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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Nugget

January 26, 1942 (4 pages)

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ope Nevada City stiiiseiie — Monday, January 26, 1942. ae _ DIVORCE +Eaveen Jr. Col. Offers WILSON—In Nevada City, JanuC = Aviati ary 24, 1942 Robert B. Wilson ourse in Aviation against Bessie M, Wilson; suit filed; ground, extreme cruelty. Of the sixty nine inétitutions of higher learning in California, the ‘Lassen Junior College, a Susanville is the only one able to offer Civilian Pilot Training during the spring semester from its own-campus and community airport, Lassen lies outside the combat’ zone establishéd to RISLEY’S FALL FASHIONS Dresses, Hats, Hosiery, Slips, Blouses, Sweaters, Skirts, Belts, Formals, Costume Jewelry, Tre Lur and Beautee-fit Bras, . Cleaning, Pressing, Tailoring 106 N. Pine Street, Nevada City FINE WATCH REPAIRING Radio Service & Repairing Work Called and Delivered i : . FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE . . DRIVE IN. I> Clarence R. Gray FOOD PALACE Phone 152 Groceries, Fruit and Vegetables Beer and Wine con. YORK AND COMMERCIAL STREETS NEVADA CITY, PHONE 398 for 20 Coyote Street ~\ . . . ! i ——-J NOTICE! DOGOWNERS tale lester teieetetetetoioieioietog mets : psc "EM *. 11Of the City of Nevada are 3 FLY oh ean ip * £. . linstructed that, they must ® BUY %. . . purchase licenses. for ‘their i, © DEFENSE @STAMPS ete Ps dogs, as of January . , 1942. re ah % : : Licenses are $2. each for. . . : —e-—— : male.and female, procurable , Chamber of Commerce : during regular hours at the ’ as PHONE 575 *. 1. City Hall, Nevada City. UnOFFICE IN CITY HALL + : : *. . . less properly licensed, dogs hihi eeeeeeeeeeeeeii . ! Wil] be impounded after February . , 1942. MAX SOLARO Chief of Police Nevada City HEADQUARTERS FOR SKIING PARTIES “A SHORT RUN TO A LONG RUN IN L THE SNOW”’ ‘ i. ~~ For VENETIAN BLINDS and LATEST PATTERNS IN WALL PAPER NATIONAL HOTEL AND COFFEE SHOP R % NEVADA CITY CALIFORNIA John W. Darke 109-3 Phones 109-M NEVADA CITY ASSAY AND REFINING OFFICE Practical mining tests from 75 to 1000 pounds, giving the free gold percentages of sulphurets, valuc of sulphurets and tailings. Mail order check work promptly attended to. Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Agent for New York-California Underwriters, Westchester and Welaware Underwriters Insurance Companies, Automobile Insurance E.J.N.OTT -include all areas of California withOe eT lege may be accepted in 150 miles of the coastline in which civilian aircraft have been grounded by army authority, Applications be considered’ immediately, HMcCollom, Dean-of Junior College and Coordinator Civil Pilot Training at {ville college. ; States from nineteen to twenty . years of age, who have gompieted ai ‘least 30 college units . work and are enrolled for ‘semester in the. Lassen sane or sats for the / course. Applicants must pass a phy-! sical examination. . The. Civil “Pilot Training. prosra fy organized-‘ander the Depar niet lof Commerce, and is sitbsidi b ithe féderal government. The ¢ tthe student is six dollars physical examination and for the }. lars for insurance coveraze { Eurollment for the spring te>m . ] will take place on Monday, January 26. Interested students ‘should make ie alacrialadae at once. NUTRITION GROUP . men o! Proprietor ‘WHEN IN SAN FRANCISCO MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT CLARK HOTEL 217 Eddy Street Rates from $1.00 per day __ HOTEL CLUNIE IT’S FAMOUS COFFEE SHOP . ‘AND COCKTAIL BAR HAVE BEEN REMODELED AND REFURNISHED UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Rates from $1.50 Up . Excellent Service—Best Food SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA JACK BRUNO, Manager . 8TH AND K STREET, HARVEY M. TOY cope oaepiooa! PROPERTIES ‘es of mining and is expected to g TO MEET HERE Rev. David Ralsten, age n of 1 : 24: . the Nevada-Sierra County Nutrition Committee, announced today a meeting of the group will be held Wednesdaynight at the City Hall herg committees atready am ed, Chairman Ralston committee personnel be wi} an‘nounced, Delegates from Downievilile, Truckee and other outlying communities are expected to. be represented at the meeting. Plans will he outlined for future activities of the committee, Merch of Dimes Drive Opens Here; President’s Ball Saturday Night ~ Nevada Cityans this week are rz ed to support the March of Dinas drive and attend -the President's Birthday Ball, which will be held Saturday night at the Veterans