anaheim-gazette 1933-06-08

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 JUNE 18, 1908 If there were any lingering doubts as to the interests and friendship of the United States government for its Japanese neighbor in the Orient, they have been most effectually dissipated by the action of Congress in making liberal provision for representation by the United States at the great national exposition to be held at Tokio from April 1 to October 31, in the year 1912. All departments of the government will co-operate in meeting the desires of President Roosevelt, the secretary of state and the congress, for a complete and successful exhibit of the artistic, industrial and national resources of the United States. The library board on Thursday evening opened five bids for erecting the $10,000 Carnegie library building. Bert Newbauer was the only city bidder from this city. One bid came from Orange and the others from Los Angeles. All were rejected as being too high. The bids ran from $10,500 to $14,000. The board decided to cut out a number of interior adornments to the edifice, and to defer construction of the elevator. The three lowest bidders were on Monday in consultation with Architect Austin in Los Angeles, and it is believed amended bids to be submitted in a few days will bring the price within the figures available for the building. It is proposed to begin work upon the building within thirty days. Walter Johnson's second introduction to the American league resulted in his being taken out of the box after the fourth inning, while pitching against St. Louis some days ago. It was his first appearance since his arrival east, and the kid suffered with nervousness. Johnson's friends hereabout have no doubt he will repeat his last season's performances this year. The Olinda Oil Wells team and Garden Grove played an exciting ten inning game at Olinda on Sunday, Olinda winning by a score of 3 to 2. Olinda got one in the second and another in Walter Johnson's second introduction to the American league resulted in his being taken out of the box after the fourth inning, while pitching against St. Louis some days ago. It was his first appearance since his arrival east, and the kid suffered with nervousness. Johnson's friends hereabout have no doubt he will repeat his last season's performances this year. The Olinda Oil Wells team and Garden Grove played an exciting ten inning game at Olinda on Sunday, Olinda winning by a score of 3 to 2. Olinda got one in the second and another in the third. Garden Grove tied the score in the fifth. The Olinda team: McLean, Brown, Isbell, Carpenter, Buzard, Perry, Chandos, Andrade, West. Garden Grove: W. Harris, Elliott, C. Harris, Fulsom, Long, Casey, Abbot, Heindrich, Osborn. Charles Lange, the West Anaheim Grocer, was fined $5.00 by Recorder Howard on Saturday for selling his wares in town despite the city ordinance imposing a license of $10 per month for non-residents for so doing. Lange refused to possess himself of such license and complaint having been made by merchants in town who regularly pay their license, Marshal Steadman placed him under arrest. Recorder Howard, on hearing the evidence, imposed the minimum fine of five circulating piasters of the realm, and defendant was counseled to go and sin no more. Lange denounced his arrest as an outrage and declared his contempt in emphatic language for the municipal ordinance. Examinations are in progress at the boys' school conducted by Dominican Sisters on Palm street, and the usual summer vacation will occur in a few days. There are more than 200 boys in the school and 21 sisters devote their time to them. A number of additions have recently been made to the buildings, yet the institution is not large enough to accommodate the increasing attendance. Nick Hugo's horse while hitched in front of Mrs. Schauman's residence on Claudina street on Saturday afternoon took fright at a passing automobile and bolted down the road. The buggy collided with two young camphor trees in the parking breaking them down and removing two handsome trees from the sidewalk. The horse was captured without further mishap. The pumping pit being dug for the Anaheim Union Water company at Wm. Crowther's southeast corner has reached a depth of 60 feet and reached water. Ben Cook is in charge of operations and will endeavor to sink the pit forty feet below the water level. When completed the pit is expected to yield the largest flow of water in the county. Mr. Roy living on South street, this week sold 500 laying hens to Wallop Bros., who shipped them to Los Angeles wholesale dealers. L. E. Miller and wife leave next week for Cleveland and other points east. This will be Mr. Miller's first visit home since coming to California, seventeen years ago. They will be away until September. Bobby Mills was an early morning visitor in Los Angeles yesterday. He flagged the limited and made it on the way. Mr. Roy living on South street, this week sold 500 laying hens to Wallop Bros., who shipped them to Los Angeles wholesale dealers. L. E. Miller and wife leave next week for Cleveland and other points east. This will be Mr. Miller's first visit home since coming to California, seventeen years ago. They will be away until September. Bobby Mills was an early morning visitor in Los Angeles yesterday. He flagged the limited and rode in on the new Chicago