May 3, 1949 (4 pages)

2-—The Nevada City Nugget, Tuesday, May 3, 1949 ] 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association . Published every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in. advance) --.-.-----------+-+-e--e--2-0000+ ys _ Qme year in county (in advance) .-.---.---------------sereeeeeceeecceneneneet re Four months (in advance) -.--..-.------.-------eessensecsenescceneeecnsnneenats er One month (in advance) ‘DOES HUMAN NATURE CHANGE? ‘Does human nature change? Apparently not. The question is called to mind by a little item in today's 75 years ago column of Margaret-Floy Reynolds in another part of this page. A writer on the staff of the Transcript observed young boys on the street corner (wonder if it was the same corner the Bank of America now occupies?) smoking cigars (the little varmints. ). Evidently smoking cigars was alright, but the repercussions possible from that tirst inhalation of nicotine were too dreadful for the Transcript, writer to contemplate. Perhaps he saw the degeneration of an upright youth down the path of an occasional “gol darn , the smoking of that newfangled thing called a cigaret, attempting to fill that inside straight, a whistler at shapely women, or an ogler in a stall in the opera house, until the day arrived when the upright youth had lined his face with the debaucheries of hard words, liquor and women. Apparently there were those who lived in 1874 who thought, as some do today, the world was going to hell in a hurry. But evidently the world did not go the way the longfaces thought. If the youths who transgressed the virtues by drawing on the soothing virus of the Havana weed did go down the path of perdition, it matters not a bit today. The world is still with us—as beautiful and as ugly as it was in 1874. _ The old files of newspapers have always fascinated ‘us'and we have often perused the back issues of various newspapers of olden days. Each verusal bring back anew ‘the realization that human nature has not changed since ahe dawn of time. Each person has his share of good ‘and evil. Each in his way appreciates beauty, has a _,capacity for love, can be sadistically cruel, unjustly “angry, and sincerely remorseful. Styles of journalism “change, but the underlying fundamentals of human na“ture are revealed in pages of a newspaper's recording ~of the passing of time. “* We hear of the good old days when everything was "beautiful and everyone was good, or so it appears ‘through the dimming years of retrospect. It is not so. Let us lok ‘at one year two generations ago ‘in the past of Nevada City. A young adolescent dies in abortion. The apparently ‘happy wife leaves her husband and elopes with the best friend. A professional man is granted a divorce because his wife doesn't keep house, smokes cigarettes, ‘and beats her step-children. A jealous wife attempts suicide because her husband bowed too gallantly to the ladies. .A BOUQUET + Today we offer a bouquet to the postoffice of Nevada _ City. William Wasley’s crew of carriers and clerks are the most accommodating and courteous of any government office we have had occasion to contact in many years. Too often a governmental department forgets it is the servant of the people and takes the attitude people are the servants of the government. . But not the Nevada City post office. We appreciate their friendliness and helpfulness. CLEAN-UP WEEK : This week the Nevada City Women’s Civic club is sponsoring Clean-Up Week. Let’s cooperate with the women and clean-up the yards and the city. Let’s make this city and attractive place for the coming summer season of tourists. Let’s have people recall Nevada City with the thought “‘Oh, that’s the clean and beautiful little “picturesque foothill city.” The current week is a raft of weeks in American _ commercialism. In addition to being Nevada City cleanup week, it is American Camp Week, National Baby ‘Week, National Noise Abatement Week, National Family Week, Be Kind to Animals Week, National Restaurant Week, National and Inter-American Music Week, and National Cutlery Week. Whew! A blundering fool often does more damage than an intentional criminal. Opinions are like clothes in a closet . . . they should often be examined in sunshine to see if they have become moth-eaten. America is a land of free speech, providing your boss or wife aren't listening. A self-made man often needs repair work. 4j Court to have the decree corrected. Just Wonderin I Wonder if the forest trees Le