June 17, 1949 (8 pages)

oe, ere ter ———— a ee ee NEVADA CITY — THEY’‘RE BITING Sportmen’s Paradise WHERE, WHEN and HOW and Other Sportsmen’s Items The Pacific Gas and Electric company has been spreading the word and truthfully too, throughout the bay area and the state that Nevada county is the best fishing spot in California. * * * The Nugget plans to carry this column in its Friday issue every week throughout the fishing and hunting seasons. We will appreciate and publish any game stories and anecdotes of this area. Just call 36 and a courteous reporter will take your information or drop it at the office, 305 Broad street, or send it to us through the mail. Stories of good fishing spots, good catches, unusual catches, etc. We also plan to carry a survey of the past weekend activities of.fishing and prospects for the: future. Most of our sources of information tell us the lakes of the Downieville area have the best fishing prospects for this weekend. Gold, Upper Salmon, Sardine, Horse and Snag lakes have all been producing limits. Crawford Bridges and Harold Hartung came back this week from a three-day expedition of excellent fishing results in~ the Gold lake area. Good catches have been snagged from French, Milton and Bowman lakes but -the future prospects there are not so good. Milton water level has been lowered by transferring water to Bowman. Milton has been lowered four feet. Bowman prospects will probably not be better until more. water is stored. Independence, Fuller and Culbertson lakes are reported good. Frank Ghidotti, Cal Christensen and others got good catches from Culbertson. ; Fordyce lake is excellent but the road there is tough and rough traveling. Scott’s Flat reservoir this week has been giving good’ shore bait fishing, but trolling has been , poor. Stream fly fishing has been giving excellent catches, particularly to those who are Johnny on the spot finding holes.with the fighting babies in them. Some holes have given limits one day and goose eggs the next. The north and south forks of the Yuba river are producing excellent strings, and Canyon creek has been exceptional the past week. Fishermen are warned that streams dry up and local inquiry should be made if the terrain is not too well known to the individual. ‘Nothing exceptional has been reported from Deer creek, nor has Truckee river been sensational. The river has_been milky. * + = Fishing is. not so good in the famed Rainy river country of western Ontario, according to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hiscox in a note to friends here. The local game warden and his wife are enjoying a vacation, and, naturally are taking a busman’s holiday by trying for the large pike and muskies the Ontario and Minnesota lakes are supposed to be filled with. They reported several snow flurries on their way ‘east and just missed a cyclone in Nebraska. CORT SOR GEES There are at least 4,000 California hunters who want. a chance at one of the 500. antelope hunting permits to be issued: for the 1949 open season, the division of fish and game has disclosed. Another 6,000 hopeful nimrods are expected to apply for special permits before the application deadline July 20. The first antelope season in four years was set by the fish and game commission after hearing reports from the bureau of game conservation and residents of northeastern California that herds are too numerous for the carrying capacity, .or food production, of their _range.« Bag limit is one male antelope with horns longer than ears. The season will extend, from Aug. 27 to Sept. 5 in a designated area of Lassen, Modoc, and Shasta counties. Each ° permit holder will receive a map outFy oth, aby RAO ‘ie lining the restricted hunting section. If you’re a resident and would like a chance to take home the makings of an antelope stew, here’s the procedure: Apply for a preliminary application blank at the Sacramento otfice of the division of fish and game, or ‘any of 2800 license agencies, several of which are located in Nevada City. Fill out and return it to the Sacramento office. If yours is one of the 500 applications selected by lottery, a formal application will be sent asking for the special $7 fee. Three be drawn and notified if/openings occur by disqualification. Upon receipts of the special a permit with complete hunting instructions, Applications will not be accepted from anyone under the age of 16, or those who have received an antelope permit at . any time during the last 10 years. Either a husband or wfe, but not both, may apply. * * oh Fishermen going into the high country are reporting the discovery .of corpses of deer, evidently frozen to