June 22, 1948 (4 pages)

wall those we have viewed else~ Put the many visitors who had never seen a mine crew at work were visibly impressed. e bh Then there was a big float showing a hunting party with 4 say, ie ih tacked around it, we believe it well worth seeing. The floats have * been created by our. neighbors b andpexpress their_talents. All of us can remember that poignant ® feeling of. patriotism we felt when } by a float. . FOREST SERVICE TO HOLD FIRE SCHOOL ' Forest Hill : will -eontro! officers ‘forgst, and fire guards will attend » the school. ts THINKING OUT LOUD By H.M. L., SR. . J } Putting out the decorations for the Fourth, of course, reminds us of past Fourths. We have witnessed many a Fourth in big and little cities in California. We-.can say quite honestly that some of the celebrations in Nevada City, in human interest, have far surpasswhere. % h We recall one Independence Day parade here, when gold mining was in its heyday, that parade was especially good. There was for instance a mining float in which real miners participated. A huge. granite boulder was mounted on a: truck. Behind it was a trailer with an air compressor. Two miners with jackhammers were busily drilling holes in the boulder. It made a lot of noise, dogs. The flat bed of a truck served as a stage. In the middle there rose a stump ten feet high, perVolume 22 — No. 25 NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Tuesday, June 22, 1948 MT. CHEVROLET IS PICKETED GRASS VALLEY: A picket line was thrown in front of the Mountain Chevrolet Garage on West Main Street following what was described as a breakdown in negotiations between Nevada County auto dealers and the Automotive Machinists Local No. 1003. Lawrence Mayworm, financial} secretary of the union, said that negotixtions with the dealers had been underway for the last year. He said the picketing was a protest aimed at all dealers. The decision to picket. followed a conference with Walter Owen, business .agent of the International Automotive Machinists Union of haps on top of the stump was a bear cub secured so that he could not run away, and at the foot, the! agnting dogs, Blue Ticks, Red one, or what not, baying and jumping to reach ‘the bear, The hunters wore their red hats and colored jackets. It was a colorful . scene and reasonably true to -real life. The bear cub probably suffered some mental anguish, but let’s not worry about it too much. % & Then there.was another float, very chic, very pretty, altogether charming. A great butterfly spread its beautiful diaphanous' wings. The body of the butterfly was a eautiful Chinese gir] in Oriental istume, whose outstretched arms, supported the wings. Eddy Tinloy, a Grass Valley Rotarian, thought that one up, and a good thought it was. e he Having beén born and brought up on a ranch, groups of horsemen and horsewomen have always intrigued us. But-since-the horse has been retired from most of his workaday duties in this world, we do think the animal shows a lot more class than formerly, that 50 years ago. We recall seeing a great parade in San Francisco several years ago, and the only thing that really impressed us was the Sheriff's Posse from Los Angeles. Every man. was mounted on a spirited Arab, which to our mind is the most beautiful horse on earth. And there were forty or more in the posse. e $ & Gradually we are getting more horses of this fine breed in this country. There are ,now several s@@fiions in the county and they show a big improvement over the common run. So whenever a group of horsemen appears in the Fourth of July parade we are ready with applause and cheers. The Gold Trail Riders, the Sheriff's posse and other groups, to our mind are making a fine start in the right direction, h At the tail end of parades we used to see when a boy in Santa Ré@wara, there was a_ section known as the “‘Horribles’’. Clowns rode on sleds or perhaps a two wheeled vehicle of some sort, anything that could be drawn by a horse or horses. Two clowns would be cooking a little something or other over a fire on their sled. Presently they would engage in a loud argument regarding whether the horse that was drawing them was actually moving. They, would sight any wayside object to note whether they had moved. Fnially one would rear up, lean forward and give the delapidated horse drawing the vehicle a great shove wid both hands. We rather miss this feature in modern day parades. % hb & Our Fourth of July parades in Nevada City and Grass Valley always seem to us to have a homegrown, home-cured flavor. We like them because they represent us, as . are, without furbelows, or trimmings; We believe a number of spectators come here just because of this home spun character. If that. portable sawmill, for instance; would show up in time for the Fourth here. wit a few pieces of colored buntwe fancy great would be-a real, asset to the celebration. + $ & Ways some girl we all know. The Grand Marshall is a chap we all . respect, and if he rides a good horse, and wears a plumed hat and red sash, we feel that he has been some of our veterans in raising the flag on Iwo short splendid story told we saw uniform wima, a ents OR Sinica NEVADA CITY: Guerdon Ellis, Sugpévisor of Tahoe National Forest yesterday stated that the annual fire control training school will be held this year in the Ranger Station. It open Monday and continue through Friday. Members of the headquarters staff in this city, rangers,. fire throughout the v = ; make a Marysville. Dave Hiebert is president of the local union. It is stated that the picket line will be maintained daily from 8 A. M. till 4 P.M. M. R. Bickman, president of the Automotive . Trades Association of Nevada County, declined to statement until after a in Bret Harte Inn tomorrow evening. REV. W. A. MCBRIDE RESIGNS TO VACATION: GRASS VALLEY: Rev. WNA, McBridé; pastor, of Bethel