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Rural and civic notes from California counties
The Lodi Chamber plans lower power schedules for manufacturing industries while Siskiyou county fair organizers prepare for September exhibition. Grapes in San Joaquin suffer 50 percent mildew losses. Grass Valley raises funds to reduce eight thousand sixty dollars in Salvation Army debt. Placer county treasury cash and equivalents on July 16 totaled 9 351 867.84 per auditor. Ten J W W detainees in Plumas county jail face criminal syndicalism charges. Despite scant spring rains, statewide grain yields remain fairly good. Eureka mine in Amador county sold to a Brooklyn man at foreclosure. I W W injunction blocks further activities in California. UC summer school club promotes "Red-Headed" identity with a dozen charter signers. William Hollister of Gas Point dies after confinement with a broken neck. San Quentin holds seventy convict radicals in dungeon for work-refusal. Mrs Ennis Crable of Dunsmuir dies by suicide, leaving a 3-year-old son. Redmond Patterson, former San Francisco realtor, found dead in LA. Pigeons owned by C R King of Hayward win a 625-mile race from Pocatello. Placer fruit growers face lean harvest with normal prices and wartime shipping costs. Siskiyou county reports no kickers. County supervisors spend day in Marysville as an ecusization board to register a complaint.