death in the severe winter season. * * * California vacationers and apparently abandoned fawns are combining to give wardens of the division of fish and game their annual summer headache. The irregistible appeal of an “orphan” baby deer each year brings out a rash of impromptu adoptions in violation of the fish and game code, wardens report. But most important, say those who know, is the fact that a fawn is seldom far away from the watchful eyes of its mother. Would-be woodland social workers are actually breaking up a happy family in almost every case. One warden puts it this way: “We're tired of playing nursemaid to confiscated fawns. Arrests and convictions will be made for possession of deer out of season or fawns at any time.” The fine in state courts: $50 to $500 and six months in jail. * * * The following general regulations apply to current hunting and fishing. BLACK BASS—Bag limit: five fish. No size limit. SUNFISH, CRAPPIE, SACRAMENTO PERCH, CALICO BASS —Bag limit: 25 fish of all species in aggregate. No size limit. CATFISH—No. closed. season. Bag limit: 15 pounds and one fish in the aggregate in the round. TROUT—Ends Oct. 31. Bag limit: 15 trout, salmon, or Rocky Mountain whitefish, or 10 pounds and one fish, or three fish regardiess of weight. PREDATORY ANIMALS—N o closed season on the taking of coyotes, mountain lions, wildcats, raccoons, skunks, moles, shrews, gophers, weasels, and wolves. SALMON—In waters of Pacific ocean and all bays except those east of Carquinez bridge in Sacramento-San Joaquin rivers, ends Dec. 31. Bag limit: three. No size limit. FROGS—Ends Nov. 30 in district 22 and all sections of the state except south of summit of Tehachapi mountain range, where season extends from July 1 to Nov. 29. Bag limit: 24 per week. Minimum size limit: four inches from tip of nose to crotch. No license required. SIERRA NEVADA UNIT WILL MEET TONIGHT 'The Sierra Nevada Chamber of Commerce will meet tonight at 8 o’clock in the Chamber of Commerce room, city hall, Nevada City, George Hansen, president, will be in charge. In view of the coming Fourth of. July Céntennial celebration planning which is reaching a climax, this meeting is important and warrants attendance. The chamber’s summer promotional program will be discussed. license fee, the division will mail . hundred alternate names will also . Volume 22—No. 31 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, June 17, 1949 FLAGS, LIGHTS WILL DECORATE STREETS 4TH Nevada City will be decorated with street banners and lights to give color to the Nevada County Centennial celebration July 2, 3, and 4, by the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce. Rav J. Spickelmier, chamber president, presided at a meeting of the chamber Tuesday evening at the city hall. It was announced Spickelmier had been named this week to the highway committee of the State Chamber of Commerce, Sacramento district. H. F. Sofge, secretary of the Nevada City organization, received reappointment to the highway committee and recreation and travel committe of the state chamber. The appointments came from George G. Pollocb, regional vice president of the State Chamber of Commerce. William Swain, operator of the Nevada City airport, urged contact be made with the aerial and state highway commissions of the state for placement of highway guide signs pointing to the local airport. Sofge read some figures from the division of highways which showed the division listed Nevada county with a need of $8,078,000 in. highway construction for the ten year period, 1947-56. Pegged as the goal for construction for the five year period to 1952 is $861,000, of which $762,795 has been expended or obligated, leaving a deficiency of $98,205. Sofge said the following action on. 1947 recommendations was listed in the report: (1) studies from aerial photographs and preliminary surveys had been made of a survey for proposed relocation of Nevada City-Grass Valley highway, (2) contract for construction will be made this year for survey and grade of Steep Hollow. to Bear river, and (3) nothing yet scheduled for a fourlane highway between Nevada City and Grass Valley. The Weather Fred Bush, observer Friday, June 10 ... 91 50 Saturday, June 11 . 92 49 Sunday, June 12 _.. 91 49 Monday, June 13 .. 93 53 Tuesday, June 14 .. 95 54 Wednesday, June 15 . 96 53 Thursday, June 16 . 