a F. G. Library A Weekly Digest pf News Concerning Pacific Grove, Monterey and Carmel *Vol. L Pacific Grove, California, Friday, October 13, 1939 PuHA 0-·re. Callf//14 -aer Act of March 3. UN. Entered - -cond-cla- matter 't the p-tofne. mt No. 46 BOARD TALKS Fearless Foster Foretells Four; - People We Like OWNERS SEEK n //// 1// I .. E-*-91,MI TO JOIN IN WPA PROJECT '-Mia ingham plans to visit phita- -1,1;=- -. delphia. Boston and other Eastern points before returning to Callfor- m-Louisiana was ceded k, nia around November 1. ·i.)r. ·4· ·, 1, Spant 1764 -© . ... . f. OF BUILDING FOR SCHOOL Needs of Nursery Class May Be Combined With Summer School A cozhbination building on school ground for use as a nursery school during winter months and as a cooperative cooking place for Pacific Grove summer school atudents was suggested Monday night at a meeting of the board of school trustees. The board came to no decis- ion, although diaapproval was expressed for the plan as pre- sented. The nursery . school 18 being formed by a group of Pacific Grove mothers with the approval of the Parent-Teacher association. NO meeting place has been found u yet with the exception of 4 pro·- posal to 186,6 a buildkng at 156 Tenth Btreet -1,4 2*y the city to school property. The board sugge,ted the u•e of a lot taken by the city for taxes. Nursery Bchool advocates desim to have the nvreer, close enough ZlhVzl:M:2: permit stu@- The board abo euressed disap- proval of the plan for ihe summer school cooperative kitchen Further study will be given the plan before action ts taken. The Current BY BILL GOULD WEDDING STUFF The other night the 1adies at the Congragadonal church had a "pa- rade of brides," with wedding gowns on display, some nearly a century old. ... All of which reminds us of the wedding . expedence told hy cne local couple. ... During the ceremony, the offiel ating clergyman inforrned the groom: "You-may salute the bride." Whereupon he turned toward her, shook her hand and said, '·Howdy girliel" ... And then there is the other local eouple who were -cautioned by an old friend - of the family. She spoke of the fact that the groom would be wearing new shoes for the ceremony and that usually the groom's shoes attract too much attenUon when the bridal cohple kneeL ... She advised him to polish the Boles of his shoes as well as the tops. ... At this the groom balked, observ- ing that all the wedding guests should be bowed in prl,yer f the bridal couple kneeL (Continued on page, 12> ·t - .?U #41 9 r earIul rry rortunes 11'tzzle: City Attorney Reginald Foiter•i those he missed were tie games, legal training stands him in good the Old Maestro knows his stuff. stead, tor he never lets sentiment In -cona.· place comes Danny get the better 4 hi, judgment•in Simpion, who hs,h•d five winnen picking football winners- For that Dr. J. J. "Jar,«r Williams and reason, he leads 'the parade among Dorothy Nellien. our lone femin- •'Tide'a" board of uperts ine qpert, have each had four win- On Saturday the city attorney ners. Elgin "Oxy" Hurlbelt'I at- sat beside the villige editor in the tempts to cris; up hia fellow ex- memoeial stadium it Berkeley. Mr. perts vent astray ami he hu threi Foster, like the true California winnerm graduate he is, chaered lustily for -Contrasted l,ith the municipal barri,ter'g jud*tal ®naderattons ts F. Xavier F# gaelle sentimin- tality. None ,! our experts hu indulged in 80 *tudh winhful think- ing as he. Fred has one winner each Wek, St Marfs being hia lucky team. 26 is the rear guard •of our footbag parade. WATCH THEi UP SETS THIS WEEII EXBTS AGBEE 118© cautims the fans 40 be- . ware jof upseth this week-end for the board of experts are nearly unaqtmous. This 18 a fine time for yiu to loee your shirt. * Fry 18 the fellow who haa fok towed the method of loAng coach- u aad has kided on a,reat mhake-up. 81*e he hes t=d puch .1 1 poor luck ¥Ath the teaN, obe 2, think• ought to •in. thielime he has pleked jui the opposite. -If there ar• any uplets this veek-end. he ¥AU be a imart man . If the game/ run trut to form he won't the 00]del Be,6, le *ua. 