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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Location
Arcadia, California, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1918
Page
3
The United States Food Administration for California urges planting potatoes this spring to avert a looming surplus loss. Officials say current abundance could rot unless consumption rises within 60 days and stress potatoes as a bread substitute while wheat supplies grow tight for the war effort.
A WWI era plea argues Europe produced 43 percent of world sugar in 1913 and urges citizens to guard their grocery lists until harvest. It casts food as essential, warns against waste, and calls for full support of the military and national effort with phrases like single front and utmost sacrifice.
Miss Selah McGill of New York visits Pomona with Mrs. C L Sweeten. Presbyterian Ladies Aid met with luncheon hosted by Mrs L S Emerson. Messrs Metcalf and Stewart depart for San Diego to study Y M C A camps. Millard moves portable house to his Monrovia purchase. Grimes family to move into new Orange avenue bungalow. Sergeant Cooper on five day furlough from Camp Kearny visits Arcadia. City trustees may vote to continue electrolier and paving. Chamber folks attend Puente meeting with a song stunt led by Stewart and Parker. Mrs Adelaide Mestres returns from Pomona to Arcadia. Mrs Bivens recovering from illness. Bivens formerly Southern Counties Gas district agent, Monrovia. Property ad notes art works and oak tree cottage items at Falling Leaf Ave. Oak Tree Cottage listing by W R Morgan aka Canyon Bill.
Monrovia's Mr Boge the Shoe Hospital Repair Man invites customers to visit the SHOE HOSPITAL at 403 S Myrtle Ave for affordable men's shoes. He promises help with repairs and savings when shoes are needed for dress or work.
Train schedule notes show various Arcadia times for P. E. and routes across morning and evening periods. Entries include 8:10 8:40 1:10 and late afternoon slots with multiple listed times.
Local trains halt on signal and all through trains stop to take on or drop off passengers. Notices list train numbers 2 4 18 22 41 3 45 and times 1 56 PM 2 43 PM 7 41 PM 9 17 PM. Arcadia California agent C A Walker reports the details from February 26 1918.
Hundreds of spectators watched as a Hudson Six lie wrecked at the foot of Linda Vista avenue near Devils Gate bridge in Pasadena. Officials probe ownership, cause, and whether occupants were harmed, noting the car likely went over the guard rail and was abandoned. The vehicle lay 200 feet below the road, missing its number but intact equipment.
At a Los Angeles gathering of police judges city recorders and justices of the peace the Federal Moratorium act was presented It prohibits default judgments against government service members unless an affidavit proves non service and bars trust deeds during the war A $1000 minimum bail was proposed for illegal liquor sales and talk of higher salaries for justices occurred The Journal costs $1 90 a year
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