anaheim-gazette 1932-12-29

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 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK JANUARY 9, 1908 Rain fall to date this season amounts to 2.15 inches and skies are clear. Last season to date 8.11 inches had fallen, and the season before to date 7.97. In the season of 1904-05 only 2.71 inches fell to date but the season's rainfall totaled 15.93 and fine crops were raised. The season of 1903-04 was dry. Only 7.44 inches fell for the season with .60 of an inch to date. Rain is needed and weather sharps predict a downpour in the near future. There will be no election of directors of the water company this year, according to appearances, was the word of a prominent member of the board. Boss Crowther will continue to control the board, and what he says will come pretty near going during the coming year. No proxies are being gathered, and probably a quorum will not be present at the annual meeting which occurs on the 25th. An interesting informal meeting is promised. A company has been formed in Los Angeles to work the old Black Star and Santa Clara coal mines in the Santiago canyon and articles of incorporation of the Black Star corporation of California have been filed. The two mines were operated twenty years ago. The stockholders are all of Los Angeles. The capitalization is $500,000. Anaheim Aerie No. 947, F. O. E. held installation exercises on Monday evening, Past Worthy President Levi Mann officiating as installing officer. Officers for the ensuing year are as follows: Frank H. Fox, past worthy president; A. B. Tedford, worthy president; L. Z. Kroeger, worthy vice president; Joseph A. Hessel, chaplain; Charles Kuchel, secretary; C. C. Billings treasurer; Levi Mann, conductor; Ford Dyckman, inside guardian; John Pecock, outside guardian. John Eauer, John Zeigler, W. G. Mason, trus- Anaheim Aerie. No. 947, F. O. E. held installation exercises on Monday evening, Past Worthy President Levi Mann officiating as installing officer. Officers for the ensuing year are as follows: Frank H. Fox, past worthy president; A. B. Tedford, worthy president; L. Z. Kroeger, worthy vice president; Joseph A. Hessel, chaplain; Charles Kuchel, secretary; C. C. Billings treasurer; Levi Mann, conductor; Ford Dyckman, inside guardian; John Pecock, outside guardian. John Bauer, John Zeigler, W. G. Mason, trustees. An elaborate banquet was discussed after the exercises. Oscar Neipp was in town this week from Oxnard, after an absence of several years, visiting with relatives and friends. Oscar is chief cattle buyer for a firm of wholesale butchers at Oxnard and will soon go to Arizona to purchase beef stock. He reports an abundance of rain in his section, and farmers thinning beets. Oscar comes of good Anaheim stock and is a bright and industrious young business man. His brother is in the butcher business at Oxnard and both are prospering. May good fortune continue to smile upon them. Charles Federman was in town from Los Angeles on Monday and Tuesday. He attended the annual meeting of the American Savings bank of which he is a director. He is prospering in business and leaves next month for New York to purchase goods for his wholesale store. He informs us his brother Sam has returned from New York greatly improved in health. Sam Kraemer will in a few days ask bids for the erection of a two story brick building on his lot adjoining the First National. The structure will have a frontage of 50 ft. and a depth of 80 ft. The front will be of pressed brick and plate glass and will be of ornamental design. It will cost $10,000 and will be occupied by a well known business house. E. W. Champlin, 38 years a resident of this section died at his residence on North street, after a lingering illness on Saturday afternoon. He was in his 79th year. Death was due to infirmities of old age. Mr. Champlin was the oldest Odd Fellow in Southern California having been a member of the order for 57 years. He is survived by two married daughters, Mrs. Fred Chamberlin and Mrs. Wm. McEachran, and two grown sons. Walter Johnson struck out 22 men in a game of baseball between Santa Ana and San Pedro at the latter town on Sunday. The game went 12 innings the score being 0 to 0. Ford of San Pedro struck out 16. Three hits were made off each pitcher. Alex Vaughn, nightwatchman for Brown & Dauser company at Fullerton, shot twice at a man who was carrying off a sack of grain one night recently. One of the shots took effect in the sack, the other left no trace of its whereabouts. The thief dropped the sack and made off in the darkness. The Fraternal Brotherhood elected the following officers on Thursday evening to serve for the ensuing six months: Mrs. Geo. Boyd, president; Miss Hannah Horwitz, vice president; Fred Rimpau, treasurer; Miss Maude Littlefield, secretary; Walter Ross, corporal; Harry Armstrongs, chaplain; Mrs. J. H. Clabaugh Alex Vaughn, nightwatchman for Brown & Dauser company at Fullerton, shot twice at a man who was carrying off a sack of grain one night recently. One of the shots took effect in the sack, the other left no trace of its whereabouts. The thief dropped the sack and made off in the darkness. The Fraternal Brotherhood elected the following officers on