Van Nuys News And The Van Nuys Call, The (Newspaper) - January 31, 1913, Van Nuys, California Far of Onr Town THE VAN AND THE VAN CALL VOLUME II VAN JANUARY NUMBER 22 WEEK'S NEWS FROM NEIGHBORING CITIES BRIEF OUTLINE OF CURRENT EVENTS ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE Condensed of the Week's Happenings Covering Events of Interest From Nearby Allow Rapid Scanning Dead Man's Island Quarantine Station LOS Jan. received by the harbor commission from Congressman W. D. Stephens re- ported the practical assurance of a government quarantine station at Dead Man's The message said he had been assured by Surgeon General Blue that money for the station is LIGHTING POSTS ARE BEING PLACED ON The Llewellyn Iron Works of Los Angeles delivered this week the iron ornamental for the lighting of the business district of Van The posts are now being put in place by a large force of The installation of the wires and the conduit work will be started It is the aim to have all ready to turn on the lights the evening of February 22, on the celebration of the town's second PIONEER CLUB ENTERTAINED AT Mexico Sends Invitation to Exposition SAN Jan. chambers of commerce have been asked to co-operate with the Mexican government in making a1 success of the Costena de to I'd held at from March 2 until December 31. President dero has issued an official invitation suggesting that San Diego and LOB Angeles act jointly in the NEW SCHEDULE IN EFFECT Hearing on Bond Issue Postponed SAN Jan. ing of the application of the Pacific Electric company for permission to issue worth of gold-bearing bonds for Improvements to the before the state railroad has been postponed until a later The Electric company seeks to issue these bonds under what is known as a refunding Racing Starter Gets Job Jan. 1. Carthy of the well-known racing is to act as temporary secretary of the state board of beginning February 1, when the resignation of C. Allison Tellfer of Fresno takes The permanent secretary will not be elected until the annual meeting in The four new members of the board will then IIP bv Governor L. A. Co. Leads State in Teachers LOS Jan. ing to an annual report issued by Superintendent of Schools Mark California employs 9569 teachers in the public Of this number Los Angeles county has 1760, nearly 700 more than San Francisco county with 1088. Alameda county has 832 Sacramento 241, Santa Clara 31G and Fresno 376. Alpine county has three 1912 Harbor Imports Total SAN Jan. 2S annual report of the customs house which is being forwarded to Washington by C. W. collector of the port shows that in 1912 imports valued at were brought to Los les from foreign The foreign exports were Collections of duties totaled Coastwise vessels during the year carried passengers inward bound aud outward For State Employment Agencies Jan. viding for the establishment of state employment offices in eight cities was introduced by Assemblyman H. W. Brown of San Matco The of- fices are to be under the direction of the commissioner of the state bureau of labor First class of- fices are to be maintained in San Francisco and Los and offices of the second class in San and The Pioneer Club was entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bechtelheimer Friday ary 24. The attendance was unusually there being about thirty-five Whist was the entertainment of the The prize winners were Mrs. James F. Mr. Paul Shepard and Mr. L. L. A de- lunch was served by the After lunch the guests were entertained by some splendid music rendered by Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Miss Whitson and Mr. Paul P. E. ADDS ONE ADDITIONAL CAR TO VAN LINE Several Important Changes are Much More Convenient For ing Commuter Travel A new schedule went into effect on the Pacific Electric Van line January 25. One additional car has been put into service between Los Angeles and Van The most important changes are as A car now leaves Van in. the morning at reaching the city an hour which is much more convenient for our commuters who have to get to work a car leaves in tbp and the time of the theater car has been changed from to p. m. The first car to leave mouth in the morning is The schedule as now adopted is much more satisfactory than The changes were secured through the efforts of Mr. H. J. after personal investigation of the took the matter up with the Pacific Electric The new schedule Between Los Angeles and Van Los St. 00 A.M. P.M. 00 Van St. A.M. P.M. no connection for Los Sherman Between Van and Van A.