anaheim-gazette 1934-09-13

IN THE DAYS OF L Extracts From Files of The Gazette Issued Half a Century and a Quarter of a Century Authentic History in Print of the Daily Doings of the Citizens of Anaheim and C 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK SEPTEMBER 2, 1994 This is the time of year when the grower of grapes feels a natural anxiety as to the price which the wine-makers will pay for the product of his vines. It has been customary for some years past for the heaviest buyers of grapes to meet in Los Angeles and fix the price which they considered ought to be paid. The same course was pursued this year, and at a meeting held in Los Angeles last week the following prices were agreed upon: Muscats $14 per ton; mission $15; foreign varieties $20, these prices to rule until after November 1st. It should be stated however that the firm of Dreyfus & Co., of Anaheim, are not in this combination, they considering that the price fixed for mission grapes was too low. We do not know what they are paying for that variety of grape, but believe they are paying $20 per ton for foreign varieties. It may not generally be known to what magnitude the production of petroleum in Los Angeles county has attained. The anticipated output of crude oil for the present year is estimated to be 10,731,000 gallons from the twenty wells operated by the Pacific Oil company of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. The wells near Anaheim are said to be located within the oil belt and are said to be producing with indications of increased quantity of oil as greater depth of boring is made. The fifth annual fair of the sixth district agricultural association will open at Los Angeles on Monday, October 13th, continuing during the week. The premium list has been published in pamphlet form and is extremely liberal. Ample accommodations have been made for the convenience of people desiring to camp out during the fair. Agricultural Park Grove having been secured for that purpose. The fair will doubtless eclipse the displays of former years, as the officers of the association are sparing no The fifth annual fair of the sixth district agricultural association will open at Los Angeles on Monday, October 13th, continuing during the week. The premium list has been published in pamphlet form and is extremely liberal. Ample accommodations have been made for the convenience of people desiring to camp out during the fair. Agricultural Park Grove having been secured for that purpose. The fair will doubtless eclipse the displays of former years, as the officers of the association are sparing no pains nor labor to ensure a success. The Republican Club met Monday evening. A constitution and code of by-laws were read and adopted. E. J. Pellegrin acted as secretary. An election of permanent officers then followed with the following result: President, J. B. Pierce; vice-presidents, Richard Melrose, C. E. Leonard, N. H. Mitchell, Theodore Reiser, R. J. Northam; secretary, F. Smythe; treasurer, C. E. Groat; sergeants-at-arms, D. D. Rich, E. A. White; executives, R. J. Northam, James W. Landell. Theo. Reiser, N. H. Mitchell, Frank Ey. Regular meetings of the club will be held every Saturday evening. Expenses of the club will be paid by voluntary subscriptions, thereby obviating the necessity of fees for admission to membership or assessment of members. The club roll now contains over 70 names. A general posting of hand-bills, an anvil, a bonfire, and a band of music gathered an audience of about seventy-five at Kroeger's hall on Saturday evening. The meeting, after resolving itself into a Democratic club, was addressed by B. Chandler in a peculiar and unique oration which was greatly appreciated by the thirty or forty Republicans who were present. Gen. Harrison also delivered an address. The club has a membership of over forty. The officers will be elected this evening. The Indians, who are wont to swarm into Anaheim during the grape-picking season, have so far failed to put in an appearance. Their absence is accounted for by the fact that watermelons, corn and acorns are abundant this year. They will not leave their mountain homes as long as they have something to eat. On Monday night an inmate of the house of N. H. Mitchell was awakened by two prowlers near an open window. Mr. Mitchell armed with a blunderbuss, essayed forth to ascertain the business intent of the marauders, who, taking in the strength of the advancing arsenal; retreated in double quick until lost in the darkness. The corner stone of the Sisters Hospital was laid on Sunday afternoon in Beaudry Park, Los Angeles in the presence of a large concourse of people made up of military, fire department and civic societies of Los Angeles. The oration delivered by Col. John F. Godfrey is reported to have been one of the masterly efforts for which that gentleman is noted. The Democrats and Republicans each