Memorial Building in Grass Valley. ‘Both are for the benefit of infantile paralysis victims, assuring funds for the continuance of the fight against the dreaded malady. Fred Garrison has been apointed chairman of the March of . Dimes committee in this city. Garrison and his committee will acatively work here this week to make Nevada Cityans March of Dimes conscious, * IN. THE NAVY Tom Legg, son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Legg of this city, who has enlisted in the naval aviation corps, was home for the weekend. He reports this afternoon: at the naval headquarters in San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Netz Return— ‘Mr. and Mrs. Luawig Netz, prominent resident of this city, have returned from Oregon, where they had spent several weeks for their health. The Sunshine ‘Circle, women’s society of the Methodist Church. wil meet at 1:30 o’clock: tomorrow af. ternoon in the church here. Worthen Bradley Heads Mining Chapter SAN FRAINCISCO, Jan, 26.—Organization of the California Chapter of the American Mining Congress was completed at a meeting of mining executives held in this city January 17. The new chapter ‘brings together many of the various brancnive fo, the mining industry a more unified front in matters of puwhblic relations, both nationally and within the state. Worthen Bradley, of the Bradley Company was elected. president of the new organization. Other officials elected*are as follows: Russell Mumford, Amriean Potash & Chemical Corporation, vice president; Roy E. Tremoureoux, U.,,S. Lime Products seven dolad In addition to-the reports of chair-. Co., vice president; Albert F. Knorp, . . of . H students from the Combat zone will! states N. the Lassen’ of the SusaaYoung men, citizens of the. United, . ! . . i Virginia City, / underground workings beneath the
FOR VICTORY By WARREN BAYLEY This feature appears through the courtesy of ©. K. Tire Weld Co. G / RB. (Red) Jarrard, Hills Flat, Grass Valley, California. Nevada. The tremendous wealth of the Comstock Lode has made more fortunes than any other area of equal size in the world. It has produced a billion dollars in silver and gold. Its far reaching effects founded a transcontinental railroad, a great steamship line and a_ great newspaper chain. Exquisite palaces were built in Europe with riches that came out of the Gomstock and the San Francisco Stock Exchange was actually founded to handle Comstock manipulations that were spreading around the entire globe. Twenty three miles south of Reno, this fantastically rich mining . district is peaceful and quiet today. Some mines still operate. Virginia City, in the theart of the Comstock two decades. Gold and silver around here for years ‘Comstock Lode ed. The tremendous value of the find wasn’t fully realized until 1857. Then the rush was on. bringing the hordes of miners from far and a huge back wash of prospeciors from the California rush of ’49. Virginia City sprang up, with 35,000 hopeful people. The wild speculation of local miners began to spread throughout the land and by 1862 a means of regulated exchange was sorely needed. The San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board was organized for the purpose Jsecond in size only to the one in Lode, is far from abandoned. But the! New York. Action on the market berip-roaring activity of ‘the sixties! came terrific. At times the doors to and ‘seventies, when silver was king/ the Exchange had to be guarded by have passed. . police to stem the frantic rush of An example of surrounding wealth buyers gone mad over Nevada mines. is the ore with which local streets are Speculation was even made in feet paved—valued at ten dollars a ton. and inches. of Comstock workings. An example of the decay that has The 1868 race to control the Hale set in since the silver market h-. and Norcross mine in the Lode sent ed is the neglect of homes and dthe price of a ‘‘foot’’ from $2,825 to ings. Rows of them that were straight $7,100 in a single week. By 1875 the and neat when they went up in such total value of the Comstock shares a hurry after the disastrous fire in exceeded $300,000,000. Six years 1875 now stagger and wobble from later that valuation had slumped to a the shrinking and compressing of the mere $7,000,000. big timbers shoring up the maze of Fearing the steady stream ver flowing from western Nevada mines, Europe, long dependent on gold asa base for money, called the world’s. firstinternational. monetary conference. Then occurred a fluke that has yet to be explained. Our proffered ‘bill emerged