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Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06

Displays here will be judged not
only on quality but on variety,
artistic display, originality and ca
the club emphasis.
Sewing Groups
Girls for the greater part are
entering in the clothing division.
Fcur-H club sewing groups have
TOUR phases of work tC complete.
the phases varying in compleXity
from the simple stitches and ar
ticles to dresses, coats and suits.
the fourth phase of clothing.
Then there is the hCme furnish
ing group, with its four phases as
well, in which articles for use IN
the home have been made ranging
rom marked linen to Slip covers.
Italian hemStitching, hooked rugs,
etc.
One of the features Cl the par
ade Will be the uniforms worn by
the girls, some Of which they have
made themselves and some OF
which have been made by the
various heme departments. II
green and white with the All cluo
emblems they are attractive and
colCful.
Robinson is Director
S. E. Robinson, for many years
a farm bureau director and one
well acquainted with the aims and
tojectiVes of All club work. IS
director o. this junior department
and Fl. Lee Landerman, assistant
farm advisor, is superintendent of
the livestock and crops department
and Miss Florence Glenn, of the
girls department, in the 4-H club
divisions.
During the past two months All
club leaders, at the monthly All
club council sessions, have made
plans for the fair, appointed Jud-
ges made provisions or scoring,
for placing Cf exhibits, for judg-
ing of demonstration team work
so that all is in readiness now fCt
this division OF the fair.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06

operated as such. It's officers are
appointed by the governor and
serve without compensation.
Officers of the first county fair
in 1890 were: A. Y Preble, presi-
dent; Leo Hetzel, vice president;
James T. Coyle, secretary manager;
A. H. Keller, treasurer. The first
directors were: T. E. Anderson. CAL
exico; George II. Bailey, Calipatria;
Dewey Carey, Brawley; Leo Hetzel,
Ell Centre; A. Y. Preble, Imperial;
Sam P. Rowe Westmorland; Ra-
nah Ryerson and F. A Willard,
Holtville.
Anderson Stayed On
T. E. Anderson of Calexico is the
only director who has remained on
the board every year from 1880 to
the present date. Sam P. Rowe.
Ben Hulse, j. r. Snyder. j. c. Ar
chias, C. E. Pitzer, A. C. Sperry, and
S. E. Robinson, who. with Ander-
son, comprise the 1886 board of di-
rectors, have been on the board
most of the six years since the or
ganization.
DCiA AlNtAoC Wcto dPROlllbCQ
dent of the fair in its second year
and has remained at its head since.
D. V. Stewart, secretary
came with the fair in 1882 and has
remained in that capacity in the,
years during which the fair has
been self sustaining, and conducted
without recourse to county taxes.
Many important county residents
among both business men, ranchers
and housewives have been affiliat-
ed with the fair each year on COM
mittees handling various depart
ments. Prominent among these
are: B. A Harrigan, agriculture;
c. E. Pitzer, T. E. Anderson and
Sam Rowe, livestock; Mrs. H. v.
Gray, Mrs. A. Y Preble, Mrs. L. c.
House, and Mrs. w. j. Clements,
domestic arts; C. J. Russell, poul-
try; Walter Mcdonald, dairy pro-
ducts
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
Humidity Not High
In Imperial Valley

Climate in Imperial county is
semi-tropical, but without the high
degree of humidity unusually found
in warm countries. Rainfall is neg
ligible averaging less than two
inches yearly, and humidity rarely
reaches 35 per cent.
Temperatures during the winter
months are ideal for many vege-
table and field crops as well as for
citrus, and damaging frosts are SO
infrequent that the use of cmudge
pots is virtually unknown.
sunshine, steady water supply, and
warm temperatures that Imperial
county produces its famed high
quality crops.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
IMPERIAL VALLEY MIRRoRED AT FAIR

displays
IN the famous MidWner while
showed but while
EXHIBITS including products
stock
e valleys
close to the the outskirts
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
Imperial County
Fair Originated
In Braevley in 1920

