The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-01-18

o. W. Adams, a local nurSeryman,
has volunteered to provide trees free
for planting i'm the school yard. These
will be tended by the school children.
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j. R. Haslem has leased 40 acres
of Stebbins ranch.
Floyd Brown has leased his ranch
to Joseph While, who will put it i'm
cotton.
l.. B. Todd put down a we'll for A.
Hartman on his ranch west of town
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Berg went to
Los Angeles last Monday to be gone
few days.
week lin Los Angeles attending to
business matters.
j. c. Rutherford of Los Angeles is
driving the Santa Fee & Blythe Mo-
Tor conipany's passenger auto.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore DICKENS
were passengers out of the valley by
way of Blythe Junction last week.
Geo. Kelsey came into the valley
last Sunday to attend the stockhold-
ers meeting of the Palo Verde Val
ley Bank.
The extreme cold spell which Bly,
the endured along with the rest Of
Southern California was followed by
light showers.
The children of the upper grades
in Blythe school gave Mrs. l.. F..
Norton, their teacher, fruit show
er ON Monday after the vacation.
Edward Dickinson of Tehachapi
spent Sunday and Monday of this
week looking over the valley. Mr..
Dickinson expects to locate here
later.
Work on the Santa Fee & Blythe
Motor Truck company's station in
Blythe has been held up for a few
days awaiting the arrival of roofing
material
Work has been started on the ex-
tension which H. Benedix of the Bene
dix Mercantile Co., is adding to his
store building.
L. F. Norton and c. B. Reynolds,
president and secretary of the Bly,
the Creamery association, have just
ordered supplies preparatory to start
Ing the creamery.
J. D. MCGOWAN has been employed
by Elmer Layton to help handle the
work at the blacksmith shop. Nc
Gowan is a first class mechanic and
woodwork specialist.
Carrigan & Hopkins are falling i'm
line with a number of other enter
prising business firms in Blythe and
having new coat of paint applied to
their store building.
C. H. Baldwin returned from Los
Angeles last week after spending the
holidays with friends ON the coast
.ae accompanied Floyd Brown through
in the new Ford passenger auto.
c. Rourke and wife came into the
valley last week from Los Angeles
to look over the land. He drove
through in covered wagon and will
probably spend several days in the
Palo Verde
The Corrigan grading crew moved
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complete the work of cleaning out
lateral D. east of Blythe. The out
fit had been working on the sluice
way at Olive lake before moving.
Among those who registered at
Hotel Blythe the past week were:
Floyd Cole, H. G. Thomas and G. M.
Adams of Los Angeles, M. F. Clark,
JAS MCGOWAN of Grand Rapids, Mich.
aud Russell Passmore of Nashville,
Tenn.
W. N. Cuddeback and J. D. Fisher
of Tehachapi left for their homes
last Saturday. They expect to return
i'm two weeks and begin getting land
Il LII SlIdpo IOI CIOpS. Dull CuoSS IdICH
ers are real boosters, the kind that
raise bale and half of cotton and
ten tons of alfalfa to the acre.
O. w. Adams left last Friday for
few days visit with relatives at
kingsburg, California. He expects
10 spend a day or two at Lemoore
With L. B. Kendall, who is Palo
Verde landowner, while in the San
joaquin valley.
H. l.. Christian and E. A. Little
john have been building a clubhouse
for the Mutual Water company the
last two weeks. The cook-shack at
the intake was last seen sailing
over i'm the direction OF the river dur
ing the wind storm two weeks ago.
Floyd Brown arrived in Blythe
Monday of last week having driven
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