Church, Assembly of God, has resigned. A farewell service will take place at the home of Rev. and Mrs. McBride, 159 Mill Street. A year ago the Bethe] Church burned to the ground on Empire Street. Rev McBride gave unstintedly of his time and energy in rebuilding the church on Buena Vista Street. The minister expects to take GEORGE LEGGS. CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY NEVADA CETPY: Mr:-andMrs: George .A. Legg today will celebrate.théir golden wedding anniversary with a reception in their home, 231 Nevada Street. Friends and relatives: from all parts of California will be resent to offer felicitations on the eve. The reception is from 4 to 8 P.M. Legg for many years conducted a hardware and general merchandising . business in Nevada City. His earlier days were. spent in supplying mines, especially the mines that formerly existed around Washington and Graniteville, by freight teams, with powder, pipe, iron rails, drill bits and groceries. A generation ago, Shaw and. Legg was the leading hardware firm in Nevada County. H. SS. Bradley, Mrs. Lege’s father, made the first , official survey of Nevada City in 1869. He purchased the home where the Fred Bradley, was a noted mining engineer, who with his brother, Philip, established the Juneau Alaska Mine, the largest low grade “mine in the world. an extended vacation with a trip through Northern California before taking another pastorate. He has been secretary treasurer of the Nevada County Ministerial Association for the past two years. % BIRTH PALMER—In Grass_ Valley, Nevada County, June 16, 1948, to Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Palmer, a son. Fo THE: Diary of a 49’er FROM THE BOOK EDITED BY C. L. CANFIELD J ~ CONCLUSION A final word. Nevada pioneers will recall many of the men who figure in the diary. John Hall, John Dunn, Henry Shively, Barker, the Calkinses, these were all Forty-niners, well known in local annals. Niles ‘Searls, Tom Williams, Frank Dunn, Stanton Buckner— whose dignity was so badly ruffled by ‘Rattlesnake Dick’’—were members of the bar, and Zeno P. Davis, the gunsmith, was a familiar character. The brick courthouse that was pronounced an extravagance be'cause there would be no use for it after the gold gave out is replaced by a still more costly one. The ‘Hotel da Paris’’ flourished until late in the sixties, and the quartz veins, so quaintly described as white rock with gold in it, are still yielding treasure. Rock and Brush Creeks are overgrown and choked with growth of alder and willow, the pines that towered above the rude log cabin were felled long ago and a second growth takes their*place, the old trails replaced by dusty highways; yet the coyotes bark, the frogs croak, and the owls hoot in chorus, as when Jackson interpreted it all as « “good-bye.” The flourishing mining camps that he visited, the euphonious “Red Dog,’ Cherokee, Humbug, Rough and Ready, You Bet, Coyoteville, and Blue Tent are but travesties of the old times; even “Lousy Level” is known no more. I am sure we are indebted to Jackson in so far as his diary gives us a glimpse of those golden days. Moved by a spirit of curiosity as to the later career of Jackson, . made inquiries by letter at his old home, Norfolk, Connecticut. . did not get much information from my correspondent—a woman hy the way—but enough to determine that Jackson did not return to tarry in that placid village. She said that a family of Jacksons lived on Pond Hill, about a mile from the town, on a farm; that they had sold the property just before the war; left the state, and it was said that San . Francisco was their destination. They had a son who The Goddess of Liberty is alhad made a fortune in California and had come back cn a visit, accompanied by his wife, a foreign woman _(mark the contempt of the phrase), and that was all she knew of the Jacksons. She devoted a dozen pages . to that interesting girl, Hetty North, which . will try to condense into as many lines. The Norths were prominent people of Colebrook township. Hetty was accomplished, her education was finished off in the Hartford Seminary, she played the melodeon, was a handsome, black-haired, black-eyed beauty, and had taught school at Colebrook Center. In-1860 she married a prosperous . farmer and then went, not exactly crazy, but eccentric; embraced spiritualism and all the other “isms” of the time. Some four years before her death she took to her bed, although affected with no malady, and there she resolutely remained until her dying day. In the light of this I think Jackson is to be congratulated on his escape, and . doubt not that he was far happier with the “foreign woman.” As for Anderson, it has been explained in a private note that he became a leader in the state as a lawyer, politician, orator, and millionaire, and that for various reasons it is better that his identity Leggs now live. Her late brother, . TRAVEL GAINS TO PUT TRUCKEE IN SECOND POSITION TRUCKER? ‘Pravel on U.S: Highway 40 during May boosted Truckee into second place as a point—of--entry into California among the 17 state border quarantine stations. The total of 22,412 fantomchiles coming: through here was topped only by Yermo with 30,412 while Blythe’ was a close third. This was.a gain of nearly 9,000 cars here over the April total. Truckee also clocked 1,898 commercial trucks and led in the number of buses with 658 compared to 618 at Blythe. Total assengers in vehicles traveling on Highway 40 into the state were 73,155. Comparatively, the Stateline station at the south-end of Lake Tahoe tallied 6299 automobiles, 107 trucks, 33 stages and 16,540 passengers. The 3rockaway . station at North Tahoe,:-which opened May 3, had 1506 automobiles, 12 buses and 3968 passengers. Brockaway’s commercial truck record showed blank. Generally traffic entering California during May increased considerably over the previous month, according to the state department of. agriculture. a California’s border. stations last month registered 163,609 automobiles entering the state; 14,741 commercial trucks; 3831 stages and. an overall total. of 508,997 passengers. This compares with April’s— totals of 117,090' cars; 13.376 commercial trucks; 3434 Stages and 365,692 passengers. RECENT ARRIVALS AT NATIONAL HOTEL NEVADA CITY: Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pinkham, Beverly Hills, Calif; Mr, and Mrs. Morris Hamock, Palo Alto, California; Mr. and Mrs. M. Grotjohn, San Franciseo:”. hic Gy Aceatd, ) 8. Be: Mr and Mrs. L. N. Tamby, Oakland. Gerald i. Letehworth, Oakland; J. La Widaut,: No Columbia; G. Gordon, S. F.; Don Wasilak, Oakland; Francis Johnson, Fresno. Mrs. W. F. Sullivan. S. F.; Bill Peak, S, F.;. Mrs. Je.H.