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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1915
Page
3
Local readers are invited to act as editors as Barstow scenes shift. Mentions include W. R. White in Flagstaff, McShane in Barstow, Maxwell cars, and various moves to Needles and Calico. The piece notes Christmas aid, robberies, funerals, elks events, shipments, and planned road improvements with a mix of ads and society items.
The Southern Sierras Power Company offers each of its several hundred employees a life insurance policy of one thousand dollars. Equitable Life Assurance Society issues the policies with premiums and maintenance paid by the company at no cost to employees. The firm also introduces a hospital or sick benefit fund for employees suffering illness or injury related to employment starting next year.
The Elks of Barstow and nearby towns host a smoker at Sloan's Hall this evening. A free picture show accompanies the gathering followed by a watch to usher out the old year and welcome the new one in.
Scratch! Tommy claims a man is his father, Freddie denies it, and both insist their mothers support their view. The judge remarks that the man is a catspaw in the heated exchange, underscoring the comic domestic squabble.
A list of hotel guests and arrivals including MELROSE names like Wood ES, R K Wood, H H Smith, Sorenenson and wife, Knight, Clifford Cail, Arthur Merritt, and others. Entries span Ocean Park to Long Beach and Riverside areas with numerous California cities and theaters noted, ending with regional matchups Needles versus Exeter and Angeles Camp Pasadena.
Church invites the public to Christmas praise and a short sermon at 5 pm. Communion with reception of members and baptism of children to follow on January 2. Sittings free and strangers receive a cordial welcome.
Free Methodist Sunday school at 10 a.m. Ferris Harris, Superintendent. Preaching every Tuesday night at Hinkley at 11 oclock. Evening service at 7 45. Regular prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 45. All welcome to services. Rev E E Horper, Pastor.
St Josephs Roman Catholic conducts Rosary and Litany every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Sunday school follows at 10 a.m. Rev J B Roure serves as pastor.
Pastor J. W. Adams leads the Hinkley California church with services each Saturday at 9:00 a.m. for Young Peoples, 10:00 a.m. Sunday School, 11:00 a.m. preaching, and a Wednesday prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Barstow Union Church schedules Bible School at 10:00 a.m. and a sermon at 11 a.m. on New Year Thoughts. A 7:45 p.m. mass meeting welcomes all citizens Sunday, Jan 2, featuring General I N Merrifield on American Perils. Annual meeting follows evening service. all members urged to attend. Music noted from Christmas Eve. Public invited to hear the speaker.
Free 8 p m lecture by General J M Merrifield on American Dangers their Cause and Cure approved by leading teachers preachers and business men of the U S. He spoke at Sloan's Hall on The European and World Wars Vice President of the Co operative Commonwealth the Mojave Valley interest Barstow seeks their National Exposition and Sanitarium and colonization this year Everybody invited
In Fiji a tribe venerates Matawaloo, a deity believed to have eight stomachs and to be perpetually consuming offerings. The belief shapes local rituals and daily life.
A moral reflection quotes the Koran urging remembrance of good deeds over wealth. It contrasts worldly greed with spiritual merit as life ends and the angel asks what善 deeds a person has sent ahead.
Frank J. Cheney affidavits as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. pledge one hundred dollars for each catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A. W. Glea verifies sworn statement dated December 6, 1886 in Toledo Ohio. The remedy is taken internally and said to act through the blood on mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for 76 cents.
A Louisville Courier Journal quip plays on romance and roles with the line about wanting to kiss a girl in the crowd and being appointed the rural free delivery man in a light mood aside.
A Baltimore American quotation envisions a female congressional wave, asking what happens when women are elected and predicting that every woman in the House would strive to become speaker.
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