anaheim-gazette 1931-12-03

IN THE DAYS OF I 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 Citzens of Anaheim and 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK DECEMBER 10, 1881. Mr. David Enery has rented his 320 acres in Fairview District to Hill Bros. who are now putting in a crop of early wheat. Leopold Cohen is recovering slowly from the effects of the accident received at the late fire, but he is yet unable to walk. "The Witherby Troup" is the name of a theatrical and comedy company which will give a performance in Anaheim shortly. The store of Mr. Joseph Helmsen is resplendent with Christmas notions, and as he does not propose to carry them over till next season, he will sell them at a very low figure. The Democrats made nearly a clean sweep at the municipal election in Los Angeles on Monday. They elected the three members of the Board of Education, and five out of the six councilmen. We had a call the other day from Mr. H. M. Jacobi, who has been in Anaheim for some time for the benefit of his health. He has improved wonderfully since coming here in search of relief from lung trouble. The Congregational Sabbath school at Westminister will have a Christmas tree in the church on the evening of the 23rd. An invitation is extended to everybody to be present and avail themselves of the services of Santa Claus to distribute their presents. "Carried past to Santa Ana" was the endorsement on a number of letters which were mailed in Los Angeles on the 4th, and received in Anaheim on the 8th. We know of two instances in which this gross carelessness resulted in considerable annoyance The Congregational Sabbath school at Westminister will have a Christmas tree in the church on the evening of the 23rd. An inviation is extended to everybody to be present and avail themselves of the services of Santa Claus to distribute their presents. "Carried past to Santa Ana" was the endorsement on a number of letters which were mailed in Los Angeles on the 4th, and received in Anaheim on the 8th. We know of two instances in which this gross carelessness resulted in considerable annoyance and loss. Silverado did not long remain deserted. In coming down from the coal mine the other day, Mr. Paty met a number of claim holders returning to the mines, bearing with them the aggressive pick and the promising shovel—by which taken it may be inferred the winter campaign has already begun. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Santiago Gold and Silver Mining company, the following directors were elected for the ensuing year: T. J. Boege, T. A. Darling, P. Pellegrin, E. A. Saxton, F. Langenbergels. The directors organized by electing T. J. F. Boege president, F. Langenberger, vice-president, F. A. Darling, secretary. Messrs. Darling, Saxton and Pellegrin, executive committee. A council of the American Legion of Honor will be organized in Odd Fellows hall on Monday evening, December 12, at 7 o'clock. All persons on the roll, or other ladies or gentlemen, wishing to become charter members will apply to Dr. G. H. Bailey, Room 11, Anaheim hotel, and get their applications filled out to save time and confusion on the evening of institution of council. D. S. Van Slyke, Deputy Grand Commander. It is probable that the Anaheim Water company's new ditch will be completed within ten days. Water was turned in a few days ago and ran over two miles in the ditch. The result was very pleasing. The stream did not have to stop and think, but appeared to know what was expected of it, and proposed to get through with its task with all due diligence. The ditch shows excellent workmanship, and the expectations formed of it will doubtless he more than realized. Through the courtesy of J. P. Zeyn we have in our office a sample of crude oil from the well on Sheriff Rowland's ranch. The owners of property next to the ranch as well as Messrs. Rowland and Chandler (the latter the oil expert who is superintending the work) are greatly elated at the developments made so far, and await with interest the result of the work now going on. The well is only seven miles from Anaheim, and as the road is good, it can be reached in a drive of three quarters of an hour. There was a commotion among the workmen on the Anaheim ditch the other day caused by the appearance of the Road Overseer of Orange district, who made a demand on the superintendent of construction for $3 road poll-tax for each of the two hundred men employed on the work. There were probably one hundred Chinamen and fifty white men who are not residents of this district and against whom therefore the district has no claim, the others who were residents of Orange district, and who had no desire to trade in the payment of the tax more willing to work it out. Willie Winning down in connection turning on Sunday twenty-eight co Richard Knitting old acquaintance in Southern California best wine maker Mr. and Mrs whist on Wednesdays Mrs. Welborn Women's first prize Wallop. H. Deutsch week. He is a fair for Los Angeles that town will quired as a star Sherman Associations' pack