Are shaking in their roots, And if the solemn, big horned owl An eerie warning hoots; And if that bird could utter speech And voice his heart's desire, Would he exclaim right hootingly, “Don’t start a forest fire?” I Wonder if you and . will spend our vacations in the rustling shade of California forests. Will it be our privilege to revel in the beauty of our golden west, listen to the carols of feathered choirs, watch the amusing antics of woodland creatures, inhale the spicy odors of pine, cedar and mountain laurel, and gather inspira. . tion, courage and fortitude for the tasks and problems awaiting our return to the work a day world? ] Wonder if we will leave our peacefule sylvan retreats as we find them; or will some heedless act of ours reduce them to ghastly ruins, snuff out the lives of. their happy denizens, destroy the homes of men and eridanger the lives of those who will be called upon to combat and conquer the demon our hands have wantonly unleashed. The rules are simple and easily followed; extinguish matches and cigarettes before tossing them aside, cover the camp fire and in every way possible, heed the plea of the defenseless forest, ‘Help prevent a forest fire!’’ Let heart and mind constrain us yet “Lest we forget—lest we forget.” Nature calls at this season of the year and the open highways invite. Men begin dreaming of trout streams and parti colored flies; the ladies, bless °em, have ‘visions of sunny care free days in shady nooks with enchanting books to read or a bit of fancy work to be finished; there will be walks through the green forests followed by dips in mountain streams or lakes and always the realization of these dreams is more wonderful than the visions themselves. Yes, the forests invite and nature is a gracious hostess; all that she asks in return for her lavish benefits, is that the guest exercise due caution and make every effort of which he is capable, to preserve the chosen resort in its original charm. and beauty. There is no excuse for carelessness; the awful waste caused annually by the careless habits of men, women and youngsters is more than inexcusable, it is criminal. The rules of the forest are simple, It were folly indeed to forget; Guard all fires, break your match, Crush the lingering sparks From the stub of your cigarette. And now, right. at home, burn all trash, clean out attics and basements, have chimneys cleaned—give the fireman a break. —Adeline Merriam Conner home in Nevada City from Summersville, Contra Costa county, where he had been employed in a coal mine for six months. Nevada County Long Ago 75 YEARS AGO Floy-Margaret Reynolds Peter Purdon was busily engaged in repairing his toll road 20 YEARS AGO between Nevada City and North Fred Searls, Sr., member of a. San Juan. pioner family and a native of Nevada City, passed away in San Francisco. Mr. Searls was the son of the late Judge and Mrs. Niles Searls. In 1876 he graduated from the University of California and entered the law office of his father and his uncle, Judge A. C. Niles, in the brick building built by his The Transcript commented “It is a common sight (evenings) to see young boys standing around street corners in Nevada City smoking cigars. In the first place, parents have no right to allow them to be on the streets after dark. If allowed so to do, it may be expected such vices will be father in the middle eighties op. acquired. posite the courthouse. He was adThe following was the roll of mitted to the bar in 1879 and in. honor in the Oakland ‘(Gold Flat) 1885 married Miss Helen Pond. The children of the couple were Robert, Niles, Henry, Carrol, .Fred and Helen. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Meservey received their many friends at their home at Town Talk in celebration of their golden wedding anniversary. The couple were married in Nevada City on May 7, 1879. Mr. Meservey was a native of Maine. Mrs. Meservey was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Stenger of Nevada City. school: Lizzie Richards, Walter Waters, Katie Richards, Allie Barr, Fred Gillespie, Katie O’Donnel, Mary Denler, Mary Riebold, Maggie Stenger, Thomas Grimes, Ida Maltman, Nora Barnes, Bessie Gillispie, Lavinia Hicks, Elvira Hamilton, Ello McLean, Mary O’Donnel, Christina Riebold, Gussie Wentworth, George Allan, Frank Barr, Charles Davis, Robert McLean, James O’Donnel and Harry Lynd. ‘ 50 YEARS AGO A party of ladies. departed for England to visit their old homes. They were Mrs. John Delbridge of