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NEVADA CITY NUGGET
ieee
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1938.
EET
_ OF 1850 FINED 5°
BY PIONEER JURY
No* on'y is Nevada City ecelebraiing its 90th birthday, but the Methodist Episcopal church of this city
’ #s also celebrating its 88th bir-hday
“this week. The Methodist d2urch was
Methodist .church
the first
following
not only the firs¢
in Nevada Ciiy but a‘so
@hureh of any kind. The
eondensat*ous have been taken from
Pe history owned by Nev. H. HH. Buck:
er. n
> Broad and Pine streets and
meeings were held here and also at
Main and Washing on streets. In
August, 1850, Rev. Cc. A. Leaman
was sent by Rev. Isaac Owens, then
dn charge of the Pacific Coast, to
reach in Nevada City. In the summer
of 1850, Alcalde Stamps and Mr.
Lamden built a shake house on the
north half ofthe site, now oceupied
by whe Glad Tid nes Tabernacle.
ad
located at
prayer
Cumberland Presbyterians, Baptists
and .Methodists were housed in this
ehurch.
About this time, Rev. R. R. Dunlap, a member of the (Missouri conference arrived to take charge. In
September, Rev. Isaac Owens came
from Sacramento and officially op.
ened the church and accepted mem-'
a for ieé church. R. R. Dunlap.
and C. A. Leaman were the first min.
isters. .
Soon after this meeting Rev. Horn}
of North Carolina was appointed by .
the superintendent, Rev. Owens, A
little laver another building was built.
Messrs. C. Burdick. and J. Wilson}
took the contract to build the church.
Mr. Ccle built the pulpit and put in
was finished in 1851 and
dedicated by C. Briggs, S:
. Simonds and W. G. Deal. Rev.
Adams Bland came as the first regularly appointed pastor by the annual
conference.
The following anecdote is
about Rev: Bland.
“while the church was on the hill,
men would sometimes come as far as
tfze door with their wives and then
go on down town. Bland referred to
this practice in a sermon. On the day
ite seats. I
tevs, M.
told
T
Serr
Nevada
era man die laughing!
nee Sunday 2 p. m.
FRIDAY
MERRILY WE LIVE:::::
: and Brian Aherne. The camit’s about a screwy family
tramps. It's the gayest love spree of 1938.
SATURDAY
G0 CH ASE You RSELF: with Joe Penner and
‘ Lucille Ball. Anyone who
is behind in their laughs, should see this uproarious farce and
catch up. And ROSE OF THE RIO GRANDE with John Carroll
fighting for the woman he loves, Movita.
SUNDAY
Gorgeous technicolor drama, tuneful, romROBIN HOOD. thrilling. Erroll Flyn
DeHaviland surpass all their splendid performances in their lovely love scenes and great moments. MatiTheatre
With more laughs than ever
Constance Bennett
that . adopts
New . side-splitting comand . Olivia
SATURDAY SUNDAY-MONDAY .
JULY 2 JULY 3 AND 4
Rollin Banta <2"!
His 10-Piece Orchestra BA LA
éE C2
Farewell Night . 2 %
yr
Meaging % &
Hees CARTER
se ot aint SIME ORCHESTRA
LAKE OLYMPIA
.
—————
the chu:ch was moved he’ went back
to repair the fence and one of whe .
men referred to in the Sermon met
him and began abusing him. Bland ’tried to persuade him to go away but ENDS FEB ? 1848
instead he undertook to soil the gars fe 24
ments of the man of the cloth. Bland Although history relates that Calibased his hammer and, “a physical fornia was under Mexican governorgiant in etature he seized his abuser . hip between the years 1822-1847,
and butted his head into the ground. strictly speaking there was no Maxi.
For this kind of treatment, the man 4, period of California history.
had Band arrested. = ‘trial was had, . 4 ctually for a quarter 6f a century
gamblers and all being on Bland’s . ine rule of Mexico was more or less ra
Compiled by 3
Sacramento Chamber of
SACRAMENTO, June 30. — Construction of the 1,820. foot diversion
tunnel at the site of Shasta Dam,
focal point in the Central Valleys
Project, got under way this week.
side, and the result was a fine.of five Boos shel Wal ve Sees
$.de,'a acknowledged, but direct interventhe west abutment of the dam site
Washington, D. C., are to state cement prices f.o.b. at the point of
manufacture or storage. Hada bidder
will be required to submit a statement that the prices quoted “are
neither directly or indirectly the result of any agreement with any other bidder.”
DOGS KILL RABBITS
Richard Haddy, who has a nice
lot .of rabbits, had the misfortune
to have dogs which entered his
Park avenue,
cents.” ne ition into the affairs of this distant, and will be used at present for refather’s premises on
sah deans Geel nee Tanprovince éntailed no more than ap-. routing the Southern Pacific main. the early part of the week, kill 22
sey was appointed. He had Ue ointment of a few governors and the/ line track around the dam site propof them. Seven were large rabbits
church moved back on the lot and an and the others were ready to Bot.
addition of twelve feet made in front
The first church
draggled soldiery.
of a steeple.
mn NONEEIVET 1863. Rev. J. B Hill ary, 1848. The Treaty of Guadalupe .
Hang saim daniel rie another caurch Hidalgo, which released California
which was built, in 1864. . from this rule was signed two weeks
. Fireworks
. AT. COLFAX
' AFTER THE CELEBRATION AT NEVADA CITY
VISIT YOUR NEIGHBORING CITY OF
COLFAX AND SEE THE
oo
BIG DISPLAY OF. FIREWORKS
MONDAY EVENING — JULY 4TH
(9 o'clock)
ing
LASHBAUGHS WILL OPEN tt ettects ot thie release were no
RESTAURANT HERE
My. and Mrs. Hampton Lashbaugzh and Mrs. Elizabeth Lashbaugh
will open a new restaurant in the old
Several thousand dollars have been
spent remodeling and renovating the
building: The outside has ‘been géven
a stucco finish in white and brown.
