Hanford Journal Hanford, Kings Co., California Tuesday, 29 OCTOBER 1895 ************************************* [This was a special 12-page issue, which include many bios of businessmen (& a businesswoman or 2). There are many engravings of buildings, etc.] [from Local Paragraphs column] -- Frank J. WALKER went to Visalia last Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mary E. JONES, Mrs. WALKER's grandmother. Deceased was 84 years old and came to California with the Donner party in 1846. OUR SPECIAL EDITION -- The 'Journal' this week appears in enlarged size and with illustrations, and 3 times the number of copies used in the regular edition have been printed. We have termed it the "Atlanta Exposition edition," as at least 1000 copies will be sent to the Cotton States exposition, to call the attention of visitors there to the resources of Kings county. In the articles used in this issue, bearing on the resources and the advantages of Kings county, our aim has not been to "boom" this section, but to place facts before our Eastern friends -- facts which they will find substantial if they come to the Golden West and cast their lot among us… J.T. BAKER -- The 1st building erected in Hanford was built by J.T. BAKER on lots which he purchased at the auction sale of town lots by the P.I. Co. in February, 1877 and he has ever since been engaged in the drug business here, except when, in the pioneer days, he lost his store and stock by fire, as he did twice. There is not in the interior of the State a better stock of goods in his line, than that carried by Mr. BAKER. He makes a specialty of pure drugs and the accurate compounding of prescriptions. He also caries a large stock of proprietary medicines, perfumes, stationery, cutlery, fancy articles for the toilet, etc., etc. MRS. A.F. GREEN -- Womankind appreciates the merits of fine millinery and Hanford is well supplied with good milliners. Among the leading emporiums may be mentioned that of Mrs. A.F. GREEN, who came to our city 3 years ago and has the custom of many of our best families. Mrs. GREEN imports her stock direct from Chicago and New York, thus obtaining for her customers all the latest styles in correct shapes. She has unusual facilities for special order work and guarantees satisfaction with reasonable prices. Mrs. A.F. GREEN's store is located in the Sharples block and she will be pleased to have those interested call and inspect her stock. ROWEN IRWIN -- Mr. IRWIN is an old resident of Hanford, having been here about 14 years. He is a member of the well-known legal firm of Yell & Irwin, attorneys-at-law, and besides having a large practice has many warm personal friends. Mr. IRWIN believes Kings county to be a rich and productive one, and sees with increased population a land of increased prosperity and plenty. E.E. BUSH -- Real Estate and Abstract Office -- E.E. BUSH, the subject of this article, has been identified with this community over 30 years, growing up with the country from a boy. He has been connected with many enterprises tending towards the development of this vicinity, and by his long years of experience has gained the reputation of being one of the best judges of town and country realty in the State… CHARLES CAMERON, D.D.S. -- Mr. CAMERON has been practicing dentistry in our community about 2 years. He is a graduate of the Philadelphia Dental College and is always willing to aid any enterprise that has for its object the building up of Kings county. Mr. CAMERON's offices are in the Sharples building. JOAQUIN PEIXOTO -- The Hanford Cigar Factory -- Mr. PEIXOTO became a resident of our city but a short time ago and has become identified with our business interests by opening a cigar factory, Mr. PEIXOTO's idea being to give our citizens a 1st-class cigar at a reasonable price. He manufactures all his goods and guarantees his cigars to be free from all chemicals and impurities. His favorite brands are the Hanford Pet, American Derby and the Shepperd. He also has an extensive line of smokers' articles and besides doing a general retail business will be pleased to have the trade call and get his jobbing prices. Mr. PEIXOTO invites correspondence to this department. W.H. SLAVIN -- Mr. SLAVIN came to this community 18 years ago and taught school for many years. On the formation of Kings county he was elected to the office of County Treasurer and upon the combining of the 2 offices of Country Treasurer and Tax Collector, was re-elected to fill the combined office. M.L. SHORT -- Mr. SHORT became a resident of our community over 20 years ago and, with the exception of a few years passed in Southern California, has been here ever since. Mr. SHORT has witnessed the development of this vicinity and has seen this county grow from a small stock county to the banner fruit and wheat district of our State. Upon the formation of Kings county Mr. SHORT was elected to the office of District Attorney and at the last election was re-elected to the same office. J.H. MELONE -- Mr. J.H. MELONE is one of the pioneer merchants of Hanford and has a large stock consisting of boots and shoes, hats, caps and men's furnishing goods. Mr. MELONE has many friends in this community, as he is a popular business man. He will