anaheim-gazette 1933-02-23

IN THE DAYS OF Extracts From Files of The Gazette Issued Half a Century and a Quarter of Authentic History in Print of the Daily Doings of the Citizens of Anaheim and 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK MARCH 5, 1908 A horse hitched to a light vehicle ran down the sidewalk on Center street at noon on Friday, beginning at Asher & Falkenstein's store and continuing past the postoffice, doing considerable damages. The horse was owned by a Japanese, and started on his flight southeast of the city. People tried to stop it on Broadway near East street, when it came charging by, the bridle and reins dragging upon the ground at its side. It continued on its wild career until the center of town was reached, when it took to the sidewalk. By this time most of the rig had been left behind and only a couple of wheels and part of the running gear were in evidence. Two plate-glass windows in Asher & Falkenstein's were broken, a wire-screen door at Wallop Bros. was torn away, John Wirshing's fruit exhibit was put out of commission and the bay window at Frank Fox's barber shop was demolished. The frightened animal was caught at Dickel's and taken to a barn. Several persons attracted by the noise ran to the sidewalk in front of their places of business and had to beat a hasty retreat as the charging steed dashed by. The Japanese will have to procure a new rig, the old one having been reduced to kindling wood. W. R. Carpenter on Tuesday tendered his resignation as county Superintendent of Schools to the supervisors for personal and private reasons. Mr. Carpenter and family will move from the county in a very short time and he asked that his resignation be accepted at once: Carpenter's resignation comes as a surprise to his friends and members of the county board of education. The relations between the county board and the superintendent have always been most pleasant, there never having been any friction. He has had the matter under consideration for some time but at W. R. Carpenter on Tuesday tendered his resignation as county Superintendent of Schools to the supervisors for personal and private reasons. Mr. Carpenter and family will move from the county in a very short time and he asked that his resignation be accepted at once: Carpenter’s resignation comes as a surprise to his friends and members of the county board of education. The relations between the county board and the superintendent have always been most pleasant, there never having been any friction. He has had the matter under consideration for some time but at the present will not disclose his future plans further than to say that he will move from the county. Dr. D. A. McMullan, chairman of the board of supervisors was appointed to fill the vacancy. A successor to McMullan will be named by the governor. The position of school superintendent pays $2500 per year and fees for visiting the schools. Miss Anne Schneider, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Justus Schneider of Orangethorpe avenue, was married on Wednesday evening, February 26, at 8 o’clock to Fred Hochuli, a popular young gentleman of this city. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride, Rev. Kraeber of this city officiating. About forty guests were present. The bride was gowned in white silk trimmed with valenciennes lace and carried a bouquet of orange blossoms. Miss Lizzie Schneider, sister of the bride played the wedding march. An elaborate supper was served after the ceremony. After a brief honeymoon the newly wedded couple will go to housekeeping in Orangethorpe avenue. B. V. Beebe last week petitioned for letters of guardianship upon the estates of Clarence and Elizabeth Beebe, his children and Earl Crist, his stepson. They are the beneficiaries named by Mrs. Ida M. Beebe in a $1500 life insurance policy in the Brotherhood Insurance association and a $2,000 policy in the Women of Woodcraft. Colonel Wilhelm and staff officers inspected Company E, N.G.C., on Tuesday evening. The company mustered 43 men. The company and equipment was found to be in good condition. Besides Col. Wilhelm among the other visiting officers were Major Collins of Los Angeles, Col Finley, Major Vestal, Adjutant Roper, and Lieut. Warden of Santa Ana. W. P. Webb is engaged in staining the tables in the Chamber of Commerce exhibit room and is otherwise assisting in renovating the premises. The floors have been scrubbed and the front windows given a much needed washing. The exhibits will be added to and soon we shall see what an up to date Chamber of Commerce looks like. An effort is to be made to get plants and trees, etc., from the various nurseries in Anaheim and vicinity to add to the attractions of the room. George Hatfield, who served three years in the navy is at the oil wells, having been honorably discharged from Uncle Sam’s service. George is learning to be a well driller, but says if war should come he is ready to re-enlist at the drop of any old hat. J. O. Royer is constructing a fish pond on his property at the West End. He recently installed electric power in his pumping plant and created a handmade garden for his family. George Hatfield, who served three years in the navy is at the oil wells, having been honorably discharged from Uncle Sam’s service. George is learning to be a well driller, but says if war should come he is ready to re-enlist at the drop of any old hat. J. O. Royer is constructing a fish pond on his property at the West End. He recently installed electric power in his pumping plant, and erected a handsomely housed plunge bath at the side of the motor house. Sam Kraemer has let the contract for erection of his two story brick east of the First National bank to Architect Binder. The building will be two stories in height, of ornamental design and will cost $10,000. Walter Johnson, the pitcher, is at the Fullerton hospital having undergone a surgical operation for the removal of a piece of bone from behind the ear. He will be out again in a few days. N. E. Murphy has sold his milk dairy to Thomas Jacobson of Los Angeles. Mr. Murphy still retains his ranch, and may in the near future embark in business in this city. Thirty-six hundredths of an inch of rain fell on Friday night, bringing the total for the season to 9.85. To even date last year, 16.02. Oscar Heying and George Chambers went to Los Angeles Friday to get material for the coming debate with Pomona school. Stephen Rimpau returned on Tuesday from Chiuahua after an absence of two years. He is engaged as mining engineer with a large company operating mines in Mexico and is home for a short vacation. V. R. Cayce, formerly a resident of Orange county, died at his home in Los Angeles on Thursday last in his forty-sixth year. He was a native of Mississippi and had lived in California for about fifteen years. Deceased leaves a widow and four children. O. W. Clark of Park City Montana were the guests during the week of Mr. and Mrs. Herman. John Wagner of Placentia has commenced the erection of a dwelling on his ranch in that famous orange belt. 