Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-28
NEWS or BRAwLEY
GBrawley News1


Thursday night.
J. J. Miller paid $40 fine Thurs
day for flooding the roads. The COM
planning witness was o. A. Brackney.
c.. A. Scott and wife of San Diego
arrived in Brawley Thursday. With
the SCOTS is Judge Haines of San Di-
ego.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. NJ. Sawyer and Mr..
and Mrs. Larrabee, who are their guests
for the winter, were entertained Thurs
day at dinner by f. L. Ralston of Ell
Centre.
A pair Of brass spurs was stolen last
week from the barn Of the Valley liv-
cry, and were found by the marshal
to have been sold by a negro who had
since been ordered to leave town, so
he could not be located.
The Imperial Investment Company
sold 80 acres near Westm oreland this
week to Frank Czech for $105 per acre
Mr.. Czech will bring his string Of dairy
cows over from Holtville about the 1st
of December.
With her nephew, Master Allen T.
Witter, Miss Grace Z. Witter returned
Wednesday from Danielson, CT, where
they have been spending the summer
with Miss Writer'S parents. Miss Wit
ter has resumed her former position
with the News.
The Golden Oak Mining Company,
owning a mine northwest of Imperial
Junction, is having special wagon
built at Norman's shop, to make reg
ular trips to this property. This com
and Withrow Brothers.
Farr's market shipped six cars of
hogs this week.
w. P. Mansfield was passenger on
Tuesday nights train to Los Angeles
E. Henderson, brother of Henry Hen
derson, the barber, returned from the
coast Tuesday morning.
]. A. Potter of the Brawley Hard :
ware Company returned Thursday
morning from a short business trip
to Los Angeles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Gardner return ell
Tuesday from extended trip through
the northern and central part of the
state.
Miss Martha Van Vliet, who is en-
ployed at Stahl Brothers, was called
to Covina Tuesday night by the seri-
Gus illness of her mother
A. B. Bland of Holtville will enter
Studebaker car in the races at the
| county fair. Mr.. Bland was in Braw
ley Thursday arranging with the Stu
debaker agency for parts for the racer
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Selvey, who re
! turned Thursday from Julian, where
they have been spending the SUNNI er
report two inches of snow just before
their departure. They are glad to re
| turn to the delightful weather Of Braw-
! ley.
Mr.. and Mrs. w Layman and son
| Garry Layman. who have been spend
ing the summer visiting relatives and
| friends in Illinois and Virginia, re.
! turned to Brawley Thursday morning
They expect to remain on their ranch
In No. for several months.
| Mrs. Matilda Montgomery, who has
been visiting with her nephew, J. w
klasgye. left Tuesday night for Sar
| Francisco. After spending some time
in San Francisco. Mrs. Montg omery. will
go on to Mendocino county.
| A most enjoyable turkey dinner wa.
| served Sunday by Mr.. and Mrs r. c
| Taylor at their home on G street Theil
| guests We're Mr.. and Mrs. John Gresser
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl McReynoIds. Mis-.
Jessie Bennett and Leonard Lindsey.
| The Baptist Sunday school and som,
of its friends are to enjoy a pow WOW
Monday evening, October 28 A ioll,
good time is expected. This is tn
first of the many entertainments plan
ned for the coming year. A Wagon
| VIII meet the crowd at the church a
p. m.
Archie Greive, a former resident o
Brawley, is spending few days in tn,
city. Mr.. Greive may spend the entir,
viii ter in the valley
Another party of duck hunters wa
in Brawley this week J. w. Robert
II. l.. Hubbard, F. B. Hewitt and ]. C
Ralphs Jr. drove overland from Red
lands and San Bernardino, coming b,
way of San Diego, in a Chalmers &c
They stopped over at Imperial for :
day, but could not locate any duck
in that territory, so drove on up [,
| Brawley, arriving here Wednesday
After hunting in the north end the,
will return to San Bernardino owe
the national highway.
Francis Heiny, the Brawley horti
| culturist and experimenter, has a SIN al
| fig tree on his ranch, raised from :
cutting this year. that is bearing :
number of matured figs Mr. Heiny i
| hoping that some of the sovernmen
experts will visit his place, where the,
may see for themselves this astonish
ing development.
| George c. Husmann, head of the bu
| reau of viticulture at Washington. wa
IN Brawley Thursday on business con
| nected with his bureau. With Mr. Hus
mann was A. V. Stubenrauch, who ha
| entire charge of transportation experi
ments in fruit shipping for the gov
| ernment. Mr.. Stubenrauch has mad
extensive experiments in shipping pre-
cooled fruits, and his recent work /,
shipping grapes packed in sawdust ha
| opened up a new field for the frui
sh pper. This method insures fresl
1rult Tor long time, and is foun,
| to be much more satisfactory than tn,
usual refrigeration. They visited tn
government viticultural station a
Brawley, - charge of Francis Heiny.
New buildings
| Work on c. c. McCullough's new
| building at the corner Of Sixth anC
Main streets is being rushed, and a
the present rate of progress it will
be reed, FOR occupancy about the Is
of November. An arcade is being bull
over the sidewalk in the manner ap
proved by usage in Brawley.
| This structure occupies SO feet o
frontage and will be occupied by of
fees and the Brawley branch of tn,
county library.
| The foundation work on the Catholi
church on South Imperial avenue i
nearly completed. Lumber and othc
material is being gathered for this no
table addition to Brawiey's buildings
The cost of this church will exceed S12.
600 and it is being constructed with !
view to the needs of future years n
well as those of the present
House building has also begun. an,