anaheim-gazette 1933-11-30

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 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK DECEMBER 8, 1883 The board of town trustees met in regular session on Wednesday. The following amendment to section 4 of Ordinance No. 20 was introduced: "The said board of fire commissioners shall have power to appoint assistants or auxiliaries to any number deemed advisable by them, but said assistants or auxiliaries shall receive no compensation for their services." The trustees requested the commissioners to take immediate action in regard to the balcony and exit from Kroeger's hall. A communication of G. L. Dean offering to rent the water works, was laid on the table. The position of fire commissioner held by C. H. Arthur was declared vacated, and F. Backe was appointed in his stead. The board of fire commissioners held a meeting on Thursday evening and organized by electing F. Ey, chief; F. Backs, treasurer; C. E. Leonard, secretary. It was ordered that a frame for drying hose, and hat rack be put up in the hall. It was resolved to ask the trustees to appoint a committee to inspect the chemical fire engine in use at Santa Ana. The secretary was instructed to notify Mr. Kroeger that the exit from his hall and balcony is in an unsafe condition, and that he be instructed to make the necessary changes. The regular meetings of the commissioners will be held on Tuesday evening preceding the monthly meetings of the trustees. At the meeting of the Anaheim Cemetery association on Saturday, the following Directors were elected: F. Hartung, R. Luedke, C. Lorenz, H. Kroeger, Theo Rimpau. The board organized on Wednesday by electing R. Luedke as president, C. Lorenz, vice-president, F. Hartung, Treasurer, Theo Rimpau, secretary. Kroeger and Hartung, committee on improvements. The committee has determined to at once begin the work of improvement, and make the grounds in keeping with the many At the meeting of the Anaheim Cemetery association on Saturday, the following Directors were elected: F. Hartung, R. Luedke, C. Lorenz, H. Kroeger, Theo Rimpau. The board organized on Wednesday by electing R. Luedke as president, C. Lorenz, vice-president, F. Hartung, Treasurer, Theo Rimpau, secretary. Kroeger and Hartung, committee on improvements. The committee has determined to at once begin the work of improvement, and make the grounds in keeping with the many handsome private plots which adorn the cemetery. They ask all holders of lots to assist them in making the place one of beauty by keeping their lots clean and free from weeds. There is no doubt that a wonderful transformation will be accomplished in the city of the dead during the next few months. A vigorous but short-lived rain fell on Monday, and was supplement by an equally brief fall during the night, the total being eleven-sixteenths of an inch. As a promise of what is to come it is very satisfactory, but it was too little to be of much use except to freshen vegetation and infuse new life into the drooping natural grasses. The total for this season to date is 1.71 inches, whereas last year to Dec. 7th only .97 inches had fallen. These are the stern facts of the case, if our conscience permitted we would quote the Herald's figures and credit Anaheim with a fall of two inches on Monday. A conscience is a dreadfully inconvenient thing to have around a newspaper office. It appears that there is a town ordinance (enacted after the book of ordinances was printed) which prohibits the passage of bands of sheep or cattle through the streets of the town between the hours of 6 a.m. and 9 p.m., and only during the night after the town marshal has been notified. It is a very good ordinance. Why is it not enforced? W. A. Spaulding has assumed the position of editor of the Rural Californian, and that monthly will henceforth be even more entertaining and useful than it has heretofore been. Our friend swings a pen with the same graceful ease that he does a scythe, and when it comes to massacreing a hostile field of alfalfa he is a double action mowing machine all by himself. Mr. J. J. Moore returned yesterday from a visit to the newly discovered coal mine about four miles east of Fulton Wells. This new mine displays a vein about six feet thick, of very dense bituminous coal, that burns admirably and is easily accessible. It is situated about four miles from the Anaheim branch of the Southern Pacific railroad at Norwalk station. There are indications that this coal bed extends entirely across the range of the Puente hills, as a small vein on the opposite side of the range, six miles from Spadra was discovered about