anaheim-gazette 1931-10-15

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 OCTOBER 22, 1881. Two bears and three cubs came down from the Sierra Madre last week and killed two cows belonging to Mr. Giddings at the foot of the mountains above Pasadena. The annual teachers institute will convene in Los Angeles on the 31st, instead at 10 a.m. and continue in session for five days. The attendance of teachers is compulsary. Mr. Chas. Hilmer has returned from San Francisco. We are pleased to learn that he was successful in obtaining relief from the physical ailment from which he had been suffering. Mr. T. S. Grimshaw left on Monday for Mexico. He took with him one of Mr. L. E. Fish's patent gas machines, which he will try to introduce in that country. He was accompanied by Gabino Real, who intends to settle in Sonora. From the semi-annual statement of the First National Bank of Los Angeles we see that it has resources to the amount of $960,581 and that it has in deposits $608,795. The bank is one of the most solid financial institutions in the state. An organization known as Disciples of Christ has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The principal place of business is in Los Angeles, and the incorporators are W. J. A. Smith, W. S. Harper, F. S. Clough, F. M. Coulter and B. F. Coulter. An organization known as Disciples of Christ has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The principal place of business is in Los Angeles, and the incorporators are W. J. A. Smith, W. S. Harper, F. S. Clough, F. M. Coulter and B. F. Coulter. A Mrs. Cole of this county went to San Diego some time ago, lodged at a hotel, had a baby, waited until it was four weeks old, left it in the night at the door of Mr. Millard and disappeared. The waif is being well cared for and the unnatural mother is being anathemized. We learn that Sheriff Rowland has leased one thousand acres of his ranch to the farmed on shares. The lessees will plant the land to flax, from which they expect to realize a handsome return. The same parties last year netted $2500 from one hundred acres of flax grown in another part of the county. The Rev. A. G. Trew will officiate at St. Michaels church tomorrow (Sunday) morning and celebrate the Holy communion having exchanged services with the missionary in charge who will be in San Gabriel on that day. The subject of Mr. Trew's sermon will be "A remarkable discovery made in Egypt in June 1881." At a meeting recently of the Los Angeles County Bee-Keepers association, a resolution was adopted condemming the practice of deducting the weight of the cans from t he gross weight the honey. J. E. Pleasant offered a resolution calling for the organization of a state convention. The motion prevailed and C. N. Wilson, J. W. Wilson and U. Levening were appointed a committee to take steps for said organization and report at the next meeting. The first social of the season for the benefit of the Episcopal church was given in the Masonic hall on Friday evening of last week. The hall was not quite finished, but the programe was carried out without mishap. An acting charade—"Refinement"—a recitation by Miss Lulu Hill, an essay by Mr. Oscar E. Mack and tableaux comprised the program and during the intermission ice cream and cake were served. Although the admission was only 10 cents, the net proceeds amounted to about $15. The following extracts are from a letter received from a friend in San Gabriel—The vintage is going on and the wine presses are at work. L. J. Ross presses an average of 70 tons a day and will continue to do so until the end of November. The crop is a very good one, though here and there are patches of viney aid where the crop is light. The orange crop promises to be a very good one. The oranges being of better size and not so numerous as last year—quality last year being depreciated by exhuberance of quantity. After many delays work has been begun upon the new ditch of the Anaheim Water Company—the conduit which is expected to bring to this community a super-abundance of water for irrigation. The ditch will leave the river on what is known as the ses are at work. L. J. Ross presses an average of 70 tons a day and will continue to do so until the end of November. The crop is a very good one, though here and there are patches of viney aid where the crop is light. The orange crop promises to be a very good one. The oranges being of better size and not so numerous as last year—quality last year being depreciated by exhuberance of quantity. After many delays work has been begun upon the new ditch of the Anaheim Water Company—the conduit which is expected to bring to this community a super-abundance of water for irrigation. The ditch will leave the river on what is known as the Rivas tract, about three miles below the mouth of the Cajon ditch. A number of measurements made at various times during the past two years established the fact that there is more water at this point than there is at any point in the river above or below. The water which sinks in the river apparently comes to the surface there. This too is the reason that constructors of the Orange canal selected this point of the river from which to take their water. From the mouth of the ditch to what is known as the connecting flume is a distance of about three miles. The company has received a width of 55 feet for the right-of-way and have ample soil and space in which to