had a torchlight procession in Los Angeles on Saturday night, and the Republican parade was admitted to be the biggest. They were away ahead in the matter of music, having hired all the city bands. TheBean growers o pounds for their lining come as the res association, compos are informed that price for its beans. George Strobel, Tuesday, accompany a son of Major Ma 70's.'Major Strobe representative of a George has been fa he sold his farm a camping trip through Suit to foreclose Garden Grove has b and Chas. H. Mann involved is $57.90 and a pumping plant. The City of Ana vote bonds in the ann bonds should carry sewer system. In t to vote bonds for creasing number of voting upon an issue upon to vote for an cisco's water front.of bonds for good before the state vol us disadvantageous From the Santa Anaheim Gazette is proposed good-road methods to that en Ana is going to try for and unwarranted in Orange county v that the business mony with the citizen in the effort to sec it is altogether like to be true despite i Wm. Medbury Mrs. W. I. Carver, week. Yesterday whom he had not original California The corner stone of the Sisters Hospital was laid on Sunday afternoon in Beaudry Park, Los Angeles in the presence of a large concourse of people made up of military, fire department and civic societies of Los Angeles. The oration delivered by Col. John F. Godfrey is reported to have been one of the masterly efforts for which that gentleman is noted. The Democrats and Republicans each had a torchlight procession in Los Angeles on Saturday night, and the Republican parade was admitted to be the biggest. They were away ahead in the matter of music, having hired all the city bands. The Anaheim band was telegraphed for, but the notice was too short and they didn’t go. The names of Samson Edwards of Westminster and Sidney Holman of Fairview are mentioned in connection with the Republican nomination for supervisor in this district. There will be water in the Anaheim company’s ditches today, tomorrow and Monday and spasmodically thereafter until the new sandgate is completed, which will probably be in ten or twelve days. A fall in ostrich eggs is reported from Anaheim. Formerly they were worth $1200 a dozen, now they are worth only $1000.—San Francisco Chronicle. The Chronicle is mistaken. We have heard no sales of ostrich eggs at less than $1200 a dozen. Candidates for assembly in this district are making a very quiet, still hunt. We suggest the name of Dr. H. W. Head of Gospel swamp to our Democratic friends for nomination. A press club has been organized in Los Angeles and a thousand-dollar banquet is in anticipation. The Gazette staff has subscribed $364 to the lunch fund. J. M. Moesser, supervisor of this district, was in town on Wednesday. He is a candidate for reelection, subject to the action of the Republican convention. He reports the political outlook in Santa Ana to be most hopeful. J. W. McKinley, prominent member of the Los Angeles bar and Dwight Whiting, director of the Ostrich Farming company were in town on Wednesday. OF LONG AGO and a Quarter of a Century Ago. These Files Contain the Only Records of Anaheim and Orange County in the Days of the Pioneers. 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK SEPTEMBER 23, 1909 The city authorities having removed all hitching posts from the paved streets, farmers driving in ask the question, "Where shall we hitch our horses?" Hitching posts may be found on the side streets, and the matter of providing ample facilities of the kind will doubtless be taken up at an early date. Many have already provided themselves with hitching weights, and these may be used on paved streets as well as elsewhere. The city is providing two miles of paved thoroughfares and the work is just beginning. A condition and not a theory confront our merchants as well as the farmer driving into town. Hundreds of vehicles drive into town daily. Hitching posts having been removed from paved thoroughfares, adequate hitching facilities must be provided. We want all the farmers of Orange county to keep coming to Anaheim to trade. A. Pierotti is having plans drawn by a Los Angeles architect for a twelve room colonial house to be erected on his beautiful ranch in Placentia. The residence will stand in the center of a forty-five acre grove and will cost about $12,000. The building will be of frame construction, with a large front porch of brick and cement, a feature of which will be colonial columns extending to the roof line. A balcony will extend from this porch to the porte-cochere. The lower floors will be finished in oak, the upper rooms in white, enamel. Floors will be hardwood throughout. A solar heating and circulating water system, a gas plant, and a hot air furnace will be installed. The grounds will be handsomely laid out in drives. Bean growers of the county are being offered $3.50 per 100 pounds for their limas. The