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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1925
Page
3
Adelanto Chamber of Commerce hosts a Sunday Harvest Festival with swimming, diving, baseball, Treasure Mint prize mystery with 100 silver dollars and smaller prizes. Financially strong year, bumper crops, higher population, abundant water supply, and optimistic outlook ahead. About 1000 attendees expected. locals urged to attend for a fun day and shared community pointers.
The Barstow Women's Club opens its visiting year with Mrs E L Pitcher as president. The meeting will be in the Antler Club rooms next Tuesday afternoon, October 13. Officers from the San Bernardino district are listed by the club.
The National Old Trails route remains the largest source of motorists from the east. This year 59,506 cars have used the highway, 2,000 more than the entire 1923 banner year. The winter trek has begun, signaling a strong motor tourist influx to Southern California alongside rail and water travelers.
A Minneola neighborhood party at the shoohouse Friday evening featured games and dancing on the dry lake under moonlight. About 25 attendees enjoyed coffee and toasted wieners by a large outdoor fire. Minnie Greenstreet from Los Angeles is staying with the Skobel Haimut ranch. J Gverovitch of Los Angeles visits L N Skobel. Nolan Allen and sister hosted a dancing party for local youths Tuesday. Mrs Frank Allen of Pasadena and Chester Pollard, with Miss Alice Hart, visited the Allen home last Sunday. Miss Hart stayed on and will return to Pasadena next Sunday.
Officer Ed Harris received word to watch for two runaway youths. The boys passed Par stow, were taken into custody at Ludlow, jailed in Barstow for a night, and then returned home with their mothers from Long Beach. Names cited are David Elk and Johnny Starke.
The San Bernardino Labor Journal reports four eating houses placed on the Central Labor Council unfair list Olympic Cafe Goodfellows Cafe Star Grill and the French Chop House about thirty people affected by the lockout
Edna Vyne Babcock and Frank J. Kuhn were united in marriage at Atolia on Sunday October 4 in a ceremony performed by G A Hansbrouch, justice of the peace, marking a local nuptial event.
Sef ZG Sef ZG Nes Lee Four cars of winter Nellis pears have left Newcastle Placer county for London England announcement George M. Eaby secretary of the La Habra Walnut Growers Association bumper crop of walnuts expected this year Thus vineyardists in the Lodi San Joaquin county section have shipped over 800 cars of grapes The Flame Tokay season is on in full blast with over 100 cars daily going out River valley farms Yolo county have turned the water off one thousand acres for early rice Butte farms near Coranco station draining 1 200 acres of rice Phil B Arnold of Colusa is experimenting with kikuyu grass Production of honey reduced to one third of normal output in Woodland Yolo county and declined county wide How to get fruit from Placer county to eastern markets will be the main theme at the Placer county fruit growers fifth annual convention in Auburn early October.
J D Fippins orchardist west of the high school in Sutter county reports 163 tons and 1 902 pounds of No 1 peaches from 15 acres of Gaume cling trees four years old this spring. Cannery sheets show every peach graded No 1 with no deductions.
County Horticultural Commissioner B A Harrigan estimates about seven thousand acres of alfalfas will be threshed in the Calipatria district as the harvest proves a profitable industry in the Imperial Valley.
The San Fernando Valley Rabbit Association in Lankershim Los Angeles County recently welcomed twenty new members. The group estimates about 150 rabbit producers operate in the valley with an estimated 17 000 rabbits in total.
Representatives of Italian societies in California moved to form a state Sons of Italy. St Pauls church in Knights Landing is nearing completion. Vineyardists seek wine permits to salvage grapes damaged by rains in Sonoma. Professor Gordon H True will judge stock at Maui island fair. EK Pryor named to state board of dental examiners. Oroville Elks plan a 4 story lodge costing about 250000. CorA Harriman, 81, pioneer resident of Siard Flat, dies. Julia Speaker, Modesto, wins dairy maid milking contest for Stanislaus. Frank Joseph, 87, celebrated birthday in Colusa after long residence. Tonohoe Memorial Infirmary opened at Santa Clara University. Call to build fish ladder on Woodbridge dam. Marin County farm advisor discusses cow testing. Chileno-Salmon Creek association forming. Merced Irrigation District tax rises to 7.10 per 100 valuation. Ventura county to host experimental pruning plot. Likely Lumber Company at Alturas closes mill, plans logging season. Petaluma apple tree bears a second crop after spring bloom. California rail and road transport shows 30 million passengers and 1 million tons freight in 1924.
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