94 51 over the ABCs of trigonometry Baptist Church, Coilege. MAMA FIVE-TIMES-OVER CUM LAUDE NEW YORK—Mrs. Mercedes Quiroga hasn’t let rearing five children and serving as assistant pastor in her husband’s church kéep her from studying for a bachelor of arts degree. Here she goes with four daughters, (from left) Priscilla, 14; Lydia, 12; Carmen, 16; and Mercedes, 17. Mrs. Quiroga, wite of the Rev. Hermino Quiroga, past of the Second Spanish will be graduated this month from Hunter SHOCK ASSUMES REINS OF NC ROTARY CLUB forest engineer, was_ installed president of Nevada City Rotary club last night at a charcoal broiled steak dinner in Pioneer park. 4 presided at the dinner and turned the gavel of office over to Shock. Other officers installed were R. V. Conrad, secretary; H. A. Curnow, treasurer; U. S. N. Johnson, and H. I. Snyder, twoyear directors; Stanley Halls, Kenneth Adams and Carl Foote, one-year directors. fried headed the committee in charge of arrangements for last night’s dinner. Curnow was program chairman. ‘Paul Bergemann, Robert Tamblyn and Ed A. Frantz were in charge of demotion of Geist and installation of the new officers. The Rainbow Girls will hold a home cooked food sale Saturday morning at 10 o’clock n front of the Alpha Hardware building. Hot dishes, salads and cakes will be displayed at reasonable prices. Lloyd Gest, retiring president, . Bert Foreman and J. F. Sieg. ASKS $10,491 FOR DISTAL JOINT OF ‘THE INDEX FINGER { . . Floyd Pike, Grass Valley, filed . suit in Nevada county superior . court asking $10,491 damages for J. M. Shock, Tahoe national“loss of index finger at distal joint ‘against Chris Hansen, proprietor of Grass Valley Auto Wreckers, Grass Valley. Pike charges the joint of the finger was amputated following its injury suffered June 15, 1948, when a vehicle in the wrecking yard slipped from blocks and crushed the finger. . Crofford W. Bridges, Grass . Valley, is attorney for plaintiff. ‘Deed for Armory Is Delivered to State Harold Johnson, state senator, . Tuesday delivered the deed to the site of the proposed $105,000 arm. ory for the California National ‘Guard to the state office in Sac'ramento., Lt. Col. Harold J. Hjelm ‘accepted the deed on behalf of , the California National Guard. ; George Calanan, city clerk, de. livered the deed from Nevada ,City to the senator. . . Next step will be soil testing , by guard engineers. ; The deed will revert to the city if construction is not started within five years. 4H EXHIBIT DAY TOMORROW AT WATT PARK The first of a proposed annual series of 4-H club exhibit days is scheduled for tomorrow at the Nevada County Fair grounds, with all 4-H club organizations of Nevada county participating and the public invited. This will be an ali-day exhibit day program, in which classes will be set up for all~kinds af stock; projects and exhibits of 4-H club members. A purely ribbon show with noe cash premiums to be awarded, mudging will take place in cattle, foes sheep, rabbits, poultry and ecialty -classes and in girls clothing and other similar projects. ‘ The stock exhibit will take place beneath the pines and the clothing; or garment exhibit will be held at the Nevada County Fair offices on the grounds. Judging will begin at 9 a.m. and should be completed by 12 noon. A noon picnic luncheon will be spread on the grounds, with each , group asked to bring their own ' lunches. . Immediately after the luncheon !from 1 to 1:30 p.m. the 4-H club girls will offer a fashion show in modeling the many garments they have made during the year. This should prove most interesting. The girls will also participate in a field day of sports and competitions in the morning with the boys engaging in a schedule of track and field events during the afternoon. The 4-H Club Exhibit day is receiving considerable help from Loyle Freeman, manager and Edith Scott, secretary of the 17th District Agricultural association. Participating clubs will be. Banner, Eager Beaver, Kentuciky Flat, Nevada City, Chicago . Park Hornets, Forest -Springs, Mooney Flat, Penn Valley, Union Hill. Asks Judgment Of $20,141.50 in Court : Felice Moriano filed suit in Nevada county superior court against Elmo B. Moriano, Soda Springs, asking $20,142.50 for two promissory notes of $5,900 and $3750, additonal loan of $5930, and expenses. Donald W. McMillan, San Francisco, is attorney. Slowness of the U. S. mails in 1854 is the kingpin of the chain of events that will be culminated here Sunday, July 3, with the dedication of the A. A. Sargent monument and the Pioneer cemetery. It all goes back to the turning point in the life of Aaron Augustus Sargent, printer, lawyer, district attorney, congressman, senator, minister plenipotentiary, founder of the Republican party in Nevada county, organizer of lodges and charter Noble Grand of Oustomah Lodge No. 16, International Order of Odd Fellows, founded in Nevada City in 1853. Sargent was partner-publisher of the Nevada Journal