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. FAVOR ANNEXATION TO LOS ANGELES VAN CITIZENS ENDORSE MOVEMENT RECENTLY AD- IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY Meeting Held in School Take Part in General Club Serves Lunch After Adjournment That the people of the Van district are not unmindful of the needs of the Owens river on the other are deeply interested in securing this water for the San nando providing it can be had on a reasonable was fully demonstrated at the public hearing held in the school auditorium last Monday There were more than one hundred persons present when the meeting was called to order by Robert P. chairman of the committee ar- ranged for the S. O. president of the Van Chamber of was the first Mr. Houghton has made an exhaustive study of the water question and has served on several committees appointed at general ings of the San Fernando Valley to in- the After reviewing the plan of the lic service commission for the bution of the surplus which plan has not appealed to the ranchers in this Mr. Houghton stated that there was only one way in which this water could be secured for the San Fernando Valley on any bly permanent and that was by annexing to the city of Los forming a water district and putting down its own distributing He pointed out the many advantages which would accrue both to the city and to the valley by The method of procedure whereby outside territory may become annexed to the city was A petition is presented to the city by the territory desiring stating therein the boundaries of the territory and also naming the bonds outstanding of the of which the proposed addition will assume its proportionate Upon approval by the council of the elections held in other parts of the at which representatives were present from all parts of the The ob- ject of this he should be to canvass the opinions of our local people and find their ment in regard to proceeding along such a Following Mr. Houghton's a general discussion was entered in which both men and ladies took part. A water district outside of the city was urged by but it was on account of the tainty of the bonds could not be sold for such a From the the general sentiment seemed to be in favor of although some urged due consideration and not too much haste in the A resolution was presented and ried that the citizens of Van and in public meeting favor the movement recently looking forward to annexation of all or a portion of the San nando Valley to the city of Los An- Only one vote was recorded against the but there were some who did not vote at the measure carried by a large majority of those On it was decided to have the chairman appoint a committee of eleven to represent this district in the The com- as appointed is as S. O. Charles J. F. D. J. H. G. A. L. B. L. L. F. M. William An- George B. S. This was the first public meeting ever held in the new schol The Woman's Club had rated the stage very tastily for the and after adjournment the territory desiring In the former a majority vote is required to and in the latter a twothirds The matter of Mr. Houghton had been favorably considered at a number of meetings sandwiches in the Similar meetings are to be held in other parts of the valley at which the wishes of the residents will be manifested in regard to this im- portant FLOOD VICTIMS IN THE MIDDLE WEST FLOOD FROM THE OHIO INFECTING THE MISSISSIPPI UNTIL THAT RIVER IS OVERFLOWING INFLICTING ENORMOUS DAMAGE District in Memphis is Under Water While a Portion of the Town of Ark. Crumbled and Slid Into the Steamboats Equipped as Hospital Ships Patrol Flooded District to Lemons a Box LOS Jan. Not be outdone by the big prices of other fruits and vegetables on the local duce lemons advanced to and a These quotations are considered to be the highest on this fruit for the last five Last year at this time fancy lemons were quoted at a box and dealers thought this to be an Dealers all along the market are still holding back their fancy lemons at a hoping that the price will soon reach it is estimated that nearly 350 boxes of lemons are sold on the local duce market This makes about 100.000 lemons sold every The daily average shipments to other cities is estimated to be about ten cars as against fifteen cars last CHRISTIAN Tho Christian Brotherhood met Friday evening and adopted a and elected officers as P. F. dent Frank A. A. E. R. C. C. G. p Committeemen were jointed by the The lation of officers will take place at the next regular two weeks On the preceding Sunday a special installation at the Methodist church is planned by tor C. C. LINER REPORTED SUNK WITH ALL ON BOARD steamer which sailed from Dec. 23 for Buenos is be- to have gone down at sea ing one of tho recent storms with a heavy loss of Officers of the Southern Railway company received word that wreckage marked Kola and three were washed ashore at Lizard The Sola carried a crow of seven and a number of INFANT DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. YOUNG PASSES The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. aged fifteen died Intestinal trouble was the It was interred at FARMERS TO MEET TOMORROW The and Fruit Association of Van will hold its regular meeting Saturday February 1. in the room above the Empire A full attendance is as there are matters of im- portance to come before tho T A proprietor of the Van Plumbing has secured tho contract for doing nil the trench ing and laying tho conduit in con- with tho wiring of tho lighting Mr. us that his end of tho work will bo pushed as rapidly ns Jan. the point of suffering and destruction the present winter already has earned the title of the worst in