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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1913
Page
4
Editorial urges Barstow to restart Fourth of July celebrations mirroring Victorville success. Calls for a Barstow Crooked Roads and Improvement Association meeting to organize events, with Bakersfield already planning. Highlights local attractions and a push to celebrate before August.
In Crucero Valley many visitors arrived this week to inspect land and nearby homesteads. Los Angeles residents Barton and a party plan to locate, while Henry Marks buys a deep well rig to service his desert claim. Local residents report water wells good and goats and sheep being developed on several homesteads.
The Highland Messenger reprints a case where Mrs Maggie Ustich, ill and mother of four, received only 209.25 from United Charities of Chicago after a $5,000 inquiry by 82 reports, 105 visits, and 41 in person pleas. Two children died. critics warn of grafters siphoning funds and call for direct aid to the truly needy without intermediaries.
Unofficial Charity workers Andy Larson J H Sloan and T J Henderson aided an aged miner 20 miles north of Barstow after a week of illness. They drove him to Barstow in an auto where he received care and is now regaining strength.
Albert C. Wilson of Hinkley California filed intention to make final proof to establish his Desert Land Entry No. Q0ux for SESE Section 31 Township 10N Range 2W 38 B Meridian before the Los Angeles Land Office on June 25 1918 at 10 o clock a m Witnesses include Elmer T. Riley and Laura B. Peck of Los Angeles Adelbert Cortrite of Inglewood and Lillian K E Wilson of Barstow. Frank Buren Register. First pub May 16 Last pub June 13
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