-Phillips and ‘Miss D. Dowson; Mr and Mrs. L. Palmer, Phoenix, Arizona. R. C. Hanford, S. F.; Margaret McCloskey,—S:-F.;— Mr. Morbeke and G. Neep, Sacramento; Mr. and Mrs, W. C. Swanson, Sacramento; R. Rothwell, S. F.; George H, Johnson, Reno; D. E. Clark,’ Forest Service. Mill Valley, California; Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Card, Mill Valley,. California; Harry Schwartz, Si. F:; Mr. andMrs. M. W. Hancock, Palo Alto, Calif. Mickey Flowers, Los. Angeles, Calif: Dud Day,. St. Helena, . Calif.; E: L. Spradlin, St. Helena. Calif.; H. F. Gibson, Napa; Hugh Harper, Weaverville, Calif. Lee, Hahn,’ 5S, F.;. E.Cy Adams, Merced, Calif; Marian F,. Cruickshank, S. F.; Glen Decker, S. F.; G. Gordon, S. F. . entice eat GEORGE LATIN GETS NEW SCHOOL CONTRACT GRASS VALLEY: zeorge Latin, local contractor. has been awarded the contract to build the Donner’ Trail Elementary School, a joint undertaking of Placer and Nevada Counties. The contract price is $51,448. It will be erected at Kingvale: Highway 40. The building will consist of two spacious class rooms, constructed of -eement-and wood. Itwill comodate children of the NordenBaxter area, THEY SWIM, TOO aes This is no gag—these young ladies awim, and will prove it in the water show and safety exhibition at the 1948 American National Red Cross convention in San Francisco, June should remain undisclosed.) , 21-24. ASSESSMENT WORK IS SUSPENDED WASHINGTON: Annual assessment work on mining claims will not be necessary this fiscal . year, Rep. Clair Engle announced. . A bill providing a moratorium on assesssment work became law, on June 17 when signed by the President. Although the measure suspends assessment work, it will] be necessary for claim holders to file with: the County Recorder a notice of intention to hold their, claims by noon July 1, 1948. A similar procedure was followed during the war years. . The bill was passed by Con-) gress to assist small mining op-. erators who have been hampered in. completing their assessment work due to bad weather conditions, lack of labor and materials, and high costs. Engle said the law pertains only to the current fiscal year and unless the law is extended assessment work must be completed for the year ending July, 1, 1949. B.P.W.C. HAS ANNUAL PICNIC NEVADA CITY: The Nevada . City Business and_ Professional Women’s Club held its annual picnic last Wednesday evening at Canyon Creek where it runs into! the South Yuba River four miles . above Washington. Each member brought their own . service dishes, and most. of them were equipped with flashlights and scout knives for cutting rods on which to roast weiners. The committee in charge consisted of Eileen Mair, Elfrieda Higer, Georgiana O’Conner ad, Dolly Peterson. . : ~ . SNCHAMBER PLANS . SIGNS BY FOURTH . NEVADA CITY: Directors of the Sierra Nevada Chamber of Commerce have approved the sites for the two new signs to be placed below Auburn, Placer County, and above the junction of Highways 20 and 40. ‘ The location below Auburn Neweastle just east of on Highway 40. is! the The in underpass NEVADA CITY: of Elmer F. Root, Jr. Sacramento the bottom of a canyon Rucker Creck, about a mile from Bowman’s canal by A. C. Young, Jv, one of Root’s fellow telephone workers. 3 aie The body was discovered at 11:35 and a few minutes later was identified by Cliff Carter, an uncle ;of the dead man. The remains were found about 100 feet from the route taken by ‘the first search party-cf May 30th. The Sheriff’s office was notified about 2:39 o’cleock and Coroner Alvah Hooper and Deputy Coroner Stanley Mitchell teft immediately and did not return until 7 o’clock this morning. It required several hours to bring the remains of Root to the mortuary ambulance on the road. In the meantime a_ shortwave radio fiom KAPITI, highway patrol station. reported that, Ed BE. Meyers of 484 South Awtburn St. Was reported dead: of a heart attack at Shotgun Lake, a-small reservoir, about four -miles east of Fuller Lake. Stanley Mitcehell left to bring out Meyers’ remains. The remains fisherman, were found Sunday in near Root had picked up a buddy, Norman lL. Davis of Roseville Saturday, May 29th, for a fishing trip into the high country around Camp 19, a ditch tender station for the Nevada Irrigation District, between Bowman and Fulled Lakes. The two men separated in the afternoon. one to fish down 30wman Canal, the other up, then they were to meet on Fall Creek, and come back together to their camp, made near Camp 19 Station. That was the last seen of Root until found Sunday. Root’s wife, Mrs. Virginia Root, his father, Elmer F. Root. Sr., and his mother survive. Miss Mildred Root, also, bereaved, offered a reward of $1006 for finding Root. This offer was withdrawn last Saturday. Funeral arrangements are in charge of James R. Garlick, funeral director, Sacramento. Dr. Walton F, Prescott made the autopsy. He stated that death was caused by a broken neck, Coroner Alvah Hooper reported that apparently the man had recovered consciousness to some extent