The Imperial press., 1905-09-16
Coronado Tent City now open.

Virgil Patterson will buy your fat hogs.
 Ask the R. R. agent for folders of Coronado Tent City.
 Roy Pier of Heber was an Imperial visitor for few days this week.
 Mrs. Arthur Edgar has returned from her outing to the coast and beaches.
 Leave your orders for Alfalfa Seed and Strawberry Plants with E. R. Fair banks.
 Miss Alma Tuttte left on Wednesday to go to Searchlight, Nevada, where she will teach school for the coming term.
 Dr. TOprahanian returned from weeks trip to Los Angeles and Cotton and Is in his office again ready to serve hls patients in anything in the line of hrst-class dental work.
 M. P. Holman has purchased the Carter place three miles southeast o Imperial and will improve and make d home of it, planting it in alfalfa and getting in line for prosperity as an lm- berial Valley hog rancher.
 John A. Garrison and family arrived Wednesday evening from San Pedro and expect to make this valley their home hereafter. Mir. Garrison's family in cludes two grown sons and daughter and are the kind of immigrants We need to build up our valley.
 Captain J. N. Patton returned We'd nesday from his long sad jnurney to his old home in Iowa, whither he was called some weeks ago to the bedside of his wife. Mrs. Patton's death was reported in our columns a few weeks ago. The sympathy ot the community goes out to him in his bereavement.
 w V. Hardy, the resident hydro grapher of the Reclamation Service has moved his headquarters to Calexico and only comes to Imperial once a week and that is to measure the water at the McKim ranch where an effort is being made to determine the amount of wa ter used in irriga Cion for raising alfalfa.
 William l.. Wales son of our we'll known townsman, E. l.. Wales, arrived in Imperial few days ago from hiver- side and is now employed with Surveyor Vickrey on the El Centro townsite Mir. Wales is hearty and ambitious young man and does well to add his membership to the Riverside colony now in I'm r,erial Valley.
 Charley Fernald has been feeling like a "second hand" man all over this week and it was all because he had boil, oh well, it knocked him out com pletely anyway. He blamed it onto the outing he took. Had he remained in the Valley during August he could have sweat all the impurities out of his system and would be immune from boils.
 w. w. Masten this week moved the old Green Front restaurant building to El Centro, where it is reported that it will be put into service as boarding house for the men the town company will employ. It is also stated that the canvas part of the Thelma hotel will be moved to El Centro, too. These build ings are little except fire traps and we are glad to be rid of them.
 George A. Carter left last Sunday morning for months outing and vaca- tion. It is his intention to penetrate the mountain wilds of Northern Cali fornia and Oregon before his return and he expects to live on deer meat of his own killing while on that trip. When he returns we expect to make a cnllec- tion of his bear stories and hunting ex- periences encountered while away and publish them for souvenirs.
 Among the arrivals on Tuesday even- lng's train were the Hammers boys. Aylmer and Will, who have been out to Los Angeles for the past six weeks on their vacation. They were accom- panied by their uncle and aunt, Mir. and Mrs. w D. Hammers of Beaumont. Texas, and Mrs. B. P. Hammers and her mother, Mrs J. A. Larny of Rals- ton, Oklahoma. This the first visit to our Valley of the four last named and we learn they are quite pleased with our prospects. Mrs B. P. Hammers is the widow of the brother of Will and