February 24, 1949 (8 pages)

24, 1949 ®—Nevada City Grass Valley Nugget, Feb. DESCENDANT OF EARLY DAY RESIDENT SEEKS HOUSE INFORMATION FOR YOUR SCRAPBOOK . . the a_ letter Boulder street. rished memone of our most che This as same the house ing’s : r been to Have you folks eve ful state, uti bea a is It an? Michig d fertile an ds ‘too. Our lakes, woo sight to see. farm land is a grand you can Thanking you again if on for me. ati orm inf s thi ain obt Sincerely, MRS. CARL A. WENK ories. 17 ask Boulder street, and could you Mr. Nafsinger if that house .was the residence of the Nelsons. mber of .comthe Nevada City cha received on is what we wonder—is Mr. Flem y of H. F. “Si” Sofge, secretar merce, one from of Ann ArMrs. Carl A. Wenk information g kin see .,. bor, Mich home here On “her grandmother’s “Wenk is in the 1870’s. Mrs. Mrs. ie E. Hatt of r hte aug ndd gra a raised and born Nelson, who was here. The letter follows: 106 Pleasant Place Ann Arbor, ‘Mich. k The family consisted of Fran n, Nelso ah Mari r; fathe Nelson, mother; Hattie Nelson, daughter; that Frank Nelson, son. Tell him my grandmother used to speak Mackay Statuette Now about the Nafsingers and 1 be Available as Memento named Nehim, but ‘to vada. I could write e you he:is so old I though mayb him with talk or call could lieve about better. I a sister know he would famous A small replica of the Mackay, statue of John Wilham of Nesymbol of the University stuvada, is now available to the dents, alumni, and friends of nto. meme a as ion itut inst know was whether the Fleming house if and lived ns ce Nelso mer the Com where The Chamber of please it was, a different place Nevada City, California The statuette, of desk size, is is still let me know and if it Dear Sirs: er of bronze over a lead base. Bould 17 at lives Who of. the there. descendant a Being Nelsons. The statue of John W. Mac the him Tell t? lode forty-niners jt always was our stree Comstock the of e one Hatti kay, It moved to Chelsea, Mich. ambition to visit your city. Steger big four in the early days of grandNelson married Augustus my of ce hpla the birt the before was .stands ah the state, Mari and 1876 She and left about on the mother, Hattie E. Nelson. mines l.of schoo ay in Mack wed Nelson. her ‘mother. follo grew up, married and had one mber campus. It. was designed by Gutthen 11878. ‘Y’m sure he will reme . child born in your city and zon Borglum, one of America’s . came to Michigan where she them * great sculptors. I hope this won’t put you to made her home, My grandfather. Augustus L. Steger, was in the tco much trouble, but we sure not imshoe business, but I forget who would appreciate it. It’s minds our s put d shoe woul fine s but nt ladie porta with. He made around the year 1870. He also at rest. did some mining. We sure were impressed with Last summer my family and your city. We wandered up and my mother made the. trip to down the main streets, ate at and your city. You, -no doubt. will the National “ Hotel Old think it seems strange to have shopped some. We. can plainly they see why Grandma wanted to go after that say anyone travelled all the distance we did back home. It must be the spirit to get there that we should have of the west that is’ born in us simply gone ‘have we become so emotionally upset. We because the inquiries wild over the mountains. .We just didn’t make at ‘« Denver, Park that we wanted to. Now that we visit Estes Grand Yosemite, Zion, have gotten home we’ think of Bryce,’ all the things we left undone. Canyon, ete., but I really feel We went to the city hall and that our visit to Nevada City is they showed me that map on Advertisement the wall. We located the Nelson property at 140 Boulder street now owned by Joseph Fleming. I guess that is what upset us, particularly my mother, because From where I sit . 4v Joe Marsh we never thought we would find the home’ standing. Mr. Fleming was very fine to us and took us How’s Your through the house. Mother kept saying, “I never thought I’d put my feet in my mother’s Listening Time? home.”’ course -we visited Deer . creek, etc. Grandma brought us children up on the stories of the. Indians, Chinese, miners, etc. of ~~ Of the early days. We noticed the line with his listening time around ‘ Buck Howell and I were os Bale ville last week. Dropped in at Bob’s sitNafsinger home was right across ' diner where some friends were r whethe about the street, etc. These were the ting around talking playmates Grandma talked about. to sell hogs now or wait. Mr. Fleming told us that Homer Buck plunges right into the disNafsinger was still living. We, ng away when should have