more than fifteen With a blizzard of sleet raging throughout the Middle and the Hood from the Ohio infecting the until that river is out of its banks and inflicting damage before un- heard of at this season of the the day dawned with an estimated total of wreck ruin ami fully 20.000 homeless or Livestock has perished throughout the Middle and Central West as a re- sult of the sleet blizzard which has been raging for the past hours and shows no sign of From lower Mississippi points the reports of flood conditions are At Memphis the Mississippi is out 01 its and all points between Cairo and are farmers having been driven from their homos to the where they arc camping in the cold without The worst suffering reported was from Fort where the thermometer dropped forty from 70 to 30 in six Colder weather is predicted for Memphis Is Flooded Jan. river has reached a high flood and the crest of the freshet is still many miles Thousands abandoned their homes and sought safety on the high bluffs about this The manufacturing district hero is under and all of tho mills are Railroading throughout the affected district is The flood is pouring through the at and tho streets have caved in. A terrible rent against the banks is raging the and it is a part of tho city will be washed During night a vast opened in southeastern and hundreds of families wakened in the night to find that the water flowing from it was creeping into their homes and threatening their In the vicinity of St. Francis water is spouting from a gap in the earth 400 feet wide and is flooding thousands of acres of farm Thousands are fleeing before this which has come from a new and unexpected It is reported that nineteen already have been Town Slides Into River With tho banks on both sides of tho river eaten away by the raging flood waters of the a large tion of the town of across from crumbled and slid into the This changes its and the father of waters now rushes the principal streets of with it everything in its Probably the heaviest loss was by federal who have been working on improvements here for several All this work has been and the dikes and other concrete work have been under- mined and practically A houseboat moored against tho bank at the time it gave away wa torn loose and The throe pants of tho succeeded in escaping with their lives by braving i the icy waters and swimming Indications arc that the river will reach the 35-foot stage within the next two or three days unless the waters At Cairo the Ohio is reported as still the 47.3 mark being reached and over a foot more water in Tho waters bavo gradually inundated more farming It is reported that the old levees at New are caving and that is nearly Heavy rains and at Cairo it predicted the river's flood stage will exceed fifty Steamboats equipped as hospital aud supply vessels are being rigged and will patrol flooded State aid is being PLANNING TO CELEBRATE OPENING OF FERNANDO San Fernando is planning a great celebration for March 1, the date set for the opening of the Pacific Electric line between Van and that The large new hotel in Fernando at the samp This hotel will be the finest in the San nando The third annual track and field meet to be held under the auspices of the San Fernando Union High School will be held that day Details of the celebration have not been fully worked but it is going to be the aim of our neighboring town to pull off some new stunts in the way of With the opening of this most of the travel between San Fernando and Los Angeles will be diverted through Van CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETING NEXT MONDAY The regular monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held Monday February in room on the second floor of the Bank All new residents of Van and vicinity are cordially in- to attend this meeting and to become in the work of the DEDICATION OF NEW SCHOOL WILL TAKE PLACE FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7 Appropriate Exercises Arranged by Com- Mark Keppel to be be Heldin Auditorium The new Van Grammar School will be dedicated by appropriate cises Friday February 7, at S in the auditorium of the A joint committee of the Association and the Chamber of Commerce met a t the home of Mrs. W. A. Connolly Tuesday evening to outline a program for the The P. T. A. was represented by Mrs. Howard S. Mrs. H. R Mrs. Lucille Mrs. F. M. Mrs. W. A. Connolly and W. F. From the Chamber of Com- merce there were J. L. W. E. Bechtelheimer and W. S. There will be addresses by Prof. Mark county and William chairman of the board of A number of selections is being arranged by local Mrs. mother of the Miss Marian has kindly consented to give selected Final arrangements will be made at a meeting of the committee to be held this afternoon in connection with the regular meeting of the Association in the school The program as tentatively decided upon is as Rev. R. 0. Mr. William president of the school Vocal Mr. J. L. Mrs. Eby of Los Instrumental Mark county super- intendent of Rev. MR. AND MRS. PACK GOING TO Mr. Edgar W. of the E. W. Pack Lumber leaves