train. Misses Ruth Dutton, Edith Wallop and Alice Grimshaw go to Los Angeles today to attend the commencement exercises of the University of Southern California. Mrs. Josephine Weisel and two daughters, Misses Hettie and Gretchen, departed on Monday for Milwaukee. They will be absent several months. G. Meyer has sold a twenty-acre tract east of town to Henry Baert, recently arrived from Oxnard. Consideration $500. L. A. Evans made the sale. Gerald Sandilands will next week begin the shipping of fifteen carloads of Valencia oranges from the Independent packing house near the Santa Fe depot. Miss Ruth Enearl, teacher of the San Juan school, is spending the vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Enearl of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Konig entertained at dinner on Sunday. Out-of-town guests were Miss Pfeiffer of Ocean Park and Dr. Lucius who is visiting in this city. E. M. Neally of Tustin and A. W. Everett of Huntington Beach, have been appointed by the supervisors as members of the county board of education. Their appointments are for two years. V. Simpson and family leave today for San Juan Hot Springs. Mr. Simpson has been indisposed for a month with inflammatory rheumatism. He will take the baths with a view to throwing off the ailment. 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK JUNE 16, 1883 The roaring of the "loud-mouthed orators of war"—to-wit, anvils—and the glare of bonfires attracted a large crowd to Kroeger's hall on Monday evening. The two previous futile attempts to hold meetings to organize for a Fourth of July celebration were atoned for by the enthusiasm with which the project was greeted. The meeting was presided over by Frank Ey and H. Cahen was chosen secretary. After an animated discussion concerning the mode and manner of celebration, the following committees were appointed: Collection, C. E. Leonard, D. W. Hudson, F. Rimpau, F. W. Tyler, R. Bohn, R. Melrose; executive, Theo. Lynill, F. Ey, C. E. Leonard, R. Melrose, C. W. Moores, R. J. Northam; treasurer, H. Cahen. The committees will meet this evening to decide upon details. The collection committee report an unusual liberality on the part of citizens, and there will be no lack of funds. With hearty co-operation upon the part of everyone there will be a celebration that will eclipse anything of the kind ever given in Southern California. The closing exercises of the public schools will be held on next Friday evening at Kroeger's hall, and the program will be as announced in these columns last week. It is to be hoped that the people's interest in educational matters is strong enough to cause the hall to be crowded. We learn from Mr. Moores that the three young ladies will undoubtedly pass the examination ordeal successfully, although he is pronounced in his opinion that the examination questions prepared by the county board of education were quite too voluminous and unnecessarily difficult. Gen. W. W. Smith of Riverside was in town on Thursday. He is now inspecting Anaheim Landing and various other local watering places, with a view to recommending a suitable camping place to a party of Riversiders who desire to encamp by the sea. Gen. Smith resided in Anaheim for a short time about six years ago, and was foreman of the Review for a time. As an active Farm Emergency Act Is Subject Beginning Monday, June 12, there will be a series of talks given over KREG by the agricultural extension service, explaining the farm act recently passed by congress. These talks will be given during the regular period 12:00 to 12:15 on Monday's now occupied by the agricultural extension service program. TODAY AND TOMORROW By Frank Parker Stockbridge PRICES going up It isn't going to be long before the prices of everything will be higher. Good for producers, not so good for consumers, except that more people will have jobs and so be able to be consumers, when the producers can get enough for their products to make it worth while to produce. Cutting down the amount of anything produced is the popular way nowadays to raise prices. The countries where the cacao tree grows, from which we get cocoa and chocolate, are trying to get together on a plan to reduce the output so as to get a better price. I wonder what will happen, however, when there is a world-wide crop failure and people in the cities can't get food enough. It seems to me that the governments which are trying to curtail production ought to see to it that a year's supply of the non-perishable food products is stored away out of the line of trade, for just such an emergency. They might look back into the Bible and see what Joseph did in Egypt. TERMITES house eaters Little insects that can chew your house up are spreading all over the hall to be crowded. We learn from Mr. Moores that the three young ladies will undoubtedly pass the examination ordeal successfully, although he is pronounced in his opinion that the examination questions prepared by the county board of education were quite too voluminous and unnecessarily difficult. Gen. W. W. Smith of Riverside was in town on Thursday. He is now inspecting Anaheim Landing and various other local watering places, with a view to recommending a suitable camping place to a party of Riversiders who desire to encamp by the sea. Gen. Smith resided in Anaheim for a short time about six years ago, and