'Z,e t• muott wone off than he te now. amowel of #*ysteal 02*, he tried Our picken call them: to give the Im Dom the dist*nee 083#01•1• 4. Oregon 1. tie 1. of row 5 ... tonifte, He just U C 4 A- 5, Stanford 1- about aptit ht, v,Rt trying to help U.-1 C. 5, Illinoid L the (381!foal, 141*er make that EL Mary': 5, Loyola 1 field goal- Santa Chm 5, U. a F. 1. Yet, if yew look over last week's ln each of the lut four gaines predictions, the city atte,Ders leap- Fry k the lone contrary prophet. less, calm and measured judgment Dani, Simpson is the one who said that St. Mary·s would win the pickOregon, while Domthy Nell- ball game. And they did. And sen calls it a tie. so did every other team Rollicking Reginald picked with the single 19 exception of the College of th: Pa- utrollment Adds cific, which tied with Iyola, 80 he came u close to calling this one' Housing Problem E FERS€EE A P. G. Schools A. & M., the only one of our ex- Increased enrollment at the Pa- cific Grove grammar school led to discussion Monday night by members of the board of trustees of. preparation of the recently ae- quired building for occupaUon by the kindergarten department. A resolution was passed author- izing acceptance of the deed to property purchased from Mrs. Mae Post Office Lets McConnell. IThe land includes Shrubbery Contract portions of two lots adjoining pro erty bought this year £rom the Mr. and Mrs. James D. Bishop Bethlehem Lutheran church. Pres[- of the Pine View nursery have dent of the board, George H. been awarded the contract for Schuyler, was authorized to have planting of shrubs. on the local a new fence built on the westerly post office grounds according to side of the property bought from Postmaster Dr. Louis El Clay. The Mrs. MeConnell. winning bid price was $325 Type of heating plant for the The work, whidh will also in- new classroom was discused, but clude lawn tratment, will be com- no decision reached. pleted by Thanksgiving according Principal R. H. Down announced to present plans. 10 2 / grammar school enrollment had Bids were feceived by the local reached 799 in the grades and 64 post office an# sent to·Washington-,in -the-- kindergaptea. - · Ten- -new where selection was made- students entered this Monday and Mr. and Mrs. Bishop also did the 16 the week before. Increase in work for the Monterey Post office students is expected unUl the end Postmaster Dr. Clay -may, he is of canning season in February. - looking formard to a fine lab and At the high school two basement 9 pleand that ' the Contract was rooms were turni8hed 'to accomo- awarded lo local people,.2 /4 date the increase in sttendance. V. Ir - I h. - ... 1.,0.. M/ perts to do so. COLD CALCULATION DOES THE TBICK Foster'I cold calculation does the trick. In the first two weeks, he has picked six winners out of 10. Considering the fact that three of HAROLD n HO•7!MAN Back in 1918, when the last Great War was drawing to a close. there weren'ta host of car, parked -around Pacific Grove High school. None of the harum-'carum ki<18 darted about the street, with auto borne playing "Yankee Doodk" In Y act, the only car in the enUre school was driven by the student body president a happy blonde kid whose dad wu the town'i original Ford agent Erom the liay when he ba«Red his old "tin lizzie" up the schoer's front Bleps unal now. Harold EL Hoffman has been·bugy with auto- mobiles. He has been taking them apart and trying to put them to- gether again year after year. He has been pulling them out af ditches, down from trees and poles, up off the beaches and sand-dunes, ete. etc., end he hun't..akened yet. Harold was born in Lassen coun- ty, but came to Pacific Grove in the general emigration of the Hoff- mana, Spoons, Hicks and others. He want to school here, got into business here, got married here, built a home here and started raising a family here. So far as we can Bee, he plans to keep right on living here and operating the City Hall garage. Whenever any of the formper students at Pacific Grove high school return to the old home town, they usually can be expected to show up at "Hoffy•s" place to ex- change a few tall stories of past experiences. He is one of the best- remembered members of the alum- ni association. Harold isn't very big, but he has that rare attribute for a modern business man-a