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Thursday, October 14, 1926
MELOLAND NEWS
By Press Staff Correspondent
MELOLAND, Oct. 14.—Tin Mclo
land Farm Center met Friday eve
ning at the school house, where a
very interesting and informing
meeting was held. 1). Roberts gave
a resume of the amendments to be
Voted on at the coming election
and brought to light many import
ant farts; Other interesting talks
Ford Runs 43.8 Miles
On Gal. of Gas
In a public test supervised by city
and automobile dub officials, a
Ford Sedan equipped with Blaneke
Thermostatic Carbureter Control,
ran 43.8 miles on one gallon of gas
oline. The inexpensive control is
entirely automatic and self-regubv
ing. It makes Fords start instant
ly, even in zero weather, eliminates
carbon formation, prevents dilution
of crank ease oil, avoids sputtering
of motor and cuts repair bills 50
per cent. Installed in two minuti s.
Cadillac, now uses as standard equip
ment Thermostatic Carbureter Con
trol under Blaneke licenses. The in
ventors, Blaneke Auto Device-, ('a.,
Dept. 4602-N, 157 K. Erie St., (hi
cago, want agents who can make
from $250 to $2,000 per month and
are willing to send a sample at tht-ir
own risk. Write today. adv
A UTOMOBILE
SER VICE DIREC TOR Y
SAM AYNES SERVICE STATION
MOHAWK TIRES
605 State Street Phono 501 El Centro
DU SOLI) SERVICE STATION
CORNER FIFTH AND STATE STS.
VALLEY TENT ANI) AWNING CO.
AUTO TOPS AND BODY WORK
122 MAIN ST. PHONE 191
N. L. DE HAY and L. N. YARBROUGH
We Specialize on General on All Makes of Automobiles
and Trucks
GIVE US A TRIAL
176 STATE STREET PHONE 18 EL CENTRO
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| were given and a delightful musical
number was contributed by Miss
! Fern Newton. After the meeting,
| doughnuts and coffee were served,
and a social hour indulged in.
j Mrs. W. O. Dead recently enjoyed
J a short visit from her sister, Mrs.
- 11. doi.es, and small daughter, of
I,os Angeles.
Jlrs. Will Meyer went to Han Di
■ (go recently for a few days, where
i she took the sick child of it friend
■ ■to a- specialist.
j Mr. and Mrs. Norman Dupont
j and two small children of El Centro
! were visitors at the Ilenry Have
' hoist ranch Sunday evening.
\V. O. Pond and Homer Spear
j went on a limiting trip in the Choco
j lute mountains last week-end but
were unable to see any ot the clus
j ivo deer.
See it At Brunk’s Sunday. adv
I YOEHIHITO REPORTED ILL,
COURT PHYSICIANS DENY
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TOK VI, Oct. 1.’.. lYrsistrnt !'•*
I ports thiit the liojilth of Kni|M»ror
i Yosliiliitn lias lii'fonir worse wore
j <l< ni« *«l in statement bv the Itn*
Ipm ini iio'isclmld. Tin* imports tel
I low ;• ppoint in* *nl of two new eourt
j physieians, J)rs. N. Arm ami K.
j Kobe, ami announcement that two
physicians it tend oi one will be
jin* eonstant attendance on his
| majesty. Tin* emperor has I"'"'
j nearly helpless from a combination
j of bo<lilv a id mental diseases tor
* several years.
His Needle Pays His Way
Ben Nye, student
ot the University
of Nebraska, has
taken a leaf from
the book of Doc
Cook, who whiles
away his time in
Leavenworth pen
itentiary by sew
ing. Nye is work
in y h i s w a y
through college
by making fancy
handkerchiefs for
ladies.
SWEENEY PRAISES EL CENTRO
AT STATE REALTY CONVENTION
Following is an address on El Cen
tro, delivered today before the Cali
fornia Real Estate association con
vention at Del Monte, by Oscar
Sweeney, El Centro realtor, who,
with W. S. Hancock, is attending
the convention as delegate from the
El ( 'entro realty board:
lly home town, El Centro, is the
center of over 500,000 acres of the
finest, largest irrigated area in
America. Long ago this section was
an arm of the sea. but silt carried
down by the Colorado river eut off
the sea. In course of time the sun’s
! powerful rays dried up the sea and
• left a desert.
