The herald., 1898-04-17
Fullerton Fragments

FULLERTON, April 16. - The high
school board met this morning and
adopted plans for the new high school
building furnished by Howard &c Train
of Los Angeles. The building will cost
about $4,000. The plans of the building
are after the Italian style Of architecture
something similar to the old California
mission. The building will be Of brick.
Samson Edwards came up from, West
minister Thursday to look after his prop
erty interests here.
Steve McCulloch and Miss Ada Mont
gomery, two we'll known and highly es-
teemed young people of Placentia, were
married in Santa Ana Thursday after
noon.
Franc l.. Grannis will leave for the east
May 1st.
C. w. Benson and family will leave for
the state Of Washington the last Of this
month.
Mrs. r. Z. McFadden has returned to
her home in La Habra, after having
spent several weeks visiting relatives IN
! Nebraska.
| Mr.. and Mrs. George Case and Mr.. and
Mrs. George Ruddock spent the past
week at Newport beach.
A mutual improvement club has been
organized by the ladies of La Habra val
ley.
c. Ii. Leroy, fireman at the oil wells,
was badly burned Wednesday by an ex
plosion of gas. He was brought to town
! for medical treatment.
gentleman was here yesterday from
Los Angeles looking over the field with
view of putting in a gas plant.
! G. w. Sponable Of Placentia will leave
for the east in few weeks.
G. woodward Is building an addition to
his residence in Placentia.
Fred Healey, aged II years, pleaded
guilty in Justice Johnson's court yes
terday to a charge of having stolen 81
from the engineer of the city water
works. The boys mother died about two
years ago. His father has steady en-
ployment with the section force at Ri
vera, but has neglected looking after his
son for year or more. Young Healey
has been placed in the custody of the
sheriff, and Judge Ballard of Santa Ana
has been requested to commit HIM to the
| Whittier state school.
James Cardiff will burn kiln Of 300 900
brick here next week.
Charles Carlson of Placentia hauled
the first load of this seasons cabbage
crop to Fullerton this week for ship
ment.
Mrs. Charles Wagner, who is visiting
her mother in Colorado, is expected home
soon.
Mr.. Blacklaw has taken large band
of horses to his pasture in San Bernar-
dino county.
A second band was organized in Full
lerton this week.
The walnut crop of this section will be
much heavier this season than last Sec
retary Holcomb of the Fullerton Walnut
Growers association, who is in CLOSE
touch with the members of the associa-
ton, estimates the coming crop here at
one hundred carloads.
During the week the Earl Fruit COM
pany shipped six carloads of oranges
from its own packing house, two from
the Association and two from the Gold
en- Belt Fruit company's house. The lat
ter company also shipped one carload.
There Is an increasing demand for late
fruit.
Frank McDermont and c. A. Miller
went to Inyo county Thursday to lease
a large acreage of pasturage.
l.. p. Drake and daughter left yester-
day for Muscatine, Ia, to visit relatives.
d. Bastenchury sold 21O0 lambs this
week to Colorado sheep men. The lambs
will be shipped to that state May 1st.
Ed Woodington of the San Joaquin
ranch was here yesterday. He has over
900 acres of grain on the ranch, and says
he will not even get five tons of hay
from his entire crop.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. C. Smith of San Diego
We're here this week, the guests of Agent
Davis.
A carload of lumber arriv~0 ere last
Wednesday for DR.. Brunson's new resi-
dence.