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Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-04
CITY OF TEN THOUSAND AIM
 OF FL CENTRO'S NEW CLUB
Organized Enthusiastically by Live Citizens to Promote Public and Private EnterpriSe---WI Meet at Dinner Every Week and Take up Public Questions,

others discussed the good roads ques- tion and urged the importance of i'm proving the highways of the county and making connection with the road systems of adjoining counties. pr. Shepherd endorsed their views, saying that wagon transportation is the most costly of all methods of moving pro- ducts. imposing a heavy burden upon the farmer, and when the roads are bad the burden is almost intolerable. The individual, however, would not build good roads if left to his own devices, and only by systematic pub lie action could the remedy for waste fully expensive transportation be ap- piled. The best thing the club could do would be to encourage and back up the county government in a general movement for highway improvement.
 In pursuance of the plan favored by members, the principal business of the next meeting of the club will be consideration of the road question and the advisability of petitioning the su pervisors to appoint a Highway Con- mission.
 Officers Elected.
 After the dinner, the club was or ganized by unanimous adoption of the constitution and the election of a board of five directors. The first in. formal ballot showed twenty-three names voted for, and the ten highest were placed in nomination. The next ballot resulted in the choice of Geo. A. Carter, H. B. Pearson, Allen Kelly and A. D. Medhurst, with tie be- tween Dr. R. P. Shepherd and D. D. Pellet Dr. Shepherd argued that he should not be chosen a director be. cause he does not live in the city, and he tried to withdraw his name. MT. Pellet insisted that Dr. Shepherd be elected and withdrew his own name. Another ballot was ordered, and Dr. Shepherd was drafted to serve as director.
 The Board of Directors organized by electing the following officers: Presi- dent Allen Kelly; vice-president, Dr. R. F. Shepherds; treasurer, Geo. A. Carter; secretary, Lewis Havermale.
 Working Committees.
 The board followed the plan of the City Trustees of delegating details to committees of one. The secretary is membership committeeman, and all applications should be presented to him. The president is committee on program of meetings. Vice-president is committee on special addresses, CO operating with program committee. Treasurer Carter will look after eX hibits, Director Medhurst will attend to details of publicity, and Director Pearson will have charge of arrange ments for reception of visiting bodies.
 A club button of appropriate design will be ready soon for all members.
 The next meeting of the club will be held at D. m. Monday, July 6, at dinner in the Palm roof garden All desiring to join the club are invited to attend, and requested to notify the president or secretary of their inten tion to be present, in order that ade- quate preparation may be made.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-04

If you want alfalfa hay in car lots drop a card or see B. F. Klippen, Heber or El CentrO 1O-f
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
Wonen's Clubs

The members of the executive board
of the Los Angeles district G. f. w. G.
met Thursday of last week, with a
large attendance.
Mrs. r. j. Waters reported for the
committee appointed at Monrovia to
formulate plans for the establishing of
a club bureau of registration. As al
ready noticed in The Herald, through
the personal interest of Mrs Pearl
Adams Spaulding and the courtesy of
the officials of the Columbia Trust
company, desk room has been offered
the bureau in the pleasant parlor and
information bureau that the bank pro-
vides forNits women clients, and it is
hoped to place clerk in charge of
the registration work.
Mrs. w. w. Circuit reported that the
forestry committee, of which she is
chairman, has just issued leaflet
dealing with the varieties of shrubs
and trees that are best suited to the
climate of this section.
The district year book, just issued,
compiled by Mrs. r. j. Waters and
Mrs. Frederick Hooker Jones, shows
that the district is composed of sixty
clubs with a membership of 500.
A special council of the presidents of
the district has been called for Thurs
day, February 20, when several i'm
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
GIRL CONFESSES TO
MYSTERIOUS THEFTS
ALLEGED KLEPTOMANIAc TO BE
ARRESTED TODAY
Declared to Have Stolen Check and
to Have Forged Name to II.
Kept Hello Girls in
state of Worry