in 1854, and tiring of the hard life of a mining camp town, suggested to his friend and co-worker, N. P. Brown, a printer of the Journal staff, thatthey buy the Newburyport, Mass., Herald, where the two had learned the trade of printing. Sargent sold his interest in the Journal and dispatched the letter to Massachusetts. To occupy the time awaiting a reply Sargent started studying law. When the reply finally arrived from the east Sargent was so engrossed in his law studies he abandoned the fourth estate (he thought). In less than one calendar year Sargent completed his studies, passed the bar examination, and was elected: district attorney of Nevada county. It embarked him on a brilliant political career that ates er Ba eee carried him to Berlin as minister plenipotentiary to the court of the Prussian Kaiser. Sargent was born in Newburyport Sept. 28, 1827, and at an early age was an apprentice in the Herald office. He also put in a Short time in Washington, D.C., as a secretary to a senator. He joined the argonaut trail and came to California in 1849. He worked a short while as a compositor in the Alta in San Franciseo, but in less than a year he had migrated to the gold fields in this city. He worked in the diggings for two years and laid the foundation for a lifetime of uncompromising battle for the hydraulickers, The lure of. printers’ ink flowing in his veins was too strong and he and a Dr. Alban became publishers of the Nevada Journal, first newspaper to be published in the gold camp. The doctor shortly sold his interests to'E. R. Budd. The same year, 1852, Sargent, returned to Newburyport and married Miss Ellen Clark and brought her back to the booming gold town. Two years in the publishing business and Sargent and Brown made the decision to return to New England, but fate in the guise of slow mails changed the course of his life and he ‘remained in Nevada county to become its earliest prominent citizen. Following his term as district , attorney Sargent returned to the newspaper career on the Journal. Engrossed in_ politics, he switched from the dying Whig party that had elected him district attorney and was founder of the Republican party in Nevada county. He served in Chicago as a delegate to the Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln as its candidate for president, although the California delegation’s choice was William H. Seward. Sargent returned to Nevada county in time to run for and be elected to the house of representatives of the 31st congress in 1§60. After one term he returned tq Nevada City to practice law. Among his partners in legal practice were A. C. Niles ana T. B. McFarland, both of whom sat on the state supreme court bench. , Re-elected to the house, and later to the senate. Sargent reached the pinnacle of his political career when President U. S. Grant appointed him minister to Germany. Sargent called Bismarck a liar when the German power behind the throne accused American meat packers of shipPing trichina-infected pork to Germany and the German court asked Sargent be recalled. Grant offered him the portfolio of ambassador to Russia but Sargent returned to a law practice in San eee where he died Aug. 14, ‘Sargent was entombed in an ve sarcophagus of marin San Francisco. Business en-croachment and depletion of theranks of pioneers finally result-ed in abandonment of the cemetery. The bones of the Nevada City pioneer were cremated and scattered over Quaker Hill. His. sarcophagus was brought to Nevada City and placed .in Pioneercemetery as a monument. The Nevada Journal, founded in 1851, and which Sargent guided through its trying years was destroyed by the great fire of 1863 and. the paper never resumed publication. Sargent also served as city attorney and city trustee. : The program here on Sunday, July 3, will dedicate the tomb as a monument to the pioneer states— man, and at the same time the cemetery will also be officially designated and dedicated as the. Pioneer cemetery. The remains of many of Ne-. vada City’s pioneers are interred in the cemetery atop a hill now crowned with towering pines planted after the abandonment: of the cemetery. A son of General John A. Sutter, who died in 1864, is resting there, as well as Henry Meredith, killed near Susanville in an: Indian uprising. Peter -T. Conmy, Oakland, Grand President of the Native Sons of the Golden West, will deliver the principal dedicatory ‘address. Joseph R. ‘Knowlan Oakland, chairman of the Caliia centennial — commission, will also speak at the ceremonies. Aaron Sargen ds ent at the P : “e . DRE Mere eo EP Be aR aes OME Slowness of Transcontinental Mail — in 1854 Sets Stage for Dedication /