quality of nuts up and the pacific cents, and are e Manager Jr day disbursed company engage city and vicinity ember the comp county. Anaheim a place the event That the Nation lines. Anaheim occur tomorrow meet at Pasadea Anaheim high school debaters Anaheim b local ground At the end of the Ana. Anaheim Orange. Each o both stand a tall ball teams. The Southern California during the win The report Chamber of Co fire, which has was about 3000 blocks, and abo There was a commotion among the workmen on the Anaheim ditch the other day caused by the appearance of the Road-Overseer of Orange district, who made a demand on the superintendent of construction for $3 road poll-tax for each of the two hundred men employed on the work. There were probably one hundred Chinamen and fifty white men who are not residents of this district and against whom therefore the district has no claim, the others who were residents of Orange district, and who had no desire to evade the payment of the tax, were willing to work it out as provided by law, but were told by the Overseer that the time for this had passed and that it was money he wanted. Next week we will give more details. The employees are willing to pay the tax in Anaheim to which district they belong and from whom people they get their money. They consider the attempt of the Orange Overseer an imposition to which they do not propose to submit. The Board of Town Trustees held their regular meeting on Wednesday, a full board being present. Mr. Fish made a report in regard to certain nuisances in the Chinese quarter. They had been abated and to prevent their reoccurance he would recommend that the marshall inspect the locality occasionally. Thos. Lynill, Esq. was appointed town attorney under section 25 of the charter. Mr. S. H. Claught addressed the board in advocaery of his petition for a railroad franchise. The matter was referred to the town attorney for a opinion as to the powers of the board in the matter. The applications for a rebate of water rates for the time during which the new pump was being put into position were denied. In the matter of the Broadway and Palm street ditches action was deferred until the town attorney could render an opinion as to the power of the trustees to interfere with irrigating ditches. The petition of the fire department for an appropriation of $90 to pay the balance due on their hose was granted. Their petition for the removal of the fire bell from its present location to the town lot near Los Angeles street, and for the erection of a bell tower was referred to a committee consisting of Messrs. Korn, Fish and Cowan, who were also instructed to take into consideration the matter of a watering trough and other improvements on the lot referred to, the committee to report at a general meeting to be held next Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The clerk was instructed to advertise for sealed proposals for the position of town engineer. OF LONG AGO and a Quarter of a Century Ago. These Files Contain the Only zens of Anaheim and Orange County in the Days of the Pioneers. 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK DECEMBER 13, 1906 Frank Machieb has opened a harness shop in Spake and McCollums building on Center street. He is an experienced man and has lately arrived from Flagstaff. In the census bulletin issued this week California leads all the states in the production of canned and dried fruits. The output of the state for 1905 in these lines is estimated at $21,000,000. Plowing operations have begun at La Habra and other sections of the county. On all sides the impression prevails that we shall have a record breaking season. Weather sharks predict more rain. An inch and thirteen hundredths of rain fell on Tuesday night according to Mr. Dickel's gauge, making 1.28 for the storm up to seven o'clock Wednesday morning. For the season 2.80. Last year to-date 5.40. Godfrey Stock has purchased 36 acres belonging to Roscoe Staples situated southwest of the city limits, the stated price being given as $15,000. Mr. Stock will subdivide the tract and place it upon the market. Willie Winsell spent a day shooting at Tomato Springs, driving down in company with his wife on Saturday afternoon and returning on Sunday. He secured the limit on quail and doves and twenty-eight cottontails. Richard Krebs was in town from Azusa some days ago renewing old acquaintances. Richard operates one of the largest wineries in Southern California and has the reputation of being one of the best wine makers in the state. HAPPYLAND— If I were asked to name the spot in the United States where the general industrial and business depression has been felt least, I would say, at a guess, that it is Leonardtown, Maryland. There may be, and probably are, other communities as happily situated but I don't know their names. A young man who has been working in New York, and consequently has his head full of nothing but hard times talk, visited his old home in Leonardtown recently. He asked folks there how severely the depression had hit them