Imperial Countys fair in its present form and at the
countys own grounds healthy descendant of the I'M
perai Valley Mdwnter Fair which had its beginning ut
Brawley in December, 1920.
For several wears this midwinter fair largely at
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
1905 COPY OF
VALLEY PAPER
INTERESTING

The chamber of commerce has
come into possession of an interest
ing copy OF the Imperial Press pub
lished at Imperial on September .,
1905 The news articles and the
advertising in this issue reflect the
life OF the people at that time. F.
G. Havens was the editor and man
ager of the paper.
Almost. the entire front page is
given over to an interview with
President Epes Randolph OF the
California Development company
1t contained an excellent portrait Of
the great railroad builder. In this
issue of the paper, the matter of
carving 4 new Imperial county
from San Diego county was dis
cussed as was also the reSurvey of
government land much needed at
the time.
AT that period pasteurization of
milk had not advanced to its pres
ent state and there was a half col
umn devoted to a description Of the
process.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
Four II Clubs To
Haze Big Exhibits
At Fair This Year

MORE space and better arrangements for feeding live.
entries have caused considerably interest this
cr than ever before ON the part of All club boys and
S VINO Will enter calves, hogs, poultry rabbits in
the Imperial County Fair This year ARRANGEMENTS have
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
Advertisers

Among the advertisers was Ed27r
Brothers who had a halt-pagc dis
play ad. Virgil Patterson OF I'M
perial advertised for 300 stock hogs.
All the legal notices, OF course az
this time we've headed san Diego
county. of which Imperial ValIey
was then a part.
An interesting advertisement was
that of Ira Aten of Hereford, IeHaS.
who had 6.946 acres OF farm Ialld
,,;ham county, Texas, On the
Rock Island railroad Win Ihree
GOOD wells and Windmills and two
Good SPRINGS and $1,000 worth OF
;n,pr2vemcnts IN he place which II
was desired to exchange for lmper-
ial Valley decided land,
The paper contained an adYer-
tisement of the First National bank
at Imperial of which Leroy Holt
was president and A. H Heber vice
president.
Many Lawyers
Imperial seemed to be filled with
lawyers at the time. Among those
attorneys who were running profess
sional cards were George II. p
Shaw. f.. N. BWleigh. Farr and Nc
Pherrin, j. I. Shepherd, and II. N
Dyke.
What is now called INLAND was
at that period known as Old Beach
The team rates were considerable
lower than at present. The Cali
fornia Development company gave
notice in this issue of the paper that
the rates paid for team hire would
be as follows: -Four horse team
and driver, 5000 per day two
horse team and driver, $400 per
day.
In September 1905 there were
immense flocks of ducks and water
fowl coming to Imperial Valley and
which the editor believed gave
promise of much fine duck shoot
ing later on. At this time there was
no Ell Centro as The town had not
yet been founded.
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REVAHRARKp0

development tat as to date taken
place in the lives of on rclfildren.
But what does all this have to do
with Religion and Life, some of you
may be saying. 1t has this to do,
namely, that my experience as fa-
ther helps to make our Heavenly
Father more real to me. mcertain
that as we, and all normal parents,
want our children to grow and deve-
lOp in the best possible way SO God
wants all Of us members of His great
family to make real progress in our
growth and development. This belief
challenges the best that is in us, and
is, it seems to me, one of the biggest
factors in giving meaning an dsigni-
ficance to life. Is God pleased with
our growth and development is qucs
ton that will be given careful con
sideration by every human being who
is developing normally.
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PROMINENT MAN
VISITS KEYSTONE
ettAs
40 Years Miner With AIgona Co.