Finally men with vision came, bar
j ncssed the river, tilled the soil and
j converted the desert into the rich
est agricultural area in the world.
| From nothing the population has
| grown to 05,000 in 25 years. In the
j providence of God, the same sun
['tried up tiie sea, now draws from the
j soil a carload of products for every
i man, woman and child of the pop
ulation annually. This area produces
i the equal of the assessed valuation
[of $51,000,000 in a year. Yet we have
just tickled the soil a little compared
[with what we are capable of doing.
My home town, El Centro, worthy
capital of such a county, was a bar
! lev field 20 years ago. Now it is a
j thriving city of 10,000 population.
It is built of sand, silt, cement and
people with—insides in them.
Sight-Seeing Trip
Please close your eyes a moment.
Now open them. Presto, change!
We are now aboard the Barbara
Worth bus for a sight seeing trip
through my home town. See our
js'-j miles of paved streets. This
j principal thoroughfare is Main xDvet
, with over a mile of ornamental
j street lighting under construction,
j This imposing structure from
which we start is the Barbara Worth
lintel, named for that famous novel
by Harold Bell Wright, who came
Ito Imperial to run a ranch. He
■ ran the ranch with one hand and
[wrote books with the other. He j
; was a versatile man. Note the
beautiful lobby with gorgeous rugs
trusting t hoiisands of dollars. It.
took Buchanan and Yysekcl a year
I to get the material and paint those
[pictures, for which valley people
|s;sed. Plenty of time to fall in ,
love and get married, which they i
did. Hotel filled to capacity and
running over most of the time. That !
is the reason for the great addition I
you see to the left which Manager i
Conway is hurrying to completion!
for the winter guests.
This is out shopping district, good i
enough for any community. Here j
is tile Consolidated and there the
Pioneer Title company, both rushed
with business. Here is the holin' of!
the Elks, all good fellows. This
was formerly under 5(1 feet of son. j
Elks now gambol where fishes used
to swim.
In the center of the beautiful
lawn observe our new court house
costing SIOO,OOO and worth it. Built
in :i five acre trad so wo can add
lo it.
Industries
This pile of buildings costing Half |
a millino dollars in our high school
and junior college, with over 400
pupils and 40 teachers. Our school
begins later and closes earlier than j
on the coast, eight months instead j
of nine months. On account of the]
exhili rat ing, growing influence of j
the climate, children loarn much ]
faster here than elsewhere.
The ‘‘Blue Moon” is one of our
new hotels. Can’t build them fasti
enough to keep up with the bust
Hess. Expect to have a string of
them named for the planets.
Plenty of churches for till who
have time and Inclination to go.
Our Woman’s Ton Thousand club
building. Now that that, goal lias
been reached the name should be
clmtiged to the Woman’s Ten Million
club.
Here is automobile row. Hnsl year
s,mm automobiles were sold in the.
valley at a cost of $3,700,000. Wo |
to jet there ru 4 hurry aui j
must have good ears in which to
do ir.
Just two of our great creameries.
This industry ships $20,000 worth of
butter every day. These two ice
plants produce 200 tons of ice daily
and have a combined storage ca
pacity of 27,000 tons,
i Score of vegetable sheds along the
[railway. Tins producer had tj,ooo
I crates of cantaloupes <ni the market
from 60 acres before the price.-,
I dropped below SO.OO per crate. That
one bought 10 acres of lettuce in the
field for $2500 and sold it at a
profit of $2200. lie also sold the
tomatoes from one and one half
acres for $2056.75. .Not the host
land we have at that.
The Southern Pacific is going to
jtear down this old depot and build
j something of which our town will
Ibe proud. They can afford it for
it has already been paid for in ad
vance by great produce shipments.
Prosperity Apparent
Tlte Southern Sierras plant. The
longest transmission line in the
world comes to our town just to
bring us juice.
Those three cats that just passed
us arc real estate men trying to find
;a place for people to live. 5 on have
Ito hustle to find a place lo stay in
[our town.
I The fine house on the corner looks
[like stucco but it isn’t. The foun-
I Hat ion is cantaloupes, the super
structure lettuce and furniture
grapes. It is the home of our larg
est individual grower, W. S. Faw
cett.
Our three banks with deposits ap
proximating $5,000,000. Offi'-eis
all cheerful but help worn to a fraz
zle just handling money.
