Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - July 27, 1905, Woodland, California WEEKLY ESTABLISHED 1859 WOODLAND CALIFORNIA THURSDAY EVENING JULY 27 1005 BRIEF CITY NEWS EXHIBIT FAVORED FIRE AT THE OLD WATERWORKS DEAL IS CLOSED Events of Interest in Woodland and Suburbs Chamber of Commerce Meeting Wednesday Evening of More or Leu Importance Picked Up Here and There on the Wing With the Native Sons for Display During State Fair Week Probable Read on His logic Is convincing B G Kingsley is confined to his with rheumatism Miss Darby has been en gaged to teach the Liberty district school Is the brand of weather that almost puts the Ice man out of com mission The White cottage comer of Lin Coin avenue and Walnut street is occupied by Dr W J wife Ed still in Jail but no charge has been made against him The officers are awaiting the result of wounds Mrs ID J Rogers about whose con dition her family and friends felt so much apprehension a day or BO ago Is much better today Moore of the delivery and mail Ifg department of the Mall will go to Vallejo San Francisco and Santa Cruz on a vacation and Green will substitute for him At the present rate nearly all the Woodland people who will visit the Portland exposition will do BO be fore the day designated by the man agement as Woodland day Marley has returned from Reno and will soon take a chair in the Byrns hotel barber shop Mr Marley has concluded that there Is no place like Woodland So say we all Mrs R E Shelton who had been enjoying several weeks of balmy weather in Woodland writes from Sau Francisco that the seashore wea ther Is cold foggy and disagreeable The Woodland Band dance at the Court street pavilion Friday evening will attract the most of those who pleasure la an outdoor dance when the weather Is fine and the music is good oranges of host seasons growth and green oranges as large as a hens egg may be seen on the same trees tn Mrs John Freemans yard Eastern must see such things In or der to be convinced Hugo Arker who was arrested In several days ago on a charge oj petty larceny was taken before Lampton today He plead guilty and was sentenced to a term of blx months in tho county jail First in the minds of the people of Woodland is the weather It is BO de that there is nothing else so much talked about The Woodland people who are shivering at the sea resorts had better come home Harold Armstrong who is at Point Arena has placed us under everlast ing obligations by sending us a gen jrous supply of delicious brook trout The members of the colony at that place are evidently having a delightful outing WY Browning is slowly but stead ily Improving from the effects of a recent operation and he will return to Woodland as soon as Dr Clark can get away to accompany him His many friends sincerely hope that a permanent euro may bo the result W H Browning and family M H and family and Miss Mary Browning drove over to Knights Landing today on a fishing tion The party Is provided with plenty of good things to eat aud is prepared for a good time whether the bite or not Bermuda grass for a lawn is losing favor In Woodland A number o people are digging It out and trying to kill it which Is a very matter The usual method is to turn up the sod let It dry thoroughly then break It out and take out every ves tige ot a root Fishing seems to be the sport nowadays Not a day passes that a party of does no go to the river or the canal and on Sunday the banks of both streams ar lined with fishermen Black bass an catfish are about the only kinds o fish that are plentiful In receipt of a copy of thi News which contains an at a big picnic under the red ot Big Basin on the banks o the river Ninety people wen ID the moraine and and dined In the grove Mrs M G Lee of Woodland was one of th guests P H Shaw manager of so much o the Crocker estate as is located nea Colusa and better known as th Moulton ranch la making an bile trip through Colusa Yolo and lano counties Ho wants 300 horses and mules and drivers to do lovae work Mr Shaw was in Wood lam Wednesday night and left for this morning DAILY ESTABLISHED 1877 Support of Tanks Containing City Water Injured Flames Started in Hay Beneath A meeting of the Woodland Cham ler of commerce was held in the office if President Helth Wednesday even ng Many of the members were but town but nevertheless there was a fair attendance Forestry and Irrigation a Wash publication is preparing to a special edition which will be devoted to the subject of forestry and This edition is to be giv en the widest possible circulation and an agent of the publication offered to Yolo county a half page adver charge provided the hamber would agree to purchase 250 The offer was accepted It was stated that the passenger rains running between Oroville and Sacramento aro almost invariably so rowded that passengers are to stand up Mr Reith was authorized to communicate the facts o the railroad company and request hat an additional coach be added to the trains But the most important business discussed was the advisability of in tailing a Yolo county exhibit at the tate fair The local par or of Native Sons is to have ree headquarters in the pavilion dur ng state fair carnival and Admission lay week and ample space free of charge will be provided for such an exhibit The railroad company has to transport free of charge all he material used so that ex pense will be that of collecting the ex hibit The chamber of commerce and the ocal parlor of Native Sons have been asked to cooperate in collecting and maintaining this exhibit A delega ion of Native Sons attended the meeting of the chamber of commerce Wednesday evening and was ully discussed All seemed to he fully with the importance of the matter and with the beneficial results o follow such an exhibit Members of the chamber of com merce gave earnest assurance that the organization will aid such an enter in every possible way A meet ng of the local parlor will be held his evening at which the subject will be further considered BASEBALL NEWS The baseball game next Sunday Is ikely to be of the