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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1929
Page
3
The Hinkley Branch of the County Library relocates from Mr Sproule's garage to Mrs. M. M. Bryne's store with Roy Freer as custodian. Hours mirror store hours. Harper Lake residents use the store and post office for mail and trading. A shipment of fifty books boosts the new quarters with fiction non fiction and children's offerings.
San Bernardino visitors and local families figure in a busy Hinkley update. Notes on Stofflet family travel for a death in Montana, school vacation, and students Lulu Hodge and Frank Speth winning Barstow ora torical contest. Local moves include Padgett ranch return and Miss Evaline at Hinkley school. Sunday school board met. Freer aided Bryne with Mrs. Freery accompanying.
Special correspondent reports Mr. Martin Zapata and family’s Bagdad trip with friends, Benito Simon’s move to Miami Arizona, a Ludlow dance planned for April 13 inviting all, and a baptismal Mexican dance on April 14. W H Trenkle and son Tom made a weekend trip to Beatty.
Daggett special correspondent reports Mrs Dallas Price and daughter June visited Huntington Park this week. Miss Lillian Millett returns to Barstow grammar school Spanish grades on Monday after illness. M Millet home from three months at Loma Linda Sanitarium and plans to resume work at Pacific Borax Works. Rose Millett, nine, wins grammar spelling contest, spelling down eighth graders. Mrs Chic Warren to Chicago for visit with parents. Mr and Mrs J B Lane and Miss Genevieve Martin of Calico visiting Death Valley.
A Los Angeles Division Safety First meeting will be held in Yerma Athletic Club on Tuesday April 23 at 9 00 AM. A short musical program will precede the business. The public is invited.
Mrs Gladys Potter County Supervisor arrived at Ludlow school Monday afternoon. The regular mothers meeting will be held at the home of the teachers on Thursday afternoon. Mr R J Dkstra and sons went to Helendale on a business trip Sunday.
The Pullman Company reports to the Railroad Commission its 1928 interstate and intrastate operating revenue at 82,249,127.45, slightly below 1927’s 82,250,940.04. Operating expenses, excluding taxes, total 67,881,271.34 in 1928 versus 67,640,666.20 in 1927, yielding net operating revenue of 14,367,856.11 in 1928 and 14,610,273.84 in 1927. Taxes charged to operation for 1928 amount to 3, (text cut)
The document presents figures of 429,797.17 and for 1927 to 4,250,176.68. Deducting the taxes leaves operating income of 16,938,058.94 for 1928 and 10,360,097.16 for 1927.
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