first offers were made Monday having come as the result of the fixing of prices by the Bean Growers association, composed largely of Ventura people. The buyers here TODAY and TOMORROW TRADITION . . . up our way Up in my county we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Congregational Church at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the other day. Founded by Yale College theological students in 1733 as a mission to the Indians who lived at Charles Stockbridge's trading post, it was organized as a church in 1734, with the Indian chief, David Konkapot, and one of my own ancestors, as deacons. Many famous preachers have served the old church, most celebrated of them being Johnathan Edwards, who left it in 1758 to become president of Princeton College. The descendants of many of the first members of the old church still live in the town. It is natural that those who have grown up in such an environment should be influenced by the ancient traditions of the country and its people. Our ancestors believed that every man was entitled to what he could earn, and that those who would not work should not eat. The landless man, who was content to work for wages, was looked upon as inferior; so it became every able man's ambition to own a home, however humble, an da piece of land he could till and live on, if wages failed. DEPENDENCE . . . a la bear The principal trouble with the American people too dependent upon the pay envelope. We are like the tame bear that a travelling showman took around the summer resorts in the Adirondacks. The bear would do his tricks, the showman would pass the hat, and the bear would get his supper. Up in the thick woods, however, the call of the wild was too strong for the bear. He slipped his leash one night and vanished into the forest. Two days later and the bear did not return. and cement, a feature of which will be colonial columns extending to the roof line. A balcony will extend from this porch to the porte-cochere. The lower floors will be finished in oak, the upper rooms in white, enamel. Floors will be hardwood throughout. A solar heating and circulating water system, a gas plant, and a hot air furnace will be installed. The grounds will be handsomely laid out in drives. Bean growers of the county are being offered $3.50 per 100 pounds for their limas. The first offers were made Monday having come as the result of the fixing of prices by the Bean Growers association, composed largely of Ventura people. The buyers here are informed that the association set $3.75 last Saturday as the price for its beans. This includes brokerage. George Strobel, formerly a resident of Anaheim, was in town Tuesday, accompanied by his wife and four children. George is a son of Major Max Strobel, who was mayor of this city in the 70's. Major Strobel died in London in 1873 while acting as the representative of a syndicate of purchasers of Catalina Island. George has been farming in San Luis Obispo county. A year ago he sold his farm and for some time past has been enjoying a camping trip through Southern California. Suit to foreclose a mechanic's lien on twenty acres of land near Garden Grove has been filed in the Superior Court by E. E. Angel and Chas. H. Mann of this city against E. L. Venve. Amount involved is $57.90 and is alleged due on the price of installation of a pumping plant. The City of Anaheim will in the near future be called upon to vote bonds in the amount probably of $100,000 for sewers. Those bonds should carry, for this growing city is in need of an adequate sewer system. In the near future also we will be called upon also to vote bonds for additional school room for the constantly increasing number of school children. Next year the state beside voting upon an issue of $18,000,000 for good roads, will be called upon to vote for an issue of $10,000,000 in bonds for San Francisco's water front. On top of all this is an issue of $1,000,000 of bonds for good roads in Orange county. To call this election before the state vote in $18,000,000 of road bonds is, it seems to us disadvantageous and lacking in good business sagacity. From the Santa Ana Blade—As might have been expected the Anaheim Gazette is trying to stir up strife in the matter of the proposed good-road bonds, and is using the old and familiar methods to that end. The cry raised by the Gazette that Santa Ana is going to try or is trying to "hog it all" is not only uncalled for and unwarranted, but it is downright foolishness. Everybody in Orange county who is at all familiar with the situation knows that the business men of Santa Ana are disposed to work in harmony with the citizens of all other parts and portions of the county in the effort to secure good roads. That is all there is to it and it is altogether likely that even the Anaheim Gazette knows this to be true despite its protestations to the contrary. Wm. Medbury of Napa City