and had tried to move from the place where he fell; but had been unable to do so: NORTH SAN JUAN CHERRY CARNIVAL DRAWS THRONC: PAT KESSLER QUEEN _ NORTH SAN JUAN: queen of North San Juan’s evening and Sunday rode attended by the six prince competition for the throne. The parade was the North San Pat Kessler was crowned Cherry Carnival Saturday triumphant in the parade sses who gave her sharp most representative that Juan has had in many a year. The Gold Trail. Riders in their uniforms gave the event a wild western flavor. Floats and decorated vehicles were a notable success. Cherries were abundant and handed out to all comers in profusion. People from far and Sierra County, on the north wide, from Downieville, , to Grass Valley and Nevada City turned out in hundreds to attend the three big dances, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night and to see Sunday’s parade. The North San Juan Chamber of Commerce, which covers most of Highway 49, including Campton_. ville, Yuba County, and the Ridge towns of French . Corral and Sweetland, put a fine feather in its cap by carrying out one of the most successful festivals of the year. AUBURN SHERIFF ASKS DISMISSAL OF DRUNK CHARGE HEART ATTACK KILLS MAN AT. one above the junction is at Cisco AUBURN: An objection to ; on Highway 40. Hugh Brown,. charges of wilful misconduct in “ secretary manager, has been di-. office was entered by Sheriff E. : rected to sign contracts for the Tenis ate (¢ ‘aring i he ix a Hann heics Wabi beion Se ieanois J. Kenison at a hearing in th . GRASS VALLEY: Edward E. chamber with two San Francisco! superior court. Meyers, about 55, died of an acuté advertising firms. It is expected In an eight page document ‘ that the two signs will be in place by July 4th. * Helen Chapman’s Folk Dancing Classes Are filed by his attorney, F. H. Bowers. Kennison objected to the legal sufficiency of the grand jury chorges and asked that the accusation be quashed and dismissed. Judge Arthur Coats of Sutter Continued For Summer County expressed the opinion that NEVADA CITY: The.classes in the first specification in the acfolk. dancing which were con-. cusation, which alleged the apducted by Miss Helen Chapman)! Propriation of money ‘belonging to during the school year in the Nevada City High School: proved so! popular that a group of her stua prisoner, connected with the sheriff’s duties in office. dents have decided to continue He indicated that in order tu them through the summer. stand in court, the accusations The first of a series of dances . Would have to be shown to have was given last Monday evening occurr#d in discharge of the 3 be ata : * ag . n'y 9 in the Elementary. School audi-; duties of ottlees ; torium. The ladies who have been . He allowed District Attornes instrumental in continuing the, ©. E. Tindall ten days to present group are Mrs. Mary Warnecke, authorities in support of the acMrs. Elise De Mattei and Mrs. cusations contained in the grand Marvin Shock. jury document. < ~ SECNAV’S-FIRST AND PRESENT Benjamin Stoddart (right) became the Secretary J 18, 1798 following the formation of the Navy Department on April 30 of that year under President John Adams,. Stoddart served of the most powerful Navy in the world’s history the first Secretary of the Navy on until 1801, ‘Today 4 L. Sulli left), who was sworn in to succeed James V. He lh oo tes lather picraae the nation’s first Secretary of Defense. The photo (Official Navy Photograph) of Stoddart is that ef.a portrait painted by E. F. Andrews. was not shown to be: heart attack Sunday morning on the shores of Shot Gun Lake, four miles east of Fuller Lake in the High Sierras. Jack Godfrey of the Alameda Air Base. who was fishing with him, reported the death by telephone to the Sheriff’s office in Nevada City, who in turn relayed the message by shortwave to Coroner Alvah Hooper who had gone to the Bowman Lake area to return the body of Elmer F. Root, Jr.,, found Sunday morning at the bottom of 4 canyon. Godfrey reorted that Meyers had complained of a pain in his chest some timé prior to his sudden death. In attempting to return over his trail Godfrey lost his way twice and it was about noon when he finally reached @ . telephone. . Stanley Mitchell, deputy coro. ner. immediately organized a party consisting of M. D. Sutton of the New England Orchards at MarysVile, E. H. Parry of Emigrant Gap, both of whom had horses, Ralph Fuhr, who. lives in the vie cinity of Fall Creek, and Jack Frank. candidate for Nevada County supervisor in the recent primary election. Mitchell reports that the party had to buck snowdrifts four and five feet deep part of the way. After recovering the body Which was packed out on one of the horses, Mitchell stated .the party lost their way two or three times. They finally returned te Camp 19, where they picked up the remains of Root, Jr. along toward morning, and returned te Grass Valley and_ returned te Grass Valley at 7 o’clock yesterday morning. : Meyers is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nettie Meyers. and his son, Armand Meyers of San Francisco, Funeral arrangements are in the hands of a local mortuary chapel. Rev. Frank Buck will conduct the service. Interment wil] be in the Masonic Cemetery. Meyers was a charter member of the Grass Valley Rifle, Rod and Gun Club and an ardent sportsman. Deputy Coroner Stanley Mitchell Freports that Meyers died of a heart attack. The deceased was hoist man at the Empire Mine, . Meyers: was. a member of the Mine Workers Protective League, Native Sons of the Golden West of Madison Lodge, D. and A. M. % BIRTHS MacDONALD.—n Grass Vale ley, Nevada County, June 13, 1948, to Rev. and Mrs. John MacDonald of Downieville, Sierra County, a son. ae : Nevada County, June 14, 1948, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Gelhaus, GELHAUS—In Grass Valley, Root’s Body Found ~ 8

