The herald., 1898-07-07
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES ASSIGNS
THE TEACHERS
Four Deaths in One Day a Most I'm
usual Record-Some Summer
Arrivals

| SANTA MONICA, July 6.-Bills to the
| amount of $l162 were ordered paid at yes
terday's meeting of the board of trustees
and vote of thanks extended to the par
Elephants in the Fourth of July celebration.
John Wacks application for a saloon
| license was denied
| r. p. Elliott has been reelected as pres
| ident of the board of school trustees and
Il. H. Taft as clerk. The next school term
| will be as follows: From September 18th to
December 23d; January Sd to April 18th
| April 18th to June nth, making the entire
term of nine and a half months duration
| Professor Smith will remain as principal
of the Lincoln school at salary of $40 per
month, and Miss Eliza Quinn has been ap.
pointed principal of the Sixth street school
at salary Of SIS. The following teachers
have been engaged at SO: Miss e. A
Weaver of Modesto, Anna and Elizabeth
Whitman, Mabel DAVIDSON, Kate Smith,
Bertha Hunt Mary Hoskins, Florence
Rubicam, Florence Longley and Bertha
Chamberlain Professors c. /. D. Moore
and D. A. Eckert have been retained as
high school teachers, leaving one place I'M
filled.
The public library now contains a total
of 4O51 volumes with circulation of 2O3-
volumes for June.
A strawberry social will be given tomor-
row. Thursday evening, at the, Presby-
terrain church by the Christian Endeavol
society.
Company D, Southern California volun-
teer infantry, will have public drill to-
morrow evening.
The imports at Port Los Angeles for the
nrIo
lumber. %, 800 ties, 1910 tons of merchandise
and forty-seven piles; 241 tons Of merchan-
disc were exported and twenty-five YES
sells arrived and departed during the
| month.
The steamer Alcatraz is unloading 800.
ties for the Southern Pacific company
| Four deaths in the town and near vicinity
is the unusual record for the day. Mrs
Mary A. Hoops, a resident of the South
| Side. died last night of cancer, 81 years OF
age. The remains will be shipped to Halt
| Moon bay for burial. Andrew Stephens. a
prominent farmer living between here and
Tho Palms, died yesterday afternoon at
| the age of CT, of acute peritonitis. The fun
eral will be held tomorrow morning from
| The Palms. Interment at Rosedale Mrs
Guadalupe Lopez died this morning aged
| IS, and Juana Rodriguez, who died at the
old canyon yesterday. was buried today.
! Miss Gloria Louthain has returned from
| Modesto for the summer, accompanied by
her cousin, Miss Bowling.
Judge Hendrick and family arrived from
| Los Angeles today and took possession of
! their Ocean avenue home for the summer
8. D. Burke of Los Angeles, with his fam
lily, took possession of the Bicknell house
for the season today.
H. G. Gates and family will arrive for the
summer July 18th.
Mrs. Mary Howell and children of Los
Angeles are visiting the formers mother
on Third street.
| M. Calisher of FL Paso, Texas, and P. A.
| Simpkins of Gallup, N. M, are guests a,
| the Clarendon.
| Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Beatty and daughters
of New York are stopping at the home OF
| Mrs. r. d. Rubicam on Sixth street.
A. ]. Wilkins of Covina has rented a cot
tage here for the season.
| Professor Nathan Franklin Smith and
Miss Della Sweetser will be married mex:
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock in the
| Presbyterian church.
| Late arrivals at Hotel Arcadia include
Mrs. c. S. Jewell, Mr.. and Mrs. M. S. Hell.
| man and family. Miss Schwrz of Los An
geles, F. p. Morrison and family, Red
| lands; c. w. Gaskell, M. D.. and wife oil
London, England, and Mrs. e. ]. Keefe,
and James Madden of San Francisco.
| T. D. Mott and wife of Los Angeles spent
| the day here