anaheim-gazette 1949-08-04

IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago August 15, 1874 On Monday last a fire occurred on the plains of the San Joaquin rancho which threatened one time to prove seriously destructive to the luxuriant feed, with which the rancho is now covered. As soon as the fire was discovered, Mr. Chas. French, the agent for the company, started for the scene taking with him every available means to subdue the flames. The fire was extinguished before doing any serious damage. The local option elections of last week resulted in the defeat of the Prohibitionists at Los Nietos and elected payment to remember their negligence on Sunday. Dr. Beach of Orange reports having killed one unusually large buck during the late camp hunt in the Temescal mountains. The animal weighed, when dressed, 250 pounds. The San Joaquin artesian well is down nearly three hundred feet, the water is within a few feet of the top of the well with favorable indications of success. Divine services will be held at the Presbyterian church tomorrow. Miss Olga Zeus, assistant chief of the Citizens Bank, is taking a week's vacation at New Beach. Sidney Holman and wife are long Beach for a few days ing. Agent Forsyth of the South Pacific has taken rooms with wife at Mrs. Perdomo's. Mrs. Dyer and family are spending a few weeks at the Land. Hippolyte Cahen spentSummer with his family at Newport Beach. G. W. Sherwood and family camping at Long Beach. Mr. Dickel has installed a cheese case in his grocery store which contains a very fine assortment of cheese. Bill Champlin is driving in truck a three year old Clyde Newman horse that tips the beam 1850 pounds. 25 Years Ago August 14, 1924 Edward Atherton of Placentia accompanied by his wife and family drove into town on Friday afternoon and visited with a number of friends. Mr. Atherton is its original ostrich farmer of Placentia district and for a number years his birds were a conspicuous feature of that neighborhood. However, finding his ground too valuable to be devoted to trich farming he disposed of fine collection of birds and some years past has been developing his attention to raising Valencia oranges. He is the owner fifty acres of fine land and is marketing a specially fine crop fruit. Ed, as he is called, has warm personal friends through The local option elections of last week resulted in the defeat of the Prohibitionists at Los Nietos and Wilmington, at Compton local option was carried by 52 out of 56 votes cast. Alexander Henry has a force of men at work boring for artesian water. They had, at latest accounts reached a depth of one hundred and thirty feet and every indication gave promise of soon reaching flowing water. The Pacific Mail Steamship company will sell tickets to persons wishing to visit the Mechanics and Agricultural Fair to be held in San Francisco between the dates of August 17 and September 25, for $1 for the round trip. Cabin passage, berths and meals included. The schooner "Mose" loaded with lumber for James McFadden of Santa Ana entered Newport Harbor last week and discharged at the wharf. It sailed on Wednesday with 122 tons of grain for San Francisco. Orangethorpe district was the scene of a most pleasant social gathering of the young folks last evening. The occasion was the completion of their new school house. We have been requested to ask the subscribers to the fund of the Episcopal church who have neg- Dr. Beach of Orange reports having killed one unusually large buck during the late camp hunt in the Temescal mountains. The animal weighed, when dressed, 250 pounds. The San Joaquin artesian well is down nearly three hundred feet, the water is within a few feet of the top of the well with favorable indications of success. Divine services will be held at the Presbyterian church tomorrow by the Rev. William A. Knighten of Orange. Service in the morning at 11 o'clock. Evening services at 8 p.m. At the election on Saturday San Juan Capistrano voted against the creation of a water district and at Wilmington the polls were not opened. Rev. M. Loop will hold divine services at Enterprise hall at 11 o'clock tomorrow. Captain James McFadden has opened a lumber yard at Newport landing. Eight hundred votes have been added to the Great Register of Los Angeles county since last election. Sixty men are required for sheep shearing on the San Joaquin ranch. The population of Great Britain and Ireland at this time (1874) is 32,412,000 or 600,000 more than double the population enumerated in the first census in 1801. The population of Ireland in 1874 is only 84,000 more than in 1801. The population of Scotland in 1874 is 212,000 more than double the population in 1801. The population of England and Wales in 1874 is above 5,500,000 more than double the population in 1801. City attorney Head of Stanley has ruled that the recent disincorporation election held in that town was legal and that city has ceased to exist. The vote was 167 for a 45 against the proposition to incorporate. County clerk Jos. Backs is busy this week mailing sample ballots to the 38,802 registered voters in the county. Only three ballots are printed, Republican, Democrat and Non-Partisan. Alvin A. Swanson and Miss vina C. Joost were married Zion Lutheran church Sunday Rev. H. G. Schmelzer. A party friends caught the young couple before they could make their way away after the ceremony and gave them a conspicuous and noisy ride through the city. Miss Sophie Rimpau writes from Seattle that she has returned that city after a long voyage to north. The vessel having eight hours, overdue on account of the fog. Miss