and the unanimous response was "what depression?" They had not heard about it in Leonardtown. When I knew Leonardtown as a boy, there wasn't any railroad, and there isn't now. But there were a lot of contented farmers, raising watermelons and oysters and tobacco. Everybody had enough to eat and to wear, and most had a surplus besides, and my young friend tells me that that is exactly the situation of Leonardtown today. These Maryland country people never bothered about industries, never tried to make their county seat a second Baltimore or Philadelphia, never got the idea that money brings happiness. I think they are pretty sensible people. GAME— In a good many parts of the country the effort to restock fields and forests with game birds and animals Willie Winsell spent a day shooting at Tomato Springs, driving down in company with his wife on Saturday afternoon and returning on Sunday. He secured the limit on quail and doves and twenty-eight cottontails. Richard Krebs was in town from Azusa some days ago renewing old acquaintances. Richard operates one of the largest wineries in Southern California and has the reputation of being one of the best wine makers in the state. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Backs entertained friends at progressive whist on Wednesday evening. The ladies first prize was won by Mrs. Welborn Wallop, second prize by Mrs. B. V. Beebe. Gentlemen's first prize was won by B. V. Beebe, second by Melborn Wallop. H. Deutsch was in town from Los Angeles the first of the week. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the projected world's fair for Los Angeles in 1915 and is of the opinion the citizens of that town will have no difficulty in raising the $10,000,000 required as a starter of the enterprise. Sherman Hayden, who successfully managed the Walnut associations' packing house this season, states that a superior quality of nuts were shipped out, that the crop has been cleaned up and the packinghouse closed. First class soft shells bought 11 cents, and are extra fancy lot of graded nuts bought 15 cents. Manager Jos. Backs of the Home Telephone company on Monday disbursed $1,113.70 to 44 employees of the Home Telephone company engaged in installing the new telephone system in this city and vicinity. This amount was for two weeks work. In November the company disbursed $30,000 to its employees throughout the county. Anaheim and Pasadena high schools will debate at the latter place the evening of January 12th, upon the question, resolved. That the National government should own and operate telegraph lines. Anaheim takes the negative. The preliminary debate will occur tomorrow at the high school to select the two debaters to meet at Pasadena. Local students may go over in a special train. Anaheim high school now stands at the head of the list of high school debaters in Southern California. Anaheim high school defeated Santa Ana at basketball on the local grounds on Saturday afternoon by a score of 13 to 12. At the end of the first half the score stood 8 to 5 in favor of Santa Ana. Anaheim and Fullerton play the final game on Saturday at Orange. Each contestant has now one game from the other, and both stand a tie as leaders of Orange county high school basketball teams. The winner of the final game will be admitted into the Southern California collegiate schedules of basketball to be played during the winter. The report of the special committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce on insurance settlements, after the big fire, which has just been published, says: "The total area burned was about 3000 acres, or about 4.7 square miles, containing 520 blocks, and about 25,000 buildings, one-half of which were residences." The amount of insurance covering property in the burned area and my young friend tells me that that is exactly the situation of Leonardtown today. These Maryland country people never bothered about industries, never tried to make their county seat a second Baltimore or Philadelphia, never got the idea that money brings happiness. I think they are pretty sensible people. GAME— In a good many parts of the country the effort to restock fields and forests with game birds and animals in order to provide sport for hunters is meeting with considerable success. It has been going on for a long time. I saw the other day a letter written in 1820, from a town in Vermont, saying that red foxes were beginning to be seen in that territory. All the red foxes in America originated with a few that were brought from England late in the 1700's and turned loose on Long Island to furnish sport for huntsmen. Today the red fox outnumbers the native American gray fox in most of the Atlantic Coast states. Sentimental people look upon hunting as a cruel form of sport. Their imaginations endow animals with the same emotional and reasoning qualities as human beings. Those who know most about wild life say that animals have no fear of death because they are unable to imagine it, that they run when pursued purely from instinct. RELIEF— The most