failing to provide for the silver dollar as a medum of excthange. The death warrant of silver had been signed. The silver bubble burst, losing as many forbefore the of siltown. Over 700 miles of such tunnels burrow through the Comstock, out of which have come twenty million tons of ore From depths rangsecretary-treasurer; C. C. Prior, Central Eureka Mining Company; Wm. C. Browning, Golden Queen Mining Company; F.C. Van Deinse, Yuba soli 3 Phin: ! , ; tunes as it had won. ba: pacinela Be pain: cae s Worth over dollar an ounce in ‘Campbell, Pacific Coast Borax Com1873, silver had @ropped to half that pany; IF. W. Nobs, Empire Star Min-. yalnation by 1895. Most of the mines es Ltd., BE. B. DeGolia, Gold Hill} around Virginia City closed. Nevada’s Dredging Company; Senator Thom-. a@ge of silver was ended. as McCormack, Natomas Company; ANNULMENT Roy W. Moore, Cactus Queen Mining Company, members of the executive committee. The new. association the largest list-of mines ever brough together inia California mining association. GRANHOLM -— In Nevada City, January 24, 1942, Roy Granholm incorporates (asain Edith Granholm; annulment tjasked; sround, fraud. . ea hen shopping mention the Nevada City Nugget ads +205 Pine St oppc_ite courthouse. Neval@da City. Calif. FRANK G. FINNEGAN ATTOIINEY ATF LAW 207 North Pine Street Pho soe ing to 3,300 feet_silver poured forth . to upset the world’s equilibrium for were worked . itself was discover. } a asta * 203 West Main St. crammed . PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY DENTISTS DR. JOHN R. BELL DENTIST Office Hours: 8:38 to 5:30 Evenings by Appointment vind oie & Powell cree Phene DOCTORS B. W. HUMMELT, M. D. PHYISECIANAND SURGEON 400 Broad Street 'tfficetHours: 10-12-a. m,; 2-5 p. mm. Svenings. 7-8. Phone 395 X-RAY W. W. REED, M. PHYSICIAN AND SURG 7 N Nevada City, Calif. Office 412—8road Street Hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m. tesidence Phone 2. Office Phone 362 «= HARRY M. VICKEE ATTORNEY AT LAW Nevada City, California Telephone -273 H. WARD SHELDON ATTORNEY AT LAW Union Building Broad Street Nevada City Telephone 28 “FUNERAL. DIRECTORS HOLMES FUNERAL HOME The Holmes Funeral Home service is priced within the means of. all. Ambulance service at all hours. Phone 203 246 Sacramento St.-.pe ASSAYER-— HAL D. DRAPER, Ph. D. ASSAYER ANED € ‘ONSULTING CHicsiisT i Nevada City, California Office 364. Home 246-. Box 743 : MUSIC_ GLADYS WILSON TEACHER OF PEANO Nevada City Alexander St. Grass Valley +29 Henderson St. Nevada City a 58 Phone 434-JPhone 444 MINING ENGINBERS J. F. OCONNOR Mining and@ Ciwis Emgineer United States Mineral Surveying Licensed Surveyor Grass Valles GRASS VALLEY — —DENTISTS . DR. ROBT. W. DETTNER DENTIST X-RAY Facilities Available Hours: 9:00-5:00. Evening appointments. 12034 Miil Street. Phone 77 Grass Valley, Calif. DR. H. H. KEENE DENTAE SURGEON ZL te: S&S: Sundays and Evenings by appointment. 143% Mill St., Grass Valley, Phone 996 DOCTORS CARL PO JONES, M.D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: ‘1 to 3; 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays 41:30 to “12:30 129 South Auburn St. Grass Valley S.F. TOBIAS, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON . 214 Neal St., Grass Valley Office Hours: 12-2 and 7-8 Phone: Office 429Residence 1042 DANIEL UL. HIRSCH, M. D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offices and Receiving Hospital, 118 Bush St. Hours: 10-12; 2-5, evenings 7-8 P. M. Day or night phone 71. ——_ NEVADA CITY ; FRATERNAL AND . CLUB DIRECTORY Hours: Calif. I WOMEN’S CIVIC CLUB Regular meetings the 2nd and . 4th Tuesdays of the month, at the Methodist Church Hall, 2: 30 Pp. m. MRS. W. P. SAWYER, Pres. MRS. RICHARD: GOYNE, Secy. boards, and at Pi the Sere YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE RICH to help American Defense. That’s the theme of the above poster, one of the newest of the Defense Savings promotional 3 bulletin er public places. This poster empha: eS _ment that every American can—and must—pitch in if the United States is to have the arms and the tools necessary to Reavis her freedom.. now going up in streetcars, on 2 point advanced by the Treasury DepartPema nie eg ee. eee Se 3 oe pe eee NEVADA CITY LODGE, No. 518 B. PP. Oo. ELKS Meets every Thursday evening in Elks Home, Pine St. Phone 108 Visiting Elks welcome. S ae SCHEEMER, Exalted Ruler. HARRISON RANDALL, Sec aa PARLOR NO. 56, N. Ss. G. W. aie Meets every Tuesday evenine at Pythian Castle, 232 Broad Street Visiting Native Sons welcome. ROBERT TUCKER, Pres