Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - January 5, 1924, Woodland, California DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY WOODLAND CALIFORNIA SATURDAY EVENING JANUARY 5 1924 ESTABLISHED 1877 Rev W A Ross Successor to Rev W E Bobbitt back to the early historical days of Lord George Calvert an estate known to be worth upwards of three millions of dollars may become the property of Mrs R T Spence come y Esparto woman and her sister Mrs E L Martin of Coif ax both of erate financial means Hopes apparently well founded that the Yolo and Placer men will be the chief beneficiaries from an enormous Maryland estate came at Christmas time and hence brought great happi- ness to the Spence household in the little western Yolo city and the Martin family located in a picturesque spot in the hills about Coif ax The estate to which the two confidently expect to fall heir consists chiefly of valuable city property ings in and about city of more Maryland Recalling History To trace the origin of the estate it is necessary to turn back the pages of history three hundred and four or to be exact to the year 1580 George Calvert the first Baron Baltimore was born and who subsequently disinherited his sons for 99 years after he had become famous as a fighter Mrs Spence and Mrs Martin are descendants of the Calverts Their lineage can be traced without difficulty as far back as Lord more the founder of Maryland which was first laid out as a town 14 miles above Chesapeake bay and 40 miles northeast of Washington Inheritance From Mother Upon the death of the last of the direct heirs to the enormous Baltimore Estate about Maryland the late mother of Mrs Spence and Mis tin became the next in line legally en- titled to the estate Her name at the time of her death three years ago at Colfax was Mrs Richard Ferguson She was 82 years old when she died Her maiden name was America ginia Calvert Nearly all of the property which is to be claimed by Mrs Spence and Mrs Martin is situated in Baltimore known as the monumental city be- cause of the many public monuments which adorn it the principal being the smaller Washington monument In the excellency and perfection of its buildings Baltimore vies with the bigger European centers It is con- not unlikely that some of these valuable structures are included in the vast estate Aunt Informant Mrs T M Donnelly an aunt of Mrs Spence and Mrs Martin residing in the east has informed her nieces that the estate is to be settled in a few months told the Democrat day that the possibility of her ing an heir to the enormous Calvert estate had long been a topic of sion in the family But with tion after generation to be considered she had always considered her too remote to be talked of seriously Spence Laboring Man Mr and Mrs Spence have lived in Yolo county eighteen years They have one child Mr is a SKETCH OF LIFE'S HISTORY OF NEW LOCAL MINISTER Successor to Rev W E Bobbitt who is to engage in Evangelistic work for the next few months Rev W A Ross of Iowa is to actively begin his pastorate here at the Christian Church tomorrow although his term opened on January 1 Liens aggregating upwards of have been filed here within the last four weeks against the Hart Construction Company's warrants for money ae from Yolo county for road construction work The claims are from al concerns that supplied the Hart company while it was at work on a road in Supervisor Wm district Lumber Co Files Among the chief alleged creditors is the West Valley Lumber Company Can't Name AH Opponents Says Guinda Supervisor As Supervisor Shadrock ney views the political situation in his district embracing Western Yolo there will be a whole flock of candidates to oppose him at the coming election Well who are Gladney was asked this morning Say to tell you the truth it's easier to name those who aren't going to answered Gladney with a smile COLUSA ATTORNEYS CLAIM Charges and allegations of ical and possibly invalid deals ed against J W Browning Colusa is me county land owner by A B Eddy The local concern filed a lien for Woodland attorney who represents 1 O 000 s f The Yolo Gravel Company's claim i 803 of Butte county in the purchase f for about the Henry Cowell of district warrants at a discount uie Lime and Cement Company's lien and are based more on technical issues No sooner had this school been opened than night visitors entered it and did considerable damage by ping off great hunks from the water cv j basins and lavatories according to Auditor R P Wallace i Drowning the Colusa lawyers thg second visit the bulk of the with whom the claims have been filed money could not be obtained j were stolen Half Money Paid put up m cash to T f the district are -n o -i me an emen that the Coast Eock and Gravel j than on questions of a more serious Company are the chief creditors j nature Colusa attorneys