23 Jul 1915
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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1915
Page
1
A letter to Victor Valley Union High School District voters argues for delaying a $30,000 bond issue at 66 percent saying 5 percent bonds sell and renting now saves about 300 per year in interest. The author cites two year wait to reduce costs and better plan the building, signing as JAS. GOULDING Box S Ranch.
Ivanpah Valley features two railroads the Salt Lake and Santa Fe with a post office stores and a circulating library and a new reservoir plus five and a half miles of water mains. Local social updates include dinners hosted by Fred Stoms Wm Von Gerichten and the Robbins family and a large Sunday school attendance with plans for a regular association meeting next Thursday.
Last Sunday morning eighteen eastern cars passed Barstow on their way to the exposition. The desert road from Needles to Barstow was praised as superior to any section since leaving New York. The party included Mr and Mrs W S Elwood Syracuse NY Dr and Mrs Kadhlyn Philadelphia Henry Gleason and wife Chicago.
E Jacobs travels from Los Angeles to Detroit in a new Stutts roadster and spends a night at the Melrose hotel during the journey.
I B Josselyn returns from Lake Geneva Wisconsin where he attended the International Training School for leaders in the worldwide Sunday school movement. The Sunday School Association backs a 18,000,900 American and 1,000,000 world enrollment across 47 denominations.
A new 101 mile scenic highway along the San Bernardino crest was dedicated with over a hundred editors present at Bowlder Monument 8100 feet above sea level. The editors adopted a resolution urging continued state funding to open all mountains in California, praising the views as rivaling Switzerland.
A commentary on a Southern California event, highlighting a trip by guests of the supervisors and a representative from The Printer. The piece notes the beauty and comforts of the San Bernardino mountains and suggests forthcoming editorial reflections from multiple sources.
The Grass Valley recall effort targets County Auditor George Coughlan and Tax Collector H. S. Lord. L. G. Beloud, who started the drive, plans countywide newspaper ads and will give talks. He says he seeks no office and merely aims to publicize a tax sale bid, with he and his wife as the only petition signers.
Kenneth Wallace eldest son of ex Lieutenant Governor A J Wallace has filed to homestead six acres of the Huntington estate near San Marino valued at 42000 dollars. He alleges a survey error left the parcel open to claim and the case is before the United States Land Office. The tract sits in the millionaire enclave of San Marino, recently incorporated as a sixth class city.
A historical sermon on expanding port facilities argues the nation should create free ports to reduce wharfage fees, boost farm exports, and streamline river and harbor improvements. It cites 51 ports across coasts and calls for Congress to divert rail success toward reshaping sea trade.
The article argues that agricultural progress hinges on solving marketing, not just production. It calls for a giant coordinated effort involving Farmers Union, farmers, merchants, bankers, editors, and officials, balancing seed quality with profitable marketing and avoiding market gluts.
Edw White impresses with a varied orchard and windbreak species including apples pears pomegranates figs grapes plums Locust and cottonwood trees. Attendees from San Antonio Mesa Mrs Bertha Elsey and others discussed read work, debated late, and planned school desk shipment for fall sessions with large enrollment expected by September 1.
Mr Ray Elsey reports striking water gravel at forty eight feet and at fifty two feet depth had over three feet of water in the pit compelling suspension of operations. Mrs Bertha Elsey notes phenomenal growth of her brood of 800 White Leghorn chicks aged two months weighing over one pound each in the dry air of the Whole Desert Empire.
In Grass Valley Mrs. Jennie Be laud won thirty feet of Main street for 94.50 despite a lapse tax sale. The new owner can obtain a clear state title for 12.86. Other real estate swaps included an eighty acre ranch purchase and Chicago Park lots at 50 cents each. A Stockton hotel fire heroine Mrs. T B Sharpnack saved guests before smoke and flames cut off escape. Cedars of Lebanon trees near the old Selby home seek saving by tree surgeons. Sacramento County lists 15 000 men liable for military service. able bodied men 18 to 45 subject to service except certain public officers and emergency personnel.
California free State textbooks are described as a four year life. Almond shipments from Oakdale are expected to set new records, with eight to ten carloads loaded. The piece covers various state topics from rail fatalities to crop conditions and local club activities in Oakdale and Twin Falls Idaho.
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