Lund counters extend almost the
full length of the room and private
booths have been built along one
side. Mrs. Elizabeth Lashbaugh has
had 25 years experience in hotel management and comes before the Nevada county public as an. 'experienced restaurant operator. The group
have resided.in Nevada City several
years and are well acquainted here.
Dersonal.
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Noyes will
spend the coming week end at Gold
Lake ‘on a short vacation and fishing trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Trewhella
and two daughters of Richmond are
spending a two weeks vacation iin
the park at Grass Valley. Mr. Trewhella is a former Nevada City resident.
Dr. and Mrs. Salvatore Shiro of
San Francisco and their son and
daughter will be guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry McKee at McKeesport on
the Tahoe Ukiah highway over this
week end. Other week end guests of
Mr. and Mrs, McKee will be Mr. and
Mrs. L. Rocco of San Francisco and
their son Raymond. : ‘
Mr. and Mrs. William Treglaw
will nave as a guest over the holiday
Mrs. Treglown’s aunt, Mrs. Sophie
Nickerson of Sacramento.
Mrs. Ida Guenther expects’ her
daughter, Mrs. Clay Epperson, Mr.
Epperson and son of Bakersfield;
and son, Charles Guenther, and family of Yreka for the icoming week end
and the Fourth.
Daniels building just south of the .
court house on Commercial street. . on the vagaries of the old Mexican
‘immediately felt, and Nevada City .
rwas still more or tess-under the~in=
. fluence of the Mexican regime dur. ing that year and in fact, until Cali'fornia formed her own constitution
in. 1849, records of this period are
very vague. a
Another interesting side light up. regime are the records of the inde. finite boundary. lines of the La Habra
Rando, once in Los Angeles, but now
'n Orange ‘county. :
“Commencing at tihe Camino Viejo
and running in a right line 550 varas
more or less dis‘ant from a small
corral of tuna plants, which plants
were taken as a land mark, thence in
a direction west by south running
along the Camino Viejo 18,200 varas
to a point of small hills ,at which
place was fixed as a land mark the
head of a steer, from thence east by
north passing a cuchillo 11,000 vasmall ‘corral of tunas aforesaid, to
the point of the beginning.”
It leaves one rather’ breathless,
and one ‘ponders on what must shave
been the ultimate outcome, for no
doubt the course of the ‘old road”
was eventually changed, the tunas
probably died of old age, and surely
some hungry coyote finally carried
off what migtht have remained of the
steers head.
With the landmarks lost, one wonders whether the La Habra Rancho
expanded where and .when the mood
os perhaps did a bit of crowding on
their own. In any event, it probably
ended in expensive litigation for
some one,
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fisher stopped
over Wednesday night for a visit with
Mrs. Ida Guenther. They were on a
three week vacation having gone to
Indianapolis on a stream line train
returned with a new car.
Mrs. Davir May and two children
who have been visiting Mrs. May’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Baker in
this city the past two months, returned to their home in Denver,
Colorado.
ras terminating at the right line of,
1848. However . Unemp
dictated, or if the adjoining ranch.
sending along of a.few score of be-. er, Later, it will be used for divertwees Marshall found) ing the flow of the river around the
an +4 ly 19, 1856 and 16 a gold in the tail race of a saw mill in ‘dam site during early stages of conjitnow th July Te, 26o0 ane ao Coloma under Mexican rule in Janu-" struction.
Walker Young, engineer in charge
of Central Valleys Project, warned
loyed laborers against going to
the dam in the hope of obtaining employment on the tunnel job. He said
tat all labor will taken from the
state employment office registrations
‘and that more than sufficient numbers already are registered.
Under new government
tions of centralizing the purchase of
cement for all federal agencies in
the procurement division of the
treasury department, an advertisement has been issued for 75,000 barrels of finely ground standard Portland coment for Central Valley Project construction.
The bids, to be opened June 30 in
regulaThere are a number of dogs in the
and he. is making
protect his rabbits.
neighborhood
every effort to
Mr: and Mrs. George Smith of Los
Angeles are the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Louie’ Kopp. ;
Mrs, Charles E. Parsons of this
city motored to Lake Tahoe Wednesday. :
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Richards and
sons of Berkeley are visiting with Ts
W. Richards for a few days.
The man sniffed contemptuously at
the ties the cerk showed him. Then
he noticed that the clerk carefully
put them away in a separate box.
“What beconies of those,’ he asked.
“Well,” said the clerk, ‘‘we sell
them to women whe.come in to buy
ties for men.”
Its 90th
NEVADA
LUMBER
Boulder Street
Nevada’ City
CELEBRATES
Birthday
Let every loyal citizen join
in making it a joyous and
colorful three-day fiesta.
e
COUNTY
COMPANY
Oscar Odegaard, Mgr.
Nevada City
ALPHA STORES, LTD.
HEARTILY JOINS IN THIS
Festival Celebration
Nevada City’s Ninetieth Birthday
*.
LPHA STORES, Ltd. and its
eN. predecessors for almost three
Leow
quarters of a century have served the
citizens of Nevada County, and. have
done their part toward bringing happiness and prosperity to all. There is
hardly a home in the entire country,
that either in building hardware,
furnishings, household appliances, table ware, or kitchen utensils, has
not been served by Alpha Stores Ltd.
Grass Valley
Phone 88
204 W. Main
Nevada City
Phone 5 ,
221 Broad