anaheim-gazette 1930-01-30

IN THE DAYS OF Extracts From Files of The Gazette Issued Half a Co. Ago. These Files Contain the Only Authentic History the Citizens of Anaheim and Orange County in 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK FEBRUARY 7, 1880 Mr. J. B. Pierce is planting his wheat with an improved seed drill which he received a few days ago from San Francisco. Five carloads of wine and two of brandy have been shipped to San Francisco during the week by B. Dreyfus & Co. Mr. Henry Knapke has been re-elected zanjero of the Anaheim Water Company. It is expected that the Arizona branch of the S. P. R. R. will be completed to Tucson by March 15th. L. N. Evans and Bro. of the Grange Store, hereby inform the public that they are selling good coal oil for 30 cents a gallon. Governor and Mrs. Perkins held a reception at Sacramento, yesterday. The editor acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to be present. The four hundred acres of sugar beets near Florence planted by R. Nadeau is growing finely and the frost does not seem to have affected it in the least. The Santa Ana Lodge of Good Templars will give an entertainment on Wednesday evening. The program is a fine one and is worth a trip from Anaheim to hear it. On the night of the 30th ult, the thermometer indicated 20 Governor and Mrs. Perkins held a reception at Sacramento yesterday. The editor acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to be present. The four hundred acres of sugar beets near Florence planted by R. Nadeau is growing finely and the frost does not seem to have affected it in the least. The Santa Ana Lodge of Good Templars will give an entertainment on Wednesday evening. The program is a fine one and is worth a trip from Anaheim to hear it. On the night of the 30th ult, the thermometer indicated 20 degrees a few miles west of Los Angeles. The same degree of heat was reached on Christmas night. There is a very fine reservoir at Pasadena. It is built on strictly scientific principles and is architecturally perfect. It has however, the slight defect of not being able to hold water. The entire winters supply has gone to waste. Our cooper, Mr. C. Wille, is making a large lot of honey barrels to fill orders already received. The barrels made by Mr. Wille are growing more into favor every year, and he supplies all the apiarists in this section. He will also hereafter keep a stock of liquor kegs and barrels on hand. There has been no lack of entertainments in Anaheim lately. On Saturday night the blind fiddler performed to a fair audience; on Sunday night a theatrical performance and ball was well attended and on Tuesday afternoon and night the two-headed woman and the midgets exhibited to audiences which nearly filled Kroeger's hall. The event of the season is the Leap Year Party to be given on next Tuesday night under the auspices of the young ladies of Anaheim, and lucky are they who receive invitations to take part in the festivities. The Grand March will take place at 8:30 p.m. sharp. Those who have kindly donated refreshments will please have them ready by noon on Tuesday as the committee will call for them at that hour. The Anaheim Fire Company did not consummate the purchase of the fire hose from the San Bernardino authorities, and it is well they did not. A San Bernardino paper, speaking of the last fire at that place says: The 600 feet of hose that was purchased with the engine has proved to be utterly worthless. At this fire it burst in so many places that it became impossible for the firemen to get a good stream on the fire. The town council has ordered a new supply of 800 feet. The Board of Town Trustees met in regular session on Wednesday. The committee on Ordinances was instructed to introduce the required laws not later than next regular meeting. The land donated to the town by Mr. Zeyn, as an extension of Olive street, was ordered cleared. The committee on Public Improvements was authorized to confer with the Anaheim Fire Company relative to the purchase of hose and hose cart, with authority to subscribe an amount not exceeding $25 if in their judgment such action was wise and necessary. After transacting the usual routine business, the Board adjourned. The Anaheim Literary Union met in the Presbyterian church on Thursday evening, called to order at 8 p.m. by the secretary. On motion Miss Ella Mitchell was elected president pro tem. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. President duce the required laws not later than next regular meeting. The land donated to the town by Mr. Zeyn, as an extension of Olive street, was ordered cleared. The committee on Public Improvements was authorized to confer with the Anaheim Fire Company relative to the purchase of hose and hose cart, with authority to subscribe an amount not exceeding $25 if in their judgment such action was wise and necessary. After transacting the usual routine business, the Board adjourned. The Anaheim Literary Union met in the Presbyterian church on Thursday evening, called to order at 8 p.m. by the secretary. On motion Miss Ella Mitchell was elected president pro tem. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. President Zeyn having entered the room he was called to the chair. Miss Carrie Seibert favored the society with a vocal solo. Miss Brier recited "The Last Ride;" Miss Ella Mitchell recited "The Bridge," very touching. Miss Lydia Parker recited "Dare to do Right," a temperance selection. Recess. Reading of quaries by the secretary. Debate. "Resolved, That unprincipled journalism is a greater evil than bad legislation. Affirmative, J. M. Guinn and D. R. Payne; Negative, C. W. Campbell and Mrs. Parker. Messrs. John Guinn, Marsh and McKinnie were appointed the committee to decide on the merits of the debate and gave their decision in favor of the affirmative. The next meeting will be on February 12th. The Teachers association of Santa Ana valley met in the Anaheim school building on Saturday afternoon, January 31st. Mr. J. M. Guinn gave an address on the subject of training in the use of language. He advocated constant practice in sentence formation. He claimed that the combining composition with grammar a better and more correct use of language can be obtained than by devoting the pupils time to parsing and analyzing. The subject was discussed by Mr. McFadden and Mr. Parker, Mr. Henderson gave an address on the subject of reading. He gave some excellent advice to teachers in regard to drill in inflections and emphasis. The lateness of the hour prevented further discussion of this interesting subject. The place for holding the next meeting called forth considerable discussion. It was finally decided that as there were no teachers present from Santa Ana to tender the association an invitation to meet in that place it meets in Anaheim the 4th Saturday of February at 1 p.m.. The following program was reported for the next meeting: Primary reading, Mrs. J. A. Breed of Anaheim; bookkeeping by C. N. Andrews of Santa Ana; geography, C. W. Campbell, of Fairview; general instruction, Mrs. J. A. Foster, of Orange; an essay by Mrs. A, S. Averill of Garden Grove; mental arithmetic, W. M. McFadden, of Old Los Nietos; declamation, Mr. Grover of Fountain Valley. Anaheim evenings ago elected: Mr Mrs. Brande Backs, Jr., of Backs, Jr., at Mable Gade, Elsie Clabau installed by ger of the or a successful second and f Mr. J. H Mr. Ramsey vive to the best establishment Southern Cal bill will prob in Los Angeles be appointed bill Citrus gross output freight. Nu proper develop creased to $ 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 FEBRUARY 9, 1905 Leo Harris is here from Tehachepi on a brief business and pleasure visit. Miss Hettie Weisel has been in Hollywood during the week visiting her sister, Mrs. Larsen. Julius Schwentker left yesterday for Kirksville, Mo., where he will take up a course in the medical college. County Recorder Peters collected fees during January to the amount of $762.80. J. B. Rae has been indisposed during the week with an attack of la gripe. Miss Nonie McWilliams departs on Monday for a visit of several weeks with her father. H. A. McWilliams, who is in Phoenix A. T. recuperating his health. John Johnson came in from Dale mining district this week and expects to return as soon as repair of washed out bridges will permit. He reports continued activity at the camp. John Hartung made a trip to San Diego on Saturday, returning on Monday. He went to inspect the banking quarters in that city. His train was delayed several hours each way by washouts. S. C. Federman, of Los Angeles, has sold 140 acres near the Mormon school house known as the old Tim Carroll place to a Richfield Oil Co. Has New Official Capt. E. L. Curtis Added to the Aviation Department Captain E. L. Curtis, former airways extension superintendent of the Airways Division, U. S. Department of Commerce, and more recently associate airways engineer of that department, has become associated with the Richfield Oil Company of California as Chief Engineer of the Service Division of its Aviation Department according to an announcement just made by C. B. Garretson, Vice President. Captain Curtis