July 1, 1938 (12 pages)

FOURTH OF JULY NEVADA CITY vaitainhae The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA ISSUE Vl Yer The Gold Center meen cr armen ot —= FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1938. Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. Little straws in lthe wind indicate the direction Mr. Roosevelt and his New Deal are taking -us. The last little straw, speaking only from a national standpoint is Whe partial ballot just concluded at the Lava Cap ‘mine by the ClO-commuists. Wihile this is only a straw so far as national affairs are concerned, it is easy to see whaltt a huge burden it would prove to the mining industry of Nevada County, if generaly enforced on all mine -operators, — The partial vote was that of 175 employes of the mine out of 280 now employed. The men voted 135 against 14 for a week’s vacation annually with pay. They voted 94 in favor and 49 against the proposal of a union hiring hall, which would speedily reduce the mine to a closed shop status. They voted by a large majority in favoring a plan under which no worker who'had ever displayed any.antagonism to the CIO could be employed at the mine. These are radical changes in employment set up that Harry Bridges, the Australian communist, has been advocating for some years. Last summer he threatened to bring shis_hiring hall system, on a “march in-land” to California's ‘agricultural’ regions: The union hall as operated by Bridges and other communists, effectively places every industrial establishment at the mercy of labor. racketeers. These. racketeers notoriously gel] the opportunity to work ‘to the poor dupes that subscribe to thie system. In the marine unions where it is practiced to a limited extent the labor turnover is terrific. A man works for a voyage or a month, after paying smartly for the chance work, is fired, and another poor sucker pays his ‘“‘fee’ to the labor boss, and steps inito the job vaicatedIf such a hiring hall were established in Nevada county eventnally every industrious and home-owning miner would be edged! out of his job and his place filled by radicals and transients. Nevada County people need not imagine that such a rupture in the pleasant and peaceful relations that have existed here for twenty years, with the ‘exception the little clash in April, cannot take place here. It can if we coddle the theory ‘of Mr. Cooey that the world grows better and better. Since the’ CIO was born of a communist mother and a labor racketeer father, the world has grown decidedly worse for decent and patriotic citizens, for instance, in San Francisco. There whole rows of apartment (houses stand vacant. There to . . (Continued on Page Two) The Clampers are summoned by their Noble Grand Humbug, Fred Nobs, to meet at the winding of the Great Hewgag, Saturday. (tomorrow) night in, the Plaza, at 8:30 p. m. The Noble Grand Musician, BE. B. (Brownie) Dudley gave the vast horn a terfific try-out Tuesday evening and pronounced it SATISFACTORY. To the William Bull Meek ichapter of E. Clampus Vitus, the Fourth of July committee, headed by George Gildersleeve \ha,s assigned the noble duty of looking after the Fiesta amusements and sundry. entertainments. These will be centered in Armory Hall. Hal Draper is chairman of the taxi ten-cent terpsichoreon department, assisted by Jack Widauf, Dick Lane and Carrol Coughlan. Emmett Gallagher is the chairman of the committee on variety floor shows, assisted by John Gaskins, Charles Elliott and _ Dr. Walter Hawkins. Lou Kopp heads a committee on refreshments, consisting of Andy Holmes, Tom Richards, Cy Sofge, Perey Carr, Dick Goyne, Paul. Jenks, and Larry Larrobe. DeWitt Nelson will have charge of the decorations. i Ed Jacobs, chairman of the regalia and costume committee of the Clampers thas decided upon a double ‘barrelled No. 10 gauge shotgun of the early nineteenth century varvhety.«. Costumes. will.consist of a white shirt with a red badge upon which is depicted in gold, a crested pick and shovel. Hats will be sawed ‘at William Home’s men’s store, -the old Lace House, at. 50c Clampers wives are hopefully expect-] What Say The Brethren? ~— Onward To El Dorado! off: plugs of all colors. These, Clampers are expected to obtain from Five and Ten Store on Broad street at 39c each, and badges may be found in ed to sew these badges on their hus‘band’s white shirts. The parade of the Clampers Saturday night will be headed by the officers of this ancient and mystic order. Bands iof wierd music will play the old ditties that once stirred the blood of the Argonauts. Noble Grand Musician Dudley thas issued a call for all old fiddlers and guitar players who play divinely by ear. The parade will be illuminated by red flares and ‘kerosene torches, and a long rope provided by the Grand Humbug himself will keep. the Clampers from leaving the line of march for wayside diversions. H. M. Leete is chairman of the parade committee. 