Imperial Valley press., 1912-02-26
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Harold F. Condor of San Bernardino
is in Ell Centre today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert D. Field of
San Diego are guests at Hotel Oregon.
Ralph Oak was called from Imperial
to Los Angeles last week by the death
of his mother.
w. T. Bill came down from Redlands
yesterday to look after business inter-
ests in Ell Centre.
Mrs. Clifford Coggins of Imperial has
as her guest her sister, Mrs. Edward
E. Cowrsen of Portland, Or.
Ex-senator Clifford Coggins has re-
turned from a trip of several weeks
duration down the west coast of Mex
ico.
MIR. and Mrs. 0. r. Sterling of Idaho
Falls, Idaho. are visiting Mr.. Sterling 5
brothers, Victor r. and Ralph Sterling
of Imperial.
Judge Franklin j. Cole is to deliver
an address before the Brawley Union
High School March s, when patriot
ic program will be given.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Goree and son,
Robert, of Imperial, have been called
to nKox City, Tex, by the serious Ill
ness of Mr.. Gorees mother.
J. c. Steger of Ell Segundo has pur-
chased 32O-acre REIMBURSEMENT on
land in Imperial valley and will at
once begin its development.
A. NJ. Ham of San Bernardino is in
Ell Centro, looking after business in
terests connected with the Imperial
Valley Mercantile Company.
c. E. TAFT of the irrigation investi-
cations department of the department
of agriculture, is again in Imperial val
ley, making headquarters at Ell Cen
trO.
S. Jaffe, a recent conner from Eng
land, is in the Imperial valley to spend
year here, for the benefit of his
health. He is guest at Hotel Impe-
rial, Imperial.
Frank Belier has gone from Brawley
to Stockton to work for the Lyons
Rrothers in the asparagus shipments
from thatd istrict. He will return to
Rrawley for the cantaloupe season.
P. M. Nemecheck of Abilene, Kas., is
visiting his old friend Virgil Patterson
of Imperial and making a general in
spection Of Imperial valley with view
to securing lands here. He may To-
cate here.
c. K. Clarke, formerly chief engineer
of the California Development Com
pany, came to Ell Centro this morning.
He has been visiting points in Texas,
New Mexico and Arizona for the past
few months
A G Airris, a San Diego hotel man,
has come TO Imperiat valley 10 take
charge of The King Cotton Hotel at
Imperial. He has associated with him
III this enterprise his brotherinlaw
Thomas FenlOn.
John Martin of Brawley has taken
his grading outfit to Thermal. in the
Coachella valley, to work on lands
there. A large amount of new land is
being placed under cultivation in the
vicinity of Thermal.
W. d. Crumb and sons, sheep rails
ers OF San Diego county, have been in
the valley the past few days to make
arrangements for bringing their stock
to this valley for feeding. They will
bring in 1900 head of sheep at once.
Mrs. Frances Murray, mother of
Mrs Thomas O'Brien of water district
No. >, has returned from Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, and has purchased land in
No. on which she will make her
home. She was accompanied ON the
trip from Minneapolis by her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Kelly who will visit in the
valley several weeks.
A. c. Moffitt, banker of Waverly,
H., and his brother, A. H. Moffitt OF
l4arned, Kas.. have been making a
weeks inspection of Imperial valley
lands and are SO we'll impressed that
they viii return shortly to make invest.
ments here. They were attracted to
Imperial valley by the reading of THE
Winning of Barbara Worth