History: "San Anselmo May Become City"

This blurb (in the lower middle of the newspaper page above) in the San Francisco Call appeared on Jan. 17, 1907, noting that San Anselmo might become a city.

The article reads:

SAN ANSELMO. Jan. 16. — The queg r tion of the incorporation of San Anselmo will be put to a vote of the people at an early date and its proponents are confident of victory. At a recent meeting of the San Anselmo Improvement Club it was decided unanimously in favor of the project and three petitions to the Board of Supervisors to call an election for incorporation were circulated. Within ten minutes forty Signatures were secured. Fifty-three names are necessary and they can be secured very "easily. San Anselmo, within the proposed boundaries, acording- to the census taken recently by Deputy Sheriff Treanor, haa a winter population of 1000 bona fide residents and will be entitled to be a town Of the sixth class.