amazing results of the nation-wide effort to take care of the unemployed is not the disclosure of large numbers of people who would rather beg than work, although that is surprising enough, but the revelation of human greed furnished by the spectacle of folks who are very far from being poverty stricken, but who unblushingly call upon the relief agencies for money. I saw a paragraph the other day in Wayne (Neb.) Herald saying that the county commissioners had adopted a resolution that no county aid should be given to paupers who own automobiles or radios, smoke cigars or loft in poolrooms. In New York City it has been disclosed that hundreds of men holding steady jobs have been drawing regular incomes in addition from the unemployment relief funds, through the connivance of politicians. We have got to change a good many of our assumptions as a result of the unemployment investigations. One of those assumptions is that everybody would rather earn money than take charity. And another apparently false assumption is the old belief that graft is confined to politicians. COMMUNISM— Beyond doubt one of the powerful reasons behind the reluctance of capital to embark in new enterprises or furnish additional money for established industries is that it is exactly the situation of Leonardtown today. Orange. Each contestant has now one game from the other, and both stand a tie as leaders of Orange county high school basketball teams. The winner of the final game will be admitted into the Southern California collegiate schedules of basketball to be played during the winter. The report of the special committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce on insurance settlements, after the big fire, which has just been published, says: "The total area burned was about 3000 acres, or about 4.7 square miles, containing 520 blocks, and about 25,000 buildings, one-half of which were residences. The amount of insurance covering property in the burned district was approximately $235,000,000 (estimated). The value of buildings and contents destroyed in the fire must have been about $250,000,000. Engineer Kellogg passed through town on Monday morning on his way to the Yorba dam, where he has a force of fifty men engaged in sluicing the puddle wall forming the dam. His excavations were carried to a depth of 22 feet and tough bluish clay was found to that depth. Holes drilled in the tunnel showed that the clay formation existed to a depth of ten feet below the base of the excavations. No gravel was encountered. The dam will be 300 feet wide, 46 feet high and 16 feet wide at the top. Work will be completed in time for spring rains. Mr. Kellogg states the dam will be one of the most substantial in the state, and its great capacity will materially add to the already large supply of the water company. The Chamber of Commerce will at its next meeting on Monday evening take up the matter of appointing two delegates to act jointly with the other committeemen from this county, Riverside and San Bernardino counties to take up the work of reforesting the mountains of the Coast region. In accordance with the resolutions adopted at the meeting held in San Bernardino to organize the Tri-counties' Reforestation committee that each of the three counties shall have a representative of twelve members, a selection of names has been made by the joint litigation committee of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation company and the Anaheim Union Water company, and these will it is understood be approved and appointed by the various boards of trade and Chamber of Commerce throughout the county. Six of these men so selected have been chosen from this side of the river and six from across the river. Here is the list: J. B. Neff, B. F. Porter, E. K. Benchley, C. C. Chapman, A. S. Bradford, A. Pierotti, J. B. Rae, W. B. Wall, W. H. Sprungeon, S. J. Beals, A. N. Saxton, E. E. Keech, W. B. Hernev Westinghouse Radio FEARN Easy Parking 273 E. 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AMBITION— I haven't any way of proving it, but I have a notion that a lot of the unemployment and consequent distress, especially among the so-called white-collar workers, is due to the fact that their parents had the idea that there was something degrading in manual work, and brought up their children to be bookkeepers, stenographers and office workers generally, instead of being miners, carpenters or factory workers like themselves. It is human nature to think that the other fellow's job is better than your own. It is also a praiseworthy spirit that makes parents ambitious to have their children occupy a better social and economic position than their own. But when hard times come the white-collar workers are the ones who feel the effects first and hardest. Fewer Killed at Grade Crossings Grade crossing accidents in California decreased 16.7 percent during the first six months of 1931. This is the report made to the Railroad Commission by J. G. Hunter, its transportation engineer. 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