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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Grass Valley Nugget

July 29, 1948 (8 pages)

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> i « @ <, : a e 4 ae oe > BS ALAS a 7 TAILINGS By Jim Towne BENE “ALMANAC. July 29 is regarded as the ‘pirthdateof the almanac. The year is disputed. Some authorities say the, year 1472 ,others 1743. It was printed at Nurempurge. Other authorities claim that the Pro Pluribus Annis was the earliest printed almanac, published at Vienna in 1457 by Purbach. The first American almanac was published by William Bradford at Philadelphia in 1687. e h FAREWELL. The nation’s farewell to the late General John J. Pershing could have been a quoted passage from his leavetaking address to the men of the A. E. F., General Orders No. 38 A, dated France, February 28, 1918. ‘‘With g neentrated devotion to duty vill to conquer, you have Pserved your country. By da plary conduct a standbeen established and ni are. 38 maifix. “ed, never ebfore attained by any army.” * hb & { RAFT. Since it has beeome effective many of the youth have volunteered for service. ‘There are . ’ others who look upen it as an unwelcome duty. Many parents are against it. Yet the draft may be a blessing’ in disguise. Boys—of 48 and over who are being trained to become efficient men have no _time to become delinquents. % OBITUARY. Archie, the turtle, is dead. He passed away during the hot spell. We have put it down to old age. The-funny little guy had been with us for four years. We buried-him under a holly tree. One notice of his demise has been sent to the last sailing ship under the American flwg, the ship “Pacific Queen,’”’ now in Long Beach harbor. e+ h & SNAPSHOT. Grownups fall for this brown haired, ‘brown eyed person’s charms. Little children love her. A born mixer, she moves with easy grace in any crowd.’She is very wise in things historical. Knows the ways of fairies and the little people. She is remembered by strangers for the knack in making them feel welcome lo Nevada County. e & & INTRODUCTION. Rusty, the cat, will take over the horoscope paragraph. She is a tawny persian with golden ¢yes. Her nocturnal wAnderings have acquainted her with the signs and lore written }). FISH PLANTERS TO PUT OVER MILLION TROUT IN COUNTY : NEVADA CITY: Andy Weaver, in charge of the fish planting crew, has arrived in Bear Valley. Game Warden Earl Hiscox will aid the seven-man crew in planting the fish in Nevada County’s lakes and streams. . The crew will plant 1,250,000 young trout in Nevada County. Most of these will be rainbows, with about 300,000 eastern brook trout. Hiscox states it will require two months to plant Nevada and Placer Counties. % FINAL RITES FOR T. W. SIGOURNEY, SR. NEVADA CITY: Funeral services took place Friday afternoon at 2o’clock in the Holmes Funeral Home for T. W. Sigourney, Sr., who died in a local hospital Wednesday afternoon. ; The deceased was the son of the late Ms. and Mrs. William P. Sigourney. A native of this city, he was born 76 years ago. He was married in 1894 to the late Olivia Wilder of Grass Valley who died in 1916. As a young man “he was a member of the. baseball team known.as the Monarchs. He engaged in the drayage business but sold out to his brother, the late William Sigourney. He purchased, and for many years conducted the Wolf Cash Grocery on Commercial Street. He sold this business and for. two years worked as a miner in local mines, finally returning to business again as agent for the Nevada County Narrow Guage Railroad in. Nevada’’City. He was a 50-year member of the Oustomah Lodge, I.0. 0. F., ofthis. city. The deceased leaves a son, Ted W. Sigourney, of+this city, and a daughter, Mrs.Cleo Harris of Grass Valley. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. Dahlgren Casey. Cremation took place in the Sierra PLEA FOR PUBLIC DEFENDER PAY FOR LAWYERS. TABLED NEVADA CITY: The, Nevada County Board of Supervisors, on motion of Supervisor Frank Rowe, tabled the request of the Nevada County Bar Association that they be allowed pay for defending law violators whén appointed to do so by the courts.. Henry Loehr seconded the motion and action by the board was unanimous. The board members submitted ‘their individual budget estimates for roads. during 1948-1949 fiscal year. They totaled $185,000. By districts, the sums asked for follows: No. 1, Nevada City, $36,NEW ADDITIONS TO KINDERGARTEN NEVADA CITY: A new lawn, an eight-foot cyclone fence, and retaining wall and gutters are major additions to Nevada City’s kindergarten. The lawn: covers the entire front yard area, which is about 100 yards square, and will be enclosed on three sides by the cyclone fence. The retaining wall runs along the Winter street side of the lawn to the sidewalk, which will lead to the school steps. Other new features will be a large sandbox, a flagpole by the front steps, and several shrubs which have already been planted. The elementary school janitors, 000; No. 2, Grass Valley, $40,000; No. 3, Columbia Hill, $44,000; No. 4, Bridgeport, $36,000; and No. 5, Truckee, $29,000. Over 100 DIAMOND RING SETS to choose from LOLMAUGH'S. Grass Valley’s Leading Jeweler 5 MOVING Local or Long Distance HOUSEHOLD GOODS BOUGHT AND SOLD STORAGE Agents for LYONS Reliable Transfer & Storage Grass Valley ’ Phone 39 Hills Flat View Crematory in Marysville. Jim Penrose, Alton Davies and Dick Nickless have spent much of their time working on the new grounds, refinishing the kinderOBSCENE PHOTO CHARGE . GRASS VALLEY: David Storz, photographer, was arrested Saturday on a complaint by John
