Imperial Valley press., 1908-08-29
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 F. E. Burket has returned after vacation spent at Catalina Island.
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 A. E. Dillman of Coachella has come to Bl Centro to work in the ice plant. |
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 Mrs. A. J. Brown and child of Yuma have been visitors in El Centro' this ! week.
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 D. H. Coe and son of Cotton were El Centro visitors during the past week.
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 Roy l.. Rumsey of the Valley De. partment has returned from his sum- mer vacation.
 The County Jail has a new chef. l Percy l.. Kilyou has accepted this i'm portant position.
 Fl. D. Noland came down from Riverside Wednesday for 8 months stay in El Centro Chester D. Bryan has returned to El Centro, after a vacation with his family at Catalina Island.
 P Beracka has come from Los An geles to make his home in El Centro or vicinity, and is visiting friends here this week.
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 ", Rapp has purchased the proper ty of J. w. Sowles on Commercial street, and has moved his tent house to the new location.
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 c. F.. Hayden, business manager of The Press, returned to El Centro Thursday after a short vacation spent at Los Angeles and beach points.
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 County Clerk Elder and Mrs. Elder are expected to arrive in El Centro this evening, after a summers so journ at their former home in Idaho.
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 Deputy District Attorney Wills | leaves the Valley on Monday for a intend the moving of his family, to his ranch near Brawley. Prof. B. c. Nichols, principalelect of the new El Centro Union High | School, will arrive today from Palo Alto, to look after details for the open ing of the new school.
 Harold Bell Wright, the novelist, of Meloland, and Allen Kelly, editor of The Press, were passengers to Los Angeles on Tuesday mornings train | They will remain a week or more.
 -II-Ii- Miss Hazel Swanson departed from El Centro last Saturday for sojourn in Los Angeles, and from there may | go back to the old home in Mime sota to spend the fall and winter. Miss Fannie Cooper, daughter of A. | J. Cooper of the Hotel Franklin, de | parted Tuesday for a visit to the family home at East San Gabriel. She will return to El Centro in the fall
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 l.. H, Cooper returned to Redlands for 9 continuation of his vacation, | last week, but vii come back to El Centro soon to superintend the fall activities in the Holt building inter ests..
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 David Dewitt Lawrence has gone | to the coast for a months outing after a strenuous in the cantaloupe ship ping business and as manager for the [ 1Il DGA -6b4 eItLSy lJ~S AASCE CENA 1 NA~'N 1 ciatlon.
 -I- c. D. Dana, the gasoline engine and automobile expert, is again at his | bench in the Holton Power Company-s | machine shops. He resigned his DO | sition in July to engage in business | on his own account with l.. w. Hollis | He is now overhauling all gasoline cars | owned by the H. P. Co. and H. l. U. ! Ky. Go. while custom automobile re | pair work is slack.
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 c. E. Sprouse of Holdridge, Nebras ka, who was an Fl Centro visitor last spring, when he purchased the Down ing place, south of town one mile, returned here on Monday evenings train to look after his property and make arrangements for locating here. His wife and daughter came from Holdridge, and have gone to San Diego to spend several weeks before coming to 1l Centro.
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 City Trustee Charles F. Buttress de- parted last Saturday for a two weeks vacation at Long Beach, where Mrs. Buttress has been spending the sum mer. Immediately after his return, work is to begin on the construction of the new shops of the Holton Power Company, to replace the plant de- T I.., Ioct inc