voice you can un- derstand ever the telephone. And he has a laugh that is well-nigh a community land-mark or some- : thing. . The local schools would do well to produce Biore graduates like him. ' Louise Ingham Arrives In New York Mr. and Mrs. A. 13.. Ingham have received word that their daughter, Miss Duise Ingham, artived in New York yesterday morning on the liner Washington from Eng- Applications Flock In For Sidewalks, Curbs At Reduced Cost The office of City Manager Erwin Dames has been a busy place this week u local prop- erty owners have sought to take advantage of the present WPA project for construction of sidevalks, curha and gutters. Application blanks for the pur- pose will 64 found ebewhere in this issu, of lide." Acca:ding to Acting Oity Man- ager J. T. ]Eastle, there ure now 12 full block, ready te ge with a great many other portions of blocks signed up. fbere is still plenty of time for others to make appl- cation. The WPA workers - have been busy no the local high school Where Bom, 050 fed of sidewalk is being an•tali4 - The -rk * progre.:- Ing at the rate of approximately 130 feet per day. Under this project, property- ownen help pay for materials WPA furnishes the lahor. This makes a standard 5-foot sidewalk cost no more than 46 cents pe run- ning foot. Sfandard curb and gu> ter may be secured also for 45 cents afoot. P. G. GETS NO BOOZE TAX The stale board of equalization this week announced the allocation of liquor taxes to cittee of Calitor- nia covering the flrirt six months of 1989. Monterey county's share is $17,255.09, but Pacific Grove doesm't even appear on the list GRASS FIRE CAUSES ALARM A grass Mre on Companion Way in the beach tract was the cause of a fire alarm at 10:40 -0'clock this morning. 0 •He that wipes the child's nose kisses 6. mother's cheek.» OCTOBER 21 15-The Lincoln Monument: J was dedicated. 187i 1,--li:&%2:!ad'JA' 17-Gen. Comwaths asked for lerrns trom the Amer, cans. 1781 0, 18--MMN22:'h 1.-- chusetts colony. 1635, , OCR Text: a F. G. Library A Weekly Digest pf News Concerning Pacific Grove, Monterey and Carmel *Vol. L Pacific Grove, California, Friday, October 13, 1939 PuHA 0-·re. Callf//14 -aer Act of March 3. UN. Entered - -cond-cla- matter 't the p-tofne. mt No. 46 BOARD TALKS Fearless Foster Foretells Four; - People We Like OWNERS SEEK n //// 1// I .. E-*-91,MI TO JOIN IN WPA PROJECT '-Mia ingham plans to visit phita- -1,1;=- -. delphia. Boston and other Eastern points before returning to Callfor- m-Louisiana was ceded k, nia around November 1. ·i.)r. ·4· ·, 1, Spant 1764 -© . ... . f. OF BUILDING FOR SCHOOL Needs of Nursery Class May Be Combined With Summer School A cozhbination building on school ground for use as a nursery school during winter months and as a cooperative cooking place for Pacific Grove summer school atudents was suggested Monday night at a meeting of the board of school trustees. The board came to no decis- ion, although diaapproval was expressed for the plan as pre- sented. The nursery . school 18 being formed by a group of Pacific Grove mothers with the approval of the Parent-Teacher association. NO meeting place has been found u yet with the exception of 4 pro·- posal to 186,6 a buildkng at 156 Tenth Btreet -1,4 2*y the city to school property. The board sugge,ted the u•e of a lot taken by the city for taxes. Nursery Bchool advocates desim to have the nvreer, close enough ZlhVzl:M:2: permit stu@- The board abo euressed disap- proval of the plan for ihe summer school cooperative kitchen Further study will be given the plan before action ts taken. The Current BY BILL GOULD WEDDING STUFF The other night the 1adies at the Congragadonal church had a "pa- rade of brides," with wedding gowns on display, some nearly a century old. ... All of which reminds us of the wedding . expedence told hy cne local couple. ... During the ceremony, the offiel ating clergyman inforrned the groom: "You-may salute the bride." Whereupon he turned toward her, shook her hand and said, '·Howdy girliel" ... And then there is the other local eouple who were -cautioned by an old friend - of the family. She spoke of the fact that the groom would be wearing new shoes for the ceremony and that usually the groom's shoes attract too much attenUon when the bridal cohple kneeL ... She advised him to polish the Boles of his shoes as well as the tops. ... At this the groom balked, observ- ing that all the wedding guests should be bowed in prl,yer f the bridal couple kneeL (Continued on page, 12> ·t - .?U #41 9 r earIul rry rortunes 11'tzzle: City Attorney Reginald Foiter•i those he missed were tie games, legal training stands him in good the Old Maestro knows his stuff. stead, tor he never lets sentiment In -cona.