2 The Lord Sholto Douglass chapter of E Clampus Vitus, Auburn, has been invited to join in the Clampers} parade Saturday night. They have ‘been asked particularly to bring their Grand Noble Humbug and their superintelligent and enormous he-goat. This animal has a versatile talent. In This animal has versatile talent. The William Bull Meek chapter despairs of leasing or purchasing a horned demon of matchless vigor and regal mein such as wears the livery of the Auburn Clampers, ANDY HOLMES INSTALLED HEAD OF ROTARY CLUB Clyde Gwin gave a report to the Rotary club of the International Rotary conclave in San Francisco. Gwin was official delegate for the club. The retiring president of the local club, H. M. Leete, was ‘presented with a past president’s pin, and A, M. Holmes, the new president for the. year beginning July 1, was installed in office. The Grass Valley Rotary club represented by Harold Robinson, secretary, made a proposal that the two clubs should unite in putting a ‘Rotary float into Monday’s Fourth of July parade, and the Nevada City club aecepted gratefully this offer of co-operation. The report made ‘by Clyde Gwin on bodes International will be concluded at next Thursday’s meeting and next Mriday’s Nugget will carry his report ‘completed. Vfor one week’s LAVA CAP MEN VOTE FAVORABLY ON HIRING HALL In a vote in which 175 employes of the 280 employed in the Lava Cap mine participated, majorities voted vacation annually with pay, for those employed a year or more. The vote on this proposal stood 135 for, to 14 against. On the proposal that all miners employed in. the/Lava Cap, be hired through a CIO hiring ‘hall, and that all those who ever opposed the CIO be debarred from working in ‘the Lava Cap, the vote stood 94 to 49. A majority also voted for a change in the meeting night from Sunday to.a weekday night. Secretary R. J. Harris of the CIO union said approximately twenty votes of the men employed on the surface of the mine have not been tabulated. A year ago the CIO union was designated as the bargaining agency . for the Lava Cap miners following a National Labor Relations Board vote. Harris said the next move will. be to open negotiations for a new contract with General Manager Otto Schiffner. The present contract . expires August 1. Harris said a special meeting of Lava Cap men will be’ held in the neay future to select a negotiating committee. to confer with Schiffner. PATRIOTIC SERVICES. “AT METHODIST CHURCH The Methodist Episcopal church fhas announced the following program for church Sunday. Rev. H. H, Buckner, pastor. Sunday school at 10 a. m.; morning service at 11 a. m. which will include a solo by Miss Helen Arbogast and the sermon by the Rev. Buckner, “Patriotism’’. Communion service will ‘follow the sermon. The Epworth League will meet at 6:30, followed by the evening service, which will include singeach. NO ISSUE OF NEVADA CITY NUGGET ON FOURTH The Nevada City Nugget will close with other business houses on Monday, July Fourth, in order that everyone concerned in the publication may have a day of recreation. There will be no issue of tthe Nugget on that day. PRESIDENT SIGNS 1938 MINING MORATORIUM President Roosevelt has signed legislation freeing prospectors from the necessity: of performing required assessment work for the current fiseal year on-mining claims held by location. The exemption will aplly to claims in ‘both 'the United States and Alaska. Secretary Ickes and the lhouse mines and mining committee opposed the moratorium proposal, introduced by Senator Johnson, Republican of California, but congress ignored their objections and sent ‘the legislation to the president a few hours before adjournment. Similar relief has been extended prospectors every year since 1932. PROOFS OF LABOR FILED (Mrs. Anna Tucker, deputy county recorder of Nevada ‘county, stated yesterday that several hundred proofs, of labor on mining claims have been filed. Requirements are $100 worth of labor on each claim and this county, being the banmer gold producing-.county of ‘California, has many miners ‘holding ground. .The president: signed the mine moratorium on assessment work Wednesday and as the news spread several who had provisions and men in readiness to go‘to their properties quickly changed their plans. Deep snows have held up work on properties in the higher mountains making all work late. Thursday morning there was a throng of miners at the court house waiting to file proofs of labor and moratoriums on ‘their assessment work. BUSINESS EXPANSION _ PAGE : The Nevada City-Grass Valley Trade Expansion Page which was to have begun its run of ten consecutive weeks in this issue of the Nugget will make its first appearance one week from today, July 8. Copy of a large number of advertisers, who are busy with preparations for the Fourth, was delayed and after consulting many subscribers to this new plan of increasing patronage for home-owned and local stores, it was considered wise to postpone the initial publication one week: Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Nelson will leave July fifth for a vacation that will take them to their home in Boone, Iowa. Plans are to return about the 25th of July and upon their return they will visit in Minneapolis and the Black Hills. Mr. Nelson is superintendent of the Tahoe National forest. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Burr will spend July 4th in Reno, visiting friends. and attending a rodeo and celebration. 2 ing of patriotic songs and -an address; ‘“‘The Land We Love.’ Rev. Buckner also announces that on Tuesday evening at 7:30 the bible study will be held. By ROY DEETER Without doubt.Nevada City has a grand program lined up for the celebration of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of July. ‘There will be something doing every minute. Nevada City bethat it is, famous for its mining industries, and a perfect vacation land to boot, lends itself admirably to the junique form of celebration it is’ using this year. Celebrating the release from. Mexican rule, which ovccurred in February 1848, the town has reverted to Mexican costumes and motive, This idea has been carried out in the Nugget special edition, in window :and street decorations, and in many of the floats. Starting Saturday evening, the Clampers are having ’a torch light ous for its fun fests, there is doubt about it, thsi parade will be colorful. It will end at ElDorado, also in charge of the Clampers, where there will be every conceivable kind of amusement and also dancing. ElDorado will live up to its reputation of fun and frivolity. There will be entertainment each evening from 7 p. m. to 2 a. m. Sunday will start off with patriotic services ‘fall Churches" at" 11 a.m: At three o’clock Sunday afternooa there will ‘be patriotic exercises at Pioneer Park, a perfect setting for an excellent program khich includes, Community Singing. The Nevada City high sehool band, patriotic solo -by Mrs, Charles Elliott’. who’s lovely voice is well known here. Mr. E. Evans of Oakland will olsa sing and Mrs. Bernie Shaw Evans of Oakland will preside at the piano.’ Judge George Jones will deliver an oration. Sunday evening there. will be a variety program, lasting from 7 to 10 p. m. on the specially erected ing the picturesque mountain town. parade. This organization being fam. no Nevada City Invites The World To Join In Three-Day Fiesta stage on Pine street. Monday of course will be the day, with the grand parade starting at 10 a. m. The following floats havebeen planned for: Division of street floats, Coyote street, Park avenue, Hast and West Broad streets, Boulder street, Fae tory stret, Bridge street, Washington strett, Gethsemene street, Church street, Spring street, Nimrod street, Other floats include, The Nugget, Washington Grammar School P. T. A., Chamber iof Commerce, Berggren Jewelry Store, Kopps Bakery, Lace House, Cub Scouts, Sugar Pime Products Company, Four Floats from the Forest Service. A division from Grass Valley and many more that will come as.a delightful surprise tethe onlookers. After the parade there will be a great number of events on Pine street and also at the Plaza, starting at 1 p. m. and continuing through out the afternoon, There will be several boxing bouts, which promise te be excellent exhibitions of this manly art. Prince and Black Gold, the two marvelous black German shepherd dogs will give performances, there will be music and singing and rdees for. girls and: boys: ofall ages. The water fight between the volunteer. fire departments of Grass Valley and Nevada City will be theld at the Plaza and ‘there will be a rock drilling contest. Each evening there. will.be enter. . tainment and danicing at ElDorado, and with so much doing we’d say it will be a job to pick out the things you want to see most, but wherever you go and whatever you see it wilf be grand fun and sterling entertainment. Nevada City has a wide reputation for putting on excellent Fourth — of July celebrations, and this year will be no exception. DETERMINED WOMAN WITH PLIERS KILLS RAT A young woman of Park avenue has a novel way of killing rats. Last Wednesday she was walking about her lovely yard when she saw a large rat scurry past her and into a stone wall. Realizing he could not get far, she .examined the hole and saw his long tail sticking out of the rocks. She picked up a pair of pliers. and pulled the rat out by its tail and killed it with a stick. “There are too many rats in the Park avenue district to suit me” she said. BOYS AND GIRLS All boys and girls who own and ride bicycles are asked to report to Charles Elliott and Verle Gray at the pool in Pioneers park, A parade of 50 bicycles is to be formed and prizes galore are to be offered for the best decorated bicycles in the Fourth of July parade. Charles Elliott is in charge of this feature of the pra>

