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THE OXNAR1) DAILY COURIER LIVESTOCK MEN TO BE GIVEN BARBECUE HERE Chamber of Commerce To Entertain Southern California Purebred Live-Stcck Atsociation February. 11. SAM WEILL TO BE IN CHARGE Barbecue Will Be Held on Factory Grounds; Between 60 and 75 Members and Their Ladies Scheduled To Come. At today's meeting of the Rotary club, Walter Lalhrop, president or the chamber of commerce, announced Die appointment of- a committee to lake charge' of the meeting here on February 11, of the Southern California Purebred Livestock association. The committee announced includes: .1.

W. Snodgrass, Sam Weill. Charles Donlon. Fred Noble, Walter S. Kiley, Leon Uhmann, H.

H. Eastwood. J. IT. Canning.

Charles F. Black-stock, C. J. Elliott, J. Krouser and A.

.1. Dinge- The committee held a meeting in the hotel, immediately after the Rotary meeting. The proposition was to entertain the visiting- members of the association, numbering from GO to 75, either at Berylwood, or in the city. It was unanimously decided to give the visitors one of those barbecues for which Oxnard Ik famous and place Sam Weill in full charge. Fred Xoble, manager of the sugar factory, announced that (he factory barbecue grounds would be available for the purpose, with all paraphernalia, and Sam was given orders to go full steam ahead, operating under the auspices of the chamber of commerce.

Snodgrass. who is responsible for the meeting being held hem. said that many of the members bring their families here and will remain over Sunday. Besides the barbecue the members will be shown around the city and country in chamber of commerce automobiles. President Lathrop says all members of the chamber in good standing are invited to attend the barbecue, and those attending will be charged' $1.

They are requested to notify Secretary Klliott in advance so Hint proper arrangements may be made. KENNEDYTELLS OF EFFORT TO BOND THE STATE M. Kennedy, vice-president of the Southern California lSdison company; was the speaker before the Rotary club at. today's meeting. Mr.

Kennedy is one of the big men of the Edison organization and also one of their best speakers. talked on the water and power act, which is to be submitted to the voters at the next election, providing they get the necessary signatures for its submission. This proposed act permit the bonding oE the state of California in the initial sum of half billion dollars, for the purpose of developing electricity on the Colorado river. This would increase the present state debt seven and one-half times, Mr. Kennedy said, and would doubtless be the entering wedge of making the bond issue much greater in the future.

Mr. Kennedy says that the supporters of the bond issue point to the Ontario experiment, where power is developed from the Niagara Falls and is sold at cost to the consumer. That the idea of at cost" is not what it appears to be Mr. Kennedy showed by reading from a report of the Ontario legislative committee, where before which protests had been made at the injustice of charging the country consumers rates several hundred per cent greater than the consumers the city pay. Charles Blackstock announced that next week K.

K. Havens will be the attraction, and that he will give a historical and Industrial travelogue on the evolution of the pen. Ray Edwards, member of the Lob Angeles Rotary club, was present at the meeting and spoke for a few minutes on the next international Rotary convention, which will be held in Los Angeles, next summer. forecast Fair tonight and Wednesday; frost In exponed places tonight. Saticoy Ranch Hand Gored to Death by Infuriated Bull No sooner had fiiaconi Aiulreola aged CO, a ranch hand on the Vanonl ranch near Saticoy, entered a bull pen to feed the huge animal, yesterday afternoon, than he was gored by the bull.

Andreolu's going into 'the pen was a usual occurrence. Ue had gone In many times but at every time previous to this, the animal seemed gentle and showed no signs of vlc-musness. Yesterday, however, An-dreoht had barely gotten insula the pen, when the bull made a dive at him. Andreola made an attempt to got over the fence, but the huge animal charged him. one horn catching the man under the chin and literally splitting the chin in two.

Androola fell to the ground and cried out in pain. A Mexican who was standing near concluded that caution was the hotter part of valor and did not make a.ny attempt to help Andrcola. Vu-noni and another hired man heard the cries and rushed Lo the corral. An-dreola was down and the bull was standing oil from him about to charge him again, battering him against the fence. Vanoni and the hired man by the use of clubs beat the infuriated animal away from the prostrate man.

