Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - May 23, 1925, Woodland, California ISSUED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY WOODLAND CALIFORNIA SATURDAY EVENING MAY 23 1925 ESTABLISHED 1877 HIGH STATE O 0 o o O O 0 O o o o o o o 0 O o o Big Yolo Cot Growers Meeting At Winters SLOGAN IS KEEP YOLO COT CLEAN Plan Of March Memorial Day Is Announced The American Legion Spanish War Veterans G A E and bers of fraternal organizations which are to participate in the Memorial Day exercises next will begin their march from the Legion Hall promptly at 9 o'clock The line of march will be out Main street to the cemetery where the customary services and decorations of graves will be held Immediately after these services the members of the above will at the Fliers club where the tablets oring Yolo's dead in the world will be unveiled An effort is be- ing made to have Judge C E Laughlin or some other brilliant orator deliver the address of the day at the exercises A general in- is extended to the public to attend these exercises One of the most important meetings of the year Yolo fruit growers and particularly for growers of cots was held at Winters Thursday morning All of the growers of the Winters district and many from parto and other Yolo points attended The importance of the meeting is indicated in the fact that mately one million dollars worth of fruit was represented by the growers present One of the chief decisions of the meeting was the one through which it is determined to keep clean the Yolo fruit shipped The purpose of the meeting was to determine the amount of shothole fungus that will be permitted in the fruit to be shipped out this year Same As Before It was agreed that the amount of fungus to be permitted will be the same as in the past That is fruit be shipped with five per cent of fungus on the cots that have more than five spots Those with fewer spots of course are within the re- for shipping One important decision reached was that the horticultural authorities will this year put a stop to the purchasing of cots badly affected with fungus and thrown out as unfit for shipment It has-been customary for peddlers reached High school to come up in the past purchase this yesterday Her latest ad- fruit and then on the Oakland vance js to be promoted to head of the tmd San Francisco markets to com- physical education department for the pete with the sound fruit shipped at the University of Michigan Prosecution Promised j Hodgson was instructor in the Even more important and drastic Woodland school for years is the other move decided upon This is one whereby County Horticultural I University Commissioner H M VanTassel and here other will make occasional I education department for to the bay region to look over d the fruit markets there They will particularly aspect fungus t to Oakland AU when Yolo shippers are found to be e Bending badly recognition of her ability of this fruit will be obtained and van Tassel will prosecute the shippers on his return to Yolo county Commissioner VanTassel who was one of the directors of the meeting Thursday stated yesterday that all of the orchardists involved are in accord for the complete con- of the fruit unfit for ket Only two or three objected and these were made to see the greater benefit in the long run in Yolo ping out only the best fruit Rogers Presides LEADER AT MICHIGAN U Miss Pauline Hodgson former in- of physical education in the Woodland High school for girl dents has made splendid advancement in her chosen profession according BLODGETT CALLED AT SANTA CRUZ Freeman Moulton Blodgett well known piano tuner and for years a resident of Woodland died Thursday at Santa Cruz where he and his ily had gone from Oakland to spend the summer months No particulars have been received here as to the i cause of his death On Wednesday night C S Blodgett j of Zamora received a telegram ing that his brother was seriously ill and not expected to live Mr gett left on the following morning to be at the bedside brother and no word has been received here since Mr Blodgett's departure It is known however that the de- ceased in good health up to a short time ago and it is believed that his death must have been either the result of an accident or a sudden heart attack The dead man was a native of Ohio 70 years of age He was the husband of Eunice Ann gett and father of Elsie L Deane Freeman Blodgett Grace I ward Eunice M Moulton and brother of C S Blodgett of mora Mrs C Palmer and Dr Walter Elodgett His wife was the former Eunice Roberts of Knights Landing They were married in the county and lived here for many More than thirty years ago the family left land and at present they are residing in Oakland here she went to the High school in Oakland of the physical girls for a reoice n EW BABY BOY AUTOMOBILE Stanley S Rogers representative of the bureau of standardization of the state department of agriculture MRS NICHOLS IS INJURED IN CRASH TODAY Mrs M A Nichols resident of West Tolo was seriously injured shortly before noon today when a truck crashed into a Ford car in which she was riding The accident occurred