San Bernardino News from San Bernardino, California • Page 3

HOvtMENl 1 UNDER WAY AT LOCAL SCHOOL1 Harpist CalledJLittle Patriot' The Shadow of the Big City Landscape-Work Is Being Completed And Big Plot Is Planted To Lawn Increase For Mayor Loses Out When Vote Is Taken I Before City Council i The plan to provide the city with I a purchasing agent by ordinance, iwith an additional cost to the taxpay-i ers, was defeated by unanimous vote of the city council last night. i I The plan was to make the mayor, purchasing" agent and increase hisl salary to $1,500 from $800 yearly. Because of the fact that the people i last November voted against raising the mayor's salary and, too, because of the universal protest raised against! the proposed ordinance, the city I council last night decided that the plan should be droffped and so de-i feated the ordinance by unanimous! vote. The matter promised to a factorj in the municipal campaign and N. A.

Richardson, candidate for some days ago came out against th'ej proposed ordinance with this plank in his platform: "The mayor, without increase of; fir The statement is made by members of the city board of education that when the grounds at the high school are completed they will be among: the most attractive of school grounds in southern California. i Forty thousand square feet of lawn space has been planted at the high school as a part of the -plans for the 1 beautiflcation of the grounds and the: agricultural and botany classes of the school are now ready' to start the work of setting out trees, sfirubbery and plants. E. O. Ames, supervisor of grounds and buildings for the city schools, has had charge of the work of preparing the space in front of the administra-j tion, classics and science buildings for lawns and yesterday completed i the work.

A sprinkling system devised by Ames has been installed and with one; or two turns on the valves in the mains supplying the grounds with wa-l ter, the entire area planted to blue! grass and clover is Irrigated at once. Claudia Rice Claudia is culled the "littlest putrid" because she begins all her concerts playing the Star Spangled Banner. She lives in Syracuse, X. and lias liipu slinwiiif; her ability at the harp in all large cities of the country. THE mail order king with his dark shadow is the one force that is keeping the farmer and the homo merchant apart.

This is the one big thunder cloud oh our country life. This shadow of the big city is killing our community growth. This giant monopoly works night and day to keep us apart, lie knows that once we get together his business is doomed. Where, then, do we stand1? What shall we do? Remain in the grip of the giant? Rest content under the dark shadow Rather, let us break up the monopoly and the shadow by the sunlight of co-operation. Let's get together and scatter that gloom.

salary, shall he the city's purchasing agent and thus become largely responsible for any excessive expenditure." Safety First Is Promised At the meeting of the city'council last night an ordinance providing for safety steps in the establishments of dry cleaners was read for the first time, and has the backing of the fire department, to which applications must be made for licenses, to be Ask That. Poles lie Removed The board of education will take up immediately with the city street department and the lighting companies the matter of removing the poles along the parking. There are almost a dozen of these poles. Professor H. G.

Martin and Miss Henrietta Brayton will direct the work of planting the trees and rpRE 'COMMUNITY BUILDER' idea is endorsed and -L approved by the following well-known and reputable business concerns: granted only after an inspection of the premises. The measure requires i fireproof construction, underground! plants. This work will go ahead rap-j idly now that the walks nd lawns are In. The classes taking agricul gasoline tanks, motors and boilers inj separate rooms from rooms where i ture and botany work will have the planting" of the grounds as a part of I Mis. Laura.

Wetlierhee lias secured a divorce from W. O. Wetherbee. Attorney A. 11.

Trujillo represented her. there is gasoline, fire walls, $25 perl annum license and bars cleaning es-j tablishments being located in build-1 ings where persons sleep. Cliai'K'iiiK his wife with a variety of things, including gay midnight parties, Harry Ashdown has filed suit for divorce against May E. Ashdown. Attorney Lester O.

King represents Ashdown. the course for the next few weeks. Plans have been ordered and are nw being drafted for the corridors The local Indue of the United Commercial Travelers will meet tonight Two smoke helmets and battery; BOLLOXG NICHOLSON, Furniture. CENTRAL DRUG Geo. T.

Mallery, Pi-op, GEO. M. COOLEY Hardware. FEETHAM McNRIL, Grocers. GLOBE OPTICAL 547 Third St.

ART HANSEN, Grocers, Three Stores. HAYWARD LUMBER INVESTMENT CO. HOME FURNITURE and Court St. THE HARRIS CO. N.