· place comes Danny get the better 4 hi, judgment•in Simpion, who hs,h•d five winnen picking football winners- For that Dr. J. J. "Jar,«r Williams and reason, he leads 'the parade among Dorothy Nellien. our lone femin- •'Tide'a" board of uperts ine qpert, have each had four win- On Saturday the city attorney ners. Elgin "Oxy" Hurlbelt'I at- sat beside the villige editor in the tempts to cris; up hia fellow ex- memoeial stadium it Berkeley. Mr. perts vent astray ami he hu threi Foster, like the true California winnerm graduate he is, chaered lustily for -Contrasted l,ith the municipal barri,ter'g jud*tal ®naderattons ts F. Xavier F# gaelle sentimin- tality. None ,! our experts hu indulged in 80 *tudh winhful think- ing as he. Fred has one winner each Wek, St Marfs being hia lucky team. 26 is the rear guard •of our footbag parade. WATCH THEi UP SETS THIS WEEII EXBTS AGBEE 118© cautims the fans 40 be- . ware jof upseth this week-end for the board of experts are nearly unaqtmous. This 18 a fine time for yiu to loee your shirt. * Fry 18 the fellow who haa fok towed the method of loAng coach- u aad has kided on a,reat mhake-up. 81*e he hes t=d puch .1 1 poor luck ¥Ath the teaN, obe 2, think• ought to •in. thielime he has pleked jui the opposite. -If there ar• any uplets this veek-end. he ¥AU be a imart man . If the game/ run trut to form he won't the 00]del Be,6, le *ua. 'Z,e t• muott wone off than he te now. amowel of #*ysteal 02*, he tried Our picken call them: to give the Im Dom the dist*nee 083#01•1• 4. Oregon 1. tie 1. of row 5 ... tonifte, He just U C 4 A- 5, Stanford 1- about aptit ht, v,Rt trying to help U.-1 C. 5, Illinoid L the (381!foal, 141*er make that EL Mary': 5, Loyola 1 field goal- Santa Chm 5, U. a F. 1. Yet, if yew look over last week's ln each of the lut four gaines predictions, the city atte,Ders leap- Fry k the lone contrary prophet. less, calm and measured judgment Dani, Simpson is the one who said that St. Mary·s would win the pickOregon, while Domthy Nell- ball game. And they did. And sen calls it a tie. so did every other team Rollicking Reginald picked with the single 19 exception of the College of th: Pa- utrollment Adds cific, which tied with Iyola, 80 he came u close to calling this one' Housing Problem E FERS€EE A P. G. Schools A. & M., the only one of our ex- Increased enrollment at the Pa- cific Grove grammar school led to discussion Monday night by members of the board of trustees of. preparation of the recently ae- quired building for occupaUon by the kindergarten department. A resolution was passed author- izing acceptance of the deed to property purchased from Mrs. Mae Post Office Lets McConnell. IThe land includes Shrubbery Contract portions of two lots adjoining pro erty bought this year £rom the Mr. and Mrs. James D. Bishop Bethlehem Lutheran church. Pres[- of the Pine View nursery have dent of the board, George H. been awarded the contract for Schuyler, was authorized to have planting of shrubs. on the local a new fence built on the westerly post office grounds according to side of the property bought from Postmaster Dr. Louis El Clay. The Mrs. MeConnell. winning bid price was $325 Type of heating plant for the The work, whidh will also in- new classroom was discused, but clude lawn tratment, will be com- no decision reached. pleted by Thanksgiving according Principal R. H. Down announced to present plans. 