championship class The team that can beat the Davisville club has to go some and the Capital City Wheelmen turned the trick The iome team has met with hut one de eat on tho local diamond but the pre vailing opinion Is that it is up against a hard proposition next Sunday How ever many of the local fans are con that the local team will have another scalp dangling at its belt after next Sundays game is over Manager Wallace is trying to ar range of games in which Woodland Davisville Marysville and Oroville will participate No satisfactory arrangements have ret been made for the proposed game between the Y M I of Sacramento and the local teams COURTHOUSE NEWS A D Porter as administrator of the estate of Alexander Porter deceased has petitioned for an order for the sale of all the remaining real prop erty of the estate Ed Sprague who is serving a term of 300 days in the county jail on a conviction of having promoted a prize soon make an application foi pardon Olney Gwinn his attorney Is engaged In preparing tlie necessary papers are tiny chocolate coated laxative tablets that move lie bowels gently yet thoroughly each day curing chronic constipation Un equaled for biliousness e Indigestion sallow complex ion etc They cool cleanse and purify the blood lOc and In Wood at drug store tf REMOVAL NOTICE Tho law offices of A C Huston wil be located In rooms 3 and 4 of th Farmers building until the repairs on lie bloc are completed FLOUR MILL RUNS DAILY Barley rolled any day to suit farm era Mill now all complete and In running order MEALS SERVED DAILY At the Missouri Kitchen corner Mali and Elm streets Home cooking Wm Hancock Women love a clear healthy com Puro blood makes It Bur dock blood hitters makes pure blood Twice within the week has the fire lend threatened Woodland with great destruction His last attack occurred oday and was on the old plant of the He was only partially and therefore may lack the lerve to attempt the destruction of he ice house A few minutes before 11 oclock this morning a tap of tlie fire liell startled he people With tho recollections of ast Sundays lire fresh in their minds t was an easy matter to arouse them nd Main street was soon thronged Almost at the same moment the lose wagon and engine turned into Iain street and sped away toward the depot followed by the crowd By this ime a dense volume of smoke had the two big tanks of the ild plant of the waterworks and the hungry flames were leaping from the louse below up the big timbers that The engine was stationed at a hy Irant on Fourth street and In less ime than it requires to write it one ine of hose was laid aud a stream of water was playing on the fire from the ast side A few minutes later the line was carried through the ig gate east of light and jas plant and another stream was from the west side For a few minutes it seemed that he timbers would burn until the tow er collapsed and the tanks go crashing o the ground But the prompt and work of the firemen extin the flames in time to save the ower A good deal of the framework of the ower was destroyed hut the damage FAREWELL PARTY H H flock the Guest of Honor at Mrs Wm Mrs William Rehmke Is at a party given the Ladies of the Mac cabee at the Rehmke home on street this afternoon between the lours of and 5 Mrs Halda Marie Block is the guest of honor Mr and Mrs Block to this city several months ago when Mr Block vas engaged on a big job ot masonry During their residence here they have acquired a large circle ot friends and Sirs Block joined the Maccabees They are soon to take their depart ure and this party is in the nature of a farewell to Mrs Block from her sis ters of the Maccabee About twentyfive ladies are pres et The parlors and dining room are nicely decorated for tho occasion The table presents a novel and unique appearance Tlie cloth is nade of paper napkins stamped with that pretty Mexican lower the poln setta The dollies match the cloth Between 4 and 6 oclock a nice lunch eon will be served During the afternoon music games and other pastimes will while the time away pleasantly and all too soon The Ladles of the Maccabee sincere ly regret that Mrs Block is eoon to leave Woodland and she will carry with her to her Milwaukee home the best wishes of all o tho big timbers is not very great Tho flames burned fiercely under tlie anks but tho bottoms did not bum hrough The fire also ran up the of the wooden tanks and the vooden tops were ignited but these flames were Quickly extinguished The west tank Is leaking badly but hat is no doubt caused by the shrink ot tlie staves It Is hardly prob able that any holes were in either tank Companies represented by Balfour Garretto have a risk of on he building and tanks The loss Is not less than It may ho more These tanks have a capacity ot 30 000 gallons and were full when the fire They are connected with the new waterworks plant but can he shut off by a gate so that in the event if their destruction no water will es ape from the new tanks The fire started among some bales of straw which were slowed in tho house under the tank The straw was mt In on Wednesday For years it las been the custom to store the straw used by the department in this louse As to the origin of the lire there Is i difference opinion Some there ire who think that matches were care lessly dropped in the house when the straw was stored That is not a very plausible theory however as the weather is not warm enough for the leat to ignite matches In the shade anybody slept in the barn and set out the accidentally the names would have shown before 11 oclock The probability is that the fire was incendiary J Bears the signature of n use for over thirty years ami flie kind you have always bought JULIAN RESTAURANT Homo cooking and good service ry it W J Parker proprietor LLEN PROPERTY H W Laugenour and W F Ford arrived in Williams Sunday and pro to Allen springs We under stand Mr Ford has organized a com pany to purchase the springs and has made Mr an offer which will no doubt ho accepted as soon as a few details can bo satisfactorily ar Farmer For a good suave