Oct. 1905 – Home Co. telephone line tall post and four wires are on its way through town.
Feb. 21, 1906 – [A wish for a newborn girl] May she grow up to be a good woman and live to see her great-grandchildren.
June 1906 – San Luis Rey river still flows a good stream to the ocean.
March 1909 – Auto Club erecting sign posts on coast road marking every turn and danger point along the way as well as distances, directions, etc.
Dec. 1909 - Mr. Gainer…has embraced the Hindu religion and has traveled twice to India to learn more of its philosophy.
April 1910 – Halley’s comet could be seen all through April and will pass between us and the sun on May 19, 1910, and after that it will be seen in the evening sky. It will come again in 75 years.
May 1911 – C.S. Libby purchased old Christian Church on First and Hill St. in Oceanside. Will make it into a neat modern residence.
June 1911 – Mr. Baird moves to Long Beach, has a position with a motion picture concern. An expert photographer.
June 10, 1911 – W.R. Clark and family drove a team of horses down from Greenfield Monterey Co. in three weeks. Automobiles were counted on the trip – came to 640 cars.
July 1911 – W.S. Kelly has learned to run his new auto fairly well but says his family are shy of riding with him yet.
Oct. 1911 – A law passed in county requiring all travelers to have lights on their vehicles.
Sept. 1912 – Charles Kelly sold 52 horses to a purchaser from Imperial Co., Carroll Borden rode ahead leading two horses and Earl Frazee and Forrest Borden came along behind and kept them going. Many were wild but we took them down the 101 Highway to San Diego and camped in Mission Valley the first night. Only a few cars on the road then.
Jan. 1914 – Six airship passes in ten days in January. Pretty soon we won’t get out of bed to see one.
Dec. 1914 – Water is here in Carlsbad. We have seen it with our own eyes.
Jan. 1, 1915 – San Diego Exposition gets under way. Everything that would make noise was used after midnight.
June 1915 – Flying machines are so common these days that we merely take a peep to see which way they are going and then forget them.
June 1915 – Sam Thompson, of Orange, has five acres west of Highland, which will be planted in Avocado trees. This fruit is little known in this country, only a few trees having been grown in this vicinity but it is a staple product in Mexico and other Southern countries.
Feb. 1916 – High school pupils finding trains always late since the floods have taken to walking three to five miles to Oceanside.
Oct. 1917 – WWI housewives are asked to have meatless and wheatless days.
Oct. 1918 – Save fruit-pits, nut shells, etc. to make gas masks for our government.
April 1919 – Passenger plane is making daily trips between San Diego and Los Angeles. The fare is $25.00.
Sept. 1919 – The Carlsbad grammar school is growing larger again. Enrollment, now 18.
Sept. 1919 – President Wilson passed through on the rear platform of a train. In San Diego they rigged up loud speakers and they claimed that more people heard him than any man in the world.
Oct. 1921 – Mr. And Mrs. Abraham Lincoln Kentner from South Bend, Indiana visiting E.G. Kentner at the Twin Inns.
After his wife, Minnie Kelly Borden, died in 1919, Mr. Borden started looking for an assistant. In 1920, he said, “I am still in need of a helper on this paper. Someone who would rather do good than get rich.” In 1921, “Not yet having found an assistant who would be my successor, I am facing the apparent necessity of dropping the work for want of physical and financial ability to keep it going.” The last paper was dated January 1923. After printing the paper for 38 years, he was forced to stop because his health gave out and he died a year later.
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