Land Owners in Crocero Valley Seek New Road Route
Elmo Proctor and a group of Crucero landowners petition the San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce for help building a road to Crocero Valley on the Mojave. They describe irrigable, alkali-free soil, underground water, and promising crops, urging a southeast pass route near Crucero that reduces travel to the Tonopah and Tidewater line. The letter includes a signatories list of Los Angeles and San Bernardino residents backing the effort.
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Mojave
Coachell Valley
Riverside County
Los Angeles
Sudan
Ludlow
Yermo
Croeneese
T. R.R
Ragor
Rasor
Soda
Crucero Station
Razor
San Bernardino County
San Bernardino
Crucero
L. B. Joralman
Washington Bldg
C. C. Klingerman
EF Monte
Cal
A. J. Ingalls
S. Spring St
A. Hall
D. A. Densmore
Castlc
Grace Densmore
Castaic
Geo. Sexton
Ventura
Lulu
Mary Miles Minter Salary Case Affire at Appellate Court
Judgment for 4000 dollars and costs to Juliet Reilly against the American Film Company was affirmed by the U S circuit court of appeals. The film firm argued a 2250 dollar weekly salary contract allowed deductions for absences. Reilly sued over deductions made while she was in York and Santa Barbara for engagements and hair shampooing issues.
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San Francisco
Juliet Reilly
Agary Miles Minter
American Film Company
United States Circuit Court of Appeal
Antlers Club Secures Midland Lyceum Company for Barstow
Miss Layton of the Midland Lyceum Company arranged Barstow engagements for the Antlers Club five concerts starting October 1922 with one show per month for five months. Sixty Antlers members back the project with forty to fifty ladies assisting, and a dance after each entertainment is planned to maximize value.
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Antlers’ Club
Honor Roll of the Barstow Grammar School Dec 1921
Barstow Grammar School publishes the December 1921 honor roll listing teachers and students across first through eighth grades. Highlights include 72 percent perfect attendance in the sixth grade and 61 percent in the seventh and eighth grades, with numerous names across each class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barstow Grammar School
Florence Colby
Myrtle Smitheram
Billie Dresse
Clyee Meikle
Harriet Lazenby
Phyllis Arends
Allen Flippin
Charles Shotwell
Winnifred Haws
Forst Dillingham
Jim Roth
Paul Roth
Eileen Moore
Lora Flippin
Dan Walters
Mina Conaway
Gilbert Cox
Donald Leak
John Scrahm
Jack Hardy
Kenneth Marvin
Myrtle Meek
Pastor Keris Announces January Church Appointments
Catholic Pastor Father Keris lists January appointments by date and town. Events include Ver mo and Victorville on nearby Fridays and Saturdays with Barstow Ludlow Death Valley Oro Grande and Oro Grande appearing among Sundays and Mondays for services and confirmations.
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Keris
Vermo
Victorville
Barstow
Ludlow
Death Valley
Oro Grande
Mojave River Riparian Owners Set Annual Meeting 1922
The Mojave River Riparian Owners Association will meet Saturday January 28 at 1 pm at Mrs. Fletcher's Liberty Theatre Barstow California. Officers for 1922 will be elected. Notices urge all Mojave River Valley property owners to attend. Signed Geo Siemon secretary.
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Mojave River
Mojave River Riparian
Orange Show to Open Feb 17 at Urbita Springs Park
The Twelfth National Orange Show will outclass prior events and be California’s premier midwinter show. It returns to Urbita Springs Park with three large tents and outdoor attractions including boating and bathing. Family four admissions for one dollar are on sale until opening day February 17.
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California
Urbita Springs Park
What Becomes of Wine Grapes In California
George F. Maddock of Sacramento investigated how California wine grapes shipped east become a consumer product. A dealer’s truck unloads boxes on sidewalks then a second truck with a crushing machine follows. The purchaser carries juice in own containers and seeds and skins are removed, juice goes upstairs.
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California
George F. Maddock
Sacramento
Chicago
Water Street
Missing son Emerson Griswold sought by worried mother
A Camp Point Illinois mother seeks help locating her son Emerson Griswold who will turn 23 this month. He is about 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighs 150 pounds, with brown eyes, dark auburn curly hair, and a fair complexion. If you have any information contact Mia Sam Griswold.
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Emerson Griswold
Mia
Sam Griswold
Camp Point
Ill
Rush in State Real Estate Dept
The State Real Estate Department will issue licenses at 1000 per day and issue all licenses to applicants soon. Most renewal applications arrived between December 28 and January 1, creating a workload backlog. Licenses will be dated on receipt and within fifteen days a missing wall license does not prove unlicensed. Edwin T. Keiser, Com'r.
