The herald., 1896-01-07
POMONA PRAYS TO PLUVIUS
For a Good 0ld-fashioned Soaking
Rain
Oranges Going Forward-A WouId-be Burglar
caught-w. K. c. Women Preparing to
Present an Operetta

POMONA, Jan. 6.-The continued d.y
weather and the advancing season COM
bined have begun to show effects in the
dissemination to sell hay in anything like
lcrge lots and he price is not only stiff
but slowly moving upward. general and
heavy rainfall would be heartily welcomed.
Messrs. Loud & Gerling are now packing
some three carloads of ora nges from the
Newerf, formerly G. e. White, orchard, for
shi to the owner, Mr.. Newerf, in
Buffalo, n. Y.
Captain Ira Z. Draper and family are
now ensconsed in the E lott cottage.
One John Ryan has been arrested on a
charge of attempted burglary OF the resi-
dence of NJ. l.. Sparks. near San Dimas.
Mr.. Sparks was out in his orange orchard
this morning and luckily saw tho man
enter the house.
The sewer question is quietly being dis
cussed by the city trustees, $, that when
the Tina arrives, after the water bonds are
sold and the pipe plant for the water sys-
Ten is completed. they will be ready for a
solution of the problem.
The funeral of the late ]. B. Chapel, one
of the first and oldest settlers in this COM
mum y. will be held from the South Meth
odist church at % o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. That of Mrs. Dorothea Hansler, late
mother of the Hansler brothers of this
city, was held from the residence at 2
o'clock this a, ternoon.
The women of the Woman's Relief
corps are taking great interest in their en-
tertainnent. the operetta, Trial by Jury,
which is to be put on the boards by Po-
mona talent on the evening of January
14th, in Odd Fellows hail.
The Pomona public schools reopened
this morning.
Mrs. General Howe reports her son, Ed
+. Howe, in very feeble condition of
health.
There are good many laughable COM
ments upon the style adopted to number
even residence lots. A number for every
ten feet front makes some lively jump in
figures in some of the blocks.
The shadow pantomime comes off Thurs
day evening in the guild rooms of st.
Paul's.
II. B. Sears, who was arrested by Con-
stable Slanker yesterday near the A L.
Currier place upon a charge of grand lar
ceny of a light wagon and harness, valued
at $50, from Cyrus Upham of Monrovia,
has had his preliminary hearing set for to-
morrow (Tuesday) morning at 10 o'clock.
Never before in the history of this valley
could nursery stock, especially orange and
lemon trees, be had at SO low prices as are
now quoted by the nurserymen.
j. A. Clark has purchased the business
of j. Henry Moore in this city.
Three "home talent" performances are to
be put on The boards this month:
.'Shadow Pantomime," January 8 that the
Ladies Guild hall; the operetta "a Trial
by jury" Odd Fellows hall. January 18th,
and ''Kiogrande" at the same pla ce on the
evening of January 22d. The entertain
ments are gotten up by the amusement.
play and music-loving young people of
Pomona
The Santa Fe is fixing up it's Office in
the Hansler-Rutan block in tasteful
manner.
Mia Upper Maynard, who has SO sue
cessfully taught in Los Angeles and Pasa-
dens, is to give free lecture Monday at
2:30 in the parors of the Uni arian
church. The subject will be, A Pilgrimage
10 Concord.
j. B. Camp says that his daughter Miss
Gettys. who has been visiting in Tennessee
for the past year, will arrive at her Pomona
home about next Saturday.
The sewer question is being more or less
quietly discussed by the Pomona city board
of trustees, and may develop into tangible
shape at the proper time.