The Parker post., 1913-09-13

Mrs. Martin, wife of Mr. Martin,
engineer at the cotton gin, arrived in
Blythe Sunday to remain here per
manently with her husband.
w. A Bowles, cashier of the Pal0
Verde Valley Bank left Saturday for
two weeks vacation on the coast,
George Kelsey will act as cashier
during Mr.. Bowles' absence.
Elmer Layton left Saturday for a
business trip to Los Angeles. While
out Mr.. Layton will purchase a. com
plete new outfit for his blacksmith
shop.
Parker and Floyd Brown, is in Blythe
visiting his children. MrBrown is
located at Browns Well near Blythe
Junction and has some valuable gold
property in the africa mountains.
Daniel and Joe Mckenzie, sons of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Mckenzie OF
Sunnyside arrived i'll the valley re-
Gently to visit their parents. They
live at Mesa, Arizona, where they are
successful farmers.
Elmer Layton has moved into his
new blacksmith shop, on west Sec
ond street. Mr.. Layton will put in
complete and up-to-date black
smiths outfit and will be prepared
to do anything in that line.
Hensy A Adams, an old time resi-
dent of this section, was in Blythe
several days last week. Mr.. Adams
is now resident of Los Angeles and
has been looking after some mining
interests he has over in Arizona,
east of Ehrenberg.
social dance, which was attended
by a large number OF persons, was
given by Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Mcken-
Zie, at their home last Thursday evel'
ing Ice cream and cake was served
in plenty to all present and the event
was one OF the most enjoyable ones
Of the season.
All persons who have books be-
longing to the public library, will
please return them to H. A. Walsh. or
leave the same at the Herald office.
The books lave been called in by the
Library secre ary and shold be return
ed at once.
A stalk of cotton, brought to this
office from the Southland ranch.
shows a growth OF five feet and three
inches. The stock contained one hun
dred and eighty-four boles and blooms
The cotton is Of the Snowflake var
iety of long staple and was not a
specially selected specimen.
Workmen are busy eHlarging and
remodeling the Todd building which
Is being converted into a modern
playhouse. The building has been
leased by J. H. Kohlhouer. and will
be used as a show house and amuse
ment hall.
The Imperial Valley Enterprise. one
of the newsiest papers on our ex-
change list, came out last week as
full fledged daily The Enterprise is
great booster for the Imperial val
ley and Is ever found in front ranks
Of progress. Long may she live and
prosper.
A big grading outfit was unlOaded
at Ogleby the other day, and some
Of the Imperial valley papers predict
ed it was the Rock Island railroad
secretly starting to build into San
Diego via the Imperial valley. The
outfit proved to be one doing force
account work on the S. P.
w. N. Cuddebach and company,
who have been large buyers of hay
in the valley this season, will soon be.
gin the shipment of 10000 head
of sheep from the northern ranges to
this place. The shipments will begin
to arrive in about ten days and sheep
will be fattened here and then shipp-
ed out to market
About the 18th of this month four
new families will move into the valley
from outside points, and will settle
on lands in section three. Their names
and number OF acres of land they own
and will improve follows: H. l.. Ward
80 acres; George Read, 200 acres;
H. l.. Bennett, 80 acres, and Claude
Gordon, 40 acres. They are all from
the vicinity of El Monte, Cal
A few cotton growers will start
picking about the Goth, but the gen
eral harvesting of the crop will not
begin until about October |. Many
fields of cotton are estimated to yield
at least two bales per acre. The a\-
arg VII 10 TOD