wall those we have viewed else~ Put the many visitors who had never seen a mine crew at work were visibly impressed. e bh Then there was a big float showing a hunting party with 4 say, ie ih tacked around it, we believe it well worth seeing. The floats have * been created by our. neighbors b andpexpress their_talents. All of us can remember that poignant ® feeling of. patriotism we felt when } by a float. . FOREST SERVICE TO HOLD FIRE SCHOOL ' Forest Hill : will -eontro! officers ‘forgst, and fire guards will attend » the school. ts THINKING OUT LOUD By H.M. L., SR. . J } Putting out the decorations for the Fourth, of course, reminds us of past Fourths. We have witnessed many a Fourth in big and little cities in California. We-.can say quite honestly that some of the celebrations in Nevada City, in human interest, have far surpasswhere. % h We recall one Independence Day parade here, when gold mining was in its heyday, that parade was especially good. There was for instance a mining float in which real miners participated. A huge. granite boulder was mounted on a: truck. Behind it was a trailer with an air compressor. Two miners with jackhammers were busily drilling holes in the boulder. It made a lot of noise, dogs. The flat bed of a truck served as a stage. In the middle there rose a stump ten feet high, perVolume 22 — No. 25 NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Tuesday, June 22, 1948 MT. CHEVROLET IS PICKETED GRASS VALLEY: A picket line was thrown in front of the Mountain Chevrolet Garage on West Main Street following what was described as a breakdown in negotiations between Nevada County auto dealers and the Automotive Machinists Local No. 1003. Lawrence Mayworm, financial} secretary of the union, said that negotixtions with the dealers had been underway for the last year. He said the picketing was a protest aimed at all dealers. The decision to picket. followed a conference with Walter Owen, business .agent of the International Automotive Machinists Union of haps on top of the stump was a bear cub secured so that he could not run away, and at the foot, the! agnting dogs, Blue Ticks, Red one, or what not, baying and jumping to reach ‘the bear, The hunters wore their red hats and colored jackets. It was a colorful . scene and reasonably true to -real life. The bear cub probably suffered some mental anguish, but let’s not worry about it too much. % & Then there.was another float, very chic, very pretty, altogether charming. A great butterfly spread its beautiful diaphanous' wings. The body of the butterfly was a eautiful Chinese gir] in Oriental istume, whose outstretched arms, supported the wings. Eddy Tinloy, a Grass Valley Rotarian, thought that one up, and a good thought it was. e he Having beén born and brought up on a ranch, groups of horsemen and horsewomen have always intrigued us. But-since-the horse has been retired from most of his workaday duties in this world, we do think the animal shows a lot more class than formerly, that 50 years ago. We recall seeing a great parade in San Francisco several years ago, and the only thing that really impressed us was the Sheriff's Posse from Los Angeles. Every man. was mounted on a spirited Arab, which to our mind is the most beautiful horse on earth. And there were forty or more in the posse. e $ & Gradually we are getting more horses of this fine breed in this country. There are ,now several s@@fiions in the county and they show a big improvement over the common run. So whenever a group of horsemen appears in the Fourth of July parade we are ready with applause and cheers. The Gold Trail Riders, the Sheriff's posse and other groups, to our mind are making a fine start in the right direction, h At the tail end of parades we used to see when a boy in Santa Ré@wara, there was a_ section known as the “‘Horribles’’. Clowns rode on sleds or perhaps a two wheeled vehicle of some sort, anything that could be drawn by a horse or horses. Two clowns would be cooking a little something or other over a fire on their sled. Presently they would engage in a loud argument regarding whether the horse that was drawing them was actually moving. They, would sight any wayside object to note whether they had moved. Fnially one would rear up, lean forward and give the delapidated horse drawing the vehicle a great shove wid both hands.. We rather miss this feature in modern day parades. % hb & Our Fourth of July parades in Nevada City and Grass Valley always seem to us to have a homegrown, home-cured flavor. We like them because they represent us, as . are, without furbelows, or trimmings; We believe a number of spectators come here just because of this home spun character. If that. portable sawmill, for instance; would show up in time for the Fourth here. wit a few pieces of colored buntwe fancy great would be-a real, asset to the celebration. + $ & Ways some girl we all know. The Grand Marshall is a chap we all . respect, and if he rides a good horse, and wears a plumed hat and red sash, we feel that he has been some of our veterans in raising the flag on Iwo short splendid story told we saw uniform wima, a ents OR Sinica NEVADA CITY: Guerdon Ellis, Sugpévisor of Tahoe National Forest yesterday stated that the annual fire control training school will be held this year in the Ranger Station. It open Monday and continue through Friday. Members of the headquarters staff in this city, rangers,. fire throughout the v = ; make a Marysville. Dave Hiebert is president of the local union. It is stated that the picket line will be maintained daily from 8 A. M. till 4 P.M. M. R. Bickman, president of the Automotive . Trades Association of Nevada County, declined to statement until after a in Bret Harte Inn tomorrow evening. REV. W. A. MCBRIDE RESIGNS TO VACATION: GRASS VALLEY: Rev. WNA, McBridé; pastor, of Bethel Church, Assembly