The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-12
HEALDSBURG LETTER.
Fruit Notes From the Rich Rus
sian River Valley.

Do LrQLHIully CaleQ unpleasant weather
during all this time. There have been sew
eral days that to us seemed cold owing to
the fact that the breezes from snow-eapped
Cobb Mountain and Mount St. Helena in
Napa County lowered the temperature for
while. We had some gloomy cloudy
weather also, few rainy days. but the
greater part Of the rainfall has come in the
night. There is truly nothing disagreeable
in rainy weather as we have had it this win
ter. 1t does become somewhat mOnotonous
when the rain continues to fall day after
day f0E weeks, as it did during the winter
of 18S9-90, but even then we had no icy sleet,
no clustering winds played a stormy ac-
compartment to the gentle melody Of the
rain upon the roof" No one in good
health, not excepting women and children,
is kept indoors by rainy weather in Cali
fOrnia.
During the pleasant days Of this month
the ladies will begin their work IN their
gardens, preparing the ground for seed
planting, for many Of our simple ANIMALS
are the most gorgeous OF our summer flow
ers. The old Scotch proverb, which says
A the months o. the year
Curse fair Februeer,
Is certainly not true Of this part of the
world. else the gentle month would be in
high distaVOr at all times.
Many Of the schools in the country dis
Z
Monday in March. Among the new APP
pointments are those of Miss Olive DuttOn.
who will take charge of the Summit Dis
trict School, and Miss NeItie Barnes, VINO
will teach in Junction District.
Every school in the county, and / believe
there are 132 districts and 1914 teachers, is n
credit to the district in which it is situated.
Taken as a whole, the school department of
Sonoma County Is one Of which she is justly
proud.
Our efficient County School Superintend-
ent, MIS-. F. MEG. Martin of Santa Rosa, is
most conscientious and faithful in the dis
charge of the duties pertaining 10 her office.
She has made many friends from all over
the county by the uniformly courteous and
prompt attention she pays to every one who
has occasion to apply to her for information
or advice.
Gas has been introduced into the High
School building of He&ldSburg, principally
for the benefit of the laboratory connected
with that institution Of learning. Some one
J0kingly remarked, not long since, that tx
the schOOl-rOoms continue to fill up az
quickly as they have done since the last
two new rooms were added, we will either
have to build another schOOl-hOuse OF have
a night session to accommodate the in
creasing attendance. Healdsburg has full
quota OF children; and heater, healthier.
happier crowd OF girls and boys that are
seen every morning on their way to school
it would be impossible to find An innOYa-
ton was introduced into the schools this
week. and heEcefOrth the moon hOur" will
be heightened into an hour and quarter;
that is, studies will not be resumed after
the noon recess until Is O'clock, instead Of
o'clock. as formerly. This is to give more
time TO those teachers and pupils who have
a distance to go for their midday meal. This
is a very satisfactory arrangement, ap-
paTently, with but one drawback, that it
is considered necessary to retain the chill
6raD until O II a al 4 in tina aftaTuOoU
The question naturally arises, us 1t neces-
sarY? Are those fifteen minutes too pre-
ciOus to be dispensed with ~
John Z. Fogarty Of San Francisco paid
short visit TO Healdsburg last week.
Mis- Nellie NJ. Petrey, who so success
fully taught the school in Davis district for
several terms, has departed for her new
field of labor in StanislauS County.
One of the signs OF the times is th6 fact
that so many Of our prominent fruitmen,
having faith in the permanent prosperity of
our fruit industry, are still adding TO their
already large acreage in fruit K. +. White
has just finished planting 900 fruit trees
mostly peach. prune and pear-On his fine
property a short distance from Healdsburg
He has valuable orange grove on this
place of 400 trees, which will come into
bearing by another season.
William Floyd. who recently bought the
Laurel Dale nurseries OF ii. w. Peck, Is
making many valuable improvements on
this desirable place. He has also planted
200 fruit trees, the choicest varieties of
peach, cherry. prune and pear, besides hav-
ing lne orchard in full bearing.
Between sixteen and twenty Of our happy
young people went to Santa Rosa last even
ing to attend the performance of Mr..
Wilkinson's Widows, returning about
O'Clock this morning. 1t was a beautiful
moonlight night, and all report a most en-
Joy able time
The many friends of Mr. Maitland Hall
were 10th TO bid him 'good-by' last Sun
day afternoon on his departure for San
desirable position in the business house of
L. d. Stone 81 Co. Mr.. Hall is a young
man held in high esteem in Healdsburg
He is we'll educated, gentemanly and fully
competent to fill any position of trust. We
bespeak for him many new friends.
Among the guests to Healdsburg last
week were Mr. Dixwell Hewitt and Mr.. Q.
S. Spinney. both of San Francisco.
Our active real estate agent Andrew
Price has been attending to business inter-
ests in the metropolis during the week.
Alexander Bartlett, who Is authority on
all questions relating to the hop industry of
Mendocno County was in Healdsburg last
week.
Miss Barbara Kanauer OF Sacramento has
been enjoying a pleasant visit with her
friend Miss Bertha Brigham of Headsburg.
The fruitmen of this vicinity. as well as
q
yard, have been applying the "OunCe Of pre-
vention" TO their fruit trees. This consists
Of a compound composed of lime, sulphur
and salt, with which the trees are sprayed
and is TO cOunteract any destructive work
which may be done by the San Jose scale
on deciduous fruit trees.
One of the most enjoyable parties of the
season was the one rendered Mr. Eben
Young at the residence of his parents, MIR.
and Mrs. John Young, the occasion being
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Our society young people were well repre-
scented. One of the pleasing features of the
evening was the presentation by Mr.. ST
Hilgerloh in behalf of the many friends of
MIR. Eben Young Of beautiful taken Of
their affection. The recipient, although
taken completely by surprise, gracefully ae-
cepted the gift with a few well-chOsen words
Of appreciation Of their kindness
Last Frdays afternoon the semi-annual
open session of the Athenian Literary So
cety of the High School of HealdSburg was
held Ia Assembly Hail. The literary and
musical exercises were of high order Of
merit, and were most heartily enjoyed 10y
the large number of persons present The
following is the programme, each Der
of which was most creditably rendered:
Address of welcome, Lyd0n NJ. Shaw; In
strum4ntal solo Chopin, NalSe N. G.
Miss Mollie Thing; criticisms Miss Edna
NJ. Robinson recitation. Miss Jennie Nc
Carthy; vocal solo, only the Sound of
Voice, Charles Bond; essay, Miss Emma
Miller; Grafton. Influence of the Press"
Walter E. Hicks; debate, 'Resolved-That
the study of the classics is of greater i'm
portance in education than the study OF
mathematics" affirmative Charles Bond,
negative James L. Parrish; instrumental
duet, Lies Sylphes, +" the Misses Mollie Thing
and Louise Muller; recitation, The Sleep
ing Sentinel" Miss Odie EnderIin; essay.
Decision" Miss Janey Passalacqua; ora
ton, Influence of Biography" J. d. Sill
Lena Zane ard Charles Bond; reading,
Getting Into the Wrong ROOM j. L.
Barnes; Grafton. progress, the Fruit of
Concentration; "Athenlan Review" Miss
Grace Wilcox; chorus, Happy Days"
class. PAN.
HealdsJu,0 February % 1892