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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
WRITER'S CONTEST
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WRITER'S CONTEST
Los Angeles prize, $00-Maude Edwards 1927 West
Tenth street
Honorable, mention-Ane Rage $40 South Avenue Nneeen
Leo Longstreth 22O7 East Fourth street.
Out of town. first prize, $l00-Perry Byery, 1910 West
Seventh street, Riverside
Honorable mention-Leota Green Del Rosa Renhod Stock
Anaheim.
LIMERICK CONTEST
Los Angeles first prize booLeroy Reese 78 East Ffteth
Honorable Marguerite Sckney, 43 OFare street
Martin E. Pollard 303 Minnesota street
Out of town. first prize, book-Lois Wise Corona
Honorable Northumberland Smhe Highgrove Vera Hig
bee Lompoc.
UNFINISHED STORY
Prize story book-Charloe Kirby Corona
Honorable mention-Veora Peer Montecito Bertha War
dell, 1909 Rich
YOUNG ARTISTS CONTEST
Prize picture $00Margaet Bennett 140 FL Moino street.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
GREAT NATURAL ADVANTAGES
Situation and Climate Unite in Giving
Los Angeles Eminence
First Prize)
Dear Aunt Laurie:

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Il OS ANGELES is the best town for
IL people who work outdoors. Here
a. they can work all the year round
and they don't lose any more time dur
ing the rainy season here than they do
when it rains in the east.
Then, again, there is not such
a great amount of fuel needed here, and
the wages are better as a rule.
We have many churches. theaters,
beaches and mountains and have very
good schools.
We will soon have an unlimited
amount of good water from the Owens
river, and in three years, with the COM
pletion of the Panama canal and our
San Pedro harbor, we will be in closer
touch with the east, when transporta-
ton by water will be cheaper and no
doubt we will have regular lines of
steamships plying between San Pedro
and points on the Atlantic ocean in
European ports.
MAUDE EDWARDS.
Hobart school, 5th grade. 1927 West
Tenth street
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
Letters to Aunt Laurie From NepkeWs and Nieces
SCENlCA AND CIVIC ADVANTAGES
Man and Nature Have United in Maxi
ing Desirable Place
(First Prize)

Dear Aunt Laurie:
LIKE Riverside because it has no
saloons.
u 1t has a fine hotel named the
Glenwood, which is said to be the most
artistic in the United States 1t has a
room which has many carved figures in
it made in Switzerland. It has Dutch
room and a japanese room. The chimes
ring every day before Il o'clock and be-
fore g.
Just east Of the town is a rocky hill
called Rubidoux, or Huntington park,
since it has been made a park. 1t has
a drive around it two miles long.
Our parks are Chemawa park, which
is an animal park; Paramount park
which is picnic park, and Victoria
hill, which is a hill with a drive
around it,
We have fine roads, two of which are
named Magnolia avenue and Victoria
avenue, and we have many fine streets
in the town.
We have the greaterst orange raising
district in the world. We have the two
navel orange trees which were the first
to be planted in the United States. One
is at the head of Magnolia avenue and
the other in front of the Glenwood
hotel. Mr.. Roosevelt helped to trans
plant the latter
We have six schools and a manual
training building. We have carpenter
work for the boys and sewing for the
girls. We have good stores, good banks
and a good water supply.
Riverside population is about $4,000.
It's transcontinental railroads are the
Southern Pacific and Santa Fe. It. also
also has the Salt Lake railway.
PERRY BYERLY.
Grant school, 9Th grade. Age IL years.
1910 West Seventh street. Riverside.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
PROXIMITY OF OCEAN
AND MOUNTAINS is GOOD
(Honorable Mention)

