anaheim-gazette 1930-05-01

IN THE DAYS OF Extracts From Files of The Gazette Issued Half a Century and a Quarter of a Authentic History in Print of the Daily Doings of the Citizens of Anaheim and 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK MAY 8, 1880 The newly elected Board of Town Trustees met on Monday as required by the charter and organized by electing Mr. B. F. Seibert as president. The regular monthly meeting was held on Wednesday at which time the following ordinances were adopted: An ordinance levying a dog tax of $2 for the year 1880-81; an ordinance levying a poll tax of $2 for the year 1880-81; an ordinance fixing the bonds of certain officers. Bridges were ordered built at certain places on Palm street. The matter of sprinkling the streets was referred to the committee on public improvements. The marshal was instructed to notify property owners to keep the street in front of their respective places free from rubbish. A warrant for $25 was ordered drawn in favor of the Fire company, to assist in paying for the hose. The bonds of Marshal Barham, Assessor Zeyn and Justice Gannon were approved. Mr. F. J. J. Schmidt was witness to a very singular combat the other day while out hunting. His attention was attracted to the curious actions of three buzzards, and on proceeding to investigate, he found they were fighting with a large rattlesnake. The result of the fight was that the snake was killed. Mr. Schmidt drove the buzzards away, secured the rattles from the snake and left the body lying in the road. Returning after a few moments, he found that the buzzards had eaten the choice portions of their victim, the skeleton only remaining. The snake was a very long one, with a body as thick as a man's wrist. The Board of Directors, accompanied by the Commissioner and the Zanjero, of the Anaheim Water Company went up to the head of the ditch on Sunday last, on a tour of inspection. In crossing the river the carriage containing four of the party sank in the quicksand and it was only by the heroic efforts of Mr. Knapke that the carriage and its occupants reached terra forma. The second carriage got over safely, the balance of the Directors fording the raging current astride the trusty horse of Commissioner Travelers ovein their complaincorner. This piemediate attention oughta leading dition is a cryinit. A few loads and this has beeis about as good be devised. A low winter lies rottisteer clear of thashould be bridged. N. Hart, as is preparing to o- $30,000, one-half terms of her wilheirs. One of thalocated, although money is withheld and if dead, the ing heirs. The posited in equational here and o Benj. Kraemer trict and finds 19 year. Ben has hafew years ago thaboys are far in thateacher. A major another room in small school hous The Board of Directors, accompanied by the Commissioner and the Zanjero, of the Anaheim Water Company went up to the head of the ditch on Sunday last, on a tour of inspection. In crossing the river the carriage containing four of the party sank in the quicksand and it was only by the heroic efforts of Mr. Knapke that the carriage and its occupants reached terra forma. The second carriage got over safely, the balance of the Directors fording the raging current astride the trusty horse of Commissioner Haight. One hundred and sixty votes were cast at the election for school trustee on Saturday last. Mr. D. W. C. Cowan received 79 votes and Mr. Theodore Rimpau 81 votes. The Board of School Trustees met on Monday, canvassed the votes and declared Mr. Rimpau elected. Mr. Athearn was re-elected clerk of the Board. It is said that the election will be contested, on the ground that some persons voted who were not residents of the district. A Boston man who visited Anaheim in the early part of the week was heard to remark, with an earnestness which left no doubt as to his sincerity, that he had seen more pretty girls during his stay in Anaheim than he had during his entire trip across the continent. The men of Boston are noted for excellent judgment, nice descernment, and a keen appreciation of the beautiful. About five months ago a man who claimed to be a deputy sheriff of Kern county, hired a horse from N. H. Mitchell for the avowed purpose of pursuing horse thieves. He got the horse and that was the last seen of him and the animal until a few days ago, when Mr. Mitchell received information that the horse and saddle had been sold to a stable-keeper in Wilmington. He went to Wilmington and indentified his property, which is now in his possession. We call attention to the advertisement of the City Stables, L. F. Lewis, proprietor. These stables are very large and commodious, and the equine boarders have, as the academy prospectors usually says, "All the comforts of home." Mr. Lewis's teams are safe, reliable and stylish and the stables are in every way deserving of public patronage. The Board of Supervisors have appointed J. M. Guinn, W. P. McDonald, George C. Hall and Dr. Joseph Kurtz a County Board of Education and the salary was fixed at $5 per day each for every day necessarily employed as such Board and twenty cents per mile circular mileage for each session. The Board will meet in Los Angeles today and effect an organization. An exchange makes a great ado over some sheep which sheared seventeen pounds of wool apiece. Mr. George Hall of Anaheim Landing sheared three of his sheep recently and the fleece of one weighed sixteen pounds and the other two twenty pounds each. A large band of such wool bearing sheep at the present price would be valuable property. A son of B. F. E. Kellogg met with a very painful accident on