Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-22
LONG BEACH.
A Batch of Social News and Personal
Notes.

Notes.
Born on the shore of the Atlantic
and being familiar with all of its famous
watering places, and having an intimate
knowledge of this coast between San
Francisco and San Diego, l can truly say
l have seen no place on either coast that
can compare with Long Beach for beauty
of location or in magnificence of its
scenic splendors." Such was the just
tribute paid to our place by an eastern
tourist now visiting us.
Miss M. M. Fette, of Long Beach, who
has been recording and corresponding
secretary OF the Flower Festival society
for the past four or five years, is kept
very busy preparing for the festival
commencing the 9th prox. Miss Fette
is an indefatigable worker and an enthu-
siastic devotee of flowers.
livered an address before the Farmers
Alliance at Norwalk last Tuesday night.
If there was fair for the display OF
beaches, fish, natural scenery and beau
tiful women, Long Beach could easily
distance all competitors.
Mr. James Ford, of Los Angeles, spent
q COuDlc VI QdyS dG tllC DcdCI tlllS Wcck.
The Court of Foresters and Farmers
Alliance of this place will give an enter
tainment, musical and literary, at the
tabernacle on the evening of the 9th.
Mr.. H. G. Dillon and Judge Voss will de-
exercises lunch will be served.
A whale, which had no more sense
than the law allows, swan into our river
1oo or NndnncIoxy fnh f.1n
monkeyed around until the tide went
out, when he hada job getting back into
the bay, over the bar at the mouth of the
river, which has only nine feet of water
at low tide.
Cerritos hall was barely large enough
to hold the audience which assembled
at the joint entertainment Of the w.
G. T. u. and the Band of Hope, Friday
night, the Goth inst. The decorations
were triumph of floral art, and entitle
our Long Beach ladies to precedence in
beauty of design, and taste in the artistic
arrangement of the many hued off
spring of Flora.
Mrs. w. w. Lowe as chairman OF the
committee on decorations was assisted
by the following efficient staff: Mines.
Jotham Bixby, Ollie, 1. I. Fetterman,
Craig, Misses Saunders, Amelia Brown,
and Mr.. j. Williams. The programme
consisted of orchestral music. Mrs.
Prosise. bass viol; Byron Lyster, violin
La Vergne Lowe, piano; w. Craig,
violin, and E. R. Brown, cornet. Open
ing address, Bennie Pollard song, Band
of Hope; Three Little Toadstools by
three little mites, Edith Wood, Lillian
Iockett and Edna Frazier. Recitations
by Winnie Healey, Heathfeld Pollard,
Gala Lockett and Walter Bone
field. A paper on the tobacco habit
was read by Mrs. Cuthbert; songs by
Master Guernsey Brown and Mr.. G. M.
Drake were especially good; instru-
mental music, Long Beach orchestra
dialogue by four OF the Band of Hope; a
review of the history and needs of the
Temperance temple, by Miss Martha
Hathaway, was read by Mrs. Webster
song by Hazel Webster and the Band
of Hope closed the exercises.
The arrivals at the Flying Fish cot
tage during the week were Mr.. and Mrs.
Jones and two children, Kansas City
P. Maroney, Jersey City; Ed Fisk, J.
Tuttle, Dan Simpson, New York; Mrs.
Gilchrist and two daughters, Cincinnati,
Ohio, and DR.. Holloway, st. Louis.