The herald., 1896-03-04
Personals


Personals
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Lockwood, New York
society people, are at the Hollenbeck.
Miss Catherwood, the reigning belle of
the Quker City. accompanied by her maid,
has a suite at the Westminster for the
Fiesta.
Mrs. ]. H. Crocker. of St. Paul, one OF
the most brilliant political writers in the
is niece of multi-millionare Isaac Sta
pies, of Saltwater, MINI.
H. G. Frazer. inspector of the Westing-
house Air Brake company for the Pacific
coast, his territory extending from Brit
ish Columbia to Mexico. arrived at the
United States hotel from New Orleans yes
terday.
G. w. Garcelon, division superintendent
of the Pullman Palace Car company, with
Nadeau, specially looking after the inter-
ests of the Iron Mountain and Southern
railroad and connections.
F. NJ. Crunden, public librarian of St.
Louis, was in Los Angeles yesterday
visiting the city library. He was
much pleased to see the condition
of the city library and somewhat surprised
to find that the circulation in Los Angeles,
with library OF $4,000 volumes, is about
the same as in St. LOUIS, where they have
100000 volumes. Mr.. Crunden is visiting
with his wife in Pasadena and is much
pleased with Southern California.
F. Irving Kiser, vice-president and sec
retary of the Agnew & Kiser company, sue
cessors to G. Nj. Agnew. of San Francisco.
the copious precipitation in Los Angeles
and Orange counties, and even as far as
Santa Ana, where the rainfall was greatly
deficient, all fears of short crop of
fruits and vegetables are removed and that
a fine outlook is now promised. not only to
the grower of deciduous fruits but to those
whose sole maintenance is dependent upon
early spring rains to insure heavy crop of
berries. The drug trade, as will others.
will reap the benefit from be lifecent show
ers.
W. 3. Ransom, a pioneer resident OF
Rosedale, was agreeably surprised by
party of ladies and gentlemen of his neigh
borhood last night, who had quietly ar
ranged to give him u testimonial of the es-
TEEN in which he is held on his seventy
second birthday. ID. A. Carson contrib
uted to the surprise by Offering q tamale
banquet at his beautiful home, which had
been nicely decorated by Mrs. Carson and
other ladies who hold MIR. Ransom in high
esteem. Here they were entertained by
Professor w. a. White, with his novel ag-
eregation OF bass drum, harmonica, Gym
balls, ETC., Mr.. Carson adding to The enjoy
ment of the evening by several recitaticns
and songs.
Mrs. Douglass Turner entertained se-
lect party of friends at her residence, S62
South Main street, to celebrate the recovery
of her son, Douglas Turner, from a
severe attack of typhoid fever
and also to commemorate the fifteenth
anniversary of his birth. The follow
ing ladies and gentlemen were pres
ent: Mr.. and Mrs. +. S. Wood and Mas
ter Fred Wood, Miss Hipschnan. P. F.
Gibbons, Mr.. and Mrs. G. Yorke, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. W. Cox. Mr.. and Mrs. S. A, McIn-
nes, Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Bisbee, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. G.. McInnes, Mr.. and Mrs. Pen
nington. An elaborate supper was served
after much enjoyment at progressive
euchre party. Mrs. S. A. McInnes as
sisted Mrs. Turner in receiving. The dec
orations were lilies of the valley, without
smiax.