anaheim-gazette 1956-12-20

IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO December — 1906 Wayne Gobel has taken a position at Joseph Holmsen's candy store. Percy Rust returned yesterday from Belmont to spend the holidays with his parents Mayor and Mrs. C. O. Rust. Payette Lewis, Ted Dickel, Charlay Schindler and Ernest Clabaugh are home from Berkeley for the Christmas holidays. L. A. Evans reports the sale to A. G. Bertram of ten acres of bearing range land in the Kraemer tract near the residence of Sam Kraemer, belonging to Daniel Tuttle, at a stated price of $10,000. Chas. Q. Rust has issued some handsome calendars for 1907 representing the Moho winery. Moho is Spanish for wet and is a most appropriate title for the Mayor's winery. The calendars are works of art. Levi Mann has sold his residence on Hedwig street to Louis Borchard lately arrived from Michigan for $2100. Mr. Mann will build a residence on his lot adjoining his present property on 75 Years Ago... December — 1881 There will be a special service for children at St. Michael's church on Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock after which they will assemble at the parsonage, where a Christmas dinner will be provided them. After dinner the tree will be unveiled and the little ones will receive their presents direct from Santa Claus. The Presbyterian Sunday school will have a Christmas tree on Christmas eve in the Masonic hall. Parents and friends are invited to be present. Gifts may be sent in on Saturday afternoon when teachers will be present to receive them. Rev. W. S. Neals who has been in Lake County since his removal from Anaheim has been called to St. Paul's Episcopal church at San Francisco. Mr. Scarle W. Wren has purchased twenty-five acres of land from Mr. Lee and has begun the work of transforming it from barren plain to blooming garden. The whole tract will be planted in vines and apricot trees this season and the other improvements will be of the most substantial character. A council of the Legion of Hon- Levi Mann has sold his residence on Hedwig street to Louis Borchard lately arrived from Michigan for $2100. Mr. Mann will build a residence on his lot adjoining his present property on the north. George A. Hunter came down from Los Angeles on Sunday to visit his son Ralph, who has been ill with appendicitis at his home west of town. Mr. Hunter promptly returned from a trip through the northern counties during which he called upon his old friend Charlie Miller at Jamestown, who is comfortably situated upon a fine farm, enjoying excellent health and happy. The city trustees advertised for bids for constructing a 176,000 gallon concrete tank for the new power house. Two Los Angeles contractors responded one bidling $10,400 the other $24,800. Los Angeles values have a habit of raising over night. Constable Llewellyn ambushed a gang of hoboes comfortably fixed in the big irrigating ditch near the gas works on Monday evening and gave them a fine free bath. The tramps had with them a cripple on crutches whom they sent up town to beg. He secured a sufficient amount of food to provide supper for them and late in the evening when they had turned in for the night, filled with liquor, he turned loose the flood gates. Eight hoboes narrowly escaped drowning. Their fire around which they lay was extinguished and it is feared some of them swallowed some of the water. They hiked out of town muttering all sorts of imprecations and threatened never to return. Mr. Searle W. Wren has purchased twenty-five acres of land from Mr. Lee and has begun the work of transforming it from barren plain to blooming garden. The whole tract will be planted in vines and apricot trees this season and the other improvements will be of the most substantial character. A council of the Legion of Honor will be instituted in Anaheim on Monday evening. The following is a list of officers: A. Rimpau, commander; Mrs. M. A. Barr, vice-commander; Frank Ey, orator; W. A. Witte, secretary; Theo Himpan, treasurer; Geo. B. Schafen, collector; Dr. G. H. Bailey, medical examiner; H. C. Gade, chaplain; W. M. Bailey, warden; Wm. Crowther, sentry. The council will meet in Odd Fellows hall semi-monthly. The clouds which hung in the sky on Thursday broke about 10 o'clock yesterday morning and for a short time the rain came smartly. Our rain gauge recorded 30 as the result of the shower. The year is nearly gone and there has been no rain worth speaking of. In seeking through past records we find that in 1867 no rain fell until the week before Christmas and then came a deluge. May the experience of '67 be repeated in '81 say we. The board of Town Trustees met on Wednesday and decided to postpone action upon the appointment of town engineer until next Wednesday. They also decided to move the fire bell to the town lot, and Mr. Holdridge was engaged to build a tower 30 feet in height. Among the arrivals yesterday was Mrs. W. S. Wright who came all the way from Massachusetts to spend the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Brennerman. Mr. Alex Wright also returned yesterday. Winnie Graham, Betty Miller and Bea Williams. Toastmaster of the evening in charge of the program was Don Toastmasters of Kwikset Meet with Lady Speakers Members of the Angheim Kwikset Toastmasters Club No. 1348 held a joint meeting with the Eulalia Toastmistress Club for the specific purpose of introducing toastmistressing to their wives. Theme of the joint meeting which took place at Knott's Bergy Farm Garden Room was "What's Missing", the idea being to demonstrate the gains that come from being a part of the Toastmistress organization. Principal speakers on the program included Toastmaster George Wedemeyer, of 5492 Melrose St., Buena Park, who gave a verbal display of "How to Recover a Punble" with this particular type of jumble referring to a social one. Toastmistress Lacille MacKinnon, 9961 Texella Court, Anaheim, spoke "On Being A Toastmistress". Kit Doyle, 11961 E. Las Palmas Dr., Fullerton, gave his initial Toastmasters speech entitled "Page of Life". The "right and wrong" ways of introducing people was demonstrated in a shift presented by Toastmistress's Ann Donievy, Phyllis Harrison, Jean Heilman, among the arrivals yesterday was Mrs. W. S. Wright who came all the way from Massachusetts to spend the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Brennerman. Mr. Alex Wright also returned yesterday. James A. Wilson Passes Wednesday James Alexander Wilson, 79 years of age, a native of Nebraska who came to Anaheim 33 years ago and who had resided here continuously living at 240 E. Center Street, died yesterday at the Orange County General Hospital after an extended illness. He is survived by two sons, George L. Wilson of Los Angeles and James Wilson of Bakerfield; one brother, Cyril Wilson of Beaver Crossing, Nebr., and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted in Hilgenfeld chapel Saturday at 10 a.m. Rev Alexander McCandleas, pastor of the Evangelical-United Brethren church, will officiate and burial will follow in Loma Vista Memorial Park. Contributions to the first Christmas Seal Sale in the world in 1994 helped build a tuberculous hospital for Children in Den-Puyllia Harrison, Jean Heilman, mark. Merry Christmas Christmas Merry Christmas MERRY CHRISTMAS Merry Christmas MERRY CHRISTMAS Merry Christmas MERRY CHRISTMAS Merry CHRISTMAS Menu Chri MERRY CHRISTMAS Theodore B. Kuchel Mrs. Henry Kuchel and Anaheim Gazette Employees