Thursday night, which was last
night. the good people had the pleas
urc of the presence OF our we'll known
Thomas Dickerson, better known and
called all the time by both white and
colorcd as, Halo Boss Tom DECKER
SON, was i'm the city of keystone for
the first and for lang time on bus.
ness Tom was talking most freely.
He told us that for forty years he
had been regular and uninterrupted
employee of the Algoma Coal and
Coke Company's operation and that
lie had never lost one cent but had
been favrcd with hundreds of Dol
lars because of falling the victim OF
an invalid rs II were; while sitting
at the desk of the Mcdowell Time
where all of the boys were trying to
clucidate what had happened and
where we Negroes all stood, as well
as where all the white defeated Re
publiclns stood, they permitted to
hear II short elucidation of conditions
by Tom Dickcrson, who in short:
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LOOKING AHEAD,

Again after IL hetic period of six
months of charges and counter char
ges the nation settles down to the ser
ious bushes of forging ahea dtoward
common goal, that of finding the
bet solution to our complex social and
economic problems.
All may not be agreed on the bcS'
course to pursue, but we can now dis
cuss differences of opinion impart-
tally and fairly with a view of reach
ing decisions and determining courses
of actiCn on the basis of their merits
without undue influence of biased
thinking and reasoning.
In facing the problems of the flu
ture, DR.. O. E. Baker of the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics, United
State Department of Agriculture,
brings us n very SOLDERING forecast.
After reminding Us of the fact that
the birth rate in the United States
has declined more than 25 percent
during the last ten years. DIR. Bake .
declares that declining population
! is inevitable within Is years unless
the birth rate should rise or immi
grafton increase.
If the birth rate continues to de-
cline at the present rate without an
increase in immigration, Il maximum
population will be reached slowly ut
first, then at an accelerating rae. A
declining national population, with
rural surplus and urgan deficit i'll
births, will have serious economic
and social consequences, in DR.. Baker
opinion.
These consequences Will develop
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ARNIESTICE DAY