Wednesday. He was using a bottle as a hammer to fix something about the mowing machine when the battle broke out. Benj. Kraemer trict and finds 1 year. Ben has two few years ago the boys are far in the teacher. A major another room in small school house. Mrs. Carrie completed her work that district, and children that are a total of 442 clog gain of 18 scholar. At the residence Sunday, a barbecue who is 86 years old of the Sparks farm happy event, and was the recipient posed of well knit A very enjoyable City Clerk trustees on Tuesday, prepared in it shows among during the year $14,849.00. Total ingent tax list $ and treasurer) $ cement sidewalk Cost of labor on oil used on street $438.75; electric teams cost $6.05 showed a surplus lights $659.56. Cost the city $6 power. The rate size in the state. F. W. Fleisch corrugated iron barn establishment, for erection of the new opened on Saturday Fleischman will be The Anaheim regular annual or Schools will be held May 19. The congrin senior, oratic Lawrence, Junior Admission, 15c.ouncement will be An exchange makes a great ado over some sheep which sheared seventeen pounds of wool apiece. Mr. George Hall of Anaheim Landing sheared three of his sheep recently and the fleece of one weighed sixteen pounds and the other two twenty pounds each. A large band of such wool bearing sheep at the present price would be valuable property. A son of B. F. E. Kellogg met with a very painful accident on Wednesday. He was using a bottle as a hammer to fix something about the mowing machine, when the bottle broke and cut an artery in his left wrist. He lost a great deal of blood and for a time it looked as if the wound would be a very serious affair. The demand for hay in Arizona is something not to be sneezed at. While it is slow of sale in the up country it commands in this county a price of $12 to $14 a ton. A gentleman from Arizona, now in Los Angeles, has a contract for 10,000 tons, all of which presumably, will be filled in this county. At the Democratic primary on Saturday Messrs. Isaac Cohen, B. Dreyfus, A. Bittner, V. Montgomery, and A. Hickox were elected delegates to the county convention which meets in Los Angeles today. Rev. A. G. L. Trew, formerly rector of the Anaheim Episcopal church but now of Santa Barbara has been spending the past week with friends in Los Angeles. Los Angeles county has been divided into seventeen census districts by Mr. N. C. Carter, census supervisor of the county. Anaheim township is known as district No. 8. That was a regular Yankee trick the Boston excursionists played on us. They promised to visit Anaheim on Thursday in a body and our hospitable citizens cooked every available bean in the valley, with which to feed their visitors and remind them of "Home, Sweet Home." But for some unexplained reason the Bostonians didn't excursh. La dies, you will find those invisible nets for the hair, as you will everything else new and fashionable at Mrs. Flora M. Brown's milinery store. D. J. Sorenson will leave for San Francisco this morning to attend the session of the Grand Lodge I, O, O, F. He will return in about ten days. 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK MAY 11, 1905 Travelers over the Placentia road leading into town are loud in their complaint about the condition of the wash near Crowther's corner. This piece of road has been ignored and should have immediate attention. It is one of the most important public thoroughfares leading into this city, and its present disgraceful condition is a crying shame and a reproach to those responsible for it. A few loads of earth are hauled upon the road over the wash, and this has been the manner of dealing with it all winter. This is about as good a way of spending the people's money as could be devised. A load of hay tipped from the wagon in the wash last winter lies rotting at the side of the road, a fit warning to all to steer clear of the dangers that beset the thoroughfare. The wash should be bridged. N. Hart, as administrator of the estate of the late Mrs. Metz, is preparing to close up the affairs of the estate. Deceased left $30,000, one-half of which has been disbursed according to her terms of her will, and $15,000 remains to be divided between five heirs. One of the heirs, living in Philadelphia, has not yet been located, although diligent search has been made. Division of the money is withheld until this missing heir can be found, if alive; and if dead, the money will be divided equally among the remaining heirs. The money is in banks drawing interest, it being deposited in equal parts in two Los Angeles banks, the Frist National here and one bank in Santa Ana. Benj. Kraemer has taken the school census in Placentia district and finds 178 census children, an increase of 20 over last year. Ben has taken the census fifteen years and says up to a few years ago the boys and girls were even in number, but now the boys are far in the lead. This increase will give Placentia another teacher. A majority of the people of that section favor fitting up another room in the present building instead of building another small school house in upper Placentia. Early Irrigation Harmful to Citrus By HAROLD E. WAHLBERG Farm Odvisor, Orange County Except where the soil is actually dry, early irrigation in the citrus orchard is harmful rather than beneficial. In the coastal area, which includes most of the citrus producing sections of Orange County, many orchards on the medium loam and clay soils have already had their first application of irrigation water, regardless of the moisture conditions present. There has been some concern expressed by growers