oe, ere ter ———— a ee ee NEVADA CITY — THEY’‘RE BITING Sportmen’s Paradise WHERE, WHEN and HOW and Other Sportsmen’s Items The Pacific Gas and Electric company has been spreading the word and truthfully too, throughout the bay area and the state that Nevada county is the best fishing spot in California. * * * The Nugget plans to carry this column in its Friday issue every week throughout the fishing and hunting seasons. We will appreciate and publish any game stories and anecdotes of this area. Just call 36 and a courteous reporter will take your information or drop it at the office, 305 Broad street, or send it to us through the mail. Stories of good fishing spots, good catches, unusual catches, etc. We also plan to carry a survey of the past weekend activities of.fishing and prospects for the: future. Most of our sources of information tell us the lakes of the Downieville area have the best fishing prospects for this weekend. Gold, Upper Salmon, Sardine, Horse and Snag lakes have all been producing limits. Crawford Bridges and Harold Hartung came back this week from a three-day expedition of excellent fishing results in~ the Gold lake area. Good catches have been snagged from French, Milton and Bowman lakes but -the future prospects there are not so good. Milton water level has been lowered by transferring water to Bowman. Milton has been lowered four feet. Bowman prospects will probably not be better until more. water is stored. Independence, Fuller and Culbertson lakes are reported good. Frank Ghidotti, Cal Christensen and others got good catches from Culbertson. ; Fordyce lake is excellent but the road there is tough and rough traveling. Scott’s Flat reservoir this week has been giving good’ shore bait fishing, but trolling has been , poor. Stream fly fishing has been giving excellent catches, particularly to those who are Johnny on the spot finding holes.with the fighting babies in them. Some holes have given limits one day and goose eggs the next. The north and south forks of the Yuba river are producing excellent strings, and Canyon creek has been exceptional the past week. Fishermen are warned that streams dry up and local inquiry should be made if the terrain is not too well known to the individual. ‘Nothing exceptional has been reported from Deer creek, nor has Truckee river been sensational. The river has_been milky. * + = Fishing is. not so good in the famed Rainy river country of western Ontario, according to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hiscox in a note to friends here. The local game warden and his wife are enjoying a vacation, and, naturally are taking a busman’s holiday by trying for the large pike and muskies the Ontario and Minnesota lakes are supposed to be filled with. They reported several snow flurries on their way ‘east and just missed a cyclone in Nebraska. CORT SOR GEES There are at least 4,000 California hunters who want. a chance at one of the 500. antelope hunting permits to be issued: for the 1949 open season, the division of fish and game has disclosed. Another 6,000 hopeful nimrods are expected to apply for special permits before the application deadline July 20. The first antelope season in four years was set by the fish and game commission after hearing reports from the bureau of game conservation and residents of northeastern California that herds are too numerous for the carrying capacity, .or food production, of their _range.« Bag limit is one male antelope with horns longer than ears. The season will extend, from Aug. 27 to Sept. 5 in a designated area of Lassen, Modoc, and Shasta counties. Each ° permit holder will receive a map outFy oth, aby RAO ‘ie lining the restricted hunting section. If you’re a resident and would like a chance to take home the makings of an antelope stew, here’s the procedure: Apply for a preliminary application blank at the Sacramento otfice of the division of fish and game, or ‘any of 2800 license agencies, several of which are located in Nevada City. Fill out and return it to the Sacramento office. If yours is one of the 500 applications selected by lottery, a formal application will be sent asking for the special $7 fee. Three be drawn and notified if/openings occur by disqualification. Upon receipts of the special a permit with complete hunting instructions, Applications will not be accepted from anyone under the age of 16, or those who have received an antelope permit at . any time during the last 10 years. Either a husband or wfe, but not both, may apply. * * oh Fishermen going into the high country are reporting the discovery .of corpses of deer, evidently frozen to death in the severe