1915 Column

January 15, 1915
Murrieta News
The Pauba Ranch Company employed a Chinaman cook for the ranch house on Santa Rosa. The Chinaman arrived, finding no one to meet him, left his
baggage, and started afoot to find the ranch. A few hours later Mr. McGee (Magee?) took the baggage, expecting to overtake the Chinaman and take him on
to the ranch. McGee met the Chinaman returning to Murrieta he had been lost and nothing could coax him to go on to the ranch. So now the company is
looking for another cook.

January 22, 1915
- Things are picking up in Temecula and the merchants report increased business and collections much better. Temecula has three first class stores,
namely George A. Burnham, Mac Machado, and Alex J. Escallier, which would be a credit to a much larger city.
- Supervisor Shaver has been having the main street through town graded with decomposed gravel. Pat Speziali, the road foreman, is in charge of the
work.
- During the past week many automobilists have stopped over in Temecula to have repairs made on tires, etc. due to tacks, which were scattered on the
road to San Diego. Mr. Fernald, the garage man here, says the vandals evidently did their work on Thursday afternoon between two and three o'clock, as
his wife made a trip at noon to Murrieta, and did not pick up any tacks.
- Granite blocks are being shipped this week from the quarries near town to Los Angeles.
- Cashier C. P. Shumate reports that business at the bank has increased about twenty per cent since the first of the year. Deposits have gone away up.
-Mrs. McAney has a large class in music. She is said to be a fine teacher and is giving satisfaction. Miss E. E. Drake, also of Elsinore, has a class in art in
Temecula. Miss Drake has rare ability as an artist and painter.
- Our people are becoming very impatient over the long delays in getting permanent roads. It is said it will be a very easy matter to get the right-of-way,
but that very little has been done to get it.

January 22, 1915
- Temecula Baseball team won a game from the Pala team Sunday afternoon. The score was 17 to 18.
- Pat Speziali has just seeded 270 acres to barley and oats.
- Mrs. Eli E. Barnett has returned from a visit with her son Cephas L. Barnett of Uplands.
- Members of the (John) Z. Barnett Mining Company held their annual meeting January 15 in the Hall. Adolph Johnson and secretary from San
Bernardino were present with the members.
- Supervisor Shaver of San Jacinto was in town Monday inspecting the streets.
- Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Maness of Arizona are visiting their sister Mrs. Azeltine of the Wynoak Ranch.
- Mrs. Barton, Mrs. Fish and Mrs. Hall were visitors at the public school this week.
- Miss Bertha Pierce has returned to her home at Devore, after an extended visit with her sister Mrs. Vardy.
- Joseph Welty returned to San Bernardino after a short stay in town.
- F. Tubb of Oregon is a guest of Mrs. William A. Kolb.
- A car of lumber has just arrived for the new Post Office building, which is to be erected on Front Street opposite the City Garage.
- Mr. and Mrs. Lobaugh are visiting in Los Angeles.
- Charlie Carsington leaves soon to take charge of the new meat market in Pala.

January 29, 1915
- Robert Magee's stone quarry has just received an order for six carloads of paving stone; 58,500 blocks have been shipped to Los Angeles this month.
- Mrs. Lillian Haynes returned Saturday evening from Oakland, where she has spent the past month at the bedside of her sick sister.
- William Hanna is a guest at the Berry ranch.
- Mr. and Mrs. Fred Winkles will return soon from Spokane, Wash., to make their home. Mr. Winkles will enter the store of Alex Escallier as his partner.
- Mr. and Mrs. Charles McClintock have moved to Santa Fe Springs. Mr. McClintock will resume work with Sewer Gas and Pipe Company.
- Vail brothers of the Pauba Ranch Company drove 650 head of cattle through town Tuesday morning on the way to the Santa Rosa Rancho.
- Clark brothers of Elsinore are guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Barton.
- Mr. & Mrs. Lobaugh returned Sunday evening from Los Angeles.
- Mrs. George A. Burnham and daughter Ethel spent the weekend at home, returning Sunday evening to Fallbrook, where Miss Ethel is attending High
School.
- Arthur Escallier returned Tuesday morning to Riverside where he is attending Business College.
- Jake Kuntz had two fingers severely crushed while hauling stone for the Spanish-American quarry last Friday.
- Messrs. Marsh and Clark of Elsinore are rushing work on the new Post Office building and expect to have it finished in a few days.
- Chalma A. Bailey of Aguanga has received a carload of galvanized water pipe from West Virginia by way of the Panama Canal.

