The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

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on of the other. There are prophets
of evil also who predict great
shrinkage of values and great indus
trial troubles for the coast after the
eXposition.-the forerunner of which.
the great army of unemployed, is al
ready here. Public Enterprises are
being formed to give idle men some.
thing to do. Thousands of them are
on the. verge of starvation and are
glad to accept the preferred work at
$l.25 per day. But the prospects for
fruit and the growing development of
the mineral resources of the state to-
gether with the ever present tide OF
tourists, give promise of the usual
prosperity. Oil is classed as miner.
al and the forest of derricks" near
Los Angeles is great sight. The oil
is in a well defined strip that runs
like an underground river. A few
feet either way runs into dry terri.
tory One estate which owned big
lot of the land is drawing $1,000
per month in royalties, and is not
worrying over any prophesies of exil
or hard times.
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places in Pasadena and Los Angeles
as is done in other large cities of the
southwest, but they have no use for
dogs. On the door of every restau,
rant, botel and even saloons are dis
, played, mo dogs allowed" In parks
and amusement places are signs,
Dogs positively prohibited unless
chained and accompanied by owner"
Strangely enough in the two weeks
We have camped here we cannot re.
call having seen either dog or Il
lcat,-and to be honest we do not feel
that we have missed anything. The
banks here like those in Texas and
Arizona close at noon on Saturdays
but they open Is minutes earlier on
that day, being ready for business at
9:45. All factories, offices and whole
sale houses close at noon on Satur.
days, and in summer time the retail
stores do likewise. And we never
saw so many hotels and apartment
houses in four times the length OF
time us we did in Los Angeles the
other day. In fact we never dreamed
so many existed They are good, bad
and Indifferent. Some of them look
like they came over on the Ark and
have not been painted since, while
others are elegant buildings covering
whole squares, six to ten stories high,
with roof garden and sun parlOrS on
top, and elegantly appointed and
furnished throughout.
In the drug store the other evening
We mentioned to George Vincent that
we were going over to Los Angeles
the next day to see some of the old
Oskaloosa people. He suggested that
We take our trunk along and go pre-
pared to stay a month if We wished
to do the job right. We did not catch
the full meaning of his remarks until
we had made two trips over to the
city and had put in the greater part
of two days and had succeeded in see,
ing only five or six of the many we
would liked to have called on. George
says he knows of 40 or 80 families
there, and while he has lived in Cali
fornia about seven years now, he has
not seen all of them yet. This is a
country of magnificent distances. and
even with the addresses of your
friends clearly written out, it takes a
make the long rides. I hen when you
do find one of them it takes so long
to recall all the pleasant things that
have happened at home, and tell them
of the many advantages that Iowa
still holds over California, that the
| first thing you know it is either time
to eat or to hike back to the bed in
the bookcase or on the revolving
door
The Hubers are pleasantly located
at the Rampant apartments, and like
the Walls, the Mattisons and other
good friends here, they surely have
been very generous with their auto
mobile and their time in showing us
about and in making our stay pass
only too quickly away Through them
and the other OskalooSa people we
have talked with, we have found and
heard of many former residents, who
are now located here. Realizing the
risk we are taking of missing more
than we mention we will here set
down some more names to be added
TO those that have been contained in
former letters: w. ESgen, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Esgen, Mrs. Johnson and
daughter Alice, Mr.. and Mrs. T..
Duffy, Mr.. and Mrs. G. n. Spencer,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Spencer, the Ben
Wightmon family, Mrs. Mays and son
Terry, Fred and Herbert Riggs, Mr..
and Mrs. J. c. Ferrall, Mr.. and Mrs.
w C. Sheppard, Jr., Mrs. Ed Beaman,
Prof. and Mrs. +. B. Warman, DR.. and
Mrs. c. W. Carr, Miss Bessie Crozier,
DR.. and Mrs. Farmer, Mrs. Proudfit
and daughter Fay, Miss Ella Green,
Major and Mrs. S. H. NJ. Byers, the
w. C. Sheppard family, Mr.. and Mrs.
F. NJ. Sheppard. Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Beeson, Mr.. and Mrs. Ross, Prof. and
Mrs. Milo Hunt, Mrs. Hattie Fisher
Bridges, Mr. and Mrs. S. Mendenhall,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dorland, Mr.. and Mrs.
d. b. Fleming ct al, ad infinitum! And
temporarily here now are Mr.. and
Mrs. w. II. Kalbach at San Diego,
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Baldauf at Long
Beach, Miss Kate Ninde at Monravia,
Joe Stumps at Hollywood, Irving c.
Johnson at Los Angeles and-but we
give it up. we hear of somebody else
every day. - 4
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