winter season. * * * California vacationers and apparently abandoned fawns are combining to give wardens of the division of fish and game their annual summer headache. The irregistible appeal of an “orphan” baby deer each year brings out a rash of impromptu adoptions in violation of the fish and game code, wardens report. But most important, say those who know, is the fact that a fawn is seldom far away from the watchful eyes of its mother. Would-be woodland social workers are actually breaking up a happy family in almost every case. One warden puts it this way: “We're tired of playing nursemaid to confiscated fawns. Arrests and convictions will be made for possession of deer out of season or fawns at any time.” The fine in state courts: $50 to $500 and six months in jail. * * * The following general regulations apply to current hunting and fishing. BLACK BASS—Bag limit: five fish. No size limit. SUNFISH, CRAPPIE, SACRAMENTO PERCH, CALICO BASS —Bag limit: 25 fish of all species in aggregate. No size limit. CATFISH—No. closed. season. Bag limit: 15 pounds and one fish in the aggregate in the round. TROUT—Ends Oct. 31. Bag limit: 15 trout, salmon, or Rocky Mountain whitefish, or 10 pounds and one fish, or three fish regardiess of weight. PREDATORY ANIMALS—N o closed season on the taking of coyotes, mountain lions, wildcats, raccoons, skunks, moles, shrews, gophers, weasels, and wolves. SALMON—In waters of Pacific ocean and all bays except those east of Carquinez bridge in Sacramento-San Joaquin rivers, ends Dec. 31. Bag limit: three. No size limit. FROGS—Ends Nov. 30 in district 22 and all sections of the state except south of summit of Tehachapi mountain range, where season extends from July 1 to Nov. 29. Bag limit: 24 per week. Minimum size limit: four inches from tip of nose to crotch. No license required. SIERRA NEVADA UNIT WILL MEET TONIGHT 'The Sierra Nevada Chamber of Commerce will meet tonight at 8 o’clock in the Chamber of Commerce room, city hall, Nevada City, George Hansen, president, will be in charge. In view of the coming Fourth of. July Céntennial celebration planning which is reaching a climax, this meeting is important and warrants attendance. The chamber’s summer promotional program will be discussed. license fee, the division will mail . hundred alternate names will also . Volume 22—No. 31 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, June 17, 1949 FLAGS, LIGHTS WILL DECORATE STREETS 4TH Nevada City will be decorated with street banners and lights to give color to the Nevada County Centennial celebration July 2, 3, and 4, by the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce. Rav J. Spickelmier, chamber president, presided at a meeting of the chamber Tuesday evening at the city hall. It was announced Spickelmier had been named this week to the highway committee of the State Chamber of Commerce, Sacramento district. H. F. Sofge, secretary of the Nevada City organization, received reappointment to the highway committee and recreation and travel committe of the state chamber. The appointments came from George G. Pollocb, regional vice president of the State Chamber of Commerce. William Swain, operator of the Nevada City airport, urged contact be made with the aerial and state highway commissions of the state for placement of highway guide signs pointing to the local airport. Sofge read some figures from the division of highways which showed the division listed Nevada county with a need of $8,078,000 in. highway construction for the ten year period, 1947-56. Pegged as the goal for construction for the five year period to 1952 is $861,000, of which $762,795 has been expended or obligated, leaving a deficiency of $98,205. Sofge said the following action on. 1947 recommendations was listed in the report: (1) studies from aerial photographs and preliminary surveys had been made of a survey for proposed relocation of Nevada City-Grass Valley highway, (2) contract for construction will be made this year for survey and grade of Steep Hollow. to Bear river, and (3) nothing yet scheduled for a fourlane highway between Nevada City and Grass Valley. The Weather Fred Bush, observer Friday, June 10 ..... 91 50 Saturday, June 11 .. 92 49 Sunday, June 12 _... 91 49 Monday, June 13 .... 93 53 Tuesday, June 14 ... 95 54 Wednesday, June 15 . 96 53 Thursday, June 16 .. 94 51 over the ABCs of trigonometry Baptist Church, Coilege. MAMA FIVE-TIMES-OVER CUM LAUDE NEW YORK—Mrs. Mercedes Quiroga hasn’t let rearing five children and serving as assistant pastor in her husband’s church kéep her from studying for a bachelor of arts degree. Here she goes with four daughters, (from left) Priscilla, 14; Lydia, 12; Carmen, 16; and Mercedes, 17. Mrs. Quiroga, wite of the Rev. Hermino Quiroga, past of the Second Spanish will be graduated this month from Hunter SHOCK ASSUMES REINS OF NC