Andreola was placed on a cot In a truck and the trip was started to the Bard hospital. The man cied ou the way and the body was removed to the Reardon parlors. His fide had been crushed. The funeral will be held today with interment at Til Rio cemetery. lie is survived by his wife r-nd two sons, who live at Saticoy, Dingeman Says Auto Dealers Using Name Without Authority Oxnard.

January 24. Mr. -i. ,1. Kronser.

Editor, Oxnard Courier, Oxnard, Cul, Dear Sir: In your issue of January 2S, 11.121', you stated that a meeting was held by the Ventura County Auto Trades and thai they hud decided not to take in any secondhand cars for days. I wish to call your attention to the fact that the Ventura County Auto Trades Assn. did not call any such meeting. Being president of this association I desire you to make correction of this fact in your paper of this date. Very truly yours, A.

J. DINGEMAN, President. Last official meeting of association was held on December 2X, 11)21. The above refers to an item printed Courier in which the of the Auto Trades association used. Dingeman says the meet-was held by the auto dealers and not by the Auto Trades association.

art that the dealers are using the name of the Ventura County Trade issoclatlon without authority. Crew of Sunken Ship Safe on Another Boat rnt.r^cnn„l Ntwi Sen NEW YORK, Jan. A wireless message to the Naval Communication bureau today said that all of the 34 members of the Norwegian frtightei "Mod" which sank, in mid-Atlantic were safe aboard the British freight er Melrose Head. The "Mod" on her maiden voyage left New York Friday. January lo.

REMAINS OF INFANT TAKEN TO SAN BERNARDINO The remains of Marian Elizabeth nine-days-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert 15. Barnes of Santa Susana, who died yesterday, were taken today by Undertaker DI tender fter to Santa Susana and thence to Snn Bernardino, where she was buried. The Barnes family Is well known here and in Santa Susana and it is with sadness that their rriends learn ot their bereavement.

Uene aniran, a young negro author, has won the annual prize of the Gon-court academy for the best French novel of 11321. This author was born on the island of Martinique. French West Indies. The novel deals with colored life In Central Africa and Is entitled The Goncourt prlw is worth only francs, but Is one of the most chertslwid lite awards of France. RETURNS BACK 'EAST Sarah Montgomery, sister of is.

Mell Klliott, who had been In Oxnard for the past year, and who had been bedridden since October hist, has departed for her home- in nee, Xebr. She was accompanied by her son Clyde and his wife, who me here a month ago for that pur pose. Mrs. Montgomery is r.ot yet. recovered but felt she was able ake the journey buck home.

Petition for Paving To Be Submitted to City Trustees Tonight he residents of the Acre tract do it their streets paved. They have circulated a petition and had it signed ver per cent of the property owners affected, asking that Wolff street and street, from the Hay-dock school south, be paved. The petition will be presented 'to the city rustees tonight. Residents of Enterprise street, the mall stub street from Savievs road east toward the track, north of Fifth, also going to petition to have street paved at the same time. Wilbur Stiles Estate Valued JUmd $125,009 The estate of the late Wilbur Stiles of Camnrillo.

who ended his life by shooting, is valued at according to the inventory and ap- piaisoment filed in the superior court L. C. Drapean. W. E.

Cnodycir and J. F. Fiilknrwn, the lat ter two of Soinis. The estate includes $5000 in slock in the Dank ot laly. and sacks of lima beans, at and real estate allied at A.

Residents Kick At Phone Rate Increase I. News Service) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24. The Itaie Railroad commission sifting on yesterday listened to the com-il-jint of Los Angeles residents in pro testing the 50 percent increase graul- the Southern California Telephone puny last month. An admission by a high official ot the company that he service is not normal and a by the commissioners that a be given subscribers whose thones are out of order were features of the day's session.

Despite from C. Shaw, general til of the company, between 2000 and letters containing detailed plaints of poor service were expeo-to be in evidence at the meeting. Property Owners of Enterprise St. Want Thoroughfare Paved It seems to be the thing now in Oxnard to have' all unpaved streets paved, said Mayor Eastwood this morning-, for now the property owners of Enterprise street, running oft' Sav-iers road, between Fourth and Fifth streets, want their street paved. They have secured the signatures of all the owners on that street and have submitted the list to the mayor.

