Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-27
OUT OF TOWN.
Matters of Interest from
Roundabout Cotton.
Everybody Busy Packing the
Big Fruit Crop.
Notes and Personals Gathered at the
Sea Shore.
Items from the Beach-News from Redondo
Beach and Santa Monica-A Lively
Summer Season.
Correspondence of the HERALD. !

Correspondence of the HERALD.
A. B. Miner, president of the Cotton
Packing Company, is still in Europe.
L. S. Hough, agent for the Santa Fe,
and wife, visited Los Angeles yesterday.
There will be lawn party at the
residence of Mr.. Howard this evening.
Mrs. Donald and her estimable daugh-
ter, Miss Elsie, and her son, Ben are at
Catalina island.
Mrs. G. L. Hutchinson will spend the
next week or ten days with her brother,
Mr.. Davis, at Del Mar.
Brother Mcmillan was given sur
prise party last evening, complimentary
to his niece, of Pasadena.
Last Tuesday was the hottest day of
the season. The thermometer regis
tered ia in the shade and 103 at p. m.
Col. NJ. A. Murphy has three-year-
old trotter for which he is offered 50 800.
The Colonel has some very fine horses.
J. P. Mirandette is shipping delicious
ripe grapes to the German Fruit Com
pany, Los Angeles, the first of the season.
Messrs. Fox & Martin will dry one
hundred and twenty-five tons of peaches
and two hundred tons OF apricots this
year.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company is
moving the building formerly used as an
eating house at this place to Rincon,
for depot.
Prof. F. M. Strang, principal OF the
public school last term, left last night
for months vacation in the mountains,
near Archibald's sawmills.
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Fargo & Co. 8 Office, who was called east
by the serious illness of his mother, will
return shortly, as his mother is conva-
lescent.
N. Davenport has returned from Orc
Grande, where he has been digging into
the earth for the root of all evil. He is
reported to have brought back little
piece of it.
J.. M. Williams, formerly clerk in
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express office, has
struck rich placer mine on Old Baldy.
He brought down seven ounces the other
day, the cleanup of one days run.
Mr.. J. w. Davis, president of the First
National Bank OF Cotton and the San
Bernardino National Bank of San Ber-
nardino. will spend the summer with
his family at his seaside cottage at Del
Mar.
Mrs. M. A. Murphy has just returned
from Oakland, California, where she
went few weeks ago to attend the we'd
ding OF her sister. She reports the
weather as being uncomfortably colo
there.
F. F. Oster, Esq, candidate for dis
trict attorney, is spending a few days al
,c1o hoD
to find out what the wild waves have to
say about his prospects politically and
matrimonially.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railway
Company has paid all OF the funeral ex-
penses of John Bowen, the engineer
who was killed on that road last month
by running onto burned bridge; a
former resident of this place.
Mr.. w. H. Wright, Republican, sue
ceeds Mr.. J. A. Van Arsdale, Democrat
as postmaster at this place. Mr.. Van
Arsdale's term would not have expired
until December, had it not been for the
operations of uncivil service reform.
Two men in buggy who had drank
too much corn juice drove into and all
over George Wilson's nursery the other
evening, doing considerable damage
As they are financially responsible. they
will probably be made to pay for the
damage.
The Cotton cannery has now in its
employ three hundred women and one
hundred men, and yesterday advertised
for one hundred more hands. They put
up about twenty tons of fruit daily.
They will put up this year the largest
mack ever made here.
The marriage of Miss Gertrude Adams,
of this city, to Mr.. j. E. Butler, OF the
Needles, CAL, is announced to take
place on the 31st inst. Miss Adams is
one of the most beautiful and accom-
plished young ladies in the city. MIR
Butler was formerly chief clerk in the
Southern Pacific railroad office here, anc
is now train dispatcher on the Needle:
division of the Atlantic and Pacific rail
way. From the popularity of the con
tracing parties the event is looked for
ward to with great interest.
There is not an idle person in this
vicinity, taking in men, women anc
children. The fruit crop is very heavy
and it will probably furnish employment
for the next three months. Things are
booming, and everyone is hot and
happy. JOE.
Cotton, July oath.