Eighteen years ago last Wednesday,
the Great Word War ended, and A
mcrica fittIngly celebrated the occas-
ion with festivities and with prayer.
That memorable. dny, one OF the most
joYbus Of all history, marked the
end Of that titantlc conflict that had
claimed the lives Of thousands Of our
young Americans and left thousands
OF others crippled and helpless. On
foreign baitlcficlds, aboard the battle
ships Of our navy and In the canton
nents at home, thousands Of soldiers,
ailOrs, and marines, Joined with the
william population throughout the
land In mOnter celebration on that
day and prayed that America might
never be chilled upon again to ex-
perlence tho horrors Of modern war.
fare that Owuld call our Young A.
merlca from the pcacefu1 pursuits
Mt homo to face the gas and bomb,
and shrapncl on some foreign battle
! filed. "T%HWWI
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slowly al silently, he predicts. and is
will probably be % years before
manuy people will lrealizc what is
taking place. Fifty years from now,
he ventures, there may he only Il
third as many children i'm the nation
as now, and only half rs many women
of child bearing age There will be
nearly three times as many old poo
pie. Many unemployed nrban people
viii lscck shelter and sustcnancc with
relatives ana friends on farms. Many
CT these people will start little farms
and never again return TO the cities to
live.
Millions Of farm youth will mi.
CRATE to the cities, many of these mi
grants will inherit farms, or through
the settlement of estates acquire
mortgages on farms. Wealth. repre-
s?ntcd by thc ownership Of land Or
the income from il. will bc transfer
rcd to the cities. Other millions of
farm youth will begin farming most
ly on farms vacated by The death OF
aged farmers. DR.. Baker predicts.
Unless these farms are acquired by
inheritance, there will be an incrcas-
ing number of tenants.
But there is away to rctard these
omnicus developments, in the opinion
of this eminent cconoWist. They can
he retarded, he says. by rapid de-
Capitalization Of population. industry
and commerce, by the spread of part
time farming. and by bringing abut
an appreciation Of the middle AMI up
per classes, particularly in urban dis
tricis. u nj Irresponsible" for the
reproduction cf the race and the wei
fare e the nation
, AS we far problems If This kind
srbcrly and plan to meet 'hcm. VIC
can realize ~" necessity Of measures
that heretofore have not been essen
tial to our welfare and must stand
ready to make such adjustments rs
careful thought and serious Study Of
the problems NJ hand indicate ohc
way out of oncoming pcrplcxitics
such ms w hive not experienced in
the past. Lot us use the eyes Of our
trained scientists TO fOrcecc the like.
~ developments of the future md our
own common sense and judgement in
helping 10 formulate policies to meet
them in a way that will bc best for
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We had a birthday dinner ut our
home on November IL. Aaron, our
oldest son was twenty-three on We'd
nesday, the 4th, which was also Mrs.
Rapking's birthday. Aaron's girl
friend and our daughter, Ella Mar
garet's boy friend, another young
couple, our other two children, Glenn
and Morrell, and Mrs. Rapking, and
1 greatly enjoyed the dinner.
And now as I sit in front of the
open fire to write my weekly message
my heart grows strangely warm as
think of the days experience. 1t
seems but little while since Aaron,
our Oldest boy, was born. Now he is
teaching in the Wierton High School.
Before he left this evening he handed
me a check to pay for some of the
money he borrowed last summer. 1t is
indeed, joy to see him making his
own way. They say he loks moer like
me every day. That is indeed, a sober
ing thought to me.
Glenn and Morrell are attending
Salem College. They get up at $50
in the morning to help do the chores
and then leave home ut 6:55 and
arrive at the college in time for the
z 80 class, sixteen miles from here.
They are enjoying this work and hav
ing some helpful experiences. Tonight
they are with their girl friends. ELLA
Margaret, our sixteen year old daugh
ter, attends the West Milford High
School, and she too is having very
helpful experience. We encourage our
children to bring their friends to our
them to have friends, and we believe
that 1t is much better for them to do
their counting right in our home in
place of going to some road house.
There is something fascinating in
watching our children grow. We are
more certain every day that We did
the right tying wien almost nine
years ago we moved from town to the
country to give our children an OPP
portunity to, grow and develop as
nearly as possible in harmony with
Gods pan and purpose for them. 1t
is quite evident that their cose con-
tact with nature learning to take the
Responsibility of lookitg hitter the
farm, attending one of the smaller
rural high schools. participating in
the activities of our country, being
quite active in Ali clu bwork, get
ting some very practical education in
vocational agriculture and home eco
Monies work through the high school,
have nj lbeen vital in the growth and
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ALONG ELM STREET
Greensboro, North Carolina
(By carr. D. ). cnAfEx,

