April 30, 1948 (8 pages)

CIRCULATION a in trading area 6,288 NUGGET SHOPPER Sec. 562, P. L. & R. U. S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 17 Nevada City, Calif A LEETE PUBLICATION NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA ~ Volume I—No. 23 Grass Valley PUBLIC MARKET AUBURN HIGHWAY NEAR CITY LIMITS Friday, April 30, 1948 ° IN A PRIZE! ‘NUG GET SHOP PER PUTS ON ELLIS SPEAKS AT CHAMBER EXCITING NEW WORD CONTEST BREAKFAST Win a prize! GRASS VALLEY: lis, supervisor tional the Forest, Grass of Guerdon EI the told Tahoe Na members Chamber Valley of. of Commerce meeting at breakfast Tuesday morning in the Bret Harte_Inn,.that_the. purpose of the federal act permitting the’ estab lishment of co-operative ed units yield is to sustain stabilize the . timber industry and resulting payrolls.Ellis referred to the speed with which timber is being cut on private lands without regard to restoration by natural growth. He said that this would soon force all lumber operators out of. business, large and small, if nothing. was done to regulate the industry. The chamber made an tion of as much as $100 SPAGHETT. VAN CAMPS, 1 lb. 1 oz. jars allocato the construction of a float to be enter ed in Auburn’s Gold Days celebration on May 14th, 15th and 16th, and later in the Nevada City Fourth of July parade, To assist Fred Brady, executive PEACHES MISSION HALVES, No. 2 1-2 CANS GRAPEFRUIT JUICE secretary and -manager, in con struction of the. float, John Bourquin was made chairman, and W. W. Esterly and William Stinson, members of the committee. pA HISTORICAL NOTE By H. P: DAVIS PRESERVES LADY’S CHOICE. hone Peach, Apricot and Pineapple, 1 . b. jars 19° PANCAKE SYRUP DUDE RANCH ...SE SA is DRDgy eae ES 23 1-2 oz. bottle 29¢ TEA mee OOACK Qo. oe ee 16 Bag Pkg., 2 Pkgs. y-45 V5 oe scans Spe e DOG FOOD cc ei eeee WINE SWEET ADELINE, Burgundy and Claret. 1-2 Gallon 95c, Gallon $1.80, Fifth A bs THE LAIRD DAM DISASTER NEVADA CITY IN 1857 . During the summer of 1856, Amos T. Laird & Co constructed a dam across Deer Creek to impound water for their extensive ' system of mining ditches. This dam, located about six “miles above Nevada City, backed up water to the FRUITS & VEGETABLES» sweeping GRAP EFRUIT a CELERY CRISP, GREEN ...Se thirty feet with it the wreckage dam raising the creek level fifteen feet above any previously recorded high water mark and flooding the lower section of the town. Watched by the entire population from vantage points on higher rying the with bridge it went the out ecarBroad Street bridge, several stores and miners’ cabins, half of the Monumental Hotel and the Gold Tunnel mill, ee APPLES WINESAP, NICE EATING ...PEST PAE of of miners’ cabins, cradles, long toms and sluices and huge trees uprooted’ from the banks. Backing up at the Main Street bridge, this huge mass of debris created a ground, ORANGES vavencia, rare EATING depth and flooded two hundred acres. In January, swollen by heavy rain, the water level increased dangerously. Early on a Sunday mofhing, February 15, 1857, the dam went out and a torrential flood rushed down .the _ creek temporary . e ~— Nevada County’ s Own BOXHOLDER — LOCAL OCCUPANT and a SD ibs. wer seriously damaging the Pine Street. suspension bridge. damages were estimated at less than $100,000. The not Have fun! Play a game! Enter a contest! The NUGGET SHOPPER iis putting ona WORD * HUNT! Here’s how it works. (It’s simple!) You go through the Shopper display ads (1 column by 3 inches or larger), and, using one word from each ad, “WHY I LIKE NEVADA COUNTY.” That does it! You simply circle the word in each ad, and turn in your paragraph with a copy of the Shopper to the Nugget office before 5 P. M. Wednesday, May 5. Three judges, Jacob Schramm of McClard’s Drug Store, Stanley H. Halls, insurance man, and H. M. Leete, Jr., will decide which is the most interesting sentence or paragraph on “Why! like Nevada County.” The winner this week gets a $5 merchandise order on Alpha Hardware Co., usable immediately. The winning thought will be publishedin next Friday's Shopper. Did you ever hear of a more entertaining way to make $5? There’s the game and here's your Shopper. Go to it! HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS WILL TAKE PART IN MUSIC FESTIVAL