anaheim-gazette 1933-08-17

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 PAGE TWO 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK AUGUST 27, 1908 The Anaheim district schools will open on Monday, September 14, with the following corps of teachers: R. L. Tople, district principal and teacher of eighth grade; Miss Bertha Schmidt, assistant principal and teacher of seventh grade; Miss Maude E. Howard, sixth grade; Miss Ione Record, fifth grade; Miss Isabelle Richardson, fourth and fifth mixed grades; Miss Edna C. Young, fourth grade; Miss Elenora Parker, third grade; Miss Elsa A. Christen, second and third mixed grades; Miss Clara J. Carpenter, principal primary building, second grade; Miss Fannie C. Klein, A first grade; Mrs. Joanna Burgess, B first grade. Miss Margaret Paxton teacher at Katella school. Miss Edna Ames, music; Miss Adella McNeill, drawing. There are eight new teachers on our district school force this year. John H. Brunworth and Miss Pauline Kroeger, daughter of Henry Kroeger were married at the residence of the latter on East Center street at 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Lusky, of the German Lutheran church officiated. Miss Sophie Schindler acted as bridesmaid and Henry Kroeger Jr., was best man. After the ceremony bride and groom were recipients of hearty congratulations from those present who included members of the family and close personal friends. An elaborate wedding breakfast was served to which ample justice was done on the part of all. The bride's presents were numerous and costly. The happy couple left on the evening train for Los Angeles where they took the limited for St. Louis, Mo. They will spend a month’s honeymoon visiting points of interest in the east. Fritz Ruhman has taken down the frame buildings at the corner of Los Angeles and Chartres streets and will on Monday begin the erection of a large corrugated iron structure 60 x 60; which will be occupied by Stern & Mills for their carriage and Fritz Ruhman has taken down the frame buildings at the corner of Los Angeles and Chartres streets and will on Monday begin the erection of a large corrugated iron structure 60 x 60; which will be occupied by Stern & Mills for their carriage and implement emporium. The new building will be ready for occupancy by October 1st. Jos. Backs Jr. has received an illustrated postal card from Arthur Perris at San Bernardino conveying the intelligence that the stork visited his home on August 23rd bringing a son. Perris was catcher of last year's champion Olinda baseball team. Misses Alice Grimshaw, Helen Richardson, and Mary Grim will attend the Los Angeles Normal school, beginning next Monday. The two first named are graduates of the Anaheim high school and the latter is a graduate of Notre Dame college at San Jose. Harry Hanna arrived yesterday from San Francisco on a visit to his father, John Hanna of Miraflores, and other relatives. He recently returned from a four-months trip east, during which time he visited the principal cities of the Atlantic seaboard and Canada. He is in excellent health and reports a most enjoyable trip. City trustees met on Tuesday evening and fixed the city tax rate for the current fiscal year at $1.57 on the $100 of assessed valuation. Last year's rate was $1.65. Trustees Rust, Stock, Fiscus and Gates were present. An ordinance was introduced fixing the tax levy at the figures stated. It passed first reading. L. E. Miller writes from Cleveland where he has been visiting with his family for some weeks past, that he and his wife and little son leave shortly for New Haven, Conn., on a sight seeing and pleasure trip. He writes the weather is warm and that in his entire trip he has seen nothing to compare with the glorious climate of California. Walter Johnson seems to have struck his gait in the American league, for he has been pitching winning ball for Washington. On Friday he pitched against Detroit, champions of the American League, allowing them five scattered hits. The Senators took the game on four hits, by a score of 3 to 1. The men behind the local twirler amassed two errors, while the Tigers played errorless ball. Johnson pitched again on Monday, when Detroit shut out the Senators 1 to 0. The Tigers hit Johnson ten times safely, but were prevented from scoring oftener by sharp fielding. Mrs. Josephine Butler of Los Angeles, is a guest of Mrs. Cora Browning at her home at Brookhurst. Mrs. Butler recently returned from a visit of several months with friends in Philadelphia. Residents of the new townsite of McFarland, in Kern county, which is composed of citizens formerly residing here have moved into this property very quickly. Mrs. Josephine Butler of Los Angeles, is a guest of Mrs. Cora Browning at her home at Brookhurst. Mrs. Butler recently returned from a visit of several months with friends in Philadelphia. Residents of the new townsite of McFarland, in Kern county, which is composed of citizens formerly residing here have voted $10,000 bonds for a new school house. All the votes polled were in favor of the bonds. Cyril Tipton and Wayne Goble who returned Saturday from the Y. M. C. A. outing camp at Catalina are ill, threatened with typhoid fever. Drinking impure water while in camp is thought to be the cause of their illness. C. F. Grim has returned from a business trip to Needles, Ash Fork, Parker, Yuma and other points in Arizona. At the latter place the thermometer registered 117 degrees in the shade. J. F. Ahlborn was a business visitor in Los Angeles on Monday. He will probably open his remodeled store sometime next week. A force of mechanics is engaged in refitting the interior, which when completed will be one of the handsomest stores in the county. The Harding twenty-acre place two miles west of town has been sold to an outside party for $6000. It is set to young walnut trees. H. Kruger has sold his forty-acre partly improved place near town to W. Grant of Pasadena for $10,000. The new owner will raise alfalfa. M. A. Cook has sold his five-acre tract at West Anaheim to Alfred Branson of Montana for $3,500. Tom McFadden, city attorney of Bellingham Bay, Wash., arrived Saturday to attend the funeral of his mother. Mrs. Adolph Rimpau and Miss Agnes Rimpau are sojourning at Ocean Park. Miss Hazel Michod of Los Angeles is a guest of Miss Fay McKinley. Each will graduate from Stanford U next year. 