FOURTH OF JULY NEVADA CITY vaitainhae The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA ISSUE Vl Yer The Gold Center meen cr armen ot —= FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1938. Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. Little straws in lthe wind indicate the direction Mr. Roosevelt and his New Deal are taking -us. The last little straw, speaking only from a national standpoint is Whe partial ballot just concluded at the Lava Cap ‘mine by the ClO-commuists. Wihile this is only a straw so far as national affairs are concerned, it is easy to see whaltt a huge burden it would prove to the mining industry of Nevada County, if generaly enforced on all mine -operators, — The partial vote was that of 175 employes of the mine out of 280 now employed. The men voted 135 against 14 for a week’s vacation annually with pay. They voted 94 in favor and 49 against the proposal of a union hiring hall, which would speedily reduce the mine to a closed shop status. They voted by a large majority in favoring a plan under which no worker who'had ever displayed any.antagonism to the CIO could be employed at the mine. These are radical changes in employment set up that Harry Bridges, the Australian communist, has been advocating for some years. Last summer he threatened to bring shis_hiring hall system, on a “march in-land” to California's ‘agricultural’ regions: The union hall as operated by Bridges and other communists, effectively places every industrial establishment at the mercy of labor. racketeers. These. racketeers notoriously gel] the opportunity to work ‘to the poor dupes that subscribe to thie system. In the marine unions where it is practiced to a limited extent the labor turnover is terrific. A man works for a voyage or a month, after paying smartly for the chance work, is fired, and another poor sucker pays his ‘“‘fee’ to the labor boss, and steps inito the job vaicatedIf such a hiring hall were established in Nevada county eventnally every industrious and home-owning miner would be edged! out of his job and his place filled by radicals and transients. Nevada County people need not imagine that such a rupture in the pleasant and peaceful relations that have existed here for twenty years, with the ‘exception the little clash in April, cannot take place here. It can if we coddle the theory ‘of Mr. Cooey that the world grows better and better. Since the’ CIO was born of a communist mother and a labor racketeer father, the world has grown decidedly worse for decent and patriotic citizens, for instance, in San Francisco. There whole rows of apartment (houses stand vacant. There to . . (Continued on Page Two) The Clampers are summoned by their Noble Grand Humbug, Fred Nobs, to meet at the winding of the Great Hewgag, Saturday. (tomorrow) night in, the Plaza, at 8:30 p. m. The Noble Grand Musician, BE. B. (Brownie) Dudley gave the vast horn a terfific try-out Tuesday evening and pronounced it SATISFACTORY. To the William Bull Meek ichapter of E. Clampus Vitus, the Fourth of July committee, headed by George Gildersleeve \ha,s assigned the noble duty of looking after the Fiesta amusements and sundry. entertainments. These will be centered in Armory Hall. Hal Draper is chairman of the taxi ten-cent terpsichoreon department, assisted by Jack Widauf, Dick Lane and Carrol Coughlan. Emmett Gallagher is the chairman of the committee on variety floor shows, assisted by John Gaskins, Charles Elliott and _ Dr. Walter Hawkins. Lou Kopp heads a committee on refreshments, consisting of Andy Holmes, Tom Richards, Cy Sofge, Perey Carr, Dick Goyne, Paul. Jenks, and Larry Larrobe. DeWitt Nelson will have charge of the decorations. i Ed Jacobs, chairman of the regalia and costume committee of the Clampers thas decided upon a double ‘barrelled No. 10 gauge shotgun of the early nineteenth century varvhety.«. Costumes. will.consist of a white shirt with a red badge upon which is depicted in gold, a crested pick and shovel. Hats will be sawed ‘at William Home’s men’s store, -the old Lace House, at. 50c Clampers wives are hopefully expect-] What Say The Brethren? ~— Onward To El Dorado! off: plugs of all colors. These, Clampers are expected to obtain from Five and Ten Store on Broad street at 39c each, and badges may be found in ed to sew these badges on their hus‘band’s white shirts. The parade of the Clampers Saturday night will be headed by the officers of this ancient and mystic order. Bands iof wierd music will play the old ditties that once stirred the blood of the Argonauts. Noble Grand Musician Dudley thas issued a call for all old fiddlers and guitar players who play divinely by ear. The parade will be illuminated by red flares and ‘kerosene torches, and a long rope provided by the Grand Humbug himself will keep. the Clampers from leaving the line of march for wayside diversions. H. M. Leete is chairman of the parade committee. 