Our jail with its population tail
ling off. People too busy to get into
I trouble. Our hospital, so few pa
tients in our healthful climate that
I tin- upper floor is often used as a
[hotel for transients,
i Our only undertaker who reports
business very poor on account of
climate and people too busy to pass
out much except by accident. Our
death rate is only 'J.7 per thousand
Reynolds Furniture to.
’LL'J&lttTiiLi
Successor To
nirtiAi nr rnmiiTYn
Week-End
SPECIALS
Reynolds Furniture Co.
r>7(i Main SI.
THE IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
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WARNER INTO
GRID GAME
fly I'nlffd I'rcftM I.cnxfd Wire
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15—
•Glenn S. “Pop” Warner, Stanford
football coach, had to be prodded, j
| pushed and bounded into the game
that has made him a world-wide fig
j Hrc.
The story- of how ‘‘Pop” got his
start- in football was told here by
( arl M. Jolianson, local business
man. who “discovered” Warner.
Jt was in the early '9o’s and
.Tohansoii was captain of the Cor
nel! varsity football team at the
t ime.
‘‘lt was in the early autumn,”
Johanson related, “and T was cn
roiite back to Ifliicti from ,-t football
(•(inference in Buffalo when a big,
si rious looking youth with light
busliv hair, broad .shoulders, massive
: frame, with a country air boarded
tin- train at some little jerkwater
.sttit ion.
“He looked like a big blonde Yik- j
ing of history books, or like a Greek I
warrior. I was both captain and [
coach of Cornell’s football team at j
the time, for in those davs salaried i
coaches were scarcely- heard of. The '
, youth was Warner. He looked like I
| good football timber to me.
“I struck np a conversation with
the young giant. ! learned he had
been a cowboy and had ridden the
Texas range. He looked the part.
He appeared ready to fight at the
drop of the hat.
“T chuckled to myself and
: thought I had found a ‘live one’
when 1 learned he was Tthiea-
I bound to enter Cornell. T hinted
j lie would be welcome to try out for
I the team but lie soberly informed
me he wasn’t going to Cornell for
; foolishness; lie was going there to
I learn.
“Constant urging failed to move
hint for days, unti l one day he con
sented to come out to Percy Field.
He took a dive at our leather taek
' ling dummy and when his wide
shoulders struck the thing, down it
toppled from the senfford while
members of the squad stood gaping.
“Still Warner was obdurate, but
lie watched our opening game and
finally caught the spirit,
i “For two years we played shoul
der f,, shoulder, he at left-guard and
myself at left tackle. The Cornell
teams of ’9l and 92 made quite
a splash ia eastern football, due
largely to the big gaping holes
Warner opened for the backfleld.
Football in thorn davs was ultru-'ue
m-inoNh -2 Re,.. Lucks were as pt»-
pi-sr as the forwnid pass today.”
Warner and Johanson met a; a
banquet here for tlie* first time in
years.
“Wliy Men Leave Home.*’
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35-Year-Old Suit
Finally Settled
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By JOHN N. PALMER
(United Press Staff Correspondent) j
SAN F HAN CISCO, Oct. 14.—1 n
San Francisco superior court lias
been written the sequel to a drama
of ships and men of another gene
ration-men now dead, and ships
decaying.
It was a drama of tlie staunch
sealing schooner Ali Alger, in the
Bering trade; of her master, Cap-
hut our birth rate is tld.7 per thou
sand, more than double.
This is the Masonic, temple and
home of file Imperial Irrigation dis
trict. With an assessed valuation
of about $.■>0,000,000 and an income
of ;jd!,000,000 annually this the great
est business of its kind in the coun
try. One great business of this or
ganization is to go after the Boulder j
dam. Of course we are going to .
get it for all your towns and my j
town are going to help each other, j
and when wo do get it all our home |
towns will hand in hand climb the j
hill of destiny together to a greater i
California.
tain Walter St. flair Erratt, and
the brave old Coast Guard Cutter
Bear.
The Eli Alger, resplendent in her
newness, put out ot San Francisco
in 1391 with Captain Erratt in com
mand. The trim .schooner repre
sented his savings of two score
years at sea. and he headed her
nose toward the rich Bering seal
rocks to recoup.
The season over, the Eli Alger
with her holds packed with seal
skins put back.