familiar There are a number of smaller ones the situation declared For the third time in as many months the new Monument school below has been broken into and a quantity of books stolen Mrs Ed Bandy prominent in community affairs and instrumental in fostering sentiment for the cosy new school building has just report- ed the third theft to County School Superintendent Harriett S Lee Experts have been responsible for the burglaries A glass cutter has been used dexterously to lift out A Dane of glass large enough to permit hand to reach through and unlock Trustees of the district are at a loss find a way to protect the property are not sufficient to of a permanent The Dairy Committee appointed several weeks ago by Fred Shaffer secretary of the board of trade is in session this afternoon in the rooms of the county board of trade The of the meeting is to organize and to a general survey of the iand available for dairying purposes snd to ascertain the price of such land and to any other angles that might lead to the improvement of the industry in this county The committee is composed of the following Dr C L Roadhouse W Russell R C Cassel Frank L Morris Robert Rice A C Huston Sr Lawrence Stephens E W Armfield Gus and H H Gable From the Christian Evangelist a file vrill prevent the Eart people 1 T rt n f St Louis Mo publication was ed this brief of Rev Ross life Arthur Ross born in were approved some ever have been said j a log cabin on a farm near Richland lime ago by the supervisors the But as a trustee it Center Richland county Wisconsin October 3 1887 He worked on the farm with his parents until his riage to Ada L Maiben in 1906 Being the oldest boy of the family he was deprived of an early tion because of duties on the farm When 13 years of age he became a Christian under the ministry of D N Wetzell now of Bloomington and united with the Church of Christ at Richland Center At the age of 17 he was made a deacon of the church and taught a boys in Bible school sang in choir and was a member of Christian Endeavor These duties were done with est pleasure It was during these w jr -j i t V w i Hart was at Gerber today and to a question whether could not be reached for a statement entitled to make a His company is a Sacramento concern j profit the deal at the expense I f A the the ggt it A early days that he met such men G H Hecke of tue state brotherhood as A McLean ATTENDANCE AT A MEETING m as agriculture and director of and WeU now deceased and f Prof Gordon True the Bank of Yolo Prof Gordon True B B of the Animal Husbandry Division University Farm and Warren committee in a consulting capacity These men inspired desire to be In 1910 he Iowa with entered Drake University and worked his way through school doing odd jobs land preaching Sundays In 1918 he received his Bachelor degree His first located pastorate forking laboring in moderate ion of the Woodland high circumstance's He and his family arc and its contents thought of in the Esparto thc trustees of all schools county are checking up on their V The Martin at Colfax in- once and arranging to be more eludes four ant of providing 1 Ft like a said tion against firebugs Mrs lo the Democrat As possible day i His first located pastorate was D Hi IT Fort Madison Iowa where he 1 1 tlVUIjI for three years with marked ed for three vears with marked w n n n vr cess having added over 200 to the I 11 11 N membership and brining the church 11 up to a Living link Ho has since ministered at Osceola and nell Iowa and January 1 from the expensive and up the pastOrate at Woodland warning given here last Monday when arsonists caused thc By J H WRAITH AU the people of Yolo county are welcome to the annual banquet of the Yolo county Young Men's Christian Association to be held at the odist Church Monday the 7th The hour is 7 o'clock The plate price is 50 cents Every Dad and every mother who dotes on a certain red-blooded hoy and calls him son and everyone interested in boy life of the community should try to attend this annual gether W G Associate State Y M C A executive will speak on the theme of the evening A Square Deal for the Boy Several Woodland business men of the district Any outsider could I have bought the warrants and the would have gone to him ly It is also said that District 833 has profited materially by the chase of the flowage rights across the lands of the Colusa Delta Farms Company crowing out of ing's ability and willingness at tne time to put up the in cash necessary to buy the rights en Elect J profit is said to be practically equal Lo the entire sum paid by the dis- for the flowage privileges ACADEMY RESUMES SCHOOL WITH BIG ATTENDANCE ill jw i tun will talk briefly cood music has been and Him E E Griffith was elected permanent chairman and Hall Williams tary at a meeting of the Sun Maid Raisin Growers of Yolo County held in