2 The Lord Sholto Douglass chapter of E Clampus Vitus, Auburn, has been invited to join in the Clampers} parade Saturday night. They have ‘been asked particularly to bring their Grand Noble Humbug and their superintelligent and enormous he-goat. This animal has a versatile talent. In This animal has versatile talent. The William Bull Meek chapter despairs of leasing or purchasing a horned demon of matchless vigor and regal mein such as wears the livery of the Auburn Clampers, ANDY HOLMES INSTALLED HEAD OF ROTARY CLUB Clyde Gwin gave a report to the Rotary club of the International Rotary conclave in San Francisco. Gwin was official delegate for the club. The retiring president of the local club, H. M. Leete, was ‘presented with a past president’s pin, and A, M. Holmes, the new president for the. year beginning July 1, was installed in office. The Grass Valley Rotary club represented by Harold Robinson, secretary, made a proposal that the two clubs should unite in putting a ‘Rotary float into Monday’s Fourth of July parade, and the Nevada City club aecepted gratefully this offer of co-operation. The report made ‘by Clyde Gwin on bodes International will be concluded at next Thursday’s meeting and next Mriday’s Nugget will carry his report ‘completed. Vfor one week’s LAVA CAP MEN VOTE FAVORABLY ON HIRING HALL In a vote in which 175 employes of the 280 employed in the Lava Cap mine participated, majorities voted vacation annually with pay, for those employed a year or more. The vote on this proposal stood 135 for, to 14 against. On the proposal that all miners employed in. the/Lava Cap, be hired through a CIO hiring ‘hall, and that all those who ever opposed the CIO be debarred from working in ‘the Lava Cap, the vote stood 94 to 49. A majority also voted for a change in the meeting night from Sunday to.a weekday night. Secretary R. J. Harris of the CIO union said approximately twenty votes of the men employed on the surface of the mine have not been tabulated. A year ago the CIO union was designated as the bargaining agency . for the Lava Cap miners following a National Labor Relations Board vote. Harris said the next move will. be to open negotiations for a new contract with General Manager Otto Schiffner. The present contract . expires August 1. Harris said a special meeting of Lava Cap men will be’ held in the

neay future to select a negotiating committee. to confer with Schiffner. PATRIOTIC SERVICES. “AT METHODIST CHURCH The Methodist Episcopal church fhas announced the following program for church Sunday. Rev. H. H, Buckner, pastor. Sunday school at 10 a. m.; morning service at 11 a. m. which will include a solo by Miss Helen Arbogast and the sermon by the Rev. Buckner, “Patriotism’’. Communion service will ‘follow the sermon. The Epworth League will meet at 6:30, followed by the evening service, which will include singeach. NO ISSUE OF NEVADA CITY NUGGET ON FOURTH The Nevada City Nugget will close with other business houses on Monday, July Fourth, in order that everyone concerned in the publication may have a day of recreation. There will be no issue of tthe Nugget on that day. PRESIDENT SIGNS 1938 MINING MORATORIUM President Roosevelt has signed legislation freeing prospectors from the necessity: of performing required assessment work for the current fiseal year on-mining claims held by location. The exemption will aplly to claims in ‘both 'the United States and Alaska. Secretary Ickes and the lhouse mines and mining committee opposed the moratorium proposal, introduced by Senator Johnson, Republican of California, but congress ignored their objections and sent ‘the legislation to the president a few hours before adjournment. Similar relief has been extended prospectors every year since 1932. PROOFS OF LABOR FILED (Mrs. Anna Tucker, deputy county recorder of Nevada ‘county, stated yesterday that several hundred proofs, of labor on mining claims have been filed. Requirements are $100 worth of labor on each claim and this county, being the banmer gold producing-.county of ‘California, has many miners ‘holding ground. .The president: signed the mine moratorium on assessment work Wednesday and as the news spread several who had provisions and men in readiness to go‘to their properties quickly changed their plans. Deep snows have held up work on properties in the higher mountains making all work late. Thursday morning there was a throng of miners at the court house waiting to file proofs of labor and moratoriums on ‘their assessment work. BUSINESS EXPANSION _ PAGE : The Nevada City-Grass Valley Trade Expansion Page which was to have begun its run of ten consecutive weeks in this issue of the Nugget will make its first appearance one week from today, July 8. Copy of a large number of advertisers, who are busy with preparations for the Fourth, was delayed and after consulting many subscribers to this new plan of increasing patronage for home-owned and local stores, it was considered wise to postpone the initial publication one week: Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Nelson will leave July fifth for a vacation that will take them to their home in Boone, Iowa. Plans are to return about the 25th of July and upon their return they will visit in Minneapolis and the Black Hills. Mr. Nelson is superintendent of the Tahoe National forest. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Burr will spend July 4th in Reno, visiting friends. and attending a rodeo and celebration. 2 ing of patriotic songs and -an address; ‘“‘The Land We Love.’ Rev. Buckner also announces that on Tuesday evening at 7:30 the bible study will be held. By ROY DEETER Without doubt.Nevada City has a grand program lined up for the celebration of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of July. ‘There will be something doing every minute.. Nevada City bethat it is, famous for its mining industries, and a perfect vacation land to boot, lends itself admirably to the junique form of celebration it is’ using this year. Celebrating the release from. Mexican rule, which ovccurred in February 1848, the town has reverted to Mexican costumes and motive, This idea has been carried out in the Nugget special edition, in window :and street decorations, and in many of the floats. Starting Saturday evening, the Clampers are having ’a torch light ous for its fun fests, there is doubt about it, thsi parade will be colorful. It will end at ElDorado, also in charge of the Clampers, where there will be every conceivable kind of amusement and also dancing. ElDorado will live up to its reputation of fun and frivolity. There will be entertainment each evening from 7 p. m. to 2 a. m. Sunday will start off with patriotic services ‘fall Churches" at" 11 a.m: At three o’clock Sunday afternooa there will ‘be patriotic exercises at Pioneer Park, a perfect setting for an excellent program khich includes, Community Singing. The Nevada City high sehool band, patriotic solo -by Mrs, Charles Elliott’. who’s lovely voice is well known here. Mr. E. Evans of Oakland will olsa sing and Mrs. Bernie Shaw Evans of Oakland will preside at the piano.’ Judge George Jones will deliver an oration. Sunday evening there. will be a variety program, lasting from 7 to 10 p. m. on the specially erected ing the picturesque mountain town. parade. This organization being fam. no Nevada City Invites The World To Join In Three-Day Fiesta stage on Pine street. Monday of course will be the day, with the grand parade starting at 10 a. m. The following floats havebeen planned for: Division of street floats, Coyote street, Park avenue, Hast and West Broad streets, Boulder street, Fae tory stret, Bridge street, Washington strett, Gethsemene street, Church street, Spring street, Nimrod street, Other floats include, The Nugget, Washington Grammar School P. T. A., Chamber iof Commerce, Berggren Jewelry Store, Kopps Bakery, Lace House, Cub Scouts, Sugar Pime Products Company, Four Floats from the Forest Service. A division from Grass Valley and many more that will come as.a delightful surprise tethe onlookers. After the parade there will be a great number of events on Pine street and also at the Plaza, starting at 1 p. m. and continuing through out the afternoon, There will be several boxing bouts, which promise te be excellent exhibitions of this manly art. Prince and Black Gold, the two marvelous black German shepherd dogs will give performances, there will be music and singing and rdees for. girls and: boys: ofall ages. The water fight between the volunteer. fire departments of Grass Valley and Nevada City will be theld at the Plaza and ‘there will be a rock drilling contest. Each evening there. will.be enter. . tainment and danicing at ElDorado, and with so much doing we’d say it will be a job to pick out the things you want to see most, but wherever you go and whatever you see it wilf be grand fun and sterling entertainment. Nevada City has a wide reputation for putting on excellent Fourth — of July celebrations, and this year will be no exception. DETERMINED WOMAN WITH PLIERS KILLS RAT A young woman of Park avenue has a novel way of killing rats. Last Wednesday she was walking about her lovely yard when she saw a large rat scurry past her and into a stone wall. Realizing he could not get far, she .examined the hole and saw his long tail sticking out of the rocks. She picked up a pair of pliers. and pulled the rat out by its tail and killed it with a stick. “There are too many rats in the Park avenue district to suit me” she said. BOYS AND GIRLS All boys and girls who own and ride bicycles are asked to report to Charles Elliott and Verle Gray at the pool in Pioneers park, A parade of 50 bicycles is to be formed and prizes galore are to be offered for the best decorated bicycles in the Fourth of July parade. Charles Elliott is in charge of this feature of the pra>