B. HALE SON, Jewelers. JONES PHOTO SUPPLY HOUSE. McCdRMICK LUMBER CO. WM.

A. MANSON, Jeweler. C. MEYER, Seeds. OEHL'S MARKET.

PERKINS HAGER, Motor Supplies. RUSSELL DEPARTMENT STORE. SAN BERNARDINO CREAMERY. SAN BERNARDINO DRUG CO. SAN BERNARDINO HARDWARE CO.

SAN BERNARDINO RUBBER WORKS, Vulcanizing F. B. SILVEWOOD, SMITH BROTHERS, Clothing. TOVVNE.SECCOME ALLISON. Druggists.

3 Store L. H. WILSON MUSIC 61 Third Street, lights were ordered for the fire de for the annual election of officers in which will connect the administration building with the halls of science partment. and classics and betwen the science i Motion of Councilman Pierson to Native Son hall. A.

Horowitz, pioneer merchant, was taken from the Ramona hospital yesterday to his home and is consid W. C. liartli, orchardist of Corona, and one of the most prominent men of Riverside county, has been appointed member of the board of managers of the southern California hos- close an alley between and Johnson streets was defeated by a three to one vote. Proceedings were then and home economics buildings. These wil be along lines to conform with the architecture of the buildings and will have a double deck, one for a runway connecting the upper floors and one for the lower floors.

He underwent annual for the insane at Pation. startd to close three and a half feet of the alley necessary for the Santa erably improved, operation. Fe's new shop improvements. Street Protest Is Continued Protest against the paving of Ca- 1 BERNARDINO NAT ONA BANK tick street was laid over two weeks, 0 NY'S i C. 8.

DEPOSITOR? ESTABLISHED 1887 the proponents claiming that during that time a majority of the frontage will sign for paving and the oppon i Argument for a new trial in tne case of P. Farrell, who was awarded $2,500 damages from flood waters was made before Judge T. W. Curtis by Ontario, against which city a jury gave the judgment. Judge Curtis took the matter under advisement.

I- A To raise trout and rabbits for the markets, the Victor Trout Rabbit farm has been started ai Victorville. Game" Warden alone yesterday inspected a shipment of 95,000 trout eggs from a Utah hatchery. There are 500 young Iielgian hares on the ents stating that in that period they 'V J. (Jill has 4eeit named administrator to settle the $12,000 estate of his deceased wife, Mrs. Pearl VV.

Gill. Attorney Ralph E. Swing represents Mr. Gill. Excelsior council, Knights and Ladies of Security, will give a cart party and dance tonight in Odd Fellows' hall.

The committee in charge of the card tournament announces tiiat extraordinary prizes will be given to the winners in the play, while for those who dance, a special orchestra will furnish the music. CAPITAL $100,000. SURPLUS AND UNDIVIDED PROFITS $300,000 will be able to raise the money for oiling. Hotel Argonaut Society of California Pioneers Building. FOURTH STREET NEAR MARKET.

California's Most Popular Hotel. Plumbing license was granted Ar FRENCH CHOP HOUSE AND RESTAURANT Meals at AH Hours. Liquors Served With Meals Only. TONT SAVINOVICH, Prop. 320 Street, Sau Bernardino, Cal Home 62.

Pacific 226 E. P. ROBERTS, President W. O. HOOPER, Cashio J.

S. WCOD, Assistant inshl-r H. E. HARRIS, Vice-President thur Hess, who will direct plumbing work for the Santa Fe's new Franchise for the Santa Fe't spur (. R.

Burns, H. B. Smith, J. E. Davis, F.

B. Stow, Directors We Invite Your Banking Business track on I street between Fiftiy and Seventh was laid over for two weeks. HUGE SUMS IX HOME GARDENS I WASHINGTON, D. March 20. MENT AMUSE If any further testimony were needed to show that the back lot garden is a farm.

San Kernurclino lodge, Loyal Order ofMoose, was host last night at a dancing and card party in Moose hall. Trask's orchestra furnished music. The Moose drill team appeared at the dance- in their uniforms, 'giving the" affair a military air. Ful-; ly seventy-five couples danced until a late hour. Refreshments were money-maker and a bomb under the high cost of living, it is furnished by SaLi Bernardino News Dr.

P. P. Claxton. Federal commis 400 Rooms. 00 Private Baths.

Rates $1.00 Per Day and Up. Free Busses to and from all Trains and Steamers. EDWARD ROLKIN, Manager. GEO. A.

DIXON, Asst. Manager. The House of Heal Reel Features ADMISSION" 10c Shows 7, i sioner ot education. vvitn lines TEMPLE TONIGHT ONLY reaching into every section of the country, he gets information which enables him to form opinions possess Ik Madame Petrova in "THE SECRET HearsUPathc Xews. OP FVF" Sidney Ilrw Comedy.