of God, has resigned. A farewell service will take place at the home of Rev. and Mrs. McBride, 159 Mill Street. A year ago the Bethe] Church burned to the ground on Empire Street. Rev McBride gave unstintedly of his time and energy in rebuilding the church on Buena Vista Street. The minister expects to take GEORGE LEGGS. CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY NEVADA CETPY: Mr:-andMrs: George .A. Legg today will celebrate.théir golden wedding anniversary with a reception in their home, 231 Nevada Street. Friends and relatives: from all parts of California will be resent to offer felicitations on the eve. The reception is from 4 to 8 P.M. Legg for many years conducted a hardware and general merchandising . business in Nevada City. His earlier days were. spent in supplying mines, especially the mines that formerly existed around Washington and Graniteville, by freight teams, with powder, pipe, iron rails, drill bits and groceries. A generation ago, Shaw and. Legg was the leading hardware firm in Nevada County. H. SS. Bradley, Mrs.. Lege’s father, made the first , official survey of Nevada City in 1869. He purchased the home where the Fred Bradley, was a noted mining engineer, who with his brother, Philip, established the Juneau Alaska Mine, the largest low grade “mine in the world. an extended vacation with a trip through Northern California before taking another pastorate. He has been secretary treasurer of the Nevada County Ministerial Association for the past two years. % BIRTH PALMER—In Grass_ Valley, Nevada County, June 16, 1948, to Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Palmer, a son. Fo THE: Diary of a 49’er FROM THE BOOK EDITED BY C. L. CANFIELD J ~ CONCLUSION A final word. Nevada pioneers will recall many of the men who figure in the diary. John Hall, John Dunn, Henry Shively, Barker, the Calkinses, these were all Forty-niners, well known in local annals. Niles ‘Searls, Tom Williams, Frank Dunn, Stanton Buckner— whose dignity was so badly ruffled by ‘Rattlesnake Dick’’—were members of the bar, and Zeno P. Davis, the gunsmith, was a familiar character. The brick courthouse that was pronounced an extravagance be'cause there would be no use for it after the gold gave out is replaced by a still more costly one. The ‘Hotel da Paris’’ flourished until late in the sixties, and the quartz veins, so quaintly described as white rock with gold in it, are still yielding treasure. Rock and Brush Creeks are overgrown and choked with growth of alder and willow, the pines that towered above the rude log cabin were felled long ago and a second growth takes their*place, the old trails replaced by dusty highways; yet the coyotes bark, the frogs croak, and the owls hoot in chorus, as when Jackson interpreted it all as « “good-bye.” The flourishing mining camps that he visited, the euphonious “Red Dog,’ Cherokee, Humbug, Rough and Ready, You Bet, Coyoteville, and Blue Tent are but travesties of the old times; even “Lousy Level” is known no more. I am sure we are indebted to Jackson in so far as his diary gives us a glimpse of those golden days. Moved by a spirit of curiosity as to the later career of Jackson, . made inquiries by letter at his old home, Norfolk, Connecticut. . did not get much information from my correspondent—a woman hy the way—but enough to determine that Jackson did not return to tarry in that placid village. She said that a family of Jacksons lived on Pond Hill, about a mile from the town, on a farm; that they had sold the property just before the war; left the state, and it was said that San . Francisco was their destination. They had a son who The Goddess of Liberty is alhad made a fortune in California and had come back cn a visit, accompanied by his wife, a foreign woman _(mark the contempt of the phrase), and that was all she knew of the Jacksons. She devoted a dozen pages . to that interesting girl, Hetty North, which . will try to condense into as many lines. The Norths were prominent people of Colebrook township. Hetty was accomplished, her education was finished off in the Hartford Seminary, she played the melodeon, was a handsome, black-haired, black-eyed beauty, and had taught school at Colebrook Center. In-1860 she married a prosperous . farmer and then went, not exactly crazy, but eccentric; embraced spiritualism and all the other “isms” of the time. Some four years before her death she took to her bed, although affected with no malady, and there she resolutely remained until her dying day. In the light of this I think Jackson is to be congratulated on his escape, and . doubt not that he was far happier with the “foreign woman.” As for Anderson, it has been explained in a private note that he became a leader in the state as a lawyer, politician, orator, and millionaire, and that for various reasons it is better that his identity Leggs now live. Her late brother, . TRAVEL GAINS TO PUT TRUCKEE IN SECOND POSITION TRUCKER? ‘Pravel on U.S: Highway 40 during May boosted Truckee into second place as a point—of--entry into California among the 17 state border quarantine stations. The total of 22,412 fantomchiles coming: through here was topped only by Yermo with 30,412 while Blythe’ was a close third. This was.a gain of nearly 9,000 cars here over the April total. Truckee also clocked 1,898 commercial trucks and led in the number of buses with 658 compared to 618 at Blythe. Total assengers in vehicles traveling on Highway 40 into the state were 73,155. Comparatively, the Stateline station at the south-end of Lake Tahoe tallied 6299 automobiles, 107 trucks, 33 stages and 16,540 passengers. The 3rockaway . station at North Tahoe,:-which opened May 3, had 1506 automobiles, 12 buses and 3968 passengers. Brockaway’s commercial truck record showed blank. Generally traffic entering California during May increased considerably over the previous month, according to the state department of. agriculture. a California’s border. stations last month registered 163,609 automobiles entering the state; 14,741 commercial trucks; 3831 stages and. an overall total. of 508,997 passengers. This compares with April’s— totals of 117,090' cars; 13.376 commercial trucks; 3434 Stages and 365,692 passengers. RECENT ARRIVALS

