Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-22
OTHER STATES or THE UNION
FALL FAR BEHIND IN WESTERN
REPRESENTATION.
TELLS OF VICINITY
sr. A. o. Williams Relates Interesting
Facts Concerning That Western
City and the Medical Mems
Meeting.

In the city OF Los Angeles, California
aud it's near vicinity there are, no less
than $4,000 residents OF the state OF
Iowa who have sought this western
cline within the past score of years
Not another state in this great land can
claim such distinction as their rep
resentation Is far less than that of the
Hawkeye state. In fact practically one
Fights of the population Of Los Angeles
claim Iowa as their native state.
Or. Williams Impression.
DR.. A. O. Williams has good i'm.
preston Of the golden west from where
he has just returned, having been in
attendance at the great medical asso-
citation convention in Los Angeles. In
speaking of the convention DR.. Will
liams stated that it was the most sue,
Scessful and enjoyable ever held. The
people OF Los Angeles. he asserts, Of.
fer great encouragement to such or
Plantations and delight to have dele
gates from all over the country in their
midst DR.. Williams says that the
city spent no less than 100000 in
making the medical mems meeting the
success it was. Mr.. Busch, OF sunken
garden fame. entertained 1000 NJ. DIS.
at a cost OF $4,000 at his grand estate
in Pasadena.
The City Of Los Angeles.
Dr. Williams was greatly pleased
with Los Angeles and relates many
interesting points concerning it..
.Los Angeles he said, lis city Of
B25,OO0 people. having grown in the
past ten years from city Of 10000.
This 225.OOO people are composed OF
country grocery store characters. far
mer boys and girls who have tired OF
The quiet life on the farm. It is very
iiscernable that Los Angeles is great
,vergrown country town:the nature OF
he people and their customs all point
!ng to this fact.
"In Los Angeles the public attend the
heaters almost as they would cir
Gus while In other cities of it's size the
,opulace 90 In pompous style, the Won1-
IN in evening dress, coming and going
In fine livery
LOS Angeles people do not even en-
.ertain the idea Of performing hard
manual labor. laps and Chinese form
he laboring class and 1t is considered
i DEGRADATION to allow ones self to fall
10 this. The liquor laws are more
SberaI. wine has so intrenched itself
IN the minds Of the Christian citizens
hat legislation dares not interfere.
Many 4 churchman is engaged in the
Uniting Of wine-you can buy it at the.
rrocery stores for twenty-five cents
her xallon-and beer. three bottles for
quarter at your grocers also. Two
hundred saloons are in operation but
IRE ,,atronized by the laboring element,
md the foreigners. The general pub.
lie can have their beverages sent to the
acme from their grocery.
Visits Or. Wilson.
..while in Los Angeles had the
pleasure of visiting DR.. H. P. Wilson,
i former resident of Ottumwa at his
home near Whittier. twenty miles from
Los Angeles. was informed on many
points OF the orange and lemon grow
ng industry. that 1 had never learned
before. One variety of oranges give
tut one harvest in fourteen months.
oranges from the size of pea to the
MI grown, ripened fruit may be seen
y the trees at one time, making al.
nost continual harvest. The lemon
ices Weld a crop every month in the
ear. This industry, however. is not
Ike iowa fruit growing. Irrigation Is
ecessary once month, eight or nine
lonths in the year.
1.-The groves must be furrowed to al
NV the water to reach every part.
men plowed and narrowed SO that Il
8 a constant task to properly take
are OF them. Once year each tree
must be incased in an air tight sack
md fumigated to destroy all insects
md diseases. Then charcoal stoves are
necessary during the months Of De-
iember and January to protect the
ruit from the frost. Pineapples. dates
ind bananas are not grown in the
1icinity Of Los Angeles, as many peo-
,le believe.
Living is as cheap in Los Angeles
Is It Is In Ottumwa, and another thing
,ou always feel at home there because
rou are among the same kind Of peo-
,le. IOwans.'