For several months many valuable
and checks, by their magical disap-
pearance, have kept the hello girls" at
the Home Telephone company's office
near Seventh street on Olive in state
of constant vigilance and worry, al
though despite the watchfulness of the
many operators employed there the de-
tachable articles and personal bric-a-
brac Of the exchange rooms have con-
tinued to vanish with Aladdin-like
magic.
Some of the girls had almost con-
cluded that there we're ''spooks" or
supernatural fingers plying their art
about the premises, but psychological
seances and researches failed to I'M
cover the latent cause of the "presto
CO. necrOmancy.
Last Saturday was pay day at the
telephone offices, and inadvertently one
of the girls left her check lying-only
for a moment, she says-on her desk.
She turned to the switchboard, and a
second later when she looked for the
check, it had mysteriously vanished
with the same precise and inexplicabla
promptness that had characterized sew
eral preceding disappearances.
1t all happened so suddenly that the
victim could hardly believe it was gone,
and general ransacking of the estab.
lishment ensued. But the check was
not found.
Yesterday, it is alleged, one of the
operators named Vida Remy a pretty
i7-year-old girl who has been employed
at the central exchange for several
months, endeavored to pass the check
at the Hy-lo shoe store after purchas-
ing a pair of shoes. The name of the
girl from whom it is alleged to have
been stolen was forged to the check, it
is stated, and the store clerks became
suspicious of 1t.
Investigation led to the girls arrest.
She was taken last evening to the Home
Telephone company office, and in the
kitchen of the building was closely
questioned, with the result, it is said,
that she confessed to having stolen the
check, as well as numerous other
articles which had so mysteriously
vanished.
In explanation of her thefts, 1t is
said, the girl declared she was KEEP
what did not belong to her was greater
than she could master. She broke
down and cried piteously.
While it is declared to be possible
that she will not be prosecuted, if the
intervention of her friends avails, there
is a strong determination on the part
of her victims, it is said, to make an
example of her, and at late hour last
night it was stated at the telephone
office that warrants for her arrest
would be issued today
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
PUT FIRST BRYAN
CLUB IN FIELD
DEMOCRATIC DIRECTORS NAME
COMMITTEE
Indorse Judge Trask for Chairman of
State Convention - Increase
Directorate to Nine
teen Members

Directors of the Democratic club of
Los Angeles last night decided to put
the first Bryan club in the field in Los
Angeles.
At the weekly session the governing
board agreed to leave the organization
preliminaries to a committee of five,
consisting of Joseph Mesmer, Anthony
Schwamm, Ion L. Clark, S. ?. Clark
and w. T. Craig.
Judge D. X. Trask was indorsed for
chairman of the coming state conven-
ton.
There was desultory talk concerning
this convention and the relative chances
of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara In
being selected, but no action was
taken.
nointment of Gen. Chaffee to the board
of public works.
The board will hereafter consist of
nineteen members instead of ten.
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Linen Shower

Miss Gussie Markus, who resides
with her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Solby, 1925 East Fifteenth
street, and whose engagement to
Robert B. Goldman has been an
nounced, was guest of honor Satur-
day evening at a gathering held at
the home of Mr.. Goldman's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Goldman, 7S4 New
Depot street.
There were games and dancing, and
refreshments were served. A feature
of the evening, which was a complete
surprise to the pretty bride elect, was
linen shower, at which time she was
presented with many beautiful pieces
of table linen and needlework for her
new home. The young people are to
be married in June
Among those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. j. NJ Brock, Mr.. and Mrs. C.
Bernstein, Mr.. and Mrs. Markus, Mrs.
Bertice Brody, Mrs. Livingston, Mrs.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
Reception and Musicale