AT NATIONAL HOTEL NEVADA CITY: Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pinkham, Beverly Hills, Calif; Mr, and Mrs. Morris Hamock, Palo Alto, California; Mr. and Mrs. M. Grotjohn, San Franciseo:”. hic Gy Aceatd, ) 8.. Be: Mr and Mrs. L. N. Tamby, Oakland. Gerald i. Letehworth, Oakland; J. La Widaut,: No Columbia; G. Gordon, S. F.; Don Wasilak, Oakland; Francis Johnson, Fresno. Mrs. W. F. Sullivan. S. F.; Bill Peak, S, F.;. Mrs. Je.H.-Phillips and ‘Miss D. Dowson; Mr and Mrs. L. Palmer, Phoenix, Arizona. R. C. Hanford, S. F.; Margaret McCloskey,—S:-F.;— Mr.. Morbeke and G. Neep, Sacramento; Mr. and Mrs, W. C. Swanson, Sacramento; R. Rothwell, S. F.; George H, Johnson, Reno; D. E. Clark,’ Forest Service. Mill Valley, California; Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Card, Mill Valley,. California; Harry Schwartz, Si. F:; Mr. andMrs. M. W. Hancock, Palo Alto, Calif. Mickey Flowers, Los. Angeles, Calif: Dud Day,. St. Helena, . Calif.; E: L. Spradlin, St. Helena. Calif.; H. F. Gibson, Napa; Hugh Harper, Weaverville, Calif. Lee, Hahn,’ 5S, F.;. E.Cy Adams, Merced, Calif; Marian F,. Cruickshank, S. F.; Glen Decker, S. F.; G. Gordon, S. F. . entice eat GEORGE LATIN GETS NEW SCHOOL CONTRACT GRASS VALLEY: zeorge Latin, local contractor. has been awarded the contract to build the Donner’ Trail Elementary School, a joint undertaking of Placer and Nevada Counties. The contract price is $51,448. It will be erected at Kingvale: Highway 40. The building will consist of two spacious class rooms, constructed of -eement-and wood. Itwill comodate children of the NordenBaxter area, THEY SWIM, TOO aes This is no gag—these young ladies awim, and will prove it in the water show and safety exhibition at the 1948 American National Red Cross convention in San Francisco, June should remain undisclosed.) , 21-24. ASSESSMENT WORK IS SUSPENDED WASHINGTON: Annual assessment work on mining claims will not be necessary this fiscal . year, Rep. Clair Engle announced. . A bill providing a moratorium on assesssment work became law, on June 17 when signed by the President. Although the measure suspends assessment work, it will] be necessary for claim holders to file with: the County Recorder a notice of intention to hold their, claims by noon July 1, 1948. A similar procedure was followed during the war years. . The bill was passed by Con-) gress to assist small mining op-. erators who have been hampered in. completing their assessment work due to bad weather conditions, lack of labor and materials, and high costs. Engle said the law pertains only to the current fiscal year and unless the law is extended assessment work must be completed for the year ending July, 1, 1949. B.P.W.C. HAS ANNUAL PICNIC NEVADA CITY: The Nevada . City Business and_ Professional Women’s Club held its annual picnic last Wednesday evening at Canyon Creek where it runs into! the South Yuba River four miles . above Washington. Each member brought their own . service dishes, and most. of them were equipped with flashlights and scout knives for cutting rods on which to roast weiners. The committee in charge consisted of Eileen Mair, Elfrieda Higer, Georgiana O’Conner ad, Dolly Peterson. . : ~ . SNCHAMBER PLANS . SIGNS BY FOURTH . NEVADA CITY: Directors of the Sierra Nevada Chamber of Commerce have approved the sites for the two new signs to be placed below Auburn, Placer County, and above the junction of Highways 20 and 40. ‘ The location below Auburn Neweastle just east of on Highway 40. is! the The in underpass NEVADA CITY: of Elmer F. Root, Jr. Sacramento the bottom of a canyon Rucker Creck, about a mile from Bowman’s canal by A. C. Young, Jv, one of Root’s fellow telephone workers. 3 aie The body was discovered at 11:35 and a few minutes later was identified by Cliff Carter, an uncle ;of the dead man. The remains were found about 100 feet from the route taken by ‘the first search party-cf May 30th. The Sheriff’s office was notified about 2:39 o’cleock and Coroner Alvah Hooper and Deputy Coroner Stanley Mitchell teft immediately and did not return until 7 o’clock this morning. It required several hours to bring the remains of Root to the mortuary ambulance on the road. In the meantime a_ shortwave radio fiom KAPITI, highway patrol station. reported that, Ed BE. Meyers of 484 South Awtburn St. Was reported dead: of a heart attack at Shotgun Lake, a-small reservoir, about four -miles east of Fuller Lake. Stanley Mitcehell left to bring out Meyers’ remains. The remains fisherman, were found Sunday in near Root had picked up a buddy, Norman lL. Davis of Roseville Saturday, May 29th, for a fishing trip into the high country around Camp 19, a ditch tender station for the Nevada Irrigation District, between Bowman and Fulled Lakes. The two men separated in the afternoon. one to fish down 30wman Canal, the other up, then they were to meet on Fall Creek, and come back together to their camp, made near Camp 19 Station. That was the last seen of Root until found Sunday. Root’s wife, Mrs. Virginia Root, his father, Elmer F. Root. Sr., and his mother survive. Miss Mildred Root, also, bereaved, offered a reward of $1006 for finding Root. This offer was withdrawn last Saturday. Funeral arrangements are in charge of James R. Garlick, funeral director, Sacramento. Dr. Walton F, Prescott made the autopsy. He stated that death was caused by a broken neck, Coroner Alvah Hooper reported that apparently the man had recovered consciousness to some extent and had