Van February 4. on a ness trip to his old home in Tic has known for some time that be would have to make this journey pr or and PO his home until he could remain in Van Mr. and Mrs. Pack on the Southern Pacific via Xew in which city they will remain one They will also spend five with relatives in Xew York They will sail on the Atlantic transport liner on February 15. direct to which city they should roach about February 25. Their stay in land is very On their re- turn they will come directly to Van and make this city their nent Mr. Cecil who was with Mr. Pack in his lumber ness at will have the agement of the E. W. Pack Lumber with Mr. the genial yard will do all they can to things running smoothly until Mr. mid Pack Mr. Pack is one of the most prominent and respected business men of Van ami he and Mrs. Pack will take with them on their trip across the Atlantic tho best wishes of many who will be glad to greet them on their The wishes Mr. and Mrs. Pack a safe voyage and a ADVICE TO ORCHARDISTS GIVES POINTERS TO GET BEST RESULTS Select Thrifty be Headed and Manner of and Cultivation To get results worth the no man or woman should plant an orchard of any kind of fruit or nut tree unless they have it planted with the greatest care and take good care of it after it is thrifty not should be and good large holes dug to give the roots a good chance to never cramp the roots into a small and be sure that the tree is planted so that the or place where it is comes about one inch below the so that sunburn or fire not liable to affect that part of the All fruit trees should be headed leaving a few good buds near where the tree is cut off to start new Walnuts are generally left full and pruned to suit after the first summer's peach and apricot should be topped not to ex- ceed eighteen or twenty inches above ground when first unless there should not be sufficient good buds to make when a few short or clipped side limbs may be left never more than three or four at If the main stock has good live buds eighteen to twenty inches above then do not leave any side limbs when The second prune all new growth back to not over twelve inches from main cutting away all limbs that cross or any surplus small branches to within one-half inch of main leaving only three to five good and the third season prune the new growth of the summer before back and so shaping a vase top with a few more branches each Always prune deciduous trees in January or early Cultivate in spring and summer every three weeks to get best and don't plant other things closer than six feet from Yours for good MRS. WHEAT OF LOS ANGELES ADDRESSES WOMAN'S The regular meeting of the man's Club was held Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. I. S. on West E A large attendance of members was and the following Mrs. W. T. Miss Miss Miss Miss Weaver and Mrs. F. jr. Keffer of Van and Mrs. Catherine Pierce Wheat of Los An- district chairman of the com- of social and industrial tions of C. F. W. C. Mrs. Wheat gave a comprehensive and interesting ture on the industrial conditions that prevail in the United States in the shops and factories where women and children toil for the necessities of She took as the basis of her talk Marie Van Woman Who reviewing the work by a series of word very convincing and Mrs. Wheat spoke of certain social and industrial conditions that exist in our own Los that can and should be remedied by the concerted efforts of all who will interest themselves in these Two new members were welcomed into the Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. L. L. Delicious refreshments were served by the assisted by Mrs. K. R. Shepherd and Mrs. house guests of Mrs. The next ing of the club will be held at the home of Mrs. S. 0. on February 12. PROMINENT GARDENER LOCATES IN VAN Mr. A. one of the most celebrated truck and landscape deners in has located in Van and will make a thorough test of the soil this nary to starting one of the most ex- tensive truck gardens around An- His experiments will be conducted on a ten-acre plot in the northeast part of the townsite and fronting on the Mr. Reimuth bears the testimonials and He recently arrived from the northern part of the and after looking over a number of different selected Van as having the best character of soil for his the great success attained by teurs last we look forward to marvellous results at the hands of this An experiment that will at- tract a great deal of attention will be in the raising of sweet Mr. muth proposes to spray the corn in an effort to do away with damage from Mr. W. Pack desires to his many friends and customers in and around Van for their generous patronage during tho past He trusts that during bis absence they will continue to favor him with their which will bo carefully looked after by those in charge at the E. W. rack Lumber Van AQUEDUCT CELEBRATES MAY 6TH AND 7TH. May and 7 have been selected by the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- merce for the celebration of the com- of the One day's exorcises will be hold tho San Fernando and the other in the