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK MARCH 3, 1883 On Wednesday Anaheim was connected by telephone with Los Angeles and other towns in the county. The instrument is in a room in the Planters hotel. Doubtless when this mode of communication becomes more thoroughly known, it will be much more appreciated than it is now. The charge for a talk to Los Angeles is 35 cents to subscribers and 50 cents to non-subscribers. By subscribers is meant those who purchase tickets to the amount of five dollars, each ticket representing one use of the instrument. Purchasers have two years in which to use the tickets so purchased. Towns now connected by this system of telephone are: Anaheim, San Gabriel, Pasadena, Sierra Madre Villa, Santa Monica, Wilmington, Downey, Santa Ana, Orange, Tustin City, Pomona, Etiwanda, Cucamonga, Ontario, Colton, San Bernardino and Riverside. The severe frosts of two or three weeks ago were very impartial in their visitations. There are few localities where the unmistakable evidence of its presence cannot be seen. Withered leaf and shriveled twig bear testimony to its severity. The most serious damage was to the limes. This tree can no longer be classed as among the reliable productions of Southern California. At Riverside they are being spaded up, root and branch, as being too tender to withstand the winter frosts. They were not so badly damaged here. Mr. R. H. Gilman of North Anaheim has decided to bud oranges upon his lime roots, notwithstanding the fact that he found his lime trees exceedingly profitable — his experience in this respect being at utter variance with Riverside growers of limes who claim that the fruit was never profitable anyhow. leaf and shriveled twig bear testimony to its severity. The most serious damage was to the limes. This tree can no longer be classed as among the reliable productions of Southern California. At Riverside they are being spaded up, root and branch, as being too tender to withstand the winter frosts. They were not so badly damaged here. Mr. R. H. Gilman of North Anaheim has decided to bud oranges upon his lime roots, notwithstanding the fact that he found his lime trees exceedingly profitable — his experience in this respect being at utter variance with Riverside growers of limes who claim that the fruit was never profitable anyhow. It is with no small degree of gratification that we announce this week the lease of the Planters hotel to Mr. C. R. Brown. We have now good reason to expect that the hotel will be restored to its old time prestige, for Mr. Brown has had long experience in the business and is determined to do what he can to make the house a popular stopping place. There are few greater factors in the prosperity of a town situated as Anaheim is than a well kept hotel. The Planters ought to be crowded every winter with travelers. It was so crowded in former years, and there is no reason why under energetic management the old order of things cannot be restored. Many new improvements will be made in the hotel from time to time and we hope that substantial encouragement will be given to Mr. Brown in his efforts to promote the welfare of the town. The editorial room has looked this week as if a horticultural fair was in progress. Mr. W. G. Thompson of North Anaheim favored us on Saturday with a box of magnificent oranges and lemons grown on his place. The fruit was as fine in appearance as any we have ever seen, and was very large. Mr. Alyard brought us a box of oranges from his orchard in Orange which were superb in color, size and taste. Among them was one orange measuring 15½ inches in circumference. A companion to this already adorned the table, it having been grown by Mr. L. Kirby. We find the fruit generally this year is inclined to be large. We are also under obligations to Mr. Gilman for a box of the superior oranges for which his orchard is famous. The front of the building on the corner of Los Angeles and Center street has received a much needed coat of paint. The shabbiness of the sides of the building stand out in bold relief, but in explanation of the failure to paint the sides it is said that the owners, Messrs. Hammel & Denker of Los Angeles, intend to move the building to one side and erect a brick building on the corner. Had they done this long ago it would have been profitable for them. Mr. R. H. Gilman, superintendent of the Southern California Semi-Tropical Fruit company’s orchard is shipping oranges at the rate of fifty boxes per day. The fruit is of most excellent quality. Mr. S. Littlefield of San Francisco, a gentleman well qualified to form an opinion on the subject, on a recent visit to the company’s orchard acknowledged it to be the finest he had seen in southern California. The North Anaheim country is unsurpassed for the growing of oranges. The appalling floods in Germany have caused widespread destitution among the people and the cry for help has reached this Mr. R. H. Gilman, superintendent of the Southern California Semi-Tropical Fruit company's orchard is shipping oranges at the rate of fifty boxes per day. The fruit is of most excellent quality. Mr. S. Littlefield of San Francisco, a gentleman well qualified to form an opinion on the subject, on a recent visit to the company's orchard acknowledged it to be the finest he had seen in southern