was foreman of the Review for a time. As an active participant in the celebrated Stagg-Rodgers duel, he covered himself with glory. It having been reported that Mr. John Hanna intended to leave Anaheim, that gentleman requests us to deny the rumor in the most emphatic manner possible. He has lived in various parts of California for the past twenty-five years and in all that time he has found no better place than Anaheim. Mr. Hanna has, in his capacity as real estate agent, been instrumental in bringing a large number of people here, and the community will be glad to know that the rumor of his intended departure has no foundation. To the oft repeated question, "How are the vineyards looking?" the reply is invariably "first rate." The crop promises to be the heaviest in years, which will in a measure atone for the drop in the price of grapes which is predicted. It is of course too early to predict the exact price which will be paid for grapes the coming season, but there is no doubt that it will be less than has been obtained for years past. The testimony in the case of the Anaheim Water company against the Cajon Irrigation company was concluded on Wednesday and the shorthand reporter is now transcribing his notes—a proceeding which will cost the parties concerned a trifle under $500. When the testimony is written out the case will be argued and submitted to Judge Rolf for his decision. Mr. P. L. Bowen, a commercial traveler, who has lately passed through a considerable area of the state, says that the hot wind of a few days ago, which passed through the northern portion of the state, did an immense amount of damage to the fruit and grain crops. Much of the early fruit was fairly baked on the trees, and grain which was just in the milk and in a very thriving condition, in many places will shrink badly. The ostrich farm is about as much a novelty as ever, and there are daily pilgrimages to see the famous birds. It is quite the correct thing for strangers to come to Anaheim on the morning train, hire a fast team from Lewis’ city stables, drive to the farm and return to Los Angeles on the afternoon train. Mrs. N. F. Crews, mother of Felix H. Nickerson, deceased, has filed a complaint against the Western Union Telegraph company, laying damages at $25,000, alleging that said Nickerson died from injuries received from contact with a telegraph wire near Compton in January last. We are indebted to Mrs. C. E. Taylor, who arrived in Anaheim last week for a short visit, for late copies of Globe newspapers. TERMITES . . . house eaters Little insects that can chew your house up are spreading all over the United States: Many people call them "white ants" but they are not ants at all, but near relations of the cockroach: Many wooden buildings have been completely destroyed by these creatures burrowing into the wooden beams. Scientists have discovered that the termites make tunnels in damp wood in order to grow mushrooms for food! Termites live underground, and if cut off from the ground they soon die out. The best protection against them is to see that no timbers come in contact with the earth and that all the beams of the house are thoroughly dry. Some day all buildings will be constructed of steel and concrete and we won't have to worry about house-eating bugs. MESSENGER . . . gets there A Detroit messenger boy has just been given a $50,000 a year job as general manager of all the transportation lines in the city of London. He is Lord Ashfield, who started life running errands for a Detroit trolley line. Somehow American-trained railroad men do pretty well in England. The first subway in London was built by an American named Yerkes, and the men who operate the greatest English railway systems are largely of American birth. Europe is ahead of America in many of the older things of civilization, but America is so far ahead of Europe in everything which is now in the past 150 years that it is no wonder our technicians and managers know better how to run them. CURRENT . . . and civilization The Gulf Stream is over 100 miles closer in shore off the New England coast than it normally is. That may make a lot of difference in the climate of the North Atlantic coast, as well of some other parts of the world. I always think of the Gulf Stream as the steam-heating system of Western Europe. It starts in the boiler—the shallow Gulf of Mexico, where the water is heated clear to the bottom by the sun. Then it flows through the Florida straits and up the American coast until it meets the cold Greenland current and shoots off eastwardly, to Europe. Ireland and England, 500 miles Mrs. N. F. Crews, mother of Felix H. Nickerson, deceased, has filed a complaint against the Western Union Telegraph company, laying damages at $25,000, alleging that said Nickerson died from injuries received from contact with a telegraph wire near Compton in January last. We are indebted to Mrs. C. E. Taylor, who arrived in Anaheim last week for a short visit, for late copies of Globe newspapers. The chief topic of discussion in the Arizona papers is not mines but Indians. As an illustration of the uniformity of the temperature of Anaheim, we refer to our thermometrical record which shows that the temperature at 7 p.m. was exactly 68 degrees during the past seven days. At the store of Mr. H. Cahen is a list headed "Souscription Nationale pour