Nevada City, Mrs. Northway and Mrs. Rosevear of Grass Valley and Mrs. Murley of Gold Flat. Mrs, William: Young of Nevada City accompanied them as far as her father’s home in Newcastle, Pa, The.ladies planned to return in! ' the fall. ; * ; Richard Sandow of Cornwall, England, arrived at the home of his uncle, Richard Sandow, of Piety Hill in Nevada City. Lim Yun, the first sluice robber killed in Nevada county in many years, was shot by Thomas. Hall while stealing amalgam from the tail flume of Hall and French's hydraulic mine near French Corral. An attempt was being made ‘to correct a mistake of twenty years before when a beneficiary of the will of William Whitesides; deceased, had been awarded a wrong piece of land in Grass Valley. A petition was filed in the Superior Packard Bell TELEVISION _40-INCH TUBE—$279,50 12-INCH .TUBE—$319.50 Next to Theater—Phone 387-R REAL ESTATE Insurance, Mimeographing, Public Stenographer, Notary. Phone Answering Service STINSON COMPANY 102 West Main Street Grass Valley, Telephone 101-J .John Langman returned to his The Bootery NEVADA CITY MOTHER’S DAY of Black Patori with neat platform soles— Med Hi Heels Sandal or Sling Pumps. 8” ‘SANDALS for Dress Wear VELVETSTEPS BY PETERS 220 Broad Street Dainty Patterns in White with medium dress heel 6” RUBY RING Hosiery in New Spring Shades 51 Gauge—15 Denier New Lower Prices—1.49 or Box of 3 Pair—4.00 45 gauge — 1.39 or Box of 3 Pairs—3.75 SMARTLY STYLED SLIPPERS Made By White Leather Straps PFEIFFERS For bright days or Always a Welcome Gift Summer evenings. 3.49 to 4.98 3.98 to 5.95 renennen (— 5 POR : MOTHER. Sunday, May 8 LOVELY LINGERIE You’d be proud to be seen sleepwalking in this lovely knit rayon gown. It's tailored with the popular cap sleeve and the shirred elastic midriff not only adds to its beauty but really graces your figure. Sizes 32 to 40, Lilac, Seafoam Green. $2.95 CONWAY’S GRASS VALLEY The responsibility for making funeral arrangements js a trying experience for the bereaved. One call secures the services of our staff + who will take charge of all details, efficiently MEL c= and unobtrusively. HOLMES FUNERAL HOME (\ 246 Sacramento St. Telephone 203 N i \) ' 24-HOUR AMBULANCE SERVICE baie CERES vee 7p, oe LF, Sy inet: TS — a ee \

2-—The Nevada City Nugget, Tuesday, May 3, 1949 ] 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association . Published every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in. advance) --..-..-----------+-+-e--e--2-0000+ ys _ Qme year in county (in advance) ..-..---.---------------sereeeeeceeecceneneneet re Four months (in advance) -.--...-.------.-------eessensecsenescceneeecnsnneenats er One month (in advance) ‘DOES HUMAN NATURE CHANGE? ‘Does human nature change? Apparently not. The question is called to mind by a little item in today's 75 years ago column of Margaret-Floy Reynolds in another part of this page. A writer on the staff of the Transcript observed young boys on the street corner (wonder if it was the same corner the Bank of America now occupies?) smoking cigars (the little varmints. ). Evidently smoking cigars was alright, but the repercussions possible from that tirst inhalation of nicotine were too dreadful for the Transcript, writer to contemplate. Perhaps he saw the degeneration of an upright youth down the path of an occasional “gol darn , the smoking of that newfangled thing called a cigaret, attempting to fill that inside straight, a whistler at shapely women, or an ogler in a stall in the opera house, until the day arrived when the upright youth had lined his face with the debaucheries of hard words, liquor and women. Apparently there were those who lived in 1874 who thought, as some do today, the world was going to hell in a hurry. But evidently the world did not go the way the longfaces thought. If the youths who transgressed the virtues by drawing on the soothing virus of the Havana weed did go down the path of perdition, it matters not a bit today. The world is still with us—as beautiful and as ugly as it was in 1874. _ The old files of newspapers have always fascinated ‘us'and we have often perused the back issues of various newspapers of olden days. Each verusal bring back anew ‘the realization that human nature has not changed since ahe dawn of time. Each person has his share of good ‘and evil. Each in his way appreciates beauty, has a _,capacity for love, can be sadistically cruel, unjustly “angry, and sincerely remorseful. Styles of journalism “change, but the