haircut or sham nc go to Dinners barber shop 1 Alameda sweet corn every morning at Johnstons Park Site in Possession of the Improvement Club A D Porter Reduces the Price oil His Share and Also Becomes the Sole Creditor OF VITAL INTEREST Meeting to Be Devoted to an Irrigation Discussion A PROPOSED LINE Development Association Takes Up a Subject Postponed Because of Gen Greens Death Farmers Along Route Favor Scheme and Its Adoption Would Prove Immensely Beneficial important meeting of tlie park committee of the Womans Improve ment Club was held this morning In Hie office of Bidwell at which the deal tor the park site contracted for several months ago was consum mated This site embraces live acres bound ed on the south by Cross street on the cast by Lola street on tlie north by avenue and on the west by Cleveland street Half the block was purchased from Mis ot Philadelphia and the other half from A D Porter The purchase Is but ot his amount a considerable sum was by A D Porter thus materi ally reducing the cost Tlie full amount duo Mrs has been paid and she has executed a deed for her half Interest In the block There was not sufficient In treasury to pay Mrs but Mr Porter advanced the balance sary and the Improvement club is now indebted to Mr Porter only To a representative of the Demo crat Mrs T S chairman of the committee slated that the com does not desire to give out at present all the details for publication She further stated that before the pur chase was made assurances were re that the city will assist in pay ing for the park and will maintain It alter it lias been turned over to tho municipality It is proposed by tlie clul to turn the park over to the city aud make an absolute donation of all the money expended by tho club in its purchase provided tho city assumes an tion to maintain it Mrs expressed the hope that the promises made will be redeemed Tlie site comprises a splendid body of laud and it is dotted with big oak trees that make it particularly pic GOOD FOR and Constipation Chamberlains and Liver Tablets have done me a great deal of good says C Towns of Rat Portage Ontario Can ada Being a mild physic the after effects are not unpleasant and I can recommend them to all who suffer from stomach disorders For sale by Corner Drug Store II P Elder Dispensing A isnt complete without a bottle of Dr Thomas Ec Oil Heals cuts bruises stings sprains Monarch over pain H B Thais Uie Man Tho Valley Develop ment Association Ima Issued tho fol lowing bulletin under date of July Tho meeting of the Development As sociation will be devoted to a discus sion of Irrigation This was determin ed at tho last meeting held In Sacra mento on Saturday last and consti tutes what Is probably one of the most Important stops In tho history of tho association Tho next quarterly meet Ing will bo held In Sacramento on Saturday October 21st It Is expect ed Hint representatives of all Sacra mento valley communities wilt get to gether at that time for tho purpose of discussing ways and means of de irrigation on a large scale here This action grows out ot the recent visit to this valley of the Irrigation Committees of tho United States sen ate and house of representatives It was at first intended to hold a spe cial irrigation meeting in Sacramento July IGUi but It was abandoned ow ing to tho serious Illness and death of the president of the association and leading Irrigation advocate General W S Green Tlie last paper prepared for the sig nature of General Green as president of the Development Electric Company May Extend Service to Yolo Continued on Page Column S There is a possibility Hint Wood land Gas and Electric Company will run a line to Yolo A farm ers have discussed the matter with Manager Osborn and It is to one of these farmers that we are Indebted for our Information relating to the enterprise If such a line is constructed It will be run via Agricultural Park thence west to the Browns corner county road thence north to the Yolo or chard and into the town of Yolo When the project was first broached Manager Osborn was doubtful of its feasibility for the reason that after investigating the matter he ascertain ed that a largo volume of water would be required but for a few days of the year necessitating the installation of a large electric motor which could be operated for only a small fraction of tho year To furnish the electric cur rent for such a large equipment would necessitate a rate in order to make it profitable to the company that would not he within the means of the Indi vidual farmer However so many farmers seemed to look upon the enterprise with favor that further investigation disclosed the fact that If twelve or fifteen farm ers were to unite and install a flve horsepower and a centrifugal pump at a point near and below the Continued on Page 4 Column CARPET RUGS Remnants of Matting At GetaWay Prices Saturday Next Sale on at 9 a m CARPET limited supply Body Brussels Wilton Velvet and Brus sels all new patterns and colors each yards long all neatly and carefully bound worth from to each Saturdays price REMNANTS OF accumulation of a season of exceptional activity in this department Most of them range in length from 10 to 10 yards enough to cover small and medium sized rooms a few run from 2 to 10 rug sixes try patterns These are reduced to prices which will result in a material saving Big i All Our Spring and Summer Wand Piece Suits at a Discount of 20 Per Cent Here Is another timely offer by the Mens Store everyone of them clean uptodate merchandise The large business In our suit department has left us with some broken lines Most merchants would carry them over We have always maintained It was good sound business method never to carry anything over the season We are not after profits all the time but a 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are look ing for great big values we desire to call their attention to this three days SPECIAL SUIT SALE WE ARE OFFERING BUCK WORSTED AND BLUE SERGES and Values at Rosenberg Co SUCCESSORS TO M MICHAEL 613 Main Street woodland California