Dear Aunt Laurie:
II OUGHT to be able to tell you a
great deal about Anaheim, having
II lived in it all of my life.
1t is about twenty-seven miles from
Los Angeles and about twelve miles
from the ocean, with space of four
miles to the foothills. This is in Or
ange county.
1t is not often frequented by low,
heavy fogs, as the other towns, but in
stead the days are clear; in the sum
mer the days are cooled by refreshing
sea breeze.
This town is supplied with fresh veg
etables and fruits which are brought in
from it's suburban acres of fertile soil
A species of almost every plant in this
part of the United States is grown
here.
There are two transcontinental rail-
roads going through Anaheim. the San
Ia Pc and the Southern Pacific.
Anaheim is an incorporated town,
with a population of $500 people. 1t
has a postoffice whose receipts are
nearly $4,000 a year. 1t has its own
municipal electrical and water works.
a newly built Carnegie library. nine
churches both of English and German
denominations, fine schools ranging
from primary to the high school, and
three banks whose total deposits are
over 100000 per annum.
1t is also the home of the California
Folding Crate company, which has
orders enough TO keep it busy night
and day. 1t also has three packing
houses, each one being able to handle
oranges, walnuts, peppers and cab
bages. / hope some day you may see
Anaheim-the garden spot of Southern
California REINHOLD STOCK.
Anaheim, grade 8, Anaheim high
school,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23

picture show. The Soldiers Home is
about mile from here.
A short car ride will take you to
most of the beach towns on this cleo
trio line. There is a postoffice and q
concrete depot. The main avenue is
paved with oil. Several oil wells are
near the outskirts. A good many euca-
lyptus and pepper trees grow around
here. The hills are not far away.
The streets are kept real clean.
We have several banks, hardware
stores, real estate offices, barber shops,
a lumber yard and several brickyards
are near the city limits.
The town is named after a Mr.. Saw
telle.
DOUGLAS MONTGOMERY.
Sawtelle city school, grade g.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE
AND LOVELY SCENES
(Honorable Mention)

Dear Aunt Laurie:
r LIKE my city best because the
climate is nice and warm. Los
Il Angeles has some very nice parks
Eastlake park, Westlake park and
many others.
| like Eastlake park the best because
there is a nice big lake to go rowing on,
animals, flower beds and hothouses.
There are very many interesting
places in Los Angeles, and 1 think the
city is growing very fast. There are
some very nice buildings here, and [
think the new postoffice is going to be
beautiful when finished.
ALINE KAGE.
Griffin Avenue school, A6 grade. $40
South Avenue 10.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
CLIMATE AND TOWN
UPBUlLD GOOD IN MAN
Honorable Mention)

Dear Aunt Laurie:
I think my town, Del Rosa, is the
best because it is away from any
large city where they have saloons,
and is consequently away from that
temptation
1t is up next to the mountains, and
the people can go UP there on picnics
and have very nice times. There is
large hotel about three miles from
here. and is situated among the hills.
The people go up on electric cars and
spend Sundays there.
Our town is very beautiful and 1t has
many beautiful flowers. The birds are
always singing and the flowers are al
ways in bloom. We raise very nice
fruit.
There are many kind people $40 are
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
Quaint Windmills

Dear Aunt Laurie:
My town has some of the best build
ings and advantages for a town Of
its size 1t has water pipes and cleo
tricity. Some of the houses have wind
mills, from which they get their wa
ter There are a good many stores and
gardens.
There are several halls and a moving
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23

always trying to help each other and
are kind to those who are sick.
Every one goes to church, which is
a little way above the station.
The school rooms are below and the
church rooms are upstairs.
LEEOTA GREENE.
Mountain district school, grade Z,
Del Rosa. Age IL.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
MOUNTAINOUS OUTLINE
SURROUNDS THE CITY
(HonorabIe Mention)

Dear Aunt Laurie:
A THOUGH l was not born in Los
II Angeles l have spent most of
- my childhood here, and therefore
consider it my town.
Everybody considers their town best,
because they love it most; but in Los
Angeles we have more than that, for
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23

Just where they sat to change them
Whene'er they'd been around.
Grandma has some morning glories
Climbing up trellis high,
They grow and run SO very quickly,
| think they're racing to the sky.
But in the morning they're a glory,
When their funnel flowers are out,
Shouting through them to the others
That it's time to be about.
Buttercups and daisies
Are blossoming everywhere.
Truly, cups of yellow butter,
And daisies white and very fair;
Yes, daisies white and dasies yellow,
Marguerites are called the white.
Black eyed Susans are the yellow,
With their eyes as black as night
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04