l'erection d'un monument a Leon Gambetta." Our French fellow-citizens will doubtless respond liberally. Thomas H. Edwards and his son, Matthew, left on Thursday for a visit to Illinois. They will be absent probably a couple of months. Business at the railroad depot is exceedingly good. The exports average five carloads a day. Among the exports during the past week were eight carloads of wine, four carloads of hay to Calico and one carload of oranges to Kansas City. Dr. J. A. Maggard of Wellington, Kansas, is in Anaheim. Under the guidance of Mr. Sidney Holeman, his brother-in-law, he is visiting the many points of interest in the county. There is five dollars at this office for the finder of a silver-mounted meerschaum pipe which was lost on the 3rd instant. on Los Angeles street. A purse of $200 was presented to Rev. E. S. Chase of the Los Angeles M. E. church by his congregation to assist in defraying the expense of a trip to the East. Samples of Odessa wheat from the Burruel Point ranch have been brought to this office by John Bush. The wheat is five feet in height. REGULATION controversy There is going to be a lot of controversy over the proposals of the Government to regulate all kinds of business and industry. I am one of the old-fashioned Americans who believe that the less the Government has to do with business the better. I think that more of our business trouble is due to too much Governmental regulation in the past than to too little. But I am afraid I am one of a small minority just now. There are some things, however, which properly should be regulated. Those are lines of business which in the nature are more efficient as monopolies than in competition. That would include railroads, telegraph and telephone lines, electric lighting and power systems—everything which depends upon a public franchise. Then such natural products as are irreplaceable, like oil, coal and minerals, should not be left to whoever wants to grab them off, but placed under Government restriction or stimulation of production, as circumstances demand. But that is about as far as I would like to go in Governmental control of anything. WEAKNESS OF GENERALITIES When you are going about your business, be as kind as you can. Be thoughtful of the other travelers on the highways of life. Take time to look for those who fared less fortunately; lend them a helping hand when ever you can." I say Jesus might have uttered such generalities. But if He had, do you suppose that they would ever have been remembered? Would the disciples have recorded them? Would our age ever have heard His name? He was far wiser in the laws and habits of the human mind. Instead of the commonplace phrases written above, He painted this striking picture: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves. There’s your illustration and your head-line. If you had lived near Jerusalem or Jericho; if you often had occasion to use that very road, wouldn’t you want to know what happened to that unfortunate traveler? “They stripped off his raiment,” the parable continues, “and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.” Pretty soon a priest came by and seeing the victim said to himself: "That's a shameful thing, the police ought to do something about these outrages." But he crossed over carefully and passed by on the other side. A certain respectable Levite also appeared. "His own fault," he sniffed, "ought to be more careful." And he too passed by. Then a third traveler drew near, and stopped—and the whole world knows what happened. Generalities would have been soon forgotten. But the story that had its roots in every-day human experience and need, lives and will live forever. It condenses the philosophy of Christianity into a half dozen unforgettable paragraphs. The parable of the Good Samaritan is the greatest advertisement of all time. Take any one of the parables, no matter which—you will find that it enunciates all the principles on which advertising text books are written. Always a picture in the very first sentence: crisp, graphic language and a message so clear that even the dullest can not escape it. Here is another one: What Happened To The Lost Sheep What man of you, having a hundred sheep if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, "Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost." I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance. Next Week: Power In Words Copyright. Bobbs-Merrill Co. West Virginians and McGuffeyites Picnic A combination picnic, to which all West Virginians and McGuffeyites Picnic A combination picnic, to which all persons who used McGuffey readers in their school days and former residents of West Virginia are invited, will be held at Sycamore Grove park, Los Angeles, all day Saturday, June 17. Ora E. Monnette is the principal speaker, While Henry P. Maxwell of the West Virginia society, will be master of ceremonies. Largest Hatching Day Is Recorded The largest number of pigsants ever hatched in a day on the state game farms was recorded recently when August Bade of the Yuntville game farm reported 2000 baby pheasants cracked through their shells. Sportsmen who operate a brooder system at Cotati were given 900 of the new arrivals, while the rest were put in the farm brooders to be raised for distribution throughout the state. 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