Down The Piney Path: News From Old Pacific Grove From the Salinas Weekly Index: September - November 1879 Pacific Grove Residents Win Butterfly Song Finals (From the January 14, 1954 Pacific Grove Tribune) + by E. C. Davis • The Pacific Grove Retreat hotel has been closed for the season for guests. Campers, however, will find the usual conveniences. * Mr. Tennant, a landed proprietor of Santa Clara County, plans an S8,000 house in Pacific Grove. Pacific Grove residents carried away the honors in the City's Butterfly Song Fi- nals this week. First in the field of 28 finalists was Morris Dill, music apprecia- tion director of the Pacific Grove school district. Second place went to Eleanor Kidwell and Dee Olivetti of 811 Carmel Avenue. And a 12-year-old contestant, Richard Brown of 140 Sixth Street, received a special award. * Mr. and Mrs. Alsop, who have been keeping the restaurant at Pacific Grove, have gone to San Francisco for the winter. * Miss Laura Hecox, daughter of the Santa Cruz lighthouse keeper, visits Pacific Grove at the Lighthouse for a week. She has a collection of a thousand foreign and native sea shells. From the Pacific Grove Review: November - December 1905 * The young men of Pacific Grove are invited to come to the city hall to help organize a brass band. • Dr. Mary Vanderbilt has moved her office to the Hart residence. * St. Mary's will have a Guild sale of fancy goods suitable for Christmas gifts every Thursday. * Elizabeth Lowe Watson, Pacific Grove authoress, has published a little book of poems called Song and Sermon. * Oliver and Lowe have received a barrel of nice salt mackerel and salmon bellies. Dill's first prize was a $150 check - which he didn't receive until after the finals because he had left the high school auditorium after singing his entry, entitled "The Monarch". His prize was made possible by cash contributions from the Butterfly Lodge and 17-Mile Drive Cottage Court. Attorney Reginald Foster was master of ceremonies. Judges, whose names were not announced until the night of the finals, were Franklin Dixon, president of the Monterey County Sym- phony Orchestra; Mrs. Carolyn Jahaver, Pacific Grove music teacher, and Jimmy Lyons. The entries were presented before an audience of 300. Many of the composers played and sang their own songs. The others were presented by Vincent Fratangelo, Barbara Shimer, Ernest Watson and Ernie Sheriff. Gail Ran- dolph, "Miss Butterfly", was also made an appearance. Post Office To Top Eucalyptus Trees For Safety (From the June 19, 1942 Tide) Those much-discussed eucalyptus trees in front of the local post office are going to be topped. All of them will be cut down to a height of 40 feet. What they will look like then is anybody's guess. * W. H. Weeks, the Watsonville architect, was in the Grove on business. He is drawing plans for an $8,000 residence in New Monterey for a Sacramento capitalist. * Harold Winston has left for Florida, where he will care for a troop of his father's trained seals. * William Adam, Pacific Grove resident, has a showing of his art in Fresno, displaying scenes of Monterey. * Will E. Wright went up to San Francisco with three children of Mr. Fleming's where they will be placed in an orphan asylum. The youngest child is six and the oldest child in ten. Share The Heritage With A Friend Annual Family Membership $10.00 Members reoeive Ute Board and Batten newsletter of the Heritage Society of Pacific Grove. Name: Address: * W. H. Smith has returned to his ranch near Parkfield. * The Ancient Order of Foresters gives a Thanksgiving ball. It was 2 a.m. before the party dispersed. * The reading room at the Christian Science Hall will be open every afternoon. City: State, Zip: Phone: Please return to The Pacific Grove Heritage Society Box 1007 * Pacific Grove, CA 93950 * Telephone 372-2898 10 11 , OCR Text: Down The Piney Path: News From Old Pacific Grove From the Salinas Weekly Index: September - November 1879 Pacific Grove Residents Win Butterfly Song Finals (From the January 14, 1954 Pacific Grove Tribune) by E. C. Davis • The Pacific Grove Retreat hotel has been closed for the season for guests. Campers, however, will find the usual conveniences. * Mr. Tennant, a landed proprietor of Santa Clara County, plans an S8,000 house in Pacific Grove. Pacific Grove residents carried away the honors in the City's Butterfly Song Fi- nals this week. First in the field of 28 finalists was Morris Dill, music apprecia- tion director of the Pacific Grove school district. Second place went to Eleanor Kidwell and Dee Olivetti of 811 Carmel Avenue. And a 12-year-old contestant, Richard Brown of 140 Sixth Street, received a special award. * Mr. and Mrs. Alsop, who have been keeping the restaurant at Pacific Grove, have gone to San Francisco for the winter. * Miss Laura Hecox, daughter of the Santa Cruz lighthouse keeper, visits Pacific Grove at the Lighthouse for a week. She has a collection of a thousand foreign and native sea shells. From the Pacific Grove Review: November - December 1905 * The young men of Pacific Grove are invited to come to the city hall to help organize a brass band. • Dr. Mary Vanderbilt has moved her office to the Hart residence. * St. Mary's will have a Guild sale of fancy goods suitable for Christmas gifts every Thursday. * Elizabeth Lowe Watson, Pacific Grove authoress, has published a little book of poems called Song and Sermon. * Oliver and Lowe have received a barrel of nice salt mackerel and salmon bellies. Dill's first prize was a $150 check - which he didn't receive until after the finals because he had left the high school auditorium after singing his entry, entitled "The Monarch". His prize was made possible by cash contributions from the Butterfly Lodge and 17-Mile Drive Cottage Court. Attorney Reginald Foster was master of ceremonies. Judges, whose names were not announced until the night of the finals, were Franklin Dixon, president of the Monterey County Sym- phony Orchestra; Mrs. Carolyn Jahaver, Pacific Grove music teacher, and Jimmy Lyons. The entries were presented before an audience of 300. Many of the composers played and sang their own songs. The others were presented by Vincent Fratangelo, Barbara Shimer, Ernest Watson and Ernie Sheriff. Gail Ran- dolph, "Miss Butterfly", was also made an appearance. Post Office To Top Eucalyptus Trees For Safety (From the June 19, 1942 Tide) Those much-discussed eucalyptus trees in front of the local post office are going to be topped. All of them will be cut down to a height of 40 feet. What they will look like then is anybody's guess. * W. H. Weeks, the Watsonville architect, was in the Grove on business. He is drawing plans for an $8,000 residence in New Monterey for a Sacramento capitalist. * Harold Winston has left for Florida, where he will care for a troop of his father's trained seals. * William Adam, Pacific Grove resident, has a showing of his art in Fresno, displaying scenes of Monterey. * Will E. Wright went up to San Francisco with three children of Mr. Fleming's where they will be placed in an orphan asylum. The youngest child is six and the oldest child in ten. Share The Heritage With A Friend Annual Family Membership $10.00 Members reoeive Ute Board and Batten newsletter of the Heritage Society of Pacific Grove. Name: Address: * W. H. Smith has returned to his ranch near Parkfield. * The Ancient Order of Foresters gives a Thanksgiving ball. It was 2 a.m. before the party dispersed. * The reading room at the Christian Science Hall will be open every afternoon. City: State, Zip: Phone: Please return to The Pacific Grove Heritage Society Box 1007 * Pacific Grove, CA 93950 * Telephone 372-2898 10 11 , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,E through F File names,L through M File Names,McAnaney,MCANANEY_008.pdf,MCANANEY_008.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: MCANANEY_008.PDF, MCANANEY_008.pdf 1 Page 1