The morning call., 1890-12-08

Editor Morning Cat. This is one of the
pioneer fruit regions of California. Long
before the gold fever had brought the
eager rush of would-be millionai1es to this
Coast, our little town was in its incipiency.
with fertile agricultural region about it,
and the agriculturists of CentrevilIe and
vicinity were among the first to plow up
their grain fields and transform them into
orchards, when the first fruit promise of
Calf ornia's future province as fruit-grower
for the nation began to be manifest. The
past season has been most successful one
for fruit-raisers. and Centrevillites are, ac-
cordingly, in an unusually complaisant
frame of mind this fall. We are looking
Tor continuance Of the good times, and the
prospects are that we will not be disap-
pointed. Some anxiety has been felt lately
wind enough again TO turn the mills and
fill the tanks, that for some weeks have
only been supplied by the arduouS method
OF hand-pumplng. aprocess which, as many
OF our citizens are prepared to testify, is
pre-eminenily conducive to a WEAKNESS to
the flesh and that peculiar sensation in the
lumbar region commonly known as ''crick
in the back" Tuesday night. however, the
welc ONE breeze made its appearance, and 1t
was not long before the merry clatter of the
windmillS made music in the air." Borne
upon the wings of the south wind, came,
too, the welcome rain, which means so
much in this section. 1t laid the dust,
cleared the air, and was eagerly drunk up
by the parched earth. There has been,
this year, precipitation of 1.56, a modest
showing as compared with the inches or
more that had visited us at this time last
year. However, we have no fault to find.
The rain was very good what there was of
1t, and there was enough of it such as it
was
The storm very considerably cleared away
just in time to give the ladies of st. James
Parish a beautiful day and pleasant evening
for their long-planned-for annual bazaar,
which occurred last Friday afternoon and
evening and proved an enjoyable and sue
cessful affair. The four seasons were rep
resented in the various booths and the Town
Hall presented very brilliant appearance
Spring appeared as the first booth on the
left and was represented as beautiful
bower, where Mesdames H. +. Mosher,
Frank Jarvis, John A. B0hting and NJ. Da-
Wis had for sale a number of useful and ele-
CANT articles that found plenty of buyers.
In another corner a dainty sail-boat SYM
bolzed one of the delights Of summer and
formed the graceful booth where Mrs. Gro
theirs and Mrs. X. Rockwell presided over
well-flled counter of fancy articles and took
in plenty of round dollars in exchange
therefor.
Opposite the summer booth was truly
autumnal arbor, where, beneath its hang
ing vines, that were deeply tinged with
autumn's brilliant hues Mrs. Charles Suth-
eriand did rushing trade, assisted by Mrs.
A. Cameron, Mrs. Mayhem and Miss
Knapp
A snow-covered house at the right of the
entrance presented a typical winter scene.
Here Mrs. Howard Oyeracker acted as
hostess, assisted by Mrs. T. q. Crump and
our charming Eastern visitor. Mrs. Dick
son. A Christmas tree in the corner was
pretty and realistic touch, and the holiday
toys and gifts which were here offered for
sale found ready market.
On the stage was the refreshment booth,
where were served ice-cream, coffee and the
delicious cake which our ladies are such
adopts in concOcting
Dancing was the order of the evening,
and was entered into by the young people
in a spirit OF complete enjoyment of the oc-
casion. The music was provided by Marino
Bros. of San Francisco. Quite substan-
tial amount was realized, which will be de-
voted to church purposes.
A number of our citizens organized last
week lodge Of the order of knights of
Pythias. 1t will be known as Centrevile
Lodge, No. ITO, and already boasts of twenty
six members. Our recently organized par
lor of the Native Sons of the Golden West is
getting into good working order, and as we
have also Masonic Lodge, the mystic ties
are we'll represented here.
A sad event this week has been the death
in San Lenndro of Mrs. w. +. B. Lynch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lynch had but recently re-
moved to San Leandro, where our old friend
and esteemed citizen had been persuaded,