tried to move from the place where he fell; but had been unable to do so: NORTH SAN JUAN CHERRY CARNIVAL DRAWS THRONC: PAT KESSLER QUEEN _ NORTH SAN JUAN: queen of North San Juan’s evening and Sunday rode attended by the six prince competition for the throne. The parade was the North San Pat Kessler was crowned Cherry Carnival Saturday triumphant in the parade sses who gave her sharp most representative that Juan has had in many a year. The Gold Trail. Riders in their uniforms gave the event a wild western flavor. Floats and decorated vehicles were a notable success. Cherries were abundant and handed out to all comers in profusion. People from far and Sierra County, on the north wide, from Downieville, , to Grass Valley and Nevada City turned out in hundreds to attend the three big dances, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night and to see Sunday’s parade. The North San Juan Chamber of Commerce, which covers most of Highway 49, including Campton_. ville, Yuba County, and the Ridge towns of French . Corral and Sweetland, put a fine feather in its cap by carrying out one of the most successful festivals of the year. AUBURN SHERIFF ASKS DISMISSAL OF DRUNK CHARGE HEART ATTACK KILLS MAN AT. one above the junction is at Cisco AUBURN: An objection to ; on Highway 40. Hugh Brown,. charges of wilful misconduct in “ secretary manager, has been di-. office was entered by Sheriff E. : rected to sign contracts for the Tenis ate (¢ ‘aring i he ix a Hann heics Wabi beion Se ieanois J. Kenison at a hearing in th . GRASS VALLEY: Edward E. chamber with two San Francisco! superior court. Meyers, about 55, died of an acuté advertising firms. It is expected In an eight page document ‘ that the two signs will be in place by July 4th. * Helen Chapman’s Folk Dancing Classes Are filed by his attorney, F. H. Bowers. Kennison objected to the legal sufficiency of the grand jury chorges and asked that the accusation be quashed and dismissed. Judge Arthur Coats of Sutter Continued For Summer County expressed the opinion that NEVADA CITY: The.classes in the first specification in the acfolk. dancing which were con-. cusation, which alleged the apducted by Miss Helen Chapman)! Propriation of money ‘belonging to during the school year in the Nevada City High School: proved so! popular that a group of her stua prisoner, connected with the sheriff’s duties in office. dents have decided to continue He indicated that in order tu them through the summer. stand in court, the accusations The first of a series of dances . Would have to be shown to have was given last Monday evening occurr#d in discharge of the 3 be ata : * ag . n'y 9 in the Elementary. School audi-; duties of ottlees ; torium. The ladies who have been . He allowed District Attornes instrumental in continuing the, ©. E. Tindall ten days to present group are Mrs. Mary Warnecke, authorities in support of the acMrs. Elise De Mattei and Mrs. cusations contained in the grand Marvin Shock. jury document. < ~ SECNAV’S-FIRST AND PRESENT Benjamin Stoddart (right) became the Secretary J 18, 1798 following the formation of the Navy Department on April 30 of that year under President John Adams,. Stoddart served of the most powerful Navy in the world’s history the first Secretary of the Navy on until 1801, ‘Today 4 L. Sulli left), who was sworn in to succeed James V. He lh oo tes lather picraae the nation’s first Secretary of Defense. The photo (Official Navy Photograph) of Stoddart is that ef.a portrait painted by E. F. Andrews. was not shown to be: heart attack Sunday morning on the shores of Shot Gun Lake, four miles east of Fuller Lake in the High Sierras. Jack Godfrey of the Alameda Air Base. who was fishing with him, reported the death by telephone to the Sheriff’s office in Nevada City, who in turn relayed the message by shortwave to Coroner Alvah Hooper who had gone to the Bowman Lake area to return the body of Elmer F. Root, Jr.,, found Sunday morning at the bottom of 4 canyon. Godfrey reorted that Meyers had complained of a pain in his chest some timé prior to his sudden death. In attempting to return over his trail Godfrey lost his way twice and it was about noon when he finally reached @ . telephone. . Stanley Mitchell, deputy coro. ner. immediately organized a party consisting of M. D. Sutton of the New England Orchards at MarysVile, E. H. Parry of Emigrant Gap, both of whom had horses, Ralph Fuhr, who. lives in the vie cinity of Fall Creek, and Jack Frank. candidate for Nevada County supervisor in the recent primary election. Mitchell reports that the party had to buck snowdrifts four and five feet deep part of the way. After recovering the body Which was packed out on one of the horses, Mitchell stated .the party lost their way two or three times. They finally returned te Camp 19, where they picked up the remains of Root, Jr. along toward morning, and returned te Grass Valley and_ returned te Grass Valley at 7 o’clock yesterday morning. : Meyers is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nettie Meyers. and his son, Armand Meyers of San Francisco, Funeral arrangements are in the hands of a local mortuary chapel. Rev. Frank Buck will conduct the service. Interment wil] be in the Masonic Cemetery. Meyers was a charter member of the Grass Valley Rifle, Rod and Gun Club and an ardent sportsman. Deputy Coroner Stanley Mitchell Freports that Meyers died of a heart attack. The deceased was hoist man at the Empire Mine, . Meyers: was. a member of the Mine Workers Protective League, Native Sons of the Golden West of Madison Lodge, D. and A. M. % BIRTHS MacDONALD..—n Grass Vale ley, Nevada County, June 13, 1948, to Rev. and Mrs. John MacDonald of Downieville, Sierra County, a son. ae : Nevada County, June 14, 1948, 1 Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Gelhaus, GELHAUS—In Grass Valley, Root’s Body Found ~ 8