be pleased to have all intending purchasers see his stock. COSMOR B. CLARK -- Attorney-at-Law -- Mr. Cosmor B. CLARK has resided in our community 3 years, during which time he has established a reputation of being not only devoted to his practice, but also to the social welfare of Hanford. Mr. CLARK is a graduate of the Hastings Law College and has had a large experience with the leading attorneys of San Francisco. Mr. CLARK is interested in the work of progressing Hanford and is always willing to help any enterprise for the good of Kings county. F.M. GOODRICH -- F.M. GOODRICH is the Reporter for the Superior Court of Kings County. He arrived in Hanford on the night of the county division election and has his little joke on the oldest inhabitants by telling them he has resided in Kings County as long as any of them. Mr. GOODRICH has a vineyard near this city, where he worked until the Supervisors appointed him to his present position in July of 1894. He is now a resident of Hanford. His work as Court Reporter and as an expert accountant in examining the books of county officers, has given universal satisfaction. He is an expert stenographer, writing accurately as well as swiftly. B.L. BARNEY -- Mr. B.L. BARNEY, the subject of this article, was born in northern New York and came from that State 6 years ago, making his home in this locality. Mr. BARNEY is connected with several of our county's live interests, being of the firm of Barney & Cameron, packers and shippers of green and dried fruits, raisins, etc. He is also identified with the mercantile establishment of Barney & Birkbeck, groceries, and the firm do a large business in this vicinity, making a specialty of a fine family trade. Mr. BARNEY is also a member of the Board of Supervisors. He is a public spirited business man and ready to help any enterprise for the good of Hanford and Kings County. THE VEN DOME HOTEL -- Mrs. K.E. JACOBS, Prop. -- Mrs. JACOBS has been conducting the Vendome Hotel for the past 5 years and by careful attention to the comforts of her guests has made her place a most popular one. The Vendome has a number of permanent boarders, and special rates will be made by the week or month. Mrs. JACOBS gives her special attention to the menu and has made the dining room a place where home cooking can be obtained. The Vendome has about 16 beds and incandescent electric lamps are used throughout the house. D. GAMBLE, Contractor -- Mr. GAMBLE came to our locality in the year 1878, since which time he has devoted the greater part of his time to the contracting and building business. Mr. GAMBLE has erected a number of business blocks and fine residences in Hanford and surrounding country and is at the present time engaged in building a large, 2-story structure to be used as a High School for this district. With new improvements continually going on in our city Mr. GAMBLE will no doubt obtain his share of business. Any communication for Mr. GAMBLE addressed to post office box 304 will reach him promptly and receive his immediate attention. JUSTIN JACOBS -- Judge Justin JACOBS has resided in this vicinity about 19 years and on the formation of Kings county was elected to the office of Superior Judge and was also re-elected to the same office last fall. Judge JACOBS sees the necessity of Kings county advertising herself and stands ready to help both financially and personally any enterprise looking to the upbuilding of our community. J.H. FLEENER -- Mr. FLEENER has been a resident of Armona about 2 years, and up to a short time ago was in the meat business, with a partner under the firm name of Runyon & Fleener, but disposing of the business, Mr. FLEENER opened the hotel known as the Fleener House. He has met with success as a hotel keeper, and also gives his attention to managing the grocery store of C.W. BARRETT which adjoins his hotel. In Mr. BARRETT's store can be found a nice stock of fancy and staple groceries, men's furnishing goods, cigars and tobaccos, etc., and Mr. FLEENER will be glad to see all intending purchasers in his line. HANFORD MEDICAL SANITARIUM -- Dr. J.M. BOND established the Hanford Medical Sanitarium about 1 1/2 years ago. He is a graduate of the California Medical College and has had an experience, both theoretical and practical, covering many years. The Sanitarium makes a specialty of nervous diseases. With the application of hydropathy, or water cure, it has had remarkable success. Doctor BOND compounds his own medicines, keeping in this Sanitarium an extensive supply of pure drugs and as the Sanitarium furnishes room and board, together with all medical treatment (thus keeping the patient constantly under eye), they are enabled to treat successfully the invalid in search of good health. ------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL PARAGRAPHS -- -J. IVANCOVICH returned last Thursday from his native country across the waters where he had been on a visit for the previous 6 months. He reports a delightful time, except that he was seasick coming home across the "pond." -Doc MULLINIX is down from Three Rivers. He will secure a home for his children in the Rustic school district, so that they may attend school there. -Miss WHIDDEN, a female prostitute, was arrested last