underlying fundamentals of human na“ture are revealed in pages of a newspaper's recording ~of the passing of time. “* We hear of the good old days when everything was "beautiful and everyone was good, or so it appears ‘through the dimming years of retrospect. It is not so. Let us lok ‘at one year two generations ago ‘in the past of Nevada City. A young adolescent dies in abortion. The apparently ‘happy wife leaves her husband and elopes with the best friend. A professional man is granted a divorce because his wife doesn't keep house, smokes cigarettes, ‘and beats her step-children. A jealous wife attempts suicide because her husband bowed too gallantly to the ladies. .A BOUQUET + Today we offer a bouquet to the postoffice of Nevada _ City. William Wasley’s crew of carriers and clerks are the most accommodating and courteous of any government office we have had occasion to contact in many years. Too often a governmental department forgets it is the servant of the people and takes the attitude people are the servants of the government. . But not the Nevada City post office. We appreciate their friendliness and helpfulness. CLEAN-UP WEEK : This week the Nevada City Women’s Civic club is sponsoring Clean-Up Week. Let’s cooperate with the women and clean-up the yards and the city. Let’s make this city and attractive place for the coming summer season of tourists. Let’s have people recall Nevada City with the thought “‘Oh, that’s the clean and beautiful little “picturesque foothill city.” The current week is a raft of weeks in American _ commercialism. In addition to being Nevada City cleanup week, it is American Camp Week, National Baby ‘Week, National Noise Abatement Week, National Family Week, Be Kind to Animals Week, National Restaurant Week, National and Inter-American Music Week, and National Cutlery Week. Whew! A blundering fool often does more damage than an intentional criminal. Opinions are like clothes in a closet . . . they should often be examined in sunshine to see if they have become moth-eaten. America is a land of free speech, providing your boss or wife aren't listening. A self-made man often needs repair work. 4j Court to have the decree corrected. Just Wonderin I Wonder if the forest trees Le Are shaking in their roots, And if the solemn, big horned owl An eerie warning hoots; And if that bird could utter speech And voice his heart's desire, Would he exclaim right hootingly, “Don’t start a forest fire?” I Wonder if you and . will spend our vacations in the rustling shade of California forests. Will it be our privilege to revel in the beauty of our golden west, listen to the carols of feathered choirs, watch the amusing antics of woodland creatures, inhale the spicy odors of pine, cedar and mountain laurel, and gather inspira. . tion, courage and fortitude for the tasks and problems awaiting our return to the work a day world? ] Wonder if we will leave our peacefule sylvan retreats as we find them; or will some heedless act of ours reduce them to ghastly ruins, snuff out the lives of. their happy denizens, destroy the homes of men and eridanger the lives of those who will be called upon to combat and conquer the demon our hands have wantonly unleashed. The rules are simple and easily followed; extinguish matches and cigarettes before tossing them aside, cover the camp fire and in every way possible, heed the plea of the defenseless forest, ‘Help prevent a forest fire!’’ Let heart and mind constrain us yet “Lest we forget—lest we forget.” Nature calls at this season of the year and the open highways invite. Men begin dreaming of trout streams and parti colored flies; the ladies, bless °em, have ‘visions of sunny care free days in shady nooks with enchanting books to read or a bit of fancy work to be finished; there will be walks through the green forests followed by dips in mountain streams or lakes and always the realization of these dreams is more wonderful than the visions themselves. Yes, the forests invite and nature is a gracious hostess; all that she asks in return for her lavish benefits, is that the guest exercise due caution and make every effort of which he is capable, to preserve the chosen resort in its original charm. and beauty. There is no excuse for carelessness; the awful waste caused annually by the careless habits of men, women and youngsters is more than inexcusable, it is criminal. The rules of the forest are simple, It were folly indeed to forget; Guard all fires, break your match, Crush the lingering sparks From the stub of your cigarette. And now, right. at home, burn all trash, clean out attics and basements, have chimneys cleaned—give the fireman a break. —Adeline Merriam Conner home in Nevada City from Summersville, Contra Costa county, where he had been employed in a coal mine for six months. Nevada County Long Ago 75 YEARS AGO Floy-Margaret Reynolds Peter Purdon was busily engaged in repairing his toll road

