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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1919
Page
2
A reflective column cites Bolshevik fears and labor unrest while noting Ford’s tolerance as a model. It urges domestic resource development, homeward veterans’ reintegration, and coordinated private and public support as the flu subsides and schools reopen nationwide.
Alice Genevieve Smith a renowned harpist and Elsie Mae Gordon opening the Gordon Smith Company act highlight the Chautauqua Festival debut. Smith brings one of the country’s finest harps and flawless technique. Also note the obituary of John Sam Mengel who died January 23 in West Virginia after influenza. He was a former Arizona Eastern Rail Road fireman from Phoenix and survived by his wife Aletta Axtel and two children.
In Barstow on February 25 Mrs A C Zehner is highlighted as a leading Chautauqua platform figure. Her lecture American Ideals is praised as a refined and eloquent appeal for better citizenship by a prominent woman lecturer.
Public legal notice dated 1919 lists B F Groves without coal withdrawal and records first publication February 6 and last publication March 13.
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