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK AUGUST 25, 1883 W. N. Beat of Riverside, L. Dowell of Arizona, Dr. A. H. Davis of Ohio, J. J. Traub and S. Wehle of Indiana were in town this week looking at the country in general and they expressed themselves as being surprised to find such a good country after visiting Los Angeles city and the information they gained there about this section being nothing but a "sand bed." They say they have not found a more thriving settlement in California. They found some sand but no mortgages. Two of these gentlemen have gone east to settle up their business and will then settle here, and two of them have made arrangement to stay in Anaheim. Watkins and Wood, the superintendent and secretary respectively of the wholesale and retail wine business, handle only wines and brandies made by B. Dreyfus & Co. and by the San Gabriel wine company. They have already developed quite a trade in these wines, being favorably situated for calling the attention of Eastern tourists to their excellence. A letter has been received from Mr. Thomas Edwards formerly a resident of Los Angeles, who is now visiting in Cobb, Wisconsin, giving an account of a recent very severe storm in that neighborhood. The cyclone destroyed dwellings, barns and crops making the devastation complete by the loss of several lives. Mr. Edwards was staying at the home of a friend next to a building that was totally destroyed and in which a lady was killed. He contrasts these stiff breezes of Wisconsin with California's benignant atmosphere very unfavorably to the former state. An incorporation known as the Central Railway company has been organized in Los Angeles, its object being to purchase and sell, build, construct, own and operate street railroads in the city of Los Angeles, perhaps the most signi- An incorporation known as the Central Railway company has been organized in Los Angeles, its object being to purchase and sell, build, construct, own and operate street railroads in the city of Los Angeles and other towns and places in the county. E. F. Spence and J. F. Crank are the principal stockholders. Ah Yung refused to pay Sin Si Wau ten dollars due the latter and upon being asked with celestial politeness to liquidate the indebtedness he offered to knock out Wau after the manner popularized by John Lawrence Sullivan. The gauge of battle was accepted and Ah Yung got a black eye and a bruised forehead. In addition he was arrested for disturbing the peace, found guilty and paid a fine of $10. The way of the transgressor is hard. On last Sunday Mr. M. Dobner drove to Wilmington to meet the mother of Mrs. Dobner who arrived that day on the steamer from San Francisco. It was dark when the return journey was begun and the way was lost soon after passing the Alamitos house. When near Westminster the buggy was overturned by being driven into a deep rut and the occupants were thrown to the ground. Dr. Hardin who is attending them informs us that the lady is very severely bruised and that Mr. Dobner was badly jarred. Being in poor health he suffers more than he otherwise would. From J. D. Bethune Esq., of San Bernardino whom we had the pleasure of meeting the other day we learn that judgment by default was entered in the San Bernardino superior court against the S. P. R. R. Co. for damages in favor of Mrs. Larrabee, whose husband was killed in the Tehachepi disaster. Mr. Bethune, who is one of the attorneys for the plaintiff says that the proceedings were entirely regular, that the company was duly served, and that they quietly ignored the whole proceeding. That they will pay the $100,000 without saying boo is something entirely improbable, but considerable curiosity is manifested as to how they can set aside the judgment and reopen the case. A large covered wagon (part of a threshing outfit) was encountered in the neighborhood of Pomona the other day bearing the legend "Anaheim Street Car." We infer that it is the same vehicle which formed part of the Fourth of July procession two years ago. It is decidedly off the track. The printers on the Times (Los Angeles) are out on a strike because the proprietors discharged one of their employees and refused to reinstate him upon demand of the Typographical Union. The question at issue seems to be, whether the proprietors or the union shall run the Times office. Messrs. Yager and Arthur of the Anaheim Carriage and Wagon factory report that they have contracted this week to make two extension top barouches, at a cost of $400 each and one phaeton at $300. They are to be silver mounted and made of With legislative sessions, both state and national, at an end, temporarily, after the most tumultuous gatherings in many years, perhaps the most significant result of the whole political upheaval is to be found in the sudden quickening of popular interest in popular government. Fundamentally, the fact that the average citizen is beginning to become politically-conscious is of far greater importance than the national recovery program, for the entire program is largely dependent upon public cooperation and public vigilance. And the fact