presided at the meeting Under his at the junction of Cemetery avenue handling it was highly successful and Main street Carl Spurlock commissioner and J Following the accident Nichols his inspectors were on hand from J was rushed to the Woodland lano county as were the Tolo j There it was learned that ore under H M VanTasseL When i she had suffered a fractured pelvis the matter of stopping peddlers from bone She was riding with Mr and buying unfit fruit and taking Mrs Clardy of Guinda at the time Becoming the owner of a new baby boy and a new automobile on the same day is the privilege of John Dickson Stephens Jr The stork arrived with the baby shortly after midnight and the delivery of the automobile was effected this morning The new boy looks likes a speedster and so I invested in a commented Daddy Stephens Hello Girl's Trials Are Exemplified Number Smith's number doors from Jones Where is the What is John He lives two on Oak street What time is it Do you know who carries Blank Bros These and many other questions are asked the operators every day and 300 people who took advantage of the invitation extended by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company to visit the local office yesterday found out why the reply is given We are sorry but we do not give out that information Judging from the remarks made by the guests at the conclusion of their visit they well repaid for the 45 minutes spent in the telephone building On the guests arrival they were greeted by Manager Leitch who gave them a short talk on the tory of the telephone and other paratus They were then ed through the building by Wire Chief Levy and his assistants a thorough talk being given on the myriad of wires necessary to tain the lines Mrs Anna Gregg chief operator and a corp of explained the workings of the switchboard and how long ance traffic is handled A Barba local milk distributor was arraigned this morning before Justice K W Harrison on a charge of using bottles belonging to another dairy Barba was sentenced to serve REMARKABLE SHOWING THROUGHOUT COUNTY IS REPORT OF EXPERT The schools of Yolo county under the supervision of Miss riett Lee county superintendent of schools have achieved a re- markable record during the past year The mental survey just completed by Miss Marian B Canfield the expert sent out by the University of California to conduct the survey shows that in every single instance Yolo county schools have practically reached the average while in all but one or two they have gone well be- yond it Educators throughout California are eagerly awaiting the final report of this test which is the most comprehensive which has ever been made in any state Yolo county is the first to receive a test and the ards set are so high that it is seriously doubted that any other will even equal much less surpass the Yolo ord Eductor Compliments So splendid is the Yolo showing that Dr J V cator of University has written Superintendent to compliment her on the record ed It is the general opinion among who have received advance in- formation report that the zens of Yolo county are to be jointly with Miss Lee and her teaching force for the splendid ing made One feature that is highly pleasing is that Yolo county made its best showing in arithmetic indicating a business trend among the generation as well as showing them adept in the most difficult phase of school work The in metic are all far above the average The following tables show the county averages in each school sub- ject by grades as compared with the standard BIG DEAL IN CATTLE One of the largest cattle deals of the season in the foothill district is just being completed by the Berryessa Cattle company The sale included ten carloads of cattle to a Sacramento firm The last four cars were loaded today Three hundred fat cows and heifers comprised the consignment ing a deal approximating Grade 6 ARITHMETIC Computation Stand Av 22 42 70.4 107.2 ten days in the county jail and 3 ence suspended He explained that he was out of the city for two days and that his man and boy had gotten the bottles mixed in spite of explicit orders which he had left The complaint filed by the Sanitary dairy Barba was found to have used eight bottles stamped son Dairy and Morris dairy 51.2 bottles all belong to the 65.2 dairy the Sanitary having 28.6 50.7 77.7 97.1 ARITHMETIC Reasoning 10 23.6 14.0 25.7 New Record 4 Price Paid For Turkey John who gave his address as Coyote yesterday paid a price for turkey that is a record in Yolo county during recent years paid for 4 38.4 41.0 j the turkey at Davis and put out a 55.3 1 fraction more than a pound ing for a turkey weighing be- 81.5 the Lawson and Morris establishments some time ago After- the trial Barba and E F Vawter the latter manager of the Sanitary dairy drove away in the same car in all good friendliness 0 PIONEER RENEWS OLD FRIENDSHIPS Citizen Here Half A Century Ago Familiar with history and those were precious words to my cars READING 9.4 45.4 74.2 SPELLING 2 26 3 71.6 3 I 4 3 7 3 it out was finally decided upon lock agreed to have an inspector trol the highway at Cordelia to stop