NEVADA CITY: Bill Tobiassen, director of the high school chorus, announced yesterday that his organization will participate in the Sierra Foothill League Music Festival to be held in Auburn; Sunday, May Ist: The local group will sing at 2:15 P. M. The choral event will take placein the Placer High School Auditorium. Songs programmed are -‘‘“God So Loved The World,” “Who's That A Callin?”, ‘* The Time Is Now,” and “‘Now Is The Hour’’. Local choristers will journey to Auburn by bus. Schools participating in the music festival include Nevada City, Grass Valley, Auburn, Roseville, San Juan, Yuba City and Marysville. Over 1,000 students : will take part. DEVIL’S POST PILE Devil’s Post Pile National Monument, Jocated in Madera County on the ‘Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River, is reported by National Automobile Ciub to consist of a spectacular mass of hexagon al basaltic columns like imménse posts. Two feet in diameter and forty feet high, these posts are perfect prisms. SAFE PARKING Don’t back into trouble, advise. officials of National Automobile Club’s Public Safety Department. When backing into a* parking space, be sure you have enough room and keep a watchful eye open for pedestrians and playing children. The; wise motorist knows: that in every -phase of driving, caution counts. ee ee POTATOES. S. No. 1, IDAHO OR KLAMATH. 10 pound Mesh Bag ... oe ASPARAGUS carce, creen TOMATOES : = mae a eae Ye ed ths. Se i CeI QUALITY SCARFS SLIPS Silk Squares and Sheers Tailored and Fancy 200 to 395 Tea Rose and White 295 to 550. LADIES’ HANDKERCHIEFS CHUCK ROASTS — pouna Meo® SIRLOIN STEAK vom GAS LOCAL FRYERS pound DO SAUERKRAUT wut. rons He CHALLENGE ~COLUMBUS BRAND CHEDDAR CHEESE, uns S588¢ DRY SALAMI pound OBec SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY APRIL 30, MAY 1 and 2 OPEN FROM8 A. M. TO 8 P. M. EVERY DAY INCLUDING SUNDAY GOWNS Lace-trimmed and Tailored 295 to 595 Complete Selection of DOMESTICS and IMPORTS 19¢ to 125 NYLONS 119 to 195 PAJAMAS Rayon Knit, Pink and Blue . 495 Nove coivit DEPARTMENT STORE 1227 BROAD STREET TELEPHONE N. c. 38-W sisilihasieiseentinemmemeninataaas

CIRCULATION a in trading area 6,288 NUGGET SHOPPER Sec. 562, P. L. & R. U. S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 17 Nevada City, Calif A LEETE PUBLICATION NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA ~ Volume I—No. 23 Grass Valley PUBLIC MARKET AUBURN HIGHWAY NEAR CITY LIMITS Friday, April 30, 1948 ° IN A PRIZE! ‘NUG GET SHOP PER PUTS ON ELLIS SPEAKS AT CHAMBER EXCITING NEW WORD CONTEST BREAKFAST Win a prize! GRASS VALLEY: lis, supervisor tional the Forest, Grass of Guerdon EI the told Tahoe Na members Chamber Valley of. of Commerce meeting at breakfast Tuesday morning in the Bret Harte_Inn,.that_the. purpose of the federal act permitting the’ estab lishment of co-operative ed units yield is to sustain stabilize the . timber industry and resulting payrolls.Ellis referred to the speed with which timber is being cut on private lands without regard to restoration by natural growth. He said that this would soon force all lumber operators out of. business, large and small, if nothing. was done to regulate the industry. The chamber made an tion of as much as $100 SPAGHETT. VAN CAMPS, 1 lb. 1 oz. jars allocato the construction of a float to be enter ed in Auburn’s Gold Days celebration on May 14th, 15th and 16th, and later in the Nevada City Fourth of July parade, To assist Fred Brady, executive PEACHES MISSION HALVES, No. 2 1-2 CANS GRAPEFRUIT JUICE secretary and -manager, in con struction of the. float, John Bourquin was made chairman, and W. W. Esterly and William Stinson, members of the committee. pA HISTORICAL NOTE By H. P: DAVIS PRESERVES LADY’S CHOICE. hone Peach, Apricot and Pineapple, 1 . b. jars 19° PANCAKE SYRUP DUDE RANCH .....SE SA is DRDgy eae ES 23 1-2 oz. bottle 29¢ TEA mee OOACK Qo. oe ee 16 Bag Pkg., 2 Pkgs. y-45 V5 oe scans Spe e DOG FOOD cc ei eeee WINE SWEET ADELINE, Burgundy and Claret. 1-2 Gallon 95c, Gallon $1.80, Fifth A bs THE LAIRD DAM DISASTER NEVADA CITY IN 1857 . During the summer of 1856, Amos T. Laird & Co constructed a dam across Deer Creek to impound water for their extensive ' system of mining ditches. This dam, located about six “miles above Nevada City, backed up water to the FRUITS & VEGETABLES» sweeping GRAP EFRUIT a CELERY CRISP, GREEN ......Se thirty feet with it the wreckage dam raising the creek level fifteen feet above any previously recorded high water mark and flooding the lower section of the town. Watched by the entire population from vantage points on higher rying the with bridge it went