about water shortage this season, which has been offered as the reason for early applications. If they can get in now before the rush and fill up the lower strata with water, some imagine they may tide over the pending shortage this year. Others are irrigating because they have nothing else particularly to do now and thought they might get this job off their hands. There has been a comparatively long period of inactivity in the orchard through the winter, so the spring urge is prompting some to get out and do something. They pick on irrigation instead of a fishing trip, or some scaly bark work or hoeing weeds. Anything would have been better for the trees and more profitable for the grower than rushing a premature irrigation this early in the spring. Now, this does not mean that every irrigation job up to this time has been unreasonable. There are a few instances—and very few—where the ground was actually dry enough to need moisture. For example, in very sandy soils where the citrus roots are largely in the surface foot or so of soil, the moisture has in some cases been shy. In other instances, where the cover crop was allowed to remain too long after the first of March, the soil moisture in the upper foot or eighteen inches was sufficiently reduced by competition to require replenishment. But in such cases, only a shallow application of water is needed. The two rain storms of late winter provided enough moisture in Orange County orchards to carry well into late spring. No iron-clad schedule can be set down for the proper time to irrigate the orchard. Benj. Kraemer has taken the school census in Placentia district and finds 178 census children, an increase of 20 over last year. Ben has taken the census fifteen years and says up to a few years ago the boys and girls were even in number, but now the boys are far in the lead. This increase will give Placentia another teacher. A majority of the people of that section favor fitting up another room in the present building instead of building another small school house in upper Placentia. Mrs. Carrie Ford, school census marshal of Fullerton has completed her work of taking this year's census of school children in that district, and has located 327 children of school age and 115 children that are not quite old enough to attend school, making a total of 442 children from the 199 families in that district, a gain of 18 scholars this year. At the residence of R. J. Sparks, on the Garden Grove road Sunday, a barbecue in honor of the birthday of Mr. Spark's father, who is 86 years old, was attended by seventy people. Members of the Sparks family gathered from near and far to celebrate the happy event, and none seemed happier than Grandpa Sparks, who was the recipient of congratulations from all. The family is composed of well known and highly esteemed people of this section. A very enjoyable birthday party was participated in by all. City Clerk Merritt submitted his annual report to the city trustees on Tuesday evening. The report is a voluminous document, prepared in Mr. Merritt's usual accurate and artistic style. It shows among other items the following: Collected for licenses during the year: electric lights, $8780; water, $3285.25; total $14,849.00. Total taxes collected during the year $7,942.08; denquent tax list $20.80. Salaries of public officers (Marshal, clerk, and treasurer) $1872.69. The report shows that 138,380 feet of cement sidewalk was laid during the year and 26,574 feet of curb. Cost of labor on streets, gravel, etc., $5364.16; 15 cars of crude oil used on streets at a cost of $2060.09. Street sprinkling cost $438.75; electric lights on streets $2436; total $8238.91. City teams cost $6.05 per day or 309 working days. The water works showed a surplus of receipts over expenditures of $10.82; electric lights $659.56. There are 33 arc lights upon the streets, which cost the city $6 each per month. The arcs are of 2000 candle power. The rate is thought to be the cheapest of any city of this size in the state. The new jail cost $946.45. F. W. Fleischman will in a few days begin the erection of a corrugated iron building on the lot east of Yungbluth & Kroeger's establishment, for use as a temporary meat market during the erection of the new Odd Fellows hall. Bids for the latter will be opened on Saturday, and the brick shop at present occupied by Fleischman will be torn down to make room for the new building. The Anaheim High School is pleased to announce that the regular annual oratorial contest between the Orange County High Schools will be held at the Anaheim Opera House, Friday evening, May 19. The contestants from the home school are Harold Pellegrin, senior, oration; Fayette A. Lewis, middler, oration; Leah B. Lawrence, Junior, essay; Rollo Davis, sub-junior, declamation. Admission, 15c. The public is cordially invited. Further announcement will appear next week—Inez Peyton... The Anaheim High School is pleased to announce that the regular annual oratorial contest between the Orange County High Schools will be held at the Anaheim Opera House, Friday evening, May 19. The contestants from the home school are Harold Pellegrin, senior, oration; Fayette A. Lewis, middler, oration; Leah B. Lawrence, Junior, essay; Rollo Davis, sub-junior, declamation. Admission, 15c. The public is cordially invited. Further announcement will appear next week.