The herald., 1895-12-15
FINE COURT OF FORESTERS
Long Beach Has an Organization Which
Ranks High
An Important Injecting Of the improvement mt
Society HeId-Membership of the
Board Of Trade Extended

LONG BEACH, Dec. 14.-One of the finest
courts of Foresters in the state is Court
Long Beach of this city. The court was
organized some six years ago. and it has
been the only organization out of num-
Der instituted about the same time that has
stood the test imposed by time and in
creased in membership and prosperity.
The only other organization that has at all
rivaled them and shared with them in
popularity, is the comparatively recently
instituted Tent No. | of X. o. T. NJ. of
the World, but as the members of the lat
ter order are very nearly all Foresters they
may he put down, though they are dual in
stitutioDs, as members of one family and
as such their friendly rivalry only acts as
an incentive to work harder to in
crease the influence and usefulness
of their respective orders. The
ladies of the l.. o. T. NJ. gave last Tuesday
evening. at Foresters hall, a very pleasing
and successful entertainments, and the
Foresters will keep The good work agoing
by having two concerts at their hall on the
evenings of the Goth and DIST inst. ire
spectively. Great preparations are now
being made by the members of this court
for the entertainments. and that it will be
something above the average is assured.
when it is known they have secured the
celebrated New York and Chicago Hey
ward Concert company, composed of must
cal experts whose regulations as artists are
national, and whose names we present ::
Flora Drescher. violinist; Clara Mae Bry-
ant, reader and impersonator; w. Scott
Hayward, cornetist, and Frank NJ. Fuller.
pianist.
The Improvement Society met at the
council chamber Friday night and adopted
bylaws for their government which were
presented by committee constituted for
for that purpose. \ fair-sized audience,
composed of ladies and gentlemen, we're
present, and various matters of municipal
interest as they were brought up for dis
cussion received proper attention. This
improvement society is an organization as
it's name implies for the improvement of
Long Beach and vicinity. and is designed
as permanent organization. the nine
elective officers of the order forming
an executive committee, a majority
of which constitutes a quorum with
authority under the bylaws to act for
the body as whole. 1t is really
an enlarged board of trade which is not
restricted in membership on account of
sex, and the interest taken in it by our
women folks argues well for its success. A
number Of committees were appointed by
the president, Henry Harrison, reports of
previous committees heard and an adj
journment taken to the evening of Tues
day, the 17th.
Brick for the new bank building are now
being hauled. They are of home manufac-
ture, being made on the Alamitos by MIR.
Thornburg. The bank when open will be
very convenient for local newspaper men.
Notwithstanding the fact that Jupiter
Pluvius is of some place on picnic in
stead of being around attending to bust
ness, blowing goes right along on the Ala
mitos, Cerritos, Lucerne and surrounding
neighborhoods, and all the same, the fish
bite list as hard.
I'VE never miss the water till the well
runs dry The oil pump of the electric
light plant, used for pumping oil from the
reservoir to the furnace, got some of its
parts broken Thursday evening, so it could
not do it's work. and the merchants had to
get along that evening with oil lamps. The
city without its electric lights looked as if it
had gone into mourning.
Miss Mary Freebe of the Alamitos was
very successfully and pleasantly surprised
at her parental home by her school COM
Danions. The usual games were indulged
in and the jolly young people put in an
evening OF unalloyed pleasure and unlim-
tied fun. Refreshments to which the sur
prisers were invited were served by the pa
rents of Miss May, soon after which the
young people, as it was late, dispersed to
their various homes.
Postmaster Wingard has found it nee
essary to increase his box facilities very
nearly double, owing TO our city's rapid in.
&ease in population. The number oi