It will be remembered that President Hoover has long been in favor of such reorganization and coordination of the government departments. The plan was more or less of an issue in the campaign. It is not surprising therefore that the President is busy at work these hot summer days on a plan designed to carry out this pledge he made in the campaign. The people of the nation, regardless of politics, will be in sympathy with his effort to make the government at Washington more efficient at less expenditure of money. At any rate, bureaucratic government has never been popular in America and it has become even less so during the past few years. It used to be that the seaside resorts published pictures of sea-scrapers to attract visitors, but now they publish pictures of—oh, well, you go on and finish it. A physician who has been investigating says that since they became so athletic our modern girls have much thicker wrists than formerly. If this is true, it is a good thing for the erring husband that the rolling pin has gone out of fashion in the morn home. A woman never gets really old until she quits worrying about whether she has her hair combed in the proper way. No. 412 B Mother! William Crowther and daughters Misses Sarah and Ruby Crowther, have been sojourning at Newport Beach, guests of E.K. Benchley and family. John Rimpau, who has been visiting relatives here for the past few weeks, returned some days ago to his home in Yuma. Mrs. M. A. Toombs and her two charming daughters of Los Angeles are spending a month at their Placentia fruit ranch. Assessor Berlin of Fullerton has completed the first assessment roll of that city. The total valuation on real estate is $567,-220 and on personal property $55,745, making a total assessment of nearly $700,000. The city tax rate will probably be between 50c and 75c on the $100 assessed valuation. Victor Browning was a visitor in town on Tuesday. A party of hunters composed of Johnny Hanna, Dr. Houck, W. B. Hutchinson and W. A. Newberry, went to the Trabuco canyon on Saturday to hunt deer. They camped in the canyon over night and early on Sunday morning started for game. They succeeded in getting a fine five-pronged 100-pound buck, the first one brought into town in five years. The party reports plenty of water in the canyon creeks, more than for a number of years. Henry Davis was over from Santa Ana this week. He states his mother and sister have gone to Laguna Beach for a camping season, and on their return will go to Los Angeles to reside permanently. Frank Dyer made a trip to the Landing on Monday, to enjoy a dip in the briny. Otto and Gus Strodthoff and sister, Miss Adele Strodthoff, have gone to Catalina for a week's stay. Michael Neipp and family are at San Juan hot springs for a month. P. A. 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