Saw Joe Gipson"s grocery truck
oaded with groceries. Mr.. Gibson
mas a vcry profitable business. big
tore, well and completely stocked.
ne has a fine group Of customers,
white and coiorcd people, In cohnet.
ton with HIS store has two Spacndid
Md we'll stocked and cultivated farms
Ne raises the stock with which he
furnishes meat to the market Of his
store,
The. great fortune: In the Jose Glib
bon grocery f. Dr.. Banks. his mana.
Iger. Ne Is An, expert, at he psScholo.
)ey Of trade. The people ne him and
NE f0Hws them both from 1 point Of
human nature. -
He KNOWS them from personal con-
act. He Is q fortune IN a mans bus
moss. I'D h ;lsosest and efficient, amp
ersonally interested in Nj. 9fbson's
rocery business.
There IL song they sing around
greensboro and the thOusht comes
me, how would the Republicans
nd the Jcffersonian Democrats love
0 hear 1t. The sop6 e0es MY his
Its mem old world that We W.
n" a 4sX4
Saw AIR. ftsAa. ::yapstoty, ont &H
street Fellow, 1.jnAffvA, 70 ,e, sqtl.
sAx S"fstistaaSn S,AasAiSS': Gafic
cop at the cross roads d the .wotld
at Jsffessoh ,AQuArs., tisauk MI
proper tint tts Nsssrs school ylaklrepp
,rs1l asas '.rsiseeaaa ssnfAnes"
'fhsrs was a ssaeiy Asfiips ,seA; .Hlal
|SHeet trying to - III sliat VA he,
'ckiidfsn : srtde % 70 as shs
Was ttyiAG to- reach, A stfbpl9,
ehildrn swink,pG to he AtesA oson us
n stronse city, had -hitohsA hfkea
INTO Greenssero, stranded at tn pub,
ne square. What ives abe to doi, Poor
sotIi. mother; she loved her children,
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txsHn Bkton Rouge. rotiue~y Of tbs
4 ssAnaa<d oA Company Of. LouIsi.
ana n LARGE efSpioyes q Netto
lab6k. More than Q, THOUSAND colored
mbh Hve and ybgbcrt tepsllies frds9
thS payroi,s Of thu conbern wtich
70 ~ sdiiiste Of the standard OH
C08Dsny otNew Jersey. the Stape
ara Oil CosApany Of Pennetlvahia
add the CdsokiAi Bsae0n on ooan
peay. known ss q group 10 the busl'
nsse wotIH a. TIE Bss6 hsrketerS.
Sieass Walton. q Negro ioremsp,
b the ranking mopbes Sot this
Grodb; and next to htVh are more
tkIAH 200 semi-skiiled men who com
nakdd wages commemorate with
The training required fot theit Nqtk
Wltbju the. ranks Of theft cs!qted
w6ekers ate twenty prb9d hd1peFi
Of the COMPANY dIamoad,stpHuoC
etiblem ~ service indisattng more
tAAk tWehty years OF eOdtihtdns'em
plofhent and loyalty. Afnuth large
nuuaber are vearers Of ten.Isar'but
tomb showing ttlst halt. b o b
more: al sotlSistsut service, salts
factory both to company and mer
In Baton Rouge there reside 4S otf
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NV VINO arc aniiultapts OF the COM
pany. More than 400 hold buttons,
i've or more years OF en-
p1oyment.
'rhe serious Interest these men
hn vs IN their company ands express
slon in an Esso Booster club organ
iEed among them, headed by q
Bnete.te u workers In the PArafnn
Depat nient, jesse Williams, Frank
WilIiamk. joe Williams. Matthew
Green. Anderson Brooks and George
~. Robettsoh. They have been as
sisted IN tbs conduct OF the educa-
ton OF the coiored public by PROT
| ]. NJ. Frazier. principal Of the Nc
| KInley High School OF Baton Rouge.
| Members Of the Phi Beta Sigma
| fraternity, a nationwide group OF
Negro college men committed to the
development OF buspess among
Negroes, and the Southern Univer'
sity faculty have. lent considerable
encourageffeh' II ,th6se Tden. and
this unusual r., -blhstion OF masses
and classes n Irpused q great 70
cal interest N LoulsAnh, Nitb the
resalt that plans are on foot Tor, th'
opening of sefvice station ownet
i by a corporation OF their creation. .
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but abe I'd nothing for them not ev6a
q Eide on to where sh wanted to, 60.
Whip was It but Policeman Sunshiss
that gave her money and not only
fed her but started her on her WAY
out Of town via o bus line. And hero
We are reminded Of these words Of
Gods blessed IL the ma nthat con,
sidsreth the poor, for the Lord win
remember hi mn time Of trouble
Saw Admiral Warren, confiden,
tial Messenger, Security National
Bank, Friend Warren IL an OK man,
IN OK singer, an OK church man
and an OOK man to be trusted. Yes,
inevery way that goes to nuke man
he is Okay..
Raw Mr.. Charles Mcknight, presi-
dent Of Vanstory Clothing Company,
where when youngster started ut
the bottom there, when his checks
were fair an dhis whoe makeup was
youth rearing to co.. But now, duo
to cruelty OF father time, hs hair Is
turning to gray and his youth fades
away; but he's oil his own az a man.
a friend to the poor and native Of
Greensboro.
Saw Sheriff Joe Phipps Of Gullford
County, n native. and whose uncle
Sheriff Gilmer held the office which
Mr.. rhipps now holds, who now
sleeps beneath the clay ut the Ala
manus graveyard. He was brother
Of SSheriff Phipps' mother,
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. w. COLEMAN, PROMINENT
BUSINESS MAN OF BLUE.
STONE-POCAHONTaS nxES

