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Newspaper
Dispatch Democrat
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1934
Page
2
The Dispatch-Democrat mourns editor and publisher E P Thurston, noting his long service and leadership of the paper, with tributes from colleagues and readers.
The schedule lists Wednesday night games for the Twilight baseball league girls teams from June to August. Matchups include Red Stars, Fire Department, Native Daughters, and Kangaroos with dates June 6 through August 28.
The article clarifies terminology for hop field disease, noting researchers and newspapers should call the downy mildew a disease rather than an infestation. It contrasts infestation with infection and distinguishes pest presence from plant illness.
Fort Bragg news notes visits by Mrs. William Beck returning to San Francisco with her husband after a weekend here. Several others including Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Smith of Stockton, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Smith relocating to Willits, and Mr. and Mrs. Phil Brubeck of Oakland with Zoe Rushing are mentioned. Graduations, births, and health trips are recorded among local families and friends from Ukiah, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Novato.
Fort Bragg baseball players traveled to Ukiah to beat Talmage 10 to 6 in a slugfest. Bennetti sprained an ankle early and was relieved, with two more Talmage pitchers stabilizing but failing. Matson started for Fort Bragg and left with a lame arm as the coast boys rallied.
The Ukiah Native Sons travel to Potter Valley next Sunday to meet the Potter town team. Potter has strengthened its lineup with two expert players of local fame, and Potter expected to drive the Sons into camp.
Ukiah Grange held a regular session in Boring hall last Friday evening with Worthy Master O R Archer presiding. Ruel Stickney, program chairman, presented entertaining features including vocal solos by Mrs Wilda May, piano by Mrs Katherine Harvey, and a dance by Mrs Ralph Richardson. Proceeds from the penny dance will fund apron materials for rodeo sale. music by Mrs Ardis Conoly and songs by Mr and Mrs A C Ingram accompanied the program.
Delbert Haydon of Willits spent Monday afternoon in town accompanied by Barney Schow.
Day trips and visits from San Francisco Mendocino Mountain View and Eureka residents fill the column. Edith Gwitzer and sisters A W Biggers and Ada Harvey visited here. the Pitchers returned to San Rafael after time at a Noyo River camp. Leo Galli of San Francisco visited his parents in town for Memorial Day. Resthaven hosted Mrs Fisher from San Francisco. Loren Bishop of Eureka welcomed a baby daughter born Sunday May 27. Evelyn Lydick recovered from appendicitis and Horace Weller III returns from Hastings Law School for the summer. Rose family guests depart for Compton after visiting Kenneth Rose and daughter Nancy Joyce.
B R Ogle sues W F Ornham administrator of Charles F Hill estate to quiet title and deed. Keith C Eversole files against H L Bergstrom and Geraldina Bergstrom for $500 note from May 5 1931 with interest and costs. Bank of America sues Firshish Colony to quiet title. William F Whitney sues Grate Lacry M J Lacry and Petaluma Box Corp for foreclosure seeking $500 and interest. Retta Tipton seeks divorce from Leon Tipton for extreme cruelty and custody of child. C Arthur Iversen sues to quiet title. Ebenezer P White estate defendant George P Anderson as administrator. Keith C Eversole sues J F Miller & Sons for $860 and interest for grape buying in Mendocino county 1932. John F Harold K and Loren Miller named. Attorneys Barrett & McConnell file administration letters for Maude Grove estate of William Wright valued at $1587.
City Councilman and Mrs. A L Harris and daughter Marjorie will depart Ukiah on Saturday June 16 for Detroit Michigan where Mr Harris attends Rotary International as a delegate from the Ukiah Rotary club. The journey will continue into July visiting friends in Oklahoma Kansas Colorado and New Mexico. In Lawrence Kansas he will revisit his old home. They will return to California by the Grand Canyon route by automobile.
Hilda O'Rell, 34, died in a Sacramento hospital from injuries sustained in an automobile crash two weeks earlier. A Covelo native and Roseville resident, she was born March 7, 1900. Survived by husband, two daughters, mother Mrs. Laura Russell of Covelo, four sisters, and numerous relatives and friends.
Mrs Ellen Jung and Mrs Herbert Ingley travel to southern Idaho for a two week visit with relatives. They pass through Lake County and Marysville to Winnemucca Nevada visiting Mrs Jungs niece Mrs Thomas Irwin. They stay with Harley and Wesley Bame in Caldwell and Nampa. Ukiah residents Mr Walter David accompany district deputy grand patriarch Byron Gowan on his Wakeport encampment visit. Also present at Governor Rolph funeral in San Francisco were R A Cushman Mendocino State hospital superintendent and Captain John Rawles with Charles Ciancio of the state traffic patrol, noted Oklahans in attendance.
Fort Bragg Chamber of Commerce chaired talks between pea pickers and the produce company. The company offered 23 cents a hamper with a 25 cent target under NRA oversight. After multiple meetings the parties reached a tentative 25 cent plan contingent on crop harvesting and continued negotiations. Work resumed Wednesday at 1:00 PM.
County Superintendent Fred D. Patton announces his bid for a third term. He cites eight years in office and experience as essential to guiding the county schools through upcoming years.
James E. Busch, president of the Mendocino Bar association, spoke to high school classes on Commercial Law last Wednesday afternoon. He addressed bookkeeping and English at the invitation of teachers Miss Shirley Perry and Miss Laura Kaiser.
San Francisco merchant Henry Hamburger, visiting Redwood Valley during the Native Sons convention, was seriously ill and treated at Ukiah General Hospital. He was transferred by ambulance to San Francisco last Friday for further care.
Notice warns all persons to stay off lands owned by J. V. Angle, dated June 1934 in Gran, California. The terse warning presses compliance and cites the undersigned owner.
Mr and Mrs Arlington Foster owners of a Bebas Topol variety store welcomed guests of Mr Foster's parents Mr and Mrs L H Foster in Ukiah.
Reports from the mountain regions north west of Willits describe a regi storm that rumbled through Jackson valley and Branscomb area. Marion Lee, five miles from town, narrowly escaped fire from a nearby lightning strike while repairing a cabin roof. The bolt also burned radio tubes as thunder and hail displayed intense activity. Crops reportedly escaped major damage in the region.
SERA official H Bose announced at the Santa Rosa chamber meeting the possibility of a women’s camp in Sonoma or Mendocino counties. Surveys study shelter and light work for jobless transient women, with Geysers area ruled out for now. Five men’s camps totaling about 800 beds run across Sonoma, Mendocino and Napa counties.
Funeral services were held Friday, June 1, in Sunset View chapel at Berkeley for John A. Ward, 84, who died at his nephew’s Sacramento home. Born in New York, Ward moved to California in the 1960s, lived in Gualala for years with a lumber firm tied to W. B. Heywood, and spent his last two years in Sacramento. He belonged to Trinity M. E. Church of Berkeley.
Mr and Mrs Harold LaPorte are settled in a new apartment at Pine and Stephenson streets marking a quiet home arrival in the neighborhood.
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