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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1931
Page
6
George Leahy of San Francisco visits Barstow as former local yard engineer. Mrs. Vihel hosts relatives including Mrs. Cockrell and Mrs. Olson for Mother's Day. Harry Dobbs takes vacation. Brooks and Harvey Mosier visit. Barstow Woman's Club to hold annual banquet May 27 at Newberry with expected large turnout.
Barstow Union High School students Mary Woods Hinkley Pauline Safford Claire Seymour and Maxine McGowan joined a Play Day event in Lancaster last Saturday. James Siemon returned from a San Francisco visit Monday. Clarence King of Santa Ana was in Hinkley on business Saturday. George Siemon and E L Seymour attended Barstow Chamber meeting Friday. Mrs Triplett spends two weeks vacation with family on Hinkley ranch. Girls 4 H Sewing Club to meet Saturday at Mrs Hawks home. Mrs Blackman and Mrs Hawks lead Hinkley Harper Lake farm bureau work. Mrs Robert Jardine hosted Bridge Club with Mrs Street and Mrs L Jacobson as substitutes. Mrs George Henderson had high score.
Los Angeles May 18. The city plans a 150th anniversary festival featuring a pontifical high mass in Olympic Stadium and denominational vesper services in Hollywood Bowl. Activities include a night electrical movie parade a street carnival and a two day air fiesta of national proportions. F G Dell osso of Huntington Park leads booster efforts and Native Sons participation boosts the celebration.
Eyewitnesses aboard reported a long sea voyage feeling like an extension of Los Angeles as rumors swirled that the vessel strayed near the city’s boundary. Officials urged caution while residents debated jurisdiction and boundary markers.
Laura Oxson Daggett and O. L. MecMickell Ludlow recently wed in Kingman Arizona. A Thursday evening shower hosted by Mrs. J R Dockery and Mrs. C V Northup of Daggett drew twenty four guests to celebrate with cards and gifts. The couple plan to reside in Ludlow where MecMickell works at Murphy garage as a mechanic after a three day Grand Canyon honeymoon. Alberta Osborne returned from Peoria Arizona visiting her husband reclaiming mining claims for Walter Alf.
Robert Speth a Barstow Union High School graduate attending the University of Redlands won the election for university YMCA secretary over two rivals. He joins a cabinet led by George Pohlman who is studying at the University of Hawaii on an exchange scholarship. Kenji Fujiwara, a Japanese student, studies at Redlands. The May 9 Annual University Day welcomed high school students from Southern California with campus life, a baseball game, a speech education department play, a student song on the administration steps, the lighting of the "A" on the mountainside, and declamation and debate contests.
George M. Canning of Los Angeles and a sixteen man crew began moving the Lillian Jones department store building yesterday. The structure will be relocated across Third street with a new Strouse-Reitz five and ten cent store planned on the former site. Mrs. John T. Higgins and her son Robert are visiting the Newberry district, staying at Cliff House camp, with 320 acres of land in the area. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Vihel drove to Bakersfield on business.
Classified notice seeking a team of mules and ranching equipment. Don Schlatter lists Box 185 Hinkley as contact. Public notice date 5 14.
Advertised shopper offer promotes the lowest price yet for a range with a stalled down payment and 12 months to complete purchase. An allowance is provided for old equipment.
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