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Nevada City stiiiseiie — Monday, January 26, 1942.
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_ 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
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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
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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
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© DEFENSE
@STAMPS
ete
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dogs, as of January . , 1942.
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% : : Licenses are $2. each for. . .
: —e-—— : male.and female, procurable
, Chamber of Commerce : during regular hours at the
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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”’ ‘
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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, .
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of .
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students from the Combat zone will!
states N.
the Lassen’
of
the SusaaYoung men, citizens of the. United,
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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.
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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