29 Oct 1909
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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1909
Page
1
The Corona club met in Huff building rooms and endorsed the proposed constitution and by laws. Directors will elect officers after year’s start, temporary furniture is being installed, and rooms should be ready by next month. Membership already sufficient for a paying year is anticipated.
Rev Wesley K Beans D D pastor leads Bible school at 9 30 preaching at 10 45 a m and 7 30 p m Morning topic The Christian s Inheritance Evening topic A Plea for Kindness Intermediate League at 5 pm Epworth League 6 30 pm Leader O D Van Dyke also presents Poor Rich and Rich Poor as service topic
Corner Main and Highth streets invites the public to morning Sunday school at 9 30 a m preaching at 10 45 a m and 7 30 p m Junie Boy P A 6 30 p m sermon topics Morning Joseph or An Overruling Providence Evening All Things are Ready Special music all day Everyone urged to attend bring friends
The church offers Bible classes for children and adults at 9:30 A M and various programs through the day including Inter mediate C E at 5 P M and a young people’s meeting at 6 30 P M A Wednesday fellowship at 7 30 P M The Sunday sermons address Character Through the Eye in the morning and John Wycklif The Morning Star of the Reformation in the evening
A study praising enduring figures who shaped the reformation and the intellectual and religious freedoms of modern times. The passage honors many men and women whose influence spans centuries, describing them as torchbearers passed down through generations.
The Congregational church will host a brief sermon series on the 400th anniversary year of John Calvins birth. Ferig will lead Sunday evening talks on reformers with topics including Wycklifs Morning Star, Huss as a flaming torch for liberty, Luther as maker of Protestantism, and Calvins role as man and statesman.
Porterville records the first car of the new naval crop shipped Wednesday from Porterville by Randolph Fruit Company. The fruit, from Globe district, is fancy grade and well colored. The company expands Boydston packing house with W J Thomayer in charge and managers at Lindsay Burr Station Exeter. Robert says new districts opened in Southern California and shipments up over 300 percent with potential to exceed 500 cars from Lindsay under normal conditions.
Miss Lillian Sweet and Miss Alice Whiting will host an informal Hallowe en gathering at their Sky Ranch camp tomorrow evening. About a dozen guests are invited for hospitality with a marshmallow roast red apples and ghost stories as features.
About twenty five members of the Guild of the Episcopal church gathered at Mrs. H F Scoville's home to celebrate paying off the rectory debt. They worked for years with little outside help and added cut flowers as simple decorations during a noon dinner and social afternoon.
Miss Muriel Fuller, a former Corona girl, will take part in the Catholic entertainment program this evening. She once lived with her parents on the Fuller ranch and has performed in Corona on multiple occasions. Out-of-town contributors will arrive and stay at the Del Rey.
The Corona Tennis Club will host its final event of the season on Thanksgiving Day with men’s doubles handicap, mixed doubles scratch, ladies’ singles, and an open city championship singles. Entries open to city residents. men’s by Mr. F J Mueller and ladies by Mrs. Geo. Van Kirk. closes the Saturday before the match.
Washington reports Uncle Sam’s food officials enforce the pure food law to root out misbranding and false claims. Notable cases include a water label misstatement, underweight canned corn in Kentucky, and a maple syrup label misleading buyers. Government supervision over all foods is highlighted.
The Tuesday Musical club of Riverside launches a campaign to educate local taste to the highest artistic standard and to attract residents who will support top tier concerts. They contrast Riverside with Redlands, noting better town support draws artists and boosts city prestige.
Three Christian church groups the Loyal Soldiers Pansy Circle and Delta Alpha will hold a Hallowe en party at C D McNeil residence Miss Ruth serves as hostess Grace Miller leads the Pansy Circle and Florence Sargent heads the Loyal Soldiers jack o lanterns and standard Halloween decorations expected to delight the youths
A historical overview notes 22 years ago U S fruit imports exceeded 20.5 million dollars with exports near 3 million. By 1907 imports reached 35 million and exports about 1.5 million, with tropical fruits driving import increases while orange imports fell dramatically. Prunes shifted from 300,000 import value with zero exports to 2 5 million exports and modest imports. Raisin trade moved from a net import of 2 million to a net export of 500 thousand.
The Scientific American reports a November Algeria Horticultural Society meeting displaying seedless dates of large size and fine flavor produced without artificial fertilization. Date palms are dioecious. pollination requires male pollen conveyed by wind, insects or humans. In Algeria, ripe male flowers are placed among female ones to aid pollination. Egyptian art shows this practice in antiquity. Seedless fruits often come from isolated female trees but were previously imperfectly developed. Nice grows a date palm yielding black fruit yearly with seedless dates similar to regular fruit, though in most species seedless dates are smaller and rarer.
The post office lists letters remaining uncalled for for the week ending Oct 25. If not collected by Nov 8 they go to the dead letter office. Names include Gooden Budgett, R F D No 1 Box 96, R W Carlan, Ellsworth, Maximo Gaisna, Luz Gerrero, Matias Gutierres, Jose M Hernandez, Pedro Hurtada, Alfred Job, BE Johnson, Celedon Mejia, Clyde Moss, G A Crozser, Jesus Rodrigues, Aligo Vincinzo.
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