Lost silver garden set with engraved family spoons
On the night of five a brass jardiner containing silver spoons engraved with family names was lost. Liberal reward for return. Contact H L Miller Hotel Melrose.
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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1923
Page
7
On the night of five a brass jardiner containing silver spoons engraved with family names was lost. Liberal reward for return. Contact H L Miller Hotel Melrose.
Santa Fe won state approval to end service on the Barnwell Branch from Goffs to the California Nevada line amid a needed 45000 repair bill and annual deficit. California traffic spans about 42 miles to Searchlight. Nevada approval awaits ICC and state filings. Service declined from six weekly trips in 1923 to one round trip recently.
Denver reports the season's heaviest rainfall with flood conditions across several state sections. One man killed by lightning at Florence. Damages to railways highways bridges and business properties are estimated in the thousands. Florence and Portland floodwaters subsided and conditions neared normal later.
The new gasoline tax takes effect September 1, 1922, replacing the earlier plan for January 1, 1924. A two cent per gallon levy will be paid on each gallon at the time of purchase under the law.
Acting Secretary Gilbert denounces Western Division American Mining Congress resolutions as misleading in a letter to Senator Pittman. He questions the board’s cancellation of silver for subsidiary coinage and urges court scrutiny. Also notes visitors from Yermo, a Daggett gas pump upgrade, and local market activity at Daggett Daggett.
The Fontana Herald, edited by Cornelius De Bakely, is a young paper under two months old. It thrives on Fontana district potential and gains support from locals through weekly S'yned communications. Columns appear in Hungarian Italian and Spanish reflecting diverse resident interests.
The first geyser era steam application near Santa Rosa used steam from a 409 foot well turned into a turbine powering a dynamo. Twenty one kilowatts were reportedly produced in the experiment. Christian Science services at Antlers Club hall every Sunday at 11 o'clock. All welcome.
At a creditors meeting here George H. Stanton of Stanton Bank and Trust Co was granted a prior claim for about 50,600 tied to money advanced for Dempsey Gibbons profits may come from film rights as a possible payment source. Also a bankruptcy notice for Robert M Gastle lists a final dividend meeting in San Bernardino on July 28 1922.
Department of the Interior Los Angeles Land Offices publishes notice that Joseph I. Yates of Palliser California seeks final three year proof for land described SE 1 1, See 4 Ep SENG Re BWV SB M. before U S Commissioner San Bernardino on August 22 1928. Witnesses: Frank J. Countryman Robert A. Hedge Major Johnson Ninkler Milla BF Yates Dudley Valentine. First pub July 19 last pub August 16.
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