two months ago. In the windmill business, good material and substantial work pays best for both buyer and seller. Our popular windmill agent, S. B. Smith obtained fresh proof of this lately. A few weeks ago he erected one of his California windmills with tank, pump and pipe fixtures for Mr. D. M. Johnson at Downey. On last Monday he received orders from two of Mr. Johnson's neighbors, each ordering like complete pumping outfits. The California mill has always succeeded well withstood fire and time of fire. The teachers voices on there was really order to show the time of fire. The teachers voices on building smokey youngsters, emerald jurymen stood in opened inside inside the eight-roomed Three hundred cottons honorable gentlemen at the alarm. The young men were entertained Miss Aubert, the invited guests Mrs Luchlin Harry Fulde, Alfred Pele of Occidental college Mitchell. At a la delightful evening. The Travel Service Mrs. Rose. Roll After a brief busiered: The Mosquit Horn. Mrs. Nagler Turkish Nighteng meet on Saturday. Members of the Beebe at a theatre of last week. The Mrs. H. Adams, Backs, Miss Winni T. E. Schmidt Schmidt is one of five who found and as active as me week to visit his and is never better around him, he tells a century ago. Billy Cooper w known to many years ago. Mr. F and if Billy does n Charles Womn from the northern ing. He is a guest visit from their fa A. T. Pendleton He reports a precise preceding night Lee Harris of L In the windmill business, good material and substantial work pays best for both buyer and seller. Our popular windmill agent, S. B. Smith obtained fresh proof of this lately. A few weeks ago he erected one of his California windmills with tank, pump and pipe fixtures for Mr. D. M. Johnson at Downey. On last Monday he received orders from two of Mr. Johnson's neighbors, each ordering like complete pumping outfits. The California mill has always successfully withstood our fiercest storms and its agent has a reputation for putting it up substantially. He offers to furnish and fit pumps and fixtures at Los Angeles prices, and we hereby recommend anyone wishing goods in his line to give him a call. Mr. Smith goes to Artesia next week to put up one of his complete outfits for E. W. Dally. The advertisement of J. J. Dyer is published today. He has resumed his old freighting business and his new truck is the admiration of all beholders. Any elaborate introduction of Mr. Dyer would be superfluous, as everybody here knows him to be a careful and accommodating freighter. The will of Alexander Repteeo, who died in Los Angeles last Sunday provides for the expenditures of $6000 for "masses for the repose of his soul." John Hanna is expected to arrive in Anaheim today, a postal to that effect having been received by his partner, Mr. Keith. The Anaheim Minstrels will give a second entertainment on the evening of the 25th instant, which, by the way, is the birthday of the business manager, J. Landell. The trial of the people vs. Arthur, charged with battery resulted in the conviction of defendant, and Justice Bailey imposed a fine of $40 which was paid. The monthly meeting of Anaheim Lodge No. 207 F. and A. M. will be held on Monday evening. Officers will be elected for the ensuing term and a full attendance of members is requested. Fred C. McKinnie and Miss Malvina J. Fischer were married in Los Angeles on November 28th. A very cheap farm at Westmister is offered for sale by Wm. Crowther. 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1908 A committee of the grand jury paid a visit to schools in this city one day last week and spent some time at the Central Grammar school. Here the committee criticised the doors leading to classrooms because they opened inside instead of outside. In case of fire and a panic among the children, one of the visitors declared the doorways might become clogged, with pupils determined upon escaping and a dreadful castrophe ensue. Then the committee inspected the fire escapes which were installed at the instance of a former grand jury, and which mar the architectural beauty of one of the largest and handsomest school buildings in the county. They found the fire escapes too narrow and now taxpayers may awake some fine morning to find an assessment levied to tear out the fire escapes and put in new ones. For the grand jury, like the "Wizard of Oz," is great and terrible and its mandates must be obeyed. The grand jurymen returned to their criticism of the inside-opening doors, and will probably recommend they be replaced by others opening outside. A dreadful calamity and loss of precious lives might happen, they said. Suddenly