talked with him but cussion. He’s lecturi all stand up and they y suddenl . : didn't. we ent excitem our in i like # their ‘ havk at Now the whole point to this eir feet like it ng letter is—-since we got home we start stompi was an Indian war dance. found a Nevada City Directory Tm flabbergasted. But Buck . Val/Grass for Nevada City and lai 4 ah ly looked sh ley for the year, 1861. It gives one AE SEXP IMIDE Miy great grandfather’s address bch bahay ond as Frank Boulder Nelson, St. Also butcher. we at found & picture of the house my grand “Guess I was talking again, when here, the gang reminds him by standing up and stomping.” From where I sit, that’s a good system. Everyone has a right to his opinions—but others have a right to theirs, too—whether it’s deciding between to sell or not to sell, apple pie or cherry pie, or a glass of mellow beer or cider. Life’s more interesting that way, and hang it if you don’t sometimes learn something! Marat a been listening. When I should-of person’s talking time gets out of mother lived in and it isn’t the. sume residence. This might be . another house she lived in before . Copyright, 1949, United States Brewers Foundation ONE OF TODAY'S BIGGEST BARGAINS How your telephone gives you more real value today in spite of sharply increased costs of furnishing service the jury of are these ‘King Winter in Nevada City and Grass Valley in 1949 of the. courtesy through Nugget The to e availabl made s, upicture Grass for r reservoi empty an shows left Sacramento Bee. Upper Valley and at its right is one of the waterless ditches that wsually supplies Grass Valley's needs. Second row pictures a state snow plow busy clearing a main thoroughfare in Nevada @S A MEMENTO FOR YOUR DECLINING FORESTS CALL FOR ACTION SAYS FOREST SERVICE SCRAPBOOK, of right the City and to Hallett, Herbert is water and street su sources water of the during cold spell. its establishment, its of date day of issue, its circulation, me A total of 6,661,592 subscribers buy and read the 574 to, Gaily and weekly newspapers of devoted is section Another U8. The forest service in the forest protection from fire, ineeneral cirevlation in California, has agriculture of @epartment sects and disease, and the reit is revealed by the 1949 edither newspaper annual of the Sssued a report bringing toge port concludes with a discussion tion San concise form the over-all find t of how forest ownership affects directory of the California Newsfores ings of the nation-wide the outlook for improvement in paper Publshers association just time first the for sal, weapprai cff the press and now being disthe nation’s forest situation. completed tributed nationwide. since field work was One column inch of advertising in every newspaper in the state costs less than $800; postcards sent to every one of their the for $66,615.94 subscribers, postage alone. problems of forest industries. ci“The report outlines the prin major Watershed, and wildrange, recreational life uses and services are con-. sidered in relation to timber. supply and forest management. regularly Warning that ‘‘if iim 1946. the. the U.S. is to maintain a place of economic leadership in the world of tomorrow, it can il] afford to tem h the yal federal measures whic ry essa “nec s hold ice serv ‘ “forest porize with its forests,’’ the re“to assure ample timber supplies port declares not only that the @or the future’ and “to build remp and maintain the forest their wources so as to insure ing mmaximum contribution to last The ’ try. coun our for ty peri wros and meport is entitled “Forest National Prosperity,’”’ USDA mis «ellaneous publication No. 668. forAfter presenting data on sawtimber supply under the impact is declining of an’ annual cut which together with natural losses is 50 percent greater than current annual growth that quslity is its BACK ON but JOB Charles Elliott is back on the -land and timber resources, job at the Harris drug store. y are being man how the report discusses the, following Of these newspapers, 457 weeklies and 117 «are dailies Every: ties in county, papers Only county of the 58 are coun the state, except Alpine newslocal of boasts conmmunity. its serving five. the of remaining 57 counties have but one newspaper Mono, _ Sierra, Mariposa, each, also ‘Trinity deteriorating. For a quick call to the druggist, for business, for every purpose, your telephone is a more valuable servant today than ever. It can run more errands, do more jobs. In the past ten years, telephones on the Coast have doubled. We’re continuing to add them rapidly. Result: You can get in touch with more people. More people can get in