ROTARY CLUB forest engineer, was_ installed president of Nevada City Rotary club last night at a charcoal broiled steak dinner in Pioneer park. 4 presided at the dinner and turned the gavel of office over to Shock. Other officers installed were R. V. Conrad, secretary; H. A. Curnow, treasurer; U. S. N. Johnson, and H. I. Snyder, twoyear directors; Stanley Halls, Kenneth Adams and Carl Foote, one-year directors. fried headed the committee in charge of arrangements for last night’s dinner. Curnow was program chairman. ‘Paul Bergemann, Robert Tamblyn and Ed A. Frantz were in charge of demotion of Geist and installation of the new officers. The Rainbow Girls will hold a home cooked food sale Saturday morning at 10 o’clock n front of the Alpha Hardware building. Hot dishes, salads and cakes will be displayed at reasonable prices. Lloyd Gest, retiring president, . Bert Foreman and J. F. Sieg. ASKS $10,491 FOR DISTAL JOINT OF ‘THE INDEX FINGER { . . Floyd Pike, Grass Valley, filed . suit in Nevada county superior . court asking $10,491 damages for J. M. Shock, Tahoe national“loss of index finger at distal joint ‘against Chris Hansen, proprietor of Grass Valley Auto Wreckers, Grass Valley. Pike charges the joint of the finger was amputated following its injury suffered June 15, 1948, when a vehicle in the wrecking yard slipped from blocks and crushed the finger. . Crofford W. Bridges, Grass . Valley, is attorney for plaintiff. ‘Deed for Armory Is Delivered to State Harold Johnson, state senator, . Tuesday delivered the deed to the site of the proposed $105,000 arm. ory for the California National ‘Guard to the state office in Sac'ramento., Lt. Col. Harold J. Hjelm ‘accepted the deed on behalf of , the California National Guard. ; George Calanan, city clerk, de. livered the deed from Nevada ,City to the senator. . . Next step will be soil testing , by guard engineers. ; The deed will revert to the city if construction is not started within five years. 4H EXHIBIT DAY TOMORROW AT WATT PARK The first of a proposed annual series of 4-H club exhibit days is scheduled for tomorrow at the Nevada County Fair grounds, with all 4-H club organizations of Nevada county participating and the public invited. This will be an ali-day exhibit day program, in which classes will be set up for all~kinds af stock; projects and exhibits of 4-H club members. A purely ribbon show with noe cash premiums to be awarded, mudging will take place in cattle, foes sheep, rabbits, poultry and ecialty -classes and in girls clothing and other similar projects. ‘ The stock exhibit will take place beneath the pines and the clothing; or garment exhibit will be held at the Nevada County Fair offices on the grounds. Judging will begin at 9 a.m. and should be completed by 12 noon. A noon picnic luncheon will be spread on the grounds, with each , group asked to bring their own ' lunches. . Immediately after the luncheon !from 1 to 1:30 p.m. the 4-H club girls will offer a fashion show in modeling the many garments they have made during the year. This should prove most interesting. The girls will also participate in a field day of sports and competitions in the morning with the boys engaging in a schedule of track and field events during the afternoon. The 4-H Club Exhibit day is receiving considerable help from Loyle Freeman, manager and Edith Scott, secretary of the 17th District Agricultural association. Participating clubs will be. Banner, Eager Beaver, Kentuciky Flat, Nevada City, Chicago . Park Hornets, Forest -Springs, Mooney Flat, Penn Valley, Union Hill. Asks Judgment Of $20,141.50 in Court : Felice Moriano filed suit in Nevada county superior court against Elmo B. Moriano, Soda Springs, asking $20,142.50 for two promissory notes of $5,900 and $3750, additonal loan of $5930, and expenses. Donald W. McMillan, San Francisco, is attorney. Slowness of the U. S. mails in 1854 is the kingpin of the chain of events that will be culminated here Sunday, July 3, with the dedication of the A. A. Sargent monument and the Pioneer cemetery. It all goes back to the turning point in the life of Aaron Augustus Sargent, printer, lawyer, district attorney, congressman, senator, minister plenipotentiary, founder of the Republican party in Nevada county, organizer of lodges and charter Noble Grand of Oustomah Lodge No. 16, International Order of Odd Fellows, founded in Nevada City in 1853. Sargent was partner-publisher of the Nevada Journal in 