make a strong and first-class canal. Mr. J. D. Stein, the superintendent of construction says the new ditch passes through better ground than the Orange ditch and will be equal if not superior to that canal which is the admiration of all who have seen it. The ditch will have a grade of five feet to the mile. It will be ten feet wide at the bottom when it leaves the river. Although the ditch is smaller than the Orange ditch it will carry as great a quantity of water by reason of having a greater fall. (Orange ditch has a fall of 45 inches to the mile). The ditch will carry all the water needed in the winter months and all the water available in the summer months with but little loss by seepage. Still another improvement of vital import to this section has been rendered possible by a gift made by Mr. Daniel Kraemer to the Anaheim Water Company of a large natural reservoir about three miles from Anaheim, he has also given the right-of-way over his lands to and from the reservoir. All that is needed to utilize this reservoir, in addition to building connecting ditches is the constructon of a dam at the lower end and the deed gives the company the privilege of using as much of the earth and stones as may be necessary to build a dam fifty feet in height. Mr. C. C. Miller, the engineer engaged in surveying the line of ditch has not yet had time to compute the capacity of the reservoir, but declares that thousands of acres of land not now irrigable can be flooded with water from this store-house. Anaheim will then have the finest irrigating facilities of any community in Southern California. 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK OCTOBER 25, 1906 United States Senator Perkins will speak at Santa Ana on Saturday evening on political issues. Wm Crowther on Monday received a new Stanley Steamer touring car and was in town with it for the first time in the afternoon. It is a beauty. J. J. Hunter was in town from Fullerton on Tuesday. He says politics look one way to him in his neighborhood, a clean sweep for the republican party. H. Deutsch, the Los Angeles capitalist, largely interested in realty holdings here, was in town on Saturday, and will shortly mark up his holdings all along the line. F. A. Darling and S. A. Littlefield have returned from a six weeks prospecting trip to the country north of Imperial where they located a number of rich mineral claims. The marriage of Theophelus Jones and Mrs. Ramella, popular young people of this city, is announced. We join their many friends in extending the felicitations of the season. Ben Dresser writes from Portland renewing his subscription and sending regards to his friends. Ben conducts one of the largest grocery establishments in Portland and is doing well. J. Rish has purchased lot 5 in the Nemetz tract with a view to building a handsome residence immediately. The price paid was... The marriage of Theophelus Jones and Mrs. Ramella, popular young people of this city, is announced. We join their many friends in extending the felicitations of the season. Ben Dresser writes from Portland renewing his subscription and sending regards to his friends. Ben conducts one of the largest grocery establishments in Portland and is doing well. J. Rish has purchased lot 5 in the Nemetz tract with a view to building a handsome residence immediately. The price paid was $600. O. Lagman purchased this lot two weeks ago for $500 making a profit of $100. Contractor Boney has seven houses, building plans drawing for two and several others in prospect, one a two-story brick building upon which work will begin in a few weeks. Boney gets around in a gasoline runabout and is the busiest man in town. Malcom McAuley, a well-known citizen of this city, aged 60 years, on Tuesday, while at work on his building, fell through the roof to the floor, a distance of fifteen feet, breaking one of his legs in two places, and one shoulder. One hand also was badly crippled. He will recover. R. Y. Williams, chairman of the Republican county central committee, and Nate Ulm, secretary of that organization, superior Judge West, Editor Baumgartner of The Register and other prominent republicans accompanied the Gillett party on its visit to this city on Wednesday last. City Treasurer Hartung this week completed the work of signing the new issue of $48,000 of city bonds to be used in the erection of a new water and lighting plant. The bonds are eighty in number and are fine specimens of the lithographer's art. Mr. Hartung had to sign his name to coupons 3660 times. C. O. Rust will this week finish up his wine-making season. While the crop is short, quality is being maintained up to a high standard, and much excellent wine is being made. Mr. Rust states that one notable feature of this year's harvest is the fact that the vine disease has almost totally disappeared, and as a result better grapes have been grown. Napoleon Hart has decided to increase the frontage of hsi new brick building on Center street from 20 to 40 feet, and will construct two store rooms instead of one. The east room will be occupied by Huenemyer's restaurant, the west room by Fischle's candy kitchen. The building will be of ornamental design of pressed brick and plate-glass front. It will join Wallace's grocery on the west and will form a notable addition to that portion of the city. The Home telephone company is erecting a thousand poles for its system in this city, Fullerton, Buena