Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-08-26
RETURNED FROM CALIFORNIA
T. J. Cherrington Spent Delightful
Outing at Pacific Beach Resorts.

IL Js NnCEIIuSeoh SPNS
Outing at Pacific Beach Resorts.
r. J. Cherrington arrived home last
Friday from three weeks pleasure
tour of Southern California. He
visited Los Angeles, Pasadena, San
Pedro, Long Beach, and other points
Of interest and enjoyed every minute
of his trip. He prefers Oregon to
California, however, and is glad to be
at home again. He has been kept
busy early and late in his photograph
gallery since his return, and is turn
ing out large amount OF work that
had accumulated during his absence.
Mr.. Cherrington found many former
Polk and Marion county people living
in Southern California, and says they
are all prosperous and enjoying life.
He visited Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Noel in
Alhambra, suburb of Los Angeles,
where they have been living since Mr..
Noel sold his Touring mill in Dallas
Mr.. Noel is engaged in the real estate
business and is doing we'll. MI
Cherrington also enjoyed the hospi-
tality of DR.. J. E. Kirkpatrick and
family at their pleasant home IN Los
Angeles. Doctor and Mrs. Kirk
patrick are spending their declining
years amid the most comfortable sur
roundings, and are both in the best OF
health. Their property is rapidly IN
creasing in value, and one OF the
finest buildings in the city is now be-
ing built within two blocks Of their
home.
At Long Beach he visited his broth
er, Captain G. W. Cherrington, a
retired business man. He says that
Long Beach is destined to become the
most popular resort in California, and
that it is entitled to be classed as the
"Coney Island Of the West" Thous-
sands of Eastern people are there now,
although the season will not be at its
height until midwinter. Every form
of amusement has been provided for
visitors, and the fishing and bathing
facilities are unexcelled. W. r Pfen-
mig, former Dallas jeweler, has a
iewelry store in Long Beach and is
enjoying fine trade. Mr.. and Mrs.
Pfennig are delighted with their new
home, but still remember with pleasure
the years they spent in Dallas.
Mr.. Pfennig has developed into an
enthusiastic fisherman, and spends
many of his leisure hours in fishing
from the pier that extends far out into
the ocean. When Mr.. Cherrington
arrived in Long Beach, the jovial
ieweler Immediately volunteered to
give him few lessons in the fasci-
mating sport Of deep-sea fishing
Equipped with plentiful supply Of
bait and tackle, they joined the throng
of fishermen on the pier and the ex
pert angler was soon busy explaining
to the beginner the mysteries of the
art of Turing the fishes from theil
hiding places in the bottom Of the sea-
The novice proved an apt pupil in
fact, he soon grew wiser than his
master, for at the end Of an hour he
had twenty-seven fine fish, and Pfen-
mig had one. The first fish caught by
Mr.. Pfennig was about three inches
long, and Mr.. Cherrington yanked il
off the hook and put it on his own
hook for bait. Not wishing to send the
expert home to his wife in disgrace
Mr.. Cherrington generously divided
his catch and wended his way back to
his hotel. The next morning he met
Mrs. Pfennlg on the street and was
surprised beyond measure when the
good lady invited him to the house tC
lunch "to help eat some fine sea fish
that Mr.. Pfennig had caught the day
before" He says that Pfennig hat
actually gone home and told his wife
that he was the man that caught the
fish. and had made her believe it. HI
says Pfennig will probably deny tht
truth Of the whole story, but he
respectfully submits that the word o
Il man who will wickedly deceive hi!
wife in a case like this is entitled to
no consideration whatever.