the out ecarBroad Street bridge, several stores and miners’ cabins, half of the Monumental Hotel and the Gold Tunnel mill, ee APPLES WINESAP, NICE EATING .....PEST PAE of of miners’ cabins, cradles, long toms and sluices and huge trees uprooted’ from the banks. Backing up at the Main Street bridge, this huge mass of debris created a ground, ORANGES vavencia, rare EATING depth and flooded two hundred acres. In January, swollen by heavy rain, the water level increased dangerously. Early on a Sunday mofhing, February 15, 1857, the dam went out and a torrential flood rushed down .the _ creek temporary . e ~— Nevada County’ s Own BOXHOLDER — LOCAL OCCUPANT and a SD ibs. wer seriously damaging the Pine Street. suspension bridge. damages were estimated at less than $100,000. The not Have fun! Play a game! Enter a contest! The NUGGET SHOPPER iis putting ona WORD * HUNT! Here’s how it works. (It’s simple!) You go through the Shopper display ads (1 column by 3 inches or larger), and, using one word from each ad, “WHY I LIKE NEVADA COUNTY.” That does it! You simply circle the word in each ad, and turn in your paragraph with a copy of the Shopper to the Nugget office before 5 P. M. Wednesday, May 5. Three judges, Jacob Schramm of McClard’s Drug Store, Stanley H. Halls, insurance man, and H. M. Leete, Jr., will decide which is the most interesting sentence or paragraph on “Why! like Nevada County.” The winner this week gets a $5 merchandise order on Alpha Hardware Co., usable immediately. The winning thought will be publishedin next Friday's Shopper. Did you ever hear of a more entertaining way to make $5? There’s the game and here's your Shopper. Go to it! HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS WILL TAKE PART IN MUSIC FESTIVAL NEVADA CITY: Bill Tobiassen, director of the high school chorus, announced yesterday that his organization will participate in the Sierra Foothill League Music Festival to be held in Auburn; Sunday, May Ist: The local group will sing at 2:15 P. M. The choral event will take placein the Placer High School Auditorium. Songs programmed are -‘‘“God So Loved The World,” “Who's That A Callin?”, ‘* The Time Is Now,” and “‘Now Is The Hour’’. Local choristers will journey to Auburn by bus. Schools participating in the music festival include Nevada City, Grass Valley, Auburn, Roseville, San Juan, Yuba City and Marysville. Over 1,000 students : will take part. DEVIL’S POST PILE Devil’s Post Pile National Monument, Jocated in Madera County on the ‘Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River, is reported by National Automobile Ciub to consist of a spectacular mass of hexagon al basaltic columns like imménse posts. Two feet in diameter and forty feet high, these posts are perfect prisms. SAFE PARKING Don’t back into trouble, advise. officials of National Automobile Club’s Public Safety Department. When backing into a* parking space, be sure you have enough room and keep a watchful eye open for pedestrians and playing children. The; wise motorist knows: that in every -phase of driving, caution counts. ee ee POTATOES. S. No. 1, IDAHO OR KLAMATH. 10 pound Mesh Bag ..... oe ASPARAGUS carce, creen TOMATOES : = mae a eae Ye ed ths. Se i CeI QUALITY SCARFS SLIPS Silk Squares and Sheers Tailored and Fancy 200 to 395 Tea Rose and White 295 to 550. LADIES’ HANDKERCHIEFS CHUCK ROASTS — pouna Meo® SIRLOIN STEAK vom GAS LOCAL FRYERS pound DO SAUERKRAUT wut. rons He CHALLENGE ~COLUMBUS BRAND CHEDDAR CHEESE, uns S588¢ DRY SALAMI pound OBec SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY APRIL 30, MAY 1 and 2 OPEN FROM8 A. M. TO 8 P. M. EVERY DAY INCLUDING SUNDAY GOWNS Lace-trimmed and Tailored 295 to 595 Complete Selection of DOMESTICS and IMPORTS 19¢ to 125 NYLONS 119 to 195 PAJAMAS Rayon Knit, Pink and Blue . 495 Nove coivit DEPARTMENT STORE 1227 BROAD STREET TELEPHONE N. c. 38-W sisilihasieiseentinemmemeninataaas