Judge Edgar sent him to jail on $1,000 bond, awaiting trial. Williams asserts her husband said he would spend the rest of his life in jail before he would contribute a cent to the support of his family.” She says that hospital expenses in connection with the arrival of her baby were defrayed by her brother, a crippled newsboy with a stand in front of the Berkeley Commercial and Savings bank when her husband refused to pay them. Esther Williams, of 1639 Addison Street, the wife, swore to the warrant.
Williams, a 19-year-old husband and father, was arraigned before Judge Robert Edgar this morning on a charge of failing to provide for his 17-year-old wife and 5-months-old son, Richard,” the Gazette reported Oct. ‘Niobe,’ a delightful comedy will be presented Friday evening by dramatic talent of the Codornices club … (and) Saturday evening the Carnival will close with an international ball.” “Vaudeville and dancing numbers will intersperse the program both afternoons and evenings. The event would include Italian dinners served on two evenings. “The Burmese booth will be a ‘white elephant’ with Mrs. Booths represented China, Japan, India, Persia, Siam, Scandinavia, Spain, Egypt, Burma and America, each selling its own variety of food or goods. More than 1,000 local women were reported to be participating in the event. The “prominent citizens” decided there should be a council of nine members, including a mayor elected independently.Īfter discussion, they agreed that the city manager shouldn’t sit on the Board of Education and that - at the request of Berkeley’s librarian, Carl Joeckel - governance of the library should be placed under an independent board of trustees, not the city manager. 30, 1922, to finalize a plan for a ballot initiative to give Berkeley a city manager form of government. Sanderson ruled that this would be ‘absent voting.’ ”Ĭity manager: A group of Berkeley businessmen, officials and “improvement club” leaders met Oct. He offered to preside over the council by telephone, but City Attorney Lemuel D. Two councilmen were in Southern California, and the mayor was confined at home with “a severe cold. 1, since the council was required to approve the monthly payroll. This meant that city employees would not receive their paychecks Nov.
31, 1922, when the City Council couldn’t meet. 1, 1922, Gazette, so perhaps the curfew succeeded.Īn unplanned municipal Halloween mishap occurred on the morning of Oct. There were no major Halloween pranks reported in the Nov. and other miscreants pulled fire alarm boxes and put obstacles in streets for cars to run over. “Pre-Hallowe’en (sic) pranks started last night and were so serious that the chief decided to prevent a reoccurrence tonight,” according to the Gazette, which also reported that “a gang of boys threw rocks through a window” at 1628 Belvedere St. Berkeley, a Look Back: Official praises city’s new summer camps in Sierra
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