Thursday evening to serve for the ensuing six months: Mrs. Geo. Boyd, president; Miss Hannah Horwitz, vice president; Fred Rimpau, treasurer; Miss Maude Littlefield, secretary; Walter Ross, sergeant; Harry Armstrongs chaplain; Mrs. J. H. Clabaugh, mistress-at-arms; Gus McAuley and C. Criss, doorkeepers; Mrs. E. H. Adams, musician; J. H. Clabaugh and W. D. Thompson, trustees. An oyster supper followed the election. Richard Krastel has arrived from New York, accompanied by his little son and contemplates the purchase of a tract of land near this city, whereon to engage in the poultry business. Mr. Krastel in an experienced poultry man and sees here an inviting field for the successful prosecution of the industry. The debate between Anaheim high school and Polytechnic high will occur at the opera house here the evening of February 7th. The question to be debated is, "Resolved, That the United States government should establish a Twelve-pound Parcels post System." Anaheim submitted the question. Polytechnic has chosen the affirmative side. Raymond Nebelung and Miss Helen Kuhnle represent Anaheim, and will support the negative. Stockholders of the Anaheim Savings bank met on Monday evening and re-elected the board of directors, and officers. The report of the bank's financial condition is especially flattering, showing it to have in its vaults 38 per cent of its deposits. Its resources aggregate the sum of $118,595.95. Directors of the bank are Messrs. F. Shanley, F. H. Houck, H. A. Johnston, F. Baum, John Hartung, B. Dauser, A. Nagel, Charles Federman, W. McLaughlin. The state pure food and drug act went into effect today, and Prof. Meyer E. Jaffa was appointed director of the state food and drug laboratory. The pure food law, approved March 11, 1907, will be enforced by the District Attorney of each county, and adulterated foods and drugs of domestic manufacture, for domestic use will be under the provisions of the act, the Federal law dealing only with interstate foods and drugs. John Selinger and Wm. Winsel secured limit bags of ducks in a day's shooting at the coast the first of the week. 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK JANUARY 6, 1883 The rainfall of Monday night and Tuesday was most opportune—which, by the way, may be said of all rain in Southern California. It came in the nick of time and was in quantity sufficient to make plowing easy. It was the most unevenly distributed rain of which there is any record. At the railroad depot the gauge recorded 1.48 inches. Mr. Langenberger’s gauge in town recorded .54 and at E. S. Saxton’s the fall was nine-sixteenths. Referring to the prospect the latter gentleman in a note says: “In the winter of 1874-5 rainfall to present date, (3rd inst) was exactly the same as now 2 inches. Croakers, then as now, were far more numerous than frogs in this county. On January 16, 1875, it began to rain, continuing at intervals until the 26th inclusive—eleven days—in which time ten inches of rain fell. This with one-half inch in March made 12½ inches for the season.” Let us hope we will have a repetition of the pleasant experience of 1874-75. In Los Angeles the rainfall was 1.97 inches, total for the season, 4.16 inches. A call has been issued for a meeting of citizens to convene in the supervisors room at Los Angeles on Wednesday, the 17th, at 10 o’clock a.m. It is proposed to discuss the questions of irrigation, highways, etc., and to draft such bills regarding those subjects as the meeting shall deem advisable and forward them to our legislative delegation with a request that they shall endeavor to have bills passed. The people of this section of the county are vitally interested in the matters which will come up for discussion, and a large delegation from here should be present at the meeting referred to. Miss Alice Chase, who for about two years has resided in Oakland, is making a visit here among her old-time acquaintances, and together with two friends is the guest of Mrs. Emery. An Revolutionary Small House Depicted In Preview Considerable Waste in Materials, Qualities and Lack of Ventilation Shown by Contrast with Houses of steel and copper and even masonry, built at the factory with room pletely equipped and the rest ready to be heat and cold and noise, costing perhaps one house, and placed in cities free from smelting the application of knowledge already largely in hand, in the eleventh and concluding volume of the final reports of the president's conference on home building and home ownership. This statement comes from a committee of nationally scientists and engineers led by the late Dr. George K. standards. It is supported by a careful analysis of practices and materials at present employed in small-house building which leaves no room for doubt of their relative wastefulness and inefficiency. For example, the committee shows that the adoption of the practice of welding pipe would permit the use of thinner sheet steel and eliminate the laborious hand threading at the site which now raises the cost of plumbing. This practice plus the possible reduction of numbers of pipes, fittings, and fixtures by simplification and standardization, would in the opinion of one contractor who has installed a great deal of welded piping "reduce the cost of heating and plumbing installations by one-half." The committee's analysis takes no aspect of the present small house for granted, and concedes no authority to tradition. Beginning with the foundation and cellar and going through the walls and floors and finishes to the roof feature of the house as we now know it is made to answer as to whether present materials and practices are less efficient than others that might be used. As a result, a good many things which we now take for granted are found... Miss Alice Chase, who for about two years has resided in Oakland, is making a visit here among her old-time acquaintances, and together with two friends is the guest of Mrs. Emery. An effort is being made to arrange for a musical entertainment to be held during the coming week at which the ladies mentioned have promised to assist. If successful, due notice will be given, that her many friends may have the opportunity to attend. We do not know of an unoccupied dwelling house in Anaheim. And with the exception of the stores in the Odd Fellow's and Masonic buildings (which are off from the business center) every store is occupied. A year ago there were probably twenty empty dwelling houses and a dozen empty stores. Behold the change! Mme. Helena Modjeska, the celebrated actress, gave a Christmas dinner to sixty children in New York last week, and after the dinner each of the little ones received a gift from their hostess. This item is not out of place in the local columns of the Gazette as some of our readers may suppose, for did not Modjeska run a chicken ranch in Anaheim only a few years ago? Following are the officers elect of Magnolia Council, No. 94, O. C. F.: C. E. Leonard, P. C.; A. Rimpau, C. C.; H. C. Gade, V. C.; A. L. Lewis, secretary; Theo. Rimpau, treasurer; Mrs. Helena Davis, prelate; E. A. White, marshal; C. Schindler, warden; F. Smith, guard; D. Strodthoff, sentry; representative to Grand Council, A. W. Steinhart. The installation will take place on January 13th. The C. P. R. R. Co. has published a table giving the rainfall for the year ending June 30, 1882, as recorded by their agents. At the stations in Los Angeles county where the record is kept. The figures were: Anaheim 7.02; Ravena 8.56; Newhall 9.98; San Fernando 8.62; Los Angeles 9.49; Spadra 7.61. It is stated at the Postoffice Department that an inspector will visit the Pacific coast next month to examine into the needs of free delivery at several cities now entitled to it by law. Among these is Los Angeles, which, both in postal receipts and in population, is entitled to free delivery. The San Francisco Cash store has added a full line of groceries to its stock. Mr. Dobner desires to say that he will sell groceries at strictly Los Angeles prices, and that this announcement is not buncombe, but can be verified by all who give him their patronage. The marriage bells are, figuratively speaking, ringing loud and often in this bailiwick recently. We have this week to chronicle the nuptials of Mr. Max Nebelung and Miss Josephine Fink which occurred on December 30 at the residence of C. Lorenz. Rev. J. A. Emery was the officiating minister. The committee's analysis takes no aspect of the present small house for granted, and concedes no authority to tradition. Beginning with the foundation and cellar and going through the walls and floors and finishes to the roof feature of the house as we now know it is made to answer as to whether present materials and practices are less efficient than others that might be used. As a result, a good many things which we now take for granted are found wanting. The universal practice of fabrication at the site and the use of the sloping roof are alike condemned as costly and unnecessary and practical substitutes recommended. It is definitely shown that some of our present heating practices are wasteful and that it is possible to reduce the cost of heating to the home-owner and eliminate the dirt and the smoke nuisance. Again it is shown that our methods of garbage disposal are crude and expensive beyond reason. In short, the committee has painted a realizable physical ideal for the small house of the future. It has shown how much of this ideal could be immediately translated into reality and what is still to be worked out. The committee's report will inevitably serve as an inspiration and a guide to engineers, to architects, to builders, and to dealers in materials in the development of the house of the future. This final volume of the president's conference reports, entitled "Housing Objectives and Programs," completes the program, formulated by the conference at its meeting in Washington last December, to raise the standard of American housing. The volume contains the reports of the six correlating committees, whose business was to digest the material assembled by the 25 factfinding committees and to indicate how their findings could be translated into action. The report of the committee on standards and objectives, which was under the chairmanship of Lawrence Veiller, director, National Housing association, gives a picture of the quality of housing Americans ought to enjoy. The statement of these standards reveals how far short of the possible our present housing