that California farmers—and California taxpayers generally—have become tax-conscious is of more significance than the relief they achieved. Most reassuring is the questioning attitude of many thousands of voters who, in times past, knew little or nothing about government—and cared less! One of the questions emanating from this group is the challenging query: "Can popular government survive?" Yet the very seriousness of the question is a hopeful sign. Democracy was probably in far greater danger of going on the rocks when no one thought to question it. Popular government is somewhat like a farm cooperative. Its success or failure depends on two factors: Able and sincere leadership, and an intelligent, wide-awake body politic, making common cause to meet common problems. Some farm cooperatives, to be sure, have failed, but the great majority have succeeded. And during the present period of chaos, the farm co-ops have proved their real worth better than at any other time in the state's history. But farmers, it must be admitted, have shown more interest in the success of their farm cooperatives than they have in the success of their government. And business men have taken a much keener interest in protecting their business welfare than their governmental welfare. The terrific cost of public indifference to public problems has been emphasized and re-emphasized throughout the depression. Farmers, business men, industrialists and professional men have all come to realize, finally, that they have almost as much at stake in government as they have in their individual enterprises. And out of that realization has come the start of a new and vital interest in things political which may, if it continues, change the whole The printers on the Times (Los Angeles) are out on a strike because the proprietors discharged one of their employes and refused to reinstate him upon demand of the Typographical Union. The question at issue seems to be, whether the proprietors or the union shall run the Times office. Messrs. Yager and Arthur of the Anaheim Carriage and Wagon factory report that they have contracted this week to make two extension top barouches, at a cost of $400 each and one phaeton at $300. They are to be silver mounted and made of the best material and Mr. S. A. Dennis the painter will put on the finishing touches. We learn from Mr. J. B. Pierce that a deposit of rock salt has been discovered near the oil wells now being developed a few miles from Anaheim. It is said that this is an encouraging prospect for oil, as in the oil regions of Pennsylvania all the water pumped from the wells is of a saline nature. Los Angeles is trying to raise $200 to entertain 1600 of the Knights Templar who will arrive about the 28th inst. They are succeeding very well. The amounts opposite the names run from five to fifty dollars each. Messrs. C. E. Leonard and Dr. E. L. Cowan have returned from the San Juan beach. The various retreats are beginning to be thinned of the sojourners and there are other indications that the season is over. On Friday night of last week Mr. Korn was prostrated by an attack of pneumonia. He is recovering slowly and will probably be able to attend to business as usual in a few days. The use of petroleum as fuel has been discontinued by Los Angeles foundrymen who aver that it burns the boilers in a very short time. The Stamps Brothers have sold the Santa Ana Standard to D. W. Baker, late of Iowa, and will hereafter devote their time to their Orange vineyard. Mr. R. W. Scott came home on Friday of last week from a six weeks trip through Washington territory, much improved in health. H. C. Kellogg is off on a surveying trip and will possibly be gone two months. He is at work in the neighborhood of Temecula. The terrific cost of public indifference to public problems has been emphasized and re-emphasized throughout the depression. Farmers, business men, industrialists and professional men have all come to realize, finally, that they have almost as much at stake in government as they have in their individual enterprises. And out of that realization has come the start of a new and vital interest in things political which may, if it continues, change the whole governmental picture. Looking backward over the legislative session just concluded at Sacramento, and the previous sessions which went practically unnoticed by the average voter, most serious-minded observers might be inclined to ask — and wonder — whether democracy is all the forefathers thought it to be. Yet, without condoning or apologizing for the faults of both legislators and public officials, it must be admitted that the people have gotten out of government about what they put into it. If they were indifferent, they got indifferent representatives. If they were selfish, they got selfish representatives. And if they were publicly alert, they got alert representatives, willing to fight for their interests. There is frequent complaint that wealth and corporate interests "own" and control most public officials. Sometimes, unfortunately, the complaint is true, but public indifference has made it true, as the observer sees the picture. One of the reasons for this condition, for instance, is that spectacular and costly campaigns have been necessary to arouse public interest in elections. No candidate for a major office can afford such campaigns. And corporations can — and often do — afford them! Hence corporation-controlled officials, made so largely because the voters weren't sufficiently interested to vote without synthetic encouragement. But the reassuring thing is that some of the voters, at least, have started to think and question. And the best promise of intelligence, in the body politic, as with the individual, is a frank