Park and other outlying stations. Eight carloads of poles have arrived here, and seven carloads at Fullerton. The cost of the poles and other apparatus of the new telephone company in town and vicinity is estimated at $40,000. A modern exchange will be installed with headquarters in this city. Work upon the new reinforced concrete office building next the postoffice will begin in a few days. SILVER One effect of the general abandonment of the gold standard is to revive interest in blmetallism, which was the big political issue in this country in the 1890's. The free silver movement had back of it the huge debtor of Middle West farmers. They wanted cheap money—that is to say, high prices—to help them get out of debt. Cheap money is always good for debtors, always bad for creditors. There is a growing feeling today that some scheme to help debtors should be tried. Certainly if everybody could pay his debts and start fresh the country would be better off. That feeling lends weight to the movvement to restore silver to its former position as a basis of currency. COPPER Copper metal is down to 7 cents a pound. Ten years ago it was selling for three times that figure. American copper miners are in distress because of the development of rich copper fields in Central Africa, which have been connected with the Atlantic coast by a new railroad within the past few months. David Livingstone, the missionary explorer, found the Katanga copper deposits in 1854, but it is only within the last few years that they have been worked with anything like efficiency. More recently a much larger and rich deposit of copper has been found a little farther south, in Rhodesia. Africa is now the world's greatest source of diamonds, gold and copper. Geologists think that huge deposits of iron, silver and aluminum will eventually be found in the Dark Continent. In another century there may be a rush of fortune seekers to Africa which will compare with the with the rush to America, which began 400 years ago. LEADER I was glad to get the announcement that Ruth Bryan Owen will again be a candidate for Congress. If Mrs. Owen were a man, people would be talking about her as a statesman. She is not the orator that her disguised father was, but she an acquit herself better in debate than half of the men in the House of Representatives. Moreover, she has a very keen and subtle sense of humor, which is something which was quite lacking in the makeup of William J. Bryan. Florida has a habit of sending good representatives back to Congress tern after term, and I look forward to ed brick and plate-glass front. It will join Wallace's grocery on the west and will form a notable addition to that portion of the city. The Home telephone company is erecting a thousand poles for its system in this city, Fullerton, Buena Park and other outlying stations. Eight carloads of poles have arrived here, and seven carloads at Fullerton. The cost of the poles and other apparatus of the new telephone company in town and vicinity is estimated at $40,000. A modern exchange will be installed with headquarters in this city. Work upon the new reinforced concrete office building next the postoffice will begin in a few days. A new hose cart and 500 feet of fire hose arrived this week from the east through the agency of L. E. Miller, who recently secured the contract by competition bid against several other dealers, and has been added to the fire department. This gives the department three up-to-date hose carts and 1500 feet of hose. The old hand engine, which earned every dollar of its work in the Planters hotel fire fifteen years ago, has been discarded and will probably be sold. Direct pressure from the power house in time of fire permits the fire department to throw a number of streams 200 feet high. Fullerton Republicans broke the record on Tuesday evening with the largest political meeting ever held in the history of that bustling burg. Fire-works blazed in the streets, and from miles around automobiles and carriages brought additions to the gathering, until Bank hall was crowded to the doors long before time for the meeting. The candidates and other party workers were entertained at an elaborate dinner given by C. C. Chapman at his palatial residence on the Sattla Isabel ranch previous to the meeting. They arrived at the meeting at 8:30, and Mr. Chapman as hairman opened the meeting in a happy address which was heartily applauded. To Peter Schumachu of Fullerton is due the honor of erecting the first El Camino Real bell in Orange county. Some days ago, learning that there was one remaining bell in Los Angeles, he telegraphed and ordered it, adding that his check would follow by the first mail. The bell arrived by express the following day. Mr. Schumachu erected it in front of his block on Spadra street and turned it over to the Fullerton Good Roads club. He was there upon elected a life member of the club. The bell cost him $21 and the express $1.10. He also gave the club his check for $5. Mr. Schumachu is an enthusiist in the good roads movement. He has set a unique as well as a praiseworthy example by joining the Anaheim good roads club that Ruth Bryan Owen will again be a candidate for Congress. If Mrs. Owen were a man, people would be talking about her as a statesman. She is not the orator that her disguised father was, but she an acquit herself better in debate than half of the men in the House