the fire alarm rang out through the building. The grand-jurymen were about to flee for their lives, their faces blanched with fear, their knees quivering. Principal Topel quieted their fears, assuring them there was really no danger, and that it was only a false alarm in order to show them how quickly the school could be emptied in time of fire. The sound of foot-steps on the double quick, and teachers voices commanding the pupils and getting them out of the building smote upon their ears. Outside, the shouts of lusty youngsters, emerging from the building filled the air. The grand jurymen stood in a deserted hallway, scrutinizing the doors which opened inside instead of outside. It had taken 30 seconds to clear the eight-roomed two-story building of its precious contents. Three hundred children had filed out of the building ere yet the honorable gentlemen had recovered from the tremors which beset them. Cabbage-Growing Art Is Known Here Los Angeles and San Mateo counties, California, are included in the 50 leading counties of the United States producing cabbages, a report from the bureau of the census shows. Los Angeles county has 1909 acres in cabbages which gives it fifteenth rank in acreage, the report shows, while the total value in the Los Angeles county cabbage crop, $366,330, gives it eighth ranking in the nation in that respect. San Mateo county, with 675 acres planted to cabbage, ranks fifthth in the nation in acreage but the $116,404 received for the county's cabbage yield gave it thirty-fourth ranking in the nation in money received, according to the Washington, D. C. figures. Los Angeles Gains Corn Growing “Rep” Los Angeles county, California, ranks second in the value of its sweet corn crop in the first 50 counties in the nation although in acreage it ranks twenty-sixth, a report received by the state department of agriculture shows. Sweet corn fields in Los Angeles county totals only 3213 acres but the $373,095 which is received for the crop far exceeds the $273,448 received by Iroquois county, Illinois, first in acreage in the United States, the federal tabulation reveals. Burlington county, New Jersey, is first in the value of sweet corn produced by a county in the nation, the value of its crop being placed by the census bureau at $539,535. Los Angeles county is the only far western county to achieve ranking in the nation's first 50 sweet corn producing counties. Closed Cars Bring Danger of Monoxide Possibility of carbon monoxide gas seeping through floorboards makes it dangerous to drive some cars with all the windows closed reports the Auto- The young men of Miss Nettie Aubert’s Sunday school class were entertained at supper on Friday evening at the home of Miss Aubert, the occasion being Miss Aubert’s birthday. The invited guests were Walter Ross, Harry Armstrong, Will McLhuchlin, Harry Pearson, Gus McAuley, Elton Goble, Rudolph Fulde, Alfred Pellegrin, and James Nelson and Harold Pellegrin of Occidental college, Misses Kate and Ella Rea and Rev. F. W. Mitchell. At a late hour the young people departed having spent a delightful evening. The Travel Section of the Ebell club met on Saturday with Mrs. Rose. Roll call was answered with facts about Jerusalem: After a brief business meeting the following program was rendered: The Mosques of Constantinople, Mrs. Spake; The Golden Horn, Mrs. Nagle; The Cemeteries, Mrs. Dutton; The Rights of a Turkish Nightengale, Mrs. Falkenstein. Meeting adjourned to meet on Saturday, December 12 with Mrs. Dutton. Members of the Four-Fours club were entertained by B. V. Beebe at a theatre party at the auditorium on Wednesday evening of last week. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Hatzfield, Mr. and Mrs. H. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Weisel, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Backs, Miss Winifred Melrose, Miss Olga Zeus and B. V. Beebe. T. E. Schmidt was a visitor in Los Angeles on Sunday. Mr. Schmidt is one of the four remaining Pioneers of the original number of 50 who founded Anaheim, and at 84 is still hale and hearty and as active as many men at 48. He goes to the city one day a week to visit his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Bullard, and other relatives and is never better satisfied than, with children and grandchildren around him, he tells them of his experiences in this new land, half a century ago. Billy Cooper who has taken charge of the City Market is well-known to many of our citizens, having lived here a number of years ago. Mr. Fleischman has done well to secure his services and if Billy does not do the rest we miss our guess. Charles