will organize a department which will extend a consulting service to communities and air transport operators, aviation schools, etc., desiring advice relative to the selection of airport sites, methods of conditioning and surfacing airports, and in addition will furnish complete plans, specifications, and cost data necessary to construct and put an airport into operation, together with an estimate of probable revenues and maintenance costs. This service will be without charge and will be an extension of the many aviation advisory activities of the Aviation Department of the Richfield Oil Company. Following service as a pilot in the air service of the United States Army during the World War, Captain Curtis returned to school, attending the University of California, Kansas City University, Kansas University, where he received a degree in Civil Engineering, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1921 as an Aeronautical Engineer. After a number of years of barnstorming and aerial photographic work, Curtis helped organize the Pueblo-Cheyenne air mail route, was chief pilot of this division of the air mail service and made its inaugural flight. He left the air mail service in May, 1927, to become airways extension superintendent in the U. S. Department of Commerce, later being transferred to San Francisco, California, as associate airways engineer in charge of the Federal Pacific Coast airways, which maintained the maintenance of oil John Johnson came in from Dale mining district this week and expects to return as soon as repair of washed out bridges will permit. He reports continued activity at the camp. John Hartung made a trip to San Diego on Saturday, returning on Monday. He went to inspect the banking quarters in that city. His train was delayed several hours each way by washouts. S. C. Federman, of Los Angeles, has sold 140 acres near the Magnolia school house known as the old Tim Carroll place to a new comer from the East for $12,000. The property will be improved. Dan Mauerhian is shipping ground chili pepper at the rate of three tons per day from his chili ranch southwest of town. He finds a ready sale for it to Los Angeles brokers. Some of it is shipped to El Paso and points in Old Mexico. The Odd Fellows on Tuesday evening decided to begin erection of their new two-story brick block a soon as a selection can be made from the several sites offered. A decision will, it is said, be arrived at in a few days. Two of the sites most favored are the Barborka lot on Center street and the Federman lot near the city hall. The building will cost $12,000. Very Rev. Bonaventura Frey, of New York, founder and provincial superior of the Capuchin order in the United States is a guest of Rev. Father Dubble. He is one of the oldest priests in the Eastern metropolis and has been an intimate acquaintance of the Dubble family for some twenty-six years. He will remain for an indefinite stay. Anaheim Turnverein has elected the following officers to serve for the ensuing year: G. F. Martin, president; C. Lange, vice president; Fred Gruenemay, secretary; R. Fische, Treasurer; Jos. Backs, Sr., Andrew Roerden, directors; Wm. Fischer, turn wait; Adolph Backs, second turn wait; Wm. Nemetz, zeng wait; Jos. Backs, Sr., quarter master. A meeting of turners will be held tomorrow night at Turner's Hall to select delegates to a meeting to be held on San Diego for the purpose of preparing for the turnfest to be held in that city in October. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poet, who is spending the winter in California, will visit the last of this week, her nephew, L. Harry Wilcox, at his ranch in the Katella district. Mrs. Wilcox is an authoress of world-wide repute, and there are many people here, as elsewhere, who know her by her poems and other literary productions. It is a pleasure to extend to her a welcome to the community, coupled with expression of the hope that her brief stay may be pleasant to her and those with whom she may come in contract. Might one not also indulge the hope that she may observe things of sufficient interest to warrant a future reference by her gifted pen? Anaheim Circle. Women of Woodcraft was organized some evenings ago with thirty members. The following officers were elected: Mr. C. F. Grim, past guardian; B. V. Beebe, guardian; Mrs. Brandenberg, advisor; W. B. Hutchinson, banker; J. M. Backs, Jr., clerk; Mrs. W. B. Hutchinson, magician; Mrs. J. M. Backs, Jr., attendant; Mrs. B. V. Beebe, captain of the guard; Miss Mable Gade, inner sentinel; Mrs. Geo. Boyd, outer sentinel; Miss Elsie Clahaugh, musician. The