Amid the daintiest of Japanese APP
pointments. Mrs. NJ Hennion Robin
son and Mrs. LIE Roy Plummer enter
tanned more than 100 guests yesterday
afternoon at the Bellevue Terrace, the
occasion being a compliment to Mrs.
Robinson's sister. Mrs. Amasa Edwin
Higbee of Detroit, Mich.
Japanese effects were everywhere
apparent, almond blossoms vieing with
wisteria in the big front parlor where
the guests were received, while the adj
joining p.rlor was turned into a veri-
table Japanese tea room, and the call
ers We're served delicious tea and chop
suey. The room was canopied with
festoons of electrodes, hidden in gay
Japanese lanterns, blossoms charac-
teristic of the land of the chrysanthe-
mum transformed the rooms into a
bower, and here and there and every
essre in both rooms were a multitude
g. butterflies.
q line with Mrs Robinson, Mrs
fls inner and Mrs. Higbee were Mes
Ines o. d. Williams, Carrie Sawyers,
:. I. Cook l.. J. Ollier, j. T. Newkirk,
Mss Estelie Catherine Heartt, Miss
l.9aise Nixon Hill, Miss Mary Newkirk
+, the tea room the tables were pre-
over by Mrs. Herbert Gresswell
Mrs. Edward O'Brien of Chicago
who, attired in the embroidered robes
that are the favored garb of the Jap
anese women, captivated the guests.
The feature of the afternoon was the
musicale given by we'll known artists.
Vocal solos were rendered by Mrs.
Plummer, Miss Lillian Smith, Miss
Louise Nixon Hill, Miss Estelle
Catherine Heartt and Miss Wanger
of Chicago. Other numbers included
piano selections by Mrs. Cook and a
Violin. cello and piano trio by members
of the Fuhrer quartet.
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ha names men well qualified we have
no right to interfere. .4,ono,
"Gen. Chaffee is man OF nalioila,
reputation, and the mayor mas iooAeu
into his qualifications.
HeaIy to the Opposition
Councilman Healy said he served IN
the Sixth cavalry with the GENE d.
Chaffee handled his men ana ms Ill Iii
pany we'll, hence he ought " i'''i
the aqueduct well, too. .4oa .ho+
Councilman Wallace susseS1,t e',,od 20
r1eoIv Of least ought to be allowed 10
vote for the general since nc s0-
the same company. .,.,.oa nv
aid like to ask who appointed MT
Anderson in the first place., inter-
iected Healy. Some of the people are
here now. They try to boss the Whole
Gonncilman Yonkin said there is no
NON living whom he would rather see
at the head of the aqueduct poaru t s.lI
Anderson, but he proposed TO colliil ~
the man the mayor named. .ou
president Pease then took the Iloo5
IN nraise Anderson, he having server
on the citizens committee tnat haiii9O
the first board of public WORKS.
1.-THE mayor has given no goou rS't :,
said he. 1--WE should know a reason
why at this late day, after letting ,l
us labor under the impression that Az an
derson would be reappointed' ooes tne
mayor send in another name 2
He closed by saying that he had ef mo-
word to say against Gen: Ina tjoI
but he though weeks consluerdlioi
should be taken.
Councilmen Wallace, Wren anc
Pease then argued for more time II
Finally President Pease said that Il
Gen. Chaffee gets the majority I'M
vote should be made unanimous at any
rate. It was due such man; 81,
The first vote was then taken, 81
voting for confirmation. Messrs, Blan
chard, Heaiy, Dromgold, Yonkin an(
Clampitt. The noes were Wallace
Wren and Pease. aa,,,
Later Pease changed his vote, addin'
that as the majority had control III
vote should be unanimous.
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CLAIMS HUSBAND
WAS DEERAUDED
Authorities Seek Man Supposed to
Be in RIpon, Who Is Said to
Have Sold Rights He
Did Not Own

The county authorities are looking for
Elias B. De la Matyr, who is said to
have been last heard from at Ripon,
San Joaquin county.
De la Matyr is charged in a suit filed
in the superior court with defrauding
Mrs. Caroline e. Manning by inducing
her husband to purchase an interest in
the sales rights in California, Oregon
and Washington of patent petroleum
oil burner, of which he is declared to
have represented himself as the sole
owner.
The contract was made in 1887, and
she says she did not discover the ir-
regularities until after her husbands
death in 1905. In order to become as
ISOLATED with De la Matyr, says the
plaintiff, the Manning home in Ala
media was mortgaged for $500 and
when-the money was turned over to
De la Matyr he disappeared.
Mrs. Manning says she has heard
from him frequently since that time.
but he has no permanent location. She
located him a few DAVIS ago through a
letter in which he requested her to p :
ward mail to r on Mrs, Man g
asks for 1udgmei o. sS4lo.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
ELKS ARE IN
TOWN FORFU
COME FROM SALT LAKE CITY ON
THREE SPECIALS
Nothing Official About the Trip, Which
Is Shared by Many Outside Lodge
No. s5-Some Big POLL
ticians Along

