Written on the back of this photograph: "Carroll S. Hayes".    Carroll Hayes was the editor of the Traver Tidings newspaper in Traver, CA.        During the mid-1880's Traver was an agricultural boom-town.  

 According to the Tulare County Times:      On the evening of 9/19/1886, Mr. Hayes and his fiancee, Lulu Smith, were visiting the home of Dr. L. M. Lovelace in Lemoore when someone fired a gun through the screen door striking Mr. Hayes in the head and neck with buckshot, killing him instantly.        18 year old Henry S. Beaver was accused and prosecuted for the murder.    Mr. Beaver had asked Lulu Smith to marry him that previous summer, and she had refused.     Beaver was apparently jealous of Carroll Hayes, and had made some vague threats in reference to Hayes, e.g. "Someone will have to kill".    Beaver borrowed a shotgun with buckshot just prior to the murder.
The evidence was circumstantial, and Henry Beaver was eventually acquitted of the charges.

Photo postcard circa 1915.  Group photo of the Visalia Steam Laundry employees.

Close-up:

Lindsay's Fraternal Hall, circa 1908.    Rochdale was a cooperative wholesale store.

Porterville, circa 1909.   Looking north down Main Street, near its intersection with Oak Avenue.