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Edwin T. Keiser
Com’r
Congregational Church Plans Sunday Services and Election
The Congregational Church schedules Sunday school at 10:00 a m with preaching at 11:00 a m and again at 7:00 p m The Ladies Missionary Society met this afternoon and the annual business meeting plus election of officers is set for Thursday night.
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Ladies Missionary Society
Barstow Town Topics and Local Notes
Barstow reports include a special directors meeting of the Mojave River Riparian Owners Association with Emerson Van Dyke Siemon Nicholas present. Christmas postholiday commerce looks up as merchants cheer. Community updates note Mrs. Ernest Ross improving at Ramona hospital and Mrs. T. O. Carter returning from travels. A parish house contract is let to C. T. Cleland near the High School. bond election for grammar school passed unanimously with about 15 percent turnout.
Dawn of the East at Liberty Theatre Saturday Night
Big Bill Saturday Night-Dance features Alice Brady in Dawn of the East at the Liberty Theatre with a minstrel show and a dance. Spikes Bros Syncopated Orchestra and Jubilee Singers traffic in a 20-strong traveling company in private Pullman cars claiming to be the best colored show on earth.
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Alice Brady
Liberty Theatre
E. B. McClure
Spikes Bros
Jubilee Singers
Pullman
Irish treaty ratified by Dail faces Republican push
The Dail ratified the treaty with Britain granting Ireland a Canada and Australia style government. Eamon de Valera seeks a republic, backed by a minority. Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins helped craft the accord, while London reports a Churchill led committee preparing rapid transfer of powers and amnesty terms for British forces withdrawal.
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London
Lloyd George
Dail Eireann
Dail
Ireland
Canada
Australia
Eamon de Valera
Arthur Griffith
Michael Collins
Parnell
Winston Spencer Churchill
Austen Champberlin
Privy Seal
Hammar Greenwood
Churchill
Progressive states push tax cuts amid war income drops
Progressive western states press retrenchment to reduce overhead taxation from 25 to 20 percent as incomes and profits fall for farming and business and wages decline for all workers. Kansas auditor orders state departments to cut to the bone on travel and overhead for six months to match reduced revenue.
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State Auditor of
Kansas
Soviet Russia to Represent at Genea Economic Conference
Cannes Jan 9 official word confirms Soviet Russia will be represented at the forthcoming economic conference to be held at Genea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cannes
Russia
Genea
Newberry defends campaign against Ford in 1918
Washington senator Truman H. Newberry, speaking publicly for the first time in his own defense, asserted with God as his witness that he was not conscious of any unlawful, dishonorable, or corrupt act in his 1918 campaign against Henry Ford.
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Washington
Senate
Truman H. Newberry
Michigan
Henry Ford
Copper Mines Reopen Firing Butte to Prosperity
Butte rejoices at the reopening of copper mines after a nine month shutdown. The news ends a brutal period of industrial inactivity felt from laborers to bankers, with promises of boosted railroad traffic, power demand, sawmills, and widespread payroll spending. The mayor hailed the move as the end of a unprecedented downturn in Butte’s economy.
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Butte
President Harding Thanks California Almond Growers
President Harding through his secretary sent a note to California almond farmers thanking the Almond Growers Exchange for sending the best almonds to the White House Christmas dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
Secetary
California
Almond Growers Exchange
White House
The
Exchange
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Crocero Valley
Crocero
Roy H. Mack
Sec’y. Chamber of Commerce
Mary Miles Minter
Midland Lyceum Company
Tee Buckholz
Racine Caton
Marie Crooks
Howard Freyslaben
Donald Hunt
Laura Honey
Lenard Johnson
Harry Kelly
Norma McDonald
Sheridan Martin
Robert Poulsson
Juanita Ramos
Elston Shaner
Juan Salazar
Egbert Thrasher
Ruth Wagner
Roberta Ellis
Mary Ellen Chambers
Florence Freyslaben
Gordon Lee Hunter
Amador Lopez
Minnie Meikle
Agnes White
Lee Quong
Jimmy Lee
Delmas Griffith
Glen Buckholz
Hilary Shaner
Judior Marvin
Lola Munos
Lee Hong
Charlies Davenport
Elmer Moore
Eleanor Redman
Henry Deshler
Irene Freyslaben
Beta Lee
Myrtle Burris
Margaret Speir
Margaret Thursby
Paul Duran
Russell Meikle
Robert Wheeler
Walter Evans
Violet McCoy
Ass'n
Congregational Church Services
B. M. Prescott
Union Pacific R. R
Ernest Ross
Ramona Hospital
T. O. Carter
Bakersfield
San Diego
T. O
Yick
Sweet Home
A. Speth
Hinkley
8. P. Land Improvement Company
John Sloan
Fitzpatrick
George Ballou
Ice Plant
Congregational Church
C. T. Cleland
Big Bill
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