these peddlers Library At High Gets New Tables The library at the Woodland High school was materially brightened and improved la equipment yesterday with the receipt and installation of three beautiful oak tables They are the large library tables a splendid ad- dition to the equipment The tables were made at San Quentin and are hand turned the accident occurred One of the small P G E trouble shooter light trucks was the machine that struck the Ford car the latter driven by Mrs Ben Clardy Leo Conard was driver of the truck It Is not known which car was responsible for the crash Mrs Hardy was driving her to the Woodland Sanitarium to undergo an operation at the time of the accident He underwent the ation as scheduled and is now resting easily M 3 Earning Mrs father also tiding in the car and was the only other occupant He suffered cuts and bruises The is full ard it was necessary to move Mrs Nichols to the county pital late this Afternoon characters of this city Charles ton of Pacific Grove is the time of his young life renewing the acquaintanceships of the few timers he has been able to locale He intends remaining here for another week the guest of Mr and Mrs ard Windsor Norton left here fifty years ago and this is his first visit in five years His brother Lott Norton now resides in San Francisco Lott installed the city's first sewer system David ad Ed Wyckoff C F as Ed Greene Ben Jackson and M O Barling are some of the early settlers whom Norton has enjoyed chatting with Dan Boras Friend The Pacific Grove pioneer recalled today his friendship as a boy Colonel Dan Burns whose rise from a street sweeper to merchant to banker to State politician miner and makes np one of this city's most interesting historical chapters and I was half way to the big tent by the time Dan put his purse hack in his jeans Norton also recalled today his friend the late Byron Jackson The Pacific Grove man staled that the wheels for Jackson's traction engine were loaned to bin by Norton and from the toy cannon Caught in Flood The flood of 62 probably the worst in the Sacramento Valley's history also brought back memories that wew not so pleasant Norton then lived along the river front near the Jake road The ranch of his step-father a Mr Hopkins was com- inundated The family home was all that was saved The Hopkins and Norton moved to Woodland the next year Norton left this city a half 9.8 23.1 42.9 55.1 66.2 73.1 30.9 48.8 72.8 94.4 6 7 8 160.4 NATURE STUDY AND SCIENCE 22.2 47.9 7 HISTORY AND LIT 4 5 7 8 GRAMMAR 4 54.2 8.1 16.4 47.5 tween 9 and 10 pounds However there were certain surrounding the turkey its acquisition and payment which were not exactly usual One of them was that Roboni came into possession of the turkey without the owner's consent And another is that although it was a tame turkey Roboni came into the Thanksgiving bird by shooting it Constable Joe Huberty of Davis was notified late yesterday afternoon that a man had shot a turkey ing to Mrs Robert Wolfe a living just across the Yolo line in lano county Huberty obtained the number of the car learned that it was headed toward Davis and hurried forth to detain the man when he the college town The Davis constable halted at the Davis Y One glance into car disclosed the turkey so Joe brought him into Davis to notify the Solano authorities However Mrs Wolfe had arrived upon the scene by the time they reached the Davis Jafl 3 17.1 29.2 18.3 265 30.7 34.4 The letter from Dr J V ser of the University of California under whose supervision the Survey was conducted to Miss Lee is as It gives me great pleasure to have Miss report completed and ago and has been after over t carefully I con- in railroad construction work of OM Rio Grande Of fete he ease accept my on been a realtor at Pacific Grove and the splendid connly has now he is identified with the as a whole It must indeed be spotted me m a sort of sardine plant at that place He has gratifying to you to know that your IMATI 1 d V Robini was wife who tears and accompanied by his shed a flood of implored that they be allowed to go on However Mrs Wolfe was adamant as that hen key bad been caring for a flock of young ones Finally however she relented and was persuaded to accept hi payment for the turkey and possible loss of the turkey chicks The last seen of Roboni he was headed for Winters GREEN INJURED IN ACCIDENT ON FARM said Norton this morning when Dan mood You see the circus was in town two children are equal to and in some and I didn't have the money to get a ithe latter living at Sacramento leases exceeding the standards which a ticket Dan sensed my difficulty In March 889 were tested for Say Charlie goin to the production in San county here's fifty cents now Norton is 68 years of age but is ex- well preserved and could be mistaken for a man in the fifties have been established for these Green Plainfield farmer was in Woodland today carrying his right arm in a sling A few days ago while loading some fram chinery on a truck he received bruises on the shoulder He is rapidly im- i proving however and expects an early Continued on Page Four land complete recovery
