Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - July 12, 1916, Woodland, California WEEKLY ESTABLISHED 1859 WOODLAND CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY EVENING JULY 12 1916 DAILY ESTABLISHED WORKMAN ELECTROCUTED ON POLE IN SACRAMENTO STREET Miss Charlie Beebe To Join the Grammar School Faculty Good Hip School Report high and grammar schools will resume work on Monday September 4 according to the decision of the city board of education which held its regular monthly meeting day evening The board also drew up the list of teachers for the schools of the city In the grammar department but one change was made from last year's ter Jess Kendriek of Los An- geles who has taught here for three presented her resignation to the board and it was accepted Miss Charlie Beebe was elected to succeed the daughter of Dr and Mrs C E Beebe is of the Woodland high school and of Stanford sity Thirteen instructors the largest number yet reached will compose the faculty of the high school and three of them are newcomers The vacancy made by the resignation of Miss Oda Smith will be filled by Miss Ovina Larson who will teach English Miss Larson has teaching in the Healdsburg high school for the last six years a graduate of the University of Utah and spent two years of advanced work in the universities of this state Two additions to the faculty are Eu- gene Kellogg and Norval Norton Mr Kellogg who is a postgraduate of the University of California chosen to teach science and agriculture Mr Norton will be in charge of the com- department He is a graduate of the college of commerce at the university Mr Norton succeeds Professor G T Kern who resigned V some time ago after several years service as the successor of Professor C E under whose direction the commercial department was into the curriculum The other members of the faculty are Principal W M Hyman who will teach two classes in advanced matics Mrs L D Lawhead Lola Jean Simpson Ella Tattle Irma White Merle Binckley Marguerite Hyatt Dorothy Thomas R W Butzbach and Arthur Thomas Showing the splendid growth of the high school during the last twelve months Mr Hyman gave figures for during the last two school years The enrollment for 303 as for the preceding year The average dally attendance for was 261 an increase of 21 over the preceding year From inquiries already received from prospective students Principal Hyman expects this year a greatly in- creased attendance W A ANDERSON SUSTAINS WILL WEDDING AT SACRAMENTO H Myers and Miss Hagerty Married V V V V V V GROOM A POPULAR WOODLAND BOY of John Kinney G and E Man Ten stitches were required to mend cuts suffered by William while working on the R L Ogden ranch npar Dunnigan Tuesday after- noon A cnt was inflicted over each eye and there was a gash in the face that had to be brought together Corscadden was operating a tractor when he stepped on the flywheel which turned with him and threw him so that his face struck the Harry Myers is a Woodland boy and a popular one He did not ex- himself by taking a position in Sacramento nor will he by his marriage to a girl of the capital city On the other hand his bride may feel that she has a home welcome in two cities Mr Myers and Miss Evelyn Hagerty were married at noon today at the home of the bride's parents 1616 of the big ground wheel He was entu Sacramento Immediately brought to Woodland Tuesday evening after ceremOny they left on a Today he was resting comfortably and trip to San Francisco no serious results are anticipated ft Division of Wen IB SM of Esparto is Chairman Vt to Give Them an NOGALES Ariz July regiment members of the National Guard who accompanied their com- panies to the border leaving wives mothers and families behind were overjoyed today to hear they could be discharged from service if they had one or more persons dependent upon them for support A large number announced their in- tention of taking advantage of the offer and return to support those de- pendent upon them As yet no nite word has been received but com- are making ments to discharge the men they are legally allowed to do so Those wishing to be discharged take Mrs Myers is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Hagerty She is corded genuine praise by all who know her for her personality and virtues The groom is the older son of Mr and Mrs Warren Myers of Woodland and brother of Mrs Alta Beshore of Marion Indiana and Chester Myers of Sacramento He was reared inj this community and has always given I a good account of himself He was a I quick lad at school and industrious Eight years ago after leaving land high school he went to mento to fill a good position and is now ledger supervisor in the mento office of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company in which place he has been four years Among j MR Richard Johnson John KInney a lineman for the P G E Co was killed at 9 o'clock this morning at fifth street and Sacramento nue in Oak Park Sacramento was working at the top of a pole when he received the shock His tody caught in the wires When his plight was seen other workmen carried the body to the ground LUMBER RICHARD JOHNSON'S FOOT Woodland affiliations is his ship in the Carlton Club Mr and Mrs Warren Myers been visiting her sister Mrs J R Shelton has gone to Oakland to care ed their son's wedding for her husband whose foot was crushed when part of a load of lumber he was hauling fell on the member The foot was put in a plaster cast and the physician expects Johnson to be able to walk in about three weeks Johnson was formerly connected with the Zimmerman and Shelton macies here He was employed in a store in Oakland until recently He is a son of Mr and Mrs H B Johnson of Madison Holds an Important Session Revolutionary reorganization Is the only means of bringing the rural schools of the state up to a standard which will keep the country boy in school according to Professor Alexis F Lange director of the School of Education who addressed a meeting Under such a said Lange i ono ungraded school after another would join the Superior Judge Anderson ruled day to sustain the will of Bridget De- vine of Sacramento who bequeathed close to to her brother John Powers and cut off four sisters two of whom were alleged to have come to Sacramento from Ireland at her promise to include them in her will judge Anderson tried the case in in place of Judge Busick was disqualified The contest began early in the year and was instituted with Mrs Nora Jackson one of the sisters as