10 2 / grammar school enrollment had Bids were feceived by the local reached 799 in the grades and 64 post office an# sent to·Washington-,in -the-- kindergaptea. - · Ten- -new where selection was made- students entered this Monday and Mr. and Mrs. Bishop also did the 16 the week before. Increase in work for the Monterey Post office students is expected unUl the end Postmaster Dr. Clay -may, he is of canning season in February. - looking formard to a fine lab and At the high school two basement 9 pleand that ' the Contract was rooms were turni8hed 'to accomo- awarded lo local people,.2 /4 date the increase in sttendance. V. Ir - I h. - ... 1.,0.. M/ perts to do so. COLD CALCULATION DOES THE TBICK Foster'I cold calculation does the trick. In the first two weeks, he has picked six winners out of 10. Considering the fact that three of HAROLD n HO•7!MAN Back in 1918, when the last Great War was drawing to a close. there weren'ta host of car, parked -around Pacific Grove High school. None of the harum-'carum ki<18 darted about the street, with auto borne playing "Yankee Doodk" In Y act, the only car in the enUre school was driven by the student body president a happy blonde kid whose dad wu the town'i original Ford agent Erom the liay when he ba«Red his old "tin lizzie" up the schoer's front Bleps unal now. Harold EL Hoffman has been·bugy with auto- mobiles. He has been taking them apart and trying to put them to- gether again year after year. He has been pulling them out af ditches, down from trees and poles, up off the beaches and sand-dunes, ete. etc., end he hun't..akened yet. Harold was born in Lassen coun- ty, but came to Pacific Grove in the general emigration of the Hoff- mana, Spoons, Hicks and others. He want to school here, got into business here, got married here, built a home here and started raising a family here. So far as we can Bee, he plans to keep right on living here and operating the City Hall garage. Whenever any of the formper students at Pacific Grove high school return to the old home town, they usually can be expected to show up at "Hoffy•s" place to ex- change a few tall stories of past experiences. He is one of the best- remembered members of the alum- ni association. Harold isn't very big, but he has that rare attribute for a modern business man-a voice you can un- derstand ever the telephone. And he has a laugh that is well-nigh a community land-mark or some- : thing. . The local schools would do well to produce Biore graduates like him. ' Louise Ingham Arrives In New York Mr. and Mrs. A. 13.. Ingham have received word that their daughter, Miss Duise Ingham, artived in New York yesterday morning on the liner Washington from Eng- Applications Flock In For Sidewalks, Curbs At Reduced Cost The office of City Manager Erwin Dames has been a busy place this week u local prop- erty owners have sought to take advantage of the present WPA project for construction of sidevalks, curha and gutters. Application blanks for the pur- pose will 64 found ebewhere in this issu, of lide." Acca:ding to Acting Oity Man- ager J. T. ]Eastle, there ure now 12 full block, ready te ge with a great many other portions of blocks signed up. fbere is still plenty of time for others to make appl- cation. The WPA workers - have been busy no the local high school Where Bom, 050 fed of sidewalk is being an•tali4 - The -rk * progre.:- Ing at the rate of approximately 130 feet per day. Under this project, property- ownen help pay for materials WPA furnishes the lahor. This makes a standard 5-foot sidewalk cost no more than 46 cents pe run- ning foot. Sfandard curb and gu> ter may be secured also for 45 cents afoot. P. G. GETS NO BOOZE TAX The stale board of equalization this week announced the allocation of liquor taxes to cittee of Calitor- nia covering the flrirt six months of 1989. Monterey county's share is $17,255.09, but Pacific Grove doesm't even appear on the list GRASS FIRE CAUSES ALARM A grass Mre on Companion Way in the beach tract was the cause of a fire alarm at 10:40 -0'clock this morning. 0 •He that wipes the child's nose kisses 6. mother's cheek.» OCTOBER 21 15-The Lincoln Monument: J was dedicated. 187i 1,--li:&%2:!ad'JA' 17-Gen. Comwaths asked for lerrns trom the Amer, cans. 1781 0, 18--MMN22:'h 1.-- chusetts colony. 1635, , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,G through H File names,Hoffman,HOFFMAN_007.pdf,HOFFMAN_007.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: HOFFMAN_007.PDF, HOFFMAN_007.pdf 1 Page 1