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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1921
Page
5
An advertisement notes J J Gans distributor at 309 South San Pedro street Los Angeles California offering a ten cent cigar as a promotional item. The fragment references markets and prices but contains limited context.
The pastor calls all friends to attend Sunday evening at 7 30 for lantern slides and a talk on Pilgrims in the Wilderness with pictures and music. Seventy two attended last week. Next Sunday features a dramatic sketch Mr C ik featuring Uncle Sam and school officers. The second Missionary meeting is set for Friday March 18 at 3 with Mrs E A Farrington in charge. Fifty new hymnals ordered, Hymns of the Centuries. Site negotiations placed with M B Clark of Needles. Boy Scouts finalize Scout uniforms. New members received at communion: Miss Mary W Bush Mrs Isabel Ireland Mrs A E Paterson and Rev A E Paterson.
Miss Cobb remains ill but services continue at Barstow led by Evangelist Carrie Harris and Rev Hattie J Handyside. Sunday school starts at 10:00 a.m. with preaching at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting is Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome.
Correspondent reports Canell and Stone Cattle Company leasing the Camp Cady Reservation for five years from Mr and Mrs Williams of Yermo. The town welcomes new agent Lichty and family. Morley works on a turkey-raising ranch adjacent to Yermo, and the pool hall changes ownership to Lockwood and Carter. Mutual Water pumps 80 acres of barley for Geth of Los Angeles. A highway through Yermo shortens the Arrowhead Trail route by about 80 miles, connecting to the old immigrant Mormon road and increasing cross-desert travel via Salt Lake City and the Lincoln highway.
Secretary Cecil H. Phillips reports work at Painted Hills No 1 with a new rotary drill is advancing faster than expected. Soft sea sand requires mud casing, and a shipment of mud from Kern County will allow uninterrupted depth as nearly a hundred leaseholders observe. The Barker well nearby nears derrick completion and a Clark engine powers the rig.
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