Rimpau, who touring the north in company with Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Alexand will be home in a few days. Rev. A. G. H. Bode and wife and a number of friends went Pasadena Thursday to attend funeral of Jack Hallett, who was killed in an auto accident. George B. Peck and family have returned from a week's vacation spent at Lake Arrowhead. Mrs. Harry Jayne and son, Robert, have returned from Fort Home where they spent three weeks. F. A. Yungbluth has taken our permit to build a residence, The excursion to Avalon on Tuesday morning was quite largely attended by some 300 people making the trip over on the Hermosa. The train left here at 8 o'clock and arrived at Newport at 8. The boat sailed for the island at noon. The excursionists partook of dinner at Avalon and the return trip was taken at 6:30, reaching Newport at 9:30 and Anaheim at 10:40. Among those from Anaheim were F. Ruhman and wife, Mrs. Shanley, Mrs. Nick Bittner, Fred Maurer and wife, Mrs. Henderson and granddaughter, Jas. Hatfield and wife, Mrs. Newman, Mr. Woelke and wife, John Pfeninger and two sisters, Theodore Meyer and Mrs. Steley, Charlie Bauer, Pat Seale, Mr. Rinker and others. Edward Atherton of the Ostrich farm was in town yesterday afternoon. He reports 144 birds at the ranch and 86 young chicks. Also 77 at Norwalk belonging to the company. Miss Laura Roller gave her mother a surprise party on Friday afternoon in honor of her birthday. Those present were Mrs. J. C. Roller, Mrs. Webber, Mrs. Landeil, Mrs. Speidel, Mrs. Herbert Whitaker, Mrs. Andrew Whitaker, Mrs. W. J. Smith, Jr., Mrs. Johnson, Miss Jennie Johnson and Miss Laura Roller. Mrs. Ralph Hunter and child returned home on Wednesday J. H. Emarl, Bob Sparks and G. W. Snyder leave tomorrow with their families for a two-weeks camping trip to Laguna Beach. Ruell Ingram of Garden Grove was married at that place on Tuesday afternoon to Miss Julia M. Abbey. The newly married couple have taken up their residence on the Abbey ranch near Brookshurst. H. Clay Kellogg is the happy parent of a bouncing baby boy, which arrived at his home in Santa Ana on Tuesday of last week. Harry Dyer has the thanks of the office force for a fine lot of cling stone peaches. Call again Harry. Otto Zeus left on Monday for Colton to take a position as telegraph operator in the Santa Fe depot at that place. Oscar Luedke who has been seriously indisposed with asthma for some weeks past is reported improved. Frank Whitaker came down from Los Angeles yesterday. He is traveling for a wholesale packing house and reports business brisk. William Schwenckert drove with his family to Newport Beach on Tuesday for a day's outing and to show his little boy how it looks to see a locomotive and train of cars run out on the wharf. Uncle Joe Clark and Clarence Smith, prominent horticulturists of the Orangethorpe section, were in town on Tuesday. Andrew Gillison came in from Los Alamitos on Thursday to attend the Hickox-Devoe battery case and see the sights of the city. He reports the best crop light in his section compared to other years. 'Queen for a Day' To be Fair Guest (Continued from Page 1) That evening, the Queen will officially open the horse show at the fairgrounds and then dine, later, as a guest at the famed Christian's Hut in Balboa. Restaurants Host Other famed Orange county restaurants serving as hosts to the Queen will be the exclusive Balboa Bay Club in Balboa, the Laguna Beach and Tennis Club, Knott's Berry Farm at Buena Park, and the beautiful El Adobe De Capistrano Inn in San Juan Capistrano, as a guest of Clarence Brown. On the second day of the Queen's tour, she will visit Port Orange fishing landing at Newport Beach where she will be treated to a deep sea fishing trip on her own private yacht, the Solano, with George W. Foster as skipper. Following this, the Queen will visit one of the Pacific coast's largest and most beautiful independent markets, Richards Lido Market, where she will be given a beautiful hand-made ceramic salad bowl set from Dick Richards and be introduced to Mayor Dick Drake of Newport Beach. As a special guest of Mayor Drake, the Queen will be escorted about Newport Harbor in a special boat. This same evening, the Queen will be a guest of the management of the Orange County Fair to take in a complete tour of the fairgrounds. Visit Capistrano On Saturday, the final day of the Queen's visit, she will be given a conducted tour through the historic old Mission San Juan Capistrano, the home of the swallows. Later, she will be on tour through the Santiago Orange Packing house in the City of Orange where she will be given a crate of oranges from the largest packer and ship-operated was the $5000 locomotive constructed by Howard Pitts of Whittier. Detailed with the precision of a fine watch, the locomotive boasts many tiny moving parts. When working on his creation, Pitts uses a jeweler's eye loop (glasses). The Ken Hellyer train was exhibited as were two Hudsons and a mountain-type train owned by Bill Wright of Anaheim. His three streamline freighters have much hand detail. Two Mikados and a freight engine owned by Neil Logsdon of Santa Ana were exhibited as was the Hiawatha streamliner belonging to Joe Barnes of Torrance. Distant cities and towns from throughout the United States were represented at the open house. The spectators included delegates from nearly all the model clubs in the southland. Little Engines, a Wilmington firm which ships model castings for steam engines all over the world, sent a representative to the local event. 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