News Of the passing away of John
w. Coleman of rocahontas. Va. n
colored man who had, for many years
figured conspicuouSly in business:
church, fraternal and Industrial ac-
flvitties which took place Monday of
this week mt about o'clock T.. NJ
will be exceedingly shocking. John w
Coleman was most widely known
cOlOred citizen. His influence for
many yeas along many and practical
ly all line had been welded to hclp
thousands Of helpless. The commun-
ity Methodist Episcopal church of
POcahOntas, for which he contributed
most lavishly rightfully welcomes
paid the last tribute to his well
known. son.
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Tho civil war N spain, ths ssvsrih
prepafation Of other E0ropsaA cdun.
|trsss for var. lead the military D.
Eservss to believe that another treat
% tnninent, that will eviipss the isst
greet war IN biodshed ind aestruction
Ana which may eventually DO me end
ID civilization. via America PARTED.
|pAts7 God only knows. Let Us hopc
aid pray that it win not DO necessary
III ~ take q lesson from the Grip
IAtc9 veteran and from the dead who
Tie In Flanders Filed or whatever
|spot may mark their burial sites. aud
|egnd every effort we can to prevent
america from taking part in another
European war, without sacrificing
|oar Hottest love beneath the skies,
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well gentlemen, I enjoy being here.
l have been fighting the battle with
you for the parst forty years and
am ready to continue To do the same
now providing my "boSs and Bread
giver" tells me his interests are pro-
tected when he feeds me and makes It
possible for me to feed my children
and clothe my wife. lBear I'm mind
Tom is Not Married But is cnraged)
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America.
DAILY HAPPENINGS
LOCAL AND Personal

Attorney Leon i. Miller Of Wc1ch
spent the week end with his people
and friends in Roanoke last week. He
was also at the football game at
Gary between the daldiggcrs and
Mullcns wherein he Witnessed Null
lens fall by way OF the ''New Deal
Route to the tune of 28-7. Attorney
Joseph Travis, DR.. ]. E. Brown an
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Sup Tal1 cOueH!.
|, x...,..s, !, Milford. Va.

'',"I WIS taken
with a very bad
cough, that. last.
ed about six
N q ptha-.I
'comdn't get rid
Of Il and lost Is
p9nnds.. l was
%!Sss$&::
KY 49, SiAk-4S
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.'...prf!Sfia
nS1R no'gSD. {esIaIAis;Ts
FROM DEaE*H1D CANDIDATES

4 HIS remarkable to- observe where
i ssssss "a 4! z. s s'lal I. .s s.
'pisturally al H polhipx hSS sver hSR.
pcned. No cod93fed eiestioh frsids
alleged bbeecauss OF wilful violation.
The 'Democfane 9Ste was 30 commete
til 1t didn't admit of a possible claim
Of Fraud
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which ]. did ~ The time I had
% t.xSp' Of .a ,SIffs Ssssn ~
c6fXh&d GYiy WAee. DR.. Pisfes's
86A1n Medical Discovery is good
CROUCH for me.s-M. G. Neison,
Box lis. All druggists.
,tk. s:klEs ": .kf.Sss.ss,sEs; . a:;
49,
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FRANK VAUGHAN

News Of the serious illness Of Mr..
Frank Vaughan of this city Is very
much to be regretted and yet his
friends, and they are legion, hope
for him the best yet. He is in the
Hospital at WEIGH at this writing.