f1uence which will ultimately compel
southerners to range themselves with
their northern brethren in the at
tempt to insure sane national policies,
irrespective of local prepossessions
and prejudices. He says:
THE Solid South has ceased to be
of any value to anybody. The time has
arrived when the dullest and LOST
bigoted mind must perceive that
political readjustment and realign-
ment are for the south an imperious
necessity. The solidity of the south,
on sectional lines, is a calamity to the
nation as whole, because it prevents
the reincorporation of a section, once
in revolt, in such a way as to wipe
out the last vestige of the civil war
The solidity of the south, on sectional
lines, is a calamity to the south her
self first, because it makes political
success on that basis impossible; sec
ond. because it keeps her in the atti
tude of a conquered province, so fai
as the eligibility of her leading states
men for the supreme Offices is concern
ed; third because it dwarfs her polit
ical genius through abnormal condi
lions that prevent that kind OF com
petition out of which her great mer
arose in the past. While the south
still has many very able men al
Washington, the comment is genera
that the one-party system is thinning
their ranks every year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04
The Growing Triumph Of the Fleet

helpless and manned brothers OF
Italy
And when. near the rocks of Charyb-
dis and Scylla, old as the worlds
mythology, they wend their way into
the Sicilian straits and steam into view
of the forlorn and suffering inhabitants
of the southern peninsula, what sight
they will be for the wounded nation
and the old world!
flushed will be the bands, the mar
, tial strains that make men 20 and dare
in the face of furious hell will not ring
| out across the strait that has even
more tortuous grown than in the past
through the commissions of nature. The
guns will be muzzled, not even salute
: for the countless dead In earth's un-
paralleled catastrophe. And In
steady column, garbed in waite, the
(. great warships will move to work
more glorious than any ever wrought
in war. and triumph more splendid
than conquest ever won.
| Thousands of the bravest and best
of the manhood of America will stand
at attention as the vast fleet comes TO
anchor, ready for the commands 10
disembark and to engage in the service
of burying the dead, caring Tor the
wounded and serving the naked and
hungry, amidst the scenes that might
again, without moments warning
be shifted, distorted and disfigured by
the quakings of the earth.
/ And those who stand CT the shore
: and see will not mark the sinister tur
rets and the gaping mouths or the
terrible guns They will bend on thelI
knees, as even their loyalty to tleii
patron saint, Agatha, impels, before
the wondrous spectacle, with thought
no doubt. of the many of their country
men. relatives and friends thousands
of miles away.
And in the arrival Of that fleet, WITT
its mighty aid, they will have little re
membrance of the President who sem
it forth, or the man who is in com
mand, but will think of the Great Prov
idence ordering all things, that heals
as we'll as smites, doing as men can
, not understand, but doing all things
| well. And, over all this splendid scene
such as never was witnessed IN al
. the pomp and panoply of war they VII
see with newborn love the starr!
| banner. blessed of God, another homo
/ added to it's s.lken folds; more power
through the increased luster OF IL
> stars-a constellation that more il
: amity than strife, will shine resplen
Y dant, as the years wear on, abov
, the widening, growing peace, liberty
. enlightenment and civilization of mar
e kind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04

more Objectionable because only con-
victs over thirty years of age or those
serving their second or third terms,
the most desperate criminals, are now
sent to Fort Madison. The reforma-
tory at Anamosa is established by law
for those supposed to be susceptible
to reformatory influences. The Fort
Madison penitentiary is for the hard
ened and habitual criminal.
1T is the feeling here that the con
ditions which are complained OF VIII
lead. through publicity, to an invest
Iigation by a legislative commit ,.
warden Sanders has so much faith In
his theories that he will welcome such
an investigation. and the public GER
tafnly will abide by the result.
1t is interesting in this connection
to note what the Ringgold News-Rec'
i ord has to say concerning Warden
Sanders colcgne-water policy in the
/ treatment of prisoners. many OF them
! hardened criminals. The News-Rec
/ ord is edited by Rev. ]. H. Tedford
one of the best.informed and sanesi
4 men in Iowa. whose views on any SUB
ject are entitled to great consldeFa
ton. Writing in the latest issue o.
that paper Editor Tedford well says
warden Sanders. of the Fort Mad
ison penitentiary. has appeared before
THE public as penitentiary reformef
In doing so he suggests many things
that SAVIOR of sickly sentiment His
thoughts are not new and have from
time to time been suggested by Wis
ionary theorists of the past. Ines
have some merits and many dement's
The great drawback is that they are
impracticable. We will always have
such theorists. Abraham Lincoln
said there were those who wanted 70
put down the rebellion of 1862 by
the use of squirt guns and cologne wa
ter. They have their successors IN
the world. The views of Warder
Sanders need not cause wonder. POS
sibly the state needs new warden al
Fort Madison. Possibly he has Teen
misunderstood and needs to explain.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04

