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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
5
Trains arrive and depart from the Santa Fe depot with listed Westbound times at 8 54 a m 2 10 p m and 4 21 p m and Eastbound times at 9 40 a m 12 43 p m and 6 57 p m for reference in service notices.
The notice promotes a special magazine offer as the greatest premium yet from the newspaper. Sample copies are available at the office. It urges readers to publish who to dispose of and what to buy or trade for, in a sensational inhouse promotion.
A Corona California effort offers 100000 eucalyptus seedlings for planting featuring Blue Gum Sugar Gum and Grey Gum varieties. Organizers WYATT and WOLLITZ present the trees for community planting in 2024.
Local brief items report H Elwood spending Wednesday in Corona, J B Gooch's business trip to Ontario, and early seat reservations for If I Were King at the High School Auditorium. News includes religious services, horse sales, andatin residents visiting Corona, with several residents planning relocations and business moves in the area.
Rev B B Jacques begins a series of evangelistic meetings in Baptistel on Wednesday evening continuing nightly except Saturday with special music each evening. Visitors include landowner J T Bressler of Wayne Co Neb who may relocate to Corona after praising the Crown City. Tempers and temperance noted as A J Wallace spoke at Goorg House while Red Men judges praised Riverside and Redlands teams in an adoption degree contest.
The Moving Picture Theatre gains a new sign mounted on Tuesday. The word Theatre appears in white on blue, illuminated by twenty four eight candle power lamps, twelve on each side.
Mr. HW C Kellogg Civil Engineer who surveyed and platted Corona visited on Wednesday. He now resides at Santa Ana and is widely known in his profession for holding several responsible posts in this city and the Hawaiian Islands.
The Children’s concert at the Alden Opera House last Saturday evening, under the Episcopal Church ladies, drew strong attendance. The young performers acquitted themselves well, and receipts were satisfactory to the patient instructors who trained and guided the event.
Last week in Crown City Mr. C. B. Hoadley of Redlands toured the groves with Mr. Geo. L. Bush. He praised Corona oranges for color and admitted the lemon groves offered magnificent fruit unseen in California.
The Moving Picture show at the Bonfoey building, now firmly established, offers two nightly programs with a Saturday matinee. Manager Massengill reports unprecedented success and changes films every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, appealing to the public with high quality subjects.
In Limbo City Marshall Lyman and Deputy Long escorted a group to the county Jail last Monday. Jim Morrigan, arrested with burglary tools, led the star prisoners, joined by Silecox Ed Smith and a man named W. R. Smith. All received thirty day sentences as drunks or vagrants.
New Commander Envoy James Malone arrives in Corona from the Salvation Army Colony at Soledad to organize a Corps and supersede the old post. He appeals for unused beds, tables, chairs or other household furniture to furnish a home for the unit.
The J C C class of the M E church held a quarterly business meeting on February 2 1908. Elected officers included President Helen Newton Vice President Sibyl Lindley Recording Secretary Estelle Davis Corresponding Secretary Olive Masten Treasurer Celey Stombaugh Executive Committee Sibyl Lindley Ethel Rycraft Inez Kirby Celby Stombaugh Olive Masten Lookout Committee Rose Cechin chairman Zilpha Davis Cecilia Fletcher Beatrice Daniels Jennie Clites.
Last Tuesday evening a youthful crowd surprised Miss Bessie Cook at her North Sheridan home to celebrate her birthday anniversary. The event featured recitations games and music followed by sandwiches punch and a birthday cake presided over by Miss Cook before guests departed around eleven o clock.
The article notes teenagers support a fund to erect a Civil War monument. Old soldiers participate in presenting a show titled The Confederate Spy. Women in charge expect a successful event with March 24 as the date and plans for tickets and program to follow.
Nine year old Ashel Penphrane celebrated his ninth anniversary with about twenty playmates. The event, organized by his mother, featured social games and a pleasing musical program. Refreshments included ice cream and cake as attendees offered congratulations and departed hoping for many more birthdays.
William O. Randall formerly of New York now resident in Los Angeles has assumed management of the Buell Café at the Hotel Alden in Corona. He is an accomplished eater and has already transformed the dining room and culinary departments into metropolitan standards, making friends quickly.
The article notes steady buyer interest in Orange and Lemon Grove, with Bush & McNeil selling another holding to a party planning to settle. On Wednesday Frank J. Ardolt of Los Angeles acquired Lot 5, Block 30, a ten acre naval bearing parcel.
The ten acre orange grove on Rim Part Avenue in Corona was sold cash for a price reportedly around $9,000. Seller F A Parker of Los Angeles transferred to buyer H V Reeves of Alameda who visited Corona this week and plans to move there soon.
Manager Frank Alden brings Theodore Marston and his company to Corona for a seven night run at the Auditorium Theatre. They present Jim the Westerner opening Monday with a different play each night including Thelma Ole Olean The Convict's Daughter SUA Aattle Scarred Tero and The Widow and the Wife Popular prices prevail and the company carries a strong local reputation.
Congregational Church presents morning topic The Boy Awakening to the Father and evening The Baptism of Jesus. Baptist Church offers morning topic The Good Shepherd and evening Infidelity versus Christianity. Christian Church features morning The Christian's Time Mission and evening Selling Our Birthright.
Frank Miller, famed Glenwood Tratel proprietor, argues for a Riverside Corona road linking scenic drives, rail access, and tourist revenue. He says Corona would prosper with a coast highway, hotels, and better travel, urging local backing to move from talk to action.
Those seeking nurse services should contact Miss Telford at old Compton place Erone phone 201.
Francis Cuttle of Ttverside recently butted into politics and urged Roosevelt. Bets arise whether he wore his old Bell campaign button during a White House visit.
The following letters remain uncalled for at the Corona California post office for the week ending March 2 1908 Olive Severo Balderaz Mr J Chak Marehune Camacho Cy Elaris Miss Kate Hlongan Will Hedden William Horton Mr J Hanorf Nivson L Maddock Mos Amanda Miller Mr Nathanel Mac Donald Mnr M J Mac Cameron ay Tite Parks Miss Jane Belles R Russer Sr Juan Rico The letters will be sent to the Dead Letter Office on March 1 108 George Brown P M
Advertisement pages solicit buyers for a San Domingo mahogany cabinet and piano cabinet woodwork for storefront counters. Also seeking a medium sized furrier stall business for sale with price, land description, reason for selling, and possession date. No agents. response via mail to Corona and Hochester addresses.
An instruction to place per word inserts for ads in 36 leading U.S. papers. The Duke Advertising Agency is based at 427 South Main Street in Los Angeles California.
Buyers can purchase Sall Brandywine and Klondike strawberry plants at two dollars per thousand from BF in Grotainger. Exact availability and ordering details are not fully clear from the fragment.
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