Arcadia gets balloon school push after Washington conference
Southern California representatives and General Squier meet in Washington over Arcadia balloon school plans. Captain Karl Gorman's bi plane flights from San Diego observe terrain for War Department while Arcadia camp awaits official designation. Recruits move to North Island for immediate training as discussions continue.
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Karl Gorman
Rockwood Field
San Diego
Arcadia
Wells
War Department
Washington
Gorman
Los Angeles Tribune
Squier
H. Z. Osborne
Charles H. Randall
California
Hiram Johnson
James D. Phelan
Osborn
Ermy Signal Corps
Osborne
Centrol
Letter from O. J. Meyers on March 7 1918 from France
A letter from O. J. Meyers of the 163rd Ambulance Corps to the Arcadian Club thanks them for Christmas packages. He praises the care sent, notes France as a fine country, hopes to return to soil, and signs Au Revoir.
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Arcadia Boy
France
Arcadians
Arcadia Boys
Arcadian Clus
O. J. Meyers
163Rd. Ambulance Corps
W. DD. Millard
Arcadian Club
Bonded Debt in Los Angeles County Cities for 1917
A countywide review shows total bonds outstanding rose to 48 439 285 in 1917 from 43 497 833 75 in 1916 with a net decrease of 58 548 75 overall after several cities cut debt. Los Angeles alone reduced debt by 1 073 912 60 while five cities increased indebtedness Alhambra Claremont Eagle Rock Manhattan Beach and Santa Monica. The report notes a wartime pullback on bond issues and urges restraint except for essential projects like Monrovia’s water bond vote set for April 23.
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Alhambra
Claremont
Eagle Rock
Manhattan Beach
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
Monrovia
Arcadia Urges Bond Drive and Scout School Initiation
Arcadia reports $92,200 in Third Liberty Loan bonds as subscriptions reach a quarter of the $16,000 quota. Local banks aid buyers with down payments and monthly installments. A Boy Scouts division forms at First Avenue School with Scout Master C. D. Harris, meetings Fridays at 7:50. Hoarding flour is investigated by W. Metcalf. penalties up to $5,000 fine and two years in prison.
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Arcadia
Chas. W. Stewart
First Avenue
Boy Scouts of America
Richard Boone
Department of Education
Our State University
Boy Scouts
Boy Scout Movement
Arcadia Division of
C. D. Harris
James V. Kelleher
Albert Angus
Newton Gibson
First District Mothers and Parents Meet in Los Angeles
The seventh annual convention of the First District California Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations convenes April 25 and 26 at Fraternal Brotherhood Hall Los Angeles with Pasadena as hostess. Opening at 10 a.m Thursday, Arcadia delegates are welcomed, and committee chairs include Mrs Pearl Minert and Mrs Robert Fleming for credentials.
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California Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations
Fraternal Brotherhood
South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles
Pasadena Federation
Arcadia
Pearl Minert
Liberty Bond Drive Highlights Arcadia Cooperative Club
The Co operative Arcadian club in Arcadia purchased a $50 Liberty Bond and a $45 set of silverware for its new clubrooms. At a recent meeting held at Mrs Wheeler's home, Clara Hosler Combs and Mrs Vance of Pasadena spoke, with a Red Star representation committee named. The convention program lists Thursday morning prayers by Rev Helen Booth Smith and talks on How Much of It Can We Believe by Ernest Hopkins and The Dangerous Age by Lulu Petersen, plus modules on child hygiene recreation and war service work.
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Arcadian Club
Wheeler
Santa Anita Avenue
Clara Hosler Combs
Vance
Pasadena
Red Star
Arcadia
Constance Millard
A. L. Parker
Sumwalt
Ernest J. Hopkins
Dept. of Journalism
U. S&s. Co
Lulu Pet
May Basket Social to Aid Red Cross at Mrs Emerson's
The club plans a May Basket Social on Friday May 3 at 7 30 p m at Mrs Emerson's on Second avenue. Proceeds benefit the Red Cross. Arcadia Lumber donates a teeter board for City Park. The club meets April 26 at Mrs Emerson's to elect officers.
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The
Arcadia Lumber Company
Who Lost a Knitting Bag in Ww S 3
A brief item notes a missing knitting bag from an unspecified event or location. No further details on person, place, or time are provided in the fragment.
Arcadia Event Prompts Wienie Roast And Society Initiation
Scott Lee of the water department found a torn bag with two side-combs gray and yellow yarn two books and a lunch fragment left in Arcadia City Hall. The Federated Women's Missionary societies invitation extends to Monrovia Duarte and First Presbyterian Church Arcadia joins the event.
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Scott Lee
Water Department
First Presbyterian Church of Arcadia
Federated Women’s Missionary Societies of
Monrovia
New War Tax on Tickets Starts April 22
A war tax of 8 percent will be applied to all round trip tickets to Los Angeles. The levy targets fares over 35 cents and is announced by H. H. Demarest, Monrovia agent. The tax takes effect April 22.
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Los Angeles
H. H. Demarest
Monrovia
Death of H R Stocker linked to Baldwin family ties
H R Stocker husband of Clara Baldwin Stocker and son in law to the late F E Baldwin died in Los Angeles after a paralytic stroke. He was 58 and had lived at the Arcadia house and the Alexandria hotel. Funeral services were held in Los Angeles and the remains cremated.
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H. R. Stocker
Clara Baldwin Stocker
FE. J
Lucky
Stocker
Arcadia House
Alexandria Hotel
Clara Baldwin
Old Baldwin
Santa Anita
City Trustees Organize Committees and Postpone Recorder Judge
The new city board organized with D. W. Simms as president and kept all appointive posts. Committees were named with W. D. Millard, O. D. Harris and W. H. Taylor among leaders. Two nominations for recorder's court judge were postponed. Horlock serves temporarily. The city officials took their oaths Monday night.
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Board of City Trustees
D. W. Simms
Recorder’s Court
O. D. Haris
W. H. Horlock
Mr. Millard
W. Newhall
Mr. Horlock
Dunn
Canyon Road Repair Funded With $750
Superintendent Hamilton announced on a trip last Tuesday that $750 had been appropriated by the board to repair and reopen the road up the San Gabriel canyon. He added that tax reductions prevent further canyon construction until after the war.
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Hamilton
San Gabriel Canyon
Civil service exam in Monrovia tomorrow for clerks
A civil service examination for clerk carrier is set in Monrovia tomorrow Saturday for males within age limits. Applications to take the test must be filed at the post office. Tickets for a Red Cross event on May 1 at First Ave grounds are selling fast featuring a prize flower garden and a pig act among other acts.
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National Bank of Monrovia
First Avenue
Monrovia
Red Cross
Swat the Kaiser
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