The subject will be given due consideration at tonight's meeting of the board of trustees. Great Britain Would Co-operate With U.S. World Rehabilitation AND THF OXNARD DAILY NEWS OXNAfiO. VENTUftA COUNTY. CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1922.

Sfrviei officials close to Downing street intimated to- lay that Great Britain would co-oper ate with the United States' (or world International Economic conference at Genoa. NOTICE. 1 have purchased the Angeles Examiner route for Oxnard and vicin-iiv ...11 hillu fnr Tnnnarv delivery TRADITIONAL FUNERAL FOR POPE BENEDICT Services for Traditift'na! Nine Day Celebrations Commence at 9:30 this Morning. Senior Canon Celebrates Mass at St. Peters Cathedral.

WILL CONTINUE 8 DAYS MORE Bociy of Pontiff Will Ee Buried To-" morrow. Remains Will Remain State in St. Peters Csthdral k'oon When Last Obscquiet Sta rt. fBv International News ROME, Italy, Jan. 2L--Trfe traditional nine day funeral services' for the late Pope liauedict XV began at o'clock this morning when mass was celebrated by the senior canon of St.

Peter's cathedral. A similar ceremony will be conducted "each morning for the succeeding eight days. The burial of the pontiff will not take place until tomorrow, and the body will remain in state, upon the Catal-falcpie in the IJasilic of St. Peters until noon Wednesday. As the requiem mass was celebrated this morning- and the Julian choir sang softly in the chapel, the senior canon gave absolution the- papal bier.

NEW OXNARD SUBDIVISION DEAL CLOSED A deal has been closed between Airs, uaiclta Hill and L. IT. Mitchell and kins, of Los Angeles. whereby 190 cr-is west of the new high seb.no] will nnss from Mrs. Hill to the real cntato agents and be put into a subdivision.

News to this effect was received in a tetter to H. H. Eastwood! from L. II. Mitchell.

Mitchell re-1 ported decided progress- and thought, that all CKnnrd would benefit by the new tract. The subject will be taken up at the Trustees meeting tonight. It is said that the trustees are hean-illy in favor of the proposition. "BILL HART" BACK FROM VACATION Oxnard's original "Gill Haul" is back. The familiar form closely resembling the famous screen star is again on the streets wandering up one fore it side of Fifth street ether.

He lias been three months and sa let his hair grow still has the same All he needs is two and he would ingly like the real Bill Ha would dictate affairs and secondly of the I it: emainder who constitute the EALENT1N CASE DISMISSED In the case of Hk." People vs. Ihtlen-tin Carabay. which came up fur preliminary hearing this morning In Judge Elliott's court, them was insufficient evidence and it ft'tis dismissed. The discharge of the ease was granted upon a motion by Deputy District Attorney 1 lend Arson. Baientin was arrested on a charge of sleating an automobile lire and cane rrom T.

Maya.shi of the Oxnard Kish Market. States Case Against Arbuckle Practically Completed Says Brady (Rv Inlemat-pna! News Service) SAX FRANCISCO. Jan. The state virtually rested its ease against Rcscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle on trial for the second time for manslaughter shortly before noon today. District Attorney Erady announced that with the exception of another effort to reopen the of the impeachment of the testimony of Zey Rrezon and an effort Lo show that his procedure in caring for Alice Blake and Miss while awaiting the first trial of Arbuckle was correct, he had concluded his case with the testimony today of Salome Boyle, assistant to 35.

O. Heiurichs, stale linger print expert. Katherine Couste Tells Court Husband Should Pay More For Child That Frank Couste is worth and is able to pay $00 per month instead of the he is now paying every month toward the support of their child at the McKinley industrial school at Gardena is the statement made by Katherine Couste in a petition for a modification or the order made yesterday in Hie superior Fire on Matson Liner Causes Near Panic In If! SAN. PEDRO, Jan. 2L A lire ol considerable proportion aboard Hu-Matson liner Buckeye State ns it was Hearing Lorf Angeles harbor from New York imperiled the lives of ISO passengers, causing a near panic, and damaged several large staterooms be- extinguished, according ml down the: reports by officers and passengers gone for about when the steamship docked here to-d he had been 'day.