Seven hundred people, Elks and their
friends, took Los Angeles by storm yes
terday, coming to town in three spe-
cials over the Salt Lake route, the ex-
cursion being under the auspices OF
Salt Lake lodge No. So, B. p. o. e.
There . nothing official about the
trip anu the great majority of excur-
sionists on this trip are not members
of the great order arranging 1t.
Among them is w. p. Cooper, exalt-
ed ruler of the lodge, at the head of
the Elks' contingent, while J. H. Burg
ner, district freight and passenger
agent of the Salt Lake, at Salt Lake,
is in charge of the party. assisted by
H. F. Gentry, travelling passenger
agent; Secretary A. w. Raybould of
lodge No. IS is also one of the party.
Among the noted politicians with the
excursion are Col. Ed Loose of Provo,
Utah, chairman of the Republican Utah
state committee; Arthur j. Davis,
president Of the Salt Lake city council,
and H. S. Joseph, speaker of the Utah
house of representatives, is also &C
companying the eXcursionists.
The itinerary of their trip inclues
visit to Los Angeles, the Cawston
ostrich farm, Alpine, Pasadena, Cata-
lima, the Santa Anita races, Santa Mon
lea, Playa del RLy, Redondo and Ven
ice, as we'll as Los Angeles Chinatown.
San Diego will be seen and side trips
to Tia Juana through C. NJ. Pierce, the
Balloon Route man, as well as Coro-
nado, the Tent city and other places.
Receive oyaI(Welcome
''we got into Los Angeles at 4:3O p.
mr." said w. p. Cooper, the exalted
ruler of lodge No. So, when seen at the
King Edward hotel the headquarters
of the excursion. 1--WE were given royal
welcomes at San Bernardino, Pomona,
Redlands and Riverside. We will go
around Independently. I have to leave
for home Tuesday: 1 received tele-
gram from a niece of mine living at
Pomona which reads: Meet you here,
Pomona. All aboard Salt Lake City
I last saw her when she was 2 years
old in Chicago. Now she's 20 and going
back to Salt Lake City will me. We
expect to enjoy our stay in California
and Los Angeles especially, and 1 only
wish 1 might stay longer here"
The excursionists found Los Angeles
so full of strangers that the hotels
were hard put to furnish room for them
all. Some went to the Angelus and
Alexandria, the King Edward doing it's
best for the hundreds of visitors who
came on the excursion.
Line dHtlereQ Heru stopped at 70
mona yesterday afternoon and are en-
thusiastic over the treatment accorded
them in that city. The Pomona Elks
and the chamber of commerce turned
out en- masse and received the visitors
with open arms.
They were given glorious ride
around the pretty little city and later
were rendered a reception at the cham
Der of commerce, where each guest
was presented with neat little box of
California oranges fresh from the trees.
Arthur j. Davis, president of the city
council of Salt Lake City and the next
exalted ruler of the lodge, is one of the
most popular members of the party.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
STREET CAR LICENSES
PUT OVER ONE WEEK

The city council yesterday delayed
for week final action on the plan to
license every street car in Los Ange-
les, regardless of whether it is operated
or merely takes up track storage space
in the sheds.
against the report of the councils spe-
cial committee, suggesting fiat rate
for every car, then urged that week
delay be granted for further investiga~
tion and conference
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
The Musical w orld

THE Treble Clef club will give Its
annual Valentine ball February
= u at the Ebeli club.
A young California composer, Albert
Elkus, sailed for Europe last week
where he will reside for some time IL
study and looking over the musical
situation. Many of his compositions
will be published abroad. Mr. Elkus
is q young musician California car
we'll be proud of.
Kreisler is one of the lions Of the
season, says the Courier.
=
Madame Melba is engaged to sing al
Covent Garden for the spring season
She has promised the Australians tc
return there sooner or later with a
thoroughly equipped opera company
so that opera can be given In the Atip-
odes in as perfect a manner as III
London. 1t is promised that Media will
sing "Tosca" during her spring en-
gagement in London.
q
A daughter of Jenny Lind is living
in Berlin, a Mrs. Maud.
S
Howard Salinas is composing a one
act opera musical tragedy, the text
being taken from a poem by Heine
He expects to have the opera staged
in Germany in April
So
The dedication of the new Weimal
court theater January II was a great
artistic event, eclipsing anything OF
the kind seen in German speaking
countries since the opening of the IA
nous Burg theater in Vienna. No less
than seventy-hve theater intendants
and directors were present, and the
emperor, accompanied by large retin-
ne, was also in attendance, besides
many celebrities of the artistic and lit
erary world from all parts of the
fatherland.
An easterner calls Fanny Bloomfield
zeisler the "Fetrazzini of the Piano. II
"a
The talk of the hour is the success
of D'Annunzio's La Nave" with Choir
uses, organ numbers and ensembles,
which have called attention to a real
talent in Signor Pizzetti. He has had
the good taste to look up all the old
Grecian. Latin-Roman folk songs, eccl
clesiastical and pagan choruses, and
with modern science has adapted them
to the different wonderful situations In
this immense tragedy. All the press
is unanimous in recognizing that the
music. although modern and rich, has
still kept it's chief characteristics In
each separate phase.
s.
Herr Becker and his charming wife
will give their annual recital about
March 3.
At the First United Presbyterian
church organ recital. to be given
Thursday night at o'clock by The
odore Irwin, N--5s frank Bryson will
be the soloist.
q
A singer from st. Paul has just ar
rived in Los Angeles, a Finnish song
stress, Mile Sigrid Westerlind.
-
The concert given Friday night at
the First Congregational church was
one of the best they have ever at
tempted. Great credit is due Mr..
Mead, the conductor, for his earnest
work, and the orchestra plays with
earnestness and precision. Mr.. Ses-
sions gave the meditation on the
"Stabat Mater" beautifully rendered,
and for encore, 20 du Mein Holder
Abenstern" (Evening Starr Mr.. Mill
Ter was in good voice and sang "Over
the Desert" with the orchestra.
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EbeIi Club