Wommer, a former resident of this city, is in town from the northern part of the state, where he is engaged in mining. He is a guest of his brother Frank, and both are enjoying a visit from their father, recently arrived from the east. A. T. Pendleton was in from Placentia on Thursday afternoon. He reports a precipitation of two inches of rain in that locality the preceding night. Lee Harris of Lancaster and his fiance, Miss Esther Hirshfield Charles Wommer, a former resident of this city, is in town from the northern part of the state, where he is engaged in mining. He is a guest of his brother Frank, and both are enjoying a visit from their father, recently arrived from the east. A. T. Pendleton was in from Placentia on Thursday afternoon. He reports a precipitation of two inches of rain in that locality the preceding night. Lee Harris of Lancaster and his fiance, Miss Esther Hirshfield of Los Angeles were in the city on Sunday, guests of the families of Wm. Falkenstein and I. Asher. M. A. Andrews has sold his 35 acre orange and walnut ranch in the southeastern city limits to John Resh for a consideration of $25,000. The place is highly improved and the sale is one of the largest recently reported. O. P. Litten this week sold his express business to Stock & Backs, who take over his contract for carrying mails to and from the postoffice. Mr. Litten may remove to Orange, where he owns realty and where he may take up his residence. Mrs. Oliver Hill returned on Sunday night's train from South English, Iowa, where she was called some weeks ago by the illness of her mother. Masons held their most largely attended meeting in years on Monday evening, when the following officers were elected to serve the ensuing year: C. E. Holcomb, Master; A. L. Porter, S. W.; J. A. Knapp, J. W.; Isadore Asher, Treasurer; Jos. Helmsen, Secretary. Many visiting brethren were present from outlying towns, and an enjoyable evening was participated in. Mr. ad Mrs. Richard Dugdale are the happy parents of a bouncing baby boy which arrived on Wednesday evening last. W. F. Laird was down from Kern county the first of the week on a business trip. Manager Joe Backs of the Home Telephone company announces a new low rate for messages to Los Angeles of 15 cents for three minutes and 5 cents for each additional minute. The former rate was 25 and 10 cents. Grape brandy for mince meats and pudding sauces, Christmas and holiday wines. Treat your eastern friends to some California sunshine. For particulars, C. Otto Rust, Ah, String Beans! California Has 'Em Four of the 50 leading counties in the nation producing snap or string beans are in California, a report from the bureau of the census received by the state department of agriculture showed. The California counties are: Los Angeles, with a crop value of $492,748; third; Solano, Sacramento, and San Diego. SKYLINE DRIVE CLOSED Skyline Drive between Corona and Irvine Park is still closed due to fire hazard, according to information received by the Automobile Club of Southern California touring bureau. Deliver Laundry Four Weeks Late A laundry truck was four montns late with the week's washing for many families at Seattle. When Eric Palmer, driver for a laundry company, made a delivery he discovered the truck missing. Four months later the truck, with nothing taken, not even an envelope, with a $2 bill in the front seat, was found in an abandoned garage. The laundry company had refunded their customers' money for the "lost" clothes a week after the truck was stolen. Finance your New Car at 6% flat —LOWEST RATE IN U.S. If you are considering a new car, let the Automobile Club of Southern California buy it for you. The Club finances new cars for members at 6% flat on the unpaid balance, lowest rate in the U.S., saving up to $150! 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NOW ALL THAT THE MARKET HAS TO OFFER A distinctive part of the service a newspaper renders to its subscribers is that of affording a shopping directory which is contained throughout the advertisements displays of local stores and shops. The subscriber who fails to take advantage of this service is not getting full value from his or her newspaper. Thrifty shoppers have learned that much time may be saved by better values obtained by reading the ads in the Gazette before starting to market. All of the better stores and shops in Anaheim use the advertising columns of the Gazette, wherein they tell the trade picture for them the styles and the values that may be had in their stores. You will find that it pays to read the ads before shopping. SHOPPING IS MADE EASY WHEN YOU READ THE ADS IN THE GAZETTE