circle was instituted and officers Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1921 as an Aeronautical Engineer. After a number of years of barnstorming and aerial photographic work, Curtis helped organize the Pueblo-Cheyenne air mail route, was chief pilot of this division of the air mail service and made its inaugural flight. He left the air mail service in May, 1927, to become airways extension superintendent in the U.S. Department of Commerce, later being transferred to San Francisco, California, as associate airways engineer in charge of the Federal Pacific Coast airways, which duties embraced the maintenance of all beacons, intermediate landing fields, weather reporting and radio communication systems, resigning from this position in October, 1929. He is a Captain in the Air Corps Reserve, United States Army, is a transport pilot, and has had over 3,500 hours of actual flying experience. Children's Bureau The Children's Bureau, Department of Labor, during 1929 distributed 1,473-430 publications. It made 376 shipments of exhibit material, sent to national state, an dlocal organizations in the United States Hawaii and the Philippine Islands. Furthermore,the Duerau's posters slides,and motion pictures have been borrowed by child welfare organizations in Argentine,Brazil Canada,Costa Rica England India Japan Paraguay Turkey and other foreign countries. Reports from approximately sixty percent of the organizations in the United States using the exhibits films panels etc., show an attendance of 248,600 at the motion pictures and 865,730 at the other exhibits.The average number of persons reached monthly by ythe exhibits according to the incomplete figures is 93,000. This is an important branch of the government service and it is well that it is so extensive.Its wonderful testimony to the national interest in the children that it is so widely contacted.Furthermore,the Bureau reports that "with the tumest care to achieve economy.In printing and distribution methods,the Bureau has been unable to meet the demand not only for its popular publications but for its more technical publications as well." Anaheim Circle. Women of Woodcraft was organized some evenings ago with thirty members. The following officers were elected: Mr. C. F. Grim, past guardian; B. V. Beebe, guardian; Mrs. Brandenberg, advisor; W. B. Hutchinson, banker; J. M. Backs, Jr., clerk; Mrs. W. B. Hutchinson, magician; Mrs. J. M. Backs, Jr., attendant; Mrs. B. V. Beebe, captain of the guard; Miss Mable Gade, inner sentinel; Mrs. Geo. Boyd, outer sentinel, Miss Elsie Clabaugh, musician. The circle was instituted and officers installed by Miss Florence Wehrley, of Los Angeles, grand manager of the order. The circle starts with a good membership and a successful career is looked for. The meetings will be on the second and fourth Wednesdays at Backs hall. Mr. J. B. Neff went to Santa Ana yesterday to confer with Mr. Ramsey, of Riverside, and Prof. Powell, of Washington, relative to the bill now before the legislature appropriating $50,000 for establishment of a pathological station and experiment farm in Southern California. The conference developed the fact that the bill will probably pass. A meeting of those interested will be held in Los Angeles next week, when a committee of two or three will be appointed to go to Sacramento and take a hand in pushing the bill. Citrus fruits net the growers of the state $10,000,000. The gross output is $20,000,000 but the railroads take half of it for freight. Nut net the growers $2,000,000. It is held that with proper development of these two industries the yield could be increased to $15,000,000. The newly elected directors of the Chamber of Commerce met on Thursday evening for the purpose of organizing met on Thursday evening for the purpose of organizing and Edward Michod, secretary-treasurer. The president announced that the chairmen of committees will be named at the next meeting. The new chairman will appoint committee from members of the chambers. The resignation of Fred Backs as a director was received and accepted. Dr. W. W. Adams was elected in his stead. Messrs. Foor and Michod were appointed a committee to go to Santa Ana and look up Anaheim's share in the World's Fair exhibit. It was resolved to hold an Arbor Day celebration this year. Messrs. Grim and Wallop were appointed to take the matter in hand and secure the cooperation of the city council. It was resolved to change regular meeting nights from the second and fourth to the first and third Thursday. 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