Captain j. w. Muffy is dead, as
many old soldiers and Others in keo-
kuk and vicinity will be panied to learn
His demise occurred a few days ago
at the government sanitarfum at Hot
Springs. S. D., where he had gone for
treatment about December l. He was
born in Clinton county, Pcnha., July
II. 1910, and served during the civil
war in the One Hundred and Forty
Eighth Pennsylvania volunteer iLfan-
try. He participated in the battles
of Gettysburg. Petersburg, Ream's Sta
ton, Weldon Railroad, Chancellors-
vile. Cold Harbor and Spottsylvania.
Following the close of the war he came
TO Iowa, locating at Des Moines, which
continued to be his home the remain
der of his life Captain Muffy was
/ prominent in G. A. R. and Loyal LIE
g:on circles and highly esteemed also
4 in private life. His history of the
One Hundred and Forty-Eighth Penn
/ sylvania regiment is among the most
interesting accounts of the civil wal
and is accepted as authority by stu
dents of history.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04

The Cedar Rapids Gazette has
placed an order Tor magnificent new
press-a Duplex single-plate rotary,
with a capacity Of twenty pages and a
guaranteed speed OF 5000 bookfolded
papers in an hour L has been only a
few years sine the Gazette installed a
fine new twelve-page Cox press, but its
progress has been such that it has out
grown its present limitations and
needs additional pre- fecilities 10
care properly for its increasing bust
ness. The many friends OF the Ga
zette in all parts of the state will vel
come this substantial evidence OF it's
growth ana prosperity Il IS one of
Iowa's leading newspar ars and 2 like
able paper in every way hen Editor
Foulkes died a few years ago it was
thought by many that the Gazette lad
seen its best days. So far from declin-
! ing in strength and popularity. it has
grown with its opportunities and s
nov better and more pr asperous than
ever before. All concerned in its pro
duction are entitled to on5ratuladone
upon the success thai has uniformly
attended their efforts
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04

At the meeting of the Sociological
society at Washington last week, Prof.
James E. Hagerty of the University OF
Ohio pointed out the grave danger that
awaits the family in the emancipation
of women He does not object to the
emancipation, but he says that women
who are educated marry later and have
fewer children. The chilcren OF
hghly-developed women are not as
healthy as those of other classes. The
present tendency to live in flats and
boarding houses destroys the solidarity
OF the family without any apparent ad
vantage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04
a NATloNAL CALAMITY

In the January number of the North
American Revilw, Hannis Taylor in
an article entitled The Solid South a
National Calamity, deplores the fact
that by almost exclusive attention TO
an issue which is purely local the
south has deliberately withheld itself
from exercising its rightful influence
in the determination of national at
fairs DR.. Taylor, himself southern
man, urges his fellow southerners tc
broaden the scope Of their political in
terests and he sees in the growing i'm
portance of southern industries an in
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04
vantage

In discussing the conference of the
heads of labor unions which he has
called to take steps to find employ
ment for those still out of work, Sec
rotary of Commerce and Labor
Straus said he believed that fully one
third of the immigrants who come 10
this country do so because of false
representations made in the interest
largely of transportation companies.
He proposes to have correct informa
ton widely disseminated in Europe
Following the conference with the la
Dor leaders, Secretary Straus will see
the principal manufacturers. He be
lieves there is work enough for all If
the problem of distributing the jobs
can be solved.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04
"cureso For rheumatism.