admission of ignorance. All in all, democracy is looking up, even though the concrete results might not indicate it. ANNING WILL BE SHOWN Economic Experts Will Produce Safe Methods Orange Friday Readers of the home desert Orange county farm produce a demonstration on string beans and corn in the Orange high school 10 A. M., on Friday, ordering to Eric E. Eastman farm advisor. Danger from botulism in non-acid vegetables must be used to insure to the home economics methods to be demonthe latest and most of home preservation. Are interested are in and bring with them one The corn and beans by the home departgood poisoning caused by going to the same family lock-jaw group, and kept in California and the in other parts of the and experts therefore on methods of preservvegetables. On the demonstration, with the home preods may be obtained just to the farm advisor's The Er's Corner Phil H. Taylor Agricultural Legislative Committee Seek 25 Millions As Federal Grant For Big Aqueduct Committees Join Move to Ask 30 Per Cent Gift to Speed Job-Giving Led by the Long Beach Citizens Colorado river water committee, civic groups everywhere in the metropolitan water district are this week joining the movement to secure an outright grant from the federal government of approximately $25,000,000 for the Colorado river aqueduct project. Securing of such a federal gift, it is pointed out, would enable the district to accelerate its construction schedule and have 14,500 men on the aqueduct payroll by January 1. The funds would be obtained under terms of the National Recovery Act which, it is understood, is being administered so as to permit the government to make an outright grant of money equal to 30 per cent of the cost of materials and labor for the next two years on such projects as the aqueduct. Twenty-four hundred men are now employed on aqueduct construction work, and under the normal construction program this number is being increased by about 500 men per month, with 5,900 men scheduled to be on the job by January 1. The proposed $25,000,000 federal gift to the project would allow the district to speed up its building schedule so that 14,500 men would be employed by the first of the year, or 8,100 more than could be employed under the present procedure. Such acceleration, it is pointed out, would have the effect of materially relieving the unemployment situation in the 13 member cities of the metropolitan water district, as well as hastening the bringing in of the vitally needed supply of Colorado river water. CLOVER SEED IS RECEIVED HERE FOR EXPERIMENT Strawberry Variety Grows Well I n Swampy Alkali Lands, Expert Claims A small supply of strawberry clover seed has been received at the farm advisor's office for experimental planting, according to Eric E. Eastman, assistant farm advisor. The seed was received from N. A. Bleakley of Oregon, who has been working with the United States department of agriculture in testing its value in that area. Strawberry clover is a native of Europe and has done especially well in Australia. It was incidentally introduced into the United States and has been under test by the federal department for several years. It is not the equal of other clovers on good soil, but for poorly drained soils, near the sea-coast, or in irrigated regions where the soil is impregnated with alkali, it is one of the best pasture crops the department has yet discovered, according to a special release by the department. Mr. Bleakley states that strawberry clover thrives best on wet alkali soil, and that it will endure considerable drought after it is once started, which is helped by irrigation.. He states that he is now growing this crop where formerly only salt grass and Australian salt brush would grow. While it does not grow sufficient height to cut for hay, it does make a good pasture crop where there is too much alkali for other crops to grow. In one instance the pasture is now ten years old and shows no sign of running out. Only four pounds of seed is required to plant an acre. From this thin stand, the clover is reported to spread rapidly and makes a dense sod. Mr. Eastman is planning to undertake cooperative tests with local ranches who have wet alkali lands that could The proposed $25,000,000 federal gift to the project would allow the district to speed up its building schedule so that 14,500 men would be employed by the first of the year, or 8,100 more than could be employed under the present procedure. Such acceleration, it is pointed out, would have the effect of materially relieving the unemployment situation in the 13 member cities of the metropolitan water district, as well as hastening the bringing in of the vitally needed supply of Colorado river water. Early action on the district's application for funds is expected in view of the fact that Colorado river aqueduct has already been passed upon and approved as a sound, necessary and revenue producing project. County Receives Gas Apportionment Orange county received $45,137 from fee-paid registrations and $55,662.81 as its share of the apportionment of the three-cent state gasoline tax, according to word received here from the county seat Monday. Total apportionments of $4,758,944 were made, with the various counties receiving $2,379,472, with each county's share determined by the number of vehicles registered during the first six months of 1933. The highway division received a similar sum. Children Enjoy Park Fountain Thirsty children this week had park employees to thank for the construction of a fountain, where steps of varying height make it easy for even the smallest to partake of aqua pura. Eyes Examined — Glasses Fitted HOMER A. NELSON. Opt. D. Optometrist ANAHEIM. 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