Before she had cleared Bering
sea she encountered the Coast Guard
Cutter Bear and was seized. Cap
tain Erratt was charged with illegal
[ sealing.
Back in San Francisco, their ship !
and seal skins confiscated, the cap- 1
tain and the 13 men who sailed the!
Eli Alger filed a claim for SIIB,OOO |
against the government. Then :
! years passed.
Captain Erratt, in time beeoni- ]
| ;ng a waterfront contractor here, !
i was often heard to say:
‘‘l II nr\ r live to spend any of
| that money, but my boy will.”
lie died last December, as had so
; far as is known, the 1} others be
fore him It was a few weeks later
; that congress approved the 35 year
j old claim.
• Appreciably im-K a«ed through ac
! crued interest, the recognized claim,
|us the estate of the late Captain
. Erratt, lias been admitted to pro
bate in superior court here. Thus
j was the the cruise that the Eli Al
j ger began 35 years ago legally end
j ed. though the Eli Alger has long
| since disappeared among the cob-
I webbed wharfs where forgotten
j ships lie.
| In addition to the captain's son,
j Claire Erratt, a sister, Mrs. Frances
j Wade, will share in the estate.
The Bear, one of the three prin-
I cipals of this drama of ’9l, lies at
! the naenl transport dock in Oak-
Hand, retired after a half century’s
I service in the north Pacific,
Prizes Offered
To Duck Hunters
Over 50 duck hunters have sign
ed up with the Imperial Valley
Hardware Company, to become eli
| gible for the prizes offered for the
j first limit on ducks presented at
j the store Saturday morning, aecord
i ing to .11 Riley, manager of the
I hardware department.
The company is offering a prize
Inf 111 boxes of Winchoster shells
• to the hunter registered with them,
| who presents the first limit catch
I on ducks, and a second prize of five
I boxes <if Winchester shells to the
second lucky hunter.
‘■’We are in hopes of having 75
nr 100 hunters registered before to
-morrow night.” Riley said today,
“and extend a cordial invitation to
all who plan a duck shooting trip
Saturday, to register with us. There
is no (diurge for registration.
‘‘There will be a man at the store
early Saturday morning to await
the arrival of the first hunter. We
may have to camp out in front of
the store all night, for we realize
that duck hunters are early birds.”.
Sec it At Brunk’s Sunday. adv
Washington farmers report trucks '
much more economical than horses ■
for hauling grain over roads with '
strep grades. 1
BOXING Friday Night|
El Centro Arena
MAIN EVENT-10 ROUNDS
Harry Lee vs. Kid Williams
Semi Final—l Hounds— Tony Escalante vs. Jose Flores.
4 Round Feature—Andy Brooks vs. Battling Johnson.
4 Round Special—De La Fuentes vs. Young Melvin.
4 Round Curtain Raiser—Ed Garcia vs. Homer Gaines.
Prices: $l.OO, $1.50 and $2.00. Plus Tax Ringside Seats Reserved
Seats on Sale at Steve's; Owl Tool Hall; Valley Drug; Clements Drug; and Lanier’s News Stand
MISS MARIE NONES
Closing Out Dairy Sale
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21
On the Arnold Vcllin.ja Ranch, 7 miles northeast
of Calexico, 3 miles cast of the 10 foot drop, I
miles due west of Bond’s Corner.
SALE COMMENCES AT 11 O'CLOCK SHARP
FREE LUNCH AT NOON
30 Choice Dairy Cows
MOSTLY HOLSTEINS. FOUR JERSEYS
ONE DURHAM
NOTE—cows, lrcsli in last 60 days; 1 springers,
balance giving good flow of milk. Look ’em
over.
2 Holstein Heifers, 20 months old; 6 Holstein
heifers, H to 16 months old; 3 milk calves;
Guide Holstein bull, 3 years old.
HORSES
One span good work horses 6 years old.
CHICKENS
50 mixed laying hens.
IMPLEMENTS
Low iron wheeled wagon, McCormick mowot
good condition, hay rake. Primrose separator
1 in good shape; 6 milk cans; i can sterilize
8u gallon ..ottling tank; buggy, buckets; ute
cis; small tools, etc.
USUAL TERMS
D. L. ZINN fi F. W. ZINN, Aucta
C. B. Moore, Clerk
MRS. MARIE M. NONES, Owner
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