20 YEARS AGO between Nevada City and North Fred Searls, Sr., member of a. San Juan. pioner family and a native of Nevada City, passed away in San Francisco. Mr. Searls was the son of the late Judge and Mrs. Niles Searls. In 1876 he graduated from the University of California and entered the law office of his father and his uncle, Judge A. C. Niles, in the brick building built by his The Transcript commented “It is a common sight (evenings) to see young boys standing around street corners in Nevada City smoking cigars. In the first place, parents have no right to allow them to be on the streets after dark. If allowed so to do, it may be expected such vices will be father in the middle eighties op. acquired. posite the courthouse. He was adThe following was the roll of mitted to the bar in 1879 and in. honor in the Oakland ‘(Gold Flat) 1885 married Miss Helen Pond. The children of the couple were Robert, Niles, Henry, Carrol, .Fred and Helen. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Meservey received their many friends at their home at Town Talk in celebration of their golden wedding anniversary. The couple were married in Nevada City on May 7, 1879. Mr. Meservey was a native of Maine. Mrs. Meservey was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Stenger of Nevada City. school: Lizzie Richards, Walter Waters, Katie Richards, Allie Barr, Fred Gillespie, Katie O’Donnel, Mary Denler, Mary Riebold, Maggie Stenger, Thomas Grimes, Ida Maltman, Nora Barnes, Bessie Gillispie, Lavinia Hicks, Elvira Hamilton, Ello McLean, Mary O’Donnel, Christina Riebold, Gussie Wentworth, George Allan, Frank Barr, Charles Davis, Robert McLean, James O’Donnel and Harry Lynd. ‘ 50 YEARS AGO A party of ladies. departed for England to visit their old homes. They were Mrs. John Delbridge of Nevada City, Mrs. Northway and Mrs. Rosevear of Grass Valley and Mrs. Murley of Gold Flat. Mrs, William: Young of Nevada City accompanied them as far as her father’s home in Newcastle, Pa, The.ladies planned to return in! ' the fall. ; * ; Richard Sandow of Cornwall, England, arrived at the home of his uncle, Richard Sandow, of Piety Hill in Nevada City. Lim Yun, the first sluice robber killed in Nevada county in many years, was shot by Thomas. Hall while stealing amalgam from the tail flume of Hall and French's hydraulic mine near French Corral. An attempt was being made ‘to correct a mistake of twenty years before when a beneficiary of the will of William Whitesides; deceased, had been awarded a wrong piece of land in Grass Valley. A petition was filed in the Superior Packard Bell TELEVISION _40-INCH TUBE—$279,50 12-INCH .TUBE—$319.50 Next to Theater—Phone 387-R REAL ESTATE Insurance, Mimeographing, Public Stenographer, Notary. Phone Answering Service STINSON COMPANY 102 West Main Street Grass Valley, Telephone 101-J .John Langman returned to his The Bootery NEVADA CITY MOTHER’S DAY of Black Patori with neat platform soles— Med Hi Heels Sandal or Sling Pumps. 8” ‘SANDALS for Dress Wear VELVETSTEPS BY PETERS 220 Broad Street Dainty Patterns in White with medium dress heel 6” RUBY RING Hosiery in New Spring Shades 51 Gauge—15 Denier New Lower Prices—1.49 or Box of 3 Pair—4.00 45 gauge — 1.39 or Box of 3 Pairs—3.75 SMARTLY STYLED SLIPPERS Made By White Leather Straps PFEIFFERS For bright days or Always a Welcome Gift Summer evenings. 3.49 to 4.98 3.98 to 5.95 renennen (— 5 POR : MOTHER. Sunday, May 8 LOVELY LINGERIE You’d be proud to be seen sleepwalking in this lovely knit rayon gown. It's tailored with the popular cap sleeve and the shirred elastic midriff not only adds to its beauty but really graces your figure. Sizes 32 to 40, Lilac, Seafoam Green. $2.95 CONWAY’S GRASS VALLEY The responsibility for making funeral arrangements js a trying experience for the bereaved. One call secures the services of our staff + who will take charge of all details, efficiently MEL c= and unobtrusively. HOLMES FUNERAL HOME (\ 246 Sacramento St. Telephone 203 N i \) ' 24-HOUR AMBULANCE SERVICE baie CERES vee 7p, oe LF, Sy inet: TS — a ee \