California. The North Anaheim country is unsurpassed for the growing of oranges. The appalling floods in Germany have caused widespread destruction among the people and the cry for help has reached this country. The appeal has not been unheeded, and an active canvass has been made among the Germans for funds with which to help their countrymen. A canvass of two days among the Germans of Anaheim made by Mr. Theodore Reiser, resulted in contributions of $161 in cash. The highly ornamental pole in front of Mr. Frank Ey's establishment was mutilated by paint or kalsomine on last Friday night by persons whose ideas of fun are greatly at variance with those held by sensible people. The perpetrators of some of these jokes may be made to regret their work one of these days. J. Ginther, a plumber employed on the Nadeau house now being constructed in Los Angeles, fell from the third story of the building—a distance of at least fifty feet—on Monday. His injuries were three ribs and collar bone broken, shoulder dislocated and various other bruises. It is thought he will recover. The election held in Placentia district last Saturday to vote upon the question of issuing bonds to the amount of $2500 with which to build a school house resulted in a vote of 11 for and 7 against issuing such bonds. As a two-thirds vote is required, the proposition was defeated. A dressmaking establishment has been opened in the Metz building on Center street by Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Noble. Both ladies are expert dressmakers, and during the time they have been here they have been liberally patronized. It is said that a committee from the Fairview Ditch company will be in attendance at the Anaheim Water company's meeting today to discuss the scheme for extending water privileges noted in these columns last week. From Mr. Wille we learn that Louis Dravsen, who is under treatment at Los Angeles for mortification of the foot has had three operations performed on it and it is feared that even more severe measures will have to be adopted to stay the disease. There seems also to be little doubt that he will recommend vast projects of reforestation and conservation of flood waters, to provide employment, decentralize industry, readjust the use of land and redistribute the population. Whatever Mr. Roosevelt proposes will, at least for a year or so, be put into effect as fast as the new Congress can act. That is always the case when a new party comes into power with control of both houses of Congress. So long as there are any Federal jobs left undistributed, Senators and Representatives are eager to do the President's bidding. After there is no more patronage to be handed out, they often lose their enthusiasm for the Presidential program. Shoals and Penslons Mr. Roosevelt's statement, after his visit to Muscle Shoals, that he would advocate an extensive plan of development for the entire Tennessee Valley which, he said, would give employment to 200,000 men, has started a great revival of interest in that football of politics, the Wilson Dam and the Government Nitrate Fixation Plant at Muscle Shoals. Just how far Congress will go in the direction of putting the Government directly into the electric power business as a commercial venture remains to be seen. A bitter fight is expected to be waged over this proposal. It seems reasonably certain now that the new Congress will give to President Roosevelt the power which the present Congress denied to President Hoover, of reorganizing and consolidating the Government bureaucracy. There are all sorts of estimates of how much could be saved in this way, running up to as high as $750,000,000. Bonus and Taxation It will not be long after the next Congress meets before the demand for the immediate payment of the bonus to which every man who wore a uniform during the war will eventually be entitled, will be put forward vigorously. This is a demand upon which Mr. Roosevelt has not as yet specifically ex- Anaheim, Calif., Feb. 28, 1938 Tax Advisor Offices In Council Chamber Income Tax Adiser R. A. Preston of the department of internal revenue this week established offices in the council chambers of the city hall and will remain in Anaheim to assist local residents with income tax reports through Saturday. Reports must be filed by March 15, for single persons with an income in excess of $1,000, and married persons with an income in excess of $2500. Washington gossip is perhaps more interested in the reconciliation between the two wings of the Roosevelt family than in such apparently unimportant matters as how to get the nation and its people out of debt. Kermit Roosevelt's presence as one of the guests with his fifth cousin, the President-elect, on Vincent Astor's yacht, is regarded as a public gesture on the part of both branches of the Roosevelt family that the breach between them has been healed. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt is credited with an important part in this reconciliation. She is more closely related to the Theodore Roosevelt family than is her husband, and she and her first cousin Alice, now Mrs. Longworth have always been warm friends. Mrs. Longworth is reported to have been greatly pleased at the letter she received from her cousin, Franklin, in response to her note of congratulation on his election, and it is regarded as likely that she will be a frequent White House guest and lend the aid of her intimate knowledge of the ins and outs of national politics to her newly inaugurated relatives. 600,000 women bank with Bank of America This bank has more women patrons than any other financial institution in the United States. There are many reasons—and not the least among them is that human touch of interested personal service which characterizes Bank of America’s relations with its customers and the general public. Women are particular—they demand the very best in banking service. That is why 600,000 California women bank with Bank of America. Open an account in this time-tested bank BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST & SAVINGS ASSOCIATION DIET DIDN'T DO THIS! DIET DIDN'T DO THIS! 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