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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1910
Page
3
In Barstow the main amusements were horse races and prize fights. Owners Crooks Pat Zanini Hillis and others presented horses that competed in lively events drawing local interest.
A Barstow Printer section shares community items from Mohave river valley. Notes include Joseph Yaeger in Oil Center, Al Mudgett named school clerk, Pat Zanini in Los Angeles, wind mill on Richard Harland’s ranch, and engineer Al Crews joined by his wife from Los Angeles.
Thomas Barton has closed his saloon and gone to England on a vacation. B. A. Funk spent the Fourth in Barstow. He reports a 70 acre alfalfa field yielding four cuttings at about 13 dollars per ton. Judge T. S. Van Dyke H. S. Funk and W. G. Kerckhoff own the ranch.
Otis residents report successful completion of water wells by Otis Yermo Myers and Johnson. The Yermo Social Club of Otis plans a Calico ball at their rooms on July 15.
In Hinkley on July Fourth a crowd of about seventy including farmers and guests enjoyed a picnic. A long account carried over to the following week notes Mr. A C Wilson hosted his mother, sister and father in law from Inglewood last Sunday.
Chicago dispatches report 25 000 locomotive engineers on western roads will demand higher wages in August.
The three large engines of Golden State Portland Cement were steamed up for the first time and the big whistle freed workers at five. Hd Decrow returned from San Bernardino this morning. Vernon Jones, a mining man of Oro Grande, came back from the beach after the Fourth. C A Davidson reportedly not swollen from prize fight, just a toothache. R A Drais and R A Morrow plan mountain trip when deer season opens. Mr Potts and son depart for Alaska this week.
Flow from a C T Fowler farm well near Todd six miles south of Barstow yields 35 inches of water by a seven horse gasoline engine-40 feet deep. River ditches and shallow wells are common in Mohave Valley where artesian wells exist at Rancho Verde Victorville. Land in this valley, rich soil, should be cultivated. For more information contact T G Nicklin Barstow.
D C Swartz Republican candidate for Coroner residing in Colton is highly recommended by the Chronicle. He has twelve years in the undertaking business and is an expert in body care. He currently ranches and is know n for education honesty and independence. He belongs to several secret organizations.
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