"Phidias and the Parthenon' was the
topic of an erudite and comprehensive
lecture given before the Ebell club at
the regular meeting yesterday after
noon.
The speaker was DR.. H. H. Powers,
president of the bureau of university
travel, Boston. DIR. Powers is an edu-
Gator of note, having occupied the chair
of economics and sociology at Smith
college and Stanford university, and of
social science at Cornell.
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WestIake School

The Westlake school has asked
fT--i- II to help in a Washington's birth
Aay 3 ent In tn. following quaint
fashls
Re Westlake school invites we young
solk come in We celebration in honor
q fieprge Washington on Thursday,
teoutary We twenty-seventh, in We
aieteen hundred and eight.
lace, Kramer's. Ye time, eight
fiv IN We evening.
ninuet will be danced"
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Government to Aid Banks

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 10.-Members
of the financial committee of the fol-
kething, excepting the Social Demo-
Gratis, have approved the proposal that
the government guarantee the liabil-
tiles of the Freeholders bank and the
Detail Pandlers bank, which are in
difficulties as result of the local
financial panic.
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portant questions will be considered.
The annual meeting at Venice next
November, it has been decided, will be
devoted largely to the consideration of
industrial questions relating to women
and children. By vote of the board
the southern district will be invited
to be guests on that occasion.
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cIuh Valentino Party

The members OF the Treble Clef club
viii entertain tomorrow evening with
a valentine party at the Ebell club
house. Cards and dancing will form
ia eVe5:fra diversion.
.rh- yresid emit of the club, Mrs. Ed
stsr f{..rt & roper. win be assisted in
f 4lcei.fnr ~ Miss Carrie s. Freeman,
SIS lillian w. Fruhllnd, Mrs. Francis
q S35rlr7a Mrs. Edwin w. Sargent,
"a .ils il Scott, Mrs. Martha Hum
~ Ms 3 =. Kanst, Mrs. w A. Mat
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v. Nathan; Misses Pauline Garcister,
Fannie Seigel, Celma Bromberger,
Dorothy NJ. Alter, Edna Nichols, Lora
B. Hill, Mary Freitag, Freda Markus,
Fannie Morris, Kate Goldman, Hattie
Goldman, Lena Goldman; Messrs, Her
bert Garcister, Robert Seigel, George
Schuss, Henry Schuss Myer Ruben
don, Leo Markus, Mamie Markus,
Rnhart Il Goldman.
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PENNSYLVANIA Society

Members of the Los Angeles Penn
sylvania society will go down to Long
Beach this evening to be the guests of
the Long Beach society in their hall
AT 300 East Third street. A special car
will convey the guests from the Hunt
ington station at Sixth and Main.
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Lean Year Ball

Members of the Los Angeles chapter
of the order of the Eastern Star are
entertaining with a leap year ball this
evening at Kramers. One of the
leading orchestras will provide the
music and there will be cards for
those who wish.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
Queen Approves Cabinet


THE HAGUE, Feb. ,10.-Queen Will
helmina has approved the new cab
met under the premiership OF Deputy
Heemskerk. The cabinet resigned De-
cember rs as a result of its defeat on
the army estimates. Jonkherr De-
narees Van Swindersen. minister of
the Netherlands to Washington, be-
comes foreign minister in the new
cabinet.
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Ladies' Night

me of the larger social events of the
Elk will be the dinner with which the
Union League club is entertaining to-
morrow evening at the club rooms on
West Second street. This is the an
nual ladies' night. After the dinner
b. r. Baumgardt will deliver stere-
opticon lecture on Paris"