Imperial Valley press., 1922-12-26

CALIPATRIA !
Guest New Head
of Water District
By Press Staff Correspondent

by Press Staff Correspondent
CALIPATRLA, Dec. &C. l..
Guest, superintendent of Imperial
Water Company No. 8, has been ap-
pointed president of the Calipatria
division of Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict, and Frank s. Hewitt, present
Becretary of the same company, has
been appointed chief clerk The APP
pointments will take immediate eff
feet as soon as the water companies
No. 3 and No. 3 go into the district,
probably about February |.
Earl G. Pound has been nominated
for Irrigation District director at
the meeting held in Brawley Friday
night'to select Il candidate on whom
the north end could agree. A straw
vote was taken and Pound received
25 votes with McNierny 16, and II
Scattering vote to several other can
tlidates. Another vote was then
taken for the two highest, which
gave Pound 80 votes and MvNierny
% Those attending the meeting
from Calipatria were w. b. Coberly,
&. u. Guest, Frank S.. Hewitt, Jerry
Farmer, Y. l.. Lucas, James Kootcn,
C. c. Bowles, Claude McNeilly, Oscar
Kocher, Frank Raab and j, w. Gfif-
fifth. t
w. T. Kelly, agent at the local
Southern Pacific station, spent
christmas in Los Angeles.
Spent Christmas in Indio
Mrs. Il. l.. Shelter returned Sat
he
visit to Los Angeles, and she and
Mr.. Shelter left the next morning
to spend Christmas in Indio with
friends.
G. T. Brown and G. II. Ciegcricll
were the engineers who made the
survey for the siding at Fonda, for
the use of the Shamrock Company,
and have iust completed their work.
A number of ball PLAYERS are
spending Christmas with relatives in
other cities. Lefty Herman is in
Sacramento, Billy Hamilton is in
Pasadena and Bud Shaney ut Bak /
ersfield. 2. Il ~
Two extra freight trains have
been PIT on by the Southern. Pacific.
Company for lettuce haulets. One
runs to INLAND, CalcXico and return;
the other is called tIie Nilant Braw-
y-Westmoreland turn, and will be
IN operation from today ON. IT will
handle Shamrock almost exclusively.
G.. T.. Dommatin, the new train mas
ter. is located at lndio, but makes
daily trips to the valley to look after
the lettuce movement
Mr. and Mrs. H. c. Bishop are
spending Christmas in Brawlcy, the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs.&Wdhcr lowe.
Miss Mildred sRa, menr left Satur4
day evening for hos Angclos, where
she will spenda week, and .retUyn iu
time for the opening OF school. -
Vail Company is Host
There are two days when the Vail
Company give their employees the
finest dinner that money can buy
One of these is Thanksgiving and
the other is Christmas day. Besides
a delicious turkey dinner Monday at
which about 35 employees were seat
ed, every child of the employees who
live III the tenant houses received a
present.
Frank Schofield of INLAND, chicf
lincman of the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph Company, was in Cali
patlsl yesterday stringing wires for
new telephones.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Hewitt
and Mr.. and Mrs. William Taylor,
the latter now living in lIoltvillc,
left Saturday evening to- spend
Christmas in III Cajon with Mr.
Iiewitt's parents.
Claire Burke, of the Herald force,
spent Christmas in FL Centre.
Quite number of north end pco.
pie took advantage of the farm bu-
reau excursion recently, including
j. c. Chalupnik of Iris, Mr.. and Mrs
A. }. Peters, II. l.. Keller of the
North End, and NJ, c. ANTHONY of
inland.
Tony Sccley, of Blythe, was in the
city last week on business. : He
was accompanied by his sister, Mrs.
Nilliam Woodman and son, of Tue.
son, Arizona. v*st
The j. A. Wilkinson home in the
Iris district was the scene of It
family reunion Christmas day, when
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Wilkinson and
little son, Mrs. Lund, an aunt from
Tcrrabella, Miss Louise Forbes, Reed
and Ray Wilkinson, met at the fam
lily home.
Lane Skies was in IIillsboro, New
Mexico, to spend Christmas at home
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