has been a guest of his sister, Mrs. W. I. Carver, whom he has not seen for 48 years, the past week. Yesterday they went to Los Angeles to meet a sister whom he had not met for 53 years. Mr. Medbury is one of the original California 49ers. DEPENDENCE The principal trouble with the American people too dependent upon the pay envelope. We are like the tame bear that a travelling showman took around the summer resorts in the Adjondacks. The bear would do his tricks, the showman would pass the hat, and the bear would get his supper. Up in the thick woods, however, the call of the wild was too strong for the bear. He slipped his leash one night and vanished into the forest. Two days passed and the bear did not return. Finally some woodmen at Paul Smith's organized a search for him. They found the poor beast in the middle of a clearing, all alone, going through his whole repertory of tricks and then looking around for some one to come and feed him. It was the only way he had ever been taught to get a living. I always think of that rather pathetic anecdote whenever people talk about moving city workers to the farms by wholesale. I am afraid that a great deal of the planning for "subsistence homesteads" overlooks the fact that nobody can get a living off the land unless he has first learned how. DISILLUSION A young man who was running an elevator, in the building where my New York office is, inherited a small farm in his native Czechoslovakia. He took his wife and children and gaily set sail for Europe. Fourteen months later he was back—and fortunately for him, was able to get his old job back. "They think they are prosperous if they can get just enough to keep them alive and warm over there," he told me. Everything in life is relative. We think we are in great distress because money doesn't come as easy as it used to. But the plain fact is that the lowest-paid workers in this country, and even the unemployed, have better food, better clothing, more enjoyment in life than all but a few anywhere else in the world. COMPETENCE Charlie, my Czecho-Slovak friend, got his old job back because he is a competent man at that particular work, of running an elevator. It is not easy to find competent men in any line of work. Too many are just good enough to get by. I think there is too much of a tendency to put the emphasis upon the enjoyment of leisure time and not enough on doing one's job well. In my own experience I know how difficult it is to find a really competent stenographer, and I hear many others make the same comment. in Orange county who is at all familiar with the situation knows that the business men of Santa Ana are disposed to work in harmony with the citizens of all other parts and portions of the county in the effort to secure good roads. That is all there is to it and it is altogether likely that even the Anaheim Gazette knows this to be true despite its protestations to the contrary. Wm. Medbury of Napa City has been a guest of his sister, Mrs. W. I. Carver, whom he has not seen for 48 years, the past week. Yesterday they went to Los Angeles to meet a sister whom he had not met for 53 years. Mr. Medbury is one of the original California 49ers. Prof. Eddie Crowther has enlisted fifteen new members of the city band, and is desirous of securing four men for saxophones. Those inclined to take up these instruments will learn something to their advantage by applying to him. He has sent to Boston for eight clarionets and with the fourteen old members of the band will soon have a musical organization second to none in Southern California. Joseph Helmsen has a consignment of new phonograph records, with which he delights those musically inclined. For the week six carloads of sweet potatoes and two of "spuds" were shipped from this city to Los Angeles. There is a slight decrease in price of sweets and the market is not so active as it was two weeks ago. Manuel Crespin has presented the editorial household with a sample offering of chicken tamales. Muchaes gracias. Marshal Steadman is tacking up "No hitching" sings on electric light and telephone poles. Over four hundred feet of frontage on Claudina street has been signed up for paving that street from Center to Broadway. Miss Lella Leslie of Brookshore, Texas, who has been touring the coast, is here for a brief visit with relatives. S. O. Llewellyn reports an abundance of phosphorus in the water at Newport Beach, which makes fishing bad. Frank Baum and wife have returned from Bay city where they have been sojourning for the summer. I think there is too much of a tendency to put the emphasis upon the enjoyment of leisure time and not enough on doing one's job well. In my own experience I know how difficult it is to find a really competent stenographer, and I hear many others make the same comment. BUILDING and workers We hear a great deal about unemployment in the building trades, and the effort to