Imperial Valley press., 1910-07-30
5RAWLEY.

appointed City Attorney of Brawley.
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 Fred Stahl and family have gone to their formeer nome in the East for a visit of six weeks.
 Mrs. Harry Baum and Miss Edna Baum have gone to San Francisco for a months visit.
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 Mir. and Mrs. D. B. Scott will spend the remainder of the summer with their son at Seattle.
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 Brawley will at once re-advertise the sale of it's issue of S1S,0OO bonds for sewer construction.
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 A broken churn at the Brawley creamery last week caused the ship ment of cream to Redlands for con version into butter.
 ~city Marshall Mccartney has been FgrAnted a six weeks vacation. ". Schmitz will serve as City Marshal during McCartney's absence.
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 Brawley's City Trustees propose to adopt an ordinance that will compel property owners to keep their city lots clean of weeds and debris.
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 Revision of Brawleys building or dinance is to be made so that only buildings which conform to the re- ouirements of fire- proof structure may be erected within the business dis trict.
 City Engineer Park has been in structed by the City Trustees of Brawley to prepare plan for the proposed municipal water system re- gardless of any consideration of using portions of the present distributing system.
 
 Dr. J. A. Keener, E. H. Erickson and J. c. Mccartney started on Mon day for the East Dr. Keener will visit his former home in Knoxville, Tennessee; MT. Mccartney goes to his told home in Pennsylvania, and MT. Erickson will visit Sweden before he al Vol
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 Brawleys City Attorney has been instructed to prepare an ordinance regulating the height of arcades. Ceilings are to be fourteen feet from the sidewalks and the drops are to be twelve feet. Iron and woodwork on the awnings must be seven and a half feet from the sidewalks and cloth not less than nine and a half feet
 Henry Stahl, who is visiting in the Middle West during the summer, writes to the Brawley News in regard to the comparative value of crops there and in Imperial Valley and says: q judge the best crops we raised in the Imperial Valley are equally as good as the best I have seen any where in the Middle West or East, and Sur average for the year is by far Sbetter."
 N Tn Iowa we stopped a few days in one of the best districts of the state and I think with one of the best farm CTS in the state. The farmer in ref erence had a quarter section of land. His horses, cattle and hogs are of the best breeds and much better that the average Imperial Valley stock. His corn, oats and hay also were much better than the crop in general in his section of the state. I took the op- portunity while at this place to com pare my farming profits made in the Imperial Valley with this farmers Iowa farm profits and they came out in the ratio of to 1 in my favor; that is, on the same amount of land, and yet this Iowa country apparently seems to be a much more favorable place for farming than the Imperial Velley but the hungry maw of winter absorbs the profits"
 With a good big change for the better in our irrigation system, which we will undoubtedly get if we will act Njsely and faithfully in the relation Which we sustain to each other with clem politics and probably consid-