It was estimated more than While awav he $2,000 damage was done by the fire little looser, but which originated when a hot electric mil and black hat. iron was left on a bed. The life boats cowboy's hat and were prepared for launching hut the look strik- blaze was extinguished by chemicals and streams of water. ENTERPRISING VENTURA WOMEN PREPARING TO ATTACK SOUTHERN COUNTIES GAS CO. Thursday of this week is the day "Ventura housewives say they are the Southern Counties Gas company sick and tired of the treatment the will be called to a reckoning by the gas company accords the city, and women of Ventura, says the Post, something is going to be done to speak of the women of a I ahem town is to speak firstly of a few who "So the civic "For the benefit of the uninitiated.

no one's toes are to he trodden it. may be said thai, this league is mid is Ml to be made public in composed of the membership of all vanqe. the federated clubs: and also pos sesses a device know memberships whereby considerable number of business and professional women and others, who have no for the usual club life, belong. luiH very conservative. down by America If the.

Washington Interest cannot come before government will participate and totally uninterested majority. But Ventura is different, owing chiefly to the. existence and activities of the Ventura Club league. except by way of the civic committee. I that begins "The conn another mat interest.

It itlee will make at the Athene club house large on Thursday afternoon at a meeting itlee is also to report of considerable public purely constructive- Prince of Wales Not Worried About India not going too far to say that every i Intcrnrft-HPi! representative woman in Venlaia, a an. 2 That the Prince holds membership in this league. over nolitical And there are those who say that am encouraged to hopo that in the fu- the camel has a cinch with the eye of ture 0j jndia, lite empire will fully the needle: the microbe with the uplioltl the fine tradition of the past," lor, to what the average 0 hastily conceived plan has for netting! TRAVEL BETTER past, that committee. JTHAN LAST YEAR "And what, makes it look black for H. S.

Sluhbs, ot the local nvn nnv-ihte lo me I am not the ens company la the fact that this ticket olllee, reports that railroad Mrs. Charles Green Well Known Here, Dies In LA. At Age of 83 News has been received here of the death of Mrs. Charles 3roeii, of Santa Susana who was well in this section having lived here many years. She was if age.

Death was caused from pural- CbaiTcs Green, son of the prominent in Santa Susana and is known here, having married a daughter of Henry Meyer of mis city. The funeral of the: late Mrs, Green ill be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 clock from HilTeiulerffer's tjndertalt-g parlors. Gets $2380 Damages From Auto Accident Through an accident between three automobiles on the state highway near Ventura on November 14, resulting in the serious injury of Miss Chariene Coulter, the trial of her suit against Adeline L. Duval, driver of one car, and IT, E. Hatha rn and VI.

L. Graham, occupying cool tier automobile, resulted in Valen tine in Los Angeles giving her judgment for $2380. She sued for $2SO0. The lecture of the case was the small int of damages named in the com plaint. Damages in such cases us- illy run from 10,000 to $20,000.

The evidence showed that one car, the speed limit, struck the second machine, which was hurled nst the car in which Miss Coulter riding. Judgment was against the driver of the speeding car. Girl Who Married in Haste Finds Husband Has Another Wife -I. W. Barker, well known Santa Faula resident, wants 12.

A. Wilson arrested. Wilson, MO years cf age, is the man with whom llarker's daughter, Leah, still in lie-r teens, ran away. The first that Barker knew of their marriage was when they wired for permission from Los Angeles. That was December Ml.

Whether he gave his permission at that, time cr not does not matter now with Barker, because they got married, or at least Leah thought they got married. But now Barker informs the sheriff's office at Ventura that Wilson has another wife, living also in Hollywood. 1-1 has just learned this and wants Wilson prosecuted for HIT BY EXTREME COLD WAVE fBy Internailonal Service) CHICAGO, Chicago exper -need the codes weather of the win ter when the thermometer at I a. ivi. yesterday morning registered one legree balow zero.

Other registered as low as five below. Warmer temperature by tonight was forecasted. Former Oxnard Girl Doing Well In East A young Oxnard girl meeting with success in the east is Miss Cerisa House, who is working her way through an Industrial College for Colored Youth in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. The college was endowed by Mr. McDonald, a white man, and is run along the lines of Booker T.

