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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1908
Page
8
The Virginian hotel opens amid Fleet Week crowds in Long Beach. The new hostelry features a vaulted lobby, grand pillars, and an air of spacious luxury praised as unmatched on the coast. City trustees set committees for the year and adjourn to May 6.
The April election concluded calmly as new trustees Gillett and Kidder took seats. Cuthbert Gully resigned as City Engineer to focus on private practice, with the board endorsing his administration and the old board dissolved.
Clarence C Eaton lectured at the Corona Opera House with Mrs Isabella Wyatt assisting in stage decorations. The talk described Christian Science as founded on perfect love and God as the sum of all intelligence, drawing praise for the setting and audience response. The Independent notes the address but could not publish a full report.
The marine editor of the Independent covers sixty thousand spectators witnessing Uncle Sam s sixteen great steel battleships arrive at Long Beach. Crowds cheered as the Connecticut led the fleet into San Pedro harbor and lights illuminated the vessels for three hours. The observer vows to push for expanding naval construction beyond four ships.
Electric Theatre manager Messingal and songstress Miss Mailes return from a beach trip with the full staff. They announce Friday and Saturday showings including Sold Again Gypsies Revenge Sculptor's Welsh Rarebit Dream Fatherhood and Drunkenness and The Jealous Wives. Miss Mailes sings new songs Twinkle Star and When Someone Really Isn't.
Mr Charles Madison of Covina a prominent butcher with several shops says Corona is one of the most promising towns in Southern California He owns the cash market on Main street and seeks a larger storeroom He has spent much on fitting up shops at Pomona and nearby towns and would establish Corona as a premier market if a suitable space is found.
Owners Prizer and Thomas J. Parks have eighty acres near Temescal six miles from Corona with a forty five foot tunnel and several openings showing rich fire brick clay deposits. Tests praise the clay as top quality and eastern buyers plan personal examinations. A factory could follow on Arroyo east of town, pending final decisions.
Tensions rose after the high license ticket loss as open saloon advocates resisted defeat. Randall, voting in precinct one, faced insults from W A McCreery but was allowed to vote. McCreery later sought to fund challenges to the election, while Randall faced a $500 bond on a false illegal voting charge.
The Independent urges full voter turnout at the May 4 caucus to ensure a genuine expression of opinion on delegates to Riverside. It warns against any hidden schemes to pack the delegation and stresses the duty of suffragists and voters to attend and vote openly.
Mrs. Freund wife of Titeits Clay Company works Superintendent Freund and her two children settled at the corner of Raumatical Tenth streets in Corona after moving from Barberton. She expresses joy at the sunny land as a longtime member of the Del Rey association loses Mr. Freund yet gains renewed benediction with family and home.
News of the death of Mrs Rutherford daughter of Mrs Montgomery of Corona reached this morning. She died while traveling toward New Mexico on a Southern Pacific train and full details could not be learned before press time.
Jerome G. Augular aged 44 native of Mexico and father of A. G. Auguilar of Russ Lumber company died Tuesday evening. Funeral directed by Undertaker James L. Davis held at family residence at 2 p.m. Wednesday Interment at Sunny Slope.
A six room home on W. El Jameson's Southland Ranch, three miles south of town, burned completely last Saturday night. HH N Byins and family escaped with help from a ranch employee Fean Laycock who dragged the husband from the flames. Mrs Evins and children were saved upstairs. There was no insurance. water pressure was poor and firefighters hurried to remove horses and wagons from the barn.
Corona churches held special Easter services with spring attire and music. Episcopal Church observed Holy Communion at morning service. Methodist Church featured sermons on mortality and resurrection. Baptist Chapel held Sunrise Prayer Meeting with morning and evening preaching. Congregational and Christian churches offered programs led by visiting pastor George L. Snively and Ferris, focusing on grave in the garden of life and the power of the resurrection.
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