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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Location
Arcadia, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1918
Page
3
Report of a threatened boycott by the Automobile Club of Southern California circulated amid claims violators of traffic laws were being arrested in Arcadia. City Marshal Treen dismissed the report as unlikely and urged adherence to laws while noting Arcadia has spent over 150000 on street improvements for public safety and enjoyment.
Mr and Mrs C A Sherwood with Mr and Mrs R Byers visited Arcadia parents Mr and Mrs L E Sherwood on Tuesday evening. W M Johnson retires from Clara B Stocker ranch duties to enjoy rest. Dr Coughran of Los Angeles plans a real estate office at First Ave and Santa Clara St opposite Arcadia post office. An outing with Mr and Mrs Frank McCoy ended in Redondo Beach overnight. W N Wilson and Miss Jennie Seaton of Toronto visited the Parkers. Arnol Jannsen of Ramona Acres visited while Jack Jannsen spent Sunday with them.
The Stuhr family thanks friends for the many flowers and help during the illness and death of Holger L. Stuhr. Mrs H Stuhr and family.
Recipes from a noted cook include Cocoanut Kisses using corn flakes sugar nuts shredded coconut and egg whites forming three dozen cookies. Golden Cake requires butter flour baking powder egg yolks milk and flavoring baked as a loaf with a smooth batter and proper texture.
Pasadena women especially from the Soldiers and Sailors club of the Christian Science War Comforts committee describe their efforts to comfort soldiers at the Arcadia balloon school. Mrs Henry Meier reports nightly drives to bring men to gatherings, meals and activities, with many clubs and out of town units contributing. The Soldiers and Sailors club at 1163 East Colorado street is a sunlit, garden surrounded retreat offering free cold drinks and low cost meals, a substitute home for the soldiers. A Liberty Garden booth nearby, run by crippled veteran Gerald King, grows produce for sale with food items donated by interested Scientists.
The text notes 700000 extra potato acres planted last year and the U S Food Administration urging potato use with wheat flour. A tested potato soup recipe follows, listing ingredients and steps to make a warming wartime dish for nourishment and resource use.
Mrs. Elizabeth Griffith of Duarte, mother of I. J. Griffith of the Santa Fe railroad, died Sunday July 7. She and her husband moved to Duarte from Missouri over ten years ago. her husband died in 1911. Funeral services were held Tuesday at her Duarte home.
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