1854, and tiring of the hard life of a mining camp town, suggested to his friend and co-worker, N. P. Brown, a printer of the Journal staff, thatthey buy the Newburyport, Mass., Herald, where the two had learned the trade of printing. Sargent sold his interest in the Journal and dispatched the letter to Massachusetts. To occupy the time awaiting a reply Sargent started studying law. When the reply finally arrived from the east Sargent was so engrossed in his law studies he abandoned the fourth estate (he thought). In less than one calendar year Sargent completed his studies, passed the bar examination, and was elected: district attorney of Nevada county. It embarked him on a brilliant political career that ates er Ba eee carried him to Berlin as minister plenipotentiary to the court of the Prussian Kaiser. Sargent was born in Newburyport Sept. 28, 1827, and at an early age was an apprentice in the Herald office. He also put in a Short time in Washington, D.C., as a secretary to a senator. He joined the argonaut trail and came to California in 1849. He worked a short while as a compositor in the Alta in San Franciseo, but in less than a year he had migrated to the gold fields in this city. He worked in the diggings for two years and laid the foundation for a lifetime of uncompromising battle for the hydraulickers, The lure of. printers’ ink flowing in his veins was too strong and he and a Dr. Alban became publishers of the Nevada Journal, first newspaper to be published in the gold camp. The doctor shortly sold his interests to'E. R. Budd. The same year, 1852, Sargent, returned to Newburyport and married Miss Ellen Clark and brought her back to the booming gold town. Two years in the publishing business and Sargent and Brown made the decision to return to New England, but fate in the guise of slow mails changed the course of his life and he ‘remained in Nevada county to become its earliest prominent citizen. Following his term as district , attorney Sargent returned to the newspaper career on the Journal. Engrossed in_ politics, he switched from the dying Whig party that had elected him district attorney and was founder of the Republican party in Nevada county. He served in Chicago as a delegate to the Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln as its candidate for president, although the California delegation’s choice was William H. Seward. Sargent returned to Nevada county in time to run for and be elected to the house of representatives of the 31st congress in 1§60. After one term he returned tq Nevada City to practice law. Among his partners in legal practice were A. C. Niles ana T. B. McFarland, both of whom sat on the state supreme court bench. , Re-elected to the house, and later to the senate. Sargent reached the pinnacle of his political career when President U. S. Grant appointed him minister to Germany. Sargent called Bismarck a liar when the German power behind the throne accused American meat packers of shipPing trichina-infected pork to Germany and the German court asked Sargent be recalled. Grant offered him the portfolio of ambassador to Russia but Sargent returned to a law practice in San eee where he died Aug. 14, ‘Sargent was entombed in an ve sarcophagus of marin San Francisco. Business en-croachment and depletion of theranks of pioneers finally result-ed in abandonment of the cemetery. The bones of the Nevada City pioneer were cremated and scattered over Quaker Hill. His. sarcophagus was brought to Nevada City and placed .in Pioneercemetery as a monument. The Nevada Journal, founded in 1851, and which Sargent guided through its trying years was destroyed by the great fire of 1863 and. the paper never resumed publication. Sargent also served as city attorney and city trustee. : The program here on Sunday, July 3, will dedicate the tomb as a monument to the pioneer states— man, and at the same time the cemetery will also be officially designated and dedicated as the. Pioneer cemetery. The remains of many of Ne-. vada City’s pioneers are interred in the cemetery atop a hill now crowned with towering pines planted after the abandonment: of the cemetery. A son of General John A. Sutter, who died in 1864, is resting there, as well as Henry Meredith, killed near Susanville in an: Indian uprising. Peter -T. Conmy, Oakland, Grand President of the Native Sons of the Golden West, will deliver the principal dedicatory ‘address. Joseph R. ‘Knowlan Oakland, chairman of the Caliia centennial — commission, will also speak at the ceremonies. Aaron Sargen ds ent at the P : “e . DRE Mere eo EP Be aR aes OME Slowness of Transcontinental Mail — in 1854 Sets Stage for Dedication /