February 5, 1915
- Mrs. Mac Machado has received a shipment of 30 rare varieties of rose bushes to be planted on her home place.
- Raymond Cree, county superintendent of schools, visited the Pujol school district last Thursday.
- Miss Jessie Goodman returned home last Friday from an extended visit to El Centro.
- Mrs. Woolsie of Fallbrook was a guest this week of Mrs. Alice Machado.
- Mr. and Mrs. Lobaugh have just completed their new bungalow.
- Mrs. William A. Kolb has just added a screen porch and a coat of paint to her cottage.
- John Gibbs, the new postmaster, will take charge of the office next Monday, Feb. 8
- Miss Hattie Welty will have the cottage now used as a post office remodeled and furnished for the occupancy of C. P. Shumate and family.
- Charles Escallier of Riverside is here for a few days.
- On account of bad roads, the Aguanga mail failed to arrive Tuesday.
- Seven inches of rain for the past week makes a total of 13 inches for the season.
- Mrs. John Ludy from Rainbow was a visitor in town Wednesday.
- The members of the Ladies' Auxiliary entertained their husbands at dinner Saturday evening at the home of Mrs. William Friedemann.

February 12, 1915
- Mrs. Lulu Parks arrived home Saturday from a year stay in Utah.
- Roy Fernald shipped a carload of honey Saturday.
- Mrs. Grant Howard left for Visalia Tuesday for a two weeks visit with her sister, Mrs. Clarence North.
- The Temecula Baseball Team won the game at Pala from the Pala team. The score was 16-15.
- Mrs. Frank Hall is spending a week in Los Angeles.
- Mrs. W. H. Rose of Los Angeles is a guest of Mrs. G. N. Fish.
- Arthur Escallier spent the weekend at home, returning to Riverside Monday morning.
- Logan Barnett of Uplands and Adrian B. Barnett visited Oak Grove Sunday. Cephas L. Barnett was a guest of his brother, the first of the week.
- John V. Gibbs, the new postmaster, took charge of the office Monday.
- Mark Robinson of Aguanga was in town Saturday.

February 26, 1915
- Temecula Team wins over Fallbrook
- The Fallbrook Baseball Team came to Temecula last Sunday and were defeated, but it was a fine contest. Neither team had a show until the eighth
inning, when the locals pounded the pitcher hard.
- Temecula started in second inning and scored three runs, but Fallbrook came right back and scored three runs in the fourth. Neither scored until the
eighth when Temecula scored three more. John Kane, the crack Venice fielder played center field for Temecula and showed some speed in fielding and
batting.
- The Temecula fans were all pleased with the playing that the newly organized team showed and believe they will make other teams in the valley go
some just as they did last year.

March 12, 1915 - Carl R. Swanguen married Edna C. Hall source: Riverside County Recorder's Office

March 12, 1915 - New School House for Temecula
Three trustees of Temecula joint school district are here today studying Riverside school buildings with a view to incorporating some of the best ideas into
a new schoolhouse to be built in the Temecula district. It is proposed to erect a two-room building with a large auditorium. This afternoon the trustees
visited the new Magnolia building in company with Superintendent Cree and Architect Wilson. The trustees here are Adrian B. Barnett, Roy S. Roripaugh
and William Friedemann.

March 12, 1915
- The dance given last Saturday in the Bank Hall was well attended, many coming from Murrieta and the Murrieta Springs.
- Ole Larsen of Rainbow bought two tons of hay from Eli E. Barnett and is hauling it home.
- W. J. Smith, bookkeeper at the Pauba Ranch, narrowly escaped being injured, being thrown by a bucking horse.
- Merrill Kolb in his Ford machine, made a social call on friends at Montserrat.
- Frank Burnham and wife made a trip to San Bernardino Saturday, returning Sunday evening.
- The trustees were in Riverside the first of the week looking over the plans for the new grammar school building, which is to be put up soon.
- Adrian B. Barnett and William Friedemann were visitors to Elsinore one day the past week. They were looking over the Elsinore grammar school with a
view to getting ideas for our new school building to be erected soon.
- Mrs. Haynes and others went to Elsinore last week to see the wreck victims. Mrs. Haynes accompanied her husband to the Los Angeles hospital.
- Alex J. Escallier has been appointed deputy county assessor. He will begin work at once. Mr. Escallier will make a good assessor.