falls. It also reveals the complex nature of housing — its dependence upon the neighborhood, the public utilities, the financing system, and the government of the community. As Robert P. Lamont, former secretary of commerce, says in a forward, the statement of objectives "once for all proves the impossibility of producing acceptable housing by isolated individual effort." The San Francisco Cash store has added a full line of groceries to its stock. Mr. Dobner desires to say that he will sell groceries at strictly Los Angeles prices, and that this announcement is not buncombe, but can be verified by all who give him their patronage. The marriage bells are, figuratively speaking, ringing loud and often in this bailiwick recently. We have this week to chronicle the nuptials of Mr. Max Nebelung and Miss Josephine Fink which occurred on December 30 at the residence of C. Lorenz. Rev. J. A. Emery was the officiating minister. Mr. John Hanna reports the sale of 30 acres of land near Downey, belonging to the Wagner estate to Jesse Mayhew. Also 20 acres of the Colier tract opposite Alex Wright’s place, to F. J. J. Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt will plant it in vines and olive trees this season. The trial of F. M. Graham, charged with disturbing the peace, will be held before a jury in Justice Bailey’s court this morning. The defendant is said to have trespassed upon land in Las Bolsas. To all inquiries regarding the New Year's ball, the invariable answer:—“It was the best ever given here.” Not only was the attendance large, but each one seemed imbued with a desire to have as much enjoyment as could be crowded into one night. It was a triumph for the new organization—the Anaheim Social club. Mr. W. R. Harter has leased the store heretofore occupied by Jos. Helmsen and will open a harness shop in a few days. Mr. Harter arrived a few weeks ago from Illinois and, being pleased with our town, proposes to remain here and build up a business. There is an old proverb which says, “If the sun shone clear and bright on Christmas day, it promiseth a peaceable year from clamors and strife, and foretells much plenty to ensue.” The sun shone bright and clear on the Christmas day just past. The unmelodious tones of the fire bell and a fusilade of fire arms ushered in the new year. Let us hope that the tongue of the bell aforesaid may never ring except on such occasions. The re-opening of the Anaheim public schools is deferred to Monday the 15th. The blackboards are being repaired, and will be unfit for use until the date named. Miss Jane Weeden delivered a lecture on Thursday evening at the Presbyterian church. Subject: “The place of Temperance in the progress of the age.” Anaheim, Calif., Dec. 29, 1932 Senior Small House of Future Depicted In President’s Conference Waste in Materials, Poor Design, Poor Heating and Lack of Ventilation of Present Structures Down by Contrast with What Future Holds Steel and copper and even of aluminum as well as of wood and at the factory with rooms such as the kitchen and bath combined and the rest ready to be assembled at the site, insulated against noise, costing perhaps only half as much as the present small buildings in cities free from smoke, are described as merely awaiting knowledge already. In the eleventh and nineteenth final reports of the conference on home ownership, it comes from a committory scientists and enginy known scientists and the late Dr. George K. supported by a careful articles and materials at in small-house buildings no room for doubt of wastefulness and inexample, the committee adoption of the pracpipe would permit the sheet steel and eliminate and threading at the site as the cost of plumbing. Plus the possible reducsion of pipes, fittings, and qualification and standardin the opinion of one has installed a great piping "reduce the cost of plumbing installations Piece of Concrete Is Clue to Burglary Anaheim police this week had a piece of concrete, which had been hurled through the window of Mrs. Margaret McKinnon's home at 302 East Wilhelmina street last week, as their only substantial clue to burglars who entered the place and took a jewel case containing rings an Eastern Star pin, and two strings of pearls. The missing articles were valued at $50. Smoking Car is Not Burning Automobile Somebody thought a smoking car was a burning car, so they called the fire department last week. Firemen responded to the alarm at North and Olive street corners. Miss Waneta Guthrie, 18, of Fulton, Kansas, won best honors and the National 4-H Club Canning championship in the International Show at Chicago. A scholarship was a part of the award. Pineapple Pete—So your boy is getting an early start? Bullet McGann—Yep, he's been hold-in' up midgets wid a Daisy air rifle. A NEW American Spirit Dawns The American nation is now climbing from the vale of its past mistakes to new heights of courage, confidence and achievement. Impractical standards of living and ways of transacting business are being replaced by new ideals and methods that make for true and lasting progress... The dawn of a new American spirit presages wonderful things. It envisions the advent of a better national life. 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