touch with you. to restore perintendent, who worked many days with little sleep d and water and traffic to us. Bottom row at left Cal Crawfor tdarvey Roberts shovel furiously to restore water (and to keep Bourquin warm) to Nevada City. Bottom at right shows Janet al of the Union hill district demonstrating one of the princip 6,661,592 READERS OF STATE NEWSPAPERS waste es ie and Yuba. Los Angeles county alone has 168 newspapers or more than many states in the union. Information contained in CNPA newspaper directory the in a siege of ilness that cludes the name of the newspaper, its county, its publishers, wood had confined. him to his home. Pa chanical specifications, and _ its » Y advertising rates. GI Loan Guarantee 2. If you could see how much expensive equipment goes to work for you each time you make a call, you might wonder how it can be done. . . for 3. More ‘Voices with a Smile’’ are serving the West today . our payroll is the biggest ever. Postwar costs have shot up all along the line on buildings, intricate equipment—all must be ready . along with the people who man them. to serve you when you pick up your telephone. to serve new telephones today cost about twice as much as prewar. Yet telephone rates are up much less than almost anything we buy or you buy. just a few dollars a month. Lines, cables, poles, the things we do to provide service. The facilities Applications Climb Applications by California veterans for loan guarantees under have been on the mine the full value of a tele upswing for the past two mohths, veterans administration reported. e routine—or it may save a From a monthly high of 7,781 life, make a new friend, close the G. I. bill in guarantees for applications 4 was there 1947, September, to a decrease monthly steady low of 2,158 applications in November, 1948. Last December the applications jumped to 2,430 and the upward trend was continued in January with 2,672. a 4. There is no way to deter hone, of course. A call may a business deal. Yet a few pennies still buy a telephone call. In these days of high prices, it’s d to know that your telephone keeps giving you real value—it’s one of today’s biggest bargains. the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company Your telephone gives you more service today than ever before iaeiAhctuadl cise nadaetteiae een

24, 1949 ®—Nevada City Grass Valley Nugget, Feb. DESCENDANT OF EARLY DAY RESIDENT SEEKS HOUSE INFORMATION FOR YOUR SCRAPBOOK . . the a_ letter Boulder street. rished memone of our most che This as same the house ing’s : r been to Have you folks eve ful state, uti bea a is It an? Michig d fertile an ds ‘too. Our lakes, woo sight to see. farm land is a grand you can Thanking you again if on for me. ati orm inf s thi ain obt Sincerely, MRS. CARL A. WENK ories. 17 ask Boulder street, and could you Mr. Nafsinger if that house .was the residence of the Nelsons. mber of .comthe Nevada City cha received on is what we wonder—is Mr. Flem y of H. F. “Si” Sofge, secretar merce, one from of Ann ArMrs. Carl A. Wenk information g kin see .,. bor, Mich home here On “her grandmother’s “Wenk is in the 1870’s. Mrs. Mrs. ie E. Hatt of r hte aug ndd gra a raised and born Nelson, who was here. The letter follows: 106 Pleasant Place Ann Arbor, ‘Mich. k The family consisted of Fran n, Nelso ah Mari r; fathe Nelson, mother; Hattie Nelson, daughter; that Frank Nelson, son. Tell him my grandmother used to speak Mackay Statuette Now about the Nafsingers and 1 be Available as Memento named Nehim, but ‘to vada. I could write e you he:is so old I though mayb him with talk or call could lieve about better. I a sister know he would famous A small replica of the Mackay, statue of John Wilham of Nesymbol of the University stuvada, is now available to the dents, alumni, and friends of nto. meme a as ion itut inst know was whether the Fleming house if and lived ns ce Nelso mer the Com where The Chamber of please it was, a different place Nevada City, California The statuette, of desk size, is is still let me know and if it Dear Sirs: er of bronze over a lead base. Bould 17 at lives Who of. the there. descendant a Being Nelsons. The statue of John W. Mac the him Tell t? lode forty-niners jt always was our stree Comstock the of e one Hatti kay, It moved to Chelsea, Mich. ambition to visit your city. Steger big four in the early days of grandNelson married Augustus my of ce hpla the birt the before was .stands ah the state, Mari and 1876 She and left about on the mother, Hattie E. Nelson. mines l.of schoo ay in Mack wed Nelson. her ‘mother. follo grew up, married and had one mber campus. It. was designed by