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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1923
Page
3
The dance in Randsburg on the 12th drew about 135 dancers despite a wind storm that felled houses and a two story main street building. Music was superb, finishing past 1:30, as the crowd rode out the howling winds with lively laughter and a bustling booth crowd.
State Supreme Court ruling ties bridge speed to district highway limits. Fred McLain was arrested for 25 mph over Colorado Street Bridge in Eagle Rock while the Automobile Club notes the decision could overturn local bridge speed rules and authorize the statewide maximums per the State Motor Vehicle Act.
Carl K. Shumate office manager of a Oakland motor company vanished leaving wife four children and another woman he allegedly promised to marry. A mass meeting at Sonoma city hall formed a permanent Good Roads Association with 100 signers and pledged funds to advance the State Highway project in the area.
A quip notes a doctor wife who could prescribe but costs too much. The patient recalls one trip to Palm Beach where his wife accompanied him, highlighting humorous domestic finance. Boston Transcript style humor with concise dialogue and social nuance.
San Francisco announces an exhibition of Spring towers garden hot house and wild flowers on April 20 and 21 with active backing from the Academy of Sciences two universities State Horticultural Society and other groups. The aim is a yearly fete akin to Portland's Tournament of Roses and Pasadena shows through unified organizational support.
The Northern Pacific announced that Federated Shop crafts strikes were officially declared off by the strikers and leaders with local lodges approving last week. It claimed to be the first railroad system to end the strike without any railroad promises and noted few positions remained to fill with preference to married men.
Northern and southern California power firms spent 393 060 to defeat the water and power act initiative voted down at the last general election. Testimony before a State Senate committee shows Eustace Culitan of San Francisco led the campaign for the Greater California league.
Transcontinental traffic through Barstow favors the extreme southern route via Tucson Lordsburg Deming Mesilla Park then north through Socorro Albuquerque. Roads will be passable between Albuquerque and Denver to Kansas, with winter storms to ease. Matan Pass roads are reportedly improved and should pose no trouble.
Five car loads of cattle stranded for 24 hours in a snow drift eight miles southeast of Hudson Wisconsin were rescued late today. The cattle were unloaded watered and fed immediately. Five locomotives and one heavy snow plow freed a small local freight train on the River Falls and Ellsworth division of the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha railway though there were only eight cars in the train.
Washington Feb. 12 House rules committee plans a special rule to grant privileged status to the proposed permanent immigration restriction act next week. The measure would go to conference as a substitute for the Senate Armenian orphan bill, but final enactment this session is in doubt due to heavy legislative congestion as Congress nears adjournment.
Federated club women of Imperial Valley have sent a request to Secretary of State Hughes asking that the international border between Calexico California and Mexicali Lower California be closed at 6 o clock in the evening rather than remaining open all day and night.
A 1923 report released Tuesday places Imperial Valley acreage at 14 132 acres versus about 11 000 last season. Estimated production reaches 2 543 760 crates, based on current estimates and field reports.
Mrs Della C Dean aged 102 a New York native who lived in California since 1872 died at her Stockton home on Monday.
A severe wind storm last Monday and Tuesday caused extensive property damage in Keeler Independence Lone Pine and Cartago. The Weather Bureau reported a 50 mph record gust in Los Angeles before instruments were toppled. Barstow escaped major harm as cleaners cleaned up dust after the storm.
William Wrigley plans a major addition to Catalina Island Villa at Avalon. One hundred new bungalettes will be built along the ocean front forming a deluxe open air hotel named Ocean Ville with a separate office and lounge, walk board sides, screened doors, and European plan rates. Completion is set for June 1 to welcome early summer guests.
The House enacted a bill to set a federal butter standard based on not less than 50 percent butterfat content. The rule defines butter as a product from milk or cream, with optional salt coloring, and without less than 50 percent milk fat by weight.
The steamship Hog Island delivered 14,380 bales of Egyptian cotton worth $3,500,000 to Boston on February 12, the largest such cargo ever brought to the country by an American-flag vessel. It marks the eighth cotton shipment to arrive at this port this season.
In the Tehachapi mountains a surveying party has worked on the preliminary for several months and now nears Caliente on the last leg. The new survey indicates Caliente would be left to the cast by the proposed line.
In Riverside on February 14 a crew from Southern Sierra Power Co. rushed 200 miles into the high Sierras to repair damaged telephone, telegraph and power lines. A violent wind storm tore through Independence and desert areas, bringing down 49 of the company's towers.
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