the board of trade rooms Friday ening There was a good tive gathering of raisin growers ent One of the chief matters up for dis- cussion was the selection of a to be elected as one of the members of the advisory council of the state association There are twenty-nine members comprising this i i i j council and Yolo county and the Tuba School opened on scheduled time I t Districts combined are entitled at the Holy Ho Academy Thursday January 3 or The nomination will be made on and be sonic has not yet engaged attorneys she intends taking those steps immediately She will depend upon local counsel Some months ago she discussed the matter briefly with local lawyers but at the tiniest not considered to initiative in hastening a settlement of Uie estate Attorneys here today stated Wiat MJC case of Mrs Spence seems unlike the of the so-called reported Eastern estates to it 5s impossible to establish a clear title righte of Mis Spence and teer sister appear be clearly defined 9 MERCED MAN DIES AT COUNTY HOSPITAL of State Superintendent Will Wood will be carried out Wood has ten here asking that sleeping rooms be placed in the large buildings for a of that Sights be ed about thc grounds Win Irvin is cal school watchman A BIG NIGHT AGAIN DANCE HALL There will be n year's work aid tit for 1 M 1 there promptly it will clorr The cat arc the theme is rah for our of tnc f Ret and we the fact s at a meeting to be held in a novel and the election will be on January 15 The of the council are in Fresno the members meet once every month re was a general discussion over Vi 01 owing to of Landing in Saturday night dances visitors night W W Walling native of Merced county California 44 years of age died Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the county hospital Deceased was a comparative stranger to this 711 The has charge of the funeral which will be held Sunday in Winters T i iney announced that this evenings Win Irvin is already on duty as be another big attraction i of will again famish thc music handling thc river town claim a new mid-winter record for large at- 1 tendances An average of over 100 couples has i been the Saturday night record thus I far Not Guilty To Be Pleas Of Barnett W F Barnett charged on three arate counts with bootlegging will appear Monday in the superior JL H t S J tlir time I Mr Mr 1 0 J Ford VM Mr -T- of of at which fene his plea will be heard According to his attorney C U tf M 1 A m OFFICIAL AT DAVIS George C White identified with H Young Charles Long came down from mora today He said that he and the rest of the Arbuckle football WATCH PARTY AT ers were well with the DR HOWARD'S HOME ment accorded them here by the Dr and Mrs W L Howard of gion and by the officials j vis were host and hostess on New Eve to a group of Mrs Helen Walker of Zamora has was the diversion a Dodge sedan from Boyd j Fdjx of this city was in town today In thc current number nf Bank of Italy a monthly magazine pears thc Democrat's editorial on the late Colonel John S Chambers The bank journal introduced the terial with this Edward E one of the many very dear friends of Colonel Chambers a editor made the following ence to our highly vice- president on hearing of his de- mise This is an ex- pression of the feeling by every one in the Bank of Italy towards our departed co-worker BACK FROM MOTOR TRIP TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA After an eight days automobile trip through Southern California Mr and Mrs Charles Stuart and Mr and of Napa and X T Mr and H Mrs R Baptist In Sound Condition Drake Gibl and Mrs E of Mrs E of Nf of E o Current Guild organized for the purpose of discussing topics and foreign will begin its continue Husband of the members of the Davis Club leafed the Beta lo jiJii Phi house for a a party A I one of the features S H Beckett and 3 I Thompson were in charge The annual business meeting of congregation of thc First Baptist was held Thursday evening Reports from the various showed the church affairs to be in good condition It was announced that all of the bills for the year have been paid and there la left a small sum in the ury The receipts for the holiday bazaar were two hundred dollars A new church constitution was discussed and adopted Mrs J R Mitchell was re-elected treasurer B H Witham from his Western Yolo ranch COYOTE Wm Probert of i ote Thursday on the old Hamel ranch located off the talc Jake road to T f- vm of Sunday schools Mrs A dinner was charch clerk and Mrs it W Herbert Bolton cradle roll Following the business session a fine supper was served in the went of the church Haasc and family have Willows after a visit with James ana Airs Mrs E Yater and daughter Vivian Marston this city ATTK a l are home at Davis Emil Christensen fine to W H Scott at Davis for reckless companion was let off with His alty Constable Joe both men for being
