Get Together Social at Congregational Church
Informal evening at the Congregational Church with hosts Mrs. Leak and Mrs. Kerr greeting guests. Chrysanthemums decorate, music features include Mrs. Henderson and husband, Mrs. Benedict, Miss McNeice, Miss Sigrid Aronson. Rev. Ray speaks on Community Spirit and invites attendees to Sunday services. Refreshments served.
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Congregational Church
R. M. Benedict
Bagby
Dresse
Mr. Bagby
Mr. Henderson
Benedict
Professor Thomas
Miss McNeice
Mies McNeice
Red Cross Elect Officers In Mojave River Valley Chapter
The Mojave River Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross held a meeting last Tuesday and elected officers for the coming year. Elected were Mrs. Ella Pitcher as chairman, Mrs. K E White as treasurer, Mrs. James McDougall as secretary, and Mrs. L J Henderson as vice chairman.
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Mojave River Valley
The
American Red Cross
Ella Pitcher
KE. L. White
James McDougall
L. J. Henderson
Chautauqua Committee
New Jail Promised for Barstow Amid Road Bond Delays
A letter from Mr. Mulvane confirms the board will at once build a jail and will dispatch a representative to select a site and arrange purchases. The State Highway Commission plans a December meeting with southern counties to outline road procedures, while bond sales slow progress.
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Barstow
Mulvane
State Highway Commission
Southern Counties Committee
Miss Rose Miller and Clifford Carr to wed in Los Angeles
Miss Rose Miller from Leavenworth Kansas will marry Clifford Carr in Los Angeles on Thanksgiving Day at 10 30 AM. Carr, a Barstow native and Santa Fe car inspector, served with the AEF in France. Beerman Robert Lynch and bridesmaid Miss Anna Stanko named. A wedding breakfast at Mrs Hariet Carr’s home precedes a San Diego honeymoon.
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Clifford Carr
Rose Miller
Los Angeles
Miss Miller
Levensworth
Kansa
Hariet Carr
Mr. Carr
Barstow
The
Santa Fe
France
Robert Lynch
Beerman
Anna Stanko
San Diego
Local Ladies Make Hats Under Home Demonstration Agent
Barstow Hotel lobby hosts 18 San Bernardino County Farm Bureau members for a millinery session led by Miss Mary Richardson and Mrs. Jessie Lee Decker. Eighteen attendees made nine hats from scraps costing about one dollar each, one at 1.80. A countywide report shows savings of 11,505 by making garments locally across seven counties from April 20 to October 16, with 112 demonstrations and 2,170 attending, versus shop costs totaling 88,473.51.
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Barstow
San Bernardino County Farm Bureau
Mary Richardson
Jessie Lee Decker
Decker
Red Cross Christmas Boxes to Europe Guidelines
The American Red Cross outlines conditions for forwarding Christmas boxes to personnel in Europe. Boxes must be six by eighteen inches, under fifty pounds, prepaid, with clear sender and consignee addresses, and limited to nonperishable items. Send to 24 Bush Terminals Brooklyn and reach by November 27. couriers may be provided but loss not guaranteed.
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Red Cross
Europe
United States
New York
American Red Cross
Bush Terminals
Brooklyn
Send For Your Tax Statements Now
Tax collectors urge taxpayers to request statements immediately due to mail delays. Delinquency risk rises if statements arrive late. receipts are sent to banks, not reliable. Address delays persist. taxpayers have until December first to pay. C D Van Wie, Tax Collector.
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C.D. van Wie
Blacksmith Guy Johnson Faces Layoffs Over Hand Injury
Guy Johnson a blacksmith at the Bar stow Garage has been laid off this week due to an infected hand he sustained while working.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Johnson
Barstow
Town Topics Recap of Community Events and Notes
Town topics cover a Barstow church fund drive for a parsonage and a new hall, hunter safety concerns along the river, Chautauqua committee plans and officers, and ticket prices. Also mentions a touring Jazz band photo, a large evangelical campaign by the Methodist church, Desert sign-posting by Auto Club, Imperial Valley maintenance, and record almond shipments from California Almond Growers Exchange with $150,000 total value that day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Barstow
Centenary Conservation Committee
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Auto Club of
Southern California
Death Valley
San Diego County
Imperial Valley
California
California Almond Growers’ Exchange
Sacramento
Armistice debate warns of hollow peace in Senate
Fresno Republican notes that Congress adjourned without ratifying the peace treaty and cautions that a continued armistice in spirit risks undermining lessons from the war. It predicts Wilson may resubmit in December and mentions ER. C. Sanders returning to Barstow Garage after a Los Angeles vacation.
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Senate
Senate of the United States
Senate of the
United States
Paris
Rhine
ER. C. Sanders
Barstow
Los Angeles
Grammar School Bond Issue Near Future
Bargtow trustees plan a bond election to raise ten thousand dollars to build a ten room grammar school. The current enrolment is 190 with six teachers and temporary buildings in use. Grace C. Stanley recommends funding from existing bonds and a special tax to expand housing and staff.
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Barstow Grammar School
Grace C. Stanley
Bargtow
Treasury
Assessment Work on all Mining Claims Suspended for Year 1919
San Francisco reports State Mineralogist Fletcher Hamilton announces a White House telegram saying President Wilson approved Public Resolution No 241 on November 13 1919. The law suspends assessment work for 1919 on all unpatented mining claims including quartz placer or oil with no limit on exempt claims, resolving the August 15 1919 act which capped to five per owner.
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San Francisco
Fletcher Hamilton
White House
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Mining News From the Big Silver Strike District
Randsburg, November 19. Charles Teagle, a pioneer in the Rand Mining District, dies leaving a legacy of law, order, and civic uplift. The Rand Silver Mine shows high grade ruby silver at 150 feet with ore trend extending south and east. Blank and Knapp leases yield promising ore. optimism returns as new leases and machinery plan to open 150 acres west of the dyke and develop the Stringer district.
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John
Wray
Randsburg
Charles Teagle
Rand
Inyo
Kern
San Bernardino
Mojave
Searles Lake
Death Valley
Teagle
Desert
Garden Station
Johannesburg
Loyo
Red Mountain
Kelly
Blank Lease
Kelly Main
Knapp
Kelly Mine
Kapp
Valdemar Schmidt
Los Angeles
Andrew Klapproth
Vienna
Schmidt
Stringer
Party At Mrs McCastion Home Delights Guests
The home of Mrs. Ethel McCastion hosted a merry Tuesday evening gathering. Floyd Hawes dad Sanders and Guy Johnson provided entertainment with musical instruments for the group of friends and guests Amy Stone Daisy Stone Dara Gurlickson Jim Modgett and Joe Mitchell.
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Ethel McCastion
Floyd Hawes
Sanders
Guy Johnson
Amy
Daisy Stone
Dara, Gurlickson
Jim Modgett
Joe Mitchell
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Will Boyle
J. W. Soules
Harry Edwards
Fresno
Edwards
Burstow
Forest Miller
Navy
Grammar School
Big Silver
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