Tehachapi Survey Completes on Tehachapi Route Highway
Tehachapi residents fund and support a survey from Saugus to Bakersfield for the Tehachapi Route Highway Association. Field work is finished with one Tehachapi to Mojave crossing and one Tehachapi to Bakersfield crossing. Final routing decisions await the State Engineering Board with a July vote.
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Tehachapi
Bakersfield
Mojave
Tehachapi Tomahawk
Tehachapi-Antelope Valleys
Saugus
Tehachapi Route Highway Association
Friends of
Ranching at Atwater letter from Mrs Meyers
A former Barstow resident now in Atwater Calif writes that they are well and working hard. Mr Myers and T A Foster are planting 24 acres of sweet potatoes. A decent crop due to frost and ripe apricots and early peaches. Prices look to improve this year.
Barstow News Roundup Reports Local Visits and Courts
Barstow residents host relatives from Portland and Colorado Springs while Barstow travelers return from Los Angeles and Pueblo. A court heard Mario Cruez’s case, sentencing five months, as Stenographer Charles Flack accompanied McHargue. The Chicago Barstow Oil well advances with 3000 ft new casing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert M. McHargue
Mario Cruez
Cruez
Charles Flack
Attorney McHargue
Barstow
Los Angeles
Bear Lake
A. W. Moore
Eve Tipton
Pueblo
Colo
Geo. Parks
W. W. Jones
Johnson vetoes key Southern California bills in Sacramento
The governor struck down the Needles bridge and Banning Brawley road measures affecting Southern California while approving the Patton asylum appropriation. The writer notes local bias and vows regional progress despite the vetoes, urging continued growth and political vigilance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
H. Johnson
Needles Bridge
California
O.K
Johnson
Santa Fe Mechanics Eyeing Fourth of July Plans
Barstow Mechanics beat Otis 12 to 6 last Sunday while desert baseball weather prompts Needles Bakersfield and Parker to disband teams until late August. Santa Fe Office ball team holds desert title after defeating Kingman 8 to 3 on June 5. Kingman seeks rematch with Barstow Agents following a 11 to 4 loss to Needles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barstow
Otis
Needles
Bakersfield
Parker
Santa Fe
Desert
Kingman
Barstow Bits and Local Notes Reach Readers
The fly trapping business remains strong as A. H L. Pendleton secures a new consignment of traps. Miss Margaret Robson from Delagua, Colorado visits Mr. and Mrs. A. Nelson for two weeks after wintering in Long Beach. Mrs. M. F. McCue of San Diego returns home after a two week visit with her daughter, Mrs. A. Nelson. A new item appears in the fourth page For Sale column and highway news is noted on the last page.
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A. Gilham
Arthur McCrary
Portland
Ore
Mr. Harrington
Colorado Springs
Chas. Reever
Glendora
Hinkley Land
EE. A. Stephens
Los Angeles
W. SH. Deskins
Barstow
Dan Jones
Nellie
Stella Houck
Mr. Houck
Minneola
Gauldin
Belle Moore
Kramer
B. F. Gouldin
C.D. Mack
W. E. Young
San Bernardino
T. Hillis
Mojave
Geo. Hart
F. Eystra
Train Dispatchers Association
B.D. Bennett
West End
Waco
Texas
KE. W. Thresher
T. D. Williams
Rich
Fletchers
Chicago-Barstow
A. H L. Pendleton
Margaret Robson
Delagua
Colo
A. Nelson
Long Beach
M. F. McCue
San Diego
Highway News
Hart on a Boom in a Desert Town Mining rush swells Hart
W. L. Dixon of the Dixon Art Glass Co and C. F. Ingram a Los Angeles real estate man travel by Ford into Hart on a desert mission to erect buildings on their business property. Hart is an old mining town now booming with homesteads and desert claims as settlers arrive.
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W. L. Dixon
Dixon Art Glass Co
Los Angeles
C. F. Ingram
Hart
War Aeroplanes Pass Through Barstow En Route to San Diego
The Aeroplane Squadron of the U S Army signal corps moved from Galveston to San Diego for permanent stationing at the Army Aviation school. Fr L Wanna, Santa Fe agent, oversaw the trip. The unit included nine officers and 31 men under Capt B Hennessey, with ten freight cars and seven aeroplanes, ten more already at San Diego.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Army
Barstow
Galveston
Texas
San Diego
Army Aviation School
Signal Corps
Fr. L. Wanna
Santa Fe
Fieldrtillery
B. Hennessey
Charles White Dies at 58 After Desert Mule Team Work
Charles White, longtime desert mule team driver, died June 11 in a Santa Monica hospital from typhoid pneumonia at age 58. He leaves a widow, a daughter Ella White, and three stepsons Arthur and Jesse Mc Cuistion of Barstow and Albert Mc Cuistion of Sacramento. He had been working at Mojave in April when illness prompted his transfer to the Santa Monica hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles White
Santa Monica
Ella White
Arthur and
Jesse McCuistion
Barstow
Albert McCuistion
Sacramento
White
Mojave
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Kern County
San Bernardino County
Hinkley Road
Auto Club of Southern
Butler
B. L. Vaughn
Victorville
Bear Valley
Santa Fe-Grand Canyon-Needles National Highway Association
Grand Canyon
Atwater
Ethel
Agnes Harwood
Riverside
Ed Pitcher
Tuffy Alford
W. M. Watkins
Fresno
Carter
Chas. Garver
M. L. Garver
Wichita
Kans
San Francisco
Samuel Crooks
R. EE. Bremmer
Thawes
Hugh Lane
Harvey House
Too Much
City Meat Market
Pendleton & McBride
Props
Barstow, Cal
Melrose
O. M. Lowell
O. White
M.D
White & Platt
Lely
Henderson
Lubin J. Henderson
Barstow McRae & CO
Cal
Mojave Valley
M. Fletcher
Automobile Repairs Parts Supplies
Central Garage & Machine Works
J. T. Evans Barstow
C.E. Stauter
Santa Fe Freight House
A. R. Montijo
Henderson’s
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