Washington's famous Muskogee college. All of the teachers and matrons arc white, and Mr. McDonald, who is also the president, writes to friends of Cerisa. in Oxnard that she is their most promising pupil. Cerisa is the only colored student west of Pennsylvania who attends college, and her efforts at obtaining au education arc made an exampb Moreover they alt go to the monthly imrefit wag ind5eilted ljy the fc'r Lhe bfinefR of the hutulred meetings and come away entnusi- from ilim enroi.eu.

uuimg in astic about them. jn re8DOnse t0 a message of 1 of the college. Ceriea "Now, the league is conservative, lhanltg and congratulation from Pre-1 chosen t0 Slve a talk before the Matters of civic mler rjoyd George and his cabinet. S'auca coioieu UIK an I "i met with such cordiality and good Baltimore. Maryland.

She spoke on ia during my travel that I 01 omam.ng an enuciuma highly complimented by the superintendent of city schools and the assisting teachers. The Australian House of Representatives has passed a bill authorizing a loan of 10,000,000 pounds sterling to responsible for any bills of the previ- committeo. has actually been clrculat- travel, represented by the sale of re-establish world war veterans on owner of sntd route, ing the petitions which now have hun- tickets, Is heller this year than lust land, according to reports from Mel- 1-24-mc M. L. 1 dreds of signatures on them.

for the corresponding period. bourne. NUMBER 172 CONDITIONS! ORCHARD BELTS MUCH IMPROVED "cmperature Not Lower Than 26 Last Night According to Reports. No Damafje by Frost Reported Last Nifjht or Early Today. Weather More Mild.

R. R. STRICT ON SHIPMENTS Trans-continental R. R. Will Be Asked to Refuse All Shipments of Oranges er Lemons Picked Since January 19.

Much Picking Forbidden Until Survey is Made. (By nal LOS With the minimum temperature in the citrus ig bdls ranging from 2fi to 34 eteiiiees. it was believed by orohurdisis that there was no frost darrmgc to orange ov lemon proves last iiieht or rally today. The Los Angeles minimum temperature ranged from 40 de grees in Highland Park to 47 degrees at the United States Weather Bureau station downtown. Deputy Stale Market Director Britt has asked the heeds of the transcon tinental railroads to refuse citrus fruits for shipment picked since Jan uary 19.

This, however, will not effect -150 carloads of oranges and lemons picked before the recent cold snap. The board of supervisors of Los An geles and San Bernardino and River- Ide counties have passed ordinances forbidding picking; of oranges and onions until a survey of the frost dam-go has been made. Carl Dwire Appointed Additional Registrar Carl Dwirc has been appointed as an additional registrar far the coming registrations for this section. He will have his office in A. C.

Biener's clothing store on the corner of Fifth street and Saviers road. This makes, a total of three clerks now handling the registration, City Clerk Fettls, Ifobart and Carl Dwire. Those who wish to become voters in this city for are asked to-register r.s soon as possible with any one of these clerks. LINKS FILLED WITH HORSE the horse shoe games played last night, at the Oxnard emu unity center Kay Fulton's team played W. W.

Boyd's team with a result that the former wirii wnh a score or 14 to 11. O. Thomas' team won from John Petit squad by a score of 14 to 11. The results were rather unexpected and were the cause of much renewed effort on the part of the losers who say they wit! come back 200 per esmt rong. A list of all teams playing and the imes of players will be given fo- The four teams scheduled to play to night are: No.

11 C. Stewart, captain; 5, C. O. Snow, captain: No. 10.

K. T. Markwell, captain; and No. ti Westfield captain. There ia some good mulerhl on these teams good matches are expected.

ZWtP.N IN LOS ANGELES LIMELIGHT The following from today's Los Angeles Examiner refers to a former Ventura county ciLizen, and brother of Max Zwirn. once of Oxnard. A formal communication urging a rigid enforcement of the traffic and snsed laws of the city in the interest ot protection to life and limb will be laid before the -city council Tuesday morning by Adolpb Zwirn of IIKi West Washington street. Mr. Zwirn appeared before the public safety committee Monday afternoon to press his views with the re sult that the committee suggested that he present his ideas in writing la whole council.

High Officials of Factory Visiting Here Robert Oxnard of San Francisco, and E. C. Mown, of Denver, vice-presidents of the American Boot Sugar company, in the oily in confer with the local nmmifcer, Fred Xoble. They arrived Sunday,.

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