V' IP Information Service ing value. "For 4,000,000 of the school children in this country," Dr. Claxton says, "there is access to back yards, side yards, front yards and vacant lots which might be cultivated as small gardens for the growth of vege Following a meeting featured by a talk by J. G. Van Zandt and whistling solos by Miss Ira Aldridge, the members of the Y.

M. C. A. Sunday Boy's club elected permanent officers, naming Kenneth McCormick, president. Other officers elected were first and second vice-presidents, Ernest and Warner Southard, secretary, Paul Norman and Harold Holmes GROCERIES MEATS The Big White Store THE PALM GROCERY 312-314 Street tables and small fruits.

Many live Home. A1TO G. RAtiK RWAlRS Draper Garage, 2fi4 Street SOS AUTO SUPPLIES Perkins Hager, 593 Third Street 239 STRAND. THEATER TOMORROW AND THURSDAY BABY JANE LEE Supporting June Caprice in "A Child of the Wild" 10c Matinee and Night 10c E. L.

Ward. Wm. R. Alexander R. L.

Ward. WARD, ALEXANDER WARD "New Home" Sewing Machine Agent. COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHERS where space could be easily had for chickens, ducks and pigeons. "There are not less than 6,000,000 older boys and girls and men and women for whom an hour or two of work each day in a garden would be the best form of recreation and rest from the routine of their daily labor in office or shop, mill or mine, and who might easily find the time for it. "With some intelligent direction these school children and older boys and girls and men and women without much effort, produce on the available land an average of $75 each in vegetables and fruits for their own tables or for sale in their immediate neighborhood fresh and crisp through all the growing months, and wholesomely canned and preserved for use in winter.

"That would add to the best form of food supply for the country without of transportation or storage, and without profits middlemen. The estimate is conservative, as has been shown by many experiments." Phones: Main 279; Home 840. S71 St. Paciflc. 108 239 272 190 302 66 353 69 454 923 185 16 185 509 Attorney B.

Goodcell left last night for Sacramento, where he will confer with the legislative committee on irrigation in regard to the new Mojave river irrigation district. The election of trustees is to be held in the district Tuesday of next week. While at Sacramento Attorney Good-cell, who is grand president of the Eagles, will preside at a meeting of state officers of the order ind members of the legislature and other officials who are Eagies. Hearing on the application of Damon Cooley and Vernon K. McMains to establish a power plant and distributing system in Big Bear valley to serve Pine Knot hotel, Knights's camp and private cottages and cabins will be held in this city at the courthouse on Friday at 8:30 o'clock.

The applicants it is stated in the application, to put in a twenty-five horsepower oil burning engine and a fifty kilowatt generator. The nearest public utility at present is the Southern California Edison company, which has a power house in the Santa Ana canyon, ten miles west of Bear lake. The estimated cost of the system is $8,000. AUTO THtKS AND VULCANIZING San Bernardino Rubber Works, 595 Third Street 353 CONFIXTIONKRV AND LKiHT LUXCHKS Trask's, 543 Third Street 245 DRUfJS, INDIAN' GOODS, PRKSCRIPTIONS Central Drug N. E.

corner Fourth and 302 GROCKRIF.S, MEATS Quality Grocery, E. C. White, 338 Street 5fi HAIR GOODS, HAIRDHKSSIXG, COSTUMING Kennedy Parlors, 467 Third Street HARDWARE, TIRES Geo. M. Cooley 393-9 Third Street 59 HOSPITALS The Dennette Private Hospital, cor.

Fifth and 1442 MILK, CREAM, BUTTER, EGGS, ICE CREAM B. Creamery 272 Street 8502 NEWSPAPERS San Bernardino Xews 185 OPTOMETRIST, OPTICIAN' Dr. C. Lee Marlenee, 588 Third Street 93 PRINTING News Job Office -185 UNDERTAKING, EMBALMING, AMBULANCE Mark B. Shaw Fifth Street 509 Towne, Seccombs Allison Piescription Druggists Three Stores Use Gas for Cooking and Heating Ranges, Heaters, Radiators and all Gas Appliances, furnish the Contorts of Home.

Always ready at a minute's notice without waste or dirt. Use gas, it saves time and labor. Call at our Salesroom or telephone and our sales-' man wiil call at your home. OEHL'S MARKET Seeds and seed ymawes at Meyer's. CIS CO.

CALIFORNIA SOUTH Masonic Block. Wholesale and Retail Butcherr. Groceries, Fruit, Vegetables, Poultry, Fish, Oysters, Delicacies. Branch City Market, 627 Third. The Very Best Only.

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