Cedar Falls Record: An old maid
down at ST. Louis has been suffering
with the rheumatism and after eXper-
menting VITA all manner of home cures
adopted the method proposed by an old
colored nanny, that of sleeping with
dog. She declares that the result was
all that could be hoped for. The rheu-
now the poor dog goes limping around
the premises with woe-pegone express
sion and sickly, snivelling whine that
is most painful both to the dog and
those who must endure his presence
But the old maid is we'll of the rheu-
matix and the colored nanny is going
about with one of those 1-told-you-
so" expression on her face that not
only begets confidence but is sugges-
tive of kind of cure-all propensity
that sometimes gets possession Of
people. The cures that are laying
around loose are enough to bankrupt
every doctor in the country. For years
the editor of the Record has been car
rving a buckeye around in his pocket
to ward off the rheumatism and it was
great stuff until this fall. The thing
either lost its substance or else the
whole thing is a rank swindle. A friend
informed us that if we would catch big
| bull snake and get him to coil aronud
| the rheumatic section Of our anatomy
that it would produce wonderful re-
| suits. We hunted high and low for a
! reptile of that persuasion but could not
! find one, doubtless the cool leather had
| driven them to warmer cline, but the
/ faith we had in the cure did the bust
ness. The rheumatism took it's de
parture. The household remedies that
are a part of every well regulated fam
ily's heritage are more precious thar
rubies" and therefore are not to be
despised. The old colored woman who
prescribed the sleeping with-the-dog
cure and the fellow who recommends
snakes deserve well of their country
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04

In the latest issue of the Hancock
County Journal publish, at Carthage,
John S. Cochran, who has been the
owner of that paper since 1888,
announces its sale TO the Jour
nal Publishing Company, composed
of Messrs. G. NJ Junkin of Fai.
field, Iowa. and Ebert Rose, a former
Carthage boy. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Rose Will be in immediate charge
of the paper and solely ,esponsib for
its conduct He is a former employe
OF the Journal and has demonstrated
ais capacity and trustworthiness. Mr..
Junkin. as all Gate City readers know,
is one of Iowa's most prominent and
successful newspaper men Carthage
is 10 be congratulated that he has iden.
tilted himself with its interests. The
alliance cannot fail TO be of benefit tc
it in many ways. This makes six
newspapers controlled in whole or in
part by the Junkins. In retiring from
the Journal Mr.. Cochran announces
that he will remain in Carthage and
may possibly take up another line Of
journalistic work The best wishes O
Tle Gate City attend I'll parties to the
change
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04
The Card Of Thanks.

Carroll Times: What next in the
card of thanks" (?) line? Here we
lave the spectacle Of returning thanks
CO through the papers to those who
bestowed presents at birthday party
or wedding anniversary. This brings
to mind the case of the widow whose
husband had gone over the road aft
err conjugal state none too fiowery.
The funeral was over, the eldest son
is dispatched to the Office of the
"Bungtown Howler" to comply with
the much abused custom in the caro-
Of thanks line. The lad modestly
awaited his turn in interviewing the
colonel and delivered himself as fol
lows: We'll, you know dads done
gone and died and so nanny wants
you to thank everybody tor it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04
The Limit Reachsn.

Waterloo Courier: A limit has.
been reached at Council Bluffs by that
most foolish and at the same time
most atrocious class of organizations
that our modern society tolerates, the
high school fraternity These methods
of snobbishness and perverted ideals
have, under the investigation of edu-
Gators detailed for the purpose, been
proven injurious in more than few
ways to higl school pupils; and the
SCATTERING of youths spine in an in
itiation is slight compared to the moral
and social injury inflicted by this o.
ganized idiocy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04

Pat Grove has turned evangelist
and will try to rival Billy Sunday. the
ex-baseballist. The Peoria Herald
Transcript draws the line on Pat on
the ground that before he can qualify
as an evangelist he has a long term
to serve out for kidnapping tho son Of
Cudahy in Omaha and extorting a gunny
seek full of money from the father by
threatening to put the boys eyes out,
Says tn HIT;
Pat has returned no money and
s~ryed no sentence and cannot be re-
garded as penitens until he does so
Billy Sunday never did anything worse
in his most wicked stage than purloin
few bases and say Hi, you mutton
head TO an umpire or two, but Pat
is another proposition. We demand
quarantine against the Pat Grove
REVEALS"