—Inez Peyton. Forty-one hundredths of an inch of rain fell on Sunday afternoon and during the early hours of Monday morning, bringing the total for the season up to 15.93 inches. Last year to date 7.44, according to Mr. Dickel's gauge. Wm. Falkenstein is asking bids for the construction of a handsome new residence which he hopes to have in course of construction within a fortnight. Henry D. Tuffree of Placentia and Miss Erythe Polley of Los Angeles were married at Ocean Park on Thursday last. The young couple have menav friends in Orange county who extend congratulations over the happy event. Mrs. A. J. Lawton is in Marysville attending the annual convention of the Woman’s Relief Corps, of which organization she is state treasurer. Recorder Howard pronounces the public morals of the city to be better than for years past. Only two arrests were made by the police department during May, and there were for trivial offenses. Curt Epstein of Freiburg, Germany, a nephew of Wm. Falkenstein, is on his way to Anaheim, and will locate permanently. Rev. Markel will preach the Memorial sermon at the Christian church on Sunday, May 28. Tim Carroll has returned from Vancouver, B. C., where he installed a number of his patented dumps. Eddie Marion has taken a position with the Standard as driver of a distillate wagon. Miss Belle Lyons of Los Angeles visited over Sunday with Miss Nona McWilliams. Anaheim, Calif., May 1, 1930 Irrigation Fruitful to Citrus D E. WAHLBERG or, Orange County the soil is actually dry, in the citrus orchard ter than beneficial. In which includes most of spacing sections of Orange orchards on the medium soils have already had duration of irrigation wattion of the moisture conditened some concern expresses about water shortness which has been offered for printing and advertising for the City of Anaheim," now on file in the office of the City Clerk. Such proposals will be received as follows: First: For all advertising to be done by said City required by law to be published in a daily newspaper published within said city. Second: For all advertising not required by law to be printed in a daily newspaper. Third: For all advertising not required by law to be printed in a daily newspaper, but required by law to be printed each issue for a definite period of time. Bidders shall state in their proposal whether or not such proposal is based upon an estimate for publication of advertising in a daily or weekly newspaper, and shall designate therein the name and address of such newspapers. Fourth: For job printing required by the City of Anaheim, according to said specifications and according to forms and specimens on file in the office of the City Manager of said City. Should the job printing required for any item exceed the estimate therein set forth, the compensation for such job printing in excess of said estimate shall be at the same rate as that mentioned in the proposal for such item. Fifth: Separate proposals will also be received for printing placard notices of street or public improvement required by law and also for printing such notices in connection with publishing notices and resolutions concerning the particular improvement described in such notices. Each proposal must be accompanied by a certified or cashier's check drawn on a bank within the State of California, in a sum not less than $50.00, payable to the City of Anaheim; the same to become the property of the City of Anaheim, if within ten days after the award of the contract to him, the successful bidder shall fall to enter into a written agreement with said City to furnish said printing and advertising in conformity to said specifications. The City Council reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, or any part of any proposal, and may accept proposals separately for advertising required by law to be published in daily newspapers, for advertising not required by law to be printed in a daily newspaper but required by law to be printed each issue for a definite period of time, and may accept proposals for City job printing independently from said City advertising, or as a part of the same proposal. By order of the City Council of the City of Anaheim. Dated this 23rd day of April, 1930. EDWARD B. MERRITT, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim. 4-24-3t. Think of The Future As Well As The Present Progressive growers realize their need of a sales service capable of wide distribution and expansion. They cannot depend always on a few markets. Their selling system must be prepared to take care of abnormal production or to meet depression in their most-used markets by sales in additional outlets. To meet this need adequately is one of the chief aims and accomplishments of American Fruit Growers Inc. It is one of the fundamentals on which this business was founded years ago. A wide diversity of crops plus a wide diversity of markets represents the greatest possible factor of safety in financing, and in the ability to carry on successfully. Growers affiliated with A. F. G. know that their products will be intelligently offered this season, properly sold, and promptly accounted for. The ample finances and careful business management of American Fruit Growers Inc. will sustain and provide a sales structure of at least equal effectiveness in succeeding years. And this organization can be depended upon to take whatever future steps will enhance the value of its service, protect its grower associates, and help to strengthen the position of the industry as a whole. American Fruit Growers Inc. of California 221 So. Spadra Fullerton, Calif. Telephone 105-W Fullerton Quality Printing Buy ordinary printing when you can get attention-compelling, quality printing that often will double the present sales value of your printed work. Returns are what count. Before you let that next job us for our suggestions. We can help you. PHONE 72 Anaheim Gazette