Gutthen 11878. ‘Y’m sure he will reme . child born in your city and zon Borglum, one of America’s . came to Michigan where she them * great sculptors. I hope this won’t put you to made her home, My grandfather. Augustus L. Steger, was in the tco much trouble, but we sure not imshoe business, but I forget who would appreciate it. It’s minds our s put d shoe woul fine s but nt ladie porta with. He made around the year 1870. He also at rest. did some mining. We sure were impressed with Last summer my family and your city. We wandered up and my mother made the. trip to down the main streets, ate at and your city. You, -no doubt. will the National “ Hotel Old think it seems strange to have shopped some. We. can plainly they see why Grandma wanted to go after that say anyone travelled all the distance we did back home. It must be the spirit to get there that we should have of the west that is’ born in us simply gone ‘have we become so emotionally upset. We because the inquiries wild over the mountains. .We just didn’t make at ‘« Denver, Park that we wanted to. Now that we visit Estes Grand Yosemite, Zion, have gotten home we’ think of Bryce,’ all the things we left undone. Canyon, ete., but I really feel We went to the city hall and that our visit to Nevada City is they showed me that map on Advertisement the wall. We located the Nelson property at 140 Boulder street now owned by Joseph Fleming. I guess that is what upset us, particularly my mother, because From where I sit . 4v Joe Marsh we never thought we would find the home’ standing. Mr. Fleming was very fine to us and took us How’s Your through the house. Mother kept saying, “I never thought I’d put my feet in my mother’s Listening Time? home.”’ course -we visited Deer . creek, etc. Grandma brought us children up on the stories of the. Indians, Chinese, miners, etc. of ~~ Of the early days. We noticed the line with his listening time around ‘ Buck Howell and I were os Bale ville last week. Dropped in at Bob’s sitNafsinger home was right across ' diner where some friends were r whethe about the street, etc. These were the ting around talking playmates Grandma talked about. to sell hogs now or wait. Mr. Fleming told us that Homer Buck plunges right into the disNafsinger was still living. We, ng away when should have talked with him but cussion. He’s lecturi all stand up and they y suddenl . : didn't. we ent excitem our in i like # their ‘ havk at Now the whole point to this eir feet like it ng letter is—-since we got home we start stompi was an Indian war dance. found a Nevada City Directory Tm flabbergasted. But Buck . Val/Grass for Nevada City and lai 4 ah ly looked sh ley for the year, 1861. It gives one AE SEXP IMIDE Miy great grandfather’s address bch bahay ond as Frank Boulder Nelson, St. Also butcher. we at found & picture of the house my grand “Guess I was talking again, when here, the gang reminds him by standing up and stomping.” From where I sit, that’s a good system. Everyone has a right to his opinions—but others have a right to theirs, too—whether it’s deciding between to sell or not to sell, apple pie or cherry pie, or a glass of mellow beer or cider. Life’s more

interesting that way, and hang it if you don’t sometimes learn something! Marat a been listening. When I should-of person’s talking time gets out of mother lived in and it isn’t the. sume residence. This might be . another house she lived in before . Copyright, 1949, United States Brewers Foundation ONE OF TODAY'S BIGGEST BARGAINS How your telephone gives you more real value today in spite of sharply increased costs of furnishing service the jury of are these ‘King Winter in Nevada City and Grass Valley in 1949 of the. courtesy through Nugget The to e availabl made s, upicture Grass for r reservoi empty an shows left Sacramento Bee. Upper Valley and at its right is one of the waterless ditches that wsually supplies Grass Valley's needs. Second row pictures a state snow plow busy clearing a main thoroughfare in Nevada @S A MEMENTO FOR YOUR DECLINING FORESTS CALL FOR ACTION SAYS FOREST SERVICE SCRAPBOOK, of right the City and to Hallett, Herbert is water and street su sources water of the during cold spell. its establishment, its of date day of issue, its circulation, me A total of 6,661,592 subscribers buy and read the 574 to, Gaily and weekly newspapers of devoted is section Another U8. The forest service in the forest protection from fire, ineeneral cirevlation in California, has agriculture of @epartment sects and disease, and the reit is revealed by the 1949 edither newspaper annual of the Sssued a report bringing toge port concludes