of Representatives. Moreover, she has a very keen and subtle sense of humor, which is something which was quite lacking in the makeup of William J. Bryan. Florida has a habit of sending good representatives back to Congress term after term, and I look forward to seeing Mrs. Owen still representing that state twenty years from now. BUFFALOES Do you want a buffalo? Ask the director of the National Park Service to give you one. Buffaloes have increased so rapidly in the Yellowstone National Park that Uncle Sam wants to give away a hundred yearlings. Anyone who wants a buffalo for a pet, however, should think twice. They do not make good pets. It takes a very stout fence to hold a buffalo in captivity and practically all that are given away will go to zoological parks. It is good news that the buffaloes are increasing in numbers. Fifty years ago there were literally millions of them in great herds, but so rapidly were they killed off that there was a time that it was supposed that the buffalo was extinct, like the passenger pigeon which once flew over the Mississippi Valley country in such huge flocks as literally to darken the sunlight, but of which there is not one living specimen known today. 15-POUND HAILSTONE Hallstones that weighed fifteen pounds and completely demolished the homes of many poor people and badly damaged most of the government buildings are reported from Fuyang, in Chiklang Province, China. The storm began with a terrorizing display of lightning and thunder, followed by a heavy rainfall, which soon turned into hall. When the storm subsided the ground was covered with a thick layer of hallstones, trees and crops had been ruined, and hundreds of birds and domestic animals were found dead in the streets and in the nearby fields. International Sunday School Lesson for October 18 PAUL IN THESSALONICA Acts 17:1, 5-11 Thessalonians 2:7-12 By REV. SAMUEL D. PRICE, D. D. Paul and Silas were escorted to the boundary of Philippi by the very magistrates who sentenced them. That part of the country was also familiar ground during the recent world war. Thessalonica is the modern Salonica. The usual approach was made through the Jewish synagogue. Soon, jealousy arose because the success of the evangelists meant the giving up of many of the ancient national tradition and customs. A group of roughnecks was stirred up to attack Paul and they sought him in the house of Jason. Fortunately the soul winners were elsewhere, and poor Jason had to bear the brunt of the attack. Meanwhile high praise was paid to the work of the gospel in the charge that was made: "These that have turned the world upside down have come hither also." Since the messengers could no longer be heard in Thessalonica, they were sent forward to Beroea, where the same method was pursued. These people showed just plain common sense when they took the words of Paul and sought out confirming references in their Scripture rolls, our Old Testament. Therein they found prophecies concerning the Messiah and held their complete fulfillment in the life and works of Jesus Christ. We do not need to believe everything we are told, but many a great truth is lost because we refuse to give attention to the supporting evidence. The result was that many believed and among the number we find a group of Greek women of distinction. In passing, attention should be given to the various letters that Paul wrote to the churches that he established on route. Two epistles were sent to the church at Thessalonica after Paul reached Corinth. The Golden Text is a good verse to commit to memory: "Open your eyes to what I may behold." Trail Builders Busy in Forests A total of $2,734,693 was spent on trail and road work in and adjacent to national forests of California by the U.S. Forest Service during the fiscal year ending June 30. Of this amount, $1,264,776 was expended on minor road and trail work in California national forests, and $1,469,917 for construction and maintenance of major or standard roads within or adjacent to forests that are part of the state and county highway systems. New construction under the first item of minor roads totaled 348 miles of road, 356 miles of motorways or fire protection roads, 187 miles of trail, and 195 miles of trails or secondary trails. Maintenance of 6,457 miles of road, 3,066 miles of motorways, 14,679 miles of trail, and 3,257 miles of trailways was accomplished. Deaths From Autos Are on Increase Motor deaths increased in 36 California counties and decreased in 16 others during the first seven months of the present year as compared with the same period of 1930, according to figures by the bureau of safety of the California Highway Patrol. Nine counties showed no change whatever. The total number of motor deaths for the entire state for the period was 1,458, an increase of 201 or 14 percent over 1930. The heaviest increase was reported from Los Angeles county with a total of 408 deaths for the period, a gain of 83. Orange county ranked eighth in the list of counties in point of deaths due to motor cars. Last year the number of fatal mishaps in this county was 36, while for the first seven months this year the number was 46, a gain of 10 over the 1930 period. DEAF? You owe it to yourself to investigate DEAF? You owe it to yourself to investigate TEUTONOPHONE, Germany's master creation for the relief of the HARD of HEARING. 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