Kavanaugh, charging him: with preparation of obscene pictures. Bail was fixed on’ the warrant of $250 . Nevada City-Grass Valley Nugget, ‘July 29, 1948—7 DRUNKEN DRIVERS GRASS VALLEY: Albert Bonatti, of Nevada City, was given a fine of $200 or sentence of 100 days in jail, when he _ pleaded guilty before Justice of the Peace Chrles A. Morehouse Saturday to drunken driving. He smashed his car by running head-on into a power pole. Stanford Woed of Sacramento paid a $200 fine for the same offense. % BUILD NEVADA COUNTY A producer quibbling with Dor= othy Parker over a scripting job, received this squelch, ‘You can’t take it with you, and even if you could, it would melt. , SE TT, through want ads—for quickest results at Jose est cost’. Se % garten floors, and also working with the crews on the cement work. % Fourth grade motto “‘One good turn a day, and one bad.’ % 3y the time a wise guy is old enough to marry, a fool has children. old enought to support him. Robert Campbell. Now Available Quality Photographs by GB PHOTOGRAPHY Specializing In-Home Portraiture Of Children GRAYDON R. BEECHEL Phone: Grass Valley 468-M P. 0. Box 237 Grass Valley 111 BENNETT STREET GRASS VALLEY LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANERS Telephone—Grass Valley 108 ' GRASS VALLEY Qe SACTO. COLLEGE AUD. Auspices Playgoers of California : ~ DIRECT FROM ATLANTIS PRODUCTIONS touch of time; Its bough owns no December and no May, , But bears its ter’s clime. blossoms into winThos Hood. ‘in the night skys. She says that people who are born in the last Y _ week of July observe and retain EST PLA knowledge and with properly Gi. trained minds can become veri; table walking encyclopedias. Cebebrated \ondon-New York Cast e bh Love is its own great loveliness ‘WITTY AND MOVING © -TRIBUNE alway, * HUMAN WARMTHGENTLE LAUGHTER: And, takes new luster from the EMOTIONAL MAE ie , Make checks payable to WareIto’ Labin, Sacraniento. ynetone self CONDON'S FAVORITE PLAY FOR TWO YEARS AYEAR ON BROADWAY THE THEATRE GUILD-H.M TENNENT LTD JOHNC. WILSON BOY f-addressed stam WARE-HAZELTON A’ MATINEE and EVE. SAT., AUG. 7 Lz, aa “ “MATL ORDERS-NOW!__ PRICES: EVE. Orch. $3.60, $3, Bale. $3, $2. 40, $1.80 MAT.: Orch. $3, 2.40, Bale. $2.40, $1.80, $1.20 include nm and mail care Box Office, Weinstockenvelope for return of tickets. TRACTION oT LAST RITES O ROBSON Licensed Contractor 4 5 NEVADA CITY: Funeral serv: ices for Garfield Robson, who took COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL and ‘his own life early.last Friday ‘in : . the garden of his Nevada City HOME SPRAY PAINTING home on East Brond Street, took place Monday at 2 I. M. in Myers / ee ect odtcere’ ot Phone 455 GRASS VALLEY 314 Henderson St. Roses Bar Lodge, F. and A. M. conducted: the service. Interment —— was in the Masonic Cemetery. The late sheriff was a member + . stein Sony of the Nevada Commandery,. ¥ ‘ : " Knights Templar, Ben Ali Temple, * Grass Valley Radio Service * Mystic Order o fthe Shrine, and * ¢ z T 4 A T * Aurora Chapter, Order of Eastern ee 6¢ 9 ° % Star. He was a prominent memwAl eX ] z ber of the Methodist Church and . ¥ € Iza z served on the church board. Ke It was during his term as sher+ Phone 1032 z iff in 1925 that Tanko and Hall} ¥ *" escaped from San Quentin prison] % ° = and made a spectacular sortee into . # Sound Systems ® Recordings % LITTLE THINGS LIKE Nevada County, running the . % : ; i gauntlet of police officers and : Philco Auto Radios + deputy sheriffs in both Nevada . % ° e ° ° % City and Grass Valley and made + Free Pick-up and Delivery In Nevada City % a successful get-way. 5 sep sbaseietedectetite ches teetete teed deth dodo eee abetted M . R R 0 R Ny to BIG MARKDOWNS on summer merchandise WOMEN S SHOES VALUES FROM 8.45 NOW 3.95 AND 4.95 A Few Styles in NATURAL * MEN’S FORTUNE SHOES Values from 10.50 NOW 6.95 & 7.95 BRIDGE SHOES were 8.95 NOW 5.95 \ 112 MILL STREET PENGELLY’S SHOE STORE @ DRESS @® CASUAL @ SPORT PENGELLY’S SHOE STORE PHONE GRASS VALLEY 380-W ____-¥J 256 South ‘Kuharn ——J AKE YOUR BEAUTIFUL * LIVABLE * LOVABLE; LAMPS, TABLES AND Street CATION VAGABONDS —= PORTABLE TODAY! FINE PHILCO IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS.. 1 Cau Veteran’ 3° “Memorial. Building "Phone Grass YOU'LL FIND WHAT FURNITURE CENTER Yes, right here in Grass Valley is your capacious shopping center for home needs, fully equipped in all departments. See us today for living room, bed room furniture, floor coverings, bedding, radios, appliances,. sonra you need to make your house: ‘a . HOME. STROMBERG CARLSON ONLY $49.50 x YOU WANT AT THE