with a discussion tion San concise form the over-all find t of how forest ownership affects directory of the California Newsfores ings of the nation-wide the outlook for improvement in paper Publshers association just time first the for sal, weapprai cff the press and now being disthe nation’s forest situation. completed tributed nationwide. since field work was One column inch of advertising in every newspaper in the state costs less than $800; postcards sent to every one of their the for $66,615.94 subscribers, postage alone. problems of forest industries. ci“The report outlines the prin major Watershed, and wildrange, recreational life uses and services are con-. sidered in relation to timber. supply and forest management. regularly Warning that ‘‘if iim 1946. the. the U.S. is to maintain a place of economic leadership in the world of tomorrow, it can il] afford to tem h the yal federal measures whic ry essa “nec s hold ice serv ‘ “forest porize with its forests,’’ the re“to assure ample timber supplies port declares not only that the @or the future’ and “to build remp and maintain the forest their wources so as to insure ing mmaximum contribution to last The ’ try. coun our for ty peri wros and meport is entitled “Forest National Prosperity,’”’ USDA mis «ellaneous publication No. 668. forAfter presenting data on sawtimber supply under the impact is declining of an’ annual cut which together with natural losses is 50 percent greater than current annual growth that quslity is its BACK ON but JOB Charles Elliott is back on the -land and timber resources, job at the Harris drug store. y are being man how the report discusses the, following Of these newspapers, 457 weeklies and 117 «are dailies Every: ties in county, papers Only county of the 58 are coun the state, except Alpine newslocal of boasts conmmunity. its serving five. the of remaining 57 counties have but one newspaper Mono, _ Sierra, Mariposa, each, also ‘Trinity deteriorating. For a quick call to the druggist, for business, for every purpose, your telephone is a more valuable servant today than ever. It can run more errands, do more jobs. In the past ten years, telephones on the Coast have doubled. We’re continuing to add them rapidly. Result: You can get in touch with more people. More people can get in touch with you. to restore perintendent, who worked many days with little sleep d and water and traffic to us. Bottom row at left Cal Crawfor tdarvey Roberts shovel furiously to restore water (and to keep Bourquin warm) to Nevada City. Bottom at right shows Janet al of the Union hill district demonstrating one of the princip 6,661,592 READERS OF STATE NEWSPAPERS waste es ie and Yuba. Los Angeles county alone has 168 newspapers or more than many states in the union. Information contained in CNPA newspaper directory the in a siege of ilness that cludes the name of the newspaper, its county, its publishers, wood had confined. him to his home. Pa chanical specifications, and _ its » Y advertising rates. GI Loan Guarantee 2. If you could see how much expensive equipment goes to work for you each time you make a call, you might wonder how it can be done. . . for 3. More ‘Voices with a Smile’’ are serving the West today .. our payroll is the biggest ever. Postwar costs have shot up all along the line on buildings, intricate equipment—all must be ready .. along with the people who man them.. to serve you when you pick up your telephone. to serve new telephones today cost about twice as much as prewar. Yet telephone rates are up much less than almost anything we buy or you buy. just a few dollars a month. Lines, cables, poles, the things we do to provide service. The facilities Applications Climb Applications by California veterans for loan guarantees under have been on the mine the full value of a tele upswing for the past two mohths, veterans administration reported. e routine—or it may save a From a monthly high of 7,781 life, make a new friend, close the G. I. bill in guarantees for applications 4 was there 1947, September, to a decrease monthly steady low of 2,158 applications in November, 1948. Last December the applications jumped to 2,430 and the upward trend was continued in January with 2,672. a 4. There is no way to deter hone, of course. A call may a business deal. Yet a few pennies still buy a telephone call. In these days of high prices, it’s d to know that your telephone keeps giving you real value—it’s one of today’s biggest bargains. the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company Your telephone gives you more service today than ever before iaeiAhctuadl cise nadaetteiae een