stimulate home building in order to put them back at work. My late father-in-law, who came of a family of builders and was a builder himself, had a name for the general run of carpenters. He called them "wood-butchers." The quality of workmanship with which many who call themselves brick layers, stone-masons, plasterers and painters is appalling. Yet they demand, under union rules, the same high pay as the most competent. I lately had to have a chinney repaired and a fireplace relied in my country home. With past experience with poor workmanship in mind, I refused to let any of a dozen masons in my neighborhood tackle the job, but waited until I could get the services of the one really competent man in that line. And he had so much work promised ahead that I had to wait two months before he could get around to my job! There has never been any real lack of work for first-rate men in any line. Most of the unemployed are second-raters seeking first-rate wages. 29 Million Days of Work Provided The national forests of the United States, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, provided 29 million man-days of work for unemployed labor, without interfering with standards of normal employment. County 4-H Clubs Working Hard For Exhibits at Fair Local Groups Hope to Retain Distinction of “Prize” in Every Event Entered Twenty-nine 4-H club booths have been entered in the coming Los Angeles county fair from the four central Southern California counties of Orange, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside, according to Erie E. Eastman, assistant farm advisor. This is the largest number of feature booths ever entered in the Pomona Fair, and the competition for the 13 boys prizes and seven girl’s prizes will be severe, for the booths have been increasing in attractiveness of display and quality each year. Consequently it will require constructive ideas and much labor to maintain the Orange county 4-H record; that is for every booth exhibited to place in the prize money group. However, the clubs that exhibited last year are hard at work to make their booths better than they were last year, which is in keeping with the national 4-H Club motto "To Make the Best Better." The high ranking booths from Orange county last year were the Cackle and Roots of La Habra, which took first place in the agricultural section; the Young Foresters of Santa Ana and Orange, which took third place in the same section; and the Live Wires of Tustin, which took second place in the clothing booth section. These clubs are all working on their booths for this year. Don't fail to look for the Orange county 4-H feature. Dr. Carl Schultz Offers Free Advice An interesting service is being offered through the columns of this paper by Dr. Carl Schultz, pioneer naturopath of Southern California. Trained in Germany and on the continent of Europe in naturopathic science, Dr. Schultz has long been known as one of the foremost dietitians on the Pacific coast. At his sanitorium the Naturopathic Institute and Sanitorium of California, Inc., Dr. Schultz has had outstanding success in the treatment of many physical disorders and attributes a large measure of his success to the use of corrective diets. Realizing that many people are at present unable to personally consult with a physician on matters of personal health and diet, Dr. Schultz is offering to answer questions on health and diet that are sent to him by mail and accompanied by a stamped, self addressed envelope for a reply. This service is given by Dr. Schultz entirely without obligation or cost on the part of readers of this paper. Rev. I. N. Demy says: I have found nothing in the past 20 years that can take the place of Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills. They are a sure relief for my headache." Sufferers from Headache, Neuralgia, Toothache, Backache, Sciatica, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis, Muscular Pains, Periodic Pains, write that they have used Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills with better results than they had even hoped for. Countless American housewives would no more think of keeping house without Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills than without flour or sugar. Keep a package in your medicine cabinet and save yourself needless suffering. At Drug Stores—25c and $1.00 DR. MILES' ANTI-PAIN PILLS friendly A spirit of genuine friendliness pervades the Bank of America organization. This institution is California's democratic, and most widely patronized bank. Every officer is readily accessible—always ready and willing to render any service that squares with sound banking practice. Bank of America—friendly, helpful, progressive. RAYMOND PAIGE and his GREATER ORCHESTRA "TREASURES OF TIME" Every Wednesday, 8 p.m., Columbia-Don Lee System BANK of AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST & SAVINGS ASSOCIATION