Excerpt from On Old Rancho San Pascual: The Story of South Pasadena Aster Sunday, l9l7, found America in the Great War. There was a solemnity to the day such as no Easter had known since Lincoln's time. Southern California felt it along with the rest of the nation. President Wilson had signed the declaration of war but two days before. Night wires announcing the fact had been flashed to every army and national guard com mander in the country. Colonel Charles F. Hutchins, Commander of the old Seventh California, had received the message at three a.m. At his South Pasadena home and had without loss of a minute communicated with his captains all over Southern California. By Easter he had mobilized his men. By Easter South Pasadena had Opened a Red Cross room with over one hundred active women workers. Two days after Easter a company of home guards with lo7 members had been organized. The Sunday after Easter found the countryside blessed with a bounteous ra-in which soon brought South Pasa dena's 500 war gardens smiling through the damp earth. Easter Sunday two years later found Colonel Hutchins coming up his front walk arm-in-arm with his family. He and his men had been to France and back again. The war was over! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.