Chicken Dinner Sunday at Milletts Boarding House
A Sunday chicken dinner offered for 75 cents at Milletts Boarding House located a fifteen minute drive from Barstow.
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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1927
Page
8
A Sunday chicken dinner offered for 75 cents at Milletts Boarding House located a fifteen minute drive from Barstow.
Barstow boys defeated Yermo 23 to 9 to stretch their win streak to four games. Lineup included Floyd Carr C Egbert Thrasher P Beverly Burke Frank Bauer Bill Steinberg Everett Pray Elvin Mudgett Franklin Hitlerbrecht Phillip Walton Carl Wester. A near collision on the way home involved Lloyd Tiernan after the game near the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce sign. The Yermo boosters will face Barstow again Friday night.
Fred Gibson, clerk of the Hodge district school board, advertises bids for student transportation to and from Hodge school. Buses must be equipped for bad weather protection and carry insurance for student safety as the new service station adds to highway improvements and cheerfulness.
Newberry social notes report Doris and Marion Sischo entertaining friends living around Los Angeles at the Cliff House. Broughers and son Joe visit Newberry. Rue Baxter visits in LA. Mrs Burden returns from Anaheim and Laguna Beach. Northrups return from Empire. Barnes welcome baby boy born August 17 in Claremont. Harps plan a California tour including Yosemite, Mt. Whitney and Lake Tahoe. Clinkenbeards’ sister ill in Oregon. Clinkenbeards host weekend guests. Grandchildren of P. E. Clinkenbeard visiting. Dr L. Graham of Newberry visits Barstow and notes farming plans. Dr Grimes, formerly Barstow dentist, returns to Newberry district. now retired, raising chickens and eggs.
Daggett residents Mrs. Bob Campbell returned from Los Angeles after visiting her daughter Mrs. Elmer Redman. A car load of oil arrived in Daggett intended for oiling the Daggett Yermo road. Mr. and Mrs. C Homer C Ryerson are noted in the report.
Daggett locals resume routines after vacations in Ontario Oregon and Washington. August accidents at Daggett include a Union Pacific crossing rollover injuring one occupant, two serious crashes at the Minneola crossing, a Riverside man wrecking a Lincoln at the Hort icultural Station curve, a Redlands couple uninjured in a Dort rollover, and a serious Daggett curve accident involving Mr and Mrs Benjamin Sames.
A Friday evening rabbit drive on the York ranch in Harper Lake valley drew Hinkley ranchers, with Dr Chaplin Clark and Seymour listed among participants. Several of the so called alfalfa destroyers were exterminated in the hunt.
Hinkley district rancher C. G. Phillips levels land for J. A. Mahnk to plant alfalfa while Hinkley pupils prepare to reopen school September 12 under teacher Mrs. A. A. Sproule. Road foreman Christiansen returns from a two week vacation overseeing the state highway project.
The Board of Trustees of Hologe School District invites sealed bids for transporting students to and from school for the 1927-28 term. Route distance about 24 miles daily, twice daily. Buses must shelter children from weather and carry insurance for child protection. Bids due by September 6, 1927.
Minneola reports J. K. Loomis drove to Los Angeles with daughter Miss June Loomis and sister Mrs. C. A. Barry. Blanche Loomis stayed a week. Mrs. Alice Hand returns from Redwood City. Oliver Laubscher leaves Webber ranch for Arizona law school. Two more autos overturned at Minneola crossing with no fatalities.
Local residents of Daggett and east protest dangerous rail road crossings on the National Highway at Minneola and Daggett. The Barstow Printer notes a rising accident pattern and reports letters to the Highway Commission urging a southern re routing of five miles of highway. Residents foresee moving Daggett businesses to the highway, a costly but potentially town improving change.
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