the Two of the are close to fifty years of age and un- married According to their story told on the witness stand they were in- by Mrs Devine to leave their home in Ireland and to come to on the representation that they were to come in for some of her property Mrs Devine died last year without changing her will leaving the bulk of her estate to her brother John Powers who had resided with her since the death of her husband liam H Devine Judge Anderson in his written declared that there was no dence of undue influence that could i be sustained by any court although ing conditions from which it ZAMORA July Red Bud in historical museums and the Save a picnic at the Madison motives of charity would incline any ishing survivors would be supervised Accessible to the steadily growing of the rural high schools section would be consolidated schools -i bridge Sunday in honor of Mrs jurist to set aside the will if legally ney Gorman and sons of San cisco who are visiting the Horgan the California High School Teachers Convention at the University of fornia Tuesday sightly hygienic well equipped inside j and families A delicious lunch and outside for work and play spread at noon Ice cream and with its teachers cottage and were served during the after- The California High School social center arrangements I noon Those present were Mr and ers Association is in session at There would be little to hinder the Mrs Joe Weiss Mr and Mrs Bernie ley The convention opened Monday plan for development of the j Horgan Mr and Mrs James Quinn and will close Friday One of as a connecting link J Horgan Mrs Barney Gorman most important meetings was held with high shcools others with rural Mrs N and children Mrs by the rural schools occupations and vocations Feeble Hermle Misses Mabel Horgan of which Mrs H J Shute of the would he prevented Slaven Alma Hermle Sophia i county would provide in one or more Slaven Tillie Hermle Norma Hermle parto high school is chairman the stand that they would be of-more j their families than they are at present on the border now that the past Some talk is heard of giving the men a temporary leave of absence with the government still retaining a hold en their services in case they are actually needed District Attorney McDonald filed for Yolo county today a complaint against the Southern Pacific Railroad Com- Supervisors The people of Dunnigan and vicinity are to be supplied with electric light and power as a result of a franchise granted by the hoard of supervisors Tuesday to the Northern California Power Company The company was given the right to operate in any part of the county exclusive of incorporated cities but it will confine its activities to the Dunnigan district The Pacific Gas and Electric Company has been asked to extend Its lines to the ern part of the county but the com- pany has never seen sufficient profit in the enterprise to warrant it pany asking that the court order the company to open a culvert through its railroad embankment near the town of Broderick The embankment pre- vents the flow of seepage waters from the neighborhood and proved a source of annoyance people The plan proposed by Lange for junior college Lucille Black Margaret Slaven Tena The suit of D B Guile versus Cokely vides for the elimination of the round out general education and to Hilda Hermle Mary Weiss and Duncan was decided today by and the arousing lead aver to the university or into Mr Antone Abele Weiss Roy Anderson who awarded Guile of a county consciousness The salvation of the rural lies in adopting for the counties the come victims of local squabbles and James Slaven Felix Gorman principles and practices worked out one persona non grata in one and Clarence Hermle in the experience of American by transfer become persona according to Professor Lange in another place callings such as scientific fanning Eugene Slaven Charlie judgment for or school Teachers Would be to Weiss Albert Hermle Leo cows purchased from defendants 1 failing to bear calves Guile sued for alleging that band of fifty cows purchased from plaintiffs was worth less than he paid for it in view of the failure of some to deliver calves at all and ers to deliver within the time agreed upon He further argued that Cokely and the Duncans should him for feed and maintenance of the cows that had no calves which ex- pense he said amounted to Tha loss of the calves for the marketing season of 1915 he claimed amounted platforms perhaps are as well as careful comparison with the labored and I as thoroughly read and digested as Gradually we are learning not only to noo they should be There is a cynical the Republican convention put forth tbat the espert is a but public belief that party platforms like streetcars platforms are to get in on not to stand on And there is some ground for this feeling In view of the Republican record during about forty years of and making of platform promises that were seldom fulfilled The Democratic platform this year is of a different sort however It is not given so much to promises as to recital of what has been performed and it makes quite Interesting and at Chicago There is one plank of the St Louis platform that in a way embodies the whole document It is the second paragraph which reads as We endorse the administration of Woodrow Wilson It speaks for itself It is the best exposition of sound policy at home and that we cannot very well at least eet along without him We would not think of employing for a teacher In our schools one who had no special preparation for such work we wouldn't call a carpenter to act as a physician nor a cobbler for a legal ad- viser We want for a given task the Livennore Herald Sunshine and fresh air are the bast tonics for your children They to the mighty truthful reading It wise are the greatest agencies for the pay careful study on the part of every curtailment of doctor hills The defendants sold Guile cattle on May 7 1914 held that Guile selected the cattle from a band of 460 head using his own judgment as to whether or not they were bearing Deputy Coroner Wilson left for man specially trained for that purpose at 2 Even in our cities we find almost uni- that men are employed In particular lines because of their expert knowledge self-respecting city day would think of making public Im- except under the direction to conduct an inquest into the of a man who dropped dead Tkf name of the man could not be leaned tracts and conduct ita iness except upon of a of an engineer nor enter into con- city attorney
