The Parker post., 1913-11-15
BLYTHE NEWS.
(Palo Verde Valley Herald)

absence OF month.
Frank Murphy came in last week
to look after his interests here.
C. R. Wells left for Riverside to at,
tend business matters last Thursday.
A hard times dance party is to be
held at the Rodman pavilion on
Thanksgiving night.
George Ronald has just finished
+ picking a fair crop of figs from the
young trees on his ranch.
Sunnyside baseball team gave a
dance in Blythe Saturday night to
raise meney for baseball suits.
| Work has been started on l.. Hemp
| hills new shoe store at the corner
of Hobson Way and Avenue First
| West
Mrs. L. F. Norton and son, Bertie
have arrived in the valley after spend
| ing the summer in Pomona with Mrs,
Norton's parents.
n petition was passed around in
Blythe this week to secure subscrip-
tions to get a full salaried peace Of
flcer to serve in Blythe
]. B. Evans this week publishes
the announcement of the completion
of the new baths in connection with
his barber shop.
A Five-Hundred party is to be Civ
! of hn tn-
number of young people of
Elythe and vicinity.
R. T. Estes, who was manager of
| the cotton gin came in last Satur-
day Mr. Estes is representing the
Alexander Eccles & Co., cotton buy
ers, of Dallas, Texas.
1t is reported that the Southern
Pacific is putting in a new side track
at Glamis and will shortly erect a
big warehouse to accommodate the
enormous Palo Verde freight.
A musical program is to be given
at the school house on the evening OF
November q. The program is being
arranged by Rev. H. G. Burgess.
There is an invitation for everyone
The Neighbours ball club gave a
dance at the Electric Theatre last
Wednesday night The affair was
we'll attended and the boys will use
the proceeds for the purchase of new
uniforms.
R. T. Estes of Ell Centro, who was
manager of the local gin last year,
twhile in the valley the past few
days stated that the Durango long
staple cotton was unpopular with
majority Of the covers in the I'm
perial valley.
A bale or more of cotton piled in
the field and belonging to w. S. Well
| was burned last week. The fire was
started by the twin boys of Mr.,
| Wells who were playing nearby. The
cotton was partly covered by insur-
ance.
G. H. Utting, manager of the Blythe
| freighting company, was in Blythe
last week making arrangements for
freight deliveries at this point. The
new freighting company announced
that it guarantees safe and prompt
| delivery.
The marriage of Miss Matte
While and Herman Neipp occurred
last Saturday evening entirely un-
announced, although dame rumor has
been preparing friends and acquain-
tances for the event for several
months.
Alexander Eccles & Co., of Dallas,
Texas, are buying local cotton throug
their agents, R. II. Estes and H. L.
Clawson. Thirty-nine bales of the
100 loaded out by way of Blythe juno
ton Monday, Nov. 3. were shipped
by these buyers.
E. M. Ivory and G. A. Smith are
planning to start lunch counter
I and short order house in the Todd
building just west of the plumbing
SuOp. 1H0y cApSCl W U0Slu Soff lllS
lunch by Saturday and will keep open
| ;nril midnight.
Neil Hinckley was in Blythe last
Saturday after an absence of several
weeks, most of which time he spent
on the coast. Neil states that his
| mother Mrs. ]. B. Hinckely, one of
| the early settlers in the valley, would
| be down in a short time.
John Denair came in last Thurs
day and left Friday morning for
Mesaville where the railroad survey
party is camped. Mr.. Denair expects
to spend much of his time here dur
ing the next few weeks directing the
railroad survey work.
e. S. Macarthur is getting the land
owners along the right-of-way for the
new north and south road through
the valley signed up. This road will