Saturday for conducting a house of ill-fame in Chinatown. She plead guilty and was fined $25 by Justice Randall yesterday morning. MRS. B.B. KERN arrived in Hanford last Wednesday evening, on a visit to friends here. Her husband is now in the State of Washington, where he holds the position of an "extra" conductor on the Great Western road, with good prospects of becoming a "regular" conductor in the near future. Success to Ben, wherever he goes. JOHN URTON returned last Saturday to Kentucky. He said, soon after his arrival here, that he knew all that had been going on in Kings County, about as well as the people did who reside here, the 'Journal' having kept him posted on current local events. He says California newspapers are read with much interest in Kentuckiana. LAST WEDNESDAY Sydney, the 4-year-old son of Mr.&Mrs. Cooper LEGGITT, was playing on his father's dray while the horses were being hitched in. When the team started up the little fellow, in getting off, tripped and fell and a wheel passed over him, breaking a thigh. Mr. LEGGITT and his family certainly are realizing the old proverb that "misfortunes never come singly." They have the sympathy of the entire community. A MAN named McECHREN, who was a brakeman on the freight train between Mendota and Bakersfield, met with a serious accident in this city last Friday. He was attending to a blind switch, and after the engine passed him and he bent over to turn the switch for a freight car, the latter struck him in the side and on his head. 2 ribs were fractured and both of them punctured the lungs, allowing air to escape therefrom. Dr. MILLER, of this city, attended the wounded man, who in about an hour after the accident was taken on toward Bakersfield on the freight train. A special train with a physician met the freight train and took McECHREN on to Bakersfield. He is a single man. THE FOLLOWING ladies and gentlemen have had their eyes tested and successfully fitted to glasses for compound astigmatishm by D.A. WOODWARD, the local optician, and cheerfully recommend him to anybody suffering from defective eyesight: Rev. W.H. MILLER Mr. Chas. FARNSWORTH Mr. E.B. DUSENBERRY Miss D. LOVELACE Miss Lizzie MARCH Mrs. F.R. HUBBELL THE RESIDENCE of Rev. J.A. FRANCIS and wife presented a gay scene last Friday evening. The couple had, by invitation, gone to spend the evening at Mr.&Mrs. J.H. DOPKINS'. They had not been gone long when their home was invaded by a jolly lot of friends. Then word was sent to Rev. FRANCIS that he was wanted at the parsonage and when he got there he found his home brilliantly illuminated and his parishioners and others in possession. A jolly evening was spent, during which Rev. FRANCIS was presented with a nice gold watch and Mrs. FRANCIS with a gold scarf pin with pearl setting. Rev. FRANCIS and wife leave this week for their new home in Kentucky. ------------------------------------------------------ HIGH SCHOOL ATTENDANCE -- The following pupils of the High School were neither tardy nor absent during the month ending Oct. 26th: Edward BIDDLE Alvin CROWELL Letus CROWELL Arthur RANEY Clara VINEY Eglantine WA[illeg] Fannie WILLIFORD Mae BARNES Tessie GOLDBERG Amy HEFTON Burt WILSON Maud GALLUP Walter GALLUP Lillian GOLDBERG Nellie BAGLEY Grace RIDER Sallie APPLEGARTH Leesie BYRD Wightman BYRD Pauline FELTON Metta ROBINSON Belle VINEY William PHILLIPS Walter WILLIFORD Frank FORD Edwin HOY Frank CUMMINGHAM Esther DUNHAM Rosa RAISCH John BENEDICT Clark APPLEGARTH Fanny CHADWICK Anna DOPKINS Gussie NEWPORT Ada NEWPORT Winifred WHITE Della McDONALD Ella PORTER Francis WAIT Rae LOVENTHAL Charlie CROWELL ------------------------------------------------------ GRANGEVILLE GLEAMS -- -J.B. NEWPORT is on the sick list. -Miss Edna HACKETT, who has been quite low with typhoid fever for some time, is, we are glad to state, on the road to recovery. -Will AGEE started Monday morning for S.F. but missed the train, so it was Tuesday before he got off. He is in hopes of obtaining a position there. -Mrs. WOODS and her daughter, Miss Nellie, and Mrs. Ida ANDERSON, have formed a partnership in the dress-making business. They are all 1st-class needlewomen and will make a good combination. -J.N. HOYT met with quite a serious accident Friday evening. It appears that after leaving the packing house at Armona and while coming down a steep grade this side of town his seat pitched forward, throwing him onto one of the horses, which began to kick and run. Fortunately he fell clear of the wagon and was not so badly hurt as he might have been. The horses ran as far as Mr. THYARKS', when one of them fell and they were then stopped. LEMOORE LOCALS -- -Tom J. VUCOJEVICH and V. PETCOVICH of Hanford were in this city Friday, looking around. They expect to open a fruit and cigar stand in the near future. -Rev. BEASLEY and wife were overtaken by a pleasant surprise party at their home last Thursday evening, the visitors being their neighbors and friends regardless of religious predilections, it being the last chance to show their kindly feelings toward the departing pastor, who goes to fill his new appointment at Dinuba next Wednesday. Transcribed by Dee Sardoch To see more old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/