Imperial Valley press., 1912-11-14
BRAWLEY AND VICINITY
IBrawley Newsl

a dong pleasure trip to his native coun
try. Mr.. Hopkins plans to leave TO
Lugonsk, Russia, in about ten days.
Mrs. H. Baum left Thursday night
for San Francisco, where she will visit
about two weeks.
The Pedro club met at the home OF
Mrs. H. S. Fulton Thursday afternoon
Delightful refreshments were served by
the hostess. Mrs. ]. A. Sheffield wa
awarded the first prize and Mrs. Ores
: ser won the second prize.
w. Mason of National City, San Di
ego county, who owns a ranch nea
Westm oreland, was in Brawley Satur'
day with his family, having taken par
in the demonstration of autoists tha
were here boosting the San Diego-Im
perial valley good roads.
Harry Sheffield received a bad cut
on the leg last Friday while on the
way home from school. 1t seems tina,
the boy was playing about a disc plov
that was being moved along the street
and while jumping on and off he wa!
accidentally cut on the leg. Though
not a dangerous cut, DR.. Lindsey found
that it required four stitches,
Mr.. and Mrs. 2. H. Gary are rejoic,
ing over the arrival of a baby girl a,
their home on North Imperial avenue
last Thursday night.
Saturday the Woman's club will bt
entertained Mrs. L. L. Lindsay.
The Brawley Submarine band wishe:
to thank the business men and other:
| who donated machines to make theil
l Cot
cess.
Claude Dalbey stated this morning
that his brother, Glen, who has beer
seriously i'll with typhoid fever. Is con-
valescing, and rapidly improving in
health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Gardner re-
turned this morning from the North
where they have been since July.
H r. Platt arrived here Tuesday
morning. Mr.. Platt has been employ ed
with Anderson & Meyer for some time
coming to the Brawley store from their
store at Holtville.
Mrs. DR.. Cook with her son, Robert
spent Sunday and Monday in Brawley
staying at the home Of Mrs. H. l.
Fulton. Mrs. Cook has been in the
East the past summer, visiting in Phil
adclphia and Indiana.
C. 3. Lanham, the western repre-
sentative of G. NJ. H. Wagner & Sons
of Chicago, arrived in Brawley Mon
day morning from Umatache, where
he had charge of the apple shipmen
for his firm. Last season was the first
venture of Wagner & Sons in the I'm
perial valley cantaloupes, and they
found it a successful season.
Guy Pearson returned to Brawley
Sunday.
L. NJ. Lyon arrived in Brawley Mon
day morning to attend the meeting OF
the Western Cantaloupe Exchange.
L. o. drummer returned Monday from
a short business trip to Los Angeles.
S. A. Armstrong went to Los Ang-
eles Monday m orning on short busi-
ness trip.
tanned at an informal dinner party
Wednesday evening in honor of Mr.
Palmerlees birthday. Guests uresent
were Rev. and Mrs. J. w. Millar, w. r
Dunn and r. Clayton Lee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Zenz and brother
who have been guests of Mr.. and Mrs
" ]. Welcome for the past month, left
last week for Los Angeles over the
national highway.
Miss Mildred Coulter of Los Angeles
is guest of her sister Mrs. L. L.
Lindsey.
Ed Nice, son of P. F. Nice, arrived
with his family last week from the
Dakotas, where he has been a resident
for the past six years. Mr. Nice was
among the first settlers of Brawley
William Jensen has returned to
Brawley for the winter after spendin 6
some months in travelling throughout
the Northwest.
The Knights of Pythias have ar
ranged for a concert by Byron's Trou-
badours Saturday evening, Novem-
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Experiments conducted over a period
of two years by c. N. Stahl with Kan
sas hard wheat indicates that this may
prove profitable crop for Imperial
valley farmers, especially when barley
is at a low price. This years crop
which was recently threshed, produced
"a bushels to an acre. Mr.. Stahl is
very much interested in the crop. He
states: LAS the millers on the coast
import large quantities of this wheat
from Kansas to mix with the coast
wheat in making flour, the wheat OF
this variety grown in Imperial vail 4,
will always sell at a premium over
coast grown wheat" 1t produces best
on the medium hard land, of the char
acter that yields the most barley
G. E. West and the residents of the
north end of the No. district are
i,,1,i MT FOL 1icI af he
new rural route through that locality
Mr.. West was largely instrumental II
securing signatures for the ptition, ant
feels well rewarded for his efforts. The
West country is rapidly coming to the
front, and the population is increasing
so rapidly that Earl and Frank CRUDE
of San Diego will soon start a genera
| merchandise store on the corner of the
+. A. West ranch. Ground is being
prepared for the building, which will
be erected imm mediately.
In spite of the high wind that pre-
vailed last Sunday, a large crowd O
ball fans gathered at. Whittier parl
when the Brawley All Stars and th
| team from Ell Centre clashed at
o'clock. Brawley made wonderful
| showing when the sand storm tina
| they had to contend with Throughout
the afternoon is considered. The gam
| ended with an s to 1 score in Braw
ley's favor. The feature of the gam
| was the work of the Brawley battery
| Dickson and Wade. This is the bes
combination that Manager Stoerkel ha
put on the local diamond this season
! The visitors were unable to get
| Gin ole bit their sin gle rim hejng score,
on an error Though said not to b.
| professional, Dickson certainly CAV
an exhibition of class A ball Sunday
He has been connected with severa
teams in the San Joaquin Valley league
and is "southpaw" of ability. Wade
work behind the bat was EXCEPTIONAL.