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Page: of 314
WAY 21,1457
DEATH STILLS!
POETRY OF MRS.
ADELINE CONNER
The hand of death has stilled
the voice of the poet laureate of
the San Juan ridge.
Mrs. Adeline Merriam Conner,
79, died Saturday morning at the
county hospital, following a prolonged illness. Funeral services
were held Tuesday morning at
. the Hooper-Weaver mortuary in.
. Grass Valley with Rev. Walter)
. Rubke, pastor of the Lutheran
church, officiating. Cremation .
followed at East Lawn, Sacra-'
mento. : i
Mrs. Margaret Bosworth sang
“Lead Kindly Light” accompanied by Mrs. Camille Cornish at
the services.
Mrs. Conner was born Sept. 27,
. 1870, and came to California with '
. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. D.
. Merriam, at the age of eight.
They resided in Grass Valley a
year and then moved to Sweet. land where she lived until she
was 17. After moving to Santa
Ana she established a music
teaching practice. There she met
',;and married Fred Conner, who
. survives.
Mr. and Mrs. Conner moved to
'. Nevada City in 1932, and to the
‘. ridge in 1937 and established a
home which became known as
fhe Twelve Cedars or Twelve
Apostles. The trees were planted
in 1863 and remain a landmark
today.
Mrs. Conner first contributed
to The Nugget in 1927 and down
the years her column “Just Wonderin’” has been a faithful and/'
welcome article.
Some of her writings were collected and published in a book
entitled “Old Fratls and New,”
with its locale Nevada county.
Conner will leave today to vis. it several days with his sister,
. Mrs. R. M. Price, 36 North 11th
street, San Jose.
SWEETLAND
—_—
.
Review
The Story of Sweetland
By Ada Perry Landsburg
: Editor’s Note: Ada Perry
Landsburg was born in the little
town of Sweetland, January 30,
. 1859. She was the daughter of
. John and Lydia Perry, and spent
!many years there as well as in
. Relief Hill, North Bloomfield and
. Nevada City.
. She and her husband moved to
. Kuna, Idaho, to be near her
daughter, Linda. Some _ years
after her husband passed away,
she had the misfortune to fall,
and has been bed ridden for more
; than ten years.
SWEETLAND
Sweetland was an early day
trading post on the ridge, located
in 1850 by H. P. Sweetland. It
was a bustling little community
ee the days of hydraulicking.
file O7uaeee oe ;
A Dull, Stagnant Tow
SWEET LAND
This is another town once bustling
and active, but now, sincethe
hydraulic mines have been closed
down, is dull and stagnant. There
are quartz ledges in